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Entered a= w-rona-eiass matter Au
Jarust 2rih. U23, at the postofiee at
Tokotna. Ala-ka, under the Act of
-March 3,
Takotna. Alaska, October 2. 1926.
OI K BARGAIN f> ALASKA.
< S- v arc Gateway.»
V he- > v.a . -ought -even million
‘ iollar- a jrtr of alleged icebergs in
Ala ska. the : .: ctiase was almost de
feated cr, the g rourid that the country
would be good only for its furs. That
la- ; r -ved fue. The f ur trade has
■ tiu h. rr: re t.oar ;>aid the cose of the
'wh it Territory.
But before we had owned the coun
*try very : - we found that the fish
were wcrtr r. re than the furs.
it -a.: that the statements of
i fishermen . ->-t ne. judged by a special
• rode of eth on which -laymen art
not - o-d t.t have an opinion. We
: -hali i.ot venture to say, therefore.
• whether the assertion that some
Ala.-ka rive■ -'-not be navigated fae
‘ tau-e ti» p.-..tellers of steamer- will
: tot turn •>.* ’ asses of salatvn that
til: tnerr.. . t taken literally or in
• a V. altomar -ease. Anyway we know
•-.‘hat the Ala ,• a fisheries are -er.«r
J nuUhi! *-<uiiiiti .
out alter ■ itamea that it- -on we
i began to .m-v-ver that the gold of
-Alaska wa.- worth more then the fisb
‘ ries. The u .nes already yield more
‘ -■very yu»: we pah! Ru.-.la for
‘‘he whole territory, and it ss likely
• that before iong they will prove richer
ithan the ^ for which Rcglar.d
i poured rt her ad in .South Africa.
And even that not all: It is said
now that Alaska . r ang to be a good
iagricultural count:;.. ar.d that it will
teasily accommodate a million people.
' That -terns unnatural. .'.at a study of
'•'.he climatic con '. ; - will show you
that it is not so at-urd after all. The
: average January temperature of
1 Sitka is about the same a that of
• Southern Iowa. Central Illinois, and
Mason and Dixon line. The southern
part of the mainlar. : of Alaska has
• the sam etemperature in January as
-Northern Minna .La. Wisconsin and
-Northern Ontario and Quebec.
The winter iso thermals dip down
ward so sharply that the Alaskan cli
imate throughout . ; - add a.; that in
‘Canadian region.- a-'.era! degrees far
•ther south.
On the map, Alaska seems to cor
respond to the British.Northwest Ter
iritories bordering on the Arctic and
Hudson’.- Bay, but climatically, in
winter, it correspond- to Athabasca,
British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatche
wan, Manitoba, Ontario. Quebec and
• our Northern Central States.
Considering that the Territory is
nearly three tiir.es as large as France
. or the German empire, it looks as if
Seward got a pretty fair bargain for
h:? seven million two hundred thou
sand dollars.
A QUEER FUND .MADE BY
TWO ELDORADO MINERS
(Fairbanks News-Miner.)
There were tnree or four feet of
mud and water that James Cosgrove
and Art Kill rad to clean out of their
tK -foot shaft r. Big Eldorado before
they could star* sinking again. So,
la-: Friday morning, they approached
the haft wiu the tools that are or
t.j.&rily necessary for mining work.
H .U elected *. - down in the bucket,
and 3 ut ot .. .dicker to protect him
fr» m the dripping w ater. Cos
gr e. a: ::.e v ir.diass, saw his part
iJir disappearing into the blackness
a:.: . . : play out the cable.
The . u.ke: finally reached the bottom
f the shaft, and Cosgrove settled
• wa.: f jr the first ioad of mud.
when the bei. rang once, sharply, im
periously. even alarmingly. It was
not the usual .-.gaal; it was too soon
: - the utke: : be loaded, and. won
aertr.gly, Cosgrove started to work
the windlass.
Lp came -nnl to the surface—a
changec Hill, whose usually calm
man rear had u:x2 strangely shattered.
“Gi . me a: axe and J'll go down and
j-ili 1 .m. he creed; ‘‘give mt an axe
arid let a.r go sown aga;n."
