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"THE GOLDEN’
THE PLACE WHERE FRIENDS MEET
POOL SOFT DRINKS CANDY
JAMES HUSSEY
LUNCH Counter in Connection
Copper River
and Northwestern Railway
THROUGH SERVICE TO CORDOVA TWICE WEEKLY
CALEB CORSER Supt. 0. F. PUGH. Agent
Kennecott Laundry
T^ates Care o f fke Family Wasli
F. H. FOSTER
ATTORNEY
Motary Public Real Estate
Transactions of all Kinds
Regally arranged
Cordova,
Alask;
ASA C. BALDWIN
U. S. Mineral Surveyur
SEATTLE, WASH
512 Hoge Building
Alaska
M c.Carthy
Charley’s Place
On Second Street
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Town Talk
V. .J. -Dwyer, mayor, innkeop
er and.merchant of Strlena was
a business visitor to McCarthy
Wednesday.
Mrs, Wills suffered a severe a
tack of grippe during the pas
week. She put in her appearance
Thursday howevar, and is now
well on the road to recovery.
Neat Job Printing at moderate
prices done at the News Office.
A1 Jackson left for a trip down
the Nizina during the first part
of the week. He contemplates j
staking ground adjoining Martin
I
Harais, who, it is reported has
made a good find. Several other i
men are awaiting reports.
Colonel Stevenson had the mis
i fortune to lose his horse yester
day. The horse attempted to en
ter the Brenewick barn and in
some manner broke its neck.The
carcass was sold to the dog
:n ushers.
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CHITINA
The freeze-up has put an end
to the work on the Chitina tun
nel for the season. An extension
of time has been granted the con
| tractor, owing to a change in the
| terms of the contract. These at
iirst called for the removal, by
the contractor, of the earth only
j to the top of the tunnel, the rail
road company agreeing to clear
the lower part of the cut. It pro
ved, however, that slides thru
the timbering into the tunnel
could not be prevented. There
fore, the time of the contract
was extended, next year’s work
being to remove everything to
the level of the track and ten feet
each way from the center of the
track at the base. The sides of
the cut will have a slope of forty
live degrees Approximately thir
ty thousand cubic yards of earth
have been removed this year, the
second year of work on the cut.
Wilson Miller, who conducts
the Taziina road house, T>8 miles
out, on the trail, met with a con
siderable loss last week, when
one of his big gray horses, run
ning loose, fell over a cliff and
burst a blood vessel. When found
the animal was dead. The horse
was one of a fine team, with
which Mr. Miller had pfanned on
doing extensive freighting this
winter.
I j. Truck Takes A Dive
A three ton Packard truck be
longing to the Slate Creek Mi
ning Company took a dive into a
deep lake three miles out on the
trail last week, and remained
there almost completely submer
ged until rercued last Monday
by a caterpillar tractor. The
truck seemed loath to leave its
watery resting place and at first
disappeared completely; but af
ter much coaxing it arose and
was brot to town for repairs.
The driver, Art Laverty, res
cued himself by climbing to the
rear end, one side of which lest
ed on some rocks, and was slight
ly above the surface of the water
At the point where the acci
dent occurred there is a sharp
curve in the road, making it ne
cessary for cars to run far into
the bank then turn toward the
lake and carefully soraighten out
to the road again. The truck be
ing a heavy affair, with a long
body and a wheel tread fully a
foot wider than that of the or
dinary car is not exactly adapt
ed to such maneuvers. A slight
snow had made the road slipper
y, making it impossible for th e
driver to turn back into the road
the car plunging into the water.
Its cargo at the time consisted
merely of a load of wood which
it wras bringing to town.
This same truck, twTo weeks a*
go, broke a cribbing in the road
on the hill just beyond the low
er Tonsina road house. This was
due as much to defective crib
bmg as to the weight of the
truck, which w7as carrying a two
ton load of freight to the mining
camp at Gukana. The road com
mission is rebuilding the crib
bing at this point.
The truck is the only one of
its type used here and is too
large and too heavy for the trail
in its present condition. It wras
purchased by the Slate Creek
Mining Company from mine ope
rators near Strelna, wrhen opera
tions in that vicinity ceased.
Stulls Will
Soon Be Loaded
Andy Taylor is constructing a
heavy derrick beside the Mother
Lode warehouse for A. E. Trimm
who will use it to load timber
consigned to Kennecott, on cars.
The timber has been cut dur
ing the past summer.