THE KESKO TIMES
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Entered as second-class matter Au
gust 29th, 1923, at the postoffice at
Tokotna, Alaska, under the Act of
.March 3, 1879.
Takotna, Alaska, March 12, 1927.
UNEXPLORED AREA IN ARC
TIC CIRCLE TO BE SURVEYED
SEATTLE.—Gerald Fitzgerald, of
V ashington, D. C., sailed today for
Seward on his way to prepare for a
•government survey of the last unex
plored section of Aalska. The coun
try to be mapped lies within the Are
te Circle and extends from the
Chandlar river to the Canadian bor
rfier.
Fitzgerald will drive a dog team
from Fairbanks to Fort Yukon,
whence he will trek nto Northeastern
..Alaska. April and May will be spent
in preliminary scouting and caching
St Patrick j
Birthday j
Party I
Saturday Night I
March 19 !
TAKOTNA
Best of Music and a Good
Time Assured
food where t will be accessible dur
ing: the summer.
J. B. Mertle, junior government ge
ologist, who will lead the party of
four from the geological survey divi
sion of the Interior Department, will
leave Washington in May..
The geologists will pack their sup
plies on their backs and on the backs
of the dogs, traveling on foot and by
canoe across the rugged country,
seeking information as to its topog
raphy, geography, geology and min
eral resources.
MACHINERY TRIPLES OUTPUT.
Productivity of labor in the auto
mobile industry has increased to the
point where now th£ output per man
hour is more than three times what it
was in 1914. Back of this, declares
E. F. Roberts, vice president of the
Packard company, is a factor which
has made it possible for twenty mil
lion or more persons in the United
States to own an automobile—virtu
ally a new science that possibly has
made the United States today the
greatest industrial nation in the
world.
“It is the development of machine
tool equipment,” this official points
out, “which makes it possible for one
man to produce the work that former
y was done by no less than three
men—and do it infinitelv better.
“When the automobile was first de
veloped it was produced by the ordi
nary shop lathe and milling machine
of that time and hand-fitted with the
aid of file and hammer. As a ma
chinist in the Packard factory in 1903
I made a piece for a car, carried it
to the place where the machine was
being assembled and fitted it as well
as hammer and file would make it fit
in the place where it was to go, then
started in on another piece.
* “Back in those old days there were,
in other fields of manufacturing, pro
gressive assembly lines, much dis
cussed in connection with present-day
automobile- manufacturing. Machin
ery 4>f that period, however, was as
crude, compared with the equipment
of a modern automobile plant, as the
automobile of twenty-five years ago
compared with the best cars of to
day.
“For a quarter century there has
been a never-ending race between the
machinery manufacturers and the au
tomobile factories. Demahds for
more automobiles .better automobiles
and automobiles at less cost have kept
tiie manufacturer of machinery striv
, ing constantly to provide the auto
mobile plants with better and still
better equipment for speeding their
output, until today the American au
tomobilie industry ranks first among
the world’s car producers.”
There are more Chinese men in the
United States than there are Chinese
women.
J. H. McLEAN
Fresh Fruits
Fresh Groceries, Just Arrived
Up-to-Date Line of Clothing
New Suits
From $5.50 to $45 Per Suit
i
Another thins a thoughtful mai
learns, after a while.,is that he can't
be on either side of any great mora
question without being in bad com
pany to a considerable. extent.—Ohi«
State Journal.
Group of New England feminist:
form a “Time and Tide” cluh. N<
doubt so called because they wait foi
no man.—.New York American.
|
The bootleggerscan’t get the poisoi
out of denatured alcohol, but thai
does not seem to .hinder them getting
their money out of it.—Norfolk Vir
ginian-Filot.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Twenty-eight States in the Unioi
have a total of 162,043,092 acres ii
national forest lands.
In 1884, Dr. Karl Koller, a physi
cian of Vienna, first used cocaine a:
a local anaesthetic.
Women students outranked met
students at the University of Mich
igan last year. The scholarship av
erage for all women was 78,111, am
for all men 73,742.
Michigan has the only State consti
tution with a provision for a univer
sity. The University of Michigai
was established when the territory
became a state, in 1837.
