THE KUSKO TIMES
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Eaterad as second-class matter August
39th, 1923, at the Post Office at
Tokotna, Alaska, under the
Act of March l, 1879.
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. WAY 3, 1924
Alaska May Get Fed
eral Highway Fund
Jack Underwood, representative at
Washington of the Seattle Chrmberof
•Commerce, in a letter to Christy
Thomas of the Chamber, under date of
March 13. reported upon Alaska road
-legislation as follows:
“In conformity with the resolution
approved by the board of trustees on
March 27, 1923, I appeared before the
House committee on roads this morn
ing and urged the passage of the reso
tion which would place Alaska under
the federal highway act. I have good
reason to believe that the committee
will report it favorably, in which event i
Alaska would get a cootining sum ol
somewhere from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000
» year for road construction in the
Territory.
“The army bill alreary contains an
item of approximately $650,000 for road
construction in the Territory under the
Alaska Road Commission The inclu
sion of Alaska under the federal high
way act will in no wise interfere with
this appropriation.
“The federal highway funds are di
vided on a basis of one-third for popu
1st ion, one-third for highways already
built, and one-third on areas of public
lands. If this provision is carried out
in Alaska, where about 99 per cent of
the land is still in the government do
main, Alaska would be entitled to
about $3,000,000 per year. But it is
nardly likely that the land lving north
>ef the Yukon would be included in this
•calculation, as beyond its present use
dor a comparatively small amount of
PIONEER
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Machine, Black
smith and
Sheet Metal Work
All Kinds of Repairs
Stoves Built
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Robt. E. Lowrie
Tokotna, Alaska
placer raining and reindeer raising it
is ef little value. It holds the poten
tiality, however, of ultimately produc
ing a great amount of petroleum.
“Its exclusion from consideration as
a part of the public land area would
not exclude it from the benefits of thy
act. but on tb« ground that tbe people
there pay their taxes, as io other parts
of Alaska, the people would be entitled
to have some roads to be determined by
the Territorial road commission. Tbe
exclusion, however, would cut down
the government allotment to a sum of
between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000 a
year, and inasmuch as the Territory
would have to match the government
funds on a basis of aoout 80-flo par cent
of federal funds and 15 20 per cent of
Territorial funds, it would sesm that
there could be no reasonable objection
to this plan. If the government allot
ment is $2,000,000, the Territory on a
basis of 15 per cent would have to put
up $300,000, or on the basis of 20 per
cent about $400,000, which would have
to be collected in local taxes. Accord
ing to Delegate Sutherland, there is
some reasonable reason to hope that
the Territory could raise between
$300,000 and $400,000 for building ruads,
but there is no hope that it could raise
twice that amount, and any effort to
take $4,000,000 away from tbe allotment
of the States and give it to Alaska
would be strenuously resisted, while an
effort to give Alaska half of that sum
has a better hope of being approvad.
“If this law is enacted, as seems
probable, the Territory may have !>e
amend its highwiv laws. The present
Territorial road .board is composed of
four men, one from each district, who
serve without pay. About all they do
is to co-oporate with the federal road
commission in the recommendation as
to where highways shall be built. It
seems to me that io order to take ad
vantage of this law—if it should be
passed —they will have to create a
highway commission with an engineer
at the head, somewhat similar to ifche
plan followed in the etate of Washing
ton. But that is a detail they can
work out later. Tbe main thing at
present is to make tbe mouev available
to Alaska.
“The committee seemed to agree
with my contention that it was not an
act of absurdity to approve operating
deficits amounting to $1,500,000 a year
and at tbe same time to disapprove
estimates for roadbuilding which would
deliver tonnage to tbe railroad and
wipe out the operating deficit.
“It this amendment is adopted bv the
committee, &6 seems likely, it stands a
splendid chance of getting through,
because it will become a part of the
r.iad.act and tbe appropriations author
ized under that act will be available
for roadbuilding in Alaska.”
