Dog Team Vs. Air
s plane Transportation
Seward-Gateway.
Durioc the recent diphtheria epi
demic at Nome considerable friction
almost threatened-todevelop for a time
r between Alaskans and government offi
cials over sending a plane from Nenana
to the far northern camp with the pre
cious ser-uas.
Fortunately the officials kept their
heads and depended on the old order of
transportai ion- the dog team, and the
trip was made safely and in more com
fort than by plane. Had Darling ai d
^ hi* mechanic left Fairbanks at the
time the1 trip was planned, they un
doub edly would have perished or been
forced down by the'ragiog blizzard
4 which blotted out the visibility the fol
lowing day. The mushing was perilous
for ihe sturdy sourdough, and his re
liable team, and bucking the blizzards
with temperatures far below zero, with
the landscape blotted out, would have
been practically impossible for the dar
iog aviators to have even landed safely.
Too manv persons place the air
plane’s achievements ahead of what
* the facts reveal. It !must be remem -
bered that the finest men and machines
in the United States fly ing corps were
several weeks malt ing the trip through
Alaska, with every resource of the na -
tion behind them. The trip was made
at the best season of the year. To
have expected men unfamiliar with the
route to make the trip safely was trust'
tog more to luck than to actual condi- |
tions. Messrs. Darling and Mackie
have not detracted from their splendid
record ona'iota by '• tfcie*tn failure to >
make the flight, as they would have set!
out in the -face of every adverse cosdi- i
tioo, bad the epidemic come to a point j
where it, was necessary. Their achieve :
mem is an epic in the ballads of North- j
ern daring and resourcefulness.
But the dog mu-,hers. the oldtimers
of the froaen wastes, won out. The race
was watched with dramatic intenseness
by the readers of the world, who in im
agination suffered the vicissitudes of
the journey, the hitier cold, the sleep
less nights, when men and dogs s ag
gored gamely on, tired from loss of
sleep and exhaustion, ready to fall in
Chair tracks, but pointing true to their
destination, with a cargo more precious
ihan the metal on which the city of
IftHne was built.
Through blinding blizzards, with
blackening cheeks cracked and scored
by frostbite, the race was made in re
lays over a distance of 650 miles in five
J. li. McLean
Tokotna
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Arctics Felt Slippers
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■■ King Island Mukluks j
Mild-Cured Ham
and Bacon
Star Ham 45e Bacon 50o
Oregon City
Mackinaw Coats
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Hood Rubber Pacs
Leather Vests
Coal Oil Plenty of Gas
tod a half days. One veteran driver
;overed 54 railes. 30 of which were
iriven in a heavy gale. in seven hours
w.d forty minues
The o'd sourdough, who has siwaslied
i)hnv a cold msttit on the trail, can ap
preciate t be glorious rare with death
riding behind the handle bars of the
sleds.
Alaskans are familiar with many
feeds of daring which will probably
jciipse those of the relav race to Nome,
where lone prospectors and trappers
have time and again braved the cold
md the e!eme< t> to save the life of a
friend or acquaintance, hut o<> deed of
late years has taken the public fancy
so thoroughly, mainly on account of its
being well alver'ised through the col
uitios of the press.
N. Y. Solon Proposes
Law to Jail Hypocrites
Albany, N. Y.—Assemblyman F. L.
Haekenburg (democrat, N. Y.) intro
duced a bill in the legislature tonight
to make hypocrisy a crime.
The bill provides that any one who
interferes with personal liberty for hire
or profit is guilty of the new crime of
hypocrisy, which vyould be classed as a
misdemeanor.
■'I would like to send to jail every
professional fakir who tries to make an
ensv and lucrative living out of the
tendency of some people to interfere in
everybody’s business,” said Assembly
man Haekenburg.
