The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 18, 1929, Page 2

HUBBARD PARTY BACK AND HAPPY OVER ITS TRIP Priest Geoixg-ist Tells of Experiences with Geo- detic Survey Party Snow burned and tired, but en- tHusiastic over the results of the geological investigations and dis- coveries made, the Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard, S. J., head of the Geol- ogy Department of the University of Santa Clara, returned Sunday evening with his two student com- gnions, Charles Bartlett, and ank Klatt. Met Survey Party The party met the Coast Geo- detic Survey party under Lieut. W. B. Scaife, at Annex Creek, and ac- companied it Thursday morning to scale the peak above the fish scows opposite Taku Glacier, where the survey party was to set a metal | disk and a triangulation station. Weather conditions were ideal and though the climb to the timber line THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE,,TUBDAY. JUNE 18, 1929 Clearance Pri $3.95 Clearance Pri 20 per cent Jantzen Swimming Suits $6.00 and $6.50 B.M. Behrends Co., Inc. MERCHANTS Coats and " Dresses Clearance priced in four groups $10.00, $15.00,$20.00, $30.00 1 Millinery-a choice selection ced Sweaters Pull over or coat style, ced of f was seeking; a steep walled, scooped national publications.” cut valiey with cliffs, seven or| Father Hubbard intends to rest eight hundred feet high, surround-'for a day and then will tackle, with ing it in a horseshoe shape, the theé survey party, the Twin Glacier open end pointing out toward the Mountain. Taku, and a deep emerald lake, still frozen, occupying the depres- 'SOMERS LEAVES TO “This was the first of a series of | [NSPECT PROJECTS' second rock lake in a similar cirque depression. For a six-weeks’ trip of inspection This one was parti- of roads and trails and airplane walls of rock, in many places even R. J. Sommers will leave tonight overhanging, and with snow over- on the Steamer Yukon enroute to thrusts far out in the air, were|Seward. He will go as far into the over 2000 feet high. To add to Interior as Iditarod before return- our pleasure, even as we gazed, ing here. spell bound, a snow overthrust, as| He wiil visit towns on Kenai large as St. Ann's Hospital, broke peninsula, including Kenai, Kasiloff, off and roared down the rocky and Seldovia. Residents of Sel- cliffs until it reached the lnkc.':.doviu have petitiotied the Terri- snowy powder. toridl Road Commission for work “The descent of this cirque was|On an old road in that district, and difficult, and T had to use Alpine|Mr. Sommers will investigate the technique, letting the students down |need for it. with ropes from one ledge to an-| Anchorage has petitioned the | other. {Board for=an airplane landing field Mosguitoes Numerous under the Territorial co-operative i “At law and Mr. Sommers will confer a third level, some 500 feet below this second firn, a deep, clt::.\rl lake with timber at its open end, ipromised a camp for the night. Howcver, the mosquitoes were so numerous that we gave up at two with municipal officlals there re- garding this project. Mr. Sommers will inspect the Territorial co-operative projects in the Fairbanks district. From there three levels of firns that I was/| seeking. Continuing along the| me AND lNTERlOR ridge we next peered into the ! cularly impressive as the rugged,landing fields, Highway Engineer | Jey we were seeking. was hard and made more difficult ;o'clock in the morning and con- by the heavy packs, the double trio:tinued down to the flats to Mr. reached a spot where camp w:h‘flull:u'd'- ranch and thence to the made, and, taking two cameras Twin C ier camp. We reached sefentific instruments, continued to;the camp after six hours walkihg the summit. through the sloughs, pursued by A triangulation station was set|mosquitoes and gnats, and werc up by Lieut Scaife and his assist-|greeted by Oscar Olson. ants, and the party returned to the Took Many Pictures camp at the timber line, whcn‘,t “During the trip we took over owing to darkness, they spent the [500 feet of moving pictures and night. |over 100 still photos. The region! The party divided in the morn-iis ssible, and if it were in the ing, the survey trio to return to | Sta or in Burope, people would their base at Annex Oreek and the go thousands of miles to see it. Santa Clara trio to make a search | The hanging valleys of the Taku! for the hanging valleys and firns | are a symphony of rock, snow and ! of the Taku district. 1ruzg<‘d grandeur surroynding erys- To quote Pather Hubbard: |tal clear lakes, carved out some “@limbing again, partly over the 9,000 years ago in the last Ice Age. the previous day, we came | Aside from their scenic beauty they the the edge of a rfimarkahle cirque}nre an unigue phenomenon of geol- on opposite side, a few)ogy, unequalled the world over. distant, was the hanging vel-| “The highest firn was of about ! Ropes and |3000 feet elevation, the second, the descent of the|about 700 feet lower and the third quite easy, and the long about 1,000 feet elevation above the suow fleld|Inlet. Each indicaes a station- | ym.nmwfloddunngmemnot avhlanche danger was at althe last great Ice Age. ' Worth Trip to Alaska “1 consider the three day trip, about noon at the|with all of its hardships, worth the ] he will go by plane to Iditarod to investigate the Iditarod River im-| provement project. The Board is authorized to divert $10,000 this work if it s practicable. g e 0 L TG WILL RETURN Dr. George C. Barton's office will be open Wednesday, June 19. adv ——————— Fresh roasted peanits snd pop- corn. Jupesu Ice Cream Parlors. for pUEn i | SATISFIED CUSTOMERS We invite you to see letters we have received from ladies whom we have made fur garments for during the past few months. We can satisfy you, too. YURMAN’S Remodellng and Repairing { at Summer Prices DANCE ELKS’ Music by Serenaders Grest of the ridge |coming to Alaska for, and intend "phenomenon I1to write up my data soon for inter- Dimcing 9:00 P. M. TONIGHT HALL LET’S GO! Weather Conditions As Recorded by the U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast for Juneiu and vicinity, beginning 4 p. m. today: Clearing tonight, Wednesday fair and warmer; gentle variable winds. TOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 4 p. m. yest'y 29.53 56 90 E 2 Rain 4 a. m. today 29.64 52 94 2 Rain Noon today 29.14 51 84 SE 12 Rain CABLE AND RADIO REYORTS ~~ YESTERDAY | . TODAY Highest 4pm. | Low 4am, 4am. Precip. 4am. Stations— temp. temp. | emp. temp. Velocity 24 hrs. 40 34 e % | TR | 70 52 | 3 50 . 0 Bethel 68 66 40 48 12 0 Fort Yukon 66 -64 | 44 " 58 - 0 Tanana 63 64 | 48 54 — 01 Eagle 68 68 F. 43 58 o= 0 st. Paul 44 42 | g8+ 38 2 0 Dutch Harbor 54 54 | € 43 — | Kodiak 52 50 | 46 46 16 0 | Cordova 60 60 46 48 4 06 | Juneau [ ] 50 52 2 18 Ketchikan B = s = G 148 Showers Prince Rupert 62 52 | 46 48 4 08 Clay Edmonton 66 64 | s 52 14 0 Clear Seattle 60 58 | 50 5U e 0 Cldy Portland 62 56 | 52 ‘88 10 .22 Cldy San Francisco 66 66 | 5 &8 o 0 Clear *—Less than 10 miles. 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