fur shipments
for territory
IN 1936 LISTED
Aalska’s mink shipments- led -all
furs during the year 1926. accord
ing to statistics compiled by the Al
aska Game Commission. Mink ex
ports were valued at $462168. while
the nearest approach* to that figure
was made hy beaver, valued at $210,-.
570.
The Territory’^ fur industry close
ly approximated $2,000,090 during
the yeaT, and when augmented by
pelts from the Pribilof Islands., a
tital of 283,406 furs valued at
$1,932, 893.75 -were shipped out., is
was disclosed.
The shipments showed an increase
aft nearly $500,000 in value over 1935,
due mainly to a boost in prices
Lynx rose from $21.50 per pelt-to
$36.25 per pelt last year, and mink
rose from $7.20 to. $10.50, Pelt
prices for wolf, red fox, cross fox,
silver-black fox, muskrat and other
far animals also rose. The 1935
total shipment, was $1,416,038.65,
Other heavy fur products besides
beaver and mnik were red 'and blue
fox, muskat, lynx and white fox.
The highest price paid for any, pel*
was $50 for silver-black fox. A com
plete tabulation follows:
Bear—Black or glacier, 178, • er
age, $1.00, total $178; polar, 58. aver;
age $24.50 total $1,421; Beaver Bea
-er—251)46, average $12.43, total
$314,579.4*1; coyote—1,089, av.rage,
$6*79 total, $7,356.60.
Fox—red, 18,937. average $11.75,
$ "3i..5>9.75; silver-black, 1,583, aver
age $45.0*.. total 70,785: *b!u*.'. 9,026
average $31.00, total $279^806; *white
5.102 .average $19.50, total $39,489.
Hare—177, average $.10, tota
fit.70; Lynx—2,421, average $36.25,
’.otal $87.761 P5; Marmot—69, aver
age $15.00, total $10.35; Marten—
1,306, average $20. total $26,120t
Mink-—14.016,. average $10 50.total
$426,168; Muskrat—153,772,-average
$1 25, total $192,215. 5
Otte*—3.235, average $14-1)0, total
$45,290; Squirrel—263, avreage $.10,
-iial -$26-30; Weasel—11,012, average
$.70, total $7,708.00; Wolf—904, aver
a* total $l5J726t~!WJeerine
—2 id? average $7.4D, total 12146.
Totals--282.272, -'total r vaiae»-fc$l 7
^07,792.20.
Pribilof- Islands (foxeseonlyfr white
—15 .averager,-$15.&7, tetal $238.05;
>uie—1.019. average $24.49, total
$24,863j®.* .
Grand totals—283,466—total value>
$!(932,393.75.
‘Not including, pejts from* the
Pribilof Islands—
Remember • *b*h AdveiaBersr
RICH STRIKE REPORTED
ON WILBUR CREEK.
R*y gravel has been hit on Wilber
Creek, about 12 miles from Livsngood
ir an old river channel the thick
ness of the paying gravel is 14 feet.
Pay was struck at a depth, of 12U
feet on -the high benches. The first
find was in the. middle, of .the bench
bn claim No... 11 by Joe Ealey and
Joe- Botellio. . The pay . runs, at the.
'rate of S3JM) to - $.1.50 per square
foot. By all indications it will be
larger- than the Livengood> strike of
some years back.
There is real activity among "pros
pectors staking and getting- ready- to.
"sink holes and c^oss -cutting. A. big
god yield is expected* Henry John
ston and. Joe Ealey .are now-moving
in a prospect boiler. It. will take
lots of time for moving machinery
*dn account of the deep snow.
DREDGING FIRM BUSY OV
THE LOWE» Kl'SKoKWIM
Repairs, so extensive that they aD
r. jSt constitute rebuilding have been
made to one of. the two dredges of
the New York Alaska Dredging.
Company in the lower Kuskokwim.
Rivee district, according to recent *e
ports. It is also reported the. com
pany is contemplating a big expan
sion program.
The dredge upon which work was
done was enlarged and now is pro
vided with buckets of five feet ca
pacity. A crew of around a. doxen
men have, been employed all winter
in moving the base camp to a new -
site six miles distant and it is
thought this work is still going for
ward; .
The company has acquired big
areas of ground on the Tuluksak
River and. has a loag period of. ac
tivitytahead of it. Bear Creek was.
"the original scene of., operations.
ASKS. THAT TOLL BE LIFTED
Rep. Andrew .Kerland of E&irbanlUJ
introduced a bill in-the Alaska Legis
lature. Mondays asking, for the abol
ishment of the freight toll- on the
Richardson highway,; This toll was
placed on the road two yeans ago at
the instigation of Col. QL F. Ohisoc,
general manager of thg'Abwfca Rad
road, because, he charged, that in»
.increasing traffic year: by year cut in
to the railroad business.
TO" PROSPECT CARIBOU CREEK
Ground on Caribou Creek, about 95
miles from Fairbanks, wfll be pros
pected by Mike Ere eg 'this spring.
Representing a group of ilew» York,
and California men who have Cari
bou Cifeek under option, he srilf move
a Keystone drill to the creek, by
tractor as soon as- possible.*
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COLONISTS NOW
HAVE TO MAKE
THEIR OWN WAY
To colonists on the Matarruska
valley project, the Corpoation, which
is directing the undertaking, paid
♦5.SM tn ..cash February 1 on the new
work system. Under this system,
colonists are paid fcr the primary
settlement work they, do on. their
farms, the remuneration being ♦IS
-an acre for clearing brush, $20 an
acre for cutting trees and removing
logs, $400 for constructing a barn,
and $56 for'building a poultry house.
Uader the new plan, the colony’s
trading post will give no credit for
food or other subsistence supplies,
credit accounts oeing limited to pur
chases of building materials, farm
machinery, livestock and feed.
“Bingles,” a token money, have
^heretofore been given by the Cor
poration to the colonist families,
the number of bingles being depend
ent on tbe-number of persons in the
"family, and these, “bingles” were
good- at the trading post for food
and other subsistence supplies.
Under the cash-far work system,
the- colonists will be eneouraged to
improve their farms with buildings
and. to bring the land into production.
At the trading post February 1,
the day the $5,500 was distibuted
among the. colonists under the work
plan, sales totaled $1,183, about, two
thirds of the. sales at the beginning of
a month when “bingles” were used.
The February sales indicate, it is be
lieved.. the > colonists are counting
their pennies, v. herons “bingles” made
less of are impression on them.
It isc believed- that most of .the col
onists favor the. new work!, plan.
Some of themsay vit, shank: d have
been started 2U. months ago. Mana
ger Ross L. Sheely, in commenting
on the new work plan, said.
“The system as now inaugurated
makes the colonists independents se
more of them wiil work their farms.
These who do not intend to work will
not have food or dothnig furnished
them and longer. They will have to
hit the baH or -get out;”
The trading post is now operated
by the Matanuska. Valley Farmers
Cooperative Association through the
Alaska Rural Rehabilitation. Corpor
ation as agent. . Under -this ’plan, the
DuRand’s Gafe
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FLAT. ALASKA
colonists will receive dividends fron
business done with the trading post
All colonists and most of the old
time settlers in the Matanuska Val
ley are expected to join the cooper
ative trading post.
A. A. Shonbeck, pioneer business
man of Anchorage, who for many
has owned and operated a farm
in the Matanuska Valley, and who u
one of the original advocates of the
colony proposes that a game pre
serve be created of game land th»
is accessible to the colonists. He de
clares the colonists and other person
hunting in the region have already
made inroads into its wild life.
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