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THE RIVER COUNTRY
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T. K. McROBEHTS and ALASKA E EGAU,
Puolishens
Published 'Every Friday; at Thkotna. Vlasia.
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Application *?-■ second-class matter is pending at
the post office at Takotna, Alaska,., undt-r hte Act of
March 3rd. 1S79.
FRIDAY,’ FEBRUARY 19, 1937
KT SKOKWIM NEEDS IMPROVED
SECOND-CLASS MAIL SERVICE—
Considering the number of oa»p!e now residing
in this area, likewise. those still, to. come, and also
taking into consideration the. lsuge operations already
under wav and thoae being contemplated
is it not a fan that this section of.'thie Kuskokwim
Valley should oe accorded a b* . er mail service?
The P.A-iA. m^ii contract-nil ws for not more than
MO pounds of mail to tie hauled on the Takoma, Ophir
andFlat run, and LCKii pound- dawn the river. Aitxhe
present triae there is 600 pounds tied up at McGrath
fear. the T ,tc .Ba. Tphir and Flat route., besides what
is' .led up for down river. The first class mail, of
course, comes first. If the poundage on first class is
under trr- limit prescribed Jin tne contract,, the !o»l
is finished cut with second-class mail. Here we are
branded, m tins country with.- little chances of receiving
papers, magazines, etc. We like to get oar 'letters,.-but
we also er.i*' a little news and other reading material.
We aren't expecting or asking for parcel post, but
why can’t we receive second-class’ mail?
A bill wse •mcenalF ucraduned ir. th* Alaska Leg-=
islaiure a string for weekly: air plane, service betw.-<n
-Itir au and Fa'.rti ,.ks. Fairbanks near has access to,
regular maiil-the year..around. If there is money te
spend for mad service jau.tbe Territory, why not ruse
same of it to improve, the service^.in the Kuskokwnr.,
basin. We. are looking forward to a. revival of the
boom days, on a samewhataTesaer seate. and .a. largg
increase m population this -tssna.
We belierpk-.the best, way to get results and bet
ter mail service would be to circulate .a petition in all
th. towns tad. on all the Creexa: that Twelve mail. on.
this acute.
We wauid like to near from, readers oa this
subj-ct. ither for or against this. rroposaL Let’s put
our should-t* oehind the ■'■•bet;.and stain the ball, roll-,
tr,g for an improved mail service in this country,.
EMERGENCY CALLS PROVE“VEED~OF'
RADIO COMMUNICATION STATION HERE—
In the last taro ninths*, .we have, had two emer
gency cal's for a plane,io rash .a stricken patient, into
nchorage. HosjiitaL. TJfc tekwnone line being down
las it is knost of tiine), there was no other way
of--rtifcnnTiair.aiifnr efth McGrath, crept tpy means of
a small sp-.-tteur radiophone Vett owm-d and operated by
Mr. E.,W. 'Miller of Takotna; who was ante tor get
the calls through so that planes could come oat and
V take, the' stricken parties to the hospital.
This is just another point by which , to prone .that
Tfckotua is badly i a. need of some means of communi
cation. A MvemmeM -adio stati <u was, until a few
y.a. 5 ago, located here, but because of some- bocus
, pocus of one kind or another it was moved away.
Since thaw..!Term has b en no . sure means of getting
em.‘ ency messages t Slough, sexcept by the extremely
d«ri>tful telephone line U> McGrath cbich is not eve*
strung along - roles or .trees in tmacy cases, but to.^aap
fings.
Takotna . is the huh of *■ prosperous minhig .dis
trict. All the creeks have- a number of small and large
optratois. on -hem besides the various dredgesu Where
the-e ae s* many men working, there are certain to
be frt uent accidents and a delay cf a day or two in
relaying a mest age often, means the lif* of the in
jure r sick.
at . - ••.sel that the ?-1 is both affirm
a:: H itgatve. Somttimes -the ■.yes have it and
scui .. er he nose.
Mrs. l eek—“Henry, eld you ever have more mon*
ev ..a:, you kacw what to do with'.'
Hemy—“I must have had or 1 never would have
got carried."
“Why do you call this an enthusiastic stew?"
