Eklutna Power
Bill Will Aid
itatanuska Valley
PALMER, (£>)—The Matanuska
Vallep is looking forward to a
$2,000,000 payroll in the next five
years if President Truman signs
tme Eklutna power bill.
The $20,365,400 project bill is
now before the President. The
J#juse completed Congressional
action on it Monday. Presidential
approval is expected.
Joseph M. Morgan, chief of the
Alaska investigations office of the
bureau of reclamation, is the au
thority for the $2,000,000 estimate.
He said Palmer has been designat
ed as headquarters for the pro
j*t.
He said work by survey crews
will be started promptly after the
bill becomes law. I
Estimates are that the Eklutna
project will make electricity avail
able in Anchorage and the Matan
uska Valley at three-quarters of a
<ent a kilowatt hour.
The priority job under the Ek
lutna project bill is a transmission
line between the Valley and An
chorage. It will carry power in re
verse from the ultimate Eklutna
flow. It will bring power from!
* the giant steam plant to be built
by the Chugiak Electric Associa-!
tion and the Alaska Railroad in
Anchorage. It will be an interim»
power supply in the five-year pe-!
riod of Eklutna construction.
A tunnel to be dug through
Goat Mountain and under Eklutna
Lake will take an estimated four
years to drill. It will be the larg- j
est single phase of the big project.!
^ It will be nine feet in diameter!
and four and a half miles long. It:
will run 40 feet under the surface I
1
of the lake to eliminate the pres
ent winter ice problem.
Main headquarters for the por
ject will be 13 miles from Palmer !
on the Anchorage highway. A per- j
manent colony is scheduled for
location there, at mile 34, for;
maintenance work at the power
ASK ANTI-RESERVATION BE
CUT FROM STATEHOOD BILL
((JP) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The Inte
rior department’s advisory com
mittee on Indian affairs has urged
that the so-called anti-reservation
section be cut out of the pending
Alaska statehood bill.
The section would provide that
pending a vote of the people of
Alaska and approval by Congress
no reservations should be set aside
for natives.
In a telegram signed by nine of
the committee’s 11 members,
chairman Oliver la Farge told In
terior Secretary Chapman:
“This section is grossly unfair
to natives and its enactment in or
ganic law would set a most vi
cious precedent for denial of na
tive rights.”
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WASHINGTON — The Presi
dent’s signature is all that remains
to turn into law legislation given
final approval last week by Con
gress to authorize the construc
tion of a 30,000 kilowatt hydro
electric project for Lake Eklutna
in the amount of $20,365,400.
The bill, sponsored by Delegate
Bartlett, was amended in the Sen
ate and the House accepted the
Senate amendments thus elimin
ating the necessity for further ac
action through conferences be-!
tween the two houses.
Provision is made for repay
ment of the cost of the project to
the federal treasury over a “rea
sonable period of years” with 2Vfe
per cent interest payable on the
unamortized balance. The project
which would supply a wide area
i n c 1 uding Palmer, Anchorage,
Fort Richardson and Elmendorf
Air Force Base, would be con
structed, operated and maintained
by the Department of the Interior
and would consist of a low dam
at Lake Eklutna, a diversion tun
nel and pen stock, a power plant
with an installed capacity of 30,
000 kilowatts and transmission
lines to Anchorage and other load
centers.
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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
FOB PATENT
Mineral Surrey No. 1899
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that Ralph Lomen by and through
his attorney-in-fact, Ira D. Orton,
whose post office address is Nome,
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. j
1166, No. 4 Below placer and Cor. i
No. 17, Survey No 1310, Great
Western Group Claim Placer from
whence U.SX.M. No. 11, bears S.
86 deg. 33 tnin. 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 b. 43 deg. 24 min.
W.; U.SX.M. No. i399 bears S. 23
deg. 44 min. W.; thence N. 17 deg.
17 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.
7 Below Discovery.
On the S., Survey No. 1166, No.
4 Below Placer.
On the W., Survey No. 1310,
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, I
6 in. sq. 5 ft. above ground in j
stone mound. It is situated about
70 ft. east of the Bessie Road from
Nome and about 2.7 miles N.E. of
the mouth of Snake River, and is
in Lat. 64 deg. 32 min. N., Long, j
165 deg. 22 min. W. !
Dated the 1st day of August,
1944.
Mrs. Helen M. Beckman •
Acting Register
Pub. June 7, 14, 21, 28, July 5,
12, 19. 26, Aug. 1, 8, 15.
Truman Will Need
Much More Power
(Continued from Page One)
be used, to stop production of any
item, and to fix the terms of
credit sales.
Some members of Congress al
ready are balking at such a grant
of power. At the same time there
has been growing sentiment for a
sharp increase in. taxes with the
idea that this would (1) Put de
fense costs on a pay as you go ba
sis, and (2) Hold down the infla-'
tionary pressures, lessening the
need for controls.
A rise m taxes appears certain
since tre administration—as well
as some critics of its controls pro
gram—is urging higher taxes.
, There also is some sentiment
for an even bigger military ex
pansion than the $10,000,000,000
plus asked by President Truman.
In a House speech today, Rep.
Vinson dX-Ga.) calle for an all
out defense effort. He said Russia
outnumbers the United States 7
to 1 in tanks, 17 to 1 in militory
power, has a “vast airforce” and
some 300 submarines.
Vinson, chairman of the House
armed services committee, said he
was not satisfied with present
plans for increasing the size of the
navy and air force “for I believe
there is too much conservatisnuin
the program.”
Sawyer said he is “convinced
the American people will willing
ly give up whatever is necessary
to guarantee our national security,
in spite of inconvenience and
some sacrifice of the very high
levels of consumption which they
now enjoy.”
Legal Planks at The Nugget office
Reach Agreement
To Bar Subversives
Off American Ships
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Manager
ment and unions of the maritime
industry have agreed on a secur
ity system for barring commun
ists and subversives from Ameri
can ships.
A voluntary pact under which
the coast guard will do the actual
policing was worked out Monday
by representatives of ship opera
tors and workers meeting here
with federal officials.
In a statement issued after the
meeting, they pledged that “no
ship will be delayed'* because
crew members are found to be
«
bad security risks by the military.'
Secretary of Labor Tobin said
the meeting was called because
because voluntary agreement be
tween management and labor was
the only way disloyal crewmen
could be taken off American
ships. He said the coast guard, the
FBI and naval intelligence already
are taking steps to spot commun
ist and subversive seamen.
Tobin said some comipunist and
subversives have sailed on Ameri
can ships but he is confident that
only loyal Americans will be
found in the crews in a short time.
Elements of the left-wing CIO
longshoremen’s union, headed by
Harry Bridges, and the left-wing
CIO cooks and stewards union
were not invited to the confer
ence. However, Tobin said that of
ficials of three longshoremen’s
locals representing a majority of
the total union membership were
present and signed the agreement.
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