H Alaska Notes
fiatkeitd 7km Terr Hartal
Buku(H.
From a mining standpoint the out
look ia'.'thft Kdbuk country appears
encouraging, but the area e so large
that much work must be done before
.. any definite conclusions as to future
*. development may be arrived at, says
r the Fairbanks News-Miner.
.That ukthe opinion of C. E. Alexan
* derj engineer, who arrived at Fair
banks a few days ago with a lot of
; first-hand.-information. “All we know
• now is that ti looks goqd enough to
y prospect,”. he said. The country is
i highly mineralized, but prospecting
* operationns will have to be carried on ,
'for some time yet to determine if;
. mining.can be carried on profitably, j
Mr...Alexander added that the K»
v, buk is not “a po<fr man’s country.” j
Its inaccessibility, which makes the;
i cost .of transporting supplies there
very .high, is a bar to the man with
4 limited capital. So far as has been
«• disocevered to date the ground iB low
„ grade, not rich enough to work on a
j. small-scale and requiring a good deal
. of money to install the mining ma
t chiqery which would be needed.
Although comparatively low grade,
. thire is plenty of volume. Whether
<. dredge* would he taken in if values ^
: sufficient to warrant development are
_ found, Mr. Alexander is unable to say*
at this tuns. |
. .He has been in tne aothern district
v sinse.last April. While he is gone, j
prosperting will be loatinued by other 1
etarkheiders oi the Northwest Alaska
. Mines,, ipr., of whirn he is a director, j
.. A drill -was freighted in last Septem-:
l her. and Hilly James and other mem-.
u. hers, of the company are drilling
. now. .i'he ground is wet, making dif
•: heult any other kind of prospecting.
The- grodn downed by the company
is ondhe Shungnak river. Little work |
<. baa been done in the Kobuk since the
. rush , there in 1898, Mr. Alexander
«nid, and there are large areas which
<U hax* never been .prospected.
Charlie Maxwell i sin charge of the,
. tending post at Kevilian this winter, j
> . the^Post is and of five owned toy Tom j
. Mcxsgman df Kotzebue. Maxwell is
tha*gnly white man in the.village in
■* which ithe post is located.
Moat of the natives along the Ko
v huk^numbering about a .thousand,;
. faiieAto catch much fur early in the
•- winter ana migrated ty the Noatak, j
\ where fur is more plentiful. Nor
. mplly..there are about 260 natives in
the*. vicinity of Shungnak. I
Ola Eielson became a. full-fledged
, Mianee. of Alaska when, he was made
... an honorary member of Igloo No. 4.
, JLikeAia famous son before him, who
» was. also, an honorary member of the
. local igloo, says the Sairbanks News
_ Miner, Mr. Eielson said it was one of
thaproudest momenta of his life to
„ join the ranks of the oldtimers.
He. mas welcomed tot he Igloo by
. President. Charles Main and ex
, pressed -bis thanks in a. few well
« choseB.words. Mr. Eielson occupied
v the seat of .honor beside the president
. dunng.the busines meeting and after
v word partook of the typiea pioneer
. lunch.
In .behalf of the igloo, R. C. Roth
« enburg, past grand president of the'
. Pioneers., of Alaska and speaker of j
. the House of Representatives of the'
. last Territorial Legislature, paid a
. glowing eulogy to Ren Eielson.
He ,told, how gielsoh had estab
haticu commercial aviation in Alaska
. aao'hoW he started out from Fair
i banks alfc'the . flights that made him
• woyJfl famed. i The speaker dwelt es
1 pecislty tih-tbe reception accorded the
: aviator by the Territorial Legislature;
when he passed through Jnneau last
t. spring on-hissjsfay to JFairtianks and
• described the shanimous approval by
-i tho Legislature landing Eielson’a ^
» -nchieveaents.
. "In thersffacttens of the people of
. ,vAlaaltayoar.»o« oocupM place
t^shat sen never be fcrgotton*” Mr.,
Rothenburg tokj Mr. dBiedsoo. “We
pioneered the trails, and your son,
pioneer of Alaaka'ekki^, wag truly
ono of us.”
Although be is now in Palo Alto,
California, .Lester D. - Henderson,
! Alaska’s first commissioner of educa
! tion, is spendng much of his time
j boosting the Territory. At FMo .Alto^
‘ where he is taking graduate work for
a master of arts degree, Mr. Hender
son has made speeches on Alaska .--be
fore the Stanford Education Club, the
Palo Alto Rotary Club, the Santa
Clara County Schoolmasters' Club,
and the Palo Alto Exchange Club.
Speaking before the Education Club,
he said: “Alaska may be remote
frqm the United States in point of
miles, history and environment, but
that far-fipng possession of the
United States is in step with the
mother country in many respects, ed
j ucation being notable. Alaska is a
land of paradoxes, dry and wet, bet
i and cold, new and old. Long before
■ a large portion of the United States
was even thought of, the first formal
school was established by the Rus
sians in'the Territory of Alaska, in
1786. Just one hundred years later,
in 1886, the first American school
came into being."
Trappers of the westward district
of Alaska have had a very successful
season, according to W. O. Wandling,
who returned to Anchorage a few
days ago from a fur-buying trip
along the Alaska Peninsula, accord
ing to tne Anchorage Times. He
made the round trip aboard the mail
steamer Starr, and while he did not
bring back as many pelts as be had
hoped to obtain, it was not due to any
shortage in the catch. His buying
was limited to the places where the
Starr made stops and he did not hafe
very much time at any one place, and
he found, also, that the country had
been gene over very thoroughly by
buyers who had predsdefl him.
