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• Gathered From Our Territorial Exchanges •
Cspt Westertund Dies—
Captain Car! Westerlund. 55. mas
fjry. r ofthe steamer Alaska, and
senior captain of the Alaska Steam
ship Company personnel. d;ed re
cently. Westerlnnd started his car
eer with the Alaska Steamship-Com
pany in 1907. A widow and a
daughter, both in Seattle, survive.
Georue Welter Passes—
Oldtiraers in the Goodnews Kay re
gion will be sorry to hear of the
death of George Welter at Roches
ter, Minn., on February 10. Last
summer he came Outside and estab
lished his home in Seattle. Shortly
after the first of the year he.pamnl
ly disposed of his headings in the
North and left for medical treatment.
He was buried in Minnesota. He
leaves a wife, one son, and two
daughters, who reside in Seattle.
Building Boom In Territory—
Alaska's building boom of the
past 12 months will swell to even
big-p-er proportions- during 1931. pre
dicts Jack E. Pegues, 1 HA adminis
trator for the Territory, who return
ed to Juneau recently from a trip to:
Washing-ton. D. C. e expect to ,
insure a}, least $750,000 worth of,
building this year." said Peg-ues,,
barring, of course, the lack of skill-j
ed labor that held us back la>. ^ar
and is quite evident over the whole j
nation. Buiidir.tr acnviti was great
er lasr year than in many years
past." declared Pegues. Juneau wit
nessed the first subdivision that city
has experienced since the war. with
the Alaska Realty Company taking
over 47 acres of land on the north
side of town, planning to build 35
residences, tnere before fail. In addi
tion. Alaska received its first build
ers' ioan association during the last
year.
Bringing in Drill—
John Haroldson. Pete Brevik ami
August Wiekland, who haw- been
spending a well-earned vacation in
Seattle, returned to Anchorage re
cently to flv to Bethel and Goodnews
Bay. ‘ While' on the Outside, they pur
chased supplies and a placer drill to
be used in prospecting their very
pr mising platinum holdings at the
-eene of Alaska’s latest stampede.
When seen just before sailing from
Seattle. Haroldson said: "We want
to get back to our ground in plenty
of time to get it in shape for pros
pecting. Our drill and uifit will be
j p on the first boat, and as soon as
i: is landed we will start drilling
holes. We are well pleased with the
.-bowing we uncovered last fall, ami
feel confident that we have some
good ground, but it will take the
drill to prove it. After we have
completed the driling program on
the platinum ground that we have in
mind, we will move the drill to an
other section where we know of a
good gold prospect and put the bal
ance of the year seeing just how
rieh it is. Naturally, we are all sold
on the Goodnews Bay section—we
have seen the Camp develop from
its start and have seen cleanups
that men with mining maehinery
have made, and we feei that we
have as good ground as any of them
so why shouldn't we be satisfied
with the outlook?"
Dr. Carter New Chairman—
Dr. Aubrey R. Carter of Fairbanks,
a<Sive in Democratic circles here
since 1931 and a member of a fine
old family of Virginia Democrats, is
the new chairman of the Alaska
Democratic Central Committee. He
succeeds A. A. Shonbeck of Anchor
age, retiring chairman. Endorse
ments commending Delegate Di
mond. Governor Troy, Secretary E.
W. Griffin and Collector of Customs
J., J. Connors were passed at the
committee session which terminated
recently in Fairbanks. A meeting of
the Third Division Committee may
:JS held at Seward between April 20
and May 5, at the option of the con
testing candidates. Deadline on en
dorsements for the marshalship was
set for May 15. Notarized state
ments from' the divisional commit
tees are to be in the hands of Dr.
Carter before that date if possihle.
Holder of the majority vote will be
endorsed by the Territorial chairman.
Public interest in the committee
meeting was centered on the con
tests for the marshalshrps in the
Third and Fourth Divisions. Conclu
sive action was not taken in eithei
case. Prospective candidates for th^
position of marshal in the Third Di
vision are P. C. McMullen of Seward
Central Committee member from thf
Third Division, and Chester J. Todd
incumbent. In the Fourth Division
Harry Phillips, chairman of the di
vision organization and a membei
of the central committee, is the can
didate seeking approval of the cen
tral committee.
Tons Of Dynamite
Dropped By Plane
Without Exploding
Propping dynamite fiom a ' lane
to rocky surfaces of the earth and
on glaciers, is a frequent occurrence
in the flying service of Bob Reeve,
well known Alaskan pilot, basing at
Vaider, who visited in Fairbanks re
cently “I have token out several
tons of the high explosive from Va,
dez and dropped it from an altitude
of 200 to 500 feet," said Reeve, "and
in no case has the dynamite explod
ed when dropped. This is quite con
trary to the common, opinion that
dynamite will always explode from
an impact of the kind."
Pilot Reeve also has dropped some
25,000 feet of mine timbers irom h.s
plane at various times.
Reeve reports he has flown more
than a million pounds of freight out
of Valdez to various mining camps
in the Valdez area and more inland
points during the five and a half
years he has t»sen based at Ya.uez.
He has two planes and does ail his
own mechanical work and servicing
as well as piloting.
“Rough and Tough" Mine
Known as the “Gldeier Pilot,"
Reeve has flown over most of the
glaciers of the Alaskan coastal area.
Much of his flying has been in car
rying supplies to the Columbia Gla
cier. where a mine is located in the
heart of the glacier. The Rough and
Tough Mine, is the name of the
property. It is described as a min
eralized zone about 170 feet wide,
laced with numerous parallel veins
of a few inches to several feet in
width, and visible for some 400 feet
| or more along the exposed suiiace,
; and carrying high values.