'‘Because the. conk .put everything he had into ixjl ’
SIXTEEN YEWS AGO THIS WEEK
(TAKEN FROM THE FTI.ES OF THE Kl'SKO TIMES)
Dan McDonnell c»m» in Friday
faom Candle to attend.to a few mat
ters at business.
Fred Carlson, who recently arrived
from Anchorage. left for Candle Mon
day evening.
dan McGinty left Monday for the
hills, to continue prospecting work..
Jim Bark* returned to his home at
Kixtm on_Mondajr.
B. B. Smith returned to Ophir on
Sundays
OPHIR—Bob Low-Tie, with three
horses, Billy Jones and Kearney
with, six, and. Nels Yibo with two,
are hauling feed and mining supplies
from Iditarod .to this glace. This is
another strong argument in favor of
the Ophir-Takotna read.
The mails, are coining in on time
m spite of the heavy weather in the
Yukon section.
McGRATH — Henry M artel Io
brought the mail from Ophir this
trip, Billy Jones being busy freight
ing from Iditarod
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One of the most encouraging fea
tures «f the year’s mining was the
systematic development of the large
aurifesms ldde in the Nixon Eork
district of .the upper Kuakokwim val
ley- This ore -body, gives- promise of
i being valuable, and if it so proves,
it will, assure the beginning of a lode
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mining industry in this remote
region.
The discovery of the lode on the
Nixon Fork and the continued suc
cess of the Candle Creek dredge,
near McGrath, has attracted atten
tion to the Kuskokwim.
Charles Rehbun, who has been
quite ill for several days, suffering
from blood poisoning, is reported as
being much improved.
Harry Carter left Friday for Nix
on, to be gone for several days.
Capt. J. H. McLean, who spent
several da vs in llcjnth on bas;ness,
left for home this morning.
NIXON—F. H. Spencer and Gas
oline Nick, are assembling an outfit
for prospecting up the Kuskokwim.
W. J. Widman and W. Hard are
logging on the East Fork for the
In oka Lumber Company.
John. Q. Strand is reported to be
starting to drift in the bottom of
h:s shaft to prospect an uncertain
body of ore encountered there.
At the Recreation, a crew com
posed of W. Gibbs, A. D. McDonald.
Mike. Sullivan Carl Schutler Charles
Boyd, and Jack Nixon are taking
oat-ore. part of which is being haul
ad to the site of the mill for crush
ing, the balance being sent to toe
Landing for shipment.
I
ocLcul POOD KculPES
KT T. S. (TED) Me ADASS
‘Tie Kusko Times Chef)
TAPIOCA CREAM PUDDING
1 1-2 tablespoons ininnte tajuota, or;
1-4 ofu pe»ri_' tapioca-.
2 cups scalded m3t_
i err:
1-3 cup sugar.
1-4 teaspoon salt-.
1 teaapmn vanilla.
Pick over tapioca and soak one
nour in cold* waller. Drain and' add
to milk and cook in double boiler
unof t*4oca is transparent. Mix
' the yolk with the sugar and salt.
Combine bjt pouring hot mixture
slowly into err mixture. Return to
double boiler an i cook until it
thickens while stirring constantly.
Fold is egg whit* bealern until stiff,
add vanilla. If minute tap
' ioea is used- it need naD.be- soaked.
CHOCOLATE DROP COOKIES
1-4 cup fat
1 cup brown aagar.
1 well beaten egg
1-2-cup n-iiTk
1 1-2 cups flour.
1-2 teaspoon soda.
2 squares melted chocolate.
1 cup chopped nuts.
1 teaspoon vamEat
Cream the short* mag and sugar,
add the '**11 beaten egg. Then add
the milk with sods: dissolved in it;
then the flour. Stir in the melted
chocolate, chopped nuts and vanilla.
Drop mixture, by spoonfuls into a
lightly greased pan and bake in a
moderate oven.
SALMON LOAF
T. cup canned salmon.
L cup stale bread crumbs soaked
in. L cup scalded milk.
1 teaspoon salt.
1 tablespoon butter.
1-2. teaspoon onion juice.
2 egg yolks, beaten.
1 teaspoon lemon juice.
2 egg whites, stiffly beaten.
Combine ingredients in order given,
folding in stiffly beaten whites last.
Place mixture into a well-greased
and crumbed pan and bake in a
moderately hot oven or steam the
mixture. Serve with white sauce.