Pur Buyer Mickey Goldstein re
turned from the westward on the
Starr, following a stay of several
months on the peninsula, and he
brought out a large number of pelts,
, consisting mostly of red foxes, that
| being the priscipal fur in that re
jgion. Te fur is qff unusually good
quality this winter, Mr. Wandling
discovered.
There iis a plentiful supply of feed
along the peninsula this season, rab
1 bits appearing to be very numerous
’ throughout ike district.
| It was reported at Seward, follow
ing the arrival of the Starr .at that
port, that the steamer had brought
in furs valued at upwards of $100,
000.
A case in which the Alaskan Air
ways is seeking a temporary restrain
ing order to prevent Ralph Wien
from piloting the airplanes of com
peting lines was before the Fair
banks district court a few days ago.
Through his attorney the defendant
contended that the contract which Mr.
Wien iigned as an official of the
Wien Alaska Airways, and in' which
he agreed not to work for any com
peting airplane company, was in vio
lation of the interstate commerce act,
and this is n^fw said te he one of the
chief points at issue , in the ease.
Judge Cecil H. Clegg took the mat
ter under advisement and will make
1 his decision known later. The Alas
I kan Airways is represented by
! Charles £. Taylor, and Mr. Wien by
Harry E. Pratt.
During the hearing it was disclosed
that the Alaskan Airways paid $40,
000 for the assets of the Wien Alas
ka Airways and 125^000 for the good
will of the company.
In spite of the efforts of President
Hoover to persusde the country into
thinking in teems of prosperity,
there if a lot of pessimism abroad,
according to Frank Foster, Cordova
attorney, who returned to his homo
town recently from a ton of the
States.
“Those who are keeping close
tonrfabion ronriitkmCMr. Foster said
I
f in a< statement given to* tte Cordav a.
Times, "expect very tough times foi j
the next six months, and. the inside
, men. report that the stock market;
will.be lower before it is any higher, i
. Mendicants are overrunning the'
streets and begging for meals.5’
Concerning prohibition, Mr.. Foster i
said- the oniy place it is enforced is
|n Alaska.
A hopeful sign for Alaska is seen
in the Canadian government recently:
having raised the price <ff pulp forj
newsprint. This will force the
speedyidevelopment of the Alaska;
industry and means that there will!
be even greater interest taken in(
'Alaska, than there was before, hej
said.
A.hand, of wolves, estimated to:
number A5Q, was. encountered recent-;
ly on: the .Yukon river by John Palm,
mail movie**between Eagle and Cir-j
cle, and Morris O’Leary, trapper. The
wolves, did not venture to attack the
dog teams.jot the men.
For assaulting a jailer in the fed
eral jail at. Fairbanks, & charge to
which he pleaded guilty after first'
indicating he would go to trial, James:
Robertson was sentenced by Judge
tCecil H. Clegg to si*. years in the
federal penitentiary / at ..< McNeil’s
Island. Robertson still has a perjury
charge hanging over bis. head.
NOTICE OF SALE.
Notice is hereby given .that at 2:00
p. m. of Saturday, the lfitth day of
March, 1930, at the front door of the
Commissioner’s Oitice in the town of
Opbir, Alaska, the undersigned Ad
ministrator of the Estate of Uubade
Hebertt, deceased, pursuant to - an
order of the Probate Court for the
Innoko Precinct, Fourth Judicial. Di
vision of Alaska, dated February. 12,
1930, in which Court said Estate is
being probated, will offer for sale and
sell at public auction one undividedi
half (1-2) interest iq placer mining
claim known annd described as NOu2
EKLOW DISCOVERY, and also one
undivided half interest in
placer mining claim known and de
scribed as NO. 3 BELOW DISCOV
ERY ; both of said claims situated on
Yankee Creek, a tributary of the In
noko River, in said Precinet and Ju
dicial Division, said property being
the property of the above named
estate. Terms: AU cash at time of
sale.
The undesigned reserves the right
to reject any or all bids.
H. C. WALLICK,
Administrator.
First publication, Feb. 16.
NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT.
The above sale is hereby postponed
until -Saturday, April 5th, at the
same hour and .place.
JL C. WALLICK,
Administrator.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS. |
All persons having claims against'
the estate of Alex. Jerue, deceased,
are hereby required to present the
same, under oath, to the undersigned, i
administrator of the said estate, at1
his residence, at Flat, Alaska, on or
before the 31sfc day of August, 1930
Dated at Flat, Alaska, February
21 1930.
* HARRY DONNELLEY,
Administrator of the estate
of Alex. Jerue, deceased.
TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN NSNANA ANB FLAT
Miles
_ 00
.-III_I 17%
_ £3%
Nenana —....
Tavern Roadhouse
Knight’s Roadhouse .
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse
Diamond Roadhouse.
ii«t« Minehumina
Trappers’ Cabin
Lone Star Roadhouse
Telida Roadhouse_
Slow Fork Roadhouse
East Fork Roadhouse
Bern’s Landing Roadhouse
Big River Roadhouse
McGrath__
Bill Goss’ Roadhouse
OpUr
68 ..
... 76
.. 89
US
132
169
109%
187
206
227%
241
268
286
MsCafferty...
Brown Cheek shatter cabin .
Frits shelter cabin ..
First Chanco shelter cabin
Flat_
818
846
866
.878
Crooked
nibs fmm
cabin,
shelter
12
19
JBabeesch Moosehide Mitts and Boots
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Furs Bought and Sold Clothing
AIL Kinds of Nice Fresh Groceries and Fruits
Canned Goods of All Kinds
Beds and Bedding
&
McGrath
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TAKOTNA ROADHOUSE
V
Best of Meals and Rooms
Where Everything Is Hemelike end
Where' You Are Cordially Wckoaed
GOOD DOG -HOUSES
BATHS
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ber of AU Kinds
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