Railroad Starts
Many Projects
All Along Line
Work on projects to cost mom than
$500,000 was started recently by the
Alaska Railroad, acording to the An
chorage Times.
Colonel Ohlson said the railroad
would spend $2,510,000 from appro
priations and revenues this summer
This item includes the earnings td
the railroad which will'be $1,400,000.
Most of the other $1,100,000 will h.
in the rehabilitation program* which
is designed to complete construction
work along the railroad.
Hotel At I’ark
The largest project scheduled' for
this summer is the construction-, of' a
hotel at McKinley Park station; The
building will be of stone, logs and
lumber and will furnish a picturesque
, stopping point for Tourists and other
' travelers. It will' accommodate 200
guests.
The hotel will cost -$350,WO and
will be completed next summer in
time for 1938 tourist business.
Work has already started on the
construction of a steel bridge? over
the Knik River to replace- the pres
ent wooden structure. The job will
cost $210,000. Steel span* and piling
have been taken to the crossing.
This bridge job is scheduled’ for
completion during the latter part id
November. The bridge, gang wt!1 then
start work on the Matarroska- bridge,
installing steel spans at a cost of
Steam shovels and gangs have been
sent out to Bird' amt' Gird wood to
haul material to btt used in lint--efiang
cs around snowsheds. This work is
part of the railroad's program to
abandon the use of' snovrsheds try.
placing the track out od danger from
snowsndes.
to load rock for use in rip-raTptng at
points where there is danger-of wash
outs. A crew has been working some
time blasting the rock laeae jnd pre
paring it ®r landing.
A carpenter crew is also scheduled'
to start work osrtbe first of four sec
tion houses to be constructed this
summer. The first >*ie will Ue at
Gold'Greek.
400 To Be Employed'
Other projects in the railroad’s re
habilitation- program wifi be started
tbis spring and'summer. Ballasting
of the right of* way; air SSK.0U0 pro
ject will be start?d'be*ween McKinley
Park and Summit about the middle
of June.
Railroad shops and other depart
ments have been- working at top
speed in making preparations for the
program which will give employment
to more than 4OCT meet AH' outfit"
cars and other equipment to be used
along the line has been- overhauled'
or conditioned fdr-servjcee
EXPLAINS PLANS FOR THE
EXPANDING'OF CL'C CORPS
JUNEAU—a. Frank Heintzle
man, of the U. S. Forest Service, re
turned to Juneau recently to take
■rrer Ins new duties as Aiask'a re
gional forester.
Declaring he war highly pleased at
returning to Alaska after three rears
absence, Heintzleman elaborat'd on
recently-announced plans to expand
tho Civilian Conservation Corps in
the Territory to dWr men iir all sec
tions.
This move, made- by Robert Fecli
ner, director of* emergency rorwrva
tion work at Washington: D. C.. at
Hemtzleman's suggestion, will give
the Indians and Eskimos of Alaska
access to CCC funds. which the mx
forester feels they should have.
The new forester resided'm Alaska
for 15 vears before heinr transferred
to the States. Since therr be has been
engaged in the capni ify of* coordln
ating official between the Forest Ser
• vice and the lumber- industry in am
effort to get the large lumber com
panies on a better tiasi- from the
standpoint of long-term timber sup
ply awl the stabilization of inde
pendent timber communities.
Heintzleman disclosed1 that the mo
tion picture of AlkskVs rugged wild
life, which will be takerr this'summer
bv mutual cooperation of the Alaska
Game Commission and the Forest
Service, will be possiBlv the most
complete film of’its type ret pro
duced.
THIS SCOTCHMAN ALWAYS
SHORT EXACTLY 12’ CENTS
SUPERIOR; W is.—For five years
City Treasurer Gfrtx Ostrum has bil
led Duncan Grant Inverness Shire.
Scotland, for taxes on two lots, and
received payments 12*cents short.
Ostrum said Grant always added:
“He ranna pay a penny more. CTs
trum pays from his own pocket.
THE KUSKO TIMES
The only Newspaper and Job
Printing establishment in the Kusko
kasiae area. Suhacrifca- NWi
| ICE POOL WINNER WONT
CITE, n* Bt S DRIVING JOB
The following is the detailed story
■ of rhe Nenana Ice Pool for 1937
which arrived iir the first mail re
ceived since the breakup here this
FAIRBANKS, Hay 13—Herrin E.
Anderson.. Setter known here as
“Buster.” the 31-year-old bus driver
who netted $75,000 for guessing clos
est to the time the ice oir the Tanana
River went out last evening, will re
turn to his bus driving job, he said
; today
AndersoiYs was the closest guess to
: the exact time of the Tanana R>er
breakup which occurred last evening
at exactly 8:04. Anderson guessed'
8:02 ami there were no others out of
the 80,000 Alaska and Yukon guessers
‘ ore that minute.
i Anderson also received about half
of $4,000 on a dozen Fairbanks con
tests when the Cbeua River broke up
the day before. He and BiHy Root
' w ere holding winning tickets when
• the- ice went out on the Chena at
11:31 a. m. May 11.
