OTTlSSNATfONAt HIGHWAY
TO DINK LAND^OF 'MIDNIGHT
SUN AND1 SOUTHERN CROSS
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f with lakes and lovely streams that
i teem with trout- Further north is
i Hazelton, where Still stand the gro
» tesque totems of an ancient savage
1 tribe. Fifty miles beyond Hazelton
the existing road ends and it is. here
that the proposed construction is to
> begin. Our imaginary motoring now
takes us through a land that is rich
with fields of waving grain and along
the old Telegraph Trail, a line of his
toric interest and significance, as it
. marks the path of those vlalant pio
neers who attempted in the late ’6$s
to build a telegraph to, Asia and
thence across to Europe, and were
eniy defeated in their purpose by the
r success of the Great Eastern in lay
ing the Atlantic cable. Twelve hun
• dred miles from Seattle we come to
Telegraph creek on the Stikine river,
the head of navigation from the
« ocean, .and a thriving outpost, peo
pled with ’hunters, traders and trap
pers. We are now in the northland
and its magic weaves a spell of mys
tery. Further along the highway is
. Atlin, on beautiful Lake Atilt, one, of
.the principal sources of the mighty
Yukon reached by river steamer from
Whitehorse. Again we traverse a
. road that is at present constructed,
j 'nnd shortly arrive at beautiful Lake
Kluane in awesome mountnain set
ting, 1G$$ miles by our speedometer
. from .Seattle.
DUl l IU.W, JiCIJlttUS, UUU1C3 Li«* must
wonderful part of our imaginary mo
torlog. We are in a country that is
unexplored by the wandering.-trapper.
We follow the Xanana river until our
; new highway joins the Richardson
highway 90 miles from.' Fairbanks.
Along this stretch of highway we get
; m glimpse of four of the tallest peaks
on the North American continent.
For a short distance we get a mag
nificent view of Mount McKinley’s
hoary peak, 20,300 feet in the air.
Mount Wrangell,: 14,005 feet; Mount
Llnckbur, 16,140 feet, and Mount
Drum, 12,002 feet, are other notable
peaks that come into the 'way' of our
gaze. Here is the hunter’s paradise.
Streams are alive with flashing trout,
' while moose, caribou and bear abound
in great numbers in nthe birch cov
- ered mountains. It is primitive
country and words cannot describe its
grandeur. The days are longer and
« extended twilight ..allows us plenty of
time to cover greart distances. At last
we arrive at Fairbanks, the ultimate
goal of all travelers in Alaska.
No trip would be compete without
■ a visit to this famous old mining
camp, and it truly deserves the name
of “Alaska’s golden heart.” It is the
terminus of the Alaska Railroad, the
Richardson highway and the Yukon
highway. Although it still shows
marks of the early mining camp ac
tivities, the many modern structures
and other improvements^ clearly show
the present-day progress. While we
are in Fairbanks we decide that we
are going to see all that there is. to
see, so we spend a day driving to
Circle City, about 125 m.ias beyond,
and the farthest pointn orth it is
possible to drive. On on- return we
will probably drive over t ie Richard
son highway to historic o'd Valdez of
Spanish discovery. It wa here in the
days of *98 that many a prospector
loaded his dog team ami mushed the
trails to the interior.
There are many thin;-: i o see along
the 371 miles of the Rir.iirdsen high
way. In Keystone ca>v n, 13 miles
from Valdez, we recall that it was
here in which the fight for the right
of-way for “The Iron. Trail” was
waged. Wortman Reotihouse, first
stop of tjie mushers in the old days,
is now deserted and leaves little evi
dence to tell its stirring story. Fur
ther on is Dead Horse gulch, where
the skeletons of the ;iack animals
that could not batt\: their tired
bodies against the elements still lie.
• But to attempt to describe all of the
. historic and scenic points of interest
v would take columns.
