THE
McCarthy weekly news
Entered as second class matter, Sepiem
ber I7th, 1918. at the lost Office, at
McCarthy. Alaska, under the Act of
March 3. 1879.
L. M. Lander Manager
11. E. Lander Editor
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Saturday March 10, 1938.
Recently the Cordova Daily Times
carried an editorial explaining the need
of advertising this section of Alaska.
We heartily agree with the Times
in this respect.
Nowhere can Ae hunter find a bet ■
ter big game country, the Kenai penin
sula not excepted, than in the region
immediately adjacent to McCarthy.
Here he cai secure competent guides
who will take him into the very heart
of the mountains and keep him com
pany thru experiences that could not
be equaled in any part of the country/
Here he would find game that could
and does test the skilland iugenuityof the
best sportsmen. He would kill bear,
sheep and goats in a manner that would
..lake him the cynosure of all his as
sociates in the states. Upon his return
home he would h^ able to relate thrU.
ling experiences encountered in the per.
suit of sheep across glaciers and of the
wariness or the brown bear. It he were
fond of fishinng he could relate tales
of trout and grayling that would make
his brother Nimrods hang their heads
and never speak of their three-pound
stuffed trophy again.
Nowhere can the tourist view more
wonderful scenery than upon the Cop
per River & N.W. Railway as it winds
in and out of mountain gorges, crosses
rushing torrents and passes by scores of
mighty glaciers. Here tourists c n see
spots made famous in Rex Beach's
novel ” The Iron Trail ”, and as a fit
ting sequel to this journey they could
see the richest copper mines in the
world. They could take a trip into the
placer mining districts and could go ■
LEGAL ADVERTISING
Department of The Interior
U.S. LAND OFFICE at Juneau,
Alaska February 2,1923.
NOTICE is hereby'given that Olav
Holtet, of McCarthy, Alaska, who, on
Nov. 27, 1922, made homestead entry,
No. 05611, for EV&NWK,NW%NE
Y4, Section 23, Township 5 S, Range
13 E, Copper River Meridian, has
filed notice of intention to make final
three year Proof, to establish claim to
the land above described, before Will
iam D. Coppernoll, at McCarthy, Ala
ska, on the 31st day of March, 1923.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Nils Tjosevig, of McCarthy, Alaska
R.L.H. Marshall,of
J. B. O’Neill, of
John E. Barrett,of
Frank A. Boyle
Register,
Date of first publication Feb.17,1923.
Date of last publication March 17,1923
from there into the upper reaches of
the rivers if so inclined. If they did go
back into the hills they wpuld find gla
ciers whose appaling strength has ltfvel
ed mountains and then has lain quiet
until in one case a large forest has
grown upon the ice. They could see
mountains that are falling to pieces and
other mountains that are composed of
pumice, and skirted by streams that are
filled with floating stone certain seasons
of the year. When the tourist returned
to the states he would have had a trip
that he would remember for years to
come. He would have seen a wonder
land without peer and incidently the
last frontier.
With a country of this nature adjoi
ning, McCarthy would do well to enter
into the advertising game herself.
We have a Commercial Club; but to
accomplish anything the organization
must have the backing of the commun
lty. Lf everyone would get togelheij and
pull for the tourists and hunters, We
would soon get results. This class of
the traveling public often settle in a
place and thus form the basis of a boom
in land values. Residents of the entire
Copper River Valley should put their
shoulders to the wheel and push the
movement along because if successful
it would materially benefit everyone.
Properly handled this entire region
would advance to the position she de
derves in the eyes of the rest of the
Territory.
The world comes to him who has
the best.be it mountains or mousetraps,
but the commodity must be advertised.
WE once knew a MAN who bet
US
THAT HE could write as good
POETRY
ON ALASKA
AS Robt. Service or Pat O’Cotter
OR F. B. Camp
OR ANYONE
WE bet him he COULDN’T
WRITE the BEST amateur verse
ON ALASKA
SO will YOU help us show him he
CAN’T
ANYONE in ALASKA may try
WHETHER he be a supscriber to
OUR PAPER or not
BUT
THE verse MUST HE
ABOUT ALASKA
AND MUST BE in before JUNE
FIRST
AND we will PRINT the BEST
EVERY WEEK
WITHOUT the writer’s name
AND then we will have
THREE JUDGES from
McCarthy and kennecott
PICK out the
THREE BEST ONES
AND for them we will give
THREW PRIZES
FIRST ten DOLLARS
SECOND five DOLLARS
THIRD one year’s subscription to the
McCarthy news
WE want you to try
AND this is NO JOKE
AND that’s ALIj
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LAKINA GAME FIELD —
The Best Place For
HUNTING PARTIES
Sheep, Goats, Bear, Grouse and Ducks.
FOR FISHING
Grayling and Trout
TROLLING
Whitefish, Bass and Salmon
IN SEASON.
Gas-boat or Rowboat anytime Good Board Home Cooking
F. C. Sabis.
NOT THEN
President Harding vetoes bonus bill.
—News from Washington.
irememper the dawn of that ooid.
rainy day.
Our first time over the top,
How for hours we crouched in the mud
of the trench,
With our hearts going flippety flop.
And at last word came—and over we
went,
Where bullets whistled and spat:
And shrapnel whistled ’round like de
mons from Hell,
But no one put a veto on that.
I remember the nights when with pick
and a spade
We scooped shallow graves for our
dead;
No song could be sung — there were
snipers around.'
Not even a prayer could be said.
Wo had to work fast,for with coming
of day
. The jruns would ftegin to cjiat;
Without coffin or blankets we laid them
away.
But no one put a veto on that.
I
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