Barrow Is On
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Charles Brower
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row, nine miles north, and the
other was at Cape Smythe, two
miles south of Point Barrow.
Proceeds from the Salvage were
sufficient to start Brower and his
partners in the trading business
for themselves. In 1893 they form
ed the Cape Smythe Trading Co.,
which is in business to this day.
Present stockholders in the com
pany are Brower and Arnod Lie
bes of San Francisco, Calif.
One Big Company
At one time the company had
posts on the Arctic coast from the
Canadian line to Kotzebue, but
now there is only one, at Point
Barrow.
Fox fur is the principal item of
commerce,where whalebone once
supplied the corset trade. Fortu
nately, fickle dame fashion likes
the white Arctic fox quite as well
as she once fancied corsets of
whalebone.
Freight costs are lower than
formerly, for Brower relates that
in 1906 he paid $90 per ton for
freight from Seattle to Point Bar
row. The price today is $30 per
ton.
Brower came from Barrow to
Fairbanks Saturday, Oct. 2 with
Pilot Harold Gillam, and the vet
eran Northerner is “thinking ab
out” going Outside. While he is
away from his post,his son David,
30 years old, is in charge.
-Lists Population of Community
Besides Russian and American
airmen at Barrow this season,
there are quite a few whites,
whom Brower listed:
Dr. and Mrs. Otto George and
two children. Doctor George is
Calkins’ Shoppe
SILK DRESSES
HOUSE DRESSES
And Smocks
Also—Other Attractive
Items Arriving on Baranof
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At
Calkins’ Shoppe
the Indian Service physician.
Miss Kerr, nurse, and Miss De
Ford, cook, both of the Indian
Service.
Mr. and Mrs. Burker, Indian
Service teachers.
Morgan Is Radio Operator
Master Sergeant Stanley Mor
gan, Mrs. Morgan and two child
ren.Sergeant Morgan is in charge
of the Alaska Communications
System radio station at Barrow.
The Rev. Mr. Klerkoper and
Mrs. Klerkoper, of the Presby
terian Mission.
Dr. Levine, a major in the med
ical corps of the United States
Army, and Dr. Ford, a scientist
from California.
Tom Gordon, 66 years old. for
merly a trader at Barter Island,
now a victim if paralysis, is being
cared for by Mr. Brower.
The native population of the
community totals 450 Eskimos,
according to Brower.
82 Year-Old Document
Shortly after arriving in Fair
banks, Brower went to the Uni
versity of Alaska, where his dau
ghter Sadie is a freshman stud
ent. He called on Dr. Charles E.
Bunnell, University president, &
presented him with a copy of an
interesting old document of the
Arctic. The original was found
at Beachy Point by an Eskimo
last winter. It was sealed in a
can. and had been sent up in a
balloon 82 years ago by the cap
tain of the British ship Enter
prise. The Enterprise was one of
the vessels on the Sir John Frank
lin search expedition.
Brower sent the sealed contain
er to the British Admiralty in
London. Admiralty officers made
a careful copy of the document,
which gave a description of the
I Enterprise’s course and of caches,
and sent the copy to Brower with
several letters of appreciation. It
was the copy that Brower pre
sented to Dr. Bunnell for the his
torical museum at the University.
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Placer gold production in the
oyukuk-Chandalar districts am
ounts to approximately $47,000
♦his season, it is reported by Irv
ing McK. Reed, associate mining
engineer and ex-ocio inspector of
mines for the Territory.
Mr. Reed recently returned to
his home in Fairbanks after a
long field trip in the Koyukuk
country.
All the gold recovered in the
Koyukuk and the Cnandalar this
season is from placer mines. Al
though good quartz prospects
have been found in the Chanda
lar. development is handicapped
by inadequate transportation.
Value of placer gold produced
in the Koyukuk this season total
ed $41,000 in the Chandalar, $6,000
Old papers for sale at the
Nome Daily Nugget Office at 25c
a bundle.
SKULL SOLVES MYSTERY
Part of Remains May Be
Missing Man’s.
ANCHORAGE, Oct.—Discovery
of a skull in the wilderness south
of Anchorage is believed to be
the solution to the mystery of the
disappearance a year ago of E.R
Ennigar, a resident of Anchorage.
72 years old. The skull was found
by W. E. Davey while on a hunt
for moose.
Dr. J. H. Romig. mayor of An
chorage# identified the skull as
that of the missing man. The lat
ter’s son-in-law is going with
Davey to the place where the
skull was found to seek the rest
of the remains.
A wide search was conducted
for Ennigar for a long time after
his disappearance.
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D E A s .. _ ■ i. J it (j> u m j I* in me imm nl 4.000 volts of
short-circuited electricity reached out to clutch Herbert Drage,
Canadian street lamp cleaner and froze his body to the post for 30
minutes. When Winnipeg workmen finally cut off the current, his
body crashed to the street.
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