..;And so it ia-thia.iBfozaat.umal high
way that welook to as iy, dream that is
to come true. The difficulty is in the
financing. Means must he found
whereby our government can assist
financially. Alaska gets road funds
from three different sources—from
local taxes, direct federal .^appropria
tion, and from auto licenses, 65 per
cent of the latter going back to Alas
ka. But a great part of the work
iiiurf' be through the Yukon Tern
tory, a district with limited funds
available or possible. The Seattle
Chamber of Commerce, through its
Washington correspondent, Jack. Un
' derwood, is contacting all government
departmentts ooneerned. Fairbanks
has organized the International
Highway Association and has created
a fund. The Alaska Road Commis
sion and the British government .aTe
working hand in hand on the develop
ment of the project. This fall an
aerial survey of the entire route will'
be made.
While the successful development
, of this highway is of prime import
• ance, it has a greater significance
with regard to a plan that will link
the two Americas with a highway
1 14,000 miles long extending from
Valparaiso to Fairbanks. When that
day comes the land of the midnight
' sun will be linked .with the land of
southern cross.
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During the academic year 1929
i 1930 the faculty of the Alaska Agri
cultural College and School of Mines
j will consist of eighteen professors
i and instructors. Fifteen educational
i institutions of high standing are rep
resented: Bucknell University, Has
ting* College, Kansas State Agricul
tural -College, Lafayette College,
Northwestern State Teachers College
of Oklahoma, Pennsylvania State
College, South Dakota .‘School of
Mines,. Texas State College for
Women.- Unniversity of California,
University, of Cincinnati,, University
of Illinois,-University of Minnesota
University of Oregon, University of;
Washington, and University of Wis
consin.
. Unreasonable.
Raymond Qrteig, donor of theMnd
bergh trans-Atlantic prize, said, at a
farewell dinner in Naw York
“They who oppose governmental
regulation of big business because the
! governmeht has made ,a few mistakes
' are as unreasonable as the man; who
wanted to do away with oameras on
account of the pictures that were
taken by his young son.
“This man’s young son got a cam
era for his birthday, and in a: week
the neighborhood was deluged'<with
| snapshots of Deacon Dumpling mak
ing home brew in his cellar, .? young
Smarte m- his underwear pressing a
pair of trousers, old Crane trying to
steal a kiss from his pretty hired
girl, Mrs. Bute putting on her false
| front before the glass, Bella Bute
| spooning, with the grocer, a married
! man, the .Rev. Stiggins drinking a
i bottle of beer, and Wells, the milk
! man, filling a long ro wof milk cane
at the pump. ”
From Bad to Worse,
Senator Heflin of Alabama was
talking about a corrupt ^millionaire.
“He fled to South America,” said
the Senator. “Of course that has done
I him .more har mthan good. When be
comes back—gloryl
“If we set out on a corrupt course
the way always leads' from bad to
| worse, anyway.
| “Two boys were, carrying -Home a
pitcher of milk.
“ ‘Oh, gosh,’ said the Smaller boy,
as he wiped his mduth with his sleeve,
‘we’e drunk too iribch. erf it. Wot’ll
, we do?’
“Do? Haw, haw, 'haw! That’s
; easy,’ laughed the .larger boy.
j ‘We’ll bust the piteherT’ *
'Society News.
Mrsi. Suds—I’hear you’re engaged.
Who ifi the happy man?
Miss Kettles—It ain’t a man; it’s a
woman that’s happy. Mrs. Bullion
has-engaged .me as cook.
