OPPOSED
BY BORAH
He Sees Lots of Trouble
in the Ratification of
Peace Treaties.
Washington, Sept.—A favor
able report on the treaties* be
tween the United States and
Germany, Austria and Hungary
was ordered today -by the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations.
Senator Borah voted against*the
committee. In opposing ratifica
tion, he asserted that the Ger
man peace pact embodies enough
of the Versailles treaty to take
America through the back door,
instead of the front, into Eu-<
ropean entanglements.
The committee also adopted a
resolution requiring Congress to
pass an act for the appointment
of America** representatives on
alien commissions-by the Presi
dent, with the advice>and con
sent of the Senate.
IT HAS BEEN SAID
He who lives io perpetual suspicion
lives the life of a. seotinel never- re
lieved .
Following the line- of least., resist
ance is what makes rivers and men
crooked-..’.
We have all sufficient strength - to
endure the misfortunes-of others.—
Rochefoucauld. .
We de not know what’ important, in
terests may depend in .some .critical
hour, years from-<now., on the t-pipce- of
work we are doing today.
If a man empties his purse‘into his
head no one-ean take ittaway from>him
An investment in knowledge always,
pays the best interest.—Franklin.
Ilcdolph Rbla arrived Monday from
Nixon Landing.
THE
Tacotna
Pool HaE
Tacotna
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Tacotna Headqnarters
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Development of Kan
tishna Is Retarded By
Lack of Transportation
Nenaou News.
l^aek of roads it> the Kantishna dis
trict are-delaying the commencement
of operations on at least two big placer
projects a whole year, according to J.
C. Van Orsdel. head of the Mt. McKin
ley gold placers, who has just arrived
in Nenana from the properties of his
company in the Kantishna. “If we
had had roads,” said Mr. Van Orsdel,
“we would have beenOperating on our
holdings by this time, but as it is, the
commencement of our work has been
delayed a whole year. And the same
is true of the Sutherland-Howell hy
draulic project on Moose creek.
The Van Orsdel holdings are twelve
miles from the Bearpaw river, and all
of-the hauling thus far done has been
accomplished.wiLh the greatest diffi
culty imaginable, through a low,
swampy eouutry, and without even the
crudest sort of a road.. The work was
such that it finally had 'to be aban
doued altogether to await the coming
of snow.
Dr. Sutherland and his associates
have a haul.of thirty miles from the
Kantishna. river, at Roosevelt Landing.
Considerable money has been expended
on-road work in that locality, but the
road between the river and Moose
creek is impassable now, difficult of ne
gotiation even for a pack train. It is a
good winter road, but absolutely unht
for summer use. The result is that
the hydraulic operations on Moose
creek cannot be started before next
summer.
Besides these comparatively new
placer projects, there are a consider
able number of hard rock propositions,
rich, in ore but undeveloped because oi
the lack.of roads. Many of tbeproper
avties were located years ago. and the
agitation- for road work has been loud
and continuous, but without avail.
Nothing was ever done in that district
in the way of road building until a
small sum.was obtained from the Ter
ritory to start a winter road from
Roosevelt, and the Kantishna oldtimers
feel, in view of the showing made by
them, that they have not been treated
with fairness. j
Forfeiture Notice.
To William Deitering:
You are hereby notified that I have
expended during the years 1916, 1917.,
1918, 1919 and 1920 the sum o£ two
hundred and six dollars and fifty cents
(,$200,50) in labor aiad improvements
upon the Gold Hill Placer Association
mining claim, situate at the head of
Plat ereek., a tributary of. Otter creek,
in Otter precinct, Poucth Division,
Territory of Alaska, the location cer
tificate of which is found of record in
Volume 15 of Locations, at page 192, in
the offiee of the Recorder- in said Otter
precinct, in order to fiold said claim
under the provisions of Section 2324
of the revised statutes of the United
States, and the amendment thereto ap
proved January 22, I860, concerning
'annual labor upon mining claims, being
the amount required to hold said placer
mining claim for the period from Janu
ary 1st, 1916,. to December 31st, 1920;
. And if,’ within ninety days from the
personal service of this notice, or
within ninety days after the publica
tion thereof, you fail or refuse to con
tribute your proportion of such ex
penditure as aco-owner, which amounts
to one hundred and three dollars and
twenty-five cents ($103.25), your inter
est in the said claim will become the
property ef 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. 31, 1921
Annual Rental N. Y.
Lot, $133 Per Sq. Foot
New York.—Manhattan island, once
sold by an Indian for $24 and a few
drinks of firewater, has becomo so val
uable that a tiny plot stretching only
31 feet along Broadway recently was
leased for an annual rental of about
$133 a square foot.. Real estate men
declare this is the highest figure for
which land was ever rented here.
The site is at Broadway and Thirty
fourth street, and extends about fifty
feet along the latter. Several years
ago a department store wished to buy
the corner lot, haviDg procured the
land on both sides as the site of a sky
scraper. But the owner would not sell,
even for a million dollars, and the big
store had to erect its home around the
small building.
A four-story structure, housing on
the ground floor a busy cigar store,
still remains on the valuable corner
lot, and on all sides lofty buildings rear
their bulxs of steel and stone. The
new lessee, who will pay $3,000,000 for
; rent, taxes and other expenses over a
period of twentv-one years, plans to
erect a narrow skyscraper on the tri
angular plot. A candv-making cor
poration will occupy the building.
Twenty years ago Robert S. Smith,
who owns the property, sttarled realty
men by paying $387,000 for the land,
which has only 1.250 feet of area. He
had come to America with only $5.75
from his native Russia in 1880. When
he bought the property he was told
such a small strip was not worth the
price and could never be profitable.
Within a few boors after the $3,500,
000 lease was drawn up another candy
concern offered $10,000 a year more for
the land, but it was too late.
Transfer of N. C. Go. at Dawson.
The Northern Commercial Company,
pioneer trading concern of the Yukon,
has sold its Dawson business to a new
company, comprised of former em
ployes of the company, according to
the Dawson News. The new firm will
be known as the J. A. Donald Company,
and the owners are J. A. Donald and
Volnev Richmond. Mr. Donald is the
I Dawson manager for the old company
and has been in its employ for many
years. He had charge of the lower
river posts and was transferred to Daw
son last fall. Mr. Richmond is super
intendent of the old company, and has
been with it many years.
R. M. White left yesterday for the
Nixon mines.
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
A. HIGGINS
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