ALASKA INTERESTS AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
i Continued from Pace 1.)
Kive a ecturc before the Y. M. C. A*
Motion pictures wil be shown of a
* recent aerial survey . in, which Mr..
Sargent participated. He has made
22 v.sits to Alaska .in. connection with
• the survey.,.
Rev. .Michael -fbeeph Kippenbrook,
who spent. three years as rector of
* -.he Episcopal church at Cordova, and
who came out last. August to take the
pastorate of a church at Alexandria,
. a., expect*- to return to Fairbanks
next April.
It has been suggested to theDepart
-o»nt of Justice that it would be an
• act of economy for the Government
to, own the buildings at McCarthy,
Chitina, Kodiak. Unga. Seldovia and.
other localities, which are now being
rented. But the Department has not
been, impressed with the idea..
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Horace M. Albright, Director of
National Park Service, spent some
time in McKinley Park last summer
' and is of the opinion that the bound
ary lines of the Park shoud be. ex
tended so as to take in. Wonder Lake..
He states, however, that he does not
favor including any part of the Kan
tishna. mining district.
Frank. Reinosky, of Rampart,, ami
who has spent over twenty years
mining and fur trapping in the In
terior of Alaska, came out from the
North in October and is no win Wash
ngton discussing Alaska problems
with the Delegate..
Senator Frazier, chairman of the
committee on Indian affairs, and Del
egate Wickersham, in the House, have
introduced a bill similar to- the one
that was presented last session but
was never repoorted from committee.
The bill “authorizes the Tlingit and
Hhida Indians of Alaska to bring suit
in. the United. States Court of Claims,
and concurring jurisdiction upon said
court to hear, examine, adjudicate,
and enter judgment upon any and all
claims whish saich Indians may have,,
or saim to have, against the United
States-" When this hill passes it will
give the two tribes of Indians, resid
ing in Southeastern Alaska, the right
to have a hearing on what claims they
may have against the United States
for lands or other tribal, eommdnity
or individual property rights, taken
from them by the United States with
out compensation therefor, at the
time of the purchase of Alaska from
Russia. The aim of the bill is not to
recover any property rights but sim
ply to compensate the Indians in
money for the valueh of such sue
such rights as the Court of Claims
may decide they are entitled to.. In-a
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number of instances the Indians of
various States have been given the
right to sue the Government and in
most instances they have received
money juudgments.
Former Delegate Dan Sutherland
will spend most of the winter looking
after the financial interests of his sis
ter, who conducts a large girls’ school
at Ogontz, Pennsylvania. He will
make an occasional visit to Washing
ton, where Mrs. Sutherland and Don
ald will remain until the son finishes
school. Mrs. Sutherand has made a
connection with the new firm of Fol
der, Noan & Co., investment brokers,
located in the American Security
Building, Fifteenth street at Pennsyl
vania avenue.
Delegate Wickersham haa been
carefuly studying the effect, if it
could be accomplished, of extending
the Federal Highway Act to Alaska.
At present the Alaska Road Commis
sion. is expending $800,000 and the
Forest Service nearly one million dol
ors yearly, in the Territory. It is
the opinion of some of the interested
officials here that if the Highway Act
wore extended to Alaska Congress
woud consider the needs of the Terri
tory and the sum now being expend
ed,. and at this time the sum appro
priated might not exceed the amount
now being received, while the Terri
tory would be compelled to contribute
as .ts share possibly from $300,000 to
$500,000 yearly, as well as all costs
<f engineering expenses and all main
tenance of roads after they had been
- obstructed through the joint efforts
of the Federal Government and the
Territory.. The Delegate has been
advised not. to open up the matter in
the present Congress. The amount
agreed on by the Budget for the Alas
ka Road Commission for the ensuing
year is $650,000, and it will require
considerabe effort to have the sum
increased to the $800,000 that the
Commission expects to get.
In his annual report submitted to
the President by Secretary of the In
terior Wibur he states that one of the
great latent resources of Alaska is
its forests. Thirteen per cent of the
national forest area of the United
States is in Alaska, most of it on the
southern coast from Ketchikan to
Cook Inlet. A billion board feet an
nually may be harvested each year.
N ,nety per cent of ill production will
be usable for paper. Hydro-electric
power sites are abundant.
The annual report of the Secretary
of War shows that during the fiscal
year 1931 the Washington-Alaska
Military Cabe and Telegraph System
handled traffic as follows: Cominer
rial traffic, “This line," $289,431.43;
“Other lines," $44,584.51; Government
business, $399,628; total, (673,643.94
—less other line payments $44,584.51
—making net credits, $629,059.43.
This is a net credit of $6,956.91 over
the previous year. It is further stat
ed that for the past year the Alaska
syste mhas been intensively engaged
on the project to replace the Alaska
cable by radio circuits. The new land
transmitter building in Seatte was
completed, the existing apparatus in
stalled and everything placed in readi
ness for installation of transmitters
to be delivered in August, 1931. The
new transmitter building at Anchor
age and the temporary remote receiv
ing building at Ketchikan were com
pleted.
