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WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1920.
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THE CHINA MAIL
"Siwashed" to keep from freezing
buried one side of me in snow and kept the other towards the fire, when thawed out on one side turning over to repeat the operation on the other, At times I was forced to get up and walk about to keep from freezing.
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
desires to inform the public that ile tariff for advertisements received on
20 per cent.
This increase is rendered imperative and after this date will be increased by
by the constantly growing cost of pro duction, the price of paper alone having advanced by 700 per cent during the past five years.
Hongkong, May 17, 1930.
TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONĖ.
ALSKAN EXPERIENCES. harbour ocean steamers enter and operate ever a limited area, and dog anchor at a distance of five miles teams which cover the rest of the from the shore and discharge their territory. During the past winter, Mr. C. T. Surridge who arrived cargo into the barges which come in many points in the interior, the As the cold reached the extreme at 75 deg. the Colony as a passenger on the alongside to receive it.
IMD and the average China" last week, to join the weather conditions in this locality below
throughout the Hongkong office of the China Mallare very bad, the steamer often temperature
from ten to Ss. Co. Ltd., in the capacity of Chief lays for
twelve winter was about $5 deg. be On my arrival at Fairbanks Maxisgement of the "Casa MAIL"
At this temperature | spent a few weeks there on Clerk has had many unique expert days before being able to unload tow
then took the Ances especially in shipping circles. and in some cases bas to heave the weather is particularly fine and business and been stationed in Alaska as the returning again when possible. After low as 50 below is act considered head of the Copper River-North For the past fourteen years he has up anchor and stand out to sea, bracing. Indeed, a temperature as regular Star Route-mail: stage to the representative of the Americar Yukon the barges have received their loads unusual and the work is carried on Western Railroad, a distance of 400 Navigation Company, in which capa-they are taken to St. Michaels and the same as it would be in s tem miles. After travelling 100 miles by chy be was also agent for the there reload the freight into waiting perate climate at a ter serature of rail I arrived at Cordova. Alaska, Alaska S.S. Co. Mr. Surridge was river barges, which are taken in tow 60 deg. above zero. The most un from where I took a steamer for
In order to meet these conditions conected with Alaska shipping up by the river towing steamers, to the comfortable weather is what they Seattle. Upon my arrival here I felt some time that he joined the mouth of the Yukon River, a dis consider the extremely high tempera. the heat very much but am gradually newspapers and magazines all over the
This becoming used to it. service of the China Mall S.Stance of 50 miles. This trip in the ture of 10 deg. below zero.
world have been obliged to raise their open sen is, one of the big draw they count as bad weather on account Mr. Surridge is a former com-subscription and advertising satenin Company.
backs of transportation in the North of the open water. If a man-keeps missioned officer of the American some cases by as much as 100 per cent country, as the boats only operate dry and observes the customs of the Navy. After leaving the service be--and, at the same time, to curtail the when the weather conditions permit country he will not suffer from cold. was with the Pacific Mail S/S Com size and number of pages. For the and are often storm bound in St. Should he get wet there is the great pany on the old ss. "Peru." He present, however, it has been decided,
Afterest of danger. “
showed his interviewer a small gold in the interests of the public generally Michaels for a week or more..
says and of advertisen in particular, to leare case which he entering the river the towing steamers In fact it may be said if your clothes cigarette. proceed with the barges to the main get wet on the trail and you have no cost him about $8,000, the story the price of the "Osa MAL" un- distributing points such as Holy Cross, change of dry clothing on hand and of it being that he purchased and changed. Alaska, a distance of 500 miles. no means of drying under, shelter, you prospected a gold mining claim, the Tanana,, Alaska, a distance of 900 are as good as dead. Open water is High Beach Hunker Creek Rampart. miles, Fairbanks, a distance of 1,100 often caused by hot springs which where he sunk about $8,000 in pro miles and Dawson City, B. C., a discontinue on the boil even in the coldest specting in the endeavour to strike the lower pay streak of gold, and in tance of 1,600 miles. There are weather, numerous stations between these Relating one of his personal ex-two years he only obtained sufficient points of more or less importance. periences which at the time creat for the manufacture of the cigarette The average large river boat willed considerable press comment in case which he now carries, carry from 75 to 100 first class Alaska, Mr. Surridge 'said, "In 1911 passengers. a like number I stayed in the country a little later of deck passengers, all freight being than I should have to attend to the carried in the barges. A peculiarity delivery of some mining machinery of this towing is that the steamer and I missed the last steamer up This forced me to tows the barges on her head, or more the river. correctly it should be said that she leave for St. Michaels in a small One launch. After spending eight to pushes them ahead of her. reason for this is that most of the nine days frozen in the ice in the
TRS. and HISS GURNER will be steamers are shallow draft stern mouth of the river, the ice broke up AT HOME in HALS. "TAMAR
MES wheelers, and another is the difficulty through the action of a chinook wind from 4.30 to 6.30 PM, MONDAY, 31st which would be experienced in low which enabled me to reach St. May, to say good-bye to any friends ing in salt water style through the Michaels. From there I was forced who care to come.
