THE KUSKO TIMES
Vof~ 1.
NO. 6.
TAKOTNA, AL ASKA, TRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1937
PRICE. 25 CENTS
ANOTHERDREDGE
WILL BE BUILT IN'
GOODNEWS AREA
That there will be a new dredge
operating n the Goudnews Bay -s*c
tiv.!; A Alaska. A the word that Alex
Pa-rrgren. of he Goodnews Bay Min
in? C mpany, brines to Seattle, say?
The Alaska Weekly.
Mr. and Mrs. Palmgren arrived re
cently in S .at:! e and will remain on
the Outside until early spring. Mr.
Palmer f runs on the expenditure
-A approximately $200,000 in equip
ment. which ■will cover trucks, trac
tor. dredge and mining camp supplies
which will be shipped direct to the
Is wer K uskokwim camp by charter
ed steamer and delivered tc the
ground w.th the same trurks now be
ing ordered.
In the ns5* "he Goodnews Bay Min
in? Co. n: ? been using a drag-ire
to hurdle their platinum deposit, ai d
at the same time prospecting abrai
of the work. Results have been s
favorable, and this, coupled with the
fact that they have many years of
work ahead in proven ground has
led them to decide to enlarge thrir
operations through the addition of
dredging equipment.
ST. PATRICK’S DAT DANCE
V. ILL EE HELD HERE31 ARCH 19
A big St. Patrick’s day dance will
be given at the Pioneer hall at Ta
korna. Friday, March 19, it was an
nounced yesterday by the committee
m charge. Resident* of Ophir and
McGrath are especially invited to at
tend. Music wiQ be furnished by Bob
Bavrrie and Andrew Miller. A good
turnout is. expected. i
MILLER ERIN; S RADIO PHONE
SET FRC! i CROOKED CREEK
E. W. Haler Sew to Crooked, Creek
vi: Fla: Monday aftomoon 'wsto Pilot
Ear h.l) and -brought back Lis 50
wat: radi -phone set and thrtl. box
receiver which he plans on Sevang »p
and operating as a commercial sta
tion as sojn as he can get a license.
They lerarned to Takotna xfce next
day. Bob Gurtler w as-also a passen
ger cn tbe trip enroine to his borne
at Flat.
REPORTS FINE MARTEN CATCH
Aiexie Wilson arrived in u*» n from
Bi - Crees; yesterday and : reports
making a nne catch of marten. IHe
states that a tack of eight wo.veaxu-e
raising havoc with the moose irishrit
district. He expects to return tor bis1
traphne tcnsnw.
M&S. WM. MEYEES
LIES, ANCHORAGE
Jars. William -Moyers, a pioneer res
eietit of Ophir. passed away in An
ri rage last Wednesday, according
to 1 cent arrivals from that city.
Mr.. Cl... rs had been in ill health
'<■ -:a; ticae and last fall she went
to it i-i~; so that she could have
me ..cal attiEtion.
She hat lived in Alaska and the
Y.s.n . rrr". ry for the last 35 years,
earning irctr Lawson tc Ophir many
years agt.
T"a- t-ral arangements were net
trait- known.
ALASKA DUE SEWARD TODAY,
. he st. r.er Alaska is due to dock
at Seward sometime late today, ac
cording to : . stest tadio advices.
She is.carrying 407 tons of freight,
for Ssward and the rail belt.
j STEAMSHIPS WILL OPERATE
OX SEMI-WEEKLY SCHEDULE
The Alaska Steamship Com
pany announced this week that
its ssmnzer schedule will start
^tiarch 20. Boats to Seward will
: . ran semi-weekly. Four boats to
be used x>n this run.
STRIKES PARALYZE PLANTS
.CHICAGO, March 11, —--Shutdown
strikes in Chicago have paralysed
nine industrial plants with a-total .f
0,000-wuikera involved.
WILL START DREDGING
OPERATIONS, FLAT AREA
David Kn®. if Seattle, is new in
Anchorage preparing to operate
dredg.. property in the Flat region
this season, his first mining venture
in Alaska since he left the. Territory
in 1914.
M.*. Krom arrived, in Anchorage by
plane last week from Flat, where- be
has taken an option- on .some dredge
pr:perty, and expects to return to
the property airjut April 1. He came
from Seattle two weeks ago, his first
trip into the. Territcry since he left
in 1914.
During the? years 1911 to 1914, he
was in the Kuskmcwim , region. He
recalled working for I. Bayles, prom
inent Anchc'-agt merchant, when the
latter had,s .store in Iditarod.
“Everybody expects another good
season in Flat,” he said. “A lot of
equipment; is coming in and prepara
tions for.a big year are being made.”
The final date for income -tax re
turns is set for March 15. All re
turns not in’ by this date will be
charged a penalty.
