Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 8, 1902, Page 31

Enormous Stores of Coal in the Arctic Regions 02, by Winthrop Packard.) fat width, It you paddle ng (1 h world's industries toward the all but un i i e v Httle north of Cabe Beaufo \ \1 coal field md their e B . WA G € kvack you may look over th n‘ \ "\‘ \_‘, Iv 1 «u‘v'\hu wheach of northern Alaska e e e i . b s \ "\. ,‘,’Jyl,\," ‘\\\ th."-'“ l|\ How far land t extend \ ' 1y h No Port Claren I 1 ko ¢ hat far ba 1 \r \ \ where its need ting off the low, m'dday sun. The Arctic \ wmd reat. The quality re nearly resem floes blinked the sky rthward and o Blac 1 olifts over a pobbly [ 1 than anything else T hay the slopes and ledge ce masses of \ 1t lepth o, is unki i, 1t compacted w. The eider duck imilar smaller ones are Prose Heodlu he Bski vhom the ¢ al ile f ! rodoy far beneath the inland hills; 1 iped th lved to tell the cliff plunged and whirled a dancing bogie ta'nly reappear several hundred y e i he lan which seemcd bent on capturing the the south on the shores of K | it hat nigh ratl clumsy native of the Arctic wastes, ye R e faw Bakimos. why ) tot 56 meh vhich was nothing mor or than a plored the inland river n o the 1 er, after hay | big meal sack full of coal expedition tell of c¢liffs thy \ L by 1 il patr We were gathering coal from the vast the water break that are K. Hoodln red before the captain leposits of the far north, and Hoodlum seamed with vdloha the bl nd ruefully expl e that he mu iy Eskimo name) was our man Friday It Whaler too, who have wint u flout mmunitior 1 cloth pa g well Wi wgular what a desir what a vear Herschel dsland and taken wit , ! could not I the worl f th ing, those sacks of coal seemed to have inland with the native tell us tl h'a pirits whith the white n evoked for Hoodlum. There were many other hundred or so miles back from tl from the cliff, 1t v aplain d to hat \l:l\lfllfl- in the party at work for ns, but en r river hrat wh KT sy i L none of the coal sacks had any malignant warmed by heat from undersr S ibiabl AR AR AR, 58 yearning toward them Some of them that for a certain portion of their lemonstration of this fact and b nd worked with us on the vein at the ¢liff top, ey do not freeze over, even in ! her Esh ! ! some piled the coal into the sacks, and vereat weather, the native 1 vhole tribe was invited he camp ashore some were at the cliff base with Hood- thither for winter fishing. Whenee vhere an linary coal 1 Kty lum, helping load the ks ahoard the the heat for the warming of thi p whale boat. thence to be transferred to It is not a voleanic region All at Her ML 1 fire was well started e the ship, but none of the sacks chased ten months of the year the sn Sk, md when it was burn them The sack was sure to follow fathoms deep, drifted under the well “coal was put of A look of Hoodlum, however, whether he ran up the pight by the icy gales in whose to GHtI piaaus SHtallRETGE: PARESUE TEaT S on beach or down, and it only made him death for every living thing long ¢ UL L it ang more ertain that the was some witch to them yet out of the earth ! Aahiailus e B, craft about the whole business, and that a Lbubbles warmth that defies the temy ek her. - Kokopolook | Eskimo malevolent spirit having designs on his of the pole Such men elaim that ‘\\ "‘ »I‘:‘: " ! ind - the look life dwelt in the coal The black stones v limited area a smouldering KD A i ‘ “ -le':ym':l R he was familiar with Jut that any man tion of the deep-buried stores of wv‘v vard 1l 4f “ l- faul il i hould be so “kukawillow,” as he termed it oing on R A v“-;umv“r“ : :"umlvv“'”” 18 (0 load these stones ahoard the hi At any rate the coal is ther ! errily and \w‘ f .v"rH‘“ |w”»~ 1 In“ canoe, the umiakpuk, and carry them Tl B B ST ey forth mu e i ] wre were nods of appreciation and un wa wvored obviou 1: of evil spirits, and vation of more than one hardy 1ot | nd the tribe retired to thei ,‘ rnv 4'”‘\1 came down the harder he rew nipped in the Arctic ice and o opeks for steep, evidently much impresse 1 ran from i otherwise to spend the long frozen | th a found scheme for cheap fuel There was magic in it, too. The magic year night without fuel. Yet, even if Phe next morning every Bskimo wahinee of money; for these same black stones sold underground slow combustion is going cn it mueh berated by her husband for not in Nome that vear for $50 the ton and not will be centuries before the supp’'y of fuel aping (the breakfast well or not having enc ugh of them were to be had