In some cases to walk to Fairbanks, a distance of tortuous channels. the towing lines are passed up to 900 milet. This journey for the first posts almost to the height of the seven hundred miles was across coun funnel. The average big steamer try and along the banks of the Yukon will push a cluster of five or six River, during which time I was abso- barges each containing four to five futely alone with no defnite tralls to hundred tons of freight with rapidity follow, and in a great many instances and ease:
the road houses were as far as two Mr. Surridge stated that he was days apart. I had to pack my food on last in Hongkong sixteen years ago my back. This experience seems and he remembers that the old steam very much of a hardship to the ship"Victoria" used to be in the Grand reader, but as a record, although it Trans-pacific service for the old Hill created some talk, it was not regarded lines which operated the "Victoria," as anything very heroic in the North
"Tacoma," the
Shawmut," and where a journey of 500 or 600 miles
later Tremont " and
the is considered nothing at all on foot. and I left St. Michaels on October 17 and leviathans
arrived at Fairbanks en November 12, covering the 900 miles in about! twenty-five days.
be
Mr. Surridge on being interviewed by a China Mail representative this morning, gave a very entertaining dissertation or. Alasks, particularly shipping there, and his experiences in Alaska and other parts of the world would fill the pages of a very large He said one feature of volume. Alaska shipping, entirely different from any other part of the world, is that all business must be done in the Ave months of open navigation. In the other seven months the country and the rivers are frozen and all transportation is at a standstill,
than what must ather moved at high cost by means of dog teams. In certain localities they are able to use horses and motor lorries, the case only in a small but that portion of the country. The most thickly populated districts are in the vicinity of Dawson and Fairbanks, The freight teams generally work over a 450 mile haul. The freight handled in the winter is only export freight, only goods which can stand the payment of a high tarif being handled, as the general cost of that form of transportation ranges from $1 to $1.50 per pound. This applies only in the interior of Alaska, not the coast.
Water transportation opens in the interior on about May 12. This is over the ice shipments." The freight leaves. Seattle on ocean steamer, arrives at Skagway, Alaska, and is transferred there to the White Pass and Yukon Railroad for tran- sportation to the end of the line, the terminal city being White Horse, Tukon territory. From there it must be hauled by caterpillars, sleighs, or motor lorries, over the frozen Lake Lebarge. At this time of the year there is at least seven feet of ice in the lake that is beginning to disinte grate, becoming soft to tread upon. At the foot of the lake there are generally three four small steamers with barges which they tow, waiting. for the arrival of the early freight and pas. sengers, upon receipt of which they leave immediately behind "the run of the ice," in the Yukon River for Dawson and all points south,
known as
occurs.
1:07
and
Minnesota " The "Victoria" is now "Dakota." one of the leading steamers in the She has had an Alaskan trade. upper deck added to her and now carries 450 first class passengers and about 200 the steerage. She Under is the fastest ship of the run. favourable conditions she leaves Nome for Seattle direct making a journey in eight days. There are two gateways to the interior of Alaska, one via Neme and the other via Skagway. The Skagway gateway is preferable from a passengers" standpoint, as after leaving Skagway for Seattle one is in inland waters for a great part of the voyage which affords a certain protection from the elements during the Fall period
year. The of the
types of passenger vessels also are far superior on the Skagway route to any that operate in Nome, the latter
This freight generally consists of all perishable goods, food supplies, vegetables, eggs, and other luxuries which the people have been deprived of all during the winter and which they eagerly wait for when the open- ing of the water transportation gives them an opportunity of getting them. In this class of rush freight is also included mining machinery, which is urgently needed by operators who must have it early in the season being known as the outside passage. order that it may be available for the The principal lines operating out of carly Spring work, when the first Skagway for Vancouver and Seattle clean up of gold for the season are the Canadian Pacific Railway, The Grand Trunk Pacific, Alaska. The river boats generally leave the Steamship Company, and the Pacific lower lake about May 18 or 20. The Steamship Company (Admiral Line.) next through transportation leaves All of these lines furnish a good ser- White Horse directly after the ice vier but the most popular is the Cana- on Lake Lebarge has gone out, whichdian Pacific Railway, their boats being is generally about June 5 to 10. faster and more luxuriously appointed From that time en through transpor- than others. During the open season tation is in operation until about of Iransportation work goes forward. October 5 or 6 when all said streams with a rush Twelve months' ship- start to throw ice, filing the mainping has to be taken care of in river to such an extent that it practically a little over five months* very goon becomes impossible for open season. The work goes on day steamboats to operate in these and night regardless of holidays, in waters. After the ice has run in the endeavour to put all freight the river for a period of seven to ten through to its destination before the days, jams form and where the jams cold closes down. In the last few bold the river quickly freezes over, years, particularly since the war, the Once this has occurred. the ice very transportation business in Alaska
off seldom breaks for the next seven has fallen
to less than months. The ice forms rapidly and half what it was previously. This by November 1st there is probably is on account of the extremely three to four feet of ice on all the high cost of mining operations river and lakes, which gradually in- making it impossible for the average -creases, according to the locality, to mining operator to work his property
about ten feet in thickness.
