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BRIEF ITEMS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE TERRITORY
EVENTS IN THE NORTH A£ PORTRAYED IN THE
PRESS OF ALASKA
The Dawson Daily News, the
first daily published in the
famous mining camp, recently >
celebrated its 25th birthday.
David C. Shand, former res
ident of Stewart, and who later
conducted a roadhouse at the
mouth of Stewart river, in the
Yukon, died recently, accord
ing to the Valdez Miner.
George Waggoner, old-time
employee of the' Alaska rail
road, lost a portion of one foot
while making a coupling in the
railroad yards at Anchorage.
An early frost visited the Hot
Springs farm on the Tanana on
August 18. The lowering temp
erature was accompanied by a
blizzard and over a foot of
snow. Considerable damage
was done to gardens in the lo
cality.
Roy Lund, auto stage operat
I or between Fairbanks and
Richardson, recently covered
the distance from Fairbanks
to Chitina with a load-of pass
engers in less than 24 hours,
stopping only for meals and
fuel.
Following a recent trip of in
spection of the northern end of
the Alaska railroad, Noel W.
Smith, special assistant to the
Secretary of the Interior, has
announced that plans are be
ing drawn for a new steel
bridge over the Nenana river
at Mile 371.
Somewhere on the North Pac
ific a 28-foot whaleboat is bob
bing along with two adventur
ous youths bound for Alaska
to hunt gold. The pair are
Chester Salm, 21, and Homer
Course, 22, of Los Angeles.
They cleared from Gray's Har
bor recently bound for the
Alaska coast. They intend to
! “shack up”for the winter and
'then head for the interior in
| the spring to prospect.
I The Seattle power schooner
Maid of Orleans, believed lost
in the Arctic ice-pack enroute
to Coronation Gulf with 9 per
jsons on board, is now reported
'to have passed Point Barrow in
safety and reached Tangent
Point without difficulty and
without again being caught in
Hhe ice. It is thought that she
will now reach her destination
without further difficulty.
P. M. Dahl, crab fisher for the
Hoona crab cannery, was re
cently drowned in Tenakee In
let in the presence of his wife
and two children, when he fell
from the deck of his gas boat.
One of the boys got into a |
dingy and got hold of his fath-'
er’s hand but it slipped from j
his grasp..The body was not re- j
covered. j
The Hudson’s Bay Co. steam
er Baychimo, with the crew of
tho ice-bound steamer Lady
Kindersley aboard, is still
standing by the unfortunate
craft on. the outskirts of the
pack, with a view to saving the
ship or its cargo. The Kinders
ly is fast in the ice about 60
miles from Pt. Barrow.
T. S. McDougall, superintend- j
ent of the Fern mine in the
Willow creek district, arrived j
in Anchorage recently with
two gold retorts weighing 41?
ounces and valued at approx
imately $7,000.
Reliable information received
at Seattle from San Francisco
a short time ago says oil has
been encountered in three
places in the well being drilled
'by the Standard Oil Company
at Kanatak, but that it has not
been found so far in commer
cial quantities. It is confidently
expected that commercial oil
will be found in a short time
and work is continuing with all
I posible dispatch. . ,
The schooner Nokatak, under
charter to Frank Kleinschmidt,
noted moving picture man, re
turned to Nome recently,
from a hunting trip to the ice
| pack off Cape Van Karem,
bringing four big polar bear
and numerous walrus troph
ies, in addition to many excit
ing motion pictures of the an
imals in action, with the hunt
ers trying to capture them al
ive.
Tony Bubnik, a cook at the
camp of the Alaska Minerals
Company at Hope, recently
found a vein of very rich ore in
place. Tony was out scouting
around in the hills and thought
!he had found a prospect he
| could claim for his own, until
jhe found the vein was on the
. property of the Alaska Miner
als Company.