at any is exhausted, or indeed well afir M toon time And the reason was that each price But how was Hoodlum to know while, is the region of almost perpetual pag tpied and tried again to make frag that? HOODLUM” AND “CRACKERHASH,” TWO ESKIMOS WHO WORKED IN COAL winter, the terrible frozen north in whish ments of coal burn in the open on an or Almest the entire northern coast of MINING OPERATIONS ON THE AR CTIC COAST explorers have died in vain attempts to pin=— gi00v driftwood fire, and had simply put Alaska from Bering strait to Point Barrow ctrate, the repoeitory whence the world 18 pe fira out thereby. This carried them is striped with seams of semi-bituminous to draw its ultimate supply of fuel baek to their original convietion fhat ir coal, and these veins extend inland no tity. As you s=ail from Cape Lisburne to down to the wat r and from th ummit It seems strange, but why not? Already wi the white man's magie that evoked man knows how far. Upon the beach live Cape Beaufort you may see miles of cliff of the headland you may sce the surface the miner is camped upon its edges and - wicked spirits from the eliff, spirits tha the year round a few Bskimo families with in which the dark bands of it slant ribbon- croppings stretehing miles inward inthe the prespector is tramping toward its fro- ppoped conl bags and chased them, ana two wolves ever at the igloo door, famine like from beach to summit When the form of parallel ridges In them the zen heart from many directions. The vast (hat it was that. and that only. that mad and cold. Yet in the very ground under brief summer thaws the ice the coal falis brown grouid squirrdds, which the Eskimos impulse which the discoveries of rich go'd (ho Black stones hurn the igloos, in the cliffs on which they pre out of these veins in masses that lie in th trap for fur and food, dig their burrow bearing territory in northern Alaska has The ceal les in ecountless millions of caricus'y snare €ca fowl for a scant refuge icy surf, blocke containing tons of fuer and throw up black heaps of crumbling coal given to the exploration and working of o4 Jocked beneath the Aretle fce today from starvation, lies wealth which cannot each. There are places where a ship's at the doors this region, the settlement of the reg'on ,q it has lain since the first Eskimo trod be estimated. and fuel enough to heat the crew can actually pick up a cargo of good Probably the widest single vein of coal peneath the Arctic cirele now rapidly golng (he Arctic seabeach. hut the tribes freez whole world for untold gencrations. Knor- coal from the beach and the surf at the known in the world is found there. Such on and the great demand there for fuel for vop (hi terchouse of warmth, and only mous supplies of coal lie almost on the sur- base of the cliffs A Dblast set in these a vein is considered a good one when it is domestic purposes and for mining is furnin the white man hao the key mn. unlock face—no man has yet estimated the quan- veins sends many tons of it rumbling eight feet wide this one is cight times the eyes of the shrewd pionecrs of (h he door to the magic of its u Wh and Why the Tornado is a Terrible St (Copyright, 1902 ]“I‘ g vf" B. (“Farmer”) :]:)m! will contain the tornado territory the \\1!\*|> in this instance appeat to "‘1"” Broats heat and moisture and the wind= ppe width of destruction corresponds to the b mnn These fierce wind storms occur occasionally on straight lines Their complete con flow with considerable force to the nor width of the funnel. Once a tornado ha N THE very glow that makes the only east of the Allegheny mountains formation can only be detected by com It has been the accepted theory that the aitained full formation and headway noth prir beautiful the black tor- in the vicnity of the lake regions and paring the reports of many observers scat- formation of the tornado is the direct re- .. pa been known to resist it foree nado is born. Those same soft southern New England; they infroquently tered over a large extent of country. suit of the rap'dly rushing warm, moist air marnadoes ar most alws preceded or condition of weather that occur south of central New York and rarely The velocity of the cyclone is easily de- from the south toward the storm center at followed by a frightful pelting of huge hail give th eason its charm fulfill west of the 1021 tones and attended by a downpour of rain the conditions that are needed for the dividing Color meridian (along the line termined; that of the tornado