MINING PICKING
UP AT M ARSHALL
STATES HUNTER
H. L. Hunter. who has been look
ing, them ver at Marshall, on the
Lower Yukon, for the last 25 years,
will be coing that in Seward for the
! next three weeks. says a recent isue
' i ihe S word C at;way.
o'* w'Jl enter the Seward General
lasritai. where he attends remaining
, u-.til an ou: ging steamer sails 20
days hence. He plans to return in
, the spring and head ta.k to Marshall.
xiur.'.:r s the discoverer of Eon
1 Rosa, on Willow Creak, and still owns
an interest in tha ground. There was
lots of hydraulic and pick and shovel
work going on about Marshall last
summer, and the veteran looks for
expansion this season.
Considerable prospecting has been
going on and there is indication that
good ground has been turned up.
As a trader and postmaster at
Marshall, where he has lived contin
uously sinee 1913, Mr. Hunter cites
comparative figures to show that
trapping this whiter has proved more
lucrative than for a considerable
time past. Mink and marten have
been caught in quantities, many of
the older native trappers coming in
w-ith more than 30 marten, box are
not so plentiful.
There was a shortage of water a£
Marshal] last year and little snow so
far this winter, indicating that the
same trouble might again have to be
met. It ha? rained a lot, the down
pour continuing through the Christ
mas period and well into January.
There is plenty of time yet for
snow, however, he said.
WHAT'S DOING IN TOATH
BY MRS. DOROTHY TIBBS
< Special Correspondent)
Attend Ice Carnieal—
. Several persons -went from Mc
Grath to Tab-banks for the Ice Car
nival, on'the plane this week. Am
ong- them were Mrs. Oddie Hallson,
Eugene Moore, Theodore Pederson
and Bobbie Winbauer.
Goes Out for Medical Attention—
J. W. Wickv who has been operating
placer ground in tbt.Kag region on
the bower Yukon for the past 20
years, passed through McGrath last
Sunday with Pilot Goodman, on bis
way Outside for medical attention.
Game Warden 'in McGrath—
Jack O’Connor. Alaska game war
den from Anchorage, has been in
McGratn during the past week con
ferring with Warden Tibbs. Jack
renewed acquaintance with many aid
timers snu.m he had not seen for
many years.
Brings i i Mining Men—
Pilot Barnhill new the members of
the Kusko Mining Company who have
been on Moore Creek for the past six
weeks, back to town on Monday.
Those return.ng with Barnhill were
Jack Melburg, Eugene Moore. Bob
bie Winbauer and Theodore Pederson.
Trappers Arrive—
Alex Menge! and Frank Balovitch,
who have been trapping • in the Big
River region during the past three
months, were flown into McGrath by
Pilot Barnhill on Tuesday.
King Re*urns to Fairbanks—
Fred King returned to McGrath on
the mail plane a week ago Tuesday.
Ke had hoped that his health had im
proved sufficiently to permit him to
remain here, but growing steadily
worse away from medical attention,!
he returned on last Tuesday's place
to Fairbanks.
Leaves for States—
Charles Woods, who trapped in the
Salatna, Big River region with Dan
McRae, during the past winter, left
Tuesday with FHo Goodman, for An
chorage. Mr. Woods plans to go Out
side, and as far east as Rochester,
• Minnesota. Mr. Woods and Mr. Mc
Rae walked to t:wn from their trsjs
] ping grounds last week. They are re
■ ported to have brought in one of the
: rlnest catches of marten that Ha»
come into McGrath this winter.
K.Ils Wolf with Ski—
Pilot Jack Elliott of the Star Atr
( Service, is the hero of a uniqu? exper
' ienee iri killing predatory animals..
! Elliott and Warden O’Cinnor spotted
' a coyote at the upper end of Lake
Clark, while Lying over that terri
tory seme days ago, and landed to
make an attempt to shoot it. Fail
ing to hit the c:yote, Elliott took off
the lake, planning to turn the animal
and chase it within shooting range
of C‘Connor, who was on the
with the ride. The coyote started
for the bank, and Pilot Elliott, fear-’
ing the animal would make toe brush,
’ flew down at the side of the running
coyote and hit him a glancing blow
j with the side of the ski. Needless to
I say, he killed the coyote, and is now
i the proud possessor of probably the
first predatory animal pelt ever to
have been taken with an airplane ski.
SON Of SLEITMUTE TRADER
PARIES AWAY IN ANCHORAGE
In death, a sen, after a brief Intel
vtu, has followed his father.
George Bishop, sms of the late
I .oderiri. Bishop, proprietor of a
trading post at Sleitmute. passed
away recently in Anchorage. The
father succumbed in Anchorage De
cember 27. The son attended the
parent during the latter’s last illness,
and has since remained in Anchorage.
BITTY MINING MAN' PLAN'S
TO DRILL BENCH GROUND
Lew Carpenter, well-known mining
man from the Ruby district, arrived
in Seattle and after a abort tru
through the middle west is back in
Seattle taking a brief rest before re
turning North, says The Alaska
Weekly.
When seen ai the Savoy, he salt,
‘'We have been mining—that is, pros
pecting, sniping and mining—and are
finally getting things in pretty good
shape. The ground we have l eer,
work it r during the past, season has
averaged about $2.00 to the running
foot, and we can make same m >r.ey
at that.
