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To koto a, Alaska, under the
Aot of March K, 1S79.
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. APR. 11. 1825
Portage Between Min
chumina and Kusko
kwim to Be Surveyed
A survey of the portage between
Eake Mincburolna and the Kuskokwlm
iriver will be made during the coming:
•season, according to Colonel James G.
ISteese, yresident of the Alaska Road
Commission, as indicated by the fol
lowing correspondei.ee.
Following receipt of the resolution
•-adopted bv Tokotna Igloo of Pioneers,
-asking for a summer mail route via
Lake Miochumina, Representative U.
H. Ross, of Fairbanks, promptly took
the matter up with Col. Steese, who.
•with equal promptness, expressed his
•eagerness to do any work that will fa
•ciliats the delivery of Interior mails.
The correspondence follows:
Juneau, March 12, 1925.
•Col. J. O. Steese,
Pres. Alaska Road Commissi©*,
-Juneau. Alaska:
Dear Sir—I am enclosing: herewith a
mp and letters in regard to a sarvey
•of the portage between Lake Miuchu
•mina and the Kuskokwim river. I
have been requested to ask the Alaska
Road Commission to make this survey
or if necessary to try to pass a resolu
tion bv the Legislature, revuiring the
Territorial Board of Road Commission
■ •ers to make such survey. I believe it
'better that the Alaska Road Commis
eton should make the survey aud, if
found advisable, trust that you can
allow the necessary funds for the road
or trail construction.
The people of the Kuskokwlm river
PIONEER
SHOP
Machine, Black
smith and
Sheet Metal Work
All Kinds of Repairs
Stoves Built
and Repaired
Robt. E. Lowrie
Tokatna, Alaska
ure very noxious to have a mail route
through that way, if found feasible, as
their present summer mail service is
very pour. I understand that the Post
Office inspector, Mr. Wetxler, would
like to recommend the routing of the
mail that way, but can not do so until
there has been an official survey of the
portage.
Thanking you for your attention to
this matter, and trusting that you can
comply with this request, I aoi
Very truly yoors,
B. H. £taSS,
Representative Fourth Divi
sion, Alaska Territorial
Legislature.
Juneau, March 13, 1925.
Mr. H. H. Ross,
Territorial Legislature,
Juneau, Alaska:
My Dear Mr. Ross—Receipt is ac
knowledged of your letter of the 12th
Inst, with reference to survey of the
portage between I<ake Mincbumina and
the Kuskokwim river; also accompany
lag letter from Peter McMullen with
■ketch and clippiag from The Kusko
Times; also letter from W. J. Widman
of McGrath and accompanying letter
concerning correspondence between
ths Schwabacher Hardware Co. and
the Innoko Lumber Co.
In reply I have to advise th«t this
examination will be made during the
coming season in order that we may
determine just what improvements
coul t be made to the portage and the
approximate cost thereof.
One of our primary functions is t he
assistance in the way of trail construe
lion in order to expedite the U. S.
mail service. We are always prepared
to make such examination and are also
prepared to stake or other wise 5x up
any trail designed to be used by the
Postoliice Department for the delivery
ot the Interior mails.
Very truly yours,
(Signed) Jas. G. Steese,
President Alaska Road
Commission.
Arrested On Charge
of Annoying President
New York.—Rabbi E. B. M. Browne,
bead of the American Jewish seventy
elders, was arrested yesterday on com
plaiot of Calvin Coolidge, Mrs. Cool
idge and Frank Stearns, accused of an.
noyiog tbe President by demanding
$12,500, as half of tbe sum tbe Amer
ican Jewish elders spent in campaign
ing for Coolidge last year.
Browne, who is 72 years old, pro
duced letters from Presidents Harri
s >n, McKinley, licoseyelt and Haiding,
and was paroled from custody.
Secret service men testified ihao tbe
Coolidges and Stearns answered many
of Browne’s letters.
GRAMMAR.