“A mill is being placed on the
, property," said Reeve, “and it is
I hoped to have it operating soon with
a crew of several men. The ore is
: exceedingly high in values."
1 ses Skiis In Mud
Pilot Reeve, in his flying sendee,
uses skiis in the summer as well as
winter in flying out of Valdez. In
summer he lands and takes off on
the muddy tide flats of the Valdez
front. The glacial mud there is es
pecially favorable to the use of skiis
and icy glacier surfaces making
. landing possible in servicing many
'of the camps.
Mr. Reeve now has contracts to
move 70 tons of supplies from Val
dez to mining camps of the area, he
reported.
Kenai Pioneer Passes Away—
Carl A. Petterson, 64. veteran of
the gold rush days and a prominent
Kenai merchant since 1929. died at
Kenai March 17, according to word
which reached Anchorage recently.
He had been ill since November.
Surviving are his widew.-two daugh
ters, two sons and several grand
. children. Mr. Petterson landed in Al
aska at Kachemak Bay from a
schooner with the King County Min
ing outfit in 1898. From Kachemak
Bay they necked all their freight
over the mountains to Skilak Lake.
In 1909 Mr. Petterson quit mining
and turned to fishing. In 1922 hi
started a fox ranch of his own or.
Kenai River. He gave this up to
go into the store business at Kenai.
which he operated until his death.
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Ka k'n-:n Back From Trarfls—
V.'aino Kaskirm, Alaska miner,
has returned norm again to take up
the prospector's pick and shovel af
ter a breath-taking journey to the
"Outside.”’ his first in more than a
uarter of a century. Kaskinen ar
rived in Seattle March 15 after a
und-trip plane-steamer journey to
Europe, including his native Finland.
He is returning to Flat, where he
sold out his hydraulic gold mine be
. re starting his journey and where
will begin prospecting for more
: d. It was last September that
'ir.-krtn arrived in Seattle from Al
a ’ a to gaze in awe at the city’s
tra-fle, skyscrapers and other metro
politan features, many of which he
wp; seeing for the first time in his
’ Ife. He flew from Seattle to New
York, crossed the Atlantic, visited
Finland and other European coun
. returned on the Queen Mary
end fic-w 1 ack to Seattle. His return
from England was made in six days
its compared to 16S days required
back in 1908 when, as an able-bodied
amen, he journeyed on the full-:
ringed sailing ship Rajore from Liv- j
•Tr-ool to F.rtland, Ore. Arriving,
_ck in Seattle, he appeared almost
; a travel ? phistieate after having
a:ned first-hand knowledge of sub-;
ways, elevateds, re bber-ne: k buses
end other frgMigbts erf the w ord een-;
ters. Kaskinen vows he will not wait]
•er.-.thc-r years before going “Out
side” again. "There’s too much to'
ee and do down there,” he declared.
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Sale of Pool Tickets Oases—
When will the ice go-out ? is the
burning question uppermost iri the
minds of many thousands of Alask
ans and chechakos now that the sale
of tickets for the hip annual event
has closed. With approximately $60,
( r0 fcine'ng cn the time the ice
break? in the Nenanu F.iver, officials
said thousands were entering the
pool and the amount was rising
steadily toward a record. A pole is
placed*on the ice in the Nenana riv
, -_ v.-h'. h runs past the town, some
• rrnr "bef'-re the spring breakup.
When the ;ce moves, a strine fas
tened to the po’e nulls a cord attach
ed to n stop clock in the center of
town And one among the thousands
of competitors holding the exact
t-'me on btr ticket- wins the poo’.
,TV!'-h nts usually to between
S50, 70.000. The earli
er, tk,. -;ee haS ever gone out was
•, prt! 20. 7925, and ?ne latest. May
1*5, 1075.
Oldtime Mai! Carrier Passes—
Wjn. J. “Bill" Bunger. one of the
mail carriers in the Nome district
who carried the ir.a.l to Teller by
dogteam. is dead. One of the most
beloved of the Sourdoughs, he was
respected by all. and seldom does Lcs
Angeles see a larger funeral than
the one on the morning of rebruary
IS when his many friends gathered
to pay their last tribute to him. He
would have been 59 years old the
day of his interment at Calvary cem
etery. Mr. Bunger was ill only teif
davs and absent from his position,
wli .o he held for the past 2S years
with the Los Angeles Examiner, for
whom he did all the paper hauling
and draving. Mr. and Mrs. Bur.gr
have attended Sourdough convention
together, and were never absent from
gatherings of the Los Angeles
group. Besides his widow. Mrs. Myr
:le Bunger. he leaves a daughter,
Mrs. Julia Seaman of >ar. Francisco,
a son, Lawrence, at Juneau; a sis
ter, Mrs. Ed Ray, of Ocean Park
Calif., two sisters in Xer York, and
a grandson, Donald White, who
made his home with them and at
tended the Los Angeles hi *h school.
Pallbearers were VVm. H. "Er "
Brown, Harry C. Eli'n~- tin. Tor ;..
Watson. J. E. BeS. Ben Crier, Clyde
Galloway and Wm. J. Ganlr a. A f w
of the former Alaskans it attendance
were Mesdames Aar.a V. Homer.
Margaret Betties G Id r. Mabel
White. E. G. Ames, M'r.nie Fc
Evans. Maude Kennedy Devon?. E h
e! Jarman, Anna Casr-, W. F: '
man, C. Mae Robertson,* Carrie" Ch 1
berg. Mirs Hrlene Julian, and
Messrs. Phil Hancoek, Ray Gardner,
Scotty McGregor, Bud Courren
manchc-, W. H. Pearson, Mark Mc
Ailenjoe Brown, Elwood Brown and
Albert S. Howie.
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