CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE
Chamber of Commerce weekly
noon lunch, held at the Northern
Grill. Present were Saario, Polet,
Galvin, Duffield, Osborne, Corn
well, Dillon and Beacom.
President Saario read a com
munication regarding the recent
picture and news spread on Alaska
in the rotogravure section of the
Seattle Times. More such Alaskan
items are to be forthcoming.
Work accomplished by the
Tourist Committee was discussed
with suggestion made by Polet
that more individuals be asked to
assist this important committee as
theer is too much work for one
small group to accomplish. The
main project at hand is to encour
age winter tourist travel with the
co-operation of carriers and all in
dividuals interested in the tourist
trade.
The group agreed that all effort
should be made to assure hiring
of local people by the construction
companies in the area wherever
possible, on the projects now
commencing in and about our re
gion.
A committee was appointed
composed of Galvin, Lyle, Corn
well, Andersen, and Gabrielson to
contact these construction com
panies so as to be able to ascer
tain their wants and thus be able
to supply items and services need
ed.
Ted Duffield, chairman of the
legislative committee summarized
the report of that committee
which listed needs of this area
submitted to the 1th Territorial
Legislature at Juneau.
A motion was made and car
ried that all effort be made to
continue the function of the Plan
ning Commission.
Jack Dillon was appointed
chairman of the membership
committee, replacing Bill Wood.
The need of a chairman* for the
mining and industry Committee
was discussed, with the hope that
a qualified and interested person
might be appointed by the next
i
meeting.
Polet opened discussion regard
ing arrangements to be made wel
coming the Portland Chamber of
‘Commerce due to arrive in Nome
[Alaska Has 132,000
| Official Census
Figures Show
The biggest census taking job
ever conducted in the Territory of
Alaska has been completed. One
year ago the Territorial office of
the census bureau was opened in
Juneau. A complete census of all
retail, wholesale, and service busi
nesses was the first project under
taken. Figures on gross sales have
been recently published by the
bureau showing the tremendous
gains in all businesses during the
past nine years in the Territory.
A complete breakdown will be
j available within the next few
| months.
The final preliminary figures as
submitted to the Washington
office show the population by Ju
dicial divisions are follows:
1st Judicial Division 31,600
2nd Judicial Division 12,567
3r Judicial Division 58,300
4th Judicial Division ♦ 28,632
Total 131,099
As several hundred individual
reports have been turned in to the
Washington office for persons
enumerated in the “States” the
final official total should be ap
proximately 132,000. This total
will then be within three thousand
of the estimate made several
months ago.
As a result of this census the
membership in the Territorial
House of Representatives will be
re-apportioned by Judicial Divi
sion. The final totals will prob
ably allow the First Division six
members (they now have eight).
The Second Division may loose
two members (they now have
four). The Third Division will
perhaps be given eleven members
which will be a gain of four <they
now have seven). The Fourth Di
vision stands to remain the same
with five members. This change
will apply to the 1953 session of
the legislature.
Fish may not be brain food, but
even the smallest specimen does
wonders for the imagination.
about July 20.
As these was no further busi
ness meeting was adjourned.
...
Interior Dept.
Reopens Dunbar
Area To Settlers
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The inte^,
rior department last week re
opened the Dunbar area of Alaska
to individual settlement. But the
agency said applicants for land
in the area, 40 miles west of Fair
banks, must gravely consider the
frost and other problems they
would have to face in trying to
start a farm.
The department also rejected
the area for group settlement pur
poses.
_ *■ I
Two years ago it withdrew the
32,437 acres from individual set
tlement in the Goldstream Creek
valley in the hope a community
project might be established.
“In all fairness to the public, no
land known to be unsuitable for
farming should be open to agri
cultural entry,” the bureau of |
land management said in a news'
release.
A citizen has a right to believe
that public land opened to farm
settlement is in truth suitable on
the whole for farming •
“But it would be impracticable
under existing law to withhold
this area permanently from agri
cultural entry.”
The bureau said surveys showed
the Dunbar area to be unsuitable
for group settlement because:
1. Only 5,000 acres were free
trom sinking due to the uneven
falling of ice.
2. The 5,000 acres of suitable
land were not situated suitably
for division into sizable farm
units.
3. Water supplies for domestic
use and for livestock probablv
would be inadequate.
4. It would be impracticable to
provide community facilities and
services for such a small and
poorly arranged area.
5. Economic studies of farming
in Alaska provided little hope for
successful agriculture in the Dun
bar area.
6. Superior agricultural oppor
tunities exist elsewhere in Alaska.
