Alaska News Notes
J. E. Abrams was recently appointed
collector of customs for the new sub
port of entry at Seward.
There are at present 21 students en
rolled at the Alaska Agricultural Col
lege aud School of Miues,
It is stated that the whaling station
at Akutau took 820 whales during the
season and produced 30,000 barrels of
oil.
Game Warden Cotter, of Seward, re
i p >rts many moose along the district
baot of Keuai lake. He reports seeing
twelve to one herd recently.
Charles R. Settlemeir, for more than
twenty years editor of the Dawson
■News, recently, on an icy sidewalk of
that city, fell and broke both bones in
one of his legs, above the ankle, and
also dislocated the ankle.
Forest Supervisor W. J. McDonald
savs that contracts for approximately
.. 22 -i.UOO ties, or over 8,000,000 board
feet, have been let by the Alaskan En
gineering Commission, and will be cut
i this wiuier from the forests adjaceut to
Anchorage.
•Recent arrivals at Anchorage from
the new oil town of Kanatak repnit
that a sneak thief entered the home of
Madam Renio recently while the owner
aud the rest of the population were at
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tending a dance, and stole ji-welrv val
u d m $1,000. A mas-. mteuug * >‘i
c.uhd when the tt.eit was report' d
aud two coiuiniitei-a wore appointed o
-.eaicn the iow'u and the baggage of ai
tboeo nbnu to leave, lie fore Ute stat'd
had progressed very far the stoiet
jewelry was found in a vacant cabin
but the identity of the thief was do
ascertained.
Tile body of Albert Denel was dis
covered recently ou the oeach lo th*
north of Ketchikan, about a mile fron
Suiilev's cannery. Lie was fuii,
dressed, with the exception of a bat
aDd lnuicatiotis were that he drowne.
accidentaiiy.
A cioudburst at the head of Hear,
creek, in tiie Kougarok district, las
fall, is said to Have carried away tnucl
of the overburden and cut into th
banks, exposing the paystreak id sev
eial places, it is said that three mei
rockeu out over #50 id four flours 01
oue of ihe exposed spots.
Neil Ftuueson, who has been pros
peeling aud developing quartz proper
ties in the Koisiua section ior me pas
ten years, is about Lo realize the Iruit
of his labor, an option on his property
the Silver btar uuU Lhe Pauhaudl
group of claim-, having been secure*
; oy ougus McDougall, a t epi eseotativ
ot New York capitalists.
P. E. Juhanson, who arrived in Fail
banks recently from the scene of th
gold excitement on Cbaianika fiats, rt
ports that Charles Anderson, trappe
and hunter, recently panned $10 i
coarse gold from gravel laken from th
J rim, that amount being the yield froi
several fires. Juhanson saw the gol
panned, and it is his belief that th
discovery is a good nee. There is abut
itwo feet-of gravel on the rim wher
d-nfliaiunm rniurip nn thfi Ip
'limit of the Chatanika river. Th
river cuts through the formation for
stretch of several miles to Staov<
creek, beginning at a point about si
miles above the Chatanika crossing, o
the Dunbar Tolovaoa trail. A lot <
ground has been staked by old timer
who stampeded to the district, and
is expecied that much prospecting wi
be done in the spring. Mike Kelly at
partner have located several claim
and are now sinking, and Pat O’Couni
is among the recent arrivals.
Tentative plans are now under wa
for the construction of a plant on th
Eklutna river, 25 mi'es north of At
chorage. to generate 3.000 horsepowei
which will furnish iho town of Anchoi
age and the Willow Creek district wit
electricity, according to J. C. Dort, a
sistant engineer of the Forest Servici
who recently spent several weeks it
vestigatiDg the water power site o
the Eklutna. Present plans provid
for construction to begin next sumraei
The project is being carried out b
Frank I. Reed, proprietor of tbe At
chorage Hotel. It is thought thrc
generators will be installed in th
plant. A 55 mile transmission line wi
be run from the plant. Two dams wi
be constructed, according to the pirn:
One will be at the outlet of Eklutn
lake, and will be constructed of timbe
crib, rock tilled. It will be 20 fet
high and 50 feet across the top. Th
site provides for 60,000 acre feet i
water. The second dam will be cot
structed in the canvon near the lowe
end of the river, and will be a eoneret
arch dam, 100 feet high and 60 fet
across the top. Tbe water will be use
for a reserve supply.
Dr. W. f. Green
McGrath, Alaska
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