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Show Navigate Alaskan River. Captain Lukcns of tho ccst nnd geodetic survey has discovered a practicable prac-ticable channel from Uchring sea Into tbo mouth of tho Kuskokwlm river. This river, which Is next to tho largest larg-est stream in Alaslia, is nlno miles wldo at Its mouth, and is navigable for over COO miles. Its dolta extends Its great submerged flats a hundred miles out to sea. It was through that dangerous delta that tho surveying steamer Yukon found a chnnnel hitherto hither-to uncharted, Tho newly discovered chunnel will enablo steamship companies com-panies to send vessels up Into tho Kuskokwlm, and thus to begin tho exploitation ex-ploitation of tho mining, fishing, and agricultural riches of the region. Captain Cap-tain Lukcns reports that In making the survey ho took 14,256 soundings, over an area of moro than a hundred I square miles, and that In romo In-I In-I stances ho determined tho position of his soundings by making observations on mountain peaks moro than CO miles away. Shipping companies at Seattlo plan to build two light-draft steamships steam-ships especially for river traffic on tho Kuskokwlm. |