"This winter my pardners are tak
ing out a small winter dump, and 1
hope we will have something to put
throeph the boxes as soon as the
water starts to run in the spring We
have some pretty good looking bench
ground that I want to drill—in fact.
I may buy a drill while 1 am Out
side and have it shipped in to pros
pect the ground. It runs as deep
as eighty or ninety feet to bedrock,
but I believe will show pretty fai
values.”
SPEILJACKS RETURNING
Mr. a no Mrs. Frank Speiijaok aie
reported to be on the steamer Alaska
which arrived in Seward toaay. Mi.
Speiljack is one of the pa-W‘ in
the Ganes Greek dredge.
NAPIMUTE FIRST
RUSSIAN OUTPOST
IN KUSKOKWIM
Napim'Jte ss one >-f the oldest
towns on the Kuskokwim Rivet-. HereJ
used to stand the old Russia^ Trad
ing Post and Fort—the first Russian
outpost to be built on the Snsko
kwim. This old block now stands at
the College if Fairbanks, where tt
was moved some years ago
Napimute snuggles at the foot b!
high hiTis on the right bank of the
Kuskokwim. It is the first town be
low Crokoed Creek and has a popu
lation of approximate:j 100 a dwrtn
■of which are whites.
Sam Yoich r uns the one and orsh
store and trading post, and Mrs.
Agnes Lee operates the po=t:<tnte n
a separate building.
The chief industry here consists of
fishing and trading. Xew York
Creek, and old mining camp about
she miles above, receives supplies
from Napimute. Jack Brink is pre
paring to reopen the mining on New
York Creek. Considerable trapping
is being carried on daring the win
ter months in the suround.ng coun
try drained by Napimute. Part of
Marvel Creek is supplied from here
Considerable placer mining is car
ried on at Marvel Creek. Further j |
details concerning this creek will' be
published in next week's issue.
The Kuskc Times would like to;i
hear from someone in Napimute. i
Perhaps they could give u* stmt his-; 1
Ulrica] data of real interest. * 1
PREDICTS BETHEL
WILL HAVE BOOM
TIMES THIS YEAR
-Neis Anderson, Unite!! State? dep
uty marshal at Bethel, said the' area
is booming with the opening of a
platinum mine there say the Fair
banks News- Miner.
"Four stores are duirg a thriving
business in this town which tow has
500 people in it. There are usually
something over iOO One picture
show is Tunning daily and everyone
is -prosperous." he said.
Spring will see e. c. r.dfcrteti inva
sion of the area with drtriging and
dragline operation?: in the field-: east
firm Bethel in the Kuskokwim areas
including the Eel: River district
north of Goodnews Bay, .Anderson
said.
■‘Lrveojrood will blossom again in
even greater glory tnaii in lta palm?
days.” war the statement made re
cently in Fairbanks by Ted Hudson,
diseevere- of that famous placer
camp.
When Clifford Smith gets his
dredging program started, things- will
be huramh-g again,” Hudson said.
“The camp has had a bn gfc; pas*
but its future is even brighter The
gold is there and there is no holding
us back. We’re entitled to- our {dace
in the sun and we are going t<- reach
it
“More gwlo by far remains 'n the
creeks than has ever beet tales c oat.
The days of big trrodur tion .by pres
ent metbc-ds of operata i are over
hut there is a vast tract of ground
which Trill be rich far cre-dgirg. We’8
be showing the way tr the rest of
the interior son*.*’
PETERS CREEK PLACER
MINE MAKES MONET
Installing a draglir e after hydraul
ic equipment failed because of water
shortage, the Peters Creek Mining
Company mace grise rr-o&ts of >111,
000 last season freir its operations
6e miles north of Anchorage.
This fact was brought out at the
annual meeting of the mining com
pany held recently in Spokane, .Wash
An initial dr. ideod of -£0 per sent,
or $12,500. was declared. The num
ber of stockholders ta 12b of wtjoir
90 percent reside in the Spokane
area.
John X Mcltocald, manager of the
company , told of moving 130,000 cu
bic yards of gravel will, ike drag
line equipment, which was operatec
for 11® days Mr. McDomiki. a res
ident of Anchorage, is retiring from
the presidency of the company be
cause of interest* in other operations.
PILOT RETURNING
WITH NEW' PLANE
Pilot Ltor AVinchrli a ^Jtpwctac
to be leaving Seattle on the s'.tamer
Ml McKinley, bringing a new seven
place Bel Lancs plane for the Aiaakj
interior Airline, according to Pilot
Oon Goodman, who dew it fron An
chorage today.
The pilot bscpgbt -Mr. anc Mrs.
Ipff More]\ of Palmer, a: paster.gers.
Phey intend to make Takctns their
'u* ure borne.. Goodman will Dcmaia
>»r nignt and intends to take off ia
ie morning for McGrath, v.-ippU and
>ack to Takotna.
Bob Low.-ie went V Opmr or, bus
ness Monday and oack Tuesday. Bek
aid the walking was good, only d.
cept him jumping ami be had «*
inse to .visit
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