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BROWER TALKS
ABOUT LIFE AT
POINT BARROW
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a mile and a quarter long so he
could take off from Barrow... He
had a short wave sending and re
ceiving radio set, and he left the
receiving end with the school teach
er in Point Barrow. We were the
only people who heard from that
expedition hour by hour until they
got north of Greenland.”
Cares For Shipwrecked Whalers
For forty-two of his fifty years
at Point Barrow, Mr. Brower has
been a member of the Cape Smythe!
Whaling and Trading Company,
with headquarters in San Francisco.
“The year 1897,” he said, “was the
big shipwreck year at which time
eight whaling ships were crushed
and lost in the ice. It was iny for
tune to be there and I was able to
give assistance. I had to take three
hundred men and take care of them
for twelve months. In the fall of
the year President McKinley called
for a volunteers relief expedition.
Jarvis and Dr. Call volunteered but|
could not get in by ship, u They!
worked up the coast to where Nome
now stands/ There they collected
deer and drove them to Point Bar
'row. These were the first reindeer
,| to come so far north.
“Those men that I had to take
care of were of every nationality ini
the world. It was some job to han
dle them all. Besides I already had
125 Eskimos and their families work
ing for me in the whaling business
I was forced to forego their rations
which I used to give out for the
year and I gave them nothing but
ammunition. Moreover they got
caribou and some 3600 pounds of
fish, so there was no destitution. In
the spring there was plenty to eat
with many ducks and whales on
hand. When Mr. Jarvis arrived
from Washington he found all well
and left everything in my charge.”
Brought First News of Nome Gold
In 1898 Mr. Brower went to Wash
ington to finish up this business and
on the way made the first discovery
of gold at Nome. He said, “We brot
the news to St. Michael and started
the stampede to Nome. And that
was all I ever got out of it.”
Interested in Archaeological Work
Mr. Brower has been much inter
ested in the archaeological excava
tions carried on for many years at
Point Barrow, mostly by the Amer
icn Museum of Natural History of
New York. “We find that there have
been probably three races of people
who have lived there at one time or
another. The earliest people were
the most advanced in culture. We
find there probably the same culture
as found at St. Lawrence Island. It
does not extend farther north than
Point Barrow. It extends down the
coast and jumps from Cape Prince
of Wales to St. Lawrence Island. _ In
1919 were found 27 burials in one
mound covered with five or six feet
of earth. There was no evidence of
anyone having lived there. Out of
curiosity we opened the burial
mound and found the old Bering
Sea culture there. There was found
also another culture which extends
to Herschel Island. The last one
found extends from Greenland all
the way through, the same as Knut
Rasmussen found.”
Discovered Oil Pits
Once while hunting Mr. Brower
came across some oil pits about six
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Clothing Pressed And
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Laundry Work At
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TUB BATHS DAILY
It A.M. TO It PJH.
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ty miles from Barrow. There are
two of them like lakes almost run
together. These Takes are about 100
yards across. In the center they
have the consistency of lubricating
oil, and the edges are like asphalt.
He said, “I have often seen deer,
foxes, bear and birds mired in this
substance. For this reason I have
urged the excavation on these pits
hoping that prehistoric animals so
mired might be found.”
Bird Migrations at Barrow
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The speaker’s account of the bird
migrations was especially interest %
ing. “The ducks, especially the eid
er, come early in spring with the
first southeast wind in the early part
of April. They come in thousands,
flcok after flock. They cover the sky
from one end of the horizon to the,
other. They fly north of Point Bar
row to the east. Later in the fall
they return and come in off shore.
Many of them nest on the Arctic
Amercian coast, but the King Eider
goes far off during the summer.
Birda of all descriptions come in the
spring, all the way from Cape Horn
Australia and Europe. Here they stop
to nest and to rest from their ldng
journeys. The eastern golden plover
goes to Labrador, crosses the At
lantic and then goes to the Argen
tine and Patagonia. Coming back, it
crosses the Gulf of Mexico and the
Mississippi valley. The Western
gold plover flies on the Asiatic side.
It goes down to Australia and com
es back up the Pacific, past the Al
eutians and the coast a little south
of Barrow.”
Will Lecture in States
Mr. Brower was in Fairbanks on
his way to the states. He had been
outside in August, and he reached
Nome on his “return too late to fly
into Point Barrow since the sun will
be gone from there two months be
ginning November 21, and the short
days would make flying extremely
hazardous. He and his son Robert
returned to the states where he will
do some lecturing this winter. They
will return north in April.
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each scheduled sailing of Alaska Steamship Co.
ships the day before departure from Seward for
Seattle.
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General Agents for The Pacific Steamship Lines