Alaska Notes
■Gathered From Territorial
Exchanges.
The present season promises to he
-a good one‘among the canneries of the
Territory, according to D. W. Branch,
general manager of the Idhby, Mc
Neil & -Libby company, ~\vho returned
-to Anchorage a few days ago from n
>tour of inspection. The canneries arc
very busy in the Kenai district, he re
ports, with the season’s quota filling
•up rapidly. It was necessary to wire
•an order to 'Seattle on the day of his
.‘arrival for -5,000 cases of cans to take
•care of the company’s pack.
Reports from Bristol Bay indicated
•that the canneries there are filling up
■ also, and at Icy Strait they had 50,000
•cases packed on July 10. Favorable
•conditions also were reported from
Northeastern Alaska, and it was ex
pected that the close of the season
•will find a very satisfactory general
•average.
“Judge” A. F. Stowe, well known
• oldtimer of the !. Iroad belt, recently
• arrived at Kodiak from Seattle to as
sume his duties as United States com
missioner, t.o which position he had
’Been appointed by District Judge E.
■ E. Ritchie.
“‘Judge” Stowe was a resident of
-Anchorage until about a year ago,
•when he went to the States to place
t himself under the care of an eye spe
• cialist, as the result of an injury re
ceived when. in the employ of the
.Alaska Railroad Commission. He lost
•the sight of the injured eye.
The appointment was made while
tStowe was in Seattle. lie is well
iqualified hv knowledge of law and
• conditions in Alaska to fiU the posi
tion.
L. J. Palmer, of the Department of
. Agriculture, who has charge of rein
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Pork Beef
Reindeer
Mutton
PICKLED TONGUE
PIGS’ FEET
BOLOGNA SAUSAGE
In Variety
PORK SAUSAGE
HEAD CHEESE
Anyone desiring Meats can
place their order with Jack
Mutchler, who will see that it
i« brought up by small boat as
soon , as possible.
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doer work Alaska, and E. A. Porseld
Canadian botanist, arrived at Fair
banks a few days ago. Mr. Palmei
will superintend the roundup of sev
oral reindeer herds along the coast.
It is Mr. Palmer’s hope to induc<
reindeer owners to drive their herd;
into the interior, where better trans
portation facilities will be available
Under present conditions it is impos
sible to ship meat during the winter
and at times it remains frozen foi
such long periods that the quality is
impaired. Noel W. Smith, genera
manager of the .Alaska Railroad, has
offered attractive .rates .to reindeei
shippers; the cheap transportatior
rates from the interiior and the fact
that meat could be shipped the yeai
I around would, Mr. Palmer believes
give a great impetus to the industry
If his plans carry through, .within twi
years’ time 100,000 head of reindeei
will have been driven from the coast
The Broad Pass country, the Wool
river district and -sehtions along thf
Richardson highway are described as
ideal grazing areas.
Mr. Porseld is empowered by thi
! Canadian government to buy severa'
thousand head of Alnskun reindeei
and make arrangements to have then
driven to thi Mackenzie river. Hf
will accompany Mr. Palmer and in
spect various herds.
NUMBERING ROOFS FOR
AIRPLANES ACCOMMODATION
Frankfort. Ky.—Adjutant Genera
J. A. Kev Kentucky .National
Gun strategic cities
buii abered for qqick lo
cality - from the air.
The "oard has supervision
in Kl. establishment and
maintenance uf air ports, routes and
aviation fields. This enables cities
and counties to maintain ports and
fields in conjunction with each other
and the adjutant general, pioneering
air service for the Guard, sees the act
as a great step “upward.”
More English by Ear.
Teacher—Give me a sentence with
the word “analyse.”
Small .Boy—My sister Anna says
| she never makes love, but oh. how
! Analvz.—.Satyr,
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INM0K0 LUMBER CO.
GOV. BILL SULZER TELLS
OF HIS AIRPLANE TRIP
INTO CHANDALAR FIELD
(Fairbanks News-Miner.)
“Our airplane trip to the Chandalar!
mining district,” said Governor Sul
/.er, "wps entirely successful. In our
thousand-mile flight—high and low—
we saw much, and learned tnoTe. The
Chandalar is now on the map, and
will give a Rood account of itself in
the coming years. On account of its
being the most northern Rold camp in
the world, we had, in the past, many
difficulties to overcome, but we knew
the Rold was there—both placer and
quartz—and we never lost courage in
, the future.
