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MeGKATH, ALASKA*. NOV, 15, 1922
Seattle Alaska Letter..
Publicity Department, Seattle Cham-,
her of Commerce.
Seattle. Sept. 3.—Seven big sailing
ships of the Seattle-Alaska fishing
fleet Are on their way to this port from
the north, laden with $2,520,000 worth
of salmon. The cannery and fishing
crews have sp«Dt the entire summer in
Northern waters and the men will be
paid off here, making an expenditure
of at least $280,000. The cannery ships
Seattle-bound are members of tha
leets of Libby, McNeill & Libby and
the Northwestern Fisheries -Company,
The vessels are bringing a total of
Ji5,.<h>0.«cases, averaging $8 a case, or a
,wtal value of $2,520,000. <.
Pive hundred thousand feet of Alaska
jpruce has arrived here for trans
shipment to New York. The spruce
was cut near Wrangell—the first full
sargo of Alaska timber brought south,
it ip believed to he the initial ship
ment of what will be an immense trade
in Alaska timber.
Present advices are that, the railway
from Controller Bay to the Katalla
coal fields will be completed by July 1,
1923, and it is believed that next year
Alaska anthracite coal will be offered
on the markets here. Battleships of
the Pacific 3eet are now making steam
ing > testa of Alaska bituminous coal
from the Matanuska~fiekl and anthra
cite, from Bering river. Alaskans con
iend that 30,000-tona of coal have been,
booked on the Pacific coast arm steam
ship rates pledged., guaranteeing,^
irofrt on Alaska coal in competition
with Canadian coal. This was depend
ent upon construction of a three-mile
spur into a known coal field.
News of the-resumption of operations
Cigar Store
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MrsvE. PI Werner
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at the Sped river wood pu-lp plant, due
to it he reduced freight rate on the
manufactured product, has been re
dived • by the AIhsku department of
the Seattle (Chamber of Commerce. A
rata- vof > S3 per ton on wood pulp to
Puget Sound from the Speel river plant
has.JbesBigpaotod, The plant has or
deoa for 4ts entire output of twenty tons
a day, and will operate all winter, em
ploying thirty to forty mem
As much capital has been directed
towards Alaska in the last few months
&» the Territorv cost originally, states
J. W. McCord, general manager of the
Westward Development Co., which
hnanced the permittees in the Coal
Bay oil district of the Alaska peniu
sula. The Standard Oil Company, Sin
clair Oil Company and the General Pe
troleum Company are understood to be
interested in preliminary dnlisng op-(
©rations.
Very Anxious to Get
Back to Old U. S. A*
ObreD Radovich, former well known
resident of Nenana, who returned to
his Dative land in the Balkans some
months ago, found that conditions had
changed greatly during his absence,
and he.io now sorry he left Alaska,
says the Nenana News, quoting a letter
from Radovieh to R. C. Morris, written
from Serbia:
' “I received vour letter that you
wrote on 3d of March and I was very
’ happy to heai from you. 1 have beeD
traveling most of the time since I left
Alaska.
“This place where T am now is close
to the Albanian border and conditions
are very bad here. The people are ig
norant— worse than the Indians of
Alaska. I will be here fora few days,
then will go back to Herzegovina. If
you look at the map, you will see that
it is close to the Adriatic sea.
“Well, dear friend, I was in France,
Italy, Switzerland and Austria, but
there is no place like dear old U. S.
Over here in Europe, stealingand mur
dering are going on every day, and a
person is not safe to go out after dark.
And it is getting worse every day.
“I was in Skopie a few days ago when
the town was attacked by a band of
300 robbers. They were met by the
soldiers, and a battle followed,. £t was
two days before the bandits-were-driven
into the mountains.
“I have, not seen George .Laazovicb
since I left Seattle. He is somewhere
in Dalmatia, and I-.heard he was mar
ried, but pfetty well discouraged.
“Most of. the boys- who came from
America want to go back, but they j
cannot. Some of them-have no money, {
and some of them cannot get passports, J
and they are all like lost. I want to
go back mvself, but I have to have an
affidavit from some one; so, if you can,
please send me one. I have about tl^CO
left, and would like to get back before
I go broke. And' if £ ever step on
American soil again, I will never leave
again as long as I-live."
Downdn Texas the short cotton crop
forced a large number of country ne
groes to the cities. One of these ap
plied fora job at one of tbe large em
ployment agencies,
“There’s a job open at the Eagle
Laundry,” said the man. behind the
desk. “Want it?”
“Tell you how it is, boss,” he said,
very thoughtfully. “I duz want a job
mighty bad, but de fack is I ain’t never
washed a eagle.’’—The Argonaut.
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht anti Taylor
LAWYERS
Iditarod, Alaska,,
and at
7 05 L. €. Smith Bldg., Seattle, Wash
Practice in all Courts,
Internationa] experts seem to dis
agree as to Germany’s next move.
They are certain, however, that it will
either be a collapse or an upheaval.—
New York Tribune.
A woman’s organization against pro
hibition is called ‘‘Molly Pitchers,’’
probably as suggestive of something in
which to carry it provided they get it.
—Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.^
The Government could probably pay
oil the national debt if 'Mr. Lasker
could arrange to send ..some of his
liquor-selling ships on an inland- voy
age.—Nashville Southern Lumberman.
The Japs are leaving Siberia, butnot
leaving her much.—Norfolk Post.
In the two years -since prohibition t
became a law a lot has flowed over the •
dam that wasn't VateiV!—I*Uej
Turks, who are- urpeu hy-tbe allies to <
economise, will perhaps save a few Ar
menians for a rainy dayWall Street'
Journal.
Dr. W. f. .Green !
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McGrath, Alaska
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Big River r
General Supplies Fresh From the \\
Outside f j
Furs Bought and Sold
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mrmmsauEa
Larson Roadhouse
(Formerly The McLean, Tacotnav)
Best, of Home Cooked Meals', >. Prompt Attention
New Dog Houses Urfder C obstruction.
Mrs. Frank Larson,;
Proprietor
Geo. W. Hoffman
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
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ALASKA RIVERSi NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley,; .Manager*.
Arrange to Spend the Night at the.
Big River Roadhouse
Best possible meals, . Private rooms,
NeW dog kennels, and the best "of "lower river fish
for dog feed.
Diamond Dick
Proprietor