The McCarthy
Weekly News
VOL: IX
McCarthy, alaska, Saturday, May 8,1^6
No. 19
I SEE BY THE
PAPER THAT:
Mr. Cameron of the Road
Commission who has been look
ing over the work here for the
summer returned to Chitina Tue
sday to make his report.
Herman Keno went to Dan
Creek Wednesday.
A dance to inaugurate the
baseball season will be held in
the Pioneer’s Hall McCarthy on
Saturday, May 15. Good music
will be furnished and everyone
is invited to attend.
A. G. Grate is down from
Bonanza and will make bis ann
ual prospecting pilgrimage in
the near future.
The Road Commission party
consisting of six men, four hor
ses and one truck arrived today
and will leave tomorrow morning
for their camp at the five mile
point on Sourdough Hill.
Lettuce - Celery
Green Onion • Cabbage
Tomatoes • Cucks
Cauliflower - Spinach
Bananas - Oranges
Rhubarb
At J. B. O’Neills
SPRING IS THE TIME
to replenish your lingerie
MADE-TO-MEASURE
and
READY MADE
Mrs. C. O. Mar wood has samp
les and takes orders.
Mrs. Jack Morris
SUMMER RESORT
!
for McCarthy
The amount of travel to Balt
off Lake for an outing last seas
on has produced results. Bill
Mahar has undertaken to build
a good trail from the Nizina
bridge to the lake, a distance of
about two miles and r< ports that
I
he already has this practically
finished. He has erected three
tents and is to start erecting a
cabin in the course of a few days.
This resort should draw lar
ge crowds this season for it is
easy of access with a good cat
road to the Nizina and a good
trail from there to the lake. Fish
are there in abundauce and the
water is ideal for bathing.
ROAD COMMISSION
TO START WORK
Word has been received the
Alaska Road Commission will
begin work on the Sourdough
Hill road almost immediately. A
small crew only will be put on
at first to to do some necessary
work and will probably be cam.
ped at the five mile. It is exp
ected that work will get under
way by Monday.
KENNECOTT MOVIES
Sunday May 9th.
Norma Talmadge
in
'‘The Only Woman”
2 Reel Comedy
News
Wed May 12 th
' Owen Moor •
Constance Bennett
in
“The Code of the West”
Fable
News
OIL DISCOVERED AT NIZINA
STAMPEDERS RUSH TO STAKE
MANY CLAIMS STAKED NEAR BALTOFF LAKE; SURFACE
INDICATIONS GOOD; ASSAYER'S REPORT
Excitement reigns in MeCar
thy with the discovery of oil
indications beyond the Nizina,
River in the vicinity ol Baltoff
Lake and already the towns
people have flocked almost in
a body to stake up the ground
around the discovery. Some
thirty or forty claims have
already been staked and record
ed.
Mrs. Sam Seltenreich was
the originator of the excitement
when she disclosed to a few
friends that surface indications
of oil existed on the sloughs and
low lying bench land in the vicin
ity of Baltoff Lake which is
about two miles beyond the
new Nizina bridge and about
twelve miles from town. Eight
people of the town, Mrs. Selten
reich, Mrs. Kate Kennedy, J. B.
O’Neill. Chas. O’Neill, Sigurd
Wold, Carl Anderson and E. P.
Harwood immediately staked
and recorded eight claims on the
site, and, as the information be
came general, a ru-h was for
the district was soon in progress
and Commissioner Harwood was
kept busy supplying Powers of
Attorney and recording claims.
Prospectors report a good
oil shale formation and while
many remain skeptical the enth
ousiasm of the stainpeders rem
ains undampened.
Bill Henry furnished the
second thrill when he appeared
in town with a pint bottle of
crude oil and a small bag of fine
appearing shale which gives
every promise of being the real
i thing. The oil was taken to
Kennecott and assayers of the
Corporation report it to be an
exceptionally line grade of oil.
Staking is reudered somewhat
difficult to snow and water
which still lies on the ground
but was no hindrance to the
stampeders.
Those staaing to date, in
addition to the eight mentioned
above are:
Fred Overlander, William Lubbe,
Mrs. P. Wills, Miss Ora Haug,
Miles Atkinson, Harry Mudge,
Miss Pearl Blanchette, Miss
Pearl Peterson, Roy Snyder^
William Berry, Mrs. Harwood,
William Henry, Mrs. Stevenson
and Miss Barbara Wilson, all of
McCarthy. L. H. Woodman of
Ontario, California, and H. I.
O’Neill of Cordova have been
staked by proxy.
Enthousiasm runs high am
ong the townspeople and steps
will be taken immediately to get
action in developing the property.
Commissioner Harwood is plann
ing an early trip to the ground
to verify for his own satisfaction
the surface indications and the
samples of oil and shale obtain
ed in order to guard against
fraud and misrepresentation.
Every effort will be made to avoid
the broadcasting of false reports
but no effort is to be spared in
learning the exact nature and
commercial possibilities of the
strike.
One of the chief factors in its
favor is its easiness of acess and
the facility with which it could be
brought to a marketable position.
Kennecott officials are ast
onished at the samples furnish
ed.