1NIEMINEN, LOTTSFELDT AND
LUSHER HAVE THRILLING
AIR TRIP LEAVING IDITAROD
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get out fast enough. Big crowd then
and cheers and yells aplenty went out
from the gathering. Dorbandt anc
Carl make hurried explanations. Mrs
ILottsfeldt grabs Carl and to home
ithey go. Dorbandt makes hurried
■getaway, taking gas with him to the
^Nieminen plane.
Shortly after leaving Flat the Nie
'minen plane ran into fog and heavj
:snow flurries, in which the mail trai
iove which Nieminen intended to fol
•low, was lost. Nieminen, lost, flev
tfor about two and a half hours be
fore making a landing, about a mill
•and a half from a trapper’s cabin
which at the time he and his com
ipanions thought was in the vicinitj
• of Waldon’s Fork, a tributary of th<
•upper Takotna. A later study of thi
MINK
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I Dark
Interior
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Clough Sc
Brink
Takotna, Alaska
map convinced them they were on the
Dishna river. The cabin of which
they took possession belonged to a
1 Mr. Gurtler, who was not at home at
| the time nor was he seen afterward,
but, according to Mr. Lottsfeldt, it
was in excellent condition, everything
as neat and tidy a sthough cared for
by a woman; plenty of good things
to eat, wood and water handy. Being
fairly certain of their location, Mr.
Lottsfeldt leftt he following morning
for Max S duel's place, where he
hoped to obtain gasoline to refuel the
airplane.
Pilot Young, after leaving Iditarod
on Sunday, Milt Rice aboard the
. plane, had flown over the Dishna and
quite a few miles down that stream
, to a point where they saw a man in
front of a cabin, with ax in hand, an
open fire not far distant from the
, | cabin. The man gave no sign of sur
prise or anxiety, made no ado at see
, ing the plane, ujst seemed to be fol
| lowing the even tenor of his ways.
! After flying down the Dishna four or
five miles Young again turned his
plane down river, Rice in the mean
time scribbling a note which they in
tended to enclose in a sack and drop
in an attempt to elicit information.
Then, at about that time, Young and
Rice got a glimpse at what was al
most immediately determined to be
the Nieminen plane. Nieminen at the
time was on the way from the cabin
to hs plane. Young flew up along
i side and landed.
In the meantime Dorbandt, who
had followed the lnnoko to the mouth
of the Dishna, coming up the latter
stream, located smoke coming from
another cabin. As he was approach
ing the cabin a man came out of the
door, Dorbandt immediately recogniz
ing him as Lottsfeldt. Taking him
aboard, Dorbandt flew immediately
to Takotna.
Young, Rice, Dorbandt and a
couple of others helped Nieminen to
prepare his plane to take off, and the
whole works arrive! here that after
ddddddslvbg lm. x.n ,. zfiflff fiflffffi
noon. Pilot Robbl. . with General
Manager Johnson t>< the Alaska Air
ways an Mr. IIuU.. :son, mechani
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Merchandise
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rian, also arrived Sunday, and there
were four planes on the Takotna
landing at the same time on that day.
It was a happy ending following
three days of anxiety.
Credit is due Pilot Nieminen in
making a fine landing and in making
it at a fortunate spot. Credit aplenty
is also due to Pilots Ed Young and
Frank Dorbandt, both of whom were
eager and alert in their efforts to lo
cate the missing men.
Carl Lottsfeldt says: “It seems
.ike the setting of a fairy tale. Every
| thing was in readiness for us. A fine,
warm cabin; olts of wood, plenty to
eat. We certainly were in luck.”
KIR ]'fU',ES WERE LOWER
AT NEW YORK SaLC
The October fu« sale held by Ihe
New York Auction Company, which
■period October 9 and continued for
-Wo days, did not find a very favor
able market, brown bear pelts, inso
far as the sale is of interest, to Alas
kans, showing the only increase since
the May sale of that company. The
next sale will be held in February.
As compared with the May prices,
brown bear sold-for 10 per cent more.
No change was indicated in the
values of black bear, muskrat, otter,
lynx, marten, blue fox and wolverine.
There was a decrease of 10 per cent
on cross, red and silver fox, and a de
crease of 15 per cent on white fox.
j There was a decrease of 10 per cent
I on mink, beaver and wolf, and no
comparison on timber wolf.
Mail Carrier Charlie Konig, with
the interior bound mail, arrived yes
terday, continuing on his way to
Ophi this morning.
Bill Goss, after a brief visit, re
turned to his Yankee creek headquar
i ters on Friday.
Mrs. Louise Livenhagen was a vis
itor here for a couple of days during
i the week, returning to her home at
i Ophir on Saturday.
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WHAT ABOUT REINDEER?
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the States every summer, chiefly from
the Seward Peninsula. It is said,
however, that the proper method foi
utilizing this store of reindeer meat
is not hy shipping it out. as slaugh
tered, but should be based upon the
establishment of special packing
houses ' in AhAka. Corned meat,
canned meat, smoked meat, sausage
meat, and packed meat put up in ac
cordance with recently developed
methods of quick freezing, are be
lieved to present the most advan
tageous means of handling this con
tribution of the new West to the food
supply of the world.
A survey of .the Alaska situation
from the standpoint of developing
plants to take care of reindeer meal
indicates that one large plant al
Cantwell,-on the Alaska Railroad, ca
pnble- of handling' v00,000 reindeei
carcasses a year, should '/be estab
lished, and that possibly a half dozer
smaller plants . «t different points
along the coast should be set up
These latter should be of a capacitj
to handle some 10,000 carcasses i
year each, and might be located al
Kotzebue, Teller, Nome, Kaltag, anc
Bethel. The possibilities of estab
lishing these plants is being discusser
by the Department of the Interim
with important people in the meat
packing industry.
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