THE KUSKO TIMES
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Entered as second-class matter Febru
ary 1, 1922, at the Post Office at
McGrath, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
MCGRATH, ALASKA. JAN. 10, 1922
Seattle Alaska Letter.
Publicity Department, Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce.
Seattle, Dec. 2.—Tbe appropriation
of $1,500,000 by Congress for the build
ing of a new Alaska cable was strongly
recommended in a resolution adopted
by the board of trustees of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce yesterday. The
Washington delegation to Congress
will be urged to support such an ap- |
propriatioo. The estimate of the sum
necessary for the cable’s completion
has already been approved by the sec
retary of war and tbe director of the
budget.
A new rate has been made by the
Alaskan Engineering Commission,
which includes class and commodity
rates betweeu Seattle and Tacoma and
points on the Alaska railroad on min
ing machinery of $2 a hundred, gro
ceries»J.U) a nunarea, ana cement rate
of $1.35. There is no through rate on
flour, hay and grain.
Shipments of merchandise from
Alaska during October exceeded those
of September, and aggregated $15,457,
379. Canned solmon was the principal
export in regard to value, and totaled
$13,000 000. Copper ore was second,
worth 8981,000, and Scotch cured and
salt herring third, worth $306,000.
The Alaska department of the Cham
ber has received a supply of the fine
new illustrated folder of the Alaska
railroad. Besides time cards, the folder
contains line maps and a number of,
views of Alaska cities and scenes along
the route of the road, making it at
tractive to users and pro. pective tour
ists.
With a total of more than twenty
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Pool Room
and
Cigar Store
For Sale
Mrs.E.P. Werner
Proprietor
million dollars representing A!ask»’s
output for the past (50 days, the Terri
tory yave the most encouraging sign of
its industrial comeback. While the
canoed salmon, as is usually the case at
this time of the year, represented a
large proportion of the total, other
fishing products show up handsomely,
and lead of! with one million dollars’
worth of mild cured herring. Minerals
represemed more than two millions.
The public knows more or less about
the fish, minerals and fure, but among
the unusual shipments of the last two
months are noticed such items as be
luga hides, reindeer skins, salt cod
tongues, hair seal skins, sheep’s wool,
walrus hides, seal skins, ivory, and
reindeer carcasses, frozen. Southeast
ern Alaska coast led other sections, on
acoountof the large proportion of the
miscellaneous products, and showed
the greatest individual increase. From
Bering sea came ores brought down
from the Canadian Yukon, which can
not be classed as products of Alaska,
but which find it expedient to ship by
way of St. Michael. Also from this
section came the reindeer, walrus and
whale products.
Showing a remarkable revival, Alas
ka’s trade with Seattle for the first ten
months of this year totaled 269,145
tons, a gain of 118,000 ions over the
same period of 1921.
The steamship Brookdale recently
unloaded a shipment of 30.000 seal
skins at Seattle for the United States
Bureau of Education. The skins, val
ued at $25 to $50 each, with a total
value of approximately $1,000,000, are
the property of the United States gov
ernment, which offers them for sale at
the St. Louis fur show.
The Chamber has received advices
from J. C. Dort. assistant engineer of
the forest service, that plans are uiak
ing for the construction of a plant- to
furnish 3,000 horsepower, near An
nhnru era
Stockholders of the Alaska Fur Sales
Company of Seattle, meetiog at ;tbe
Arctic Club, authorized immediate ac
tion to complete organization of the
company. It is understood arrange
ments have been made to finance the
company and that its organization will
bring more than one million dollars’ ,
worth of Dew business from Alaska to
this city annually.
Eleven thousand barrels of Alaska
salt herring are in Seattle terminals,
awaiting a market. The Lee Wake j
field Company, the largest producers of .
herring in Alaska, control the 11,000
barrels, which represents what is un
sold from a X0,000-barrel ^ack of the
company.
PRESS SQUIBS.
Nowadays a smart king keeps on
good terms with his army.—Detroit
N6WS.
European nations must trust one an
other or bust one another.—Trinidad
Picketwire.
Ever notice that the Germans never
include the kaiser in their war losses?
—Brooklyn Eagle.
Those who pride themselves on being
hard boiled usually are only half baked.
—Brooklyn Eagle.
It’s not the Turk’s guarded tent but
his guarded intent that’s worrying the
allies.—Washington Post.
We begin to suspect that the malady
the Sick Man of Europe is afflicted
with is rabies.—New York Tribune.
The chief fault of a representative
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
LAWYERS
Iditarod, Alaska,
and at
705 L. C. Smith Bldg., Seattle, Wafch
Practice inwall Court?.
government is that it represents two
many conflicting ideas.—Bridgeport
Star.
Too often a grade crossing -is the
meeting place of headlights, and light
heads,—Washington Po6t.
Inflation in Germany is no- longer
confined to the heads of the ;Hohenzol
lerne.—New York Tribune.
President Kardiog says that tthe
world owes much to bankers, which is
no doubt true, but he needn’t rub it in.
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Things are getting so mixed, up that
an honest, hard working politician
hardly knows when to be “dry” or
when to be “wet.”—Columbia Record.
Every political pull, in due time, is
found to exert itself on the leg of the
public.—Columbia Record.
Frequently the blindfold over the
eyes of Justice looks suspiciously like
greenbacks.—Greenville Piedmont.
The flapper style is going, but the
dear things will hit on something else
if we give them time.—Columbia Rec
ord.
The concert of nations will be more
harmonious when England and France
decide which.is to piay second fiddle.—
;Greelev Tribune.
LOUIS GORMAN
<Big River
General Supplies Fresh From the
Outside
Furs Bought and Sold
Larson Roadhouse
(Formerly The McLean, Tacotna.)
Best of Home Cooked Meals. Prompt',Attention
New Dog Houses Under Construction
Mrs. Fratik HLarson
Proprietor
Geo. W. Hoffman1
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim Valley \
Napamute, Alaska >
New Goods Have Arrived
One of the best stocks ever brought into the
Kuskokwim Valley. Yes, the prices are right
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley** Manager.
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Arrange to Spend the Night at the
Big River Roadhouse
Best possible meals. . Private rooms.
New dog kennels, and the best of, lower,triver fish
for dog feed.
Diamond .Dick
Proprietor