at a profit.
tinto Government regulations went In the early Spring and Summer, the water conditions on the river are operation allowing a man to retain very good. On account of the possession of his property during the amount of snow and ice in the war period without doing the annual mountains melting and the large assessment work which was neces quantities of water thrown by the sary prior to that time. When this side streams the main river is very law went into effect. the operators +high. As the Indian summer whose property was not paying under advances this snow and ice gradually the new conditions closed their mines disappears and the main river falls, down and are for waiting the future to often making a sudden drop of 12 to develop cheaper means of operation. 25 feet in height.
During the war period there were During the period of high water very few new discoveries of gold made there is often considerable difficulty in the North country, probably due in defining the chancel of the river, to the fact that all of the younger therefore steamboats frequently strike men, particularly those who were sand bars on which they may stay prospectors, left the country and for a period of hours or days. This went to the front. Many of them feature makes it impossible to main-did not return and development tain a regular traffic schedule. This must remain at a standstill until new same trouble is also prevalent during blood enters the North. Agricultur "low water periods and it of much ally the country is not well developed. - more serious character then Large areas are suitable for cultiva because of the lowness of the tion and the Government is establlab. river when the current "in · the ing numerous experimental stations channel is so much swifter.. Often and private ranches in the North. In when a vessel or barge strikes some cases marvellous results are a sand bar, particularly when going obtained, particularly in vegetables, down stream, it has been known to but they are insufficient to supply tear out its stern post besides break more than 25 per cent: of the popula ing all towing gear.
tlon. The principal gateway into the After the close of open navigation North country from a freight stand. | all travel in and out of the country, profit Is St. Michaels, Alaska, 100 also the carrying of materials, is per- miles south of Nome. Into this formed by horse sledges, which
Dear Sir,
TO-DAYS, ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
NOTICE.
HIEF PETTY. OFFICER EDWIN
J. HABRIS, ELM.S. "TAMAR;*
who has been the recipient of numerong presents on his recent promotion, desires to heartily thank the donors.
LOST.
OST-LEATHER ATTACHE CASE at Repulse Bay, on Monday afternoon, coursining silver-mounted Mirror--initials engraved "M.2.0" silver Forder. Bos, Bathing Kit and various other articles. Will fader kindly return to Ms. Cosser, No. 1 Basilea Terrace. Lyttleton Road, Hong- On the trail I kong. Suitable reward...
2.
Hongkong Hotel,
26 May, 1920.
We take pleasure in informing you that we have at the Hongkong Jockey Club Stables, 3 thoroughbreds from Australia awaiting Transhipment 27th inst. to Shanghai as types for an Australian Griffin order..
*
Should you be interested our Mr. Kelley will be pleased to show them
to you to-day.
Yours faithfully,
·JONES & KELLEY,
per R. E. Kelley.
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8 from today, all preliminary Anotices of forthcoming meetings, j lectures and entertainments, sent, for insertion in the news columns of the "CHINA HAM," will be charged for at the rate of $1. each, providing thes do pot occupy more than four lines. If this space is exceeded they will be placed in the advertising colars at the prevailing rate. .
Hongkong, May 17, 1920.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
THE Endersigned have received lo- structions from CAPTAIN BASIL TAYLOR, R. As to sell by Public Anction..
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(For Account of the Concerned}
ON...
TUESDAY,
June 1, 1920, commencing si 2.30) p... at their Baler Rooms, No.-8, Des. Your Hand, Corner of Ice House Street,
A Small Consignment of WHITE GO0D5, 30, ắc
Comprising :-
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and Covers, Crochet
Drawnwork Doilies, Table Cloths, Linen Damask Serviettes,
Also.
A few lots of Bellow Valises, Kit Bags, Suit Cases, and Attache Cases.
And
Two Pairs Prismatic Binoculars. {All new goods and in small lots.) TMS-Cash.
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Eida -Tablos, Chaire, Cabinets Pictures, Carpets new and second-hand
Alko
Two Pianos, One Enamelled Bath,
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