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Entered as second-class matter Febru
ary 1, 1922, at the Post Cilice at
McGrath, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3, 1379.
McGRATH, ALASKA. AUG. 23, 1922
Juneau Men Enter
Into Muskrat Venture
Juneau. — A party of business men,
operating under the incorporate name
of the Seymour Canal Fur & Stock Co.,
are making preparations to engage in
the breeding of muskrats on a com
mercial basis. This is a new venture
for Alaska, but according to George
Burford, one of the active members of
the new company, the raising of musk
rats has been carried on in Eastern
Canada for a number of years.
Mr. Burford stated that the company
had acquired title to Windfall island
through purchase by Indian title, and
had made application to lease Tied man
island, near by. The company pur
chased the gasboat Pybus last
week, and as soon as some repairs are
completed on the boat Burt Maycock
and George Onofrey will leave for the
island to construct cabins and feed
houses.
In speaking about the new venture
Burford said: “While muskrat pelts
are not as valuable as fox skins, the
former animal is a more’prolific breeder
and his pelt is becoming more popular
each year. Muskrats breed from three
to live times each year, and have from
seven to ten pups to a litter. This
rapid increase and the low cost of ma
turing the rats makes the venture
bound to be a commercial success ”
The Old Ones Are the Best.
The lawyer for the prosecution
began.
“Now, Laszky, what do you do?”
“Vat do I do ven?”
"When you work, of course.”
“Vy, work.”
“I know, but what at?”
“At a bench.”
“I know—I know, but where do you
work at a bench?”
“In a factory.”
“What kind of a factory?”
“Brick.”
“Ah, now we're getting there. The
factory makes bricks?”
“No, de factory is made of bricks.”
“Oh. Lord! Laszky, what do you
make in that factory?”
“Eight dollars a week.”
“No, no! What does the factory
make?”
“I dunno. A lot of money, I tink.”
“No, listen. What kind of goods
does the factory produce?”
“Oh, good goods.”
“But what kind of good goods?”
•“The best dere is.”
“Of what?”
“Of dose goods ”
“That will do,” said the lawyer.—
Pickup._ _
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
• eo. W. AldbECHT, Iditarod, Alaska
Chas. E. Taylor, Seattle, Wash.
Practice in all the Courts.
Seattle Law Office: L. C. Smith Bldg
Elliott lb42.
Seattle Alaska Letter
Publicity Department, Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce.
Seattle.—With a record home build
ing program, much down-town building
construction, and considerable public
work, a pick up in commerce and good
crops throughout the State, Seattle is
good shape. Business men are con
servatively optimistic about the bal
ance of the year. A 14 story office
building is to be started immediately
by the Dexter Horton estate, and it is
expected that funds for a $3,000,000
hotel will soon be available.
The Alaska department of the Se
attle Chamber of Commerce, with
Charles I). Garfield as director, is being
visited by more people this year titan
at any time since it was established.
An increasing number of tourists are
coming to the department to look at
the extensive exhibits of grains,
grasses, minerals, fish and other Alaska
products. To the average Easterner,
the idea that things grow jn Alaska is
a surprise.
More tourists are coming to Seattle
than at any time since the A. Y. I*, ex
position, and they are bringing new
money and color to the city. The sum
mer has been marked by absence of
any rain, and conditions have been
ideal for the tourists.
For the first live months of this year, |
shipments from Seattle to Alaska to- :
taled 77,936 tons, as compared with ;
34,410 tons for the same period last;
year, a gain of 43,526 tons, or 126 per
cent. The shipments this year repre
sent virtually 39 cargoes of 2,000 tons, I
a igaiD ef 21 cargoes over the same
period last year.
Under the direction of the new com
missioner of fisheries, Henry O’Malley,
plans are being made bv the Bureau of
Fisheries for a season of unusual activ
ity in Alaska. A party of scientists
has been dispatched to spend the entire
summer investigating and studying
conditions and possibilities in the new
Alaska peninsula fisheries reservation,
including the waters of the Aleutian
islands reservation. This party con
sists of Dr. Charles H. Gilbert and
Willis H. Rich, both of Stanford Uni
versity. and W. P. Stadder, of Seattle,
a graduate of the fisheries school of
the University of Washington.
A summary of the fishing activities
of Alaska for 1921 shows the active in
vestment in fisheries was $39,001,874.
The industry gave employment to
15r070 persons. Products of fisheries
were valued at $24,086,867. The pack
of canned salmon was 2,896,826 cases.
In Western Alaska the pack was 1,156,
556, an increase over 1920 of 283,652
oases, or over 32 per cent. The total
value of canned salmon was $19,632,744
The total catch of salmon in Alaska in
1021 was 37,905,591 fish, as compared
with 65,030,539 in 1920, a deorease of
approximately 41 per cent.
The steamship Redondo brought to
Seattle on its last trip 20,000 cases of
Alaska canned salmon, and carried a
full cargo on its return trip.
A Washington special says: “Thor
ough inspection of the Coal Bay, Alas
ka, oil fields at an expense of a quarter
of a million dollars is assured, accord
ing to J. W. McCord. The Standard
Oil Company of California and the Gen
eral Petroleum Company have taken
over from McCord and associates the
assignment of four oil prospecting per
mits in the Coal Bay district, with per
mission of the Interior Department.”
According to a dispatch from Wash
ington, Nenana coal, instead of Mata
nusko coal, is to be the chief depend
ence of the Government's Alaska rail
road for its fuel supply and for local
industrial and domestic supply along
the railroad line. Secretary Fall an -
nounced that he has alloted $200,000 of
the funds of the Alaskan Engineering
Commission to construct a spur track
from the main line at about Mile.365
into the Healy creek portion of the
| Nenana coal fields, in order to tap that
‘ bed. j
The total number of automobiles in
Alaska is over 1,000. of which 340 are
in the Tongas reserve, 186 in Juneau,
88 in Ketchikan, 29 in Seward and, 19
in Cordova.
Companies in the oil fields of South
ern Alaska who have been.aioable to
begin drilling within ttie:six mouths
allowed by their permits will be per
mitted to ask for extensions. Seere
tary Fall may grant extensions not to
exceed three years under regulations
prescribed by him.
Figures prepared in Seattle indicate
that 13,000 round-trip summer excur
sionists will he taken from Seattle and
Vancouver, B. C., to A.laska this sum
mer. The tourist travel to Puget
Sound this summer is unusually heavy.
Seattle business men are highly opti
mistic over the prospects for a new
hotel, to be financed by the sale of j
$2,700,000 worth of 7 per cent bonds.
The hotel will cost about |3 000,000, ex
clusive of sight, and will have 600
rooms, and be twetve stories high.
To stock Washington state trout
streams, J. W. Kinney, state super
visor of fish and game, is endeavoring
to secure at least one million cut-throat
trout spawn from Alaska, and offers.
$2.50 par thousand for that number rot
eyed.eggs. In fact price within reason
will not be refused if the spawn can be
secured.
For a Nice Lunch
or First-Class Meal
Call At
Durant’s Cafe
Flat City
John W. Dunn
Of Ruby
Candidate for Territorial
Senator
^(Bor the Long Term)
Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim Valiev
Napamute, Alaska
New Goods Have Arrived
One of the best 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 JCandidate
for
Territorial Representative
—Paid Advt.