WHITE SAUCE
1 cup milk.
1 tablespoon flour.
1 tablespoon butter.
1-4 teaspoon salt.
Melt butter in saucepan, then add
Sour, stirrirg till mixture
becomes foamy, but not brown; ad:
milk continue stirring to insure
smoothness.. Cook till thickened.
Season.
MIGUELS ROADHOUjE
mcgrath,. alaska
Good Meals-Gomf ortable Beds
WHERE YOU GET COURTESY AND SERVICE
TIMELY EDITORIALS
Culled From Our Exchanges
A STEP FORWARD— AND
A BLOW AT SKEPTICS—
(The Anchorage Daily Times)
Mr. C. C. Deal’s visit to Anchorage recently and
his statements regarding the colony’s dairy products
division may be taken as a definite step forward in
the rapid ascent of the Alaskan farm colony toward
success.
The fact that the colony marketed 4,000 dozen of
eggs last month in the two cities of Anchorage and
Seward is very significant and a 500-pound-a-month
output in fresh butter is another startling figure that
cannot go unnoticed. These facts are outstanding
proof that the government-backed f-.rmers of the Mat
anuska Valley are not, only able, but are extremely
illing to do the job they were chosen to do.
Co-operation or lack of it is obviously one of the
lient points about which the success or failure of
the colony will swing from now on. Anchorage, real
izing this, has come to the front, splendidly, but it
should not be satisfied to be merely one of the col
ony’s customers. Every effort should be made to see
that new outlets for farm products to other Alaskan
cities are opened and this can be done by continual
pressure on transportation agencies to lower freight
rates on Matanuska poducts; by urging construction
of new roads to other parts of Alaska, and by advertis
ing by any means available the splendid products of
the colony.
There are habitual scoffers at all things new and
thb Matanuska farm colony had an ungallant army of
these individuals who are impatiently waiting for the
time to come when they car, wag patronizing finger*
and say “I told you so.”
This summer is going to see many more startling
advances in the progress of the colony and from time
to time similar announcements such a* Mr. Deal
made here the other day are oging to appear.
Facts of this kind coupled with co-operation that
Anchorage and other western and interior Alaska
cities can give through opening markets and adver*
tising through a lot of good, old-fashioned boosting
are, we predict, soon going to knock the last prop*
from under these skeptics and non-believers.
DEVELOPMENT FIRST—
(Juneau Empire)
Rising cost of government has been the subject
of much study, and more discussion, over the years.
We heard much of it'during the last campaign for
obvious reasons and recently we heard something more
concrete on it when the President recommended a re
o’ganiation of the administrative setup to Congress.
From the latter it isanticipated that adjustments to
meet the situation will be forthcoming.
But too often the cry against rising cost of pov
ernment is raised without sufficient thought of one
major factor. That is the simple fact that the nation
is growing in population and demands of that popula
tion must be met. It may be argued that it costs no
more to legislate and administer for t/.rn persons than
it does for ten million. But it isn't a fact as the re
cords of the years reveal. The larger and more com
plex our civilization, the greater the cost of govern
ment. It is also an obvoius fact that we ar- some
times led to extremes in governmental setup with the
result that we get off balance in another way. Many
believe that such a situation pre\ ails at the present
time. It is for the purpose of making such adjust
ments as may be necessary that the present recom
mendations are before Congress.
But it cannot be overlooked that increas'd |w>pula
tion forces additional governmental expense. Alaska
is finding it true as we gradually add to our number
of residents. That is one of the reasons why the
Territory must push forward toward great? develop
ment. As the forces of increased population demand
additional government expense, we will have to look
to new sources of revenue as the present ones cannot
be taxed out of existence. Dveiopment, therefore,
must come first if we are to grow along natuial lines.
Shrimp production irt 1933 amounted to 317.u 12
pounds of shrimp meat valued at jll/2,101.
Sealing operations at the Ft ibilof I. lands in 1933
c- eo in the take of "4..r50 skin--.
Salmon pri>pagat;~t in Alaska has been carried
on in recent years at the two government hatcheries
and one privately owned hatchery.
European nations’ chorus to Spain: 'Is this a
private war or can anybody get into it?”
Anyway King Edward has furnished the answer
to the question of what people would have to talk
about when election was .over.