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McjGRATH, ALASKA. SEPT. 23, 1922
Explorer Amundsen’s
Plan Is Not Original
San Francisco.—Capt. Roald Amund
sen, when he takes eff on a flight to
North Pole, will not be the first daring
adventurer to fly over the barren Arc
tic ice packs seeking the tip of the
globe. Solomon Aqguste Andree, Swe
dish scientist, tried it in 1S‘J6, and did
not come back. Andree went north in
a balloon. Amundsen will use an air
plane.
On his flight Amundsen, the noted
Norwegian explorer, who discovered
the South Pole, will start from Point
Barrow, Alaska, the corner of the con
tine nt,and attempt to fly across the
Arctic to Spitsbergen, the bit of land
in t he far Northern Atlantic from
which Andree started
Dane's island, off the Spitsbergen
coast,, which was Aadree’s actual
starting point, lies some 500 miles
nearer to the Pole than Point Barrow.
Andree depended entirely upon the
trade winds, and waited two years for
a favorable blow’ from the south. Am
undsen will not rely upon the winds,
jut expects his 135-’aersepower engine
to > land him across-the world in . 21
hours.
Andree’s fate has remained a mys
tery. After he left Dane’s island he
released carrier pigeons, one of which
came back with a message stating that
the balloon had traveled 46 hours and
had made about 200-rmles. That was
the last word from him. Several years
ater reports drifted from the white
Northland telHng of Eskimos out on
the ice packs meeting three explorers
who came down out of the sky. One
rypart said the terrified Eskimos killed
the three men, while another report
had it that the.three starved to death.
Many believed that Andree did not
clean Greenland and that he and his
companions met their death on the top
of the great North Greenland glacier.
Delegate Sutnerland has introduced
a ibill in Congress “io establish the
Alaska game commission, to protect
game, land fur-bearing, animals and
birds in Alaska, and for other pur
poses,” and the measure is now in the
hands of the tiouse committee on ter
ritories. to which it was referred on
June 23. . The commission is to consist
of'five members, one from each divi
sion, and the fifth the chief representa
tive of the bureau cf biological survey
In Alaska.
PROFESSIONAL.
Albrecht and Taylor
• ko. W.Jalerecht,2Id 1 tarod, Alaska
Chas. E. Taylor,: Seattle, Wash.
Practice in all the Courts.
^esu.tle LawjOflice: L. C. Smith Bldg
ffllvott 1642..
! Lower River Notes
_
S. Y. Plumley, of Ketchikan, has
been named as deputy collector of cus
toms at Craig.
The city council of Petersburg hns
raised the dog tax in that city from $2
to 80 per annum.
Jack Reynolds, an employe at the
Kennecott mine, has been appointed
deputy marshal at McCarthy, succeed
ing Harry Kavanaugh.,
Fred B. Tracy, agent for the Alaska
Steamship Company at Cordova, has
been promoted, and will be agent for
the oompanv at Pier 2, Seattle.
Warren A. Taylor, ex-service man,
and for a number of years an employe
of the Copper River railway, has been
appointed deputy marshal of Cordova,
to succeed W. L. Fursman.
After a trip through the Willow
creek district, north of Anchorage, Dr.
H. Foster- Bain, director of the United
States Bureau of Mines, expressed the
opinion that the district will develop
into a permanent camp.
George A. Perks, .acting for the gen
eral land office, has sold at public auc
tion about 150 lots in xhe town of Fair
banks for which no trustee deeds had
been issued- The lots not disposed of
will be deeded to the town for disposal
later on.
After being closed down for some;
time because of high freight rates and
inability to secure adequate service, 1
the S-peel river paper pulp mill is
again in operation, and recently made
a shipment of 115 tons of pulp and had ,
another shipment ready.
The offer of the Alaskan Engineer-:
iDg Commission to install an up-to-date 1
power plant in Nenana, to be operated
by the city as soon as it is ready for
operation, and to be acquired by the
city on the «ea$y payment plan, has j
been formally accepted by the city
council, subject to the approval of the
taxpayers,.
Edward D: Wenth has been appoint
ed by the Territorial Fish Commission
as superintendent of fish hatcheries.
He has been connected with the Fed
eral Bureau of Fisheries for the past
fifteen years, and for the past six years
has been at Afognak as superintendent
of the bureau’s hatchery tfcere
Gonsolidation of all the placer min
ing interests on Poroupine creek, trib
utary to Chilkat valley, north of
Haines, under an English coriKiratiou,
has been effected, and preparations for
active operation of them are being
made It is planned to move the big
electric plant from Glacier creek to the
ground, and operations will be carried
| on by means of hydraulic lifts.
Reported Find in the
Old Caribou District
A Vancouver report states that the
reported strike on Cedar creek, in the
Caribou district, has caused a stam
pede to the district. Gold to the value
of S3,000,000 was taken out of the Cedar
creek district sixty years ago, but the
vein was lost until recently. The re
i
John W. Dunn
Of Ruby
Candidate for Territorial
Senator
(For the Long Term)
discovery was made accidentally by A.
E. Platt and John Lyne, who were
working along the creek. Platt struck
his shovel into a nauk hole, seeing a
flash of color as he drew it out. The
result was that Platt and Lyne took
out $4,(»00 In gold there. They went to
Vancouver to market their dust and i
the news of the strike leaked out, caus
ing the recent rush to Cedar creek.
LOUIS GORMAN
Big River
General Supplies Fresh From the
Outside
Furs Bought and Sold
Larson Roadhouse
(Formerly The McLean, Taeotna.)
Best of Home Cooked Meals. Prompt Attention
New Dog Houses Under Construction.
Mrs. Frank Larson - Proprietor
Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim Valley
Napamute, Alaska
New Goods Have Arrived
One of the bast stocks ever brought into the
Kuskokwim Valley. Yes, the prices are right
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley, Manager..
John E. Baker
Independent .Candidate
for
Territorial Representative'