Roads and Mining
(By Richard E. Lee)
(Part II) j
It is well to bear in mind the!
enormous latent wealth yet con
tained in the Second Division and
to realize that more than half a
century, 52 years, has passed since
gold was discovered in Nome,
Council, Candle, Kougarok, Teller,
Deering, Bluff, Haycock and many
other places in varying amounts,
extracted through the years in
figures that is officially recorded
as over $133,000,000. It is also well
to reflect on the pitifully few
miles of road, approximately 150,
serving all the communities scat
tered over Seward Peninsula, a
country with an area of more
than 50,000 square miles.
It has been the objective of the
Northwestern Alaska Chamber of
Commerce for the past forty years
as well as that of many mining
groups and individuals since the
gold rush days of Nome, working
diligently year after year, with
tbe various legislatures, delegates
to Congress and road agencies,
using their influence and persua
sive abilities in trying to obtain
funds to construct an inland road
from Nome to Council via Solo
mon. At times success had been
very near and many had consid
ered the project all but under
way, only to have their works and
dreams dashed and the project
snatched from the public’s grasp,
as was the cast of our latest ap
parent success this past summer.
Yet ever persistent, those same
people and others, whose interest
and foresight could and can en
vision a forthcoming generation,
active and eager, developing the
many rich deposits of minerals in
the area whose hundreds of square
miles are to be served by this vital
linking road. I, myself, having
been born, raised and educated in
this country and following in my
father’s footsteps as a miner, have,
both as an individual and work
ing together with groups includ
ing this same Northwestern Alas
ka Chamber of Commerce, and
with legislators from the Second
Division, who, recognizing the
very real need of the Nome-Coun
cil road, have supported and kept
alive the constant fight and drive
tG materialize into actual substance
the construction of this road. The
torch has been borne, even to
much greater extent by other men,
prominent in their field, known
and highly regarded throughout
Alaska. Our present legislators
are all cognizant of the importance
of this issue and are applying
concerted effort in its behalf.
The Alaska Road Commission
under Colonel John R. Noyes is
including the project in its newly
drafted six year program of road
construction, and as such recog
nizes the economic and strategic
importance of this road as the ini
tial link of the Nome-Pairbanks
Highway, the final link of the All
American Highway. It is known
to Colonel Noyes, through military
demands and requirements, that
this area, without road connections
to other military establishments
in the Territory, makes this sec
tion of Alaska untenable from
the standpoint of defense. The
reason is obvious, for we all know
this section of Alaska is ice-lock
ed for shipping seven months of
the year.
(To be continued)
Mrs. W. B. McCarthy, first
grade teacher, was called to the
States due to the serious illness of
her father who is now 93 years of
age and not expected to live. '
Inaugurate Non
Commercial Fish
ing Regulations
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ation anywhere in the inter-tidal
zones instead of confinement to a
narrow strip of beach adjacent to
the high tide line, as in 1950.”
Chapman said commercial fish
ermen in Alaska have been voic
ing strong opposition to the use of
the so-called mother ships, espe
cially in gill net fishing, because
of the danger in overfishing.
He said the prohibition against
mother-ship operation, formerly
applied only to purse seining,
therefore has been extended to in
clude all forms of mobile gear.
The 1951 regulations also de
cree a new method of rending sal
mon traps inoperative during sea
sonal and weekly closed periods.
A section of the pot wall of each
trap must be opened and sealed in
place during such closed seasons.
In the areas of central Alaska,
the principal changes include
longer weekly closed periods in
Cook Inlet, Resurrection Bay, and
Yakutat.
On Kodiak Island the midseason
closure from July 1 to Aug. 1 will
be effective this year in the Red
River district as well as in the
other districts of the area.
The fishing season in the Kar
luk district will close July 15 for
the remainder of the year.
In the Copper River area a sum
mer season from July 10 to Aug.
7 will be permitted for Red sal
mon, because of the possibility
that a small run in that area is not
now being fully utilized.
In the Yakutat area the king
salmo nseason has -been curtailed
in Dry Bay. However, the red sal
mon season has been liberalized
by allowing fishing for this spe
cies to start June 18 instead of
July 1.
Throughout the Southeastern
Alaska area the maximum length
of purse seines has been standard
ized at 250 fathoms, with which a
lead of 75 fathoms may be used.
Taking of cohere salmon by any
means is prohibited in the area
from Sept. 20 to July 1, 1952. ,
An Alaska-wide prohibition of
last year against taking or posses
sing undersized king salmon will
apply this year only in Southeast
ern Alaska.
The Alaska regulations are
made and enforced by the fish and
wildlife service.
That agency said there was a
“good escapement” and good sur
vival of pink salmon in South
eastern Alaska in 1949.
As a result, the run his year is
expected to be good. For that rea
son, fishing will be permitted
from Aug. 6 to Sept. 1, instead of
from Aug. 15 to Sept. 3, as was
the case last year.
Fall fishing for chums, from
Oct. 1 to Oct. 6, will be experi
mental in nature, and close watch
will be kept to see that no undue
numbers of late pink salmon are
taken, the agency said.
The new regulations also will
permit a limited purse seine fish
ery from June 16 to July 28 in the
outside waters from Cape Muzon
to Cape Ulitka.
The commercial quota for herr
ing for 1951 was reduced to 100,
000 barrels, from 150,000 for
1950. Teh service said the reduc
tion is necessary because of a fur
ther decline in herring stocks in
Southeastern Alaska last year.
Iran Premier
Assassinated
TEHRAN, Iran, (iP)—American
supported Premier Ali Razmara
was shot to death today in a Teh
ran mosque. The government of
this politically turbulent neighbor
of Russia immediately placed the
armed forces of the nation on the
alert.
Western sources in London ex
pressed fear that the assassina
tion might increase the political
turmoil in the oil-laden but im
poverished country, which sprawls
along a critical flank of western
defenses against Communism.
The gunman who pumped four
shots into the slim, 50-year-old
premier as he entered a bazaar
district mosque was seized quick
ly. He was identified in a commu
nique only as “a certain man.”
An informed source said the killer
jwas a member of a small, fanati
was a member of a small, fanati
cal religious sect.
Boss (to stenographer): “Are
you doing anything Sunday eve
ning?”
Steno (hopefully): “Why no.”
Boss: “Then try to get down a
little earlier Monday morning,
will you?”
WINDSHIELD CUTS GLARE
TOLEDO, (A3)—Squinting auto
mobile drivers in sun and snow
countries may soon get relief from
an improvement in windshields.
One new windshield, of bluish
green tint, has a shading of grad
uated intensity above the eye lev
el to cut glare from the bright sky.
Iron oxides in the glass itself elim
inted more than 15 per cent of the
infra red rays and yet admit more
than 70 per cent of average day
light, said Dr. George B. Watkins,
research director of the Libbey
Owens-Ford Glass Co.
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