• • , *
The bureau added that it plans
to require all applicants for land
in the Dunbar area to show that
they are fully informed of the
general unsuitability of the area for
agricultural homestead purposes.
Try To Revoke
Bridges9 Bond
WASHINGTON, i(/P)—A Senate
judiciary sub-committee was set
up today to look into the possibili
ity of having Harry Bridges’
$100,000 bond revoked. That
would mean the West Coast labor
leader would have to go to jail.
Bridges, a native of Australia,
was convicted and given a five
year prison sentence in April on
a charge of lying about commun
ist connections when he applied
for U. S. citizenship. A federal
court in San Francisco has ordered
his citizenship cancelled.
The citizenship proceeding was
held up, however, pending an ap
peal by the CIO longshoreman’s
chief from the perjury conviction.
Creation of the Senate sub-com
mittee came in the wake of re
ports that Bridges has opposed a
resolution by West Coast long
shoremen to condemn the com
munist invasion of South Korea.
A union meeting to consider the
resolution broke up in a fist fight.
The judiciary subcommittee ex
pects to meet with attorney genl.
McGrath and McGrath’s assistant,
Peyton Ford, in an effort to get
them to testify tomorrow on
Bridges case.
The local Selective Service Of
fice announced this week the ap
pointment of a full time clerk,
Miss Ellen Waldheim. The board
will hold its first meeting tomor
row evening. Present members
are William Cameron, A. Polet,
Joe Amarok and Bert Bell. No ap
pointment has been made to date
to replace Ron Brousseau.
For Good Printing Call Main 125
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
Received, U.S. Land Office, Nome,
Alaska Date: Aug. 1, 1944. Hour:
11:55 a.m. Mineral Entry No.0972.
IN THE UNITED STATES
LAND OFFICE FOR THE NOME
LAND DISTRICT. NOME, AL
ASKA.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
FOR PATENT
Mineral Surrey No* 1890
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that Ralph Lomen by and through
his attomey-in-fact, Ira D. Orton,
whose post office address is Nome,
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Alaska, has made application for
a United States Patent for the
No. 3 Below Discovery placer min
ing claim situated on Newton
Creek, No. 1 a tributary of Dry
Creek, a tributary of Snake River,
in the Cape Nome Mining and Re
cording Precinct, Territory of Al
aska, and designated as United
States Mineral Survey No. 1890 .
and particularly described in the
official plat and field notes now
on file in the said Land Office
with magnetic variation at each
corner of the survey of mean val
ue of 17 degrees 12 min. E., as
follows:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 ident
ical with Cor. No. 2, Survey No.
1166, No. 4 Below placer and Cor.
No. 17, Survey No 1310, Great
Western Group Claim Placer from *
whence UJS.L.M. No. 11, bears S.
86 deg. 33 min. W., 7290.75 ft.; E.
edge Anvil Rock bears N. 40 deg.
24 min. W.; Newton Rock bears
N. 1 deg. 35 min. W.; Radio Tower
at Nome bears &. 43 deg. 24 min.
W.; U.SX..M. No. i399 bears S. 23
deg. 44 min. W.; thence N. 17 deg.
117 min. E., 1041.66 ft. to Cor. No.
2; thence N. 81 deg. 08 min. E.,
661.90 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence S.
16 deg. 01 min. W., 1587.19 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence N. 45 deg. 37
min. W., 333.0 ft. to Cor. No, 5;
| thence N. 55 deg. 33 min. W.,
347.52 ft. to Cor. No. 1 and place
of beginning, containing an area
of 18.223 acres.
There are no conflicting claims.
The adjoining claims are:
On the N., Survey No. 1335,
“Doyle Fraction”.
On the E., Survey No. 1182, No.
17 Below Discovery.
On the S., Survey No. 1166, No.
4 Below Placer.
On the W., Survey No. 1319, r
Great Western Group Claim Pla
cer.
The original certificate of loca
tion of said placer mining claim
is recorded in the office of the Re
corder of said Mining District and
Precinct in Vol. 216, Page 79 of
the records of locations of said
District.
The mineral monument to
which this claim is tied is de
scribed as follows:
U.S.L.M. No. 11 is a fir post,
6 in. sq. 5 ft. above ground in
stone mound. It is situated about
70 ft. east of the Bessie Road from
Nome and about 2.7 miles NJS. of 1
the mouth of Snake River, and is
in Lat. 64 deg. 32 min. N., Long.
165 deg. 22 min. W.
Dated the 1st day of August,
1944.
Mrs. Helen M. Bockman
Acting Register
Pub. June 7, 14, 21, 28, July 5,
12, 19. 26, Aug. 1, 8, 15.
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OF NOME
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each month
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