Two Thousand
Ice Tickets Sold
KENNECOTT BUYS LARGE
NUMBER PER CAPITA
Two thousand ice pool tickets
were sold here b.y March 23.
when the supply was exhausted.
They were sold between here
and the mines.
Some bought as many as 50
tickets find others bought just a
few. There are about 2JO people
here. That makes au average
of about ten tickets per person.
George Todd Leaves
For Mining Property
On April 3, George Todd,
pump man, left by plane for
his mining property on Slate
Creek.
Todd has held goid ground for
a number of years. He has
made it a practice during this
time to work in Kennecotb dur
ing the winter, and then try his
luck at gold mining through the
summer. Although he has not
, as yet struck it rich, he says
that earnings are fair, and that
he needs the outdoor exercise.
Early Thaw Keeps
Oldtimers Guessing
Kennecott and the rest of
Alaska are having the earliest
thaw for many years. Some
oldtimers claim theie has been
nothing like it since 1910.
During the winter there has
been very little snow, and now
it is leaving fast.
Hill Slimpert, oldtimer, guide,
and Kennecott worker, says
that with so little snow to melt,
the placer miners aregoiuglo
have a hard time getting enough
water to sluice, unless there is
plenty of rain.
“Now” said the absent-minded
professor, “We will examine a
live frog.” He then unwrapped
three sandwiches and a hard
boiled egg. “Surely,” said lie,
“I ate my lunch.”
Bonanza Gets
New Timekeeper
AL NIKOLAUS MOVES INTO
LOWER CAMP
F. S. Rhode arrived from Se
attle on April 1 to take A1 Niko
laus’ place as timekeeper at the
Bonanza. A\ has taken Jim
Moore’s place in the store.
Rhode was in Seward about
a year ago. He worked with
Brown & Hawkins Corp. tin re
for 13 months.
"While Outside he wen to the
University of Washington lor a
few months. His opinion of
Seattle is that it will boom : o m
but that the rest of the country
is still pretty badl.v off with
marks of the passing depression.
Mrs. Loomis Leaves
Mrs. Dorothy Loomis left on
April 1 for Cordova after being
here for three weeks. She was
here to take the place of Miss
Grace Stranuburg in the hospi
tal. Miss Strandburg had gone
to Cordova on a short vacation,
and returned shortly after Mrs.
Loomis left.
Mrs. Loomis’ husband, Lloyd
Loomis, is the sixth grade teacl -
er in Cordova.
New Employee
George Hedrick, of Seattle,
lias come to work here. He has
gone to work a*; the Bon an ja
This is his first time in Alaska.
When asked how he likes the
country, he sa d he wasn’t quite
sure, but that at least it was
different.
Dan Morris Leaves
Dan Morris left on March 23
for Haines. He Intends to be
gone about a month. He is go
ing to visit his father, who is ill
with paralysis.
Don McCall Returns
Don McCall returned from
Bay City, Oregon, last March
27th. He expected to go to
work soon.
John Muir Centennial
Observed By Schools
GREAT PEACELOVER TO BE
REMEMBERED
Schools throughout Alaska
and the rest of the country are,
next Thursday, the 21st of Ap
ril. going to celebrate the hun
drtd h aim versarj of ohn Muir,
•naturalist, inventor, and writer.
D lack burn School will observe
the day with talks by the pupils.
LIFE HISTORY
John Mu r, inventor, na'lira
list and writer was born April
2(, 1838 in the town of Dunbar
on the east coast of Scotland.
As contrast to his later life, be
used to play war in old Scottish
ruins. The hoys used to look
for ghosts in old Dunbar castle.
John Muir ve.it to school
when he was only three years
old. In school he had all the
lessons beaten into him with
birch rods. At home the same
difficulties prevailed with the
Bible.
When John was eleven he
cime to the United States and
worked on his father’s farm.
Finally he went to the Univer
sity of Wisconsin with money
made from inventions.
After finishing at the Univer
sity he went to the Gulf of
Mexico on foot. There be did a
lot of exploring and hiking.
Liter he traveled to California,
and tramped the Sierras for ten
years. He then went to Alaska,
where he continued exploring
and writing his impressions.
In his travels he discovered 65
glaciers, including Muir glacier,
near Haines. '
Muir married Louise Strent
zel. He made his home in Con
tra Costa County, California.
He had two daughters, who are
still living. John Muir passed
away in 1914.
NATURE’S CHAMPION
While exploring, John Muir
saw Nature’s riches on every
side being ruthlessly wasted for
private gain. Vast forests were
being destroyed for sheep pas
turage. Prospectors burned
off the bounty of Nature to get
at the rock. Lumbermen were
leaving behind them a twisted,
blackened mass of needless de
struction, giving no thought to
the beauties of a luxuriant Nature
or to the needs of future gener
ations.
For years John Muir used
his eloquent pen to awaken the
nation to the menace of the in
vaders within its borders Af
ter fourteen years of almost sol
itary crusading, John Muir got
some action fiom the govern
ment. President Harrison, as
a direct result oi John Muir’s
campaign, .set aside three Na
tional Parks in California, and
U,000,0u0 acres of forest re
serve.
But John Muir’s greatest s ic
cdss came with the administra- '
lion of Theodore Roosevelt. As
aie*ulbof contact with John
Muir in a camping trip in 1903,
the president carried out a pro
gram of conservation. He set
aside 148,000,000 acres of forest
reserves. In doing this he
created five National Parks and
16 National Monuments. As
part of this work, large areas
were set aside in Alaska to pro
tect the territory against the
ravages of the profiteering buc
caneers who were clamoring to
“develop” Alaska in the same
way that they had almost ruined
the continental United States.
PATRIOT OF PEACE
In addition to carrying out
the campaign for conservation,
John Muir wrote and worked
for his own program for peace.
He wrote:
"Climb the mountains and get
their good tidings. Nature’s peace
will flow into you as sunshine
flows into trees. The winds will
blow their own freshness into
you, and the storms their energy,
1 while cares will drop off like au
tumn leaves." >