TEE MA.TAMJSYA VALLEY PIONEER
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^almer \ Alaska
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SEEING TrE VALLEY
It is unfortunate that the 222
tourists who will visit the colony
Saturday have such a short time in
which to tour the valley. It will
he possible for them to see only a
very small part of the development,
To fully appreciate what has
been done here they will have to re
alize that there were only two
miles c-f graveled road here when
this colony was started; that some
of the roads they will ride over
were nothing but moose trails just
a year ago.
They will see a few houses occu
pied by colonists, but it won’t im
press them with the magnitude of
our building program. It doesn’t
take long tc say ”178 houses,1, but
when you have to build roads over
120 square miles of territory and
ere°t that many houses you are
talking about BIG jobs.
A small patch of Plowed ground
here and there isn’t very impress
ive tc people used to highways thru
intensely farmed areas, but if all
the plowed ground in the valley
~*ould he bunched it would make a bi*
field.
The tourists will be here betweei
an hour and a half and two hours. 11
they drove steadily for ten hours
and could pass a colonist home ever]
five minutes they would still be
seeing only two thirds of the im
proved tracts. And on every tract
they would see the results of a
real effort to whittle a home out . .
of the woods.
Have you seen the field grown
radishes -Valter Piunel of Traot 106
has out on the market here? F-lS
first load was snaooed up in no
time and reneat orders came from
all sides.
Harriet Malstrom, who gave us
our first entertainment in the un
finished warehouse last summer, is
now "Sally Bolton" in the pooular
NET radio urogram known as "One
Man’s Family."
FOUNT: -v geld arrowhead clasp set
with brilliants. Owner may have
same by identifying it. ^lOFEEF.
FIRST BALL rvj£3 TO. ES
■°L..YLD T-TBP.B OUTLAY
On Sunday, Tune 14th, the first #,
game of the season will be rlayed
here betv/een Anchorage and the lo
cal Fireman’s team.
The boys here have worked hard
at getting the diamond in shaoe
and every night has seen the squad
out practicing. They are going to
try uretty hard to grab off that
Sunday game and we should all be
out there to root for them.
Following are the lineups for
the twro teams.
Firemen
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Anchorage
A. Brown
V. Thomas
Ed Dodd
Vic Nelson
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NcClunnen
Yorbich
8. TAarlovioh
Sund
Farlovich
Bedding
Nelson
T "cLean
Frederick
L. Bernberg
Smith
C. Brayford
C. Fellows
Substitutes for Anchorage are Al
Forming, Louis Fill, Dave Turner
and Lawson. For ^almer: T-riniek,
Todd and Donnelly.
Tu.e game will be called at one
t=># F. share. Be there, and bring
all your friends. L*,tT s give the
toys’a turnout for their first
game l
LIVESTOCK DUE TO ARRIVE
FROU TFE SPATES SHORTLY
T«c carloads of horses are
f scheduled to leave Seattle on
5 Tune 20. The balance cf the 125
, heal ordered, together with 600
^ sheen and 7000 chickens, will
leave the Puget Sound nort about
r the 30th,
SEONBLCU FAS TOUGH LUOH
WITH GOT'H OH TTIS CATTLE
'A sickness commonly known amon
cattle men as shinning fever has
caused A# A. Shcnheck the less cl
about twenty of his fine young_
calves on their range un the Lit
tle Susitna above Fish-hook Inn.
This sickness, common to cattl
shinned any distance and into a
sudden change of climate, seems t
hit the young ones the hardest.
The older cattle are fattening un
in nice stylo on the abundant
growth of new grass.
While the Little Susitna is a
stomping ground for brown bear
and the herders have seen some a
round there,* no stock has been
lost to them yet.
Hr. Shonbeek has eroeted a
small slaughterhouse at Fish-hook
and will soon butcher some of- bis
fat steers.