Buster Anderson attended the Fair
i narrks high school, played basketball
and has lived in. Alaska the greater
part of his life. He is unmarried, j
His occupation for the past few years
■ has been bus driver out of Fairbanks.
He is the stepson of the president of
the First National Bank
Breakup Spectacufar
NENANA. May 13—The baeakup
of the Tarana River at 8:04 last night
1 was one of the roost thrilling ire years,
according to witnesses here.
As early as 4 o'clock, yesterday af
ternaorr great pieces of ice began to
break off at the lower end of the main
sheet.
This jorrunued until the lower edge
of ica. was opposite the dock 21(1*
yards below the tripod.
TKe water kept rising and falling ;
and pieces of anchor ice began mov
ing arrmnd.
A Krtirt ” • vll o i om mwrii'ar
spilling out pieces and at S' o'clock a
huge chunk bumped along under tlw
main sheet It shot high, in the air
at the lower edge.
Immediately then whole bod; of ice
began to-' move and cakes began roll- j
sng overt Others were thrust high, ie
the air from the tremendous pressure.
Thera was a grinding noise as ■
heavy piling were sheered off along
the <dge o1 the dock as iE they were i
toothpicks. This continued until the
whole face of the dat was suspended
without support:
rKane arf the it* blbcks that were
pushed up from the mai*e sheet were
three feet thick.
Several' camera fens had machines
set since early in the day but when
the breakup finally came, it was too,
dark to take pictures.
SENATE GIVES APPROVAL
TO THE DIMOND BILL
WASHINGTON—Delegate A. J". Di
mond’s program to make Alaska Es
kimos self suvportine by putting
them back in the reindeer Business,;
gained support when it won the sen
a.es approval to appropriate $2,000.
000 for purchasing all reindeer now
owned by whites and give tfiem to-!
the natives.
At the same time Dimond was in- |
formed that the house appropria
tions committee approved the $35000
interior-department bilT for operating
the reindeer service. This is an ;n
■ rcase of $5,000 over a year ago. The
additional" sum is to Be allowed needy
natives for the purchase of reindeer.
The committee also recommended"
she expenditure of S6C5.000 for the i
repair and maintenance of rads,
tramways, ferries, trails, and avia
tion fields. Two thousand of the am
ount was earmarked' By the commit
tee to repair the government Juneau ;
wharf. It was afiw propowl that
$305J>06 of the amount Be spent n !
constructing and repairing schools'
and hospitals for the natives.
Record Fish Pack Expected'
.V salmon pack of more than S*0,000'
'•ases. slightly bettering the record"
lack of last year, is expected for this
-eason By Anchorage packers. Ap
■roximately 375 peoples including •.
ishermen and cannery workers will,
: Be employed during the season by
i >cal packers, a. slight increase over
| last year.
The Emard Packing Company own
d by H. J. Emard, will continue op
rations as usual this year and ex
i peets to duplicate its own pack of
47.006 cases last year. The company
? prepared for a pack of 50.000.
j The General Fish Company, owned by
A! Soneke, will ooe^ate this year in
the Anchorage plant recently pur
chased from AT Janes, owner of the
Kustatan Packing Company. Mr. So
neke expects a pack of 35".000 cases.
Mr. Jones will continue to operate
I his trap at Kustatan, bringing the
, fish tv Anchorage where Mr. Soneke
; will pack" them undrr contract. Mr.
1 Jones expects a pack of ItJJOOO cases.
’ Local packers said no king salmon
I have been reported up this far in the
j irriet this season.
Rtnuabw. that imutsux
Supply
Your Needs with
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MERCHANDISE
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL COMPANY
McGRATH TAKOTNA
A REAL OPPORTUNITY
A Dragline or Hydraulicing
Proposition on Yankee Creek
About seven miles long-, ex
tending from No. 1 below dis
covery down to the mouth of the
creek.
Pay is located all along for
a distance of about five miles
from the upper end is all pros
pected and cross-cut.
The average depth of the
ground is from seven to 20 feet.
The top is all black muck, that
can be scraped freely. No rock
bigger than one’s fist.
The ground will go from 25
cents to $1.00 per square foot
of bedrock.
Ditch on the ground, three
miles long, together with water
rghts. Giound is pretty well
cleared. There is also a drain, '
three miles long. Also a water
right on Ready Bullion creek,
from which water can be brought
to Yankee creek with a ditch less
than a mile long (4,900 feet),
with a pressure or fall of 120
feet, being 1600 feet to the work
from the ditch.
After doing away with
muck there will be from four to
six feet of dirt to handle.
Only about $11,000 has been
taken out.
Prospecting work during
the past winter has resulted in
finding values that run up to
$1.00 per square foot of bed
rock. ij
I will either seli the ground
or give a lease on it. If the
prospect is satisfactory to the
buyer, -a cash-pav merit will be
expected.
For Further Information, Terms, Etc., Cali
on Ground or Write or Telegraph Me.
ED NOLLETTE
TAKOTWA, ALASKA