- NOTICE OP FORFEITURE. j
To John Bernard add Gus Gunderson, J
their heirs, successors or assigns:
You, and ■■each at you.', are. hereby
notified that 1, the undersigned, your;
co-owner, have expended in labor and
improvements the sum of not less j
than one hundred dolsrs for the; year
ending June-30 -1929, upon the Novi
kaket placer mining claim, Long!
creek, Nulato recording precinct,
Fourth Division, Territory of Alaska,
in order to hold said claim under the
provisions of Section 2324 of the Re
vised Statutes of the United States
and the amendments therett concern-;
ing annual labor upon mining claims
being the amount required to-' hold
said mining claim for th« period end
ing- June 30, 1929. ,
And if, within ninety days? after
the publication of this notice, you fail \
or refuse to contribute your propor
tion of said expenditure, as well as
the cost of recording the same, ahd
.the.costs of Ahis advertisement, your,
interest in said claim will become the
priperty of the undersigned, your co
owner, who has made the lequired
expenditures under the terms of safci
Section .2324 of the Revised-Statutes \
of the United States. ■ •
ROBERT DEACON,
Co-owner.
First pub. Oct. 26; last Jan. 25, 1930.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In the Probate Court at Ruby, Nulats
Precinct, Fourth Division, Ter
ritory of Alaska, before William
N. Growden, United States com
missioner, und ex-officio probate |
judge. ,
In the matter of the estate of Ed;
SSchdatter, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un-!
dersigned has been duly appointed'I
administrator of the estate of Ed |
Schlatter, deceased.
All persons having claims against j
said estate are required to present
them, duly verified, with proper!
vouchers attached, to the under
signed. at my residence in Ruby,1
Alaska, within six (6) months from
the date of this notice.
,r 'Dated .Ruby, Alaska, Oct. 25, 1929
ALBERT VERHONIK,
Administrator. !
JOHN W.. DUNN,
Attorney for Administrator. |
First pub: Oct. 26.
-1
NOTreE OF FORFEITURE. )
To Peter Davey/his beirs, successors;
and assigns:
You, and each of you, are hereby
^notified -that I, the undersigned, your,
co-owner, have expended in labor and!
improvements the sum of not lessj
-than one hundred dollars for ' thei
.years 1921, 1922, 1923,' *024, 1926, j
1926, 1927, 1928 and 1929 upon placer1
mining claim No. 3 Above Discovery j
on Esperanto creek, a tributary of
Madison creek, in the Innoko Mining
and Recording Precinct, Fourth divi
sion, Territory of Alaska, in order to
hold said claim under the provisions
of Section 2324 of the Revised Stat-j
utes of the United Staes and the
amendments thereto concerning an
nual labor upon mining claims, being
the amount required to hold said min
ing claim for the period June 80,
1930.
And if, within ninety days after the
publication of this notice, you fail or1
refuse to contribute your proportion
of said expenditure, .as well as the
cost of recording the same, and the
costs of this advertisement, your in
terest in said claim will become the
property of the undersigned, your co
owner, who has made the required
expenditures under the terms of said
Section 2324 of the Revised Statutes
of the United States.
JOHN KRIEGER,
Co-Owner.
First pub. Oct. 26; last Jsn. 25, 1930.
TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN NJEN AN A AND FLAT
Nenana .
Tavern Roadhouse .
Knight’s Roadhouse .
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouae
Diamond Roadhouse.
Roosevelt
MileB
. 00
. 17%
.... 23Ya
... 58 ,.
. 76
.... 89
Lake Minchumina . 115
Trappers’ Cabin . 132
Lone Star Roadhouse . 150
Telida Roadhouse . 169 %
Slow Fork Roadhouse . 187
East Fork Roadhouse .206
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse . 227%
Big River Roadhouse ...241
McGrath . 263
Takotna . 280
Bill Goss’ Roadhouae . £91
Ophir ..... 300
McCafferty ..806
Brown Oieek shelter cabin ..818
Fritz shelter cabin . 3S3
First Chance shelter cabin . 346
Schermeyer R.: H. 360
Iditarod ... 376
Flat . 384
Bonanzza shelor cabin, 12 miles
Crooked Creek shelter ..-cabin, 19
miles from Bonanza
— from Elat.
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Furs Bought and Sold Clothing
All Kinds of Nice Fresh Groceries and Fruits
Canned Goods of All Kinds Bed& And Bedding
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r best of Meals and Rooms
Where Everything Is Homelike and
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