VOL. 11
Palmer, Alaska
July 16, 19 ‘W
No. 20
CO-OP nOTES
FEED GROUND ON TUESDAYS
Darroll Prank, Manager of the ’Tarohouse,
announced this rook that henceforth, feed
rill be ground only on Tuesdays. This
rill rork in bettor rith the Warehouse
schedule, and should not inconvenicnco
any farmer.
BOTH BOILERS OUT
The second boiler ras removed from tho
Poror House this rock.' That is a big job
out of the ray, but Mr. Cooper, rho is in
charge of the rork,'says that there is
plenty of rork loft.
The brick for tho furnaces is hero and
as soon as the nor boilers are in place
suspended on a crane, tho rork of build
ing the furnaces around them rill begin.
During tho meantime the stoam for tho
Civic Center is furnished by one of tho
old boilers rhich ras installed outside
tho poror house.
director of territories
VISITING VALLEY
James P. Davis, Director of Territories
and Insular Possessions, rill bo a guest
of the Chamber of Commerce at a Luncheon
Friday noon of this reck.
It', Davis is visiting the Valley for only
one day it ras lcarnod. It had boon hoped
that he rould be able to spend a little
more time in the Valley.
AGRICULTURAL LEADERS
CONFER
A confercnco ras hold in Don Irrin's Offic
on Monday of this reek rith all Depart
ments interested in the Development of
Agniculturo in Alaska, This conference
res for tho pumposo of coordinating these
different agencies, Those rbo took port
inuTudod^ Pram: KointvAlnan.Regional Por
oscor; " 1^1'I.C. Araorson, TLA Agent; Piikor
Taster, District Agricultural .Agont;
Herbert Bryan, Ar’nin i _ t r at ivo Office of
the HP A; CrVT. Putors, Manager of tho AREC;
and Charl'JP 17 j Ison, Hocal of Soil Conser
vation Service in Alaska,
BARTLETT FAVORED
VfiLLEy LOCfiTIOn
A copy of a'ITight'Letter which was sent
to Robert 3. Atwood of the Anchorage Times
was received by tho Valley Settler this
week. The letter is from Delegate Bart-'
lett. .
"According to latest, information from the
Interior Department, it is probable they
'“ill adhere to decision to. place Sanator
ium at Anchorage, I did recommend to
Assistant Secretary Harne and Commissioner
Zimmerman and later"to General Superinten
dent, 'Don C, Foster, that they should in
quire into do sir ability of locaxing the
Institution in the Valley* I did so out
of conviction that rherovor it can be done
without decreasing efficiency or pyramid
ing costs, there ought to bo the widest
possible distribution of Federal under
takings so as to promote the general wel
fare of the entire Territory, It became
apparent "hen Congress appropriated over
two hundred million dollars "for Alaska dur
ing tho current fiscal yoor, that not only
initial cord ruction costs, but later ad
ditions and continued maintenance would bo
a decisive factor in Alaska prosperity for
a long time to come instead of being temp
orary in nature as so many have previously
assumed.
To start rith it ras absolutely certain
that the Sanitarium would bo located in or
adjacent to Anchorage because Interior
Officials and others interested in con
trolling Tuberculosis rere convinced that
this was tho logical location. .
The record shows something in the neigh
borhood of 28 million dollars not: scheduled
Qfor expenditure at 5b>rt Richardson. Anch
orage rill benefit notably bocausa of its
headquarters position from CAA appropria
tion of twelve and a half millions. Like
wise with reference Alaska Railroad funds
nor available in the amount of 29 million.
Very distinct benefits rill accrue to
Anchorage bocause of the ARC appropriations
totalling 24 and a half millions. It rill
bo recalled that 11 million 370 thousand
dollars ras appropriated for Turnagin Arm.
All cf us romembor the recent appropria
tion totalling 8 million dollars for the