A. R. C. PROGRAM FOR THIS
YEAR IS. ANNOUNCED
Road work in the Territory under
the- Alaska Road Commission in co
operation with the Territorial Board
of -Road Commissioners will be car
ried on during the forthcoming sea
son under a program which has just
been completed by the two commis
sions in conference with the district
superintendents, it was announced at
Juneau by Major Malcolm Elliott,
president.
The funds available are as follows:
Balance old funds on hand $ 100,000
Alaska fund . 125,000
New Fed. appropriation . 825,000
Lowell creek . 125,000
Territorial and local contri
butions . 179.000
Authorization from National
Park ervice for McKinley
Park . 60,000
$1,414,000
‘Much .construction will be done in
-h<* Fairbanks, Chitina and South
western districts, These projects con-'
sist *if the completion, of the Yukon j
Highway, which.it is expected will be
opened to through traffic to Circle,
this year, improvement of the Strel-1
na-Kotsina trail, and some work on [
ihe. Gulkana-Christochina project.
“All other projects will receive
needed maintenance and the maxi
mum possible improvement where ur
gently necessary
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District Work
“In the Southeastern District i
These projects include the roads •• in
the: Haines area, the fjtiarwberry
Point system, the National Monument
and Cemetery roads and trails in the
Eagle section.
“In the Valdez district work will.
Be done on the Richardson Highway
and Mineral creek road-i-Mr,£S.',-H.
Huddleston is the district superin
tendent.
“The Fairbanks district includes,
in addition to a portion of the 164
mile Circle road, now'-known as the
Vukon Highway,, various local roads
in the vicinit yof Fairbanks, the
Brooks Tram, winter sled .-road .from
Caro to Chandler,-and the Long-Poor
man road-. All of these will he given
necessary maintenance anl: such im
provement as is practicable. Mr.
Hawley W. Sterling is the superinten
dent in locif -charge.
“In the Anchorage district annual
maintenance and improvement will, he
given the Willow Creek Mines roads,.
Kodiak farm roads, and Homer farm
roads, and McKinley Park, roads. The
Willow Creek Mine roads will be ex
tended as far as practicable. Annual
maintenance will be. given, the An
chorage Loop, Matanuska. valley
roads and all other roads and trails
in the district. The McKinley Park
road will be extended to Sable Pass
| The work, is under the charge of Mr.
' M. C. Edmunds, superintendent,
j ‘"The Kuskokwim district trails and
roads which will he improved to.some
L-extent are those in the vicinity of Ta
. kotna, IdiLarod, Bear creek and Dil
I lingham. All other roads and trails
! in the district will be maintained. Mr:
! Carl Lottsfeldt is the superintendent
in local c harge.
“In the Nome district annual main
[ tenance will be given to all roads and.
( trails,., including the Nome-Shelton
| trail. The Council and Casa de Paga
1 roads will be given additional im
provement. Mr. Ross J. Kinney is in
(charge of work-in the Nome district.
! “The Alaska Road Commission will
'.also do considerable work on aviation
! fields in co-operatinon with the Ter
( ritory. The schedule for this work is
not yet completed.
“Congress has appropriated $100,t
000 for the flood protection work on
Lowell crerk, adjacent to Seward.
The Legislature has appropriated
I $10,000 for this work and local in
j terests will he required to contribute
i $15,000 additional before work can be
| commenced. It is expected that the,
1 execution of this work will be turned
over to the Alaska Road Commission I
' Preliminary plans for the work are
in progress and it is hoped that the
flood protection work can be finished
during the present y-iar.”
MISCELLANEOUS FACTS
REGARDING FORESTRY j
The . great American game of base
ball uses its share of timber: White
ash is now the sole possessor of. the i
bat market: One well known bat con-1
cern has an immense factory in Chi-j
cago, with a capacity of 3,000 bats a'
day, They maintain a lumber stock
.sufficient to make 900,000 bats. Thej
wood used for bats must be air-dried
for two years before being turned.
, Wood pulp is invading the field j
until recently held by the cotton lint-!
ers for making the little cylindrical!
rolls or “dams” which dentists place
In the mouths of patients. The new -
dams are made of. very soft paper j
rolled to the desired form and show j
verying degrees of absorptive power.'
