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THE KUBKO TIMES
A. X. ttraat, PuWwher, Sola
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Tukotna, Alaska, Nov. lb, 1929, .
ro SPEED UP DEVELOP
MENT OF THE MOUNT Me-”
KIN LEY NATIONAL PARK
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—The De
partment of the Interior is planning
to.speed up the development of the
Mount McKinley Park in Alaska, in
order that its unique wealth of an
imal life and its magnificent scenery
may be easilf accessible to the Amer
ican people. Already construction
work on the road across the park to
Copper mountain, 80 miles from the
railroad, is sufficiently advanced that,
by fhe end of the 1931 season, a mod
em hotel will be erected at the point
from which excellent views of the
mountain itself and of the Alaska
range may be had
Mount McKinley is the highest
mountain in North America, and in
addition has the distinction, of rising
higher from its base than an yother
mouutan. Not even the far-famedd
Himalayas rise*so Tar above their
own base. Of McKinley’s total height
of 20,300 feet above sea level, the
greater portion, or about 17.000 feet,
rises ahove timbcrline and above the
tundra-covered plateau stretching
away mv'tts north and went. Two
thirds of the way down from the
'summtfc the'mountain is blanketed in
glistening snow, upon which the
summer-long sunschine plays with
'.uarve louse (feet. Great glaciers flow
from its southern and eastern slopes
through a region of Arctic sublimity.
Especially interesting are the great
tidrds of wild animals tha t roam
through the park and that are in
creasing steadily under the protec
tion afforded them by the park au
thorities. The caribou with its large
infers is very picturesque, and roams
the great plateau at the base of Mt
McKinley in great herds. Mountain
sheep also are found here in great
numbers, and moose and the great
Alaska- brown bear often may be en
countered. The famoous Alaska
grizzly Is also in evidence.
The oppnortunities for enjoyment
of unique conditions afforded a che
chaco, as the people of Alaska call
outsiders, are almost unbelievable.
In. connection with the develop
ments under way or outlined by the
Department of' the Interior, the Alas
ka aRilroad i6 planning- the construc
tion'of a new hotel at McKinley Park
Station, which is now park headquar
ters as well as a station on the Alas
ka Railroad. When this is done, Mc
Kinley Park Station will be designat
ed. 3: division point on the Alaska!
Railroad. At that time it is expect
ed that travel to the Park will be ma
terialy increased, since an all-night.
stoopover will be given and tourists!
will have an excellent opportunity
to see the park uuring the long even
ings that prevail under the Arctic
summer sun.
Pending the installation and. com
pletion of these more elaborate* facili
ties the Department has arranged to.
provide informal accommodations at
Savage River, which is 12 miles dis
tant from McKinley Park Station. Ir
all, 38 miles of main road, are avail
able from the railroad.to Mile 38, and
preliminary work has been done on
five miles more. A number of inter
esting saddle-horse trips are avail ;
able frqm the base camp at Savage;
River to outlying camps.
Another interesting way to get a
get a vie wof the wild area is to fly
from Fairbanks alongg the northern
boundaries of the park to the inter
esting mining, camps of the Kan-;
, tishna district. Many moose can be
seen in the beaver lakes and rivers of
i this district, and air views of the j
north sides of Mount McKinley, Rus-;
j sell and Foraker are superb.
Mount McKinley National Park;
contains 1,692,800 acres—more than
* twice the size of the proud Yosemite.1
and almost the size of Yellowstone, j
| but. in a totally virgin wild state. It'
is surrounded by milions of acres of j
unexpotred area.
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PRESS SvUIBS.
f Our idea of prison reform is to ad
a couple of large wings.—Toledo
! Blade.
Another thing about the new cur
rency: It certainly can go fast for its
age.—Dallas News.
Thus far the nearest approach to a
barkless dog is the skinless frank
furter.—Nashville Banner.
Nowadays a vacation period 4s usu- i
ally nothing but a dash in an auto-'
mobile.—Louisville Times.
It appears that everything is being j
merged nowadays except poitics and i
religion.—Florence (Ala.) Herald.
It has been discern red that the nev. '
money fades. . Which accounts for the ;
fact we have seen so little of it.’—Dal-1
las News.
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Wojuldn’t it be a boon if the fruit *
do-operative lould arrange to take J
care of the Chicago “pineapple”;
crop?—Manchester Union.
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! A story of his life by H. Ford;
would indeed be an autobiovraphy.— •
Philadelphia Inquirer.
The popular conception is that a
Chicayo citizen always has a gun or
a lily in his hand.—Arkansas Gazette. I
Next thing we know some notoriety
seeker will be appearing on the.
street in an old-fashioned nightshirt..
Tampa Tribune.
We all can and caught to be rich,
writes John Raskoob in a magazine.
But we ike the Republican attitude
better—they have told us time and
Thanksgiving Party, Dance,
At Takotna Roadhouse,
Saturday Night, Nov. 30
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again that we actually are.—Schenec
tady Union-Star.
'The Government is experimenting
with the use. of cotton to replace silk
ra parachutes. But what we need is
something to make cotton go up.—
Nashville Southern Lumberman.
Another thing that the country is
suffering from is too much money for
shares and not enough for plow
shares.—Detroit News.
There doesn't seem to be any sane
reason for repealing a law simply be
cause criminals don’t like to stay in
jail-—-Toledo Blade.
The- spirit of the forthcoming na
val reduction conference may be
phrased in the denatured Roosevelt
ism: “Speak softly and carry a yard
stick.’.’—Chicago Daily News.
, We can fight down the theory of
ape ancesttry as long as convention
makes men keep their legs covered.—
Arkansas Gazette.
Fewer motion pictures are to be
shown .in Sing Sing next year, which
is one way of making prison life more
bearable.—Hartfoord Courantt.
Mexie o has agreed not to compel
people . who work in Mexico to live
there. What Mexico realy needs is a
law requiring those who live there to
work.—Dallas News.
There are. still a few u ltra-con
servatives left among us. Every now
and then we hear of somebody’s being
run over by a street car instead of an
automobile.—Nashville Banner.
A movement has been started for
sensible summer clothes for men. But
the trouble is that sensible clothes
Took so silly.—Nashville Southern
Lumberman.
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It is said that since the passage of
the Jones law, liquor prices in Wash
ington have dropped. This looks like
adding insult to enforcement.—Phila
delphia Inquirer.
With all the wisdom being syndi
cated daily by Dr. Cadman, Dr. Cope
land, Arthur Brisbane and others, the
rest of us hardly have to do any
thinking'at alL—Florence (Aa.) Her
ald.
It’s too bad Dr. Eckener didn’t get
to meet Wilbur Glenn Voliva while he
was in this country, and learn what
the shape of the earth really is.—
Kansas City Star.
Future archaeologists can trace our
development of styles by the migra
tion of tile vaccination mark.—Brook
lyn Times..
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Acquisition of the Corn Exchange
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