The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 8, 1930, Page 9

- ment of geology at the University THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SECOND SECTION * JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1930. [party voyaged from San Francisco GLABIAL PRIEST |to Chignik. From there imouth of the Aniakchak River, the to the explorers traveled in a cannery ten- |der “vessel. At the mouth of the | Aniakchak, they transferred their equipment into their 16-foot craft, powered with an outboard motor, i and June 1 started up the Aniak- | chak. . | S e ‘ “Sand bars near the Aniakehak | lagoon,” said Father Hubbard, “held Father HUbbard .TEHS Of;us up for a few hours but later Wonders of Aniakchak |the river got deeper and we went and Venianinof and ear Lagoon |up to the confluence of the Aniak- chak River and Albert Johnson | creek, where we cached the boat Bringing word that Aniakchak |3nd loaded up our pack boards to and Veniaminof, near Chignik, on |hit the trail. The packs were killers the Alaska Peninsula, the two larg- |8t first. Roderick (Red") Chisholm est volcanic craters in the world,ih"d 120 pounds on his broad shoul- are active and that apparently they | ders, Kenneth Chisholm and I had recently erupted, Rev, Father B. 110, Jimmie Barron and Bartlett, N. Hubbard, head of the depart- | 100. Most of the weight was picture | taking equipment for we were not satisfied unless we brought out a complete photographic record in movies and stills of the regions visited. This also is the reason why I always chose young men of of Santa Clara, California, and sometimes called the ‘“Glacial Priest,” arrived in Juneau today on the steamship Admiral Watson, which called enroute from Seward d to Seattle. With Roderick Chisholm, battleship beam -and displacement, cartographer, and football line 8 companions. coach at St. Ignatius College, San = “The tundra was remarkably firm | Francisco; his * brother, Kenneth and little underbrush was encoun- Chisholm; James Barron and tered, so three days' mushing Charles' Bartlett, all six-foot foot- brought us to a mountain wall ball players at either Santa Clara where a rent 2,000 feet deep allowed or St. Ignatius, Father Hubbard has just completed two months’ ex- ploration of volcanoes and gla- side the “Gates” we waited a day ciers in the Katmai district. |to reconnoiter and find a way Last May in the Alaska Packers into the crater that lay beyond. R. Association steamship Chirikof, the H. Sargent, topographic engineer, in a series of rapids. Camping out- of time prevented its thorough ex- ploration, but it was to Mr. Sar- gent's map and field notes of his party that we were indebted for knowledge concerning the world's largest crater. Thirty Mile Crater | “The first sight of the crater |takes your breath away. A half- hour’s scramble along the slopes and cliffs took us through the Gates. A broad plane dotted by cones and cinder ridges spread out for 30 square miles. A vent moun- tain the size of Vesuvius rose in its center. A lake two and one-half For Your Week-End Vacation Trip! Slip-Over Sweaters the Aniakchak River to pour out| |discovered the crater in 1922. Lack | and found two large explosion plts,'récem eruptions. The crater is —craters within a crater. [more than six miles in diameter. Crater Is Active ‘ Will Tell the World “Soda and iron bi-carbonate| “With these two wonders thor- springs abounded at the head of oughly explored and photographed, the lake. Bears and caribou ranged we aré now returning to the so- on the voleanic flanks. The most called civilization to tell the rest | interesting discovery was that the of the world that the stupenduous supposed dormant Aniakchak crater scenic wonders of Alaska are just was active. In three portions of |beginning to be found.” the wall steam issued, and in one| Four years ago Father Hubbard recently exploded part, a few duz-!(‘limbed the Mendenhall Glacier en active fumaroles rivaled those of back of Juneau and in a gruelling the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. ‘zhree-day trek indentified a huge Colors, too, on the walls, rivaled the [ice cap back of Alaska’s capital Royal Gorge and glaciers hung on|whence flow dozens of tongues, the its highest points. |Mendenhall, Eagle, Taku, Norris and “The six and three-quarter miles others on the United States side, diameter crater of Aniakchak is|joining the Tulsequah, Sloko, Leei- ithe true wonder of the Alaska Pe- welan and niany unnamed glaciers ninsula, twice the size of Katmai, in Canada and forming one of the and active. We were 21 days on the largest ice systems in the world. trail. We had 10 days of uninter-| Tif following summer with his rupted sunshine, and only three|present cartographer, “Red” Chis- days of rain the whole trip, also holm and John Koby, he attained no mosquitos. the heart of Kodiak Island which 1,000 Photographs Taken he found to be a rugged mountain- “We paid for our luck on the|0us country rivalling the Alps. next trip, when we tried to climb Climbed Mt. Katmai the huge Veniaminof * crater, 80 miles south of Aniakchak. Return- ing to Aniakchak Bay in three days from the crater, a pitching tender caused members of the party |to experience a little mal de mere. {We took 1,00 photographs of the (trip and developed them at the |cannery and then went up Chignik Lagoon and Chignik River to the head of Chignik Lake. “Alders, soft tundra, swollen riv- ers, and mosquitos made life just one d— thing after another, but none lost his sense of humor and the Fourth of July saw us on the sity of Santa Clara students, he explored the Valley of Ten Thou- sand Smokes and climbed Mt. Kat- mai, descending into its vast cra- |ter, which the party acclaimed as the foremost wonder of the world. | While waiting in Seward for the | Admiral Watson to bring him and his party south, Father Hubbard, at |the Liberty Theatre there, lectured jtwo hours to a crowded house on 1his adventurous trip. He illustrated ‘his talk with numerous colored slides and with six reels of motion | pictures. Last summer, with three Univer-' black volcanic sands of Veniamin- of's base, which is almost 100 miles in circumference. A herd of caribou- obliged us by walking right into camp and after consenting to moving pictures and still phetos, one huge buck supplied us wichl meat for two weeks. Almost Defied Assault | “The mountain almost defied as- | sault; 4,000 foot cliffs where even glacier could not hold on, balked | several attempts to scale them and {almost discouraged and licked we finally made a forced day and night trek to the Bering Sea side and gained the highest point of the adv, As the guest of Father Gabriel | Menager, Father Hubbard may stay in Juneau a few days, and if he |does he will deliver an illustrated |lecture here. NOTICE After August 10 no. telephone rentals for the month of August will be accepted at a discount. All remittances by mail must bear postmark of not later than last discount day. Please be prompt. JUNEAU AND DOUGLAS TELEPHONE CO. LIGHT HOUSE TENDER | REBUILT AT PETERSBURG After having been upon the Pe-| tersburg Marine Ways for over kwu' months the light house tender Al-| der will be put into the water this week and will commence operating immediately. P The Alder is a 72 foot, 16 foot beam, boat and is powered with an | Atlas Imperial 110 h.p. Diesel en- | gine which has been installed while | on the marine ways. The Frayer Machine Works has handled the' installation of this machine. | The Alder is appearingly a new boat, having been completely re- built, everything but the hull, and some work has been done on it. The boat has been equipped with (every modern appliance and ar- | rangement, including well arranged ; quarters, galley, engine room, fore-i castle, toilet, bathroom and a large hold for carrying freight.— (Peters- | burg Press.) | | - | ALASKA PIONEER DIES | | William F. Fursman, aged 68, pio- neer of Alaska and former resident of Valdez, Cordova, Kenai, Naknek, etc, former bank clerk and former ! 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