Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-02-10 | Page 42 | Airship Will Carry Miners into Arctic

AIRSHIP WILL CARRY MINERS INTO ARCTIC Company Being Formed Fonne In Alaska to Run Dirigible Line MAY AY REPLACE DOGS DOGE Alaskan Towns Clamor for Fast Aerial Mail Service ANCHORAGE Alaska Feb 9 I 9 A Pro Op ProSpectors 4 Prospectors miners miner and trap trap- trappers trappers trap trap-p pers rs will he be b taken into the tho th Arctic Circle by dirigible next summer It If Ita Ifa Ita a company whose cc now are re In Interior Alaska carries out announced plans Those organizing the tho th project say they believe the th dirigible will III protea prose prote a solution for the th placer operator who finds the th long lone slow routes of waterways and dog traits trails a 11 serious problem In time and financing Time The farthest t north trappers are r con con- confronted confronted con confronted fronted with lIh the th same ame difficulty The Th first airship will ply ad- ad according c cording to the th announcement be- be between b tween Fairbanks the th and nd Ko It Is s planned even even- eventually eventually eventually to extend the tho th service to other othet districts 8 DAYS BAYS TO If It dirigible transportation Is I thus Installed the th traveler may reach the Arctic circle within eight do das d s after saIling from Seattle lIe I would tra travel el by boat six da daB d B landing In Anchorage then by train tran 24 hours hour to Fairbanks le Ito h would bo be b whisked through the th air airor for tor the th l last t and hardest lap of o the Journey With the th passing of many of the famous f old placer camps south of ef the Yukon the tho prospector tol has ha h pressed over northward Into the shadow of ot the th Polar ll erness However the th promising fields the th Arctic circle often re- re require require r quire hydraulic h operations operation and esen an where a pay pay discos disco cry ry has hIlS ben been made rondo It Is I a matter of weeks sometimes months month to get a force of miners and the equipment over the snow and Ico lc ic trails Into tse th re- re remote remote mot r-mot mote sections The s representatives declare they the can carry 1 rry two tons of men and equipment Into th the Arctic In a few hours at a 11 cost of about one-fourth one that entailed by sled sled dog transportation FOR Foil TOURS TOung The Tho Tb dirigible also alto may be b used to take t ke summer tourists for tor to the the th Arctic silences The Th announcement of o the th con con- con contemplated service has haB stirred In Alaskan towns a clamor mill for for- mall to be b dell delivered by air to such Buch points as Nome tho the Upper and tire the tl Kobuk coun- coun countr tr coun-tr tn tr At present this mill mail Is car car- carried car carried ried ned by dogs and ard requires from t two 0 weeks els to a month after It leases the th Alaska railroad The parcel post poet business has grown to such dimensions th thit t It Is costing the government a hoary y sum urn to supply points that are ar cut ort oft from modern transportation Steamers reach rach ch Noose Nome Nom In summer ummer but the Bering Se Sea town Is Ice blocked d an and dependent on communication by overland trail most of ot the th year 00