IA)(- A I,
Wjth the aid of a number of his
friends1. • _ Chris Peterson cele
brated his 07th birthday on Wednes
day evening January 9.
The evening began with a most
enjoyable dinner at the Takotna
Roadhouse, after which a number of
friends spent the evenin at Mr.
Peterson’s home.
The dinner guests were Mr. and
Mrs. Rob’t Winbauer and daughter
Ethel, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Guskey,
Mrs. B. J. Boyd, Mike Hockriter,
Bob Lowrie, Owen Gray, Happy
Jacobson, G. V. Rosander.
Joe Oates and Joe Oates, Jr. re
turned Thursday from McGrath hav
ing went there Tuesday with a team
of horses for freight. They were
delayed one day by storm and found
the return trail so hi avy that they
were compelled to leave the greater
portion of the load on the tra 1.
Mr. Oates is now busy relaying the
freight to town.
Waino Puntilla left Wednesday
with Pilot Winchcll for Archorag
from where he will go to Seattle on
a business trip. He expects to re
turn within a month.
Miss Ellen Reidy returned Friday
from McGrath where she had spent
the week attending to business
matters.
Owen Gray spent the week in
town.
John Peterson was in town a few
days on his way from McGrath to
Little, travelling by dog team.
John Kreiger who returned from
the hospital at Anchorage recently
is much improved in health and is
about his business as usual.
Robt. Winbauer returned Tuesday
aijter a brief visit.at McGrath.
Mrs. Oddie Holson returned to her
home at McGrath after a two wee.vs
visit with friends in town.
Beans were served at Lowrie’s
Friday, last. (?)
Recent record coast to coast trip
made by train and airplane recall
a record ride made in the ’40s from
Santa Fe, N. M. to Independence,
Mo., by F. X. Aubrey. Aubrey, a
French-Canadian and a tenderfoot
only five feet tall and weighing 10<J
pounds, got a job transporting sup
plies over the plains. Ordinarily it
took three months to make the trip
from Independence to Santa Fe bv
government wagon and four wee.es
by horseback. While in a Santa I
saloon one night, Aubrey offered
bet he could ride the 800 mites to
Independence, Missouri, in eigot
days. He won his bet. On his re
turn to Santa Fe, he was aocialjned
a hero and made a new bet of $1,000
that he could make the trip by
horse in six days. He found easy
takers as this seemed an impossible
feat. The race started on the morn
ing of September 12, 1846. Aubrey
made a relay of it, changing to >■
fresh horse at intervals but without
rest for himself day or night ex
cept the dozing he did in his saddle.
He reached Independence September
17, five days and 16 hours out from
' Santa Fe. He had ridden continu
ously for 136 hours, averaging
11401 miles every 24 hours.
ir} 5 Arr
Januarw 10.
• ■ . ■ Stanley Herr ii ;
iocd '.'in were passeng
v,. ..jt V ‘.he! lor Anchor. <
yesterday. . ...o d...an had tk
misfortune to break his knee o
while working on the plane and v;i .1
be laid, up tor seme time; J:r. Get
man was to t ' • over Mr. Wk
ell’s plane, while the latter took •%
vacation.
Pilot Winehe' arriri 1 today fro
Anchorage with Dave Slrandb ■’
who is on his wry to I 1: and 1:.
on to Cripple.
Pi.ot Litlly liar l ien siorxnbou l
at Crooked Ct k but managed ,
make McGrath “ .ay and will 1 o
for Anqhirag. idu morning.
Pilot Barnhill came in from An
i age today, bringing Mr. and
Sirs, Fred who arc on
their way to Ka’sag.
The P.A.A. mailplane with Pilot
Blunt on the ttick, trade the trip to
lakotna and Ophir but was held up
a now-storm and will proceed
on to Flat, Bethel and way point,
as soon as weather permits.
Miss Ellen Reidy spent sever. 1
d- ys in McGrath and will J ave f< r
lakotna with Phot Vf inched.
John Peterson of Little Creek
paid McGrath a short vis.t and left
again today for Takotna. John in
tends to do seme prospecting on
his holdings on Little Creek.
King.
WAR ON WOLVES URGED BY
ALASKAN TOWNS.
' ANCHORAGE.—The ravages vi
wolves and coyotes in many parts
Alaska is being called to the attei -
j tion of authorities and a movenn-nc
I is now on foot in various towns to
! revive interest at Juneau dv.ring ti e
legislation for further efforts to ex
teiminate the predators, says the
Anchorage Times.
Reports received here from the
McKinley Park and other areas tell
of many mountain sheep, caribou
and other fine animals being des
troyed by the wolves.
The Petersburg Chamber of Com
, recently started a movement
editing the wolves and coyotes,
and adopted the following resolu
tions, which have been received by
the Anchorage Chamber of Com
1 m.erce:
Resolution
Whereas from the best information
obtainable we believe that the num
ber of wolves in this locality are in
creasing and the numb ter of deer
are decreasing, and
Whereas we believe that the -
! termination of wolves would reverse
; thk- condition, and
Whereas we believe that many
more woves would be taken if trap
pers had expert advice on the best
S methods of trapping them,
Therefore be it resolved that the
! Bureau of Biological Survey be re
; c,nested- to assign as many expert
i predatory animal hunters as possible
j where wolves and coyotes are preva
! lent in Alaska to trap wolves and
j also to instruct Air si a trappers.
Passed and approved this 5th day
j of December, 1934.
PETERSBURG CHAMBER
COMMERCE
By Earl N. Oh or.
President.
Attest:
A. B. Holt, Secretary.
BUFFALO LOING WELL
NORTHLAND.