Be careful of your grammar,
Don’t let nobody find
You ain’t been taught bow you bad
ought
To apeak what’s in your mind.
I never knowed no person
What wouldn’t find their speech
Improved a lot bv learning what
The grammars has to teach.
Them grammar books will learn you
How English should be spoke,
Ao you woo’t make no bad mistake
' Like crude uncultured folk.
Don’t never talk like they does;
There ain’t no reason why
You shouldn’t be as smart as me
And learn to talk like I.
Ua educated people,
Wherever we have went,
Finds others whom fflls us with gloom
Because they are content
To speak the Eoglisb language
Without no kind of care,
Though, if they looks, they’s grammar
books
To learn ’em everywhere.
• — Bertoa Braley, in The Fool-Killer,
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Dredge Will Operate
On Bear Ck„ Lower
Knskokwim, in 1 26
R. T Hirsch. at the head of opera
tions of the New York Alaska Goto
Mining Company, was a Monday ar
rival, eD route to the company’s work
ings, on Rear creek.
Coming up on the W. EL Tupper,
Captain Langley 5s new boat, will be
the material for the dredge to be in
stalled on the eompaay-’s property.
This dredge, according to Mr. Hirsch.
will be of the screen fume type, with
four-foot buckets, and capable of dig
ging eighteen feet. From its water
terminus, the dredge will he hauled
next winter to Hear creek, where it
will be assembled in the spring and
placed in early operation.
Speaking of the New .York-Alaska j
Company and it-, projected operations,
the Alaska Weekly, Seattle, savs:
“The New York-Alaska Gold Mining j
Company, which controls a large area
of placer ground on Bear creek, a trib
utary of the Tuliksak river, in the
Lower Kusfcokwim country, will in-1
stall one, and possibly two >i -•-Igei’s on
that sire.ini this 9-is V. the past, i
four years the .imps i dec the di- j
recti on of Gene-,*i r Walbridge
and Mining Engineer Hirsch. has car
ried on exploration work, employing
drills in the operations. The results
have been satisfactory, indeed better
than expected, according to reliab'e
information.
“The New York-Aiaska Gold Mining
Company has been financed entirely in
New York city, and the head office of
tbe -concern is located there. After
acquiring the property, under option. ;
Mining Engineer Klrscfa was sent to
the scene, and soon thereafter drilling
operations began. Tfee ground has now
been sufficiently proved to justify the
installation of one, and possibly two
dredges, this season.”
Also arriving here with Mr Hirsch,
on their way to Bear creek, wer,- R -b
ert Martin, ass^stani engineer, aod
Merwin Auders -n, of Faic baraks, all of
whom, after a short stay here, left for
Ophir, on the way to their destination.
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
LAWYERS
George W. Albrecht,
Ldltarod. Alaska,
Charles E Ta> lor,
Fairbanks. Alaska.
Practice in all Courts.
Leon G. Loomis
Notarv Public
Toteotsa, Alaska
Mrs. Jean McLean
Notary Public
Tobotna. Alaska
Du Rand’s
Cafe and
Hotel
Flat City
Tokotna
Pool Hall
.Ice Cream
All kinds of Soft
Drinks
Stationery
Notions, Etc.
Where Oldtimers
Congregate
Jack Mutchler
Proprietor
Blackburn
Sc Eldridge
McGrath, Alaska
Fresh Goods
Provisions, Notions
and Hardware
Hood’s Rubber Goods
The best. Shoe Pac. They stand
the wear.
Fish Netting
Fur Bought and Sold
Britts us your fur to be made up.
We represent a good and
reliable house.
McGrath Pool Hall
George Mutchler, Proprietor jg
Cigars,Tobaccos, Candies, fruits
Old-Timers’ Popular Resort
Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim Valley
Napamute, Alaska
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Good Prices for Your Fur
Larson Roadhouse
Best of Home Cooked Meals. Prompt Attention
New Dog Houses.
Frank Larson
Proprietor
rji.
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley, Manager.