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* Section 320 of the economy act, with
its 10 per cent cut, “will not be held
to require reduction in appropriations
* heretofore made or authorized to be
made when on June 30, 1932, the
. plans, and specifications for a building
t* had been completed and approved and j
a contract let. for construction of the
. substructure thereof.” June 30 is the
effective date of the economy act, and 1
; as the contract for the Fairbanks
\ building had been issued prior to that
date there will be no reduction in the
cost .of the building.
Inquiry has been made as to where
t the Fedarhl Home Loan Bank, that
would serve Alaska, was to be located.
Franklin W. Fort, chairman of the
■ new board, that it has not yet been
' o decided as to how many banks would
..be established—whether eight or up
to twelve. And until that was done
the different sections of the country
would not be apportioned, but that
it was expected that a bank would he
established in one of the cities of the
cities of the Pacific coast States, of
■; which Alaska would be attached.
The Eastern newspapers have had
.accounts of the arrival in Boston har
bor of the famous revenue and coast
guard “Bear of Oakland,” which con
sumed 22 days in coming from San
Francisco and arrived on the night of
August 10. The Bear had been pur
chased by Rear Admiral Richard E.
Byrd, who plans a second journey into
the Antarctic and who paid but $1,000
for the vessel. It is auxiliary pow
ered, is 191 .feet long, and has a dis
placement of 2,000 tons. It has a
1,000-horsepower engine, is square
rigged on the foremast, with the sails
running fore and aft in the latter
two. Until recent years the Bear was
famous for her annual trips to Nome
and the Arctic ocean. One memorable
trip was made during the winter of
1897, when San Francisco newspapers
sponsered an expedition for the relief
of whalers whose ships were ice
bound among the floes of the Arctic.
The Bear pushed as far north (as pos
sibe, and then a land expedition was
formed that successfully rescued the
almost starving members of the whal
ing crews. Among the officer^ of the
Bear were a number of men who af
terwards became prominent in the
U. S. Coast Guard service. One of
them was Lieut. Harry G. Hamlot,
who two months ago was appointed
commandant, with title of rear ad
miral, having headquarters at Wash
ington.
In accordance with petitions re
«.ceived from Fortuna Ledge and the
Lower Yukon river districts Delegate
Wickersham has taken up with the
PostofBce Department the desirability
i of establishing an airplane mail ser
vice from Holy Cross to St. Michael
' twice a month, instead of the present
i dog-team service that is furnished
from .November to April. What they
really want is an extension of the
air service which is now provided for
+ the KuSkokwim valley down to Bethel
extended so as to take in the Lower
Yukoir valley. It is only 45 minutes
by plane .' fro mBetbel to Fortuna
Ledge, while the entire distance from
Holy Cross south and then north to
St. Michael could be easily covered
in one day.
In answer to the inquiry as to how
many people live on the Aleutian
Islands a Washngton evening news
paper igves the following informa
tion: “The population is about 3,000.
This group is a chain of about eighty
small islands belonging to Alaska
Territory separating the Sea of
Kamchatka from the northern part of
the Pacific ocean, and extending near
ly 1,600 mies from east to west. The
total area is 6,391 square miles.
One of the most colorful and en
thusiastic public gatherings ever held
in Washington was the notification
meeting on the night of August 11,
when President Herbert Hoover was
officially informed of his nomination
by the Republican National Conven
tion. Prominent men and women
from all over .the United States.were
present upon this gala occasion, while
the radio hookup permitted millions
of listeners to hear and appreciate
the clear, forceful and courageous
iews of an able, sincere and deeply
conscientious Chief Executive. Hav
ing been favored with tickets, the
writer was enabled to be present in
the notification hall and upon behalf
of Alaska to applaud the stirring
declarations of the next President of
the United States.
Bartley Howard, president of one
of the early coal mining companies in
the Matanuska region, was in Wash
ington a few days ago in connection
with perfecting his title to certain
holdings along the Alaska Railroad.
These he has arranged to sell to a
syndicate of capitalists at Fellew;s,
California. They contemplate open
ing up the properties on a large
scale. They are located on Moose
creek. The intention is to create, a
market and ship coal to California
ports. There will 'be ample capital to.
assure development on a poliey that
will mean considerable revenue to the
railroad in shipping the fuel to tide
water at Seward, and make necessary
the construction of coal • buhkersn at
that locality.
Nearly "350,000,000 acres of the
public domain in Alaska remains run
surveyed. And here lies potential
mineral wealth of considerable value,
according to studies made by' the Geo
logical Survey.
Salmon and other fish, gold, copper,
furs -and other products shipped from
Alaska to the United States mi July
aggregated $3,753,341 in value, the
largest of any month in ^the current
year, according to the Department of
Commerce. Shipments of merchan
dise to the United States in July to
taled $2,650,369, as compared with
$1,559,167 in June and $7,ol»t,lo5 in
the same months last year The gold
mining industry has been operating
at about its present schedule for sev
eral months. A Alight increase in
Federal road construction aiso is re
ported for July, with four ne wcon
tracts let on minor projects. A new
contract also was let for the construc
tion of a neuf government hospital
Unalaska by the Bureau .of Indian
Affairs.
It is pointed out that the red sal
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FIRE INSURANCE
You should carry a liberal amount of fire insurance
for .the sake of your credit and your peace of mind,
■Needless to say this insurance should be of .theraaery
highest quality.
That’s the Kind Written By
Alaska Insurance Agency
CAIKBANKS, ALASKA
Inquire of Kuako Times.
mon run this year appears larger j
than ever before in the history of
Alaska fisheries. The escapement of
red fish to spawning beds in one sec
tion also amounted to 8,492,465 reds, j
according to the Bureau of Fisheries
count at the weirs on the Kivehak,
Egekik and Naknek rivers. Escape
ment vgures from other sections are
not yet available.
