-NEWS ITEMS FROM OTHER ALASKAN TOWNS
Gathered From Our Territorial Exchanges
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General Stees* ow-Trip^—
(Jew. J imps Gordon Steese, notec
Alaskan, is preparing' to- iesrre New
York June 3 for Paris to attend the
second WorWV Petroleum Congress
He was appointed by President! Eons
eveJt « delegate -to- the voogress.
Reindeer Amre For Eskimos—
Reverend Klerekoper returned fieri
today from a long dogteam trek U
Barter Island and said that conditions
among-the Eskimos there had beer
greatly relieved by the arrival of a
herd' of reindeer sent to them recent
ly. It was a very poor winter foi
foxes, hie said, but the people are boo
looking hopefully to the opening oi
the water to start sealing and-fishing,
Jack Jeffries Mining-in- Alaska—
Jack Jeffries, brother of JJef
fries. former heavyweight it boxing
champion of the world, arrived in
Anchorage on the train recently and
left shortly for the Willow Greek re
gion. where he- will onerate a mint
thi.- summer. J-rcfc will'operate prop
erty cootrolle-r by J’ J. iDoyk- and
fi.tk Nance. He operated the same
property in IP-14 anff 1 lt35. Jack, al
though no* as large as his brother,
Jim. hears a marked resemblance to
himu Even though the pugilistic re
cord of Jim overshadows that of any
other to err, t»er of the Jeffries family,
lack was good enough to fight in- all
parts ef the world as a. ligh-theavy
weight. and was once a sparring
partner for his world champion broth
er. Jack Jeffnes also battled -with
Jack Johnson; but the- scrap with the
big negro came orf before Johnson
defeat-fikJim-for the world title.
Will Stody amt Map Goodiieww Bay—
To study and map the Goodnews
Bay region: in Alaska with,special at
;er o» to platinum and gold discov
ries Gerald Fitigera'd. surveyor,; and
J. B_ Mcrtfe .Jr., geologist of the Un
ited States Geologiest‘ Survey, left
Washington. recently for the North
land. Me. Mectie: declared, recent
platinum ana’ gold’ discoveries in th«
iioodnisws Bay district mid-resulted ir
a boom which had swoilea the popu
lation from. IF* which was the figurs
six years ago,, to air unestimatec
nuciier. He asserted’that Territoria
reports ascribe the- first discovery o1
plyCiiiairi in the Goodnews Bay ares
to an Eskimo, named Walter Smith
who announced iii 1928 lie had foanc
"■white gold” .kit tire south, end of Rec
Mountain
Optimistic Oil toot For Alaska—
Increases in business volume am
tourist travel- should! combine for ar
excapwonal jxra.r ig Alaska, predictec
VoJney Richmond', president of tlx
Northern Commercial' Company, a<
was in Anchorasre recently to be
lt <> n inspection of Northern (Mm
mental Company - storey tbroughotr
the Territory. He was acomnaniet
by Mrs. Richmond! Present indica
tions point to increased" mining ac
t’vit'es and’general business volum<
throughout the 1 erruory over las'
year; -Mr. Richmond said. A seasoi
•f tourist rraved surpassing last year’:
record figures is also indicated. Mr
Richmond, whose company' is th'<
largest commercial institution in A1
a ska. will visit 1T stores this year
It is his fh ji year in the Territory
and his 37: h in the service of thi
N. C. institution: He expects to tx
odck in- Seattle by July after travel
ing throughout the Territory as" fit
north as Fort Yukon, site of the cam
patty's farthest north store. Las
yeaT he visited all of the company*!
26 stores throughout, Alaska.
Will Erect Modern Building—
Substantial expression of' faith ii
the future of Fairbanks and Alaski
is evidenced in* the announcemen
made recently in that city by Capl
A. E. Lathrop, head of the Lathroi
Company, and other extensive inter
ests in the Territory that he will er
ect in Fairbanks this season a clas
A concrete and steel building whic!
will be the finest structure in Masks
No finer type of building- of the siz
will be found anywhere in A meric*
The structure will be ar combined mod
ern apartment house and home fo
the Fairbanks News-Miner. It will b
the* finest new-paper home in Alask
and the West, declare those who hav
seen the plans-. The newspaper plan
and offices will occupy the groun
floor, and there will be two uppe
stories, each with twelve modern d
luxe apartments. Preliminary wor
already has started on the site, whic
is being cleared of old structures, an
excavating is to start immediate!
