THE KUSKO TIMES
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Entered as second-class matter Febru
ary 1, 1922, at the Post Office at
McGrath, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
mcgrath, alaska. feb. 3, 1022
Ready to Start Drilling
Operations at Kanatak
Seward Gateway.
Nick Welch, the well known carpen
ter ai.d contractor, who nas spent the
summer and fall at Kanatak, passed
through Seward the first of the week
on his way to the south. He states that
the Associated Oil Company has i's
machinery all in, its buildings and der
rick erected, lighting plant and boilers
installed, and is ready to start drilling
at any time.
According to Mr. Welch, who is very
enthusiastic over the prospects in the
western camp, the Ass '’ted company
has had no difficulty in freighting in
its supplies with tractors, the round
trip requiring two days from the beach
at Kanatak. The road is in good shape
the first three miles, bat continued
rains have made it practioally impassa
bie to any vehicle except the tractor,
which is particularly adapted to the
soil conditions.
C. G. Jones, the manager of the As
sociated rig, is an experienced oil man
and he has made few mistakes in pick
ing his equipment. For fuel he is
using the rich oil deposits on top of the
ground, which has been scraped into
great heaps, and is hauled to the boil
ers. Mr. Welch states that it gives an
intense heat, far superior to coal.
Enough of this residue is in sight to
run the plant for many months.
Climatic conditions are not bad. de
clares Mr. Welch, with the exception
of the continued rains. Prices are
fairly reasonable, considering the diffi
culty in landing supplies, which adds
310 per ton to the transportation
McGrath
Pool Room
and
Cigar Store
For Sale
Or Lease
Mrs. E. P. Werner
Proprietor!
charges The town of Kanatak now
has several well constructed buildings,
and the hotel recently built wiil accom
modate all who may come.
Rates are said to be $1 per night,
which is as reasonable as in other parts
of Alaska. Outfits can be purchased in
1 Kanatak for any purpose, and the camp
j is well supplied with provisions, and
| eveD delicacies.
During the recent eruption of Mount
i Pavlof, ashes fell in the streets of the
j town in considerable volume, and the
experience was novel to many of the
newcomers. V\ .„h a good wharf and
breakwater, the site will be ideal to
reach the nil field*.
The Standard Oil Company has done
little as yet to get their outfit in, al
though they expect to start driMing io
March. Several heavy castings, weigh
ing four and a half tons each, are to
be taken to the field, which Mr. Welch
states will require at least a month.
Lumber and other supplies must also
be hauled in and buildings and der
ricks erected. The company has had
trouble with its tractors, the treads
being not suited to the trail, but cast
ings have been ordered and things will
be moving smoothly in another few
weeks.
A large number of Anchorage people
are in the camp,, and all are enthusi
astic over the prospects of a real city
being erected at Cold Bay. A. M.
Barnes, a well known old timer, is run
ning the Green Front store, and Robert
McIntosh is also in business there.
Christmas was celebrated in the
camp in grand style, a dauee being
given in the large pool hall.
By the first of March, JKanatak will
start to work in earnest, and a large
influx is expected.
Diluted Liquor Adds lo
Wealth of Bootleggers
New York.—When tbe news pene
trated the American underworld that
Nassau, the pearl of the South Atlau
tic, had been transformed with one
stroke of the magic wand of Mr. Vol
stead from a sleepy, tropical town to a
bustling smugglers’ Dest, the call of
the easy money was heard and heeded
by hunereds. And shortly fallowing
the influx of the American gentry of
checkered waists and pants and.nimble
wit, the British booze wholesalers, who
had been sending small shipments of
unadulterated, legitimate 110 proof
whisky to the United States, learned
the error of their ways.
“Why ship uncut whisky to the
small time bootleggers when we can
make three or four bottles from one,
right here in Nassau, slap a British
label and a forged internal revenue
stamp on it, and make about .100 per
cent more profit than we’d make if we
played fair?" was the sentiment the
American adventurers imbued in the
Nassau rum merchants.
As a result of this new wrinkle in the
trimming of crooks, which Americans
introduced there, tbe Bahama rum
dealers set to work to betrav their
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
LAWYERS
Iditarod, Alaska,
and at
7 05 L. C. Smith Bldg., Seattle, Wash
Practice in all Courts.
I
frieDds, the bootleggers, and installed
“breaking down” equipment. In dingy
rooms, in the rear of the wholesale
liquor stores, the rum runners and the
wholesalers now Urea a faith with the
bootleggers.
Here the rye wbiskv which is shipped
principally in barrels to Nassau from
England and Scotland undergoes the
strange transition which is usually
noted with a sigh by the “good stuff”
eoonoisseur who pays from $8 to 115 a
bottle in New York, Philadelphia or
Boston for the tampered liquor. Here
the booze is “let down” by die intro
duction of water and a tasteless chero
ical solution until four quarts of
•‘whisky” grow where one was before.
The wholesale liquor firm of Finder,
Collln6 & Brown is the largest hi the
Bahamas, and more than nO, 000 cases
pass through the doors of this concern
each month. New York and Boston
bound. The Bahamas Products Com
pany and Chrystie & Co. alse handle a
large amount-of the whisky which the
smugglers buy.
Our idea of poetic justice is a repub
lican campaign orator buying a suit of
clothes under the Fordoey-McCumber
tariff law.—Columbus State Journal.
LOUIS GORMAN
Big River
General Supplies Fresh From the
Outside
f,
Purs Bought and Sold
Larson Roadhouse
(Formerly The McLean, Tacotna.)
Best of Home Cooked, Meals. Prompt Attention
1 New'Dog Houses
j^Mrs^FVank^L^
Geo. W. Hoffman;
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim Valley
Napamute, Alaska
^ f; •
Will receive by first boat a larger and more varied ■
stock of goods than ever before.
Good Prices for Your Fur
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langlej', Manager.
Arrange to Spend the Night at the
Big River Roadhouse
Best possible meals. Private rooms.
New dog kennels, and the best of lower river fish
for dog feed.