The
McCarthy
Weekly News
Entered as second class matter Sep
tember 19, 1918 at the post office, at
McCarthy, Alaska, under the act of
March 3, 1879.
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McCarthy, alaska, Saturday,
JUNE 28, 1919.
MOTHER LODE CONSOLIDATED
MINES CO. NOW IN CONTROL
James J. Godfrey, president of the
Mother Lode Mines Company of
Alaska, says that the deed of all the
mining property and improvements
thereon in Alaska has been delivered
to the Mother Lode Coalition Mines
Company. The Mother Lode Coalition
Mines Company thereupon deposited
funds to redeem all the ten year 6 per
cent bonds now outstanding which
were issued by the Mother Lode Cop
per Company of Alaska. The property
Is now being operated under the own
ership and management of the Mother
Lode Coalition Mines Company.
NENANA REJOICES OVER
OUTLOOK FOR RAILROAD
Now that the Alaskan Engineering'
Commission has authority to proceed:
actively with the work of railroad
building, it is confronted by a labor
shortage which threatens seriously to
hamper construction. That is the sit-'
uation, at any rate, in this division,1
where there appears to be an unsual
shortage of workers. Everyone in Ne
nana has been given the opportunity j
to enter the employ of the commis
sion during the past week and efforts
are now being made to induce men
to come to Nenana from nearby dis- j
tricts, but it is considered doubtful
if there are sufficient available men in
the entire interior country to fill the
places that are now open. And it is
expected that the demand for labor,
will increase steadily as the season
advances and new work is started by
the commission.—Nenana News.
At Copper Center following the re
cent influenza epidemic the natives
tore down all their cabins, and mov
ing them a few feet from their for
mer sites rebuilt them again, think
ing this would be a preventive of a
second epidemic.
Anchorage experiecned two earth
quake shocks early Sunday morning.
The first one about 1 o’clck was of
several seconds’ duration and the
shock was felt in different parts of
town. The second one, coming about
3 o'clock, was not so violent.
The Valdez city council has con
tributed $100 to the Fourth of July
fund of that'city.
LATE ALASKA NEWS
The Eyak Mill and Lumber Company
is now in full operation, cutting ties
and dimension lumber. This is a local
concern, being owned by S. S. McKin
ney, F. J. Porter and A1 Moore.
Allan Bateman, a mining expert who
occupies the chair of geology at Har
vard, left Seattle yesterday on the
Admiral Watson for Katalla, to ex
amine the oil and coal properties there.
H. S. Graves of Juneau recently pur
chased the $25,000 stock of clothing and
shoes from the Clayson-Kennedy store
at Skagway and will remove the stock
to Juneau where it will be sold at cut
prices.
Considerable activity is being man
ifested on the upper Tanana river.
Several of the old timers went out
to the States during the slump in
mining during the war but are now
drifting back. The fur catch was
light this year.
H. T. Whitley, of the firm of Love
Whitley of Valdez, has purchased the
handsome home of Judge and Mrs. F.
M. Brown, on Broadway between Sher
man and Fourth streets. The Whitleys
will take possession of their new home
at once, selling or leasing their home
place on Fourth street.
A big potlatch will be held in Cop
per Center by the Copper river na
tives early in July. Elaborate ar
rangements have been made to re
ceive visitors, and tribes within a ra
dius of 400 miles have been invited.
The chief of the Copper river natives
will potlatch from 75 to 100 blankets
and a large quantity of provisions.
A big run of salmon is reported on
the upper Copper river and the na
tives have smoked large quantities
for the coming winter. They have
more fish smoked at the present time
than during any previous year known.
This means good times according to
the native standard. There is much
rejoicing among the tribes, many of
whose members died from starvation
last winter and the winter before.
A big bear has been bothering pe
destrians on the Perseverance road
near Juneau for the past week. Sev
eral people have encountered bruin
in his rambles and the bear had it
all his own way. An employe of the'
mines wrho was coming to Juneau
wras held up by the bear for a cuple
of hours before he was able to con
tinue his journey. When he endeav
ored to cross the foad Bruin would
block his way. When he sidetracked
the bear would do likewise. The
game of tag ceased when the bear
became tired of the exercise.
Mike Riley, one of the original in
vestors in Anchorage real estate, has
been heard from after several months
of silence. Mike is in Hoquiam, Wash
ington, according to the daily paper
of that place which says that Mr. Riley
is there looking for an investment.
Thirty-two hundred short tons of
coal were mined at the Eska creek
coal mine and 150 tons at the Chicka
loon mine during the month of May,
1919, according to a report of Sumner
S. Smith, resident mining engineer in
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Cordova Skagway Anchorage Wrangell
Copper River
and Northwestern Railway
Two trains weekly between Kennecott
and Cordova
Caleb Corser, Supt. F. W. Sommer, Agt.
charge of the two coal mines operated
by the Alaskan Engineering Commis
sion.
Dr. Charles A. Winans, one of the
oldest practicing physicians in Valdez,
and a pioneer of Alaska, is planning
to leave the Territory in the near
future and locate at some point as yet
undetermined in the States. Dr. Win
ans has been identified with the town
since the beginning, and has been in
nearly every stampede out of Valdez.
William Martin, prominent attorney
of Seattle, and vitally interested in
the quartz mines in the Willow creek
district, is representing a large num
ber of the heirs of victims of the
Princess Sophia wreck. Mr. Martin
spent several days in Juneau last week
in gathering evidence and data con
nected with the suit that will be
brought against the Canadian Trans
portation Company.
The Hurdle Creek Mining Company
is moving in machinery to open up
their property on Hurdle Creek, sev
eral truck loads of machinery being
on the way, including a mill.
Now that the town has a new mayor
Seward has a horse corral for the
safe keeping of stray horses. Other
important matters have been attended
to by the action ofth e new regime of
officials.
The Tonsina tribe of natives were
practically wiped out by the recent
influenza epidemic, but two members
remaining. The natives are deathly
afraid of the influenza and succumb
easily to its ravages.
Anchorage has wired Secretary Dan
Eyeglasses fitted at the
McCarthy Drug Sto r
iels to permit the U. S. S. Vicksburg
to be there on July 4, in order to par
ticipate in the celebration, who replied
that the comamnder had authority to
act as his discretion.
A special term of the district court
will be held at Cordova on September
22, according to official advices re
ceived yesterday by Deputy Clerk
Thomas S. Scott.
J. D. McCrea, an old timer of the
Fourth Division died recently from
cancer of the stomach. He was well
known in many camps in Alaska, and
was a member of the L. O. O. M. He
has a brother at Washburn, Arizona.
Two bears, the fiteenth and six
teenth this season, was shot recently
by George W. Folta, stenographer for
Governor Thomas Riggs, near Lemon
creek. Folta left his office after 5
o’clock and killed the two bears in
a short time.