and be carried on as rapidly as cor
•litions will permit. It is expected t
have the lower portion of the builc
ing ready for occupancy at the en
of th^ presenr summer. The site c
the new building will be on the lo;
lying between first and Second At
-JUleS, opposite the. Nor,l:ile J Intel i.
i First Cleanup On Peters—
Fifteen thousand is the value of the
first gold placer mine cleanup to be
brought to Anchorage this season for
trans-shipment to the States. The
yellow metal was flown to Anchorage
from the property, owned by Patrick
McDonald on Peters Creek, 50 miles
: northwest of Anchorage.
Fourth Body Taken From Slide—
Another body was found recently in
.he sncwsHde that occurred May II
at Eureka Placers, Inc., opposite
l ynx Creek, in the Met* Pass dis
, trict out from Seward. The remaim
are those of Johir Mehues. Six men
Were killed in the slide. The bodies
of Einer Pedersen, Wilbur Setzman,
'Ben Crabtree and Mr. Slehues have
been recovered. Search is being* con
tinued for remains of .David Mans
Ifield and John Dyste. .
Appeals For Flood Money—
•1 Delegate A. J. Dimond appealed to
the senate to speed funds to make
flood control surveys in Alaska. He
called attention to the floods at Fair
• banks and to the fact that the army
engineers had made a preliminary
examination of the Chena and Tanana
rivers a year ago and. had recom
'mended that congress' appropriate
-funds bo complete the surveys. Money
for that work cannot become avail
able until the enacrmenti of .the war
department appropriations bill now
before the senate and lit i was. in con
nection with this bill that the. delegate
appeared. Dimond also said he had
been advised that the PWA will be
nnabie to make a large grant to Fair
banks for the new sever and; side
walk construction as it is prepared
only to furnish money for labor con
nected with the projects plus 15 per
cent of the cost of that labor.
Gas Tax Urged On Highway—
To finance the construction of the
^Canadian portion of the proposed In
ternational. Highway between Seattle
and Fairbanks. Lacy Murrow, director
. of highways in Washing-ton state.
proposed recently in the national cap
, iol that Canada should levy a reason
able Dominion* -tax on gasoline. He
declared he was convinced such a tax
would pay for Canada’s share of the
road within “seven or eight years."
The length of the proposed highway
..between Seattle and Fairbanks is
2.256' miles. Of this mileage, about
,1.930 is within Dominion territory
and of these 1,930 miles, 1000 miles
' remain- t« be completed. The estim
ated cost of building these 1,000 mile?
was originally estimated at $12,000,
iOf-O, and now is- placed at $14,000,000.
' The only part of the highway in Un
ited States territory remaining in
; completed is comprised of 183 miles
irr the 274-mile stretch between the
.Alaska-Yukon boundary- and Fair
banks. The estimated cost of con*
tructing these 183 mires is $2,000,
- 000. Mr. Murrow urged an immediate
^ rerfal survey of the incomplebed
parts of the highway, which ground
„ rvey parties have already declared
; feasible.
Mining Man Passes
Albert, Murray, 46 vearsjold, .prom
inent mine operator in the Cache
Creek district north of Anchorage,
passed away recently at his mining
camp as the result of a heart ^attack.
A man at the camp walked 45 miles
to reach a telephone to summon an:
airplane to fetch the remains-to- An
chorage.
1936 Gold Is S23.500,0(Kt—
Alaska miners have produced 'min
erals worth $722,222,000 from 1880 to
1937, the Department of the Interior
estimates in a report- issued recently
i This figure is almost 100 times what
the United States paid to Russia for
Alaska. innl867.* Alaska's output of
1 minerals last year was $23,590,000.
i Gold in 1936 led other minerals with
a yield of $18,433,000 with $15,940
i 0 0 1935. Copper -was second in value.
Red metal 'production'in '193ft totaled
$’,720,000 compared with $1,249000
in 1935.' The output of jcoppgr in-1936
was the largest in any single year
since 1918.
