REDUCED
CHARGES
Savings Effected by Par
tially Completed Pro
jects of A. R. C.
The Alaska Koad Commission was
organised in 1905. and has to date ex
pended about $6,00(1,000 on about 0,000
miles of roads and trails, including re
pairs -und-maintenance for the seven-'
teen years. As wagon roads cost from
$5,000 to $30,000 per mile and from $250
to $500 per mile per year for mainten
aaee, the money has had to be spread
too thin to complete any through
routes, but actually the shippers and
ope’ators-of Alaska are being saved
about $2,000,000 per year in re
duced freight charges on freight actu
ally moving ov(er projects partially
completed. For example, due to work
accomplished on the Talkeetna-Cache
creek route, a co-operative project be
tween the Territory and the Alaska
Koad Commission on a two-to three
basis, last seasoo^SO® tons were shipped
in. last winter at a saving of three
cents per pound over the previous rate,
or $30,060 in one season for the lot, ac
cording to a statement made by Col. J.
G. Steese, head of the Koad Cornmis
sioB,tduringJ)is recent visit here.
General Wilds P. Richardson was
president of . the Commission from its
organization until December, 1917,
when he was ordered overseas as com
mander-in-chief of the North Russian
expedition. During the next' two
years an emergency commission was in
charge and the appropriations were
out to nominal amounts. As a result
much work .was abandoned and. 5ome*of
it lost entirely. The present Commis
sion took charge about eighteen months
ago, aDd has been engaged in rehabili
fcHting the entire system* getting in
formation, and drawing up plans for a
comprehensive ten-year program. Col.
James G. Steese. president of the Com
mission, is responsible for allotments,
plans, the securing of money from Con
gress, and satisfying the Washington
authorities. His work is mainly for
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the next year. Major John C. Gotwals.
engineer officer of the Commission, is.
responsible for all held operations and
requisitions for future operations. His
work is mainly for the current year.
Captain Charles S. Ward, secretary
and disbursing officer of the Comrnis
sion, is t espousible for the purchase of
supplies and the payment of bills. His
work is mainly for the past year.
Seward May Get Smelter.
That a company is being formed in
San Francisco, composed entirely of
former interior mining men, with a
capitalization of $600,000, is the word
brought here by Paul Denbart, who
was a passenger for Seward on the last
steamship, Watson. Mr. Denhart states
that the majority of those interested
are men who have large holdings in
toe Broad Pass and Kaotisbna country,
aed are determined.to erect a smelter
here, fully realizing that only by doing
this can they hope to develop the
quartz mines of Interior Alaska.—Sew
ard Gateway.
KITCHEN SUPERSTITIONS.
SpiU pepper and you will have a
fight.
If eggs eraek in the boiling it is a
sign of disappointment.
If the food is burned it is a sure sign
the cook is in love.
, If two divide a piece of cake it is a
sign of a, quarrel soon.
If you break a double-yolked egg it
is good fortune comsng.
When a baking apple bursts with a
sputter you will hear good news
If a cake runs oven the topof the pan
it is a sign you- will get money.
Upset a cake or pie taking it out of
the oven and everything will go wrong
, t,he rest of the day.
In mixing a salad the leaves that fall
out of- the plate telle the number of
years-vouotmist wait before marrying.
You will bring bad luok to a house to
take food into it and then-out again on
your departure. Leave a small'piece.
When opening a can of fruit or any
similar thing and the juice spouts up
in your face, make a wish and it will
come true._
Walla Walla.—Nicholas B. Oliver,
a?ed 80. a cousin of President Harding,
died at his home in this city, today.
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Forfeiture Notice.
To William Deuering:
You a re hereby notified that T have
expended during the years 1916, 1917,
1918, 1919 and 1920 the sum of two
hundred and six dollars and fifty cents
($206.50) in labor and improvements
upon the Gold Bill Placer Association
mining claim, situate at the head of
Flat creek, a tributary of Otter creek,
in Otter precinct, Fourth Division,
Territory of Alaska, the location cer
tificate of whicb is found of record in
Volume 15 of Locations, at page 192, in
the office of the Recorder in said Otter
precinct, in order to bold said elaim
under the provisions of Section 2324
of the revised statutes of the United
States, aDd the amendment thereto ap
proved January 22, 1880; concerning
annual labor upommining claims, being
the amount required to hold said placer
mining claim for the period from Janu
ary 1st, 1916, to December 31st, 1920i -r
And if, within ninety days from the
personal service of this notice, or
within ninety days after the publica
tion thereof, you fail ©r refuse to con
tribute your proportion of such ex
penditure as S'co-owcer, which amounts
to one hundred and three dollars and
twenty-five cents ($103.25), your inter
est in the said elaim will beeotne the
property of the subscriber, your co
owner, who has made the required ex
penditure, by the terms of said sec
tion. T: M. Dean.
Date of first publication^ Sept. 24, 1921.
Date of final publication, Dec.' 33; 1921
She Knew the Smell
of Old ‘Sunnybrook’
The snows of almost a hundred
Yukon winters had fallen on her once
raven locks;, almost a hundred mos
quito-filled summers had left their
path in wrinkles on her once plump
cheeks, as she sat,, almost the sole sur
vivor of a once proud race of Yukon
Indians, in the excursion train coming
to sikagway from the Whitehorse cele
bration.
Like a moose picking up the scent of
a running brook after a long, hard
day’s travel over the Yukon valleys,
she sniffed and sniffed, and a smile lit
up her eyes like the sunlight and crept
over her weather-beaten features as
she murmured, “Sunnybrook.”
And “Sunnybrook” was right, for
one of the excursionists who was carry
ing a little flask as a preventative
against train sickness had lost the cork
from it, and in bending over the con
tents had saturated his clothing so
that in his trips up and down the car
an aroma that made the ozone of the
Blue Ridge Mountains of Kentucky
famous was wafted, hither and yon iii
the car.
Although those almost hundred win
ters may have dimmed the eye and
furrowed the cheeks of the last lone
survivor of a once mighty tribe, it had
not affected her scent,, as she named it
the first time.—Juneau Empire.
The town of Wrangell has adopted
the right system;, k is canning its
crabs, instead of allowing them to run
loose and pester tke rest of the citi
aens.—Valdez Miner.
Hoover Rebuffed By
Soviet Govt, in Mat
ter of Food Drafts
Washington, Sept. 12.—In rendering
his report of the American relief fund
to the authorities here Herbert Hoofer
today made known the fact that the
soviet government had absolutely re
fused to allow him to establish the
same system of food drafts as used by
the relief committee in other Europeau
countries where relief has been admin
istered.
They Never Get Too Old.
Rockville Center, N. Y.—James Mc
Intyre, 70, was arrested today charged
with having beaten his wife, age 72,
into insensibility. He claims she was
“flirting.”
PROFESSIONAL
W. F. Green—
M. D., D. D. S.
Office: McGrath, Aaa.
Geo. C. Winter—
Bookkeeper and Accountant
Prepared to give attention to any in
terest in McGrath or vicinity.
Will Return From the Outside About Novem
ber 15, Bringing: With Me a Full Line of Op
tical Goods and an Up-to-Date Assortment of
Various Kinds of Jewelry.
ARTHUR J. DOWNER
McGrath Pool Room
and Cigar Store
A Popular Resort—A Place Where You’re Sure
to Meet Your Friends.
Our Stock of General Mer
chandise Has Arrived
Everything: Fresh Prices (Right
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