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McCarthy weekly news
Entered as second class matter. Septerp
ber 17th, 1918. at the Post Office, at
McCarthy. Alaska, under the Act of
March 3. 18Y9.
L. M. Lander Manager
R. E. Lander * Editor
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Saturday March 17, 19*23.
The following rhyme contributed
to the poetry conrest py a pioneer,
who, has follewed the frontier for the
last 40 years typifies the North so well
that we present it to our readers edit
orially.
I am no poet as you a I can see;
Bui a lew lines, written by me,
A word of cheer passed on. you know,
To the lew that’s left of t he Sourdoughs.
We came to Alaska as pioneer,s.
And blazed the trails on her frontiers,
'Wnere the autom^bi ie now speeds its
way,
And. the locomotive has come to stay.
She’s a grand old place, and where’er
you go.
You see mountains and everlasting snow
Its mighty rivers and valleys wide.
When golden nug get s in the sands abide.
Her golden treasures on mountains
high,
Amlin the valleys below dobs lie.
Hundreds of years fount now they’ll be.
Mining gold in old Aiask-ee.
I;i thoKoyukuk with shovel and picks,
They g ut gold in chunks like bricks,
All the old timers who there reside,
Most every year take a trip Outside.
There’s her copper, to, still hidden away
That will be brought to light and work
ed some day,
What little now is worked by hand,
When compared to the total is like a
grain of sand.
Her virgin coal bed s lying today
Untouched by the human hand, Isay
If they worked in their proper sphere
They would last the world a thousand
years.
Three sides are bounded by oceans
and seas
Where winds blow a gale or breeze.
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* LEGAL ADVERTISING
Department of Tho 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. 0r>6il, for Ey2NWy4,Nwy4XE
1/4. 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
Twenty three thousand miles or more
The waves beat beat on her minted
shore
Tiie fish industry on tin' Alaskan coast.
Has a world of wealth, we can boast,
That they are fishing now from Arc'io
land.
To our southern .coast at Ketchikan.
There's tlie Yukon river, largest of
them all,
With her forty foot of ;i raise ami fall.
Well do I know, for we’ve mushed
herihru
From Lake Bennet to the Cut tie Sloguh.
There's theTanana valley, which can’t
he heat
For agriculture and raising wheat:
With its ettribou and mountain sheep
And everything that one wants to eat.
Go where you may in this old world,
Where flags are waving, and flags are
furled,
You will see no climate around sixly
t hree
That will compare with old Alask-ee.
Of course, she’s rough and wild and
backward yet:
But it'gno fault of hers, we’ll all admit:
Forold Uncle Sam's been awfully slow
To build her roads and t rails, you know,
So we will give three cheers for Alaska
And all of her cluldrenthat’s here to slay
May they reae the harvest some future
' day,
And think of the ones that blazed theway
There’s manya one of the old Sour
doughs
Now sleeping under her wintry snows.
That were right to the front in early
laps
To help put Alaska on the mads.
But there’s a few of us left,still mush
ing on
In this glorious land of the midnight
sun.
And while we’re here we’ll do our host,
To make it pleasant for ourselves and_
ALL THE REST,
IVE once knew a MAN who bet
[JS
PH AT HE could write as good
POETRY K
ON ALASKA
AS Robt. Service or Paf 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
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OUR PAPER or not
BUT
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ABOUT ALASKA
AND MUST BE in before JUNE
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