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Established 1924
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Pioneers Home To Be
Finished Before Christmas
Construction work on the new
Pioneers home at Sitka will be
completed approximately six
weeks before the date provid
ed in the contract, according to
a recent announcement by J. B.
Warrack, head of the Warrack
Construction company, holder
of the main contract.
The date set for completion
in the contract is February 1,
1935, but Mr. Warrack stated
that the work will be finished
by the middle of December.
The work is being pushed as
rapidly as possible to accomo
date the pioneers, who are now
scattered in Sitka and vicinity
pending completion of the
building, Mr. Warrack said.
Alaska Muskox Herd Thriving
The most notable event of the
present year in connection
with the cooperative work of
the Alaska Agricultural Coll
ege and U. S. Bureau of Biolog
ical Survey in the investigation
of reindeer, muskoxen and
sheep was the birth of musk
ox calves at the College station
for the first time since the in
troduction of the muskoxen to
Alaska, according to a report
by L. J. Palmer, biologist in
charge of the experiments.
Seven calves were born, five
of whom survived and are d,u- J
ing well. The potential in-1
crease for next year is thirteen, I
there being that number of
breeding cows. It is now es
tablished that muskoxen do not
breed until the age of four
years, the report states.
Favorable result? have been
attained in the crossing of j
mountain sheep with domestic '
sheep. An important feature
of the latter experiments has j
been the discovery that where
as domestic sheep are seriously
affected and often blinded by
the al,acks of mooquitoe? and
gnats, the cross is not not so I
bothered and is apparently im-1
mune. This is a development;
of greatest importance in the
consideration of a future sheep
industry in interior Alaska.
Special Cash Awards
For Alaskan Trappers
Two added cash awards for
Alaskans only mark the tenth
annual anniversary of the
Sears, Roebuck raw fur mark
eting’ service, an announce
ment of which is published in
another column.
The cash awards for Alas
kans are to be made in con
nection with the Sears national
fur show, instituted in 1929.
For the best prepared com
plete shipment of five or mere
pelts from Alaska, marketed
by Sears at Seattle from De
cember 1, 1934, to May 31, 19
35, there is to be a special
award of $200. For the sec
ond best there will be another
cash award of $50. These are
in addition to the major cash
awards totaling $1,000 - for
well prepared single pelts.
Alaskan shippers are eligible
for all the awards of the fur
show, as well as the two spec
ial cash awards which are op
en to Alaskans only.
Says No Lizards In Alaska
Somethin? of a controversy
has developed in Juneau over
'the question cf whether there
are lizards in Alaska.
The dispute arose when some
one captured a small, lizard
like creature in a stream at
Eliza Harbor recently and
brought it to Juneau, believing
it to be a specimen of the liz
ard tribe.
But, according to J. P. An
derson, Juneau florist and
something of a biological au
thority, the critter was not a
lizard but a water dog, or
newt, a creature midway in the
biological scale between fish
and reptiles, and amphibious.
A lizard is a reptile and no
reptiles exist in Alaska, Mr An
dersen says.
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Territory Planting Birds
In Sitka Section
Pursuant to provisions made
by the last session of the terri
torial legislature, the Alaska
Game Commission recently re
leased 175 pheasants in the
vicinity cf Sitka.
The birds were furnished by
a Seattle dealer and the work
of placing them in the field
was under the supervision of
E. M. Goddard.
Sitka residents are said to
have introduced a few pairs of
the birds "everai years ago but
no definite information could
be obtained regarding their
progress, only an odd bird be
ing seen now and then. It is
stated, however, that shortly
after the liberation of the birds
this fall, eighteen old birds
were observed among them.
As the new stock Were all
young, it is believed that the
older ones observed were of
the old stock; indicating that
they have propagated and
thrived.
Dick Olson Writes Of
Russian Experiences
Dick Olson, former Hyderite,
who ha;? been in the employ of
the Soviet government for sev
eral years in the capacity of
instructor of mine blacksmith
ing, gives interesting glimpses
of some of hi? experiences in
Siberia in a letter to Harold
Hjortnas, former Hyder, B.
C. restaurant man, who is now
residing in Denmark. The let
ter was forwarded to the Her
ald by Mr. Hjortnas.
Writing from Moscow under
a late September date line, Ol
son says:
“I am just back from the Al
tai Mountains, where I am now
stationed, and believe me it is
some country. I wa- at only
two of the mines there; one
without machines and one
with. The last mentioned is
the only one in that part of
Russia with machines at the
present time.
It is desert country. Once
I traveled 300 kilometers and
did not see even a bush except
along some of the creeks.
There are some fine places
along the creeks, though. At
the last mine there was no
water whatever if the mine
| was not working.
The people out there are erf
the Asiatic race and are called
Kazaks or Kacaks, and use
camels and horses for travel,
although trucks and tractors
are in use there, too, as well as
deisel engines. The old mine
windlasses are also being re
placed by power hoists.
Things are moving slowly
but surely to something over
here. Now that fox-trots and
jazz are being played and the
country has joined the League
of Nations, things ought to go
all right.
The worst of my present job
is that I can’t get any news in
the Altai. I thought western
Siberia was bad but in Altai
we cant get even the Russian
newspapers. But is is all very
interesting and different out
there.”
The Altai district where Ol
son is located is along the
southerly border of western Si
beria and close to the north
western border of Mongolia.
The nearest town is Novo Si
bersk.
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RFC Not Partial To Mine Loans
The Reconstruction Finance
Corporation is not at present
considering proposals to liber
alize its requirements for min
ing loans, according to late
Washington reports. The cor
poration has ruled it will lend
money only when it is proved
that an undeveloped body of
ore is of sufficient value to be
pledged as security.
The reports indicate that the !
RFC desires to avoid making
loans which might be for min
ing promotion or prospecting. !
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