IN
Without inciudir.this year's ir
create, AlaskaV i Calo herd, wfc
make-., its her : a> b e eonju;,
o . of the Li e kr and Tar; -
r, is < st m'; to number
least sixty an'.. ; i by mu.-iKo
ihe Alaska Go. -e C.mwission IV,.
■ o; f the Yrge bat elusive . b
: a. has bean ai .pi el, both 1 m
' n ground in ,%■ a plane, but an ,
. : . cheek L wt, ;u 'f ■ v ■■
.anoTg timber growth, where it b \
<■ t«. j Commission officials
in;possible to nccarat.dy court there,
state.
The herd, \ ' ' h numbered v' wh • 1
it vas first i-rpcLcd into the Terri
tory in J 1
Montana, is considered to have thriv-1
i ca b:-y-. nk e. ; e b A has v.< t
. n!y survived . of the coldest,
| winters on re. in he Intern- ,
out also ore of c heaviest snow
falls and the increase to sixty or
more is ccntiue. iavorable.
Dick Perk nr, pic-iviur, of the To- j
terior and foi mei !y cattle ranger in ;
Montana, was the chapel- -n of the
. : 'c c k. . from their an
live state o the Interior, when they
were us' troughl North. Frank
Dnfrense, game warden, with h .-a«
;;ue.;' in ,i was on hand
wk. a .it a: ir-* ’ • were first release!
from their ;■ aft-r their b ■
j journey. He report#‘ numerous an>
ast o
which was a hurried tree climb,
when one of the” animals, which ob
jected to being treated with anti
for a r; w spot on us hid -,
suddenly whipped t bout, prepared to
. Large. “'Fo 11 ar.arcly the v c wei e
lots of trees handy,” Ranger Du
fvensc declared.
■OLD VET
WHILE WORT
ING ON ROAD.
ASPEN,' C :.Wh'ie working on
..he hway, near the top of Inde-|
1 ; a • Pass—o.e of the highes 1
mcEttntaln passes in Colorado—three
workmen uncovered a vein of gold ore
that boils forth v-uorniseF of return
. ' Pitkin County to its old glory of
the i .ung boom days.
Spin L;-. this Jucky find and
report; ci far orabie prospects in
other parts of the county, the old
ghost towns have started to stir
again. Miners -are pocket in g the
hills with their diggings and an ah
| of optimism os apparent.
I Last year the count., commission
lei's of Pitkin County, in conjunction
with state highway department, i> «-!
a contract to Charles Switzer of j
Glenwood Spring.-,, for widening ante •
gradir • a section of state highway;
811, 15 miles east of here and within 1
two miles of the top of independence,
Pass.
Switzer, Wi..;i a crew of men, start-,
cd tlie road v.,, k and one day, in
the touvro of digging away a hill
side alon the road, three of the men
j cm.-toyed by the contra .tor uncov- j
| trod v.-’n.. . appeared to ho the start
of a promising vein.
Not!mi' was done with the find
I then, i n tin.-, year Switzer and the
three men took machinery to the
I site and < ove a tunnel into the hill
j ide. The tunnel now extends '130!
feet .. d the vein is partially un-j
covers... The last assay showed 15 7:
ounces of silver, 15 par cent copper |
and $3 50 in gold to- the ton.
Another tunnel about 100 feet.
lower, has beer started by Switzer.
..m: 1 A: three associates, mis Pop
i pisch, C.E.Howie and Swan Nelson.
I'c v i tiles from Switzer’s dig
gings, at the head of Lacks vana
Gulch, is another mine—a proven
producer--th;u is being worked by|
Clyde Ba’kwill, of Leadville, Col., An
‘old-tinici ”
jjalLw.il ,voi.! his mine, the E ;rc
whi 3 on the eastern slope
• i die pass, every day,and averages
S”5 to '■' •'r' of '’■ id. to th” ton.
. 'it r. ne i:t; i is in :ts infancy ami
1 . v each new depth.
a • ■ - . ' ; freights the ore to
he high* v . hei e it if: ’.
■ e..e!:s i-.r.'l tai-nm to th CnHer.
Cycle mill i . Colorado Spring-.
. I Ti *T DC 1 :••■ ' >N
LN SEATTLE.
dir. rer .i'vs. Bert nnerstrom
■ nr h.tae the pr . par nt
; yy ae : r >ng to the Anchorage
fimes. Mrs. Wer.nerstrom left here
arse ago for Seattle and last
Bert r ived a radkgruro
• v the '-i d tidings that a husky
young son had arrived to bless the
family and to be playmate to their
. ■ two fine : oung sons. Bert,
“roc Knutson,” of Seandina
;• u dkl.ct fame, is expected to get
y now i his next broadcast on
“V* iiy ail ;.v and no girl.”
: .SUING IN WINTER TIME PRO
FITABLE FOR SEWARD MEN.
SEWARD.— Mike Malloy and tv o
iatcs are developing a ni-.:3
... loess in handling frozen trou;,
fished out of Bear Lake and shipped
• Li, Seattle market, according to
the i '.card Gateway.
tween 300 and 400 pounds went
out on the SS Yukon and other con
• ;;nr ,-nts will follow.
Thu fi.ih are caught with gill net;,
ih f:\ ar being operated in ice open
ing.-; broken out by the fishermen.
.n on the lake covering of ice,
ho fi ;h quickly freeze and whi n
shipped are in prime frozen condi
■ ,n and reach the outside mark t
read; for retail and restaurant trade,
lie fish are of the Dolly Yard i
m: ty of salmon trout and Bear
lak , it is well known, thrives wit h
then. The outside price, it is re
ported, ranges around figures that
:lh gooc catches operators look for
fair earnings.
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