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efforts of Mr William S. Champ, secretary of the late William Ziegler, commanding 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 Norwegian 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 André relief expedition, so that we did not suffer serious difficulties on that score."

In the spring of 1904 repeated attempts were made eastward and westward to force a passage to the Pole. The conditions, however, were insurmountable. The expedition found much open water, and day after day encountered fresh dangers and difficulties. Ultimately the supply of provisions ran short and a painful journey southward was begun, the members of the expedition 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 National 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 expedition 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 comrades.

The Terra Nova sailed for home August 1. It got out of the ice pack August 6, and returned in excellent condition, arriving in Tromso August 11.

The U. S. Geological Survey announces that the town of Roosevelt, 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 engineers 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 reclamation 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 additional 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-