The McCarthy
Weekly News
VOL: VIII
McCarthy, alaska, Saturday, April 25, U2:>.
No. 17
I SEE BY THE
PAPER THAT:
T. H. Huddlestono ami Capt.
Agnew came in from the bridge
site this week where they rep
ort that things are progressing
in fine shape. Both men depar*
ted on Wednesday’s train.
Mr. Clyde Brenner, presid
ent of the Brenner Gold Mines
Co., of Gird wood, Alaska, has
been in town the past week on
business connected with their
mining property there.
Harry Boyden and wife
came in on their return trip
from Shushanna Thursday after
noon having made a record trip
over a trail which was poor for
the greater part of the way. the
snow being soft and slush;,.
Arthur Me Donnell. Walter
McDonnell and Vai Morrison
left Friday for Kodiak where
they will make their home for
a time.
Mr. K A. Him son rnnic n j >
on T uesd a y’s train returning
the following tlav.
Martin liarrais came in
from his mining property est
erday.
Hans Dittman returned
last Saturday from a short bus
iness trip to Seattle.
George Comstock, well kno
\vn in these parts, being a form
er game warden, returned to
McCarthy today after a long abs
once which was spent mostly in
and about Juneau.
Ed. Basset who has spent the
winter at Chititu is a McCarthy
visitor t tis week.
MUR1E — BROWN
The office of the U. S Comm
issioner was the scene of a <|iiiet
wedding Monday afternoon when
Mrs. L. 0. Brown and Jas. Marie,
| both well-known old timers of
these parts, wore united-in tin*
| holy bonds of matrimony by
j Commissioner Sumlmacher. Mr.
and Mrs. R. Snyder acted as
witnesses in si^nin^rthe register.
The happy couple have liie
j i>est wishes of their friends in
MoC irt liy.
I S HI' S H A N N A MEN IN T< >VVN
<)n his last trip out from
Clnsan.i Post Of fice, H;iri‘v Uoyd
j
| <'ll was accompanied by J;ick
i Moloy and Eli Dumont both very
well known in the district and
who have not been out for some
time Mr. Dumont is making the
trip Outside and departed for
Cordova on Friday morning’s
train. He has business to tran
sact in connection with a patent
on an invention which lie has
had accepted. Mr. Meloy will ie
main in town for a time [tend
ing the break up, not caring to
make the return trip while tile
present condition of the trails
exists.
OIL COMPANY to drill
YAK AT AG A FIELDS
IN SPRING
JCNKAU— Filing articles of
ineorporal ion, the St. Elias I level
opment Company, which takes
over claims in the Yakataga oil
tields ol the Alaska Development
Syndicate, it was disclosed that
this company and the Yakataga
Oil Company have contracted
with the General Petroleum Co
mpany to drill at least two wells,
one in the holdings of each com
pany, work to be started this
' spring.
Um. Noel of Oprdova is a
i McCarthy visitor this week.
.JACK DOLAN
REPORTED SAFE
Word now comes that the
rumor concerning Jack Dolan,
trader and trapper, being lost
on the trail was without i'ound-l
ation and that, a short time ago
was seen on his way back to
Shushanna as alive as ever. The
( news comes as a great relief to
Ins many friends in the district
who had feared the worst from
Ins continued failure to show up
land adverse reports from the
1 ndians.
i
W RANGELL CANNERY
DESTROYED BY FIRE
A hundred and fifty thous
and dollar fire occured between
twelve iind one o’clock Wednes
day night when the Lake Bay
cannery burned.
It is not known how the!
fi re originated. All that is known
is that it started in the electric!
light plant.
The buna and mess house
and oil dock were saved. The
fuel tank and 150 barrels of oij
were burned. The seines also
went up in smoke.
Superintendent Frank S !
!
Barnes stated that the fishing I
end of the business would be
carried on the coining season,
but that he was not prepared
at this time to say whether the
canneiy would be rebuilt.
ALASKA SURGEON
DIES NEW YORK
Muskegon, Mich., April Un
Friends here received word to
day that Dr. Malcolm E. Smith.
58, former chief surgeon in A1
aska tor the Interior Departm
ent, died at a hospital in New
York yesterday.
The condition of Mr. Trim
continues to improve slowly and
Dr. Swartz reports him to be i
practically out of danger.
AMERICAN
FOREST WEEK
A P liOC LA M AT 10 N
J>y proclaiDHtion of the Pres
ident of the United States ami in
conformity with the action of
Governors of various States, tin
week of April 27- May 3, inclus
ive, 1925, lias been set apart as
American Forest Week, when ail
patriotic citizens are asked to
give thought to the forests and
“unite in the common task of for
est conservation and renewal.”
Tlie President wisely says:
Our forests ought to lie put
to work and kept at work. i. do
not minimize the obstacles that
have to be met, nor the difficulty
of changing old ideas and piacti
ces. We must all put our hands
to this common task. It is not en
ough that the Federal, State, and
local governments take the lead,
I here must be a change in our
national attitude. Our industries,
our landowners, our farmers, all
our citizens must learn to treat
our lorests as crops, to be used *
but also to be renewed We must
learn to tend our woodlands as
carefully as we tend our farms.”
Alaska is blessed with an
abundant timber supply. Here
“the rich and magnificent gift
that nature bestowed upon us”
has not been” to freely spent”
as in the States. Here, too, our
forest reserves, thanks to prot
ective climatic conditions, have
been singularly immune from
the devouring elements of fire.
But in less favored and unguard
ed regions of the interior count
less acres of valuable timber are
annually laid waste and the
present and future supply thus
seriously impaired and jeopard
ized. To this and kindred dang
ers Alaska should give timely
heed.
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