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efforts of Mr William S. Champ, secre- 

 tary of the late William Ziegler, com- 

 manding the relief expedition, who, 

 owing to the terrible weather, failed to 

 reach us last year, and to the untiring 

 zeal of Captain Kjeldsen and his Nor- 

 wegian officers and crew, who for six 

 weeks persistently forced their way 

 through solid floes of ice and finally 

 reached us. 



' ' An abundance of stores had been 

 left in the Franz Josef Archipelago by 

 the expedition commanded by the Duke 

 of Abruzzi and the Andre relief expedi- 

 tion, so that we did not suffer serious 

 difficulties on that score. ' ' 



In the spring of 1904 repeated at- 

 tempts were made eastward and west- 

 ward to force a passage to the Pole. 

 The conditions, however, were insur- 

 mountable. The expedition found much 

 open water, and day after day encoun- 

 tered fresh dangers and difficulties. 

 Ultimately the supply of provisions ran 

 short and a painful journey southward 

 was begun, the members of the expe- 

 dition finally reaching the depots at Cape 

 Flora, Cape Dillon, and Camp Ziegler, 

 among which they were distributed and 

 where they managed to eke out the 

 limited supplies by catches of walrus 

 and bear. 



The relations between the members 

 of the expedition were most cordial and 

 all took turns at duty, doing the hard 

 work willingly. 



Mr W. J. Peters, second in command, 

 and who had charge of the scientific 

 work, under the direction of the Na- 

 tional Geographic Society, has cabled 

 the following report to Dr Willis L. 

 Moore, Chief of U. S. Weather Bureau 

 and President of National Geographic 

 Society: "No record. Conditions 

 unfavorable. Considerable scientific 

 work." 



Mr Champ, leader of the relief ex- 

 pedition which sailed from Tromso 

 June 14 on the Terra Nova, deserves 

 much credit for bringing back the party. 



The ice was unusually thick the past 

 summer, and a less courageous man 

 would have failed to get through. 



On July 29 the Terra Nova reached 

 Cape Dillon, and found six members of 

 the Ziegler expedition safe and well. 

 From this outpost sleds were dispatched 

 to notify Mr Fiala at the headquarters 

 camp of the arrival of the rescue ship. 



The Terra Nova reached Cape Flora 

 July 30, and found more members of 

 the expedition. These had become 

 weakened by the hardships they had 

 endured, and some of them were so ill 

 that they could not have held out for 

 another winter. 



Returning to Cape Dillon, Mr Champ 

 organized a sled party and started for 

 the headquarters camp, from which he 

 brought back Mr Fiala and his com- 

 rades. 



The Terra Nova sailed for home Au- 

 gust 1 . It got out of the ice pack Au- 

 gust 6, and returned in excellent condi- 

 tion, arriving in Tromso August 11. 



THE HIGHEST DAM IN THE WORLD 



THE U. S. Geological Survey an- 

 nounces that the town of Roose- 

 velt, Arizona, humming as it is with 

 the activities of its 3,000 inhabitants, is 

 doomed. Its lease on life is only three 

 years long. In 1908, when the engi- 

 neers of the Reclamation Service shall 

 have completed the highest dam in the 

 world, Roosevelt will lie 172 feet below 

 the surface of the water in the recla- 

 mation reservoir. Work has been in 

 progress there for about a year, but 

 men are laboring now, night and day, 

 in three shifts of eight hours each, in 

 order that no more than three addi- 

 tional years may be consumed in the 

 task Then the town of Roosevelt will 

 disappear, and in its stead 250,000 acres 

 of now barren land near Phoenix will 

 be reclaimed and give rich support to 

 many more people than Roosevelt now 

 contains. Lest the sweeping away of 

 the 3,000 people should appear too se- 



