Mt. McKinley
Hotel
ANCHORAGE
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Your Home Away
From Home
Modern rooms with or
without bath
Reasonable Rates
NEW COLONY FAMILY
IS WELL SATISFIED
For five years Ernest Septka
and his family have been fighting
drouth weapons—searing winds,
cloudless skies, and scant winter
snows—that have dried rivers, wa
ter holes and wells in Western
South Dakota. Near their home
east of the Black Hills feuds have
started and men have been killed
in disputes over muddy Water
hules—yet that stagnant water
meant life or death to stock.
For five years Septkas have
turned longing eyes toward Alas
ka. Finally they .decided to bun
| die up and come. They were happy
i to get a government contract per
j mitting them to join the Matan
uska Colony, making them the only
South Dakota family. They paid
their own way and came with the
spirit that their parents had set
tled Dakota prairies.
Within an hour after landing in
Palmer they drew for their tract
which turned out to be Tract 3
with about 25 cleared acres. Joy
ully they moved into their new
home—incompletely finished in
side. ‘But I don’t mind,” Mrs. Sept
ka smiled. “We’re going to be hap
py here. We like it already—even
the children aren’t homesick. I’m
surprised at the mild climate and
l don’t miss those hot winds a bit.”
Septka -was brought up on a
ranch in the cow country and looks
forward to going into stock here.
Cowmen, are like prospectors. It’s
in the blood and they can’t be
•ured.
PERSONALS
Adolph Schauer, who was a black
smith here last winter, is back aft
er a summer prospecting on the
middle fork of the Big Chena Riv
er east of Fairbanks. Adolph says
he found a little gold scattered
here and there, but none in paying
quantities. He reports the country
up there full of moose . . . and lit
erally millions of beaver. He nev
er saw a soul all summer, but
heard many airplanes pass over
on their way from Fairbanks to
other established camps.
Montie Morris, who' worked here
last winter for the corporation as a
carpenter, has just returned from
Cripple Creek in the Innoka district
where he had been engaged in open
cut mining. He has accepted a
position here with Koslokys’s.
George Campbell was in and is
looking more and more like a cattle
man every day. George is in charge
of the 250 head A. A. Shonbeck has
down on the hay flats. At present
they are butchering only enough to
supply the Anchorage market.
Sourdough Sam dropped in to in
form us that he thought he’d be
getting back into the hills again
pretty soon. “Money, money,
money!” he said. “Seems like they
don’t worry ‘bout nothing else
I ‘round here. I don’t fit in no more.
! Too much chiselization for me, I
I guess.”
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