THE
McCarthy weekly news
Entered as seoond class matter. Septem
ber 17th, 1918. at the lost Office, at
McCarthy, Alaska, under the Act of
March 3. 1879.
C. F.*M. COLE. Manager
M. M. COLE Editor
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Saturday J uly29th 1922.
SEATTLE REMEMBERS
The Seattle Daily Times of
Sunday July 16th is a special
Gold and Silver Number, being
an issue entirely devoted to Al
aska and descriptive of its days
of twenty five years ago, cele
brating the arrival from the
north of the ship Portland bring
ing to Seattle the news of the
gold strike in the Klondike and
starting the great stampede to
the Yukon.
Seattle held a three day cel
ebration the same week when
all the scenes of the Klondike
were reproduced by the pion
eers themselves. Friendships
which started on the Dyea trail
were renewed and made doubly
strong, for Alaskans on the out
side are more clannish than
the Scotch.
Those were the days in ’981
gold was running like water
coming and going just as easily
but today Dawson is a deserted
camp, and this summer many
of its buildings have beep moved
to Mayo, which is the coming
big camp of the Yukon Territory
As this special edition deals
mainly with the days of a quar
ter of a century ago, this part
of the country receives but little
mention,as it was practically
undiscovered.
The stampedes of Nome Fair
banks Nizina and Ohisana, all
were memorable but now that
the pendulum has swung the
other way, it is realized that
Alaska’s future now depends
not upon her stampedes, but
upon the developm ent of the
natural resources of the Territ
ory, of which it has been discov
ered that placer gold is but one
of dozens.
It is • predicted that twenty
five years hence todays pioneer a
will be telling of the big things
that were accomplished in their
Pay, and they wTill be just as in
spiring as the tales of the over
coming of the perils of the Chil
coot Pass are to the newcomers
of today.
The !98ers paved the w ay and
the way and made good, the
22nds will undoubtedly carry on
so that Alaska before 1947 will
come into her own and be made
a state.
SUBSTANTIAL COPPER
SALE AT 13% CENTS
Boston News Bureau.
Boston, June 26th. The copper
market towards the latter part
of last week strengthened per
ceptibly.
A sale of five million pounds
of metal was made on Thurs
day at 13% cents per pound de
livered in the Connecticut valley
Not a little shopping round
has been done by consumers in
an endeavor to get a large amount
of metal at 13% cents per pouud
Producers have held firmly
to the 13% cent level, however,
and, having made substantial
sales over the first four months
of this year, they are notin dire
need of cash.
TO EXTEND AIR MAIL
Seattle to Chicago and to
San Francisco Routes Next
(Seattle Times)
Fast overland air mail service
soon will link Seattle with Chi
cago and San Francisco if Con
gress passes a pending meas
urement authorizing the service
Carl F, Egge, general superin
tendent of the air mail service of
the Post Office Department, pre
dieted today at a conference
with members of the Seattle,
Air Board and the Seattle Aero
nautical Society, meeting in the
Chamber of Commerce Assemb
ly room
Superintendent Egge will re
main in Seattle for several days
conferring with officers of the
Boeing Aerplane Company, and
renewing a contract wTith Ed
ward Hubbard for carrying of
mails between Seattle and Vic
toria, B. C.
“If the bill pending in Con
gress is carried, giving the post
master general authority to con
tract for air mail j-outes” Super
intendent Egge said, “principal
cities of the country will be
linked by airplane service. The
Seattle to San Francisco and
Seattle to Chicago routes are
two of the important mail routes
in the country.”
The air line from Chicago to
Seattle is 1900 miles, and could
be flown in twenty four hours
with night flying. The fastest
train schedules now require six
ty hours. Night flying is
already making rapid progress
Superintendent Egge said. He
has already begun lighting of
the New York - San Francisco
route on the Eastern link from
New York with beacon lights
placed twenty five miles apart
and an emergency landing field
at each.
George E. Keith Co. shoe man
ufacturers, Brockton, have put
its men’s shoe factories on
43-hour week schedule. Plants
in Brockton, Middleboro and
North Adams will be affected.
Officials axpressed the opinion
that factories would soon oper
ate on a forty eight hour basis.
Factories of companies mak
ing women’s shoes are already
on a 43-hour week.
All but $100,000 of the estate
William Rockfeller will remain
in the Rockfeller family under
the terms of his will. The $100,
000 goes to the only executive
named, John A. Garver, who
drew the will. The remainder
of the estate, estimated at from
one hundred to'two hundred
million goes in equal shares to
the testator’s children, William
G. Rockefeller, Percy A. Rocke
feller, Mrs. Emma R McAlpin
and Mrs. Geraldine Dodge.
PORT OF MISSING MEN
Info 1 maticn is asked for
concerning the whereabouts of
Robert Alexander, who is be
lieved to have been in this part
of Alaska in the last years.
Communicate with the McCar
thy Weekly News, or direct to
Miss Florence Lange, Route 5
Columbus, Wisconsin.