According to the preliminary fig
ures reported from Juneau, the pack
of salmon this season to July 30th
amounted to 207,500 cases in. Kodiak
district, 199,760 cases .at Prince Will-i
iam Sound and Resurrection . Bay,
149,471 at Cook Inlet, 194,500 at Ket
chikan, 128421- at Ehignik, 1493,346 at
Alaska Peninsula north, and south,
28,558 on the west coast,'.20,654 at
Wrangell, and '321,459 cases at Ju
neau.
CANNED DOG FOOD FRANKS
THIRD IN CANNING INDUSTRY
(Nome.. N.nggeti)
We had it he,* pleasure ®f seeing
some very clever , advertising which
the Alaska Livestock and Packing
Company, a subsidiary ,of the Lamen
Reindeer! Corporation, has been get
ting out in connection . with the
White Rover dog food. It is to be re
gretted that the Fair has no sample
of the new (.reindeer product which is
being manufactured ,by.them in Se
attle.
If out readers were asked to name
the three Leading products in the
canned goods line, we doubt if many
would know, that caused dog foods
now,, rank third, with milk first and
soups, second. The market for the
food is. tremendous, and. the. Alaska
Livestock and Packing Company, be
lieving it has a superior article,
hopes eventually to lead in canned
dog foods.
Whitp Rover is .the result of a most
careful investigation.and.-is,.a .scien
tifically balanced ration, containing
reindeer meat, liver, barley, .bran, car
orts and flou.. It is packed in a plant
having United..States Fedeal inspec
tion and is guaranteed “Fit for Hu
man Consumption.” It is fully cooked
and ready to be served. . Chemists
have pronounced it first in quality
among .dog foods on the market at
the present time.
It is gratifying to know that White
Rover .although introduced but -a
short time ago, has already taken its
place as. the leading brand on the Pa
cific coast. It has also been intro
duced into the Middle West and into
the Eastern .States, where it is sold
under the trade name of “Vita-G
aines.”
Some of the appeal which it has
made to dog owners may possibly be
credited to thq fact that it is a great
satisfaction to a man to know that
he is feeding a food to his dog which
ne himself could eat. All distributors
are enthusiastic over the new pro
duct, and its succes shas been little
short of phenomenal.
Over 10,000 cass.have been eold in
the past few mnths, a very satisfac
tory record for a product just making
its entr yinto the field.
White Rover will do much for the
reindeer industry by permitting only
the choicest reindeer cuts to be sold
over the block and reserving the
cheaper cuts to be used in building
up a balanced ration for dogs and
foxes. With the money and energy
that are being expended by the Alas
ka Livestock and Packing Company
for th eindustry in Alaska, it seems
certain that a satisfactory market
will be found for reindeer meat in the
States. The industry will then come
into its own, and will easily attain
first position in importance to North
western Alaska.
The depression has increased busi
ness in the corncob pipe industry, ac
cording to E. H. Otto, Missouri’s
corncob pipe king, who says that the
Eastern market is better this year
than formerly. Ht attributes the in
creased demand for corncob pipes to
flattened purses, which causes smok
ers. to. huy a less expensive pipe.
A Touching Tale.
Representative William Williamson
of South Dakota told a story at a
Custer banquet.
“In the Black Hills,” he said, “there
is a gold mine with a peculiar name—
a name that has a beautiful story at
tached to it
“A prospector and his .wife w<rre
walking in the .hills one day when the
woman tripped over a stone. The
stone, dislodged by her feet, rolled
downward five or six yards. When it
stopped the prospector noticed a little
thread of .yellow running across it.
Gold! A gold mine had been discov
ered.
“When it. came to the naming of
the new mine the prospector’s .wife
said
“ ‘Will you name nt after me,
dear ? ’
“ ‘Yes, darling, I will,’ said the
prospector. ‘Yes, I will name it in
your honor.’
“And .'from'that day to this, gentle
men, one of the richest .gold mines
in the BJadk.Hils of South Dakota hat
been known-as ‘The Holy Terror.’■*’
TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN NENANA AND ELAT
Nenana
Tavern Roadhouse
Miles
._ 00
1744
Knight's Roadhouse .- '.2344
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse_. 68
Diamond Roadhouse... 70
Roosevelt . -8$
Lake Mincbumina_116
Trappers’ Cabin . 182
Lone Star Roadheuse _< 160
Telida Roadhouse __.' 16944
Slow Fork Roadhouse_167
East Fork Roadhouse _i~] 206
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse_ 22744
Big River Roadhouse_211
McGrath ....263
Takotna .. 280
Bill Gosti' Roadhouse _-261
2phir.-..300
cCaflferty ..366
Brown Creek shelter cabin_816
Fritz shelter cabin .. 386
First Chance shelter cabin 346
Sohermeyer R. H... 860
Iditarod___376
Flat _____384
Bon&nzza sheler cabin, 12 miles
from Flat.
Crooked Creek shelter cabin, 19
mile* from Bonanza
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NOTICE OFVBOraWBmWE,
Notice is hereby given, to F. 'W
Carter, AL 3. Ferguson, <3oorge-.'C
Friend, aod'E Coke Hill, and then
heirs and assigns, that their port!©®
of the assessment work for the yean
1424 to 1931, inclusive, done on the
Bonanza Association placer mining
data), situated •'oh Flat creek, tribu
tary ef Otter creek, in the Otter R*
cording Precinct, Fourth Division.
Territory of Alaska, must be paid
within ninety (90) days from date
hereof, or forfeit all right and title
to said placer mining claim.
PATRICK SAVAGE.
Dated Flat, Alaska. Jan. 16,1932.
First publication, March Z, 1932.
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