Russian Mission

D.C. Bays was the captain of the steamboat Oil City, one of the boats that made the long, dangerous journey up the Yukon.

In October of 1898, when the Oil City was on the Yukon near the Alaskan town of Russian Mission, bays saw signs of ice in the river it was early for the river to freeze over but bays was worried once the river froze for the winter it would be too icy to travel for six months he found a side stream near russian mission and the man on the boat prepared for a long cold winter near the arctic circle where the sun barely rose above the horizon for months at a time They had some provisions on board their steamship, but with little to do and little to eat, the men sometimes went out hunting when the weather was clear.

There wasn't much to catch, but they sometimes found grouse or rabbits.

On one of these hunting trips, Captain Bays went out with the ship's steward, a Chinese immigrant named Lin Qiu.

Okay.

And that new development I hear somewhere up there in the Russian Mission area, that this new development could only happen if the villages near to them went with that Anchor 1423. to make our state of Alaska land trustee.

And that's the only way the developments are going to form.

So all the villages out there, you know, I hope you keep your Indian land by not going into this angst of 14C3.