Dentists state that they are prefer-:
able to cotton dams because they may !
be broken to desired lengths, give a
smoother surface, and are free from
the fuzz of the old-style dams which!
frequently became entangled in thej
revolving drills.
A double-action back-pack water
pump with 5 gallons capacity js the 1
:best equipment for putting out spot j
fires in slash. This conclusion is the |
result of tests with six kinds of fire
extinguishers, all chemical except the
back-paek pump, conducted by I. E.
Kotok, director of, the California For
est Experiment Station, on the Stan
islaus National Forest. None of the
chemical extinguishers tried. had
more than a one-minute run of nia*
terial, while it was found that the
water, pump could be used twenty
minutes without refilling.
i More than 1,000,00(1 linear feet of
; pine piling was used in closing the
Caernarvon gap in the levee below
New Orleans.
Germany has 160 commercial forest,
nurseries with a total area of 3,50C*
acres and an annual production of
more than 1,000,000,000 conifers and
180.000. 000 hardwoods'. The annual
demand for planting stock is approxi
mately 1,500,000,000 conifers and
190.000. 000 hardwoods—enough " to
plant about 500,000 acres.
Railroad fusees, which burn from 5
to 10 minutes, are extensively used
by forest rangers in "the national for
ests of the west for back-firing on 1
large going fires and far winter
brush burning on Government tim
ber-sale areas.
Erosion, due to rushing rain water :
sweeping over the fields of , the j
United States, takes $200,000,000 out
of the pockets of farmers every year,
according to the United States Bu
reau of Soils. .
During the dangerous fire _ season,
camping parties entering the national
forests of California are required to
carry a shovel and ax for each auto -
mobile or pack outfit. Smoking in
the national forests is also prohibited, .
except in camps or at places of hab
itation.
“To control the river is to control
the mountain.” This ancient proverb
was a guiding jfrinciple in the Jap
anese policy of erosion control and
torrent regulation as long ago as!
1683. Since that time reforestation
has been applied extensively through
out Japan as a factor of prime im
portance in the protection of the tre
mendously valuable rice fields of the
empire, and in insuring the perma
nency and full utility of the water
shed resource. The United States can
no longer fail to heed the conserva
tion principle advanced in this old
proverb.
About $666,000,000 is invested in
forestry industry of Canada, accord
ing to an estimate of the Canadian-.
Department of the Interior. Nearly
one-third of this is in lumbering
plants and sawmills, the remainder in
pulp and paper operations. The an-'
nual production from the forests,, in—I
eluding finished products,, is worth’1
about $440,000,000. Sawmills operat—i
ing in the Dominion number more’
than 2,500. The annual cut of lum
ber approximates 4,*4J0 million board j
feet. Spruce leads-in the volume ofj
cut, and- is followed by Douglas fir
and white pine
THOMAS HARPER.
Inquiry has been received for in-!
formation in regard to one Thomas |
Harper, who left Colorado about 1890
for Alaska and is supposed to have
been in the Klondike region. He was
about six feet tall and, if alive, would
be about 63 years old. Any informa
tion relative to Mr. Harper should be
sent to the Governor’s office a.t Ju
neau, Alaska.
i APPOINTMENT OF ADMINIS
TRATOR.
! Know all men that I, VV. T. Vander
j pool, Probate Judge for the Mt. Me
tKinley Precinct, Territory of Alaska,
. have this day appointed H. C. Wal
lick, of Takotna, Alaska, adminis
trator of the estate of Hubade He-j
bert, deceased, and order the said ad
ministrator to sell all personal prop
’ erty at private sale found in the Mt.
JdcKinley Precinct, and to collect all
moneys due the deceased, and submit
the report to the aforesaid W. T.
Vanderpool not later than September
22nct A. D. 1S28.
Given under my hand and official
seal this 22nd day of March, A. D.
1928.
W. T. VANDERPOOL,
IL S. Commissioner and ex
Officio Probate Judge.. I
Christnasa is Over, but don’t forget that the oldtimer, Bert Eidridge,
has plenty of stock left yet.
Babeeseh Moosshide Mitts and Boots
Furs Bought and Sold Clothing
All'Kinds of Nice Fresh Groceries and Fruits
Canned Goods oF All Kinds Beds and Bedding
McGrath
Larson Roadhouse
TakotnaTs Up-to-Date Hostelry
New Dog Houses
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Manager i
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Rough and Dressed Lum
her of All Kinds
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