Unborn Children Pro
tected by Court Order
Dtnvsr.—?or the first time ia the
history .of civilization a court has
tcovad to protect the rights of children
to bu oo :n
Jutetnle Court Judge Benjamin
Linfset, of Dearer, has ordered par*
meat by the county of sums to guaran
tee proper care of two uobora children
six months ia advance of tneir birth
and to contiuue six months after birth.
Names of the mothers were withheld.
For a Nice Lunch
or First-Class Meal
Call At
Durant’s Cafe
Flat City
J
A Little of Every thing.
A recent British invention, which
msy completely revolutionize the film
industry, enable paper films to be pro-!
jected on the screen by means of refec
tion from light placed in front of the
reels, not behind them, as at present.
These new p«serfilsDS>asa said to poe- .
seas many advantages aver the ordi
nary celluloid kind. iTbey are non
inflammable, they do not crack or tear,
and last considerably longer than cel
luloid. They can also be made very
cheaply, and may be sent through the
mails in ordinary paper wrappers.
Reykjavik, tke oapital city of - Ice
land, will not worry abou* coal for
household heating if the city authori
ties succeed in their plans - for utilizing
the geysers and hot springs outsidn of
the city. They believe that it is prac
tical to bring the hot water into the
city through wooden pipes and make it
available to all the householders. The
water from the geysers is always > hot
enough to keep radiators sizzling.
Mies Msrgars,, Bondfield, the first
women to fill the post of chairman of
the council of the British Trade* Union
Congress, started her career as a shop
assistant at the age of >14. ‘For thirty
' years she has worked in the service of
labor. As an organizer she is said to
have no equal among either men or
women trade unionists, and she is also
an accomplished and forceful speaker.
The National Society of Colonial
Dantes ef America has undertaken to
raise a #100,000 endowment fund for
the preservation of Sulgrave Manor,
the aneestral home of George > .Wash
ington in Ragland.
Scientists say that the actual size ef
the atom ia so small that a » million
placed ion row, like marbles in con
tact, would occupy a length; less then
the tbieknes8 of the thinnest ebeet of
tissue paper._
If a new member of the British bouse
of commons wishes to speak for the
first time, he must inform his party
whips, and also send a note -to the
speaker. Then, if he rises to make his
maiden effort he is given preference.
The London Blue Book contains
some curious information. London has
a solitary fisherwomsn, also one woman
blacksmith,, ene woman bricklayer and
two women-who asm their livelihood
as cas&tters. _
A concrete house, simple and inex
pensive, and declared to be capable of
withstanding earthquake shocks, has
been designed by Simon Lake, the aub
i marina boat inventor.
Though the Chinese haven huge al
phabet, they have ouly about IS,000
words, the same word taking oo differ
ent meanings according to the tone in
which it la used.
The youngest child of tbei’late Czar
Alexandar 11 of Russia, Princess Cath
erine Yourievskg, • recently made her
first anpearanee on tha music hall
stage in London.
Probably the only woman telephone
engineer in America is Miss Margaret
| Minor, a Smith College graduate, who
; is now engaged in her unusual calling
inClave land._
Monterey is tha most important city
of Northern Mexico, i It was.at one
; time much frequented by .invalids from
; the United States because of its dry,
mild climate.
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Idiurod, Alaska,
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We Hare the Beet
Swift’s Premium Hams and Bacon
Golden State Butter
Miners’ and Trappers’ Supplies
Ladies’ and Gents’ Furnishings
Tokotna Pool Hall
Best of Everything in
Fruits Candies Cigars Tobaccos
All Fresh Goods
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Proprietor
Larson Roadhouse
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(Formerly The McLean, Tacotna.)
Best of Home Cooked Meals. Prompt Attention'
.'New Hog Houses . .
Mrs. Frank Larson
Pnpjelor
Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the Kuakokwim Valley -
Napamute. Alaska
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Good Prices for Tour Fur
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Arrange to Spend the Night at the
Big River Roadhouse
Best possible meals. Private'roomsJ i #
New dog kennels, and the best of lower river fish 1
for dog feed.
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