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Interesting News From The
Cold Bay District
[Anchorage Times]
Kanatak, Sept. 1.—“Send the
Times to Kanatak. The people
are hungry for news,’* is the
way John F. Coffey, special cor
respondent, prefaces his first
news letter to The Times from
the new oil town and Cold Bay
district. Mr. Coffey is now
located at Kanatak, where he
has established a law office. He
will send The Times news items
of the camp whenever possible.
In his first letter Mr. Coffey
says: Stampeding to what
is to be the greatest oil camp
in Alaska by means of gas boats,
dories, skiffs and steamships is
now on in active'style, Every
boat coming to the shores of
the town is loaded with stamped
ers with their ouifits. Small
boats are coming from Kodiak
with a normal carrying capacity
of 500 tons, but which are load
ed with one to four tons, with
the stampeders clinging to the
masts and the pilot houses,
The latest boat to arrive was
the Grizzly, Capt Dan Patter
son, It brought appaoximately
10,000 feet of lumber, in addit
ion to personal effects of ten
passengers besides the crew.
The boat was no sooner an
chored than the passengers,
most of y^hom are frem Anchor
age, clambered ashore in dor
ies and immediately started the
pleasing task of staking lots &
business sites. At the present
writing there are a few lots re
maining in what is supposed to
be the business part of the new
town, but a number of good res.
idential lots remain open back
from the beach and beyond the
center of the town.
The old town of Kanatak was
located some three years ago &
is now separated from what is
called the new town by a
creek about the size, of Ship ck.
The present population of Kan
atak, including the old and the
new town, is approximately 300
and growing every day, or when
ever a boat lands.
A number of people are in Ko
diak and Seward awaiting trans
portation. The first stampeders
who arrived here aboard the
gas boat Atlas in command of
Capt. Pete Wold erected tents
to house themselves and their
belongings. But after experienc.
ing one good “woolie”, which is
the local name for the terrific
winds that blow here, all who
were left with enough energy &
optimism immediately commene
ed to either dig in war time
style or to erect frame build
ings.
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To any one intending establish*
ing a residence here all thought
of living in a tent must be put
out of their minds Tents and
the woolies do not agree and
Old Man Woolie has all the best
of the argument
The S. S. Juneau, aboard
which was the drilling equip
ment for the Associated Oil Co.
finally unloaded her cargoe and
has departed. One or two bad
storms delayed the* unloading
and unsatisfactory lightering
service made the work all the
more difficult. The S. S. Ro
dondo with the equipment for
the Standard Oil company of
California, is now in port and
ready to unload. The weather at
this writing is fine, with a calm
sea and no wind.
The road work under the su
pervision of Mr. Vance is pro
gressing satisfactory.
The work now consists of
rock cuts which is being blast,
ed. The crew is working about
four miles irom town on the
summit. The road is expected
to be completed in about four
weeks, which will then permit
bot¥ oil companies to commence
the work of drilling,
All material for the compan
ies is being transported on sleds
hauled over the mountains by a
caterpillar tractor. It hauls
three or four sleds at a time car
ring about two tons to the sled.
Enthusiasm and optimism are
the watchwords in the camp,
which is made up exclusively of
old-timers. At a meeting held
the other night in the post of
fice, which is in charge of Char
lie Matson, formerly of Seward,
noses were counted and not a
“chechaco” answered present.
Former residents of Nome,
Fairbanks, Dawson, Iditarod, Ru
by,, Flat, in fact every camp in
Alaska in the olden days, are
here now assisting in the work
of creating a new camp on the
inhospitable shores of Portage
Bay.
Billy Bowker, an old-timer,
was operated on for appendici
tis bj the physician for the oil
companies, and is ready for the
street, fully recovered and in
as good physicai condition as
ever.
Aside from the small boats
now plying between here and
Seward, Anchorage and Kodiak,
the S. S. Star is the regular
mail boat, calling in here with
mail and provisions once each
month. She leaves Seward on
the tenth of each month, arriv
ing here on the 13th, On her
last two trips every available
inch of cargo space and passeng
er accommodations were taken.
The Atlas, which is due to
morrow morning, is bringing
about 10,000 feet of lumber for
the stampeders, all of whom
are crying for lumber and build
ing material, Lumber is now the
shortest thing in camp, along
with all other building material.