There v. a.~ a mystery here, Cosgrove
rei-T.zec. proof of it was had not
r.iy hy ears but also by his eyes.
H.d had .fcguE his ride in a slicker.
h.tf. a'., -gh not natty, was entire
ly preservar le. he returned with the
collar intact, '.-at the rest hanging
loosely :r. shreds somewhat in the
general t.T a Spanish shawl.
li.d v - -- J eager to get an axe
and g d gwt again, and Cosgrove.
eve:, more a.ous to find out what
estrained him. Hill
nd told of the strange
r.app*-r. :te deserted shaft.
Tr . . up to the time the
-. •>;: la . had not been more ex-j
.:. ' the: . cal. Hi- eves had be-i
come acta a: ,ed tot he darkness and :
revealed .ti ng more than dripping
water an/; the t re walls. With a
slight jar the tucket hit the bottom 1
of the shaft -ant Hill reached for his j
t> . is. uddenly an urtseen hand j
reached oat of the iarkness and cuffed I
him soundly. H.ii turned, and turned,
'jjickly, just in \ ,-se to see two legs;
embrace him anc behind the rest the
body of a oig br ..r. bear. The bear
had his will and legs -encircled the
man even as Hill despairingly reached
: >r the bell rope The slicker col
laps'd. the bucke: .tarted up, and two?
bright eyes stare: longingly after it.
Cosgrove -submitted a plan for the
securing of a rifl* -»nd subsequent an
nihilation of the • east, which, al
though it would not bring Hill the
measure of revenge that an axe might,
promised more fruitful results.
They went to their cabin and got a
30-40, and Hill started down the shaft
again, this time at a much slower
peed. When he reached a point where
he had a good view of the bear he
signaled for a stop, and in the man
ner of a hunter -hooting tigers from
an elephant, opened fire. A few shots
and the light shining from the bright
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eyes on the floor merged into the sur
rounding darkness. The bear was
dead. Hill loaded his body into the
bucket and took it to the top. The
men, after making an examination,
found that when the bear slipped and
fell into the shaft the mud had acted
as a cushion and that not a bone had
been broken. It could not have been
in the hole long, for it was still fat
and, as Hill will testify, full of fight.
PRESS SQUIBS.
In Europe they’re putting peace on
a war basis.—Toledo Blade.
Public officials are sworn first in
and then cussed out.— Wall Street
•'ournal.
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It took a Constitutional amendment
i to put the jac in applejack.—New;
Haven Register.
France keeps looking for recipes
when what she wants is a receipt.—
American Lumberman.
Chicago plans the highest twin
towers in toe world. ■ As isles of safe
ty ?—New York Evening Post.
New York Pedestrians’ Association
functions about the same strength as
the Bartenders’ Union of America.—
Florida Timesc-Union
Many a suit guaranteed to near
like iron does so by eventually becom
ing rusty.—Christian Science Mon [
itor.
A military expert predicts that the
next war will be fought by wireless.
Prom what we heard the other night
we had the impression that it had
started.—Punch.
The soviet government has relaxed
the rule against foreign gold prospect
ors. You have to let a fellow find it
before you can take it awey from hhn.
—American Lumberman.
When the mechanical engineers
produce a perfect automobile perhaps
i somebody will turn his attention to
; the problem of making pedestrans
faster and more durable.—Seattle
Times.
One reason so many poets are poor 1
is that there are so many poor poets.
—Florence Herald.
As a last resort, the farmer can go !
to town, where his sons and his profits
went.—New Hawn Register. A
Driving with one hand causes most |
of the accidents. There is one thing
to remember about an auto, and that
is that you cannot tie the reins around t
the whip-socket.—American Lumber- -
man.
!
The Government of Bermuda are j
offering a prize for the best poem de- ’
scriptive of the advantages O'f that
island. The great trouble seems to be
in finding a rime to “bootlegger.^—
—Punch.
President Coolidge has prohibited
the importation into this country of ■
revolvers that unfairly simulate!
weapons of American design, and
from now on the public will have the ;
satisfaction of knowing that it is
being shot up with firearms of unim
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