The McCarthy
Weekly News
VOL: VII
McCarthy, alaska, Saturday March 15,1924
No. XIX
A. R. C. Begins
Hauling Gravel For
Nizina Bridge Piers
Supt. Huddleson was up from
Chitina for a couple of days this
week making arrangements for
horses, and for a trip of inspect
ion, He has returned to the for
mer place, leaving John Neys in
charge as foreman.
Tiie annual work on the Niz
ina bridge has already started.
During the next few months
the Commission’s activities in
this district, will consist of haul
ing .-.and to the bridge site. For
this worlr, there will be only sev
en persons, ineiudihg the lore
man and cook, employed. The
sand will all be obtained from a
deposit on the Seltenreich farm
and will be delivered by four of
A. E. Trim’s horses, which have
been contracted by the Gommis
sion. it is computed that there
will be about forty yards of matj
teri il needed for each pier, or ap
prox.mately 200 yards for the
entire job. Clean gravel will be
obt lined by washing the rubble
of the river bottom.
Liter on in ttie season there is
to be a larger crew put on and
the concrete poure 1. Next sea-!
son woris on tli ■ weed structure
will probably beji t.
PROSPECTORS making
OUT FINE
Mike Knowles, who with Oscar
[King] Packman,is doing develop
ment work work on the claims
which they staked over on S^ew
art creek last summer, was a
McCarthy visitor this week.
According to Mike, things aae
Looking better all the time. The
joys are taking in a summers
mtrit and expect t > show c ipitai
ists about tin* tinest prope-ty in
Alaska, by the time snow Hies
LTiey have everyom-’sbesi wisnvs
Chitina Brevities
Mrs. Frank Milliard, wife of
the A. R. C. Disbursing Clerk
was discharged from the Kenne
cott Hospital early this week and
after a few days visit with the
Marshalls, returned to her home
on Wednesday’s train.
Mr. and Mrs. A.G. Morey, who
are interested in the drug busi
nass at Chitina. returned on the
S. 8. Alaska, this week, from an
extended visit in the states. A
trip from Seattle down the coast
to Loa Angeles in a Buick, was
included in their itinerary. They
report that they had the time of
their lives.
Mrs. O.J. Berg left on the Nor
thwestern for Boston where her
mother is seriously ill.
EXCELLENT RECORD
MADE BY CONTRACTOR
A contract for the Kennccott
Copper Corperation, which has
just been wound up by A.E Trim
sits a record that bids lair to
stand for some time to come. In
the past two months he shipped
fifteen cars of stulls and lagging
from McCarthy, the cars aver
ageing eighty tons to the car. All
this wood was hauled from two
to live mi.es by four horses. It
was loaded by means of a boom
rig. When the work was finish
ed the horses were in good shape
Just previous to this, the stock
worked seventy days straight on
three hundred tons of freight
They landed it at the Erie Mine,
about eight miles from Kenne
oottjover the glacier. During
this time the horses also pulled
a huge number of stulls from the
rad road to the tram house. The
afore meniion«*d accomplishment
certainly speaks well for the abii
ity of both the skinners ami the
\
.Dan Creek Managers
Get On The Job
J. J. Price, H. A. Ives and L. A.
Levensaler, the new owners of
' the Dan Creek Mining Co., arriv
i ed on Tuesday’s train from the
coast,Price and Levensaler going
on to Kennecottand Ives stop
ping here. Later Price and Ives,
the managers for the coming
year,left for the mine to look the
proposition over, with the view
of commencing operations as
soon as possible,
i According to Price, the new
j company will employ thirty-live
; men during the coming season,
j approximately the same number
1 that were employed during the
past. There is considerable dead
i
work to be done before the wat
er is turned into the pipes, but
it is expected that there will be
a crew put on in a short time.
The company will be known as
the Dan Creek Mines Inc. The
present managers are experien
ced men audit is expected that
the coming suaimer will witness
a good cleanup.
Smoker Monday
While that great Irish battle
song is being rendered by the
band, Jew, American and all oth
local nationalities will gather at
Kennecott to witness the bouts
1 between the all star lighter ; that
have been lined up by My lor .Tones 1
As al> this happens to happen on
Monday, March 17. it’ll be a hiyu
happenstance.
livestock.
Trim will spend the coming
summer on his ranch on the Ken
neeott River. Next, winter’s plans
are not settled yet, but there is
some talk of a contract in the
near future
Tis Said That -
Steve Kansky, who has spent
the last three months in Port
land, returned to McCarthy on
Thursday’s ^rain. He reports
that things are looking good in
the states; hut Alaska looked
better to him ’long about this
time of the year. He expects to
go to Chisane in the near future.
Mrs. Nels Tjosevig entertained
at a very pleasant evening of
cards Wednesday evening.
Pete Penoff, winter manager
atChititu, was in town this week
A1 Doze went out to the A. K.
C. camp to work several days
ago.
Bill Hair came down from the
mines at Kennecott Thursday.
He states that the big drift be
tween the Erie and Jumbo mines
will be finished the latter part
of next month.
Mrs. A. V. Doze has been con
fined to her home with a cold for
several days this week.
Mel Jolliffe has gone out to the
Nizina River with Trim’s horses
to haul gravel for the bridge.
W. Gwin is making record
time hauling the Dan Creek and
Chititu freight out. He has mov
ed practically all of it, amount
ing to forty tons, as far as his
homestead.
Harry Boyden left for Chisane
with his dogs the early part of
the week to look his horses over
at Horsevelt.
Bill Berry left Friday with
the Chisane mail. He expects to
be gone about a month on this
trip.
’’Baldy” Veaeh drove down
from the Green Butte with his
dogs Monday evening.
Dan Campbell was down on
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