“You know,” said Mr. Sulzer,"that ;
one of my ten rules of philosophy is: 1
'That a quitter never wins, and a win
ner never quits.’ That has been the
motto of the Chandalar Rold camp
since its discovery. The men who have
1 stuck to it are now Roing to win be
1 yond the dreams of then- most san
! Ruine expectations, and their success
means much for Fairbanks—because
Fairbanks is the receiving and distrib
uting center of our enterprise.
“Now that we have the .best air
plane landing field in Alaska; a wire
less station; a;postoffiee; a fairly good
road from Beaver on the Yukon to
the Little Squaw mines, and a town- j
site all laid out, Chandalar will soon i
have a thriving and industrious min
ing population;-and take my word for ;
, it—rand J speak by -the book—the
: Chandalar in the cominR years will
produce more Rold than ever came out i
of the Klondike.
“In fact, it is now known geologie- I
ally that the Chandalar is the Rreat j
; mother lode, and that all the stream j
; Rold in the Yukon, the Tanana and the i
Klondike came from the .Chandalar. |
The true fissure quartz veins up there .
demonstrate it bqyond successful con- i
tradiction. These quartz veins—all .
carrying free gold—are persistent
permanent, and give .assurance that,
the Chandalar camp will live long and i
prosper.
o uiii iinmk ui it, went oil .tne.tiov
; ernor, “one little ereek up there has I
: already produced more gold than the '
; United States paid Russia for Alaska. [
“Another thing that should not be j
i overlooked is that the Chandalar has
the best .and healthiest climate in
i Alaska—long, cool summers. and
, short, equable winters. They say the
Chandalar has such a healthy climate
! that the only way they can have at.
funeral is to kill a man, and as there
is a .local prejudice against homicide
! there has never been a funeral. The i
Chandalar is no place for an under
taker—and for that matter for a pes- !
simist, either. The Chandalar is the
land for he-men; for the heroic spirits,;
the real pioneer, for the men who ;
want to live and die on our country’s 1
far-flung frontier, under the Northern
lights and in the shadow of the mid
night sun—.to live an epic poem, that
only a Homer can sing.
“Besides, the Chandalar is going do
be the botanist’s Mecca, the geolo- !
gist’s heaven, and the sportsman’s j
paradise.
■ “On our successful flying trip we ;
mentally mapped, and visually ex
; plored, an undiscovered country of !
wild flowers, of innumerable lakes, I
teeming with wild fowl; and of great
mineralized lime contacts, and tre
mendous fissure quartz veins, that I
have never been explored by a pros
; pector, or mapped by a geologist. Now
I that we have airplane communication,
it will be done.
“Let me express my admiration for
Mr. Bennett, the .aviator of the good
little plane Waco,” said Mr. Sulzer, in
conclusion. “Mr. Bennett is the best
air-skipper 1 ever sailed with. He
has a good head, a stout heart, a
steady hand. He has a keen sense of
direction, and sailed into an unknown
land with a courage that was superb,
.pnd with a confidence that spelled suc
cess for our expedition. He was
never in doubt, never hesitated, and
never lost his bearings. Hats off to
Bennett! He is an invaluable asset
to the great Northland, and by his
heroic efforts through the trackless
skies proves that the airplane is the
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thing to annihilate distance through
■ it all Alaska.”
Oil was first marketed commercial
ly in Wyoming in 1849, but not for
fuel purposes. It was to grease the
wheels of the “covered wagons”
trundling across the wide prairies and
lofty Rocky Mountains on the Oregon
trail, so the Wyoming State Histor
ical department has found. Prior -to ;
the coming of the white pkmeersjihe .
Indians used oil for medicinal 'pur
poses. Historical researcltes have re
vealed that -emigrants along the old
Oregon trail in 1849 found-a petro
leum “spring” in. Uinta county, and'
James Bridger, noted Wyoming trap
per and scout, settled near the spring,
naming his home. Fort. Bridger. He
collected the oil and mixed it with
flour.to make axle grease. Later, in
the ’50 s,.Cyrus Iba, a pioneer of Cas
per, discovered a seepage of petro
leum, called by the Indians “Poison
Spring,"’* in what now is-the-lnrge Salt
Lake field. Ho also used it to make
axle grease. In 192b, the State’s oil
production totaled 3.r>,000,900' barrels. I
“Children,” said a teacher, “be dili- f
gent and. steadfast and. you will sue
ceed. Take the case of George Wash
ington. I>ol>'you iremember my tell
ing you of the great difficulty George
Washington nad to contend with?”
“Yes, ma’am,” said a little boy. “He
couldn’t tell a lie.”—East Grinstead
Observer.
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