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gust 29th, 1923, at the postoffice at
Xokotna, Alaska, under the Act of
31 arch 3, 18T9.
Takotna, Alaska. December 13, 1930.
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE TO
PUSH PROJECTS FOR EN
TERTAINMENT OF VISITORS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—Alaska,
tthat once lured the sourdough with
promises of gold, now is luring the
swimmer visitors with promises of
magnificent scenery and opportuni
ties for keen nejoyment. Often, the
sourodugh was disappointed, but the
scenery lover will find all promises
fulfilled even beyond his expecta
tions.
The National Park Service, the cus
todian of several of the most scenic
areas in Alaska, is planning vigor
ously to push developments for the
accommodation of visitors.
Mount McKinley, in the national:
park of that name, is one of the most j
spectacular mountains in the world.;
ft is the highest mountain on the I
North American continent, and in
fact rises higher above its base than
any mountain anywhere. The great
peaks of the Andes and the Hima
layas rise from bases already well up j
in altitudes. McKinley, on the other;
hand, on its north and west sides,
rears its 20,300 feet of height from
a base only 2,500 to 3,000 feet high.
It is the real answer ti the question,
“‘How high is up?”
Roads are being pushed rapidly
into the park area, under the compe
tent supevision of the Alaska Road
Commission, which cooperates fully
National Park Service in this work.
A great highway is planned from the
park entrance, on the Alaska Rail
road, to Mount Eielson, formerly
known as Copper Mountain. Already
43 miles of this highway, eventually
to be 70 miles in length, have been
completed.
Work on the following five miles.
a
along the side of mountain, ha9 nec
essarily been slow and difficult, bu
when completed this section will bi
one of the most scenic, affording th<
motorist an excellent view of Moun
McKinley and the great Muldrov
Gla.
Perhaps the contrasts of Alask:
delight almost as much as its scenery
Last year, with this great moderi
highway under construction, an ai
plane service was introduced as ai
experiment. It proved exceedingly
popular and gave visitors an oppor
tunity to get a close-up view of th<
mountains and their great glaciers
that neve could be obtained in any
other way.
But while these modern means oi
travel care for the summer visitors
the park ranges in thei winte patrol:
to protect the park animals fron
poachers, travel on snowshoes and by
dog team. Last year 40 new individ
ual summer pens for the dogs were
constructed of wire netting, each dog
being allowed a space 10 by 18 feel
with his own sleeping kennel at th(
rear of his pen. It is necessary t(
keep these animals in separate quar
ters, as they becqme restless anc
quarrelsome during the summer wher
not used by the rangers.
Sitka National Monument, another
area under the jurisdiction of the Na
tional Park Service, is at the presenl
time the easiest <>f access, located a:
it is near Juneau and on the mair
steamship line. This little area, i
beautiful natural park, contains some
of the finest existing totem poles of
the Alaska Indians.
The Glacier Bay and Katmai Na
tional Monuments are exceedingly in
teresting areas, the first, as its name
implies, containing great tidewatei
glaciers, and the other a volcanic re
gion. Both are of great scientific in
terest, but neither is yet accessible
to visitors.
HORSE OF ANOTHER COLOR.
(Seward Gateway.)
Those of us who are going to get
it in the neck when they raise the
rates on the Alaska Railroad, as they
are almost certain to do, can get a
certain amount of unholy joy out of
the fact that the railroad will be
hoisting itself on its -own petard nr
giving its ownself a crack on the
Adam’s apple.
Take, for instance, this airplane
traffic from the coast to Fairbanks.
What a wallop they will hand the
railroad in passenger traffic if the
railroad puts on that proposed 1-0
cents a mile rate!
As it is, it costs about $34.50 to go
from Seward to Fairbanks over the
Alaska Railroad, with the stop at
Curry. If they raise the rate to 10
cents a mile and add §2 to the current
Curry stopover price, which is possi
I
:
Takotna Igloo Of
Pioneers
HEREBY EXTENDS INVITATION TO ALL
FRIENDS TO BE PRESENT AT A
Grand Ball
TO BE GIVEN ON
Wednesday Evening
December 24
TWO NIGHTS OF DANCING!
A Good Time Assured
. (
Come One, Como Ail!
■ ■ ble, it will cost about $56 to get to
: Fairbanks.
! The airplane transportation com
: panies have already announced that
I they will be glad to carry anyone
r from the coast to Fairbanks for $50.
What they will do tot he railroad will
i be a plenty. They will be lucky if
. they get any passenger traffic at all.
i j It will raise particular heck with
■ j Seward, as well as Anchorage, but
II will benefit Cordova, because the air
’ companies can take them in from
■ Cordova as cheaply as they can from
! Seward, cutting 18 hours’ steamboat
i. time and the additional fare from
■ Cordova to this port. Likewise there
will be no Curry stopover.
In other words, the railroad seems
, to be fixing to horse itself out of the
i most of its main line traffic and
i throwing all passenger traffic entire
ly out of its district. Is that near
sighted, long-sighted, short-sighted,
i or blind staggers?
DECLARES GENE TUNNEY
TURNED DOWN FRIENDS.
NEW YORK.—Gene Tunney, hand
some fighter, who stepped lightly
from a Greenwich Village boy to the
social register, felt the repercussion
that semes from the breaking of old
ties.
Summing up the case for Tim
Mara, fight promoter, who had
brought a suit for half a million dol
lars against Tunney, Martin Litton,
lawyer, declared Gene Tunney walked
“to glory over the prostrate bodies
of his friends.”
The lawyer accused Tunney of re
pudiating -his agreement with Mara
and of cutting down Billy Gibson’s
managerial salary after the fight
with Jack Dempsey. A decision in
the suit may be handed down today.
NEW YORK.—Gene Tunney, for
mer heavywe^ht champion pugilist,
came through in the final round of
his fight with Tim Mara for $500,000.
The jury which heard Mara’s suit
for half a million dollars decided the
promoter did not render services for
i the amount and after one hour and
! forty minutes of deliberation told
Tnnney he could keep his money and
ft is status as a millionaire. The trial
lasted three weeks and it was a tedi
ous ordeal for Tunney, who squirmed
under the lashings of Mara’s attor
ney. The lawyer charged the fighter
with being Ma welcher and a social
c Timber.”
Sophonisha—What were the pro
visions of your nncle’s will?
Theophilus—That I should have all
that was left after the payment of
his just debts.
Sophonisha—'How generous! What
did he leave?
Theophilus—Just debts
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