THE KUSKO TIMES
A. X. Grant, Publisher, Sole
Owner and Editor.
Twice a Week:
Wednesday and Saturday
Two Dollars Per Month.
Address all|Communications:
Kusko Times, McGrath, Alaska.
McGrath, alaska, jury 9. 1921
Do People of This
Section Want an Im
proved Mail Service?
The publisher of The Times, in the
last mail, received a letter from Dele
gate Dan Sutherland at Washington,
from which we take the following ex
•cerpts, on account of their pertinence
to mail matters:
‘ I am in receipt of two copies of your
new paper, The Kusko Times, and I
•am very glad indeed to know that you
are established in business, and I sin
cerely hope that developments in the
Kuskokwim region may be such as to
•create a held for a big daily. Yours is
a very neat publication and deserves to
be successful.
“I am very much interested in the
article on ‘Mail Routes and Mail’ in
the issue of January l9Lh, as it gives
ine some information regarding pro
posed routes in sections that I have
had in mind for a long time. 1 do not
'know that it is up to me to take the
•initiative in this matter on a news
paper suggestion, but if I have any
•corr’espondetfce with McGrath people
•on the subject I can use your article as
:a basis upon which to work.
“I have just received a letter from
Mr. Yinal, who is now in Seward, stat
ing that when he reaches Seattle he is
going to take up the subject of interior
mail routes with me, and I want to try
and arouse the Department to the ex
tent of bringing about a general im
provement of the mail service in the
Territory.”
From which it would appear that
never will there be a better time than
the present if the people of this section
Max Simel
The Pioneer Trader
Furs Bought and
; Sold
Miners’, Prospectors’
and Trappers’
Supplies
Steamer Service On the Inoka
River.
Ask the People of Ophir about us.
STATION
Fairview, Innoko River
desire an improved mail service. Now
that the Rainy. Pass rpute has been re
stored, why not try t>o get improve
ments along other mail lines? Do the
people of McGrath, Tacotna, Opbir and
Flat desire a close-connecting mail
service? Right now, a letter dropped
; in the Tacotna postoffice, with an Opbir
address, following the mail route, must
come to McGrath, go way down river
to Bethel, lie in the office there until
the 1st of the month, when it is brought
back up river almost a hundred miles,
taken over the portage to the Yukon,
then up to Holy Cross, where it lies
until Max Simel, the mail contractor,
gathers it up with other mail and
starts on the last lap to Ophir, this last
lap alone occupying several davs. Of
course, it is unnecessary to say that
very few, if any, letters follow that
route. But that is what happens if the
postoffice regulations are followed. To
avoid all this, the people of Tacotna or
Ophir, as the case may be, have to
rely upon the good-natured courtesy of
some individual trailing between the
two places—a trail, by the way, none
too good during most of the summer
season. The fact that one individual,
or a dozen individuals for that matter,
is willing to carry one letter or a hun
dred letters, over a trail of about thirty
miles, is immaterial. It’s an imposi
tion, just the same, and is one of those
matters that should he corrected by
the Postoffice Department at the earli- j
est moment.
And how about a winter mail service
down river from McGrath—a matter
of great noncern to the people of sev
eral communities between this place ;
and Bethel.
If these matters are worth while,
then certainly they should be asked |
for. It is up to the people-of these;
communities to make known their de
sires—some basis upon which Delegate
Sutherland can be guided.
C. A. Boerner Now
N. & Agent at Circle
C. A. Boerner., who has been in the
employ of the Northern Commercial
Company most of the ti-me since the
early Yukon days as navigator and
agent, arrived in Nenana on Saturday 1
from San Francisco, en route to Circle,
to take charge of the company !s store !
at that alaee. He will relieve Agent
Whitman, who has been transferred to
the Dawson store.
Like others who haye 'retnroad "to
Alaska during the past few weeks, Mr. >
Boerner says things are pretty tough'1
in the States, with many out of work ;
and prices uot much lower than during ;
the war days. And he predicts that;
prices will continue high until labor1
cos^ts have been lowered materially.
The automobile industry.has been!
very hard hit by the slump in buying. ;
Numerous of the big plants are entire- ■
ly closed, and otbersare working only
part time. There is very little demand ;
for new machines, and used cars are for
sale all over the country for very low |
prices. Many people who bought ma
chines when work was plentiful ot>w
find themselves forced to dispose of
them at almost anything they can get,
| —Nenana News.
The Guggenheim copper propersies
at Latouche are reported to have been
closed down and the married employes
transferrod to Kennecott, where the
company is employing a force just suffi
cient to keqp the-mine_goijjg.
i
Rough and Dressed Lum
her of All Kinds
Why Carry Your Outfit a Long Distance? f
We Can Supply Everything You Need.
Fresh Stock Just Arrived. Prices That Will Satisfy You
SEO. HOFFMAN - NAPAMUTE
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim
PIONEER POOL ROOM
McGrath's Popular Resort
Dave E. Clough - - Prop. <
Who Said Freighting
That’s our business and that’s where we shine;
in other words where satisfactory service is al
ways given. Freighting between all points—
..McGrath, Tacotna, Ophir, Iditarod, Grippl-e,
even<as Jar as .Ruby.
W. H.! Jones - Freighter
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
. COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
f Capt- Vallace Langley, |Manager.
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