There are four appointments due
to be made by the President for Alas
ka, all under the Department of Jus
tice. The term of Judge G. J. Lomen,
at Nome, expired in the spring of
1930, and his reappointment was sent
to. the Senate a boat m year, ago-1 The
judiciary committee, however,, decided
not to recommend the. confirmation,
but his successor haa not: yet been
named. In the case. of-MasahaLCha*,
D. Jones, who was reappofetedta year
ago, objection was made-to:. ids con
firmation, but bo jwtion was taken by
the judiciary committee, and he con
tinues to serve. In the Third division
Marshal Harvey P. Sullivan’s term
expired last year, but his successor
has not been named. A similar situa
tion exists in the Fourth division,
where Judge Cecil H. Clegg has just
completed his tenth year, but he has
not received, an appointment to the
ihird term. Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Sisson, in charge of the admin
istrative department, has indicated
that he will take up these appoint
ments with Delegate Wickersham
etfar the hssdayecreoli vb bgk g gk
after the holiday reress. There are
various applicantts for the several ap
pointments. The fact that the De
partment has had a bill introduced in
Congress to combine the Second, or
Nome, division, with the Fourth, or
Fairbanks, division, effective July 1,
next, will not necessarily interfere
with appointments, as the bill may
not pass. Among the reiess appoint
ments sent to the Senate was that of
Leroy M. Sullivan, district attorney
of Nome. The judiciary committee
inquired of the Delegate his peasure
in the matter, which brought forth a
prompt and cordial endorsement of
Mr. Sullivan.
MINERALS OF ALASKA.
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were in operation in 1930. The
dredges in operation, however, had a
somewhat different distribution than
in the previous year, which was
brought about by suspension of oper
ations of the property of the Yukon
Valley Gold Dredging Co. (Ltd.), in
the Fairbanks district, and of the Os
born Mining Co. in the Nome district,
and the reopening of operations at
the property of the New York-Alaska
Gold Dredging Corporation, at Bear
creek, in the Kuskokwim valley, and
at the claims near Henry creek, in
the Kougarok district in the Seward
Peninsula. The American Dredging
Company, in the Hot Springs district,
in the Tanana valley, which was idle
in 1930, was operated a few hours in
1931, but it was running so short a
time that it has not been included in
the number of operating dredges. The
two largest placer mining companies,
mentioned in the preceding para
graph, recovered their gold by means
of dredges.
No notable new fiinds of placer
ground were made during the year,
but prospecting was in progress at a
number of places, some of which are
rather remote from the more produc
tive camps. According to r eports
from some of these camps, the work
was proceeding satisfactorily and,
though not indicating the presence of
bonanzas, suggests that they may
contain placer deposits that may be
capable of profitable development.
INTERESTING NOTES.
Henry Ford predicts thtt the min
imum daily wage of workers in the
United States in the year of 1950 will
be $37.
A recent shipment of 91,000 bags
of coffee from Brazil was the largest
received at New Orleans since the
World War.
United States tanners are credited
with producing 30 per cent of the
world’s output of leather.
There are more than 3,000 persons
in Bulgaria past 100 years of age.
The United States is the leading
consuming country for licorice root,
about 90 per cent of its annual im
ports of 69,000,000 pounds being used
in the tobacco industry.
DEPARTMENT OP THE INTERIOR
United States Land Office
Fairbanks, Alaska,
September 17, 1931.
Notice is hereby given that final
Sr oof testimony in homestead entry
lo. 02047 for the land embraced in
U. S. Survey No. 1962 situate on the
left bank of Kuskokwim River about
% mile S. W. from the town of Mc
Grath, Alaska, in latitude 02° 67' 82"
N., longitude 156° 37’ W., whence U.
S. L. M. No. 1961 bear* N. 43° 32’ E.
16.84 chains, has been given by
Daniel Wiley Sprague, entryman, and
his witnesses, Richard Joseph Me
Arthur and William Nicholas Stan
ton, all of McGrath, Alaska, and is in
the Ales of the local land office at
Fairbanks, Alaska. All persons hav
ing; adverse claims against this entry
artrreqwired to file the same with the
Register of. the United States Land
Oilice at Fairbanks, Alaska, within
the period of publication or 30 days
thereafter or they will be barred by
the provisions of the statutes.
ROBT. W. TAYLOR,
Ex-officio Register.
First publication, November 14, 1931.
Last, publication, January 16, 1932.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
.United. States Land Office
Fairbanks, Alaska,
September 17, 1931.
Notice is hereby given that final
proof testimony in homestead entry
No. 02048. for the land embraced in
U. S. Survey No. 1963 situate on the
Takotna-Ophiir road about 1 mile W.
from the town of Takotna, Alaska, in
latitude 68V00’ N., longitude 156° 05'
W., whence U. S. L. M. No. 1963
bears &.88V. 17RE. 37.17 chains, has
been«given by Gustav Anton Chris
tianson, entryman, and his witnesses,
John Griffin, and Chris Petersen, all
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Completely famished. A'
good place for man and
wife. Reasonable terms to
rigqht party.
Write or wire to
P. Vf\ CARLSON,
Ophir, Alaska.
of Takotna, Alaska, and is in the files
of the local land office at Fairbanks,
Alaska. All persons having adverse
claims against this entry are re
quired to file the same with the Reg
ister of the United State* Land Office
at Fairbanks, Alaska, within the
period of publication or SO daw
thereafter or they will be barred oy
the provisions of the statutes.
ROBT. W. TAYLOR,
Ex-officio Register.
First publication, November 14, 1981.
Last publication, January 16, 1932.
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