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tember 17th, 1918, at the Post Office a#
McCarthy, Alaska, under the Act of
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Saturday. Mur. 5, 1927
ARRANGEMENTS MADE TO
MARKET ALASKA COAL
The announcement that C. P.
Peterson has finally completed
his plans for placing a power
schooner on a run between the
M:ttanuska coal fields and San
Francisco comes as one of the
most, welcome anburies for an era
of prosperity in the Railroad Helt,
since the railroad was construct
ed. With the San Francisco mar
ket prepared to absorb a steady
tonnage of coal, said to be in ex
cess of 1,000 tons daily, it means
that a payroll of more than that
many men will !>;-» maintained
winter and summer in the coal
fields, added train crews and add
ed stimulus to all lines of business
The influence ol the enterprise
will be felt from one end of West
ern Alaska to the other for it will
provide winter employment to
many men who are compelled to
migrate each year to seek a live
lihood in the States and will give
the seasonal metal miner opp
ortunity to earn a gaubstake in
winter and call for additional em
ployeesof tne Alaska Railroad.
Seward Gateway
FARTHEST NORTH GOLLEGK
The* following article was taken
from an outside pai>er.
A college where th-* shoot
their own moat ami tin* «•<»— eds
Wear moo so hide m<*ocHS'"*’ Th->^
is the h’Wthest North C<* 'eg« .
about three miles from Fairbanks
Alaska.
The cornerstone of the first
campus building laid in 1015. tT
was not until 1922, after further
appropriations had been made by
the Territorial Legislature, tha*
the College ojjened it's loors to
students. There were 164 stud
ents registered during tin* past
year and the faculty num*»ers
fourteen.
me plentiful tram'* snopiy
has been a boon to «nek
ing to reduce tie* n<>*r <»l living.
i
Sometimes inoosf. ••ah'immi and
bear stalk on th<* campus, wbilf*
the nearby vail *y and mountains
hold their ow*> mi the lirth* matter
of steaks or c'.ops. Ami though
the co-eds ,, ,,tr mivwe hi<le hoots
trimmed " • ■ ti beaver fur, “mush”
dogs, o life is much the
same *o ’hern as it is to gi'-ls
everywheie. One of the college
girls won the sixteen mile dog
derby in Fairbanks, last winter,
and* was accorded the honor of
christening the “Alaskan” the
Detroit Arctic Expedition mono
plane.
The president of this north
land college, Charles E. Bunnell,
is a genuine Alaskan; he was for
mer judge of the United States
District Court with headquarters
in Fairbanks for seven years:
after practicing law in Valdez.
And so the fingers of the
Aurora Borealis tha,t have stret
ched over so many lonely cabins
now roll there scrolls over a
group of modern college buildings
Only now they are understood
instead of being merely wond
ered at!
Juneau Gets Money For
Government Dock
Major L. E. Oliver, Engineer
Officer of the Alaska Road Com*
mission, received a telegram from
Col. James G. Steese, President
of the Commission, saying that
the $23,500 appropriation for a
Government Dock at Juneau had
passed Congress. The money will
be available July 1st.