Information from a reliable source
received in Anchorage recently indi
cates ihat the Canadian Pacific Steam
1 me is cot.sidering extending its run to
Seward during the coming summer,
with the intention of carrying tourists
for the "Golden Belt Tour ’’
Pox ranchers of the Kenai peninsula
have a novel method of preserving rab :
bit meat for food The tnrat of the!
rabbits is first grout d and then dried!
on racks over the stove, after which it !
nrni ...hit mmii—mi.
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Max Simel
The Pioneer Trader
Furs Bought and
Sold
Miners’, Prospectors’
and Trappers’
Supplies
Steamer Service On the Inoka
River.
Ask the People of Ophir about us.
STATION
fairview. Innoko River
WANTED
80-horsepower
Steam Engine
Inquire
Kusko Times
S'* powdered and put away for future
use. Another method of preserving
the rabbits fresh, adopted by the
ranchers, is to pack «,h« carcasses in
five gallon ofi t»n», po«r water over
them arid fet them freeze solid, after
which, the Weeks of ice and rabbi tsars
packed away in specially Constructed
ice houses tnot.il needed for food for the
foxes.
Notice of Dissolution*.
Notice is i - that on Janu
ary 21st. 102) t.ersnip hereto
fore exis'mg . n Walter W.
Jotinsoo. H. G 1‘ .• and Thomas P.
Aitken, umier th* mime of Ktiskokwioi
Dredging Company, was dissolved bv
mutual consent, the said Thomas P.
Aitken wii hdr-twing from said part
nership aid its mining operation*.
(Signed) Thomas P. aztkew.
W. w. Johnson,
H. G. Peake.
THE
BY-SGOLLY
Tokotna
Gandies
Cigars
Soft Drinks
Lunches
John Heino
Proprietor
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 Rustic and Shiplap, 1 and 0-inch Flooring, Win
dow aiui Door Lasing, Window and Door Stopping.
Boat Lumber of all kinds.
A'vi ' v su are uoin^ to build a sled, call on us. We have the
best hickory in Alaska.
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A Dredging or Hydraulicing
Proposition. Yankee Creek
I am the principal owner of a block of ground
on Yankee creek, about seven unties lone, extend
ing-from No 1 llelow Discovery down to the mouth
of the creek.
Pav has bow located all along for a dis- -r
about three t i!(-s from the upper eDd. aod ,»r?
well prospeci'-d and cross-cut.
The averm-e uepth of the ground is fr««n a.»»
to twenty feet. The top is all black muck, thu • •.
ba moved freelv. No rook bigger than one’s flat.
The width of the pay. for a distance of about
three miles. ;is from 100 to 200 feet. Crosscuting
work indicates that the ground will go from 15
cents to SI per square foot of bedrock. My belief
is that the pay will average 5C cents per foot.
I have a ditch on the ground, three miles long,
together with water rights. The ground is prettv
well cleared. Thera is also a drain, three miles
long, with the water right. I also have a water
right on Ready Bullion creek, from which water
can he hrought to Yankpe creek with a ditch less
than a aiile long (4.900 feet), which will eive four
slutoeheads of water, with a pressure or fall of 120
feet, being 1600 foet to the work from ibe ditch.
After doing away with the muck. there will be
from four to six feet of dirt to handle, The pay
runs mostly in the bedrock of porphyrv and slate.
The ground is virgin, only about $11,000 having
h»en taken out by windlass in prospecting.
Prospecting work during the present winter has
-p-uited in finding values that run up to $1 per
' -quire foot of bedrock.
The Flume Dredge Company bas a dredge above
this ground, which has been in operation for the
last three seasons.
The Government road crosses Yankee creek. T
also have a road down the creek that connects with
1 the Government road.
I am also the agent for owners of ground other
than that held bv myself.
The ground can be worked either with dredge,
rirag-Hne scraper, or by hydraulicing.
I will either sell the ground or give a lease oa
it. If the prospect is satisfactory to the buyer, a
cash payment will be expected. A good bargain
will be given to the right party.
For further information, terms, etc., call on
ground, or write or telegraph me.
ED NOLLETTE,
Yokotaa, Alaska.