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Established 1924
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Alaska Affairs
In Washington
By Bob Bartlett
Washington, Sept. 9 - Dom
inic Vernetti has been appoint
ed postmaster of the new' office
at Koyukuk Station.
Appointment of A. H. Kings
bury, Jr., as postmaster of
Haines has been announced by
the First Assistant Postmaster
General.
A third postal apointment is
that of Hans Seversen to be
postmaster of Iliamna.
Delegate Dimond spent all of
one day this week at the Pub
lic Works Administration urg
ing adoption of the public
works program for Indian and
Eskimo settlements in Alaska.
He was informed that the mat
ter would be gone into careful
ly at a meeting of the Public
Works Board. Joe Collier,
Commissioner of Indian Af
fairs, has approved the pro
gram in toto.
Whether early approval will
be given for construction of
federal buildings at Ketchikan
and Anchorage is dependent
upon the Public Works Admin
istration. A long list of such
buildings, including the Alaska
projects, has been placed be
fore the P. W. A. for decision.
In conversation with various
officials and in formal com
munications, Delegate Dimond
has stressed the need for these
and other Alaska buildings.
To date P. W. A. has shown
little disposition to O. K. build
ing projects. A badly needed
post office in New York City
and a few other scattered
structures are all that have
passed muster, and in view of
that attitude it is difficult to
say how the program before
the Administration will fare.
The history of the efforts to
hasten construction of the
Ketchikan and Anchorage
buildings has been up to now
at least a story of disappoint
ments. It seemed last year
that construction might begin
soon. That was when the Wag
ner bill was passed by Con
gress appropriating $100,000,
000 and setting forth projects
from which an interdepart
mental board composed of
Treasury, Justice and Interior
officials might choose. That
board approved the Ketchikan
project and passed by the one
at Anchorage. Plans for Ketch
ikan were drawn and it ap
peared that the long wait of
Ketchikan for an adequate
building was about over. But
the board m'oved too slowly.
When Congress met this spring
the funds for the public build
ings, which were lying idle in
the Treasury pending the time
when contracts were let, were
diverted for the use of the Civ
ilian Conservation Corps. The
well was dried up.
Nevertheless the two-fold
need for the buildings—to al
leviate unemployment and to
provide the United States gov
ernment with proper housing
facilities—remained, and when
the Public Works Administrat
ion was created, with three
'billion dollars at its disposal,
the Interdepartmental Board
was called upon to submit a
building program. This time
both the Ketchikan and An
chorage structures were placed
on the approved list, and there
they are today. If both pass
the critical eye of the P. W. A.,
work could begin at Ketchikan
almost immediately. Even the
site was transferred from the
Interior to the Treasury de
partment last May.
Regulations were issued by
the Treasury Department this
week relative to conditions un
der which newly mined gold
may be exported so as to com
mand the world price. Dele
gate Dimond early endeavored
to secure inclusion of a provis
ion whereby all gpld n^'ned
this seasonwould be eligiblefor
export, his idea being that
those who had not had oppor
tunity to ship the metal ought
to be protected. However, the
Treasury department was un
willing to write a specific
clause along the lines for fear
that boarded gold might be
successfully disguised and ex
ported contrary to law.
Just for Fun j
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Time sure flies. Only a few!
short years ago, two-thirds of]
the population was wondering
how to pronounce the word
“garage.”
She: “I cook and bake for
you and what do I get? Noth
ing!”
He: “Well, that’s better than
the indigestion I get!”
The toughest brea'k we have
heard of this month was about
a jane back east who married
a very wealthy man supposed
to be over sixty, only to find
that he was ten years younger
than reported.
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
January IS, 1924
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A son was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Dale L. Pitt at the Pre
mier last Monday. This is the
first child horn at the mine.
With the extension of the No.
1 tunnel at the Indian mine,
the sixth ore body opened up
in this tunnel has been proven
to be 250 feet long.
Reports from the Independ
ence say good progress is being
made on the tunnel, which is
following the hanging wall and
shows ore all the way.
Work is soon to commence
on preparations for driving the
long tunnel on the American
Mining and Milling Company’s
Fish Creek properties.
No 3 tunnel of the Dunwell
has now passed the hanging
wall 25 feet, cutting the vein
diagonally, proving a condit
ion similar to that found in the
big ore body in No. 2 tunnel.
The suit of Charles F. Cald
well against Chas. Knipple,
Dan Davis and Wm. McGrew,
original owners of the Daly
Alaska group, and the Daly
Alaska Mining Company, the
present owners, was dismissed
in Ketchikan, the plaintiff fail
ing to appear at the trial.
While Pat Daly and Dr. C. D.
Carter were in Seattle finan
cing the Ibex and Homestake
groups on Texas Creek, the
Day interests of Idaho entered
into negotiations with them for
the purchase of a one-half in
terest in the property. W. H.
Whorms, a representitve of the
Idaho people accompanied
them north and is going over
the title records in connection
with the deal.
MENTAL NUTS
Can You Crack Them?
Three clowns walked in a
circus parade. They were num
bered 6, 3, 1, and a free ticket
was offered to anyone wrho
could arrange them so that the
whole number formed would
be divisible by 7. It can be
done.
There’s Dad and Ma and
Brother and Me,
The sum of our ages is 83.
6 times Dad’s age is 7 times
Ma’s, and she is three times
me.
(Answers next week)
INTERESTING NOTES
Africa has given treasure
hunters of the world no less
than 66 diamonds that weigh
over 100 carats.
A German inventor has de
signed an alarm clock that
switches on an electric light
when the bell rings.
FRANK A. METCALF
QVIL 6 MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
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