In the Probate.Court for xKuskokwin
Precinct, Fourth Division o:
Alaska, before George W. Hoff
man, Commissioner and ex-offick
Probate Judge.
In the matter of the Estate o1
Thomas Anderson, deceased—No. 2
in Probate.
Notice ef Final Account.
Notice is hereby given that H. M
Hansen, administrator of the estate
of Thomas Anderson, deceased, ha:
filed his final report in said- mattes
with the Probate Court for. Kusko
kwim Precinct, Fourth Division ol
Aaska, and that on Monday, the 25tl
day of April, 1927, at 10 o’clock a. m.
the said final account will be heart
ana consiaerea oeiore tnc saia *To
bate Judge at his office at Napamute
Alaska, at which time and place al
persons interested in said estate maj
appear and file their objections ii
writing to said final report and maj
contest the case.
Dated February 15th, 1927.
H. M. HANSEN,
Administrator of Estate of
Thomas Anderson, deceased.
First publication, Feb. 26, 1927.
Last publication, April 23,'1927.
In the Probate Court, Khskokwin
Precinct, Fourth Division,- Alaska
before George W. Hoffman, - Com
anisaioner and ex-officio Probat<
Judge.
In the matter of the Estate of Chas
Worden, deceased.
Notice of Administrator’s Sale.
Notice is hereby given that unde,
and in pursuance of an order mad<
and entered by the above Probati
Court on the 21st day of January
1927, in the above matter, I- will offei
1 far sale at public auction on- Monday
the 4th day of April, 1927, at 1<
o’clock in the forenoon of said-day
i i at the office of the United States '
, Commissioner at U’ '.amute, Alaska,
I the following; described property, to
wit:
An undivided one-half interest in ;
i the Stanmite Quartz Claim.
An undivided one-half interest in
the Stenmite Extention. *
An undivided one-half interest in
the North Side Extention.
1 An undivided one-half interest in
■ the Copper. King C.airn.
An undivided one-half interest in
the. Copper King L-rention.
( An undivided _ .e-half interest in
the Cupper Queen Claim.
An undivided one-half interest in
1: the Cassiterite Claim.
An undivided ©ne-»half . interest in
the Cassiterite Extention.
An undivided one-half interest in
Each of said Quartz Claims being
situated in the Russian Mission Moun
, the Louise Quartz ’.C.aim.
tains, ia the Kuskokwim .Recording
Precinct, Fourth > Division, Territory
of Alaska.
Said sale twill »be for cash to the
entitled Court.
Dated at Napaiwut&A Alaska, this
21st day . ef January., A.' D. 1927.
UOE.-KQBEGHNE Y,
Administrator of the Estate
I of <Chas. Worden.
Takotna
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rABLE OF DISTANCES .BE
TWKEN MEN AN A AMD FLAT
Miles
Menana to -Tavern_...17
ravern to Knight’s . 24
Knight’s to 19 Roadhouse .19
[3 Roadhouse to Riffle Pole Road
house ___* 8
Riffle Pole ’Roadhouse to Diamond 11
diamond Roadhouse to Roosevelt.. 13
Roosevet to Lake Minchumina .... -26
Lake. Minchumina to Lena Star
Roadhouse.. .34
uone Star to Telida _18
relida to Tent Roadhouse..<18
rent Roadhouse to Slow Fork.■ 6
Slow Fork to East Fork ...22
fiast Fork to Nicoli ...> 10
Micoli to Big Riiver ...._ 21
Big River Roadhouse to McGrath..... 25
VlcGrath to Tokotna ...• 18
From Nenana to Tokotna . 281
rokotna to Bill Goss’ Road house...-12
Rill Goss’ Roadhouse to Ophir .j 10
Dphir to Jerry’s Roadhouse .'.33
ferry’s to Schermcyer’s Roadhouse 27
bchermeyer’s to Iditarod ...Jfl
iditarod to Flat ....» g
From Nenana to Elat.. 887
Max Simel
. -The Pioneer 'i rader
Furs Bought and
Sold
Miners’, Prospectors*
.and Trappers’
- Supplies
Steamer Service On the Inoka
. River.
Ask the People of Ophir about as:
f ,
■STATION
Fairview.lnnoko River
i
General Transportation
How About * Wood Hauling?
Joe ^Ferris — — Takotna ^