Alaska News Notes
Prank Hart, formerly with the A. E.
C. at Anchorage, has been appointed
purchasing agent for the Kennecott
Copper Corporation, with headquarter*
at Latouche.
J H. Cobb, one of Juneau’s pioneer
lawyers, and lamily were outgoing pas
sengers from Juneau recently, on their
way to Santa Barbara, Cal., where they
expect to make tbeir future home.
The Alaska Agricultural College has
offered a short course to former resi
dents of Alaska in gaining u more inti
mate knowledge of scientific farming
and gardening. The tuition is free to
all residents of Alaska.
YV. A. C. Baldwin, a well known res
ident oi Seward, slipped and fell on an
icy sidewalk in that city recently, sus
tain ug injuries to his limbs which, it
is feared, will render him permanently j
, crippled.
Commemorating the route over
which pioneers in .Eastern Alaska
mushed during the early gold rush
into the Territory, the name of Fort
William H. Seward has been changed j
by.the War Department to that of Chil
, cootiBarracks.
• A. F. McKinnon, proprietor of the!
Reliable Transfer at Juneau, has solved j
the problem of speed without cruelty j
i to animals on a sleigh ride. He draws
Fresh Killed
Reindeer
Meat
McGrath
Tacotna
Ophir
Flat
35c Lb.
Send Orders to
A. H. Twitchell
Ophir, Alaska
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.
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STATION
Fairview, Innoko River
the bobsleds by attaching ihera to the
rear of his auto truck, which skims
over the packed snow at fiue speed.
The entire pipe fitting crew of the
Premier mine at Hyder. with the ex
ception of the foremen, threw up their
jobs recently. They claim they quit
on account of the muie manager giv
ing orders that conflicted with the in
•truction of the foreman.
Johnnie Hart, night merchant pa
trolman at Juneau, recently completed ■
a tour of 5,400 miles, his faithful pe
dometer which lie hung to his wrist- j
baou October 10. 1920. He reports that '
he has found 401 business doors tin- !
locked during this time.
During the past season a total of i
249.000 acres of iorest land in the Ton
gass national forest was cruised and
mapped, according to figures announced
by the district headquarters oT the U.
S. Forest Service The stand of mer
chantable timber on that area totaled
approximately 2.150,000.000 board feet.
The Juneau Blue Lodge of Masons'
lias pledged its support to one Near
East or phan for ooe year. The Pres
byterian church has pledged to sup
port four orphans; Methodists, two;
Christian Science, one; Catholics, out;
Knights of Columbus, two; Alaska
Lodge of Perfection, Masons, one;
Alaska Native Brotherhood, one; Epis
copalians, one.
Percy DeVVolfe, mail carrier on t'he
Yukon river between Dawson and
Eagle, lost three horses through the;
ice on the river on a recent trip from
Eagle by the ice giving away. Two of
the horses were hitched to a sled,
which was aha) lost, and the third
horse was being led in the rear. De
Wolfe managed to jump from the sled
to the solid ice after throwing out the
mail sucks, which were saved.
An invitation to participate in the
National Travel and Outdoor Life Ex
position, to he staged in Chicago eatly
next spring, has been extended to the
Territory, according to an announce
ment by Governor Bone. It is sug
gested that Alaska arrange for an ex
hibit represent alive of the fishing,
game, scenic and otbei attractions 5 r
persons desiring to spend their summer
vacations in the outdoor world.
A recent change in the Alaska for1
regulations prohibits the killing <fj
blue foxes in Southeastern Alaska and i
portions of the westward region except!
by fur farmers or their authorised
ageDts on their own lands, according
to telegraphic advices received from
Washington by E P. Walker, chief of
the Biological Survey in Alaska. The
regulation has been made as a protec
tion to the fox farmers from poacher.*,
and eliminates the excuse that fox* s
caught are taken from lauds outside of
raaerw*.
The announcement on New Yea *•
day of the successful operation of ti e
Alaska Juneau mine during 1922 f v }
General Manager P. R. Brad lev clcn---i
ly demonstrates the great important e ,
of thi9 mine to Juneau, and emphasizes |
the possibilities of »he extraction if
gold and silver from the large quarts
deposusof that section. Mr. Brad by
states that at the present time there
are 270 men on the payroll, and that
the total wages paid to the employes
probably exceeded $50,000 a month.
During the year the total payroll
payroll amounted to $5b8.333 25. Dur
ing the first six mouths of 1922 the pro
duction of the mine averaged 163.300
tons monthly, and for the last six
months of the year the production av
eraged 221.000 toos per month. The
total gold, silver and lead produced hy
the mine In 1922 was valued at $1,344,
354.95, an increase of $355.554 98 over
the production of 1921. Of the total
increase $320,871 17 wat in gold, and
the remainder a net increase in silver
and lead after the cost of refining the
concentrates had been deducted
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