has never the north: in 5o doing the warmer air un and Kansas), or north of been known and it is not likely to be ‘derruns the extensive layers of cold air . ind Kansa or n 1 « i 0 ) )€ Tornadoes have been known to occur In creation of the most awful and deadly the 50th parallel of latitude, or in southern accurately determined. It can be roughly that are being thrown off from the arca of o laces the s storm known to man Gecrgia or Florida approximated, however, by the destruction high pressure located to the northwest :'”'"\ : “; 'v” ) s "“" ""“ with """" a Even while the land 1s growing beautiful. Thelr formation over the ocean is pre- resulting from its passage. Acecrding to the laws of nature, the it T SQuLELy saparating thom /".lr-;r' of low pressur form most fre- vented by the uniformity of temperature The ternado differs materially from the Warmer air thus confined must find an out “‘\.'Iw“ AV QreurIed in \l'-\l““' '.('.”7 quently The air rushes in to fill the Although waterspouts present a similar cyclone, principally in size and rotary let and In so doing creates a violent, whirl tucky, ‘I"""""" »""h and South Caro- vacuum. Soon these on-rushing winds be- funnel formation they do not possess the forc The tornado is the smallest and Ing upward motion, rapidly drawing the I""' icorgla, Mississippl and llinols D e o a0 e cqinpaiativAly DATTAIRMR Biakt Qosteuokive acall storms tits Qlameter ‘ZOMAINIE varmaIx: trom under (ho- colg N ARGk LW EREESAURENATE | EQuATLEG KILIEH, they whirl and cut of the heart of th The accounts usually given of tornadoes yaries from fifty feet to a thousand miles in Strata. There is generally vast differ- more than 2,000 wounded and several thou- fair weather springs the tornado, blasting and cyclones and the ndiscriminate use giameter To give a comprehensive idea ©N¢ in the temperature of th layvers of ind houses were destroyed the land in its path made of ihe two terms show that few of the birth, development, movement and Warm and cold air and the grcater differ It was supposed &t frst that the violent Tornadoes are most frequent in May, really understand the distinguishing char- gestructive power of the tornado It will M the more powerful will the tornado be rotary motion was the only cause of de April, June and July in the order given. acteristics of these two classes of wind first be necessary to know something of th just formed. And the tornado continucs In struction attending tornado actlon But Occasionally they occur in the other storms nature of general cyclones and anti- action until the temperatures of the differ- it was demonstrated that many houses months, and, in places where the tem All destructive winds are whirlwinds. cyeclones, which usually are termed areas €0t air layers become equalized, when the had thelr roofs, side walls, windows or ture from a local or general cause g They var, from a few feet to 1,000 miles of low and high pressure respectively and S!Orm ceases suddenly doors blown out, while the furniture and exceeds the normal for the season, they or more in diameter. The smaller whirls, which are a contributery if not the direct All the power is concentrated in the fur bric-a-hrae was left practically undisturhed may occur even in winter such as thunder storms, dust storms or (ause of the tornados nel; without its complete formation ther Tornadoes require a vast amount of hea Draw a square that will take in the cen- tornadoes, may be distinctively outlined by Tornadoes scldom occur except in con would be no danger. Sometimes it is de radiated quickly for their formation. Thi tral west from Kansas and Nebraska east a single observer when in the distance junction with cyelen s or arcas of low flected or broken by natural objects at the can be obtained only over a great extent to the Allegheny mcuntzins and from Min- In the larger or cyclonic whirls the gen- pressure and th y invariably form frem earth's surface. The dark clouds above th: of level ground, without mountains, hill nesota and Michizan s-uth to eastern eral owiline is not visible to any single 300 to 500 miles south or southeast of the funnel bear little significance. They ar: or cities built of brick or stone to retard Texas, Mis ips Alatama and Georgla. observer. Their revolution is so huge that c)clone center. This is the auadrant of the spread out by the less dense atmespher radiation Lydia Bruun Woods’ Free Library, Recently Dedicated to the Public at Falls City READING ROOM EXTERIOR FALLS CITY LIBRARY BOOK ROOM