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- Taken from the San Francisco Morning Call June 4, 1894
EPLORATION NEAR HOME.
Messrs. J. A. Cochran. A. N. Godat, J.J. Broeren, J. J. Long and G. T. Rosenbund,
who sailed yesterday in the Alaska Company's steamer Bertha for the upper waters
of the Yukon, will probably have it In their power to add something to our
knowledge of the most unknown portion of the continent. They remain onboard the
little steamer on her long voyage to Kipnak, and thence on the endless trip up
stream to the diggings; it will be August before they leave her for good. When they
have made a final lauding they will make their preparations for eighteen months
prospecting, hunting and exploring. The cold diggings of Alaska, inclusive of those
on the coast, are in streams which empty into the Yukon above the bend at Fort
Yukon, in the latitude of 64 degrees and thereabouts. The streams rise on both
sides of the Yukon, but chiefly on the eastern or American side. Flowing in a
direction which is nearly northeast by north the Yukon crosses the meridian of 141
degrees-about 65 north latitude, and from that point becomes an American river.
South of 65 degrees it is Canadian and receives the waters of the streams which
take their roots in the Canadian Rocky Mountains They would have been prospected
long ago but for the shortness of the season, which rarely exceeds three months,
and for the high price of supplies.
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