Ermine Snapped lTp At MayoSale—
Ermine and timber wolf were in
the best demand at the May fur sale
conducted by the Seattle Fur Ex
change. Bidders took 80 per cent of
ld^iOO- ermines giving from *>©'cents
to $1.60 for them. They took the
same percentage of 275 timber wolf
pelts at $10 to $10.50, the same as
last month’s prices. Northwestern
muskrat declined 10 per cent, bring
ing$1.25 to $1.60. Alaskan offerings
were unchanged, at St.lO to $I.30i
Bidders in only fair attendance took
-4 per cent of 400 muskrat skins
while one lot of 450 raccoons were
withdrawn. No fisher skins were -ofi,
fered. Other otferings of which the
i price range and percentage sold ’ re
j trained practically unchanged were
the following: M’nk—5,600, 60 per
cent sold, $8 to $23, a decline of Csev
■ en and a. half per cent from Ids*
month.’
KoTukiik' Victim High' Watdf—
Koyukuk Station;-at the mouth! of
-the Koyukuk River and a little above
Nutate, was among the victims of
high water along the Yukon: Pilot
Maurice King, arriving in Fairbanks
recently from Kotzebue So'und, flew
over the station en route. He report
ed the whole town seemed flooded
and it looked like there was two feet
of water in all the buildings. Nulato
is also likely flooded. All radio com
munication there has been cut off
since the P.A_A. station-was footed
out of business two or three days ago.
Pilot King reports Kotzebue Sound
is still frozen solid. Snow-on the ice
barely has begun to soften on the
t-ibuterv streams. At Nome, while
the snow is well off the ground, thfe
ice-in-the Boring Sea is still a- solid
-. mass. Harlan B. Grubser, looking
into the problem of combatting-wol
ves preying on the reindeerrhferds, iii
I the service of the biological depart
| ment, was a passenger from Buck
K»*»eW Sound, to-.Fair
II - V-~ T^tn Mr? Kfi-g
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(Successor 'To A.‘ W. Berry)
MEDFRA, ALASKA
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Ji, C. Builds At Fairbanks—
Erection of a large nw two jstory
building 30 by “0 feet, and extensive
alterations of other buildings JtinFair
bkaks.by.tha Northbm-’ Cbtnmereial
Company, the work to 'begin
diately. was anounced in Fairbanks by
Volney Richmond, president of-l the)
big company. M.. Richmond'''arrived
in Fairbanks recently. “Odnrhprowp
ments in Fairbanks this season.”
said Me. Rfchtnond, "will be made on
1 the block betweeir Second and Third
! Avenue, and Turner and Barnette
Streets, the block on which the teL>
I phone building and warehouse* are'
located. Our improvements this year
will amount perhaps to S20 OfiO) o*
! ?‘tn,000 or more.”
Air Express Buys Plane—
The Pacific Alaska -Airways' “Fleet
ster,”’a nine-place ship, has been pur
chased by the Alaska Air Express,
and a Wright Cyclone engine is be
ing installed in the plane by the Al
aska Airmotive in Fairbanks. The
plane will 'be used out of Bethel and
Anchorage, according to Pilot W. E.
Sasseen and Flight Mehanic Herb'
Nicholson, partner in the Air' Ex
press. Sasseen and Nicholson came
i to Fairbanks from Anchorage in
1 their Pilgrim plane. They have an
other Pilgrim at their Bethel base
which is flown by Nat Browne. The
Fleetster will have a cruising speed
of 140 MPH, acording to Mr. Sasseen.
It: has a. fuel tank capacity of 200
fallons. Recently from Goodnews
lay, the airmen report that there
are 300 men living in that tent town,
most of them hoping for a. big stake
this seaaonn
Wild Man Shipwrecked Prospector—
Search for what was reported U>
be a- wild man near Point Retreat, .
ended recently when deputy marshals
returned to Juneau with Albert Niles,
an old-time prospector, who was ship
wrecked two weeks ago. It was at
first thougut he might be the missing
trapper, Bud Hatch, who has not
been seen since last December. Niles
first came to Alaska in 1897. He left
for Freshwater Bay last March on a
prospecting trip; While on the trip
in his boat, two weeks ago the craft
was wrecked. He managed to saw
some food and other supplies from'
the boat and established a makeshift
camp under a tree. Then after three I
days, fire destroyed his camp and all
his food and supplies, including
matches. He retained his rifle, how
ever, and managed to shoot, some
ducks, which he ate raw. He is ex
pected to be fully? recovered in; a few ■
days.
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