THE KUSKO TIMES
G. V. Rosander, Publisher, Owner,
and Editor.
B. J. Boyd, Assistant Editor.
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Entered P3 second-class matter
Aug -st 29th, 192", at the postoffice
at iakoina, Alaska, under the Act
of -'larch 3rd; 1879.
UNDER HEW MANAGEMENT
To uil of us mortals, there comes
a time when the course of events
demand a. transition. To some, it is
retirement, to others the realisation
of some secret ambition, and still to
others, the end of a hard fought
trail. But all, eventually, find their
places in the scheme of life; and for
our part, the management of the
Kusko Times is the first step for
ward.
the first publication of The Kusko
Times was printed in McGrath, the
type being- all set up by hand. Mr.
A. X. Grant, the Pioneer publisher,
brought his printing outfit by dog
team from Ruby. That was in 1921,
ancL. a few years later Mr.Grant
moved the printing plant to its pre
sent home, in Takotna. In 1927 a
Linotype, Model Five, was added to
the equipment. The first Kusko
Times was issued twice a week but
since the paper has been located in
Takotna, it has been a weekly and
will continue under the present man
agement as a weekly.
political paper; its chief aim will be
to print news of interest to Alaskans
Local Interior news will be given
special consideration and to this end
The Kusko Times invites ccyitribu
tibns from its readers. In sending
the same, kindly sign your name as
evidence of good faith.
For the benefit of those not ac
quainted with the editor, I came to
Alaska in 1932 from the Granite
State cf New Hampshire. Since com
ing to Alaska, have been working in
the placvv diggings at Flat. Hearing
of Mr. Grant’s retirement, and with
the encouragement of 'my friends It
was my good fortune to he able to
purchase The Kusko Times from Mr.
Grant. This issue marks the first
newspaper to be issued under the
new management.
Here also, I wish to take this opp
ortunity to express my sincere
thanks to the many Triends, old and
new, who have so willingly aided
and encouraged the publisher to
make this start. Especially I want
to tend, r my expression of grati
tude to Mr. A. X. Grant. Despite
the fact that Mr. Grant was in ill
health, he delayed his departure tc
the Outside so that the present
editor could learn the essentials con
nected with publishing a newspaper,
Words alone cannot repay his kind
ness and advice, and it is not toe
much to sav that any success that
The Kusko Times may attain under
the new management, will be entire
ly due to Mr. Grant’s kind considera
tion. Also among the many friends
who have given special attention are
Mrs. B. J. Boyd, now assistant edit
or The Kusko Times, and Mr. Harry
Donnelley of Flat, Alaska.
The force, the mass of character
mind, heart or soul that a man car
put into any work, is the most im
portant factor in that work. — A.P
PEABODY.
Duland’s Cafe
Good Clean Food.
Everybody Welcome.
ALASKA
FLAT
WEALTH FROM HILLS
Great news comes pouring in
from the hills of Alaska. The gold
yield of the territory this year will
eclipse anything in her history.
Literally millions are moving in
a stream through such portals as
Anchorage to t.he outside—moving
in particularly heavy volume at this
time of the year because of the ship
ments from the fall cleanups
following the intensive operations in
placer and quartz mines.
The numerous camps are pour
ing out their streams of the golden
• .vaith — concentrating as they
move down the main coastal route
f commerce into Seattle like one
i great river of gold. Into this main
artery flows the gold of the camps
immediately tributary to Anchor
age—V .Low, Vaidez Creek, Kusko
kwim, the Iditarod, Flat, Cache
Cteek, Good News Eay, Bear
Creek, Hope and other Kenai Pen
insula points. Then comes the
huge volume rom the Fairbanks
camp, and the lesser camps of the
Yukon basin — Ruby, Poorman,
Koyukuk, Marshall, and others.
From the Slate Creek mines, the
Nabesna, the Fortymile, Eagle and
the Copper River and Valdez Creek
areas flow in other precious
streams. Added to these are the big
golden tributaries arising in the
great Nome country and its hinter
land—and then again the great and
persistent golden outflow of the
j wonderful Alaska-Juneau mine—a
perfect, mint in itself.
With' gold stepped up 75 per
ten in value this year, Alaska’s
golden gift to the nation for 1934
promises to total $18,000,000 to
$20,000,000—an unprecedented fig
ure. And if the government steps
the price up to $40 or more —as
seems likely—Alaska will be on top
of the world in more ways than one.
The golden era is here for Alaska
and it seems it will glow brighter
another year than dreamed of in
poineer days—and persist indefi
nitely. Great news this — laden
with opportunities to those who have
the grit and will to launch into the
game. (Anchorage Daily Times).
PROFITEERING
( New York Times )
Food prices are raising and will
continue to follow the commodity
markets if the latter again advance.
But up to the present the consum
er’s counsel of the AAA finds no
justification for the charge of “prof
iteering.” .From mid-April (when
some of the effeats of the drought
were first anticipated) to the end of
July, Government figures show that
the cost of a month’s supply of
rourteen foods for an average family
increased from $17.75 to $18.26. The
spread between these figures is re
garded as no greater than the rise
in farm prices, the payment of
higher wages and the processing tax
would justify. There is as yet little
evidence of “gouging”on the part of
processors or distributors, and the
present survey deplores exaggerated
reports of food shortages and pre
dictions of wildly soaring prices
Such reports, it suggests, merely
tend to create a buyer’s panic and
thereby to play into the hands of
would-be profiteers.