An Alaska Fisheries Advis
ory Committee,headed by Gov
GOVERNOR ISSUES
PROCLAMATION
In a proclamation issued to
the press October 11, Govern
or Scott C. Bone, calls attent
ion to National Education
Week, November 17 to 23, set
aside as a week in which the
citizenry of the nation may
concentrate its attention on
the great task of universal
education—an essential to the
discharge of the duties, re
sponsibilities and obligations
of citizenship.
With reference to observence
in Alaska, Governor Bone
says:
“Alaska, a country of homes
and children, bravely working
out its destiny, alert to the
meaning and worth of citizen
ship, ever watchful and gener
ous in providing for its edu
cational needs, takes just
pride in its schools, wliich are
contributing so largely to the
progress and permanent up
building of the Territory.”
ernor Scott C. Bone as chair
man, and consisting of seven
| members, has been appointed
| by Secretary of Commerce Her
bert Hoover to work in con
junction with the Bureau of
Fisheries in fish conservation.
In addition to the Governor,
the board comprises the follow
ing members. J. R. Heckman,
Carl Sutter, Ketchikan; Calvin
Hazelet, Cordova; H. E. Ells
worth, Seward; A. J. Dimond,
Valdez; Samuel Butts, Sitka.
At the recent meeting of the
Alaska Educational Associat
ion in Ketchikan, a resolution
,was adopted urging the Terr
itorial Legislature to ^dopt a
| law establishing a literacy test
for voters. The Association is
'composed of the educators of
i the Territory and includes Les
ser D. Henderson, Territorial
Commisioner of Education;
Chas. E. Bunnell, President of
the Alaska Agricultural Col
lege, and the principals of
practically all schools in Alas
ka.
Since its opening September
9, 1920, almost ten thousand
persons have visited the Alas
ka Historical Museum at Jun
eau, according to Curator’A.
,P. Kashevaroff, who'has been
: in charge since the muse vr.
opened its doors. Virtually one
third of the stated number is
1 composed of this years’ visit
ors. Few countries are not rep
resented on the registration
books. China, Japan, Russia,
New Zealand, Hawaii, every
section of the British Empire
and all of the United States
and its territories are repre
Lsented on the visitors list.
l W. Jj o b IF rintiu g sl »
TEE WEEKLY HERALD JOB SHOP
IS PREPARED TO DO JOB PRINTING OF
...EVERY KIND...
BILL IIEAD8, STATEMENTS’ MATTER IIEADB, ENVELOPES, CARDS, INVITATIONS*.
TAGS.’ ETC. ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY GIVEN
SITKA CEMETERY MADE
NATIONAL BURIAL PLACE
Under an executive order re
cently signed by President Cal
vin Coolidge, the old marine
cemetery at Sitka has been
made a national cemetery and ,
has been placed under the con- <
trol and care of the Alaska <
Road Commission)
Since the order became ef-'
fective tl)e*bodies of seven sol-' (
diers who were buried at Ft. !,
Liscum, near Valdez, have \
beenj’emoved to the Sitka cem
etery and all soldiers dying in ■
the Territory will in future be
interred in that burial ground,
unless relatives specify other- j
wise.
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KETCHIKAN CANNERIES
HAVE GOOD PACK
Ketchikan reports on the sal
mon packing situation in that
section are to the effect that
up to the commencement of the
twenty day closed season there
had been packed practically
500,000 cases in that city. It is
expected that this pack will be j
increased as several canneries \
plan on reopening after the :
closed period ends. The pack
of the various plants was as ;
follows: Sunny Point, 110,000 !
cases; Smiley cannery, 104,
000 cases, Fidalgo Island can
nery 90,000. The first and
last named will probably re
open.
