. Alaska and the Klondike. ch an improvement. Lighterage costs from $ $5 a ton for ordinary merchandise and more for heavymachinery, and it was contended that on the 50,000 to60,000 tons of freight handled there every year the costwould be reduced enough to pay for the improvement intwo years. About the first of June a fleet of merchant vesselssails from Seattle for Nome. It is all open sea till theyget through the Aleutian chain at Unimak pass and forsome distance northward in Bering Sea, but sooner orlater they encounter the ice fields. The ice is breaking upand floating down from the
. Alaska and the Klondike. ch an improvement. Lighterage costs from $ $5 a ton for ordinary merchandise and more for heavymachinery, and it was contended that on the 50,000 to60,000 tons of freight handled there every year the costwould be reduced enough to pay for the improvement intwo years. About the first of June a fleet of merchant vesselssails from Seattle for Nome. It is all open sea till theyget through the Aleutian chain at Unimak pass and forsome distance northward in Bering Sea, but sooner orlater they encounter the ice fields. The ice is breaking upand floating down from the north, and there is great strifeto see which ship will force its way through the ice andland its passengers and freight and mail at Nome voyage from Seattle to Nome is made ordinarily insix or seven days, but the race is not always to the swiftor the first in starting, for, at the opening of navigation,it sometimes happens that the vessel which for a timeseems to lead in the race gets caught in an Ice-pack and is. w 6 o I4S ALASKA AM) I 111 Kl < )iKK tortcdto wait for it to break while it sees its rivals move onthrouixii open water to their tlestiiiation. I he ice breaks up in Berinu; Sea in frontot Nome about June i ^ asa rule and closes that port,it It may be callcil a port,about C)ctober in. The<ipen season at Nome iso\er then aiul from thattime till the i ^th or 20thot June that great campand all the Seward Penin-sula are absolutely cut olifrom the outside world ex-cept through a monthlyletter mail and the re-centK installed Cioxern-ment telegraph service. I his tact has ilevelopeda great ileal ol interestthere in the powerful ice-breaking boats built by theRussian Government torthe purpose ot keepingopen the port ot Cronstadton the Baltic Sea. In kSqS and it is authoritatl\elv stated has ploughed its waythrough solid ice tmirteen teet thick tor a distance ot
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