Show THE FIRST ALASKA PAPER by the kindness hind kind ness of sabin babin and pierce two of the members of the tel egr aphid expedition which was sent to russian america by the western union Tel tei telegraph graph company to build th the bus sian plan extension of their line lino we ha have ve been furnished with a bound file of the Esqui maux a paper published by the gentlemen composing the expedit tion the Esqui maux was published monthly and twelve numbers were Is sued the copy before us is a re bubli cation issued at ban san francl Franci francisco seq and in the language of the editor JJ ilar har rington arington ring ton is simply offered as a memorial and to place upon record the first newspaper ever published in pur let net lew new territory of alaska in the critor preface he says about no the that it was published in the ice icebound hound bound und north among a party of whites bhoge whose time for the most part was necess necessarily arly arDy idle there shut out from the grgat great civilized world everybody looked to hii ji neighbor as a source of knowledg knowledge e and amusement and this was one of tbt the th means employed to make muke theao ursha swiftly by to from the introduction we nf make th following extract which will repay pe tyr byr fl the enterprise of connecting the two continents by telegraph via the amoor river at ai Be brings Str straits alts had long occupied ibo tho of scientific clenti fic tic and com commercial merom merol men until under the administration or pierce when perry mcdonough coiling EM was appointed commercial agent at the moge moue of the amoor river that ady any definite steps vm wen taken in regard to IT mr colllns succeed a i obtaining proper authority and suitable frai chides from the russian and english governments the former government agreed toe tod to eon con hect st petersburg with sk at it thi tie mouth of the amoor river and to afford ui possible facilities to the american Co Comp mAtyl khyn anyn the tha prosecution of the work through mr collins transferred hla hia interest in the a in ter to tp the western union telegraph company commenced Who acilee active operations in 1561 isk ilk the work was placed under the charge of CA 0 C chas has B S bulkley a man emInent eminently Jy both as a business man and one of the themes ince distinguished electricians in the management of so gigantic an enterprise ii the spring pf af 1865 col bulkley made a prelim nary trip to new archangel to make maue me arrangements with the bussian russian american america commercial co for the buc suc successful cesal ul prosecution ovil business and the bark baric clara bell and in ta schooner linton badger were dispatched frn ddn newyork new york to situa sitka jaden with materi alue stores in july 1865 col bulkley sailed trai frai na san francisco with about 60 employees designs for the work of exploration these partle sid gid for bitka sitka on the steamer geo 8 bark golden gate arriving at t his bis port til tit met the vessels previously ordered newyork new york from sitka bitka a smail small party to totne the anadye river NEB N nes R S while the male nail portion of the party rendezvoused at pian plug bay the work of the first year was co confined lifted entirely to explorations parties at various points over the entire route extell extent ang from new westminister West minister B BC to Nicolae fei fet at the mouth of the amoor river from len lei result of the explorations then made ter mined to prosecute the work woric more vigorously and in 1866 iam the fleet was augmented by the purchase of unree three vessels and the land fora force 1 creased increased to some men include including trig those these em eit aloyed 1 oyd in british columbia among the them ther fordes forca th thus us brought together ft party 40 46 were iet let letl lett tat gat at 6 ran aly arbor harbor 11 or port clarence on the eastern beb beh rings f 1 lal ini dav 65 30 N long MAO moo 17 W under the command of ab air D B libay though leadom tn elodeA as the district under charie charge of or IV hennis liere here amid the arctic snows when was ar for nn an borror hour or there ore oro of e almost impossible to prostrate prost tute tate oi OJ o i inborg to while away some UA it little paper was produced U upon pon uhe the abandonment of I 1 the be enterprise N b bark 6 k clara bell under command ol 01 capt jom JON 0 norton was to collect the cariou parties par lles lies on this vethel they were tere wb g et e r at the old rendezvous ler ever dayi dayl N E 8 this place also borders on tie toe but on its western glore shore and is iskui bug but on degree further south from where the I 1 he tirs tira 1 made n de its appearance three numbers wen we issued 1 s s ted ned there completing the first contains all the numbers published an an ite item m called travelling Tra velling in kus bus sian america published in the january number 1867 will give our an idea of the changeable nature of thal that t climate and the extreme cold to which it is subject I 1 two of our party who recently returned from mute report the thermometer on thed then trip at from 10 above zero at their stall start from here to 53 below when they led left that place considerable of a change for four days at another time we notice that with viti in twenty four hours the thermometer rose from 20 below zero to 12 above we are obliged to sabin a pierce for their courtesy in sending Us no the Esqui maux |