Alaska Notes
Gathered Prom .Territorial
... Exchanges.
Thai fejjdv. '. of V William- Alexander
I better* known.. as “Gap” Alexander
was foun din. his home on Gardei
Island, Fairbanks, a fa wweeks ago
Deaths .which was due to natura
4. causes,.had apparently occurred somi
. time. the. day before.
Alexander.was.anujidtimer in thi
. .country, and .had been employed b;
i-.the JVEt Co. .since the inception o
that company’s activities at Fair
^ banks.. He was also1 well known ii
u Iditarpdv -where he; was a partner o
. Robert Lowrie and with whom hi
i. later..prospected and mined in th<
Tolstoi section. He was also a part
. ner-.at .one time with James Wilson
_ now mining at Cripple.
teachers, raided a blue iox tarm 01
- Baird Island, .in the vicinity of Chi
<,. cagoff, recently, and made away wit!
.. 20 .animals, according to a letter re
i ceived.,by-.the Alaska Game Commis
: sion. from. C. L. Durgen, owner an<
operator. There* was no clue to th
Identity, of -th$ .poachers.
Durgen said all the stolen animal
were marked w.ith one-quarter incl
. round heles-in-both ears. A patch o
.. fur. four inches square was als<
.. shaved -off - each .side of the foxes
This . is. the. fourth time in as man;
years that the Durgen ranch has suf
. fered losses from the operations o
. poachers.
While this is the first authentic re
port of such looses this year, th<
v Commission -has i. heard rumors o
other-raids, according to H. W. Ter
.. hune, erecutive secretary of the Com
. mission.. From, these it seemed ap
_ parent, that, the poachers were oper
. ating ratner extensively in the Ic;
... Straits district.
Col, Otto F. Ohlson, general man
. ager of the Alaska Railroad, state
i. that, the-.new raver boat to be oper
. ated by the railroad on Yukon water
\ vrays will-be ready for service in thi
season .of -1937. The vessel will bi
.. assembled.at iNenana, where all abovi
. dock construction will be made. Thi
, parts and equipment to come fron
. the States .will all have arrived at thi
. river terminus in August.
Nenana suffered the loss of one o
r. its imst buildings a few weeks ag<
v when-the-Presbyterian church am
manse were virtually destroyed b;
, fire.
Rev. E.. A. McIntosh, who is con
. nected with. the Episcopal mission
was making hit home temporarily ii
. the PreBhyterian mission, and it wa
. he who discovered the fire, the kit
. chen .beipg . ia. fiames when first seei
Pioneer
Shop —
■Blacksmith,
-• Machine and
; alt kinds of
- Sheet Metal
vWork
■Safetys
Stoves
ROBERT LOWR1E
’ Proprietor
t
by him. The manse and the church
were really one building, and the fire
spread rapidly fro mone to the other,
so rapidly, in fact, that the only ar
j tides saved were the pianos, onehav
i ing been rescued from the manse
1 study and the other from the church.
' The fire was discovered at about
’ 3:30 o’clock, and there was prompt
’ response by the hose brigade and
other townspeople, but by the time
* they reached the scene the flames
had gained such headway that they
could not be checked readily.
Grace Presbyterian Church was
built during the boqm days of Ne
, i.anlrand was one of the finest struc
ture sin the city, occupying a prod
inent corner in the residential dis
* trict.
’ PIONEERS OBJECT TO MAKING
i; EAGLE THE PET OF CONGRESS
i Anchorage Pioneers, who fee lthat
i they know more about the habits of
1 the American eagle than do members
of Congress, are protesting against
the proposal to put the eagle on thp
protected list in Alaska, and the fol
I lowing resolution was recently adopt
^ ed by the igloo:
“Whereas, there is now pending in
Congress a bill to prohibit the killing
of the American eagle in continental
^ United States and the territorial po s
! sessions thereof, being S. 2908, and
j “Whereas, the Legislature of the
' | Territory of Alaska has placed a
| bounty of $1 per head for the de
f! struction of the eagle in Alaska; and
“Whereas the eagle is a predatory
bird which lives exclusively on the
wild lue—mink, marten, ermine,
j muskrat, ptarmigan, ducks, geese,
and the young of sheep, goats, fox
and other wild animals; and kins
whenever opportunity offers, not only
for food but alsq for the mere desire
r of killing; and
“Whereas it is estimated that the
amount of fur-bearing animals de
- stroyed by one eagle during the year
5 is greater than that taken by a trap
- per during the trapping season; and
“Whereas a continuous and persist
5 ent propaganda is promoted by cer
; fain Audubon societies, nature lover,
* and visionary dreamers living remote
» from Alaska, ana naving no interest
i in the Territory or those who are un
; dertaking its development, to restrict
the'use for food and the taking for
fur of the wild i»fe of Alaska by the
: inhabitants of the Territory; al
> though sanction is given to sportsmen
I: and pleasure seekers to come into the
7 Territory and take trophies of big
game, irrespective of its use for food,
■ and to kill wild fowl and small game
> for pleasure; and
••Whereas th epnncipie upon which
3 the federal game law for Alaska is
based makes it necessary for the resi
1 dent of the Territory, whenever he
desires to take game for food, or fur
for profit, to find some special pro
vision in the la wvhich specifically
covers the conditions as to time,
place, occasion and method of taking,
otherwise the taking is made illegal;
and
“Whereas the law is not approved
by the people of Alaska, and is espe
cially designed t opromote a system
of ‘bootlegging’ in Alaska furs, which