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TROPIC VALLEY FOUND
IN ILLIAMNA REGION;
What is described as a veri- i
table Garden of Eden with an
almost tropical clime has been
discovered by Jack Lee and
Hank Russell, oil prospectors,
in the district south of Moth
er Goose Lake in the Kejulik
valley in the Illiamna Lake re
gion, according to the Valdez
Miner. So different is this val
ley from the surrounding coun
try, owing to its being warmed
by subterranean fires, that the
discoverers at first found it dif
ficult to believe they had not
been transported to some trop
ical clime. The district is com
posed chiefly of volcanoes,
mountains, tundra lakes and
low lying hills, and is barren
of all vegetation, except moss
and scrubby alders and scanty
patches of grass and is rough
and inhospitable, save in the
; remarkable valley. Coming
,over a steep mountain pass
some 1700 feet in height, the
| men were astonished to see an
unbroken forest in the valley
before them. Descending they
found trees about two feet in
diameter and vegetation far in
excess of the surrounding dis
trict. Wild flowers carpeted
the lush grass and on every
hand game was found. Several
varieties of trees grow in the
valley, including spruce, hem
lock and cottonwood. No ev
idences were seen that any
other human beings had ever
trodden the fastness and the
game was so tame as to be a
nuisance at times. It is believ
ed by the discoverers that the
valley, which was named Eden
Valley, is warmed by the near
proximity of subterranean fires
and that the lofty surrounding
volcanoes have kept trappers
and others away.
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IN 1HE RECORDER 3
OFFICE
Instruments pertaining to
mining filed in the Hyder re- t
cording office during the week
ending October 11.
-^OCTOBER 5—
Location Notice: D. Bervac
qua, North Star, West Fork Of
Texas Creek.
Location Notice: D. Bervac
qua, North Star No. 1. West
Fork of Texas Creek.
— OCTOBER 8—
Location Notice: John Hov
land, Fish Creek No. 7. Skook
um Creek.
Location Notice: John Hov
land, Fish Creek Fractional
Mining Claim, Fish Creek.
—OCTOBER 9—
Amended Location No ice:
Chas. Fehring, Last Shot No. 1.
Salmon River.
Amended Location Notice:
Chas. Fehring, Last Shot No. 2.
Salmon River.
Proof of Labor: Arthur Moa,
affiant', Crest Group, 5 cla'm:,
Salmon River.
Proof of Labor: Arthur Mon,
affiant, Alaska; North S**”-;
Clearwater; Wano; X-10-U'’:
Monarch; Monarch 1-2-3, S 1
mon River. *
_
—OCTOBER 11
Location Notice: Jas. D. LY
ons, Lillian M. C., Mineral Hi 1,
| Salmon River.
Location Notice: Jas. D. Ly
ons, Royal M. C., Mineral H'll,
i Salmon River.
| _
Deed: Jerome Dugas to Ern
est Blue, Cripple Creek; Crip
ple Creek No. 1; Cripple Creek
No. 2; Cripple Creek No. 3;
Surprise M. C., Texas Creek.
I BIG SULPHATE PLANT
FOR JUNEAU SECTIO:i
Bart L. Thane, has authorized
the announcement that a big
ammonium sulphate and wood
pulp plant has been fully fi
nanced and will start operat
ions at the end of the present
year at Thane. A man named
Pape is at the head of the ne v
concern, which is composed
mainly of a number of owners
of chemical plants engaged in
manufacturing similar prod
ucts at Niagra Falls and Syr
racuse. A Mr. Wells is manag
er. Thane and Wells are ex
pected at Juneau this fall. Sev
eral hundred men will be em
ployed before the end of the
present year. It is the intent
ion to commence the manufact
ure of pulp and paper in about
two years. Thane will shorti/
retire. The new company wTl
take over the townsite, water
power and the wharf for each.
Mitsui & Co., a big Japanese
firm, have contracted to hand
le the output of the plant for
a period of ten years.
Ocean View Hotel
Limited
H Y D E R, B. C.
First Class Accomodations
Electric Lighted. Hot Water Day and Night
FINE.ST BATHS IN THE CITY
BANQUET HALL FOR PRIVATE PARTIES & DANCES
FIRST HOTEL COMING OUT OF ALASKA INTO CANADA
C. M. RIDLEY, MANAGER.