The McCarthy
Weekly News
VOL: VIII
McCarthy, alaska, Saturday, March 14, 1^5.
No. 1!
OF INTEREST
TO TOWN AND D< STRICT
J.B.O’Neill and family retur
ned from Cordova on Friday the
thirteenth. Jack says its hi* lucky
day.
Chas. Range who has been
with the Dan Creek Mining (Jo.
for some years returned from
Seattle Friday looking twenty —
five years younger and says
Seattle isn’t m it with Old Ale!
Car thy.
The age of miracles is not j
.yet past. Clarence (“Fat”) Ulrich j
went to work at the Green Butte
this veek
Ed. Hammer came back to
town Friday from L.ong Lake
where he has been trapping with
Chas. Anderson.
King Oscar went up to Green
Butte this week.
Mr. Harry C Bosch, former
editor and now trapper deluxe,
came into town, yesterday loaded
down with fill's and a wearing a
broad grin.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Price are
McCarthy visitors ilns week. Mr.
Price will make a short trip to
Chitina on business.
Frank Farnan and Jack
O’ Hara retuned to town the fore
pirt of this week, with some fine
samples of ore from their
“independence” mine. Both have
returned to the mine site with
the summer outfit.
Fritz Lund of Anchorage lias
been in town looking over the
possibilities of a business opne
ing here.
notation of cancellation
OF oil AND GAS PE KM ITS
IN ALASKA
Hereafter the cancellation of
an oil and gas permit in Alaska
will be made effective on a cot"
tain date specified by the letter
of cancellation, but no application
will be allowed for a period of
sixty two days from and after
such date of cancellation.
During ibis sixty two day
period applications for permits
will be received by the proper
local land office and held witnout
action, and during the same1
period a claim may be initiated
oy locating, marking and posting
oil tiie land as provided by section
13 of tl^e leasing act.
All applications filed during
said period shall be treated as
having been filed at 9 a. m., on
the sixty-inird day and will be
disposed of by a drawing held
publicly b.> you at 12 m of said
sixty-third day.
1 lie success!ul applicant will!
be advised of the result of the
drawing, but the application will
oe nelu suspended until the ex
piration of six months from date
oi drawing when if no application
based upon proper inarKiug and
posting within Lhesixty two days
following cancellation has been
presented, you will allow the
successful applicant to complete
ins application and forward it to
this oil ice with your report.'
If an application based on
proper location, marking and
posting the land within the sixty
two day period is presented
within six months from the date
of such location, making and
posting, tiie applicant thereunder
will have prior right to the land j
ana his application will be allowed
and that of the successful appli
cant at the drawing rejected sub
ject to right of appeal. As bet
ween two or more applications,
FREIGHTERS
RETURN
A.E. Trim and William
Wyers who have been freight i
ing with six horses for tin* Mount!
Logan Expedition returned to
town on Wednesday, having com
pie ted the first lap of trie haul
ing for the Expedition.
t
Mr. Trim reports a long
hard trip on account of heavy
snows and overflow on the.rivers.
They felt the earthquake shock
very severely where they were
;u d he says that it broke up the
ice on the rivers and glaciers.
This forced them to haul on the j
gravel bars and relay most of
the wa.v.
They turned homeward
when within sight of the Canad
ian Foundry Line leaving the
dog teams to finish the haul.
ALASKAN EXPLORER IS
NAMED ON COMMISSION
Alfred P. Dennis of Mary •
land Was nominated Saturday by
President Coolidge to succeed j
David J. Lewis of the same state;
on the tariff commission. Dennis |
has been a farmer, Alaskan ex
plorer, lumber dealer, writer
and commercial attache in Rome
and London. He also conducted !
economic investigations in 18
countries for the Department of
Commerce,
William Burgess of Penn
sylvania, another member of the
tariff commission, has advised;
the president that he wishes to
retire.
timely filed, based on posting the
land during the sixty-two day
period, priority of posting will
determine priority of right to a
permit. Attention is also called
to Circular No, 9Gb.
i
PLACER MINERS
PREPARE FOR
BIG SEASON
' The local placer mining
camps are in the midst of gett
ing in their Summer supplies
and equipment preparatory to
getting a start with the break-up.
The Dan Creek Mines Inc.
have already completed the haul
ing of the greater part of their
freight and have brought in a
large compressor plant thus
bringing their mining equipm
ent right up to the minute. Mr.
J.J. Price is looking for the best
season in its history.
The Ghititu and Rex Creek
Milling Co. will Vie under new
management this season, Mr.
Chas. Kraemer having replaced
Steve Palmer as manager. Mr.
Kraemer needs no introduction
to tiie district being very well
known here as a miner and
Sourdough. He will be on the
ground about the first of april.
Shorty Gwin is doing the
freighting for both Camps.
A YUKON VISION
As one who holds a sea-shell to his ear.
On some far rnountaintop. can hear
the moan
Of Ocean’s sad, eternal monotone.
So he who contemplates this Relic here.
Methinks, may catch this vision, sharp
and clear:
Two ri*al monarchs of the frozen zone
In mortal combat for the Great Moose
throne,
With Death in midnight shadows lurk
ing near:
The swiftly gathering wolf-pack's hun
ger-cry
Across the ghost-pale snow beneath
the moon;
The low. discordant dirge of dying
groans;
The fading life-light, in a death-glazed eye:
And lying stark, as dawns the
Arctic noon.
This Relic, 'tween two piles of
polished bones.