The McCarthy
Weekly
VOL: X
McCarthy, alaska, Saturday, HYb. *
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AN AIRPLANE LANDING
FIELD FOR McCARTHV
Ad airplane landing field at
McCarhty, is suggested by people
who are interested in aviation
for Alaska. And another one at.
Chisanna. This brings ('ordova
McCarthy, Chisanna, and Dawsoi
on almost a direct line. The trip
could be made along this route
from Cordova, to Dawson in
three to four hours.
There should be sufficient
business now between these four
towns to justify an airplane,
such as carrying mail, passengers
- and light freight, and also, land
ing prospectors with light out
fits in some of the remote places.
There is natural landing
fields on the upper Chifcfna
River bars, and in fact on bars
along most all of the glacier
streams. Prospectors could be
landed on the upper Ghitina
River in less than an hour from
McCarthy, a distance of eighty
miles.
There is a couple of long
straight stretches of good
graveled road, fourty feet wide
un the bench from one fourth,
to one half mile south of the
town of McCarthy, on the Nizina
Highway, which by cutting the
brush from both sides, and with
very little cost, would maks a
g»>od landing field for airplanes.
There is seldom any wind
here and when it blows at all, it
is always from the north, and
the direction of this road is
north and south.
1 f necessary an L could be
adt i d at no great cost. It would
be easy to get mot e than a half
mile in the shape of an elbow
of level ground.
Another good place would
be on 1 be I *a i ret 1 Homestead
near the KriincrnU and Met'a rthy
Automobile Road, between Mr
Carthy, and tin* (own of Black
burn. This is also a gravel bench
Seeking a
RARE ANIMAL
A ftp r ten year’s futile search
Harvey Miller, one of the most
success* ul hi*r collectors
in the cniipt.ro . has sent out a,
je-iP In mI| soortshion fo** 1. < >'C;*
men of nature’s latest crossbreed
in the big horn sheep family,
TheOvi* Fmnsnf wasdis covered
in the Cassiar mountains n»ar
Alaska in 1915. and since then
onlv twi O'* three have b ven see a.
Scientists fear that the breed
“•jay already have disao > raced
Amon>r others Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, whom Miller asserts
is one of the forrnost naturalists
in America hns joined in the sea
rch and also Carl Lomen the A 5
askan reindeer king who was the
central figure in James Oliver
Curwood’s novel, “The Alaskan”
Lomen has his entire staff of ran
chmen hunting for the Fannani,
and Roosevelt writes that he is
circularising all his sportsmen fir
ends.
Miller who design* the styles for
I the Endicott Johnson Corpora
j t.ion when he is not pursuing big
i game has a more complete collec
tion of North Americau big game
from the walrus t° the wildcat,
then either the Smithsonion inst
itute of the American museum
* of natural science. The Ovis Fann
jani which is a freak cross betw
| een the Ovis Stonei and the white
ovis dalli bighorn sheep will ma
ke Miller’s 97th distinctive head
land complete the collection which
| may be science’s only complete
i record of North American game.
and quite level for more than
a half a mile.
Chisan nu has a natu t id lam'r
ing field tine will require very
, | little to put it in a one condition.
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I TERRITORIAL IIUNTERS
NEEDED TO PROTECT
WILD GAME
According to available infor
mation obtained, on sheep alone,
j this season b.v an interested
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group of hunters, about-97 per
cent lambed and only *28 percent
I could be checked in the late fall.
Until the last lew year’s
coyotes and wclves were rather
scarse in the Copper River and
White River Valleys. Through
the small bounty ami insufficient
funds, they have increased to an
alarming number.
It is time for drastic action
to be taken, or in a few year’s
Alaska will be faced with the
| grave problem of no game.
With lack of transportation
which is Alaska’s handicap,
game is an absolute necessity
to the prospector.
Nature has provided this
Ter ritory with an aboiindance
of game and it is the duty of
every citizen to see that it is
protected lroni prying predatory
animals.
Alaska, is becoming known
the world over as a hunters
paradise, and every year sees
an increasing nnrnber of sports*
men from the States, but unless
some protection is afforded
game, the sportsmen will cease
to come.
OFFICIAL IS ALARMED
BY CHILD CRIMINALS
Albany, N. Y.— Juvenile de
linquency has become a serious
problem iu New York State, in
the opinion of John S. Kennedy,
president of t he state commission
of prisons.
His report for 1926, made
public point to the “appalling
showing” of young criminals in
the state, especially in New York
City.
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11ST AIRPLXNE SUICIdE
FI POTTED BY SPAM/'FI
ALICANTE Siviin- An airp
me suicibe \v;«s recorded Sat.u
day as the first in Spanish ao
*n cities.
Maurice Boucher, engineer pas;
enger on a plane of tne La-eeoei
company, jumped overboard a.*
the ship was soaring at a grea,'
height over the villageof Etacaro
The pilot of the machine at firs
did not notice the disappearance
of his passenger. When his attor
tion was called to it he returnee
to the sj'ol and found the body
SPEED TEST IS MADE
BIRMINGHAM Eng. Tire test
were made la** week on th
$100,000 automobile designed ex
pressly to capture speed reeor
held in the United Stetes.
They proved the designer an
manufacturer said that tires of j
ain rubber without treads suee
ssfully stoo d a speed of 200 in
es an hour without overheatin
while at a speed of 120 mile
the treading of ordinary tire
was striped off with a report 1