FLAT AND 1DITAR0D
FLAT, Oct. 2.—The thermoinote
reached i*8aboVe an the. night of th
46th and continued below freezing
fencing -miners to stop operation
somewhat early this year
Harry Pantor, now the proud owne
if telceen .Wooded; dogs is building ;
new residence. in, Flat, near the net
bridge he installed this summer, pro
'Uina.dy u> Jceep hi- ej a- or. it.
Gus Ihitila, after long . wear, 1
going,to discharge his hat and get
new one soon.
John Soli is now taking up wate
oipes of the Du Rang waterworks i
Flat, owing to the freezing weathei
Since the recent installation of
filling station, made necessary by th
number of cars in .Flat. City, Dcmnel
ley & Sheppard ha>’e improved tl.
Flat creek highway in front of thei
store.
Since the radio station has bee
moved, Iditarod has four citizens
Captain Lamont, Charles Lovitt, Mat
tiei Crosby. Ed Hunter—all of whoi
are boosters for a bigger city.
Clmrles Ray, well known oldtimei
arrived on the Sea Wolf , from Hoi
^l'Css. After visiting friends here fo
Large.
Dark
Interior
Pen-Bred
Wire Orders
Clough Sc
! Brink
Takotna, Alaska
a couple of days he will return to his
home in Holy Cross.
Dr. Corthell is aboard Frank Kern’s
■ boat, bound for St. Michael, leaving
■ Holy Cross yesterday. .
' Frank Turner, after working all
■ summer for the Wood .Transportation
i Company on the Sea Wolf, arrived in
Flat, and announces that he will build
a home here soon.
r ..
i The Dancos 1, 2, Ji and 4 arrived at
Iditarod on the last trip of the season
- from Holy Cross with full loads of
freight* and they will all be wintered
at Iditarod this year, the customary
' Nenana trip being canceled. ’
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Henry Crook arrived, in town from
I Willow Creek yesterday, having
r closed operations-there for this year,
' freezing weather forcing an early
ending of the mining season.
H Mr. and Mrs. Fred Paderson, at.
“ ! Discovery, entertained as their guest
' hist week Howard D. Thompson of
L>! the United States Weather Bureau,
r who has been installing standard
weather equipment at the radio sta
j tion in Flat. Mr. Thompson seemed
I well pleased, and stated he was .going
direct to Anchorage from Flat*
II Emil Gustafspn.arrived in Flat two
I days ago, and ituiip.w buildirfg a dog
■ barn for his three fast 12-mile dogs
’ I Word from Harry Brink states he
f 1 is still on Akiak river, Kuskokwim
| valley, chasing the elusive paystreak.
j Mr. Miller connected with . the
j Safety First Department at Juneau,
i left here with Pilot Ellis via Bethel
! fox Anchorage, after conducting
■ classes in safety-first methods, at.Flat
! City and at the various creeks. He
1 also spent some time rocking gold for
I a souvenir of the .Happy Greek mine,
I and reports indicate that he recov
ered a goqd-lookrrg ounce.
The Crooked Creek weather rads;
station, operated by. Hootlinana Mil
ler, has resumed, weather reports,
after being out of' commission all
summer. New batteries and equip
ment puts - him on the air again in
his well known manner.
A new house is going up next to
the jail. Charles Arnold and Philip
i Laprerier are reported working on it.
i Frank Kern is reported as due at
Holy Cross oq his way to Kwigik.
Rod Nelson^ is now cooking for the
Day Navigation Company until their
boats arc put on . the ways for the
winter at Iditarod.
FLAT, Oct. S.—Billy Lodge and
Del Thompson left Flat this rooming
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TAKOTNA, ALASKA
Wa shall continue to handle ,a,Gom
< plete Stock of Merchandise-.
“PROMPT SERVICE” Is Our Motte .
for Takotna, traveling by way of
J Moore creek.
Pete Thibault arrived in town to
day, being through with his mining
| operations for this season..*.
Joe Loranger, of Willow creek, left
•tor Anchorage with Pilot Ellis. .
Joe Kern has purchased ■ from
i Henry Du Rand the winter water ser
vice and the wood saw and is .'■now
busy with both services.