The AAA promises to keep the
consumer po<si)ed concerning future
changes in retail prices and theii
relation to prices actually received
by the former. This informatior
will be given out regularly threugl
the press and radio. Officials or tht
AAA believe that its publication
will help to hold retail costs approx
imately in line with the prices o!
raw materials. In addition, the
Government has power to reduce
tarriffs on competing 'foreign fooc
foodstuffs by as much as 50 per cenl
and this authority might be used t
advantage in some cases in the event
that widespread “profiteering’’ ac
tually should devekme.
It also has been ’ suggested that
the Government invoke licensing
powers against the distributor!
charging “unnecessary high prices.’
But this is a policy of doubtul wis
dom. Anv attemnt to enfoce licens
ing provisions in the case of in
dividual sellers in thousands of foot
markets, each essentially located ii
complications compared with whicl
enforcement of the Eighteenth
Amendment would seem simplicitv
itself.
Wiley Post, famous 'round world
flyer, arrived in Anchorage rec
ently accompanied by Joe Crossen.
well known Alaska Ace.
Post came from the ontside on
the Aleutian enroute to the Interior
to hunt big game.
ALASKA NOTES
NINILCHICK.— A mysteriuos
malady is striking down tlu* foxes
owned by Ninilchick farmers, who I
are unable to diagnose the strange j
and fatal sickness. The animals ■
are stricken suddenly, a very short I
iljness follows, the fur bearers dy- |
ing almost immediately after the :
first symptoms.
Among those who suffered losses
.are Mrs. Alyce Anderson and j
Walker Jack insky.
SEWARD.— Nicholas Vavaliere, 1
chief photographer on Father Hub
bard’s e : pedit'on this summer, who
spent two years with Frank Buck in i
the far East, encountering pythons,1
tigers, cobras, elephants, and black | >
panthers, said today the animal most I
respected by him is the Alaska «
Brown bear
JUNEAU.— Howard Bailey, man-,
ager of the Kadiak Fisheries at j
| Kodiak, is in Juneau awaiting uans-j
| portatien south on a cannery tende",
having arrived here :on the Yukon.
An excellent pack was put up by '
the plant, operating with traps and
native help, according to Mr. Bailey.
There will be no wolf howling at
the- door of Kodiak natives, sixty
natives being employed by the can
I nery. They earned ■ and were paid
SS.IKIO in e«-h fur i he seas-m.’* worn
The Kadiak Fisheries operate an- *
other cannery at Shearwater, and
daring the past summer 170 natives
were employed there.
JUNEAU.— Livingston Wemeeke,
consulting geologist of the Alaska
Juneau Gold Mining Company, arr
ived in Juneau on the Bellanca
plane of the company from Beattie,
after an absence of two months.
Mr. VVenrecke spent practically
all of the time he was away in
Oregon -..’.chasing and supervising
instaluatkm of eoidpment in the
Oregon King min.* in Jefferson
County, Oregon, in wb'ch the Alaska
neau ha:; a half interest. This
property was acquired shortly after
his arrival and is a gold and silver
lode mine.
This _ property, an which the
AlhSa Auneaa plans to spend from
$50,0rt) to 8100,009 n development
work, Bt an old discpvery. Little
work has been done on it for the
last 35 years at which time a shaft
was sank around 700 feet and 170
tons of ore removed.
Juneau.— Unless more adequate
facilities for treatment of tubercu
lar conditions among the Indians of
Alaska is made available quickly,
the *nct tin the Territory will be
decimated vwithin the next twenty
five years, according to a^declaration
made at -Juneau recently by Dr. F.
S. Fellows, director of medical re
lief for the-Alaskan division of the,
Bureau of Indian Affairs. Doctor
Fellows has. been transferred to duty
in New Mexico.
for the first time in a century
there are new-born., musk-oxen in
Alaska, according to a report to the
Bureau of Biological Survey, U. S.
i Department of Agriculture. Two
young animals were born April 29
in the herd transplanted to the Terr
itory in 1930.
Musk-oxen, according to State
ments J»y natives, disanoeared from
Alaska about 100 -years ago, and
there seems to be no authentic re
cords of their existence in the Terri
tory from , then until, thq, fall- of 1930,
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THE SOURDOUGH
By Bruce E. Slater
We blazed the trails thru iee and
snow,
! Beneath Aurora’s fitful glow,
To meet here , at life’s ending row—
God bless.that man. the old sourdough.
; In barren Klondike Carmack found,
Deep dawn in frozen virgin ground,
Th* gold that set the world on fire,
That draggd men from the throne
and mire,
To stampede with a mighty rush,
To scale the Chilcoot Pass and mush
Across the frozen fields of snow,
reach the diggings-down below;
Where men stark imJid;. in fiendish
Inst f
Mwd down into' the frozen icrust,
And ’heath the nigger-headed sod
Where once rfche-shaggy- mammoth
trod.,,
Dreg forth a treasure trove untold
Of gleaming, glitter i- -lacer gold.
ADAMS HOUSE
When in Flsi, stop at AI AMS HOUSE. We are open at
ail hours. Dog barns in connection.
thru Adams House, yoikdtaw obtain Gutsids
Liquors of all'kinds, Wines, and Beer.
CIGARS , CIGARETTES
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Where Everything is Homelike and
Where You are Cordially Welcomed.
A Modern Hot-air Heating System
Supplies Warmth to Every Room.
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The Kuskokwim’s Largest and Most
Complete Stock of General
Merchandise.
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Complete Line of
Groceries
Hardware
Clothing
Finest Liquors and Wines.
Budweiser and Bine Ribbon Beer.
northern Commercial
t-.-n
McGrath
f Takotna
pia&d (having dropped expensive
vase)—Those colored bits will leok
lovely in the rockery, jna’am.—Opin
ion (London).
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Souse—Now, look here, ol’man^t
takes two to make a quarrel.
Friend Yes, hut I can see you’ve
bad more than two.