Will Try Out New
Mai! Food Service
Washington. — Unique1 experiments
are soon to be initiated by the I’ost
office Department for delivering agri
k cultural products 'Mreet from the farm
to the consumers in the cities. The
1 list of commodities for this test is now
* being prepared.
rtegillations have just been eomplet
■ ad^under tt 'aw enacted last .session pro
viding fur ty experimental routes.
These will aid in determining whether
a farm-to city service is to become a
fixed general practice. As an incentive
to the curriers thev are to be allowed
compensation in addition to regular
salaries, this extra amount to be 50 per
sent of the postage on food products
mailed directly on the route and col
lected and delivered by the earner.
The carrier may use additianal
equipment, or a vehicle of sufficient
size to meet*the requirements, and may
employ at his own expense a suitable
person to assist him.
i? oog prouuct:; mat may ne cameo
under this plan are defined “as food
stuffs ore inarily eaten or drunk for
nourishment, such as vegetables, flour,
meal, sugar, corn, fruits, meats, poul
try. eggs, dairy products, etc.”
foods which naturally spoil rapidly
uuless artificially preserved, such as
butter, milk, fresh meat, fish, fruits,
etc., are considered perishable matter.
The postage rate is live cents for the
Hi rst pound and one cent for each addi
tional two pounds or fraction. Pack
ages originating in the city, town or
village, an the case may be, for deliv
ery to patrons on the rural route are
not contemplated or to be included in
this experiment.
The matter collected on a route is to
' be delivered only on the route on which
i It originates, or within the delivery
limits of the city, town or village in
which the potetoffiee is located. The
1 delivery in each case is to ho made by
the carrier who collects the parcels.
J Science and Invention
Platinum is the only metal upon
which no single acid has an effect. The
only acids that will touch the metal is ;
a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric.
Small enough to be carried in a
pocket, a new device indicates whether
au electric current is direct or alter-1
nating and measures the voltage up tp
“■ 550 volts.
To be attached to a typewriter di
, r Tsetly in front of a tvpist, a new holder
f ir notes includes a leDs that magnifies i
them and what is being written at the
same time.
Using an alcohol base fuel made from
cull apples and potatoes, an aviator
flew a biplane from Spokane, Wash., to
Wallace, Idaho, a distance of P0 miles,
in an hour, recently.
In the future airplane passengers
who become bored while flying may be
able to take in a movie during the voy
* 2,JTe. One of the large Paris-London
air expresses was recently equipptd
with a moving picture projector, and,
during a trial flight, a film was flashed
oti a screen inside the cabin, with 12
passengers as spectators.
A process is under consideration to
prevent decomposition of tropical
fruits in a fully ripened state by dip
ping iu a rubber composition which
shuts out all air. The composition be
comes brittle when cold and is easily
removed from the fruit.
A mirror hyposometer has been in
vented which serves to measure heights
aud can also be used for leveling and
measuring distances and determining
vertical angles. It is said that meas
urements may be made with an ac
curacy of one-half of one per sent.
The world's largest locomotive, an
electric giant, 172 feet long, weighing
1,275,000 pounds, and with a rating of
7,125 horsepower, recently passed suc
cessful tests in Pittsburgh, Pa. The
locomotive is built- in three sections,
so that it may pass safely around
curves.
A new type ol motion pictures nas
been developed which show the figures
of persons, as well as other objects,
round. Nothing with round surfaces
appears in the new films flat, as in
present productions. The neV inven
tion is said to make screen plays much
more effective and realist!
A tube and a specially built camera
have been designed to ph; graph the
stomach, including the walls, top and
bottom. The photographs are taken
internally, through the introduction
down the windpipe of a metal tube,
about half an inch in diameter, with a
series of lenses inside it, with a tiny
but powerful electric light at the end.
A correlation machine has been in
vented by Stuart C. Dbdd, a student at
Princeton University, said to be capa
ble of solving such vital problems as
how loug a mao is going to live and
why, and whether a student will be
able to be graduated from the college.
Furs Bought and
Sold
Miners', Prospectors'
and Trappers’
Supplies
Steamer Service On the Inoka
River.
Ask the People of Ophir about us.
Fairview. Innoi o River
The Pioneer Trader
STATION
General Transportation
How About Wood Hauling?
See Joe Ferris or Bud Riley
I
This machine, credited by scientists
with superhuman powers, is expecied
to prove a time saver, not only in tha
liefti of psychology, but in tho reaJm o’
education, economics-and agriculture
Gratten Maureac, of Redwood, a,].,
inventor of scores of different devices
for as many differ.nt purposes, sacri
ficed his life to his inventive genius.
Me was killed by a device he had per
fected to save hold-up victims. The
device consisted of a brass cylinder and
a plunger, which fitted into the coat*
sleeve and which exploded when the
arm was raised, sending a bullet into
anyone who might be standing in from • j
of the wearer.
Albrecht and Taylor *
LAW VERS
George YV Albrecht,
Iditarou, Alaska, !
Charles K. Taj lor. ' j
Fairbanks, Alaska.
Practice in all Courts. I j
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CHARLIE’S j
LAUNDRY I
McGrath. Alaska ;
A Bath in a Real
Bath Tub
Shoe Repairing S
Sign W riting
Paper Hanging
Charles Rebhun
[The Hand- Man
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Are You Going to Build ?
We have in stock lumber of all kinds, rough and
dressed. Lately we have added a few lines, such
as Kustic and Sbiplap, t and 6-inch Flooring, Win
dow and Door Casing, Window and Door hitopping.
Boat Lumber of all kinds.
>r, . ;f you are ■joing to build a sled, eall on as. We have Bfce
best bu-lrory id Alaska.
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Proposition, Yankee Creek
About 7 miles long, extending from
No. 1 below discovery down t o_the
mouth of the creek.
Pay located all along for a distance
of about 3 miles from upper end, and
pretty wrll prospected are cross-cut.
Average lepth of ground is from 7
to 20 feet. Top is all black muck,
that can be scraped freely. No rock
bigger than one’s fist.
Ground will go from 15 cents to $1
per^square toot of bedrock,
Ditch on the ground, 3 mites long,
together with water rights. Ground
is pretty well cleared. There is also
a drain, 3 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 pres
sure or fall of 120 feet, being 1600
feet to the work from the ditch.
After doing away with muck there
will be from 4 to 6 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 rim up to $1 per square foot of
bedrock.
1 will either sell the ground or give
a lease on it. If the prospect is sat
isfactory to the buyer, a cash pay
ment will be expected.
For further information, terms,
etc., call on ground, or write or tele
graph me.
ED NOLLETTE,
Tokotna, Alaska.