THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



77 



(Continued from page 70.) 

 discouraged us had we not 

 known that few of the longer 

 explorations of the Geological 

 Survey in Alaska had been re- 

 garded as practicable by traders 

 who were most familiar with 

 the locality." 



Mr. Brooks describes a se- 

 ries of marches, with topograph- 

 ic and geologic work en route, 

 weary days of trail chopping 

 through dense thickets, and ex- 

 periences with swollen rivers 

 which taxed the ingenuity and 

 hardihood of the members of 

 the party to the utmost to get 

 themselves and their pack ani- 

 mals across. Moose, wild sheep, 

 and other game occasionally fell 

 to the rifles of the men and 

 served as most welcome 

 changes in diet. 



Finally, Mount McKinley 

 and Mount Foraker, which in 

 clear weather had been visible 

 for most of the time, loomed 

 large and majestic and on Au- 

 gust 4 camp was made only 14 

 miles in an air line from the 

 summit of Mount McKinley. 

 "Here'' says Mr. Brooks, "a 

 day's delay permitted the writer 

 to climb a spur of -the mountain 

 to snow line and to obtain some 

 clue to its geologic structure; 

 but satisfaction at standing on 

 its slope 9 miles from the sum- 

 mit, which had never before 

 been approached by white men. 

 could not but be tinged with re- 

 gret that there was neither time 

 nor 'means for reaching a higher 

 altitude." 



The position of Mount Mc- 

 Kinley was accurately deter- 

 mined, as also its altitude, 20,300 

 feet. Mount Foraker, some 15 

 miles to the south of Mount Mc- 

 Kinlev, was also located, and its 

 altitude of 17,000 feet deter- 

 mined. 



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