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FALMER, ALASKA DOROTHY M. BELL,
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WFITTIER IS COMING TOWN SAYS HOFF
Whittier, salt' water terminus of th
cut-off of the Alaska railroad from
Anchorage, is a coming place, ac
cording to John Hoff, who was in
Ketchikan today visiting his wife
and friends.
He was employed there for the Col
umbia Lumber Company which is build
Ing a mill about the size of the
Ketchikan Spruce Mills, which will
make use of spruce and hemlock
stands of timber,
Mr. . off says Whittier ha3 large
d-^'V3 for ocean steamers and is now
under military rule, but later it
is intended to throw it open to a
townsite and give the Seward bus
inessmen and residents the first
che nee to buy lots.
He says lots of freight is moving
through the cut-off and the sur
rounding district is a virgin 4
wilderness. Bears were so numerous
as to be underfoot all the time,
an d great flocks of wild fowl and
moose and other game hardly got out
of the way of trains. Inside the
cut-off he said was one of the big
gest hog ranches in Alaska.
From-The Alaska Fishing News'
FINAL FIGURES ON SALMON PACK
Final Alaska Fack to date, accord
ing to Bureau figures, is
4,944,075 cases as compared with
5,350,067 of last year.
SOUTHEAST ALASKA UF IN ARMS
OVER LAND GRAB.
According to an Editorial in the
Alaska Fishing News,the fate of
Alaska hangs in the balance.
"It must now be apparent to every
one that Secretary Ickes is plan
ning one of the biggest land-grabs
ever attempted by a bureau chief.**
"The sinister signs have been plait
enough all along for those who
cared to read them. For years bur
eau officials have claimed Alaska's
fishing resources were too Valuable
to be trusted to state control.The;
Fish and Wildlife Service says 90
percent of all salmon caught in the
U.S, is taken in Alaska.: Before
Congressional Committees the Int- r
ior Department opposed and delay d 4
3the Statehood. bill.
Insidiously, for several years,with
out benefit of advance notices, the
bureaus have been expanding thi ir
rule in Alaska by the creation' of
feame reserves, refuge reserves,
bird reserves, oil leases, coal ,
’leases,'military reserves, parks,
monuments a One time an attempt was
made to include the whole of Admir
alty island Into a gome reserve,
Now comes an attempt at the biggfst
land-grab of all--the industrial
heart of Alaska, larger than the
State of Massachusetts, which pro
duces millions of dollars annually.
Creation of a .reserve would rob /he
Territory of taxes from this wealth
for settlers and retard further
development.11
This’ is in regard, to the Indian
Reservation In SouthEast Alaska as .
proposed by Se.c., Ickes,
PUBLIC HEALTH NEWS
The regular monthly child Health
Conference will be held at the
Health Center Tuesday, October 31,
from 2 p.m, to 4 p.m. The conference
is open, to all children under •school
age*..
The Public Health Nurse held a Child
Health’Conference at Jonesville
Wednesday Octi 2fe. Two infants and
4 preschool children attended.
NOTICE
The Riverben-Hilltop Club meets for .
practice Tuesday the 31, at the home
of Mrs, A.R. Moffitt.
Word has been .received in the Exten
sion Office that Eleanore Engdall
is confined, to the Hospital in j mg
las,Arizona following a severe attne
of pneumonia. She is now able to be
up and walk a little, b\it is f rbid
den to work, for some tine, and she
will not be able to return to Alaska
until next spring.
We hear that Jack Allman Is now
Fire and Police Chief in Kodiak,
Many will remember Jack Allman as
editor of the first paper edited in
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