•' Andrew . Miscovich has been wait
ing two weeks at Crboked Creek for
■ a plane to bring hi into Flat.
A small cabin; owned by Charles
Lovett of Iditarod burned to the
ground, being a total.doss.
A1 Young amved'invFlat yesterday,
after finishing his summer mining. -
The last mail, of the season, con
sisting of forty sacks, arrived in Flat
yesterday, the Sea Wolf hiving
brought it from ..Holy Cross.
George Adams :suffered a painful
injury to his right wrist yesterday,
while sweeping the •-thfor. •
NEW CHECK HAS BEEN
MADE ON EARTH’S AGE
BERLIN.—New measurements on
a very old mineral have given the
’possibility of a new-accurate deter
mination of the time since the molten
earth cooled sufficiently to form a
; solid crust- This new glimpse into
the past of the earth comes as a re
: suit of the work of Dr. von Grosse
and Dr. .T. D. Kurbatow working at
: the Institute, of Technology here.
That the earth‘is at least 1800
million years old is one of the con
clusions recently reached as a result
of studies in physics and geology by
the committee of the National Re
search Council. A revision of previ
ous calculations may , be necessary,
however, since the recent work. Phy
sicists have grown accustomed to
changing their estimates on this
problem from time to time. During
the last century, before the discovery
of the radioactive atoms like radium,
the noted British .scientist, Lord Kel
vin, was quite sure the sun could not
be older than 50.million years; and of
course the earth had to be younger
than the sun.
The new research .in.. Berlin indi
cates that the ratio of .actinium to
radium is 4 per cent in Abe “Wilber
force uranite” examined- This fact
gives a new check-un on, .the reliabil
ity of the most accurate clocks used
by physicists in .solving this problem.
Those clocks ape provided by the un
changing disintegration of heavy ra
dioactive atoms into lighter atoms.
As this process has been going on
for millions of years at the same rate
Dr. von Zesch
Dentist
Headquarters:
FLAT, ALASKA
Will be in Flat Early
September Until De
cember 1.
ITINERARY:
Flat,
Ophir,
Takotna,
McGrath,
Lower Kuskokwim,
BetbeL
as now,it is possible by measuring
j the amount of lighter atoms formed
. to know how long the break-up has
been going op. These lighter atoms
are very similar in nature to lead and
' cannot be distinguished from’ it by or
dinary chemical means. Separate
clocks are given us by three different
chains of elements which -start " fr'om
•luranium, thorium and the- yet-am
known parent of proto-actinium. The
end of the uraniu mchain is radium
“G”, of the actinium chain is actin
ium “D”. Bymeasuring the amounts
of lead, uranium and thorium and the
relative amounts of radium G and ac
tinium D two independent checks on
the age of the earth can be obtained
from the radium cock.
The new figure given for the actin
ium-radio ratio is differnt from that
accepted by the National Research
Council Committee: three per cent.
At present the greatest possible
age for our planet is believed to be
3,000 million, years.
The first snow of the season of any
account -arrived during the night of
September 30-OctoH«r 1, covering the
ground for about an inch.!-..
H. C.- Walliek, after asoujourn of
about a month over in the Cripple
section, returned here a couple of
days ago.
.Completely furnished. A
good place for man and
wife. Reasonable terms to
rigqht party.
Write or wire to
P. W. CARLSON,
Ophir, Alaska.
FOR SALE
Roadhouse
In the Probate Court for Otter Pre
cinct, Fourth Division of Alaska.
In the matter of the Estate of Mayme
I Wroten, deceased.
No. 59.
Notice of Hearing of Final* Account.
Notice is hereby given that the ach
ministrator of the above estate hafl
filed his final report in. the. Probate
Court above named and that, said're
port will be heard before the said
Probate Court for Otter Precinct, at
Flat, Alaska, on Monaa'y./'.thh', 30th
day of November, 1931, at' 2 focKsek
p. m. of said day, at which’itime and
place all persons interested may* ap
pear and show cause," iff any they
have, why said report sh6ul(i*nofc. bio ■
approved and confirmed.
THOS. M. GARLAND,
Administrator.-.
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