is urged by impractical theorists as a
need for more restrictions .and more
game wardens; and
“Whereas the people of Alaska are
looking forward to the time when the
fertile valleys of the Territory will be
fillew with domestic sheep and cattle,
and the hlls and northern steppes will
pasture vast herds of domestic rein
deer; and the mink, marten and fox
will be pen-bred; and the wild ani
mals and the predatory birds and
beasts will be confined in, panks and
zoological gardens; and
“Whereas the people: who are now
trying to keep Alaska, as a . federal
game preserve, and have », defeated
the Territory'4.0 the bear, <eagle and
wolverine, have no interest in the de
velopment of 'the vast mineral and
agricultural, resources Of, the. Terri
tory, and, do not know that alarge |
part of Alaska has.a milder and more j
equable climate than the great wheat,
raising States alone the Canadian
border; and
“Whereas the prospector, miner,,
settler and homo-builder in Alaska
knows the value of wild-life as a
means to the development of the Ter- j
ritory, and is more interested in its
preservation as a necessary contribu
tion to such development, the Audu
bon society and amateur adventurers
in unknown fields; and y
“Whereas the peope residing-in the
United States have no monopoly on
the desir eto preserve the wild life of
the Territory, so far as may he cam-;
putable with continued residence by t
those now residing in the Territory;
and the eagle has been determined so
destructive to this wild life that a
bounty has been provided for its de
, struction by the law-making body of
j the Territory;
' “Therefore be it resolved, by Igloo
No. 15 Pioneers of Alaska of Anchor
age, Alaska, that we do hereby pro
test against the passage of any law
by Congress which is designed to
perpetuate the American eagle in
Alaska; and do hereby proclaim our
continued faith in the American dol
lar and our admiration Tor the em
blems engraved thereon even though
the menacing shadow of the eagle's
wing shall cease to darken our fair
land.”
GEOLOGY OF THE EAGLE
i CIRCLE DISTRICT, ALASKA
WASHINGTON.—The Interior De^
partment announces the issue of a re
port on the Eagle-Circle district of
Alaska, by J. B. Mertle Jr. This re
port, published as Geological Survey
916, may be obtained from the Super
intendent of Documents, Government
Printing Office, Washington, D. C.,
for 50 cents. It contains a recon
! naissance map showing the geology
1 of the part of the district south of
fhe Yukon river.
The Eagle-Circle district comprises
an area of about 10,000 square miles
in east-central Alaska, of which the
southwestern three-fifths is described.
Geographically, this area is the con
necting link between the Fortymile
mining district, to the southeast, and
the Circle mining district, to the
northwest.
This region has inteersted pros
pectors and geologists for many
years. Lying between two important
centers of mining, it has naturally
been scanned exclusively by prospect
ors and miners since the early ’90s
No large lodes or placers have yet
been discovered in the Eagle-Circle
district, but several smaller placer
{deposits have been mined for many
years, and in the aggregate consider- x
able gold has been recovered. The
genesis of these deposits is discussed
in some detail in this bulletin, and
consideration is also given to the
| larger problem of discovering nbw
i deposits in this and neighboring
j areas. In addition to metalliferous
j deposits, another interesting mineral
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TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN NENANA AND FLAT
Miles
Nenana .....— 00
Tavern Roadhouse.. 17 Mi
Knight’s Roadhouse - 23%
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse-68 ..
Diamond Roadhouse.—.76
Roosevelt .... 89
Lake Minchmmina...116
Trappers Cabin.... 132
Lone Star Roadhouse . 168
Telida Roadhouse.. 168%
Slow Fork Roadhouse..187
East Fork Roadhouse--) 806
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse — 827%
Big River Roadhouse.—.241
McGrath .288
Takotna .... 280
fllVAMMIvS »»•««—*** ----------- WWW
Brown Creek shelter cabin-818
Frit* shelter cabin.. 388
First Chance shelter eabin — 846
Sehermeyer R. H... 860
Iditared_____876
Flat _____884
Benanzsa sheler eabin, 12 miles ;
Crooked Creek shelter cabin, M <
miles from Bonanza
. from Flak.
Bill Goss’ Roadhouse
Ophir-.......
McCafferty__
291
806
806
deposit of possible value in the future
is oil shale, which is found along the
Yukon river near Nation.
. To. the geologist the district is of
more.-than passing interest because
of the completeness of its geologic
section- Sedimentary rocks of every
period, except the Jurassic are found
here, as well as an extensive pre
Cambrian sequence; and igneous
rocks of several ages have also been
recognized. This, moreover, is the
only area in Alaska where Cambrian
rocks-have yet been definitely identi
fled. The northeastern two-fifths o'
the district, as yet undescribed except
along the Yukon river, is particularly
interesting geologically, because ge
ologic terrane-; which south of the
Yukon are gradually metamorphosed
occur here in a little altered eondi
on. The present report is one of
the reconnaissance type and treats
these geologic features in a general
ized manner, recording all available
structural and stratigraph ical data
but relegating to the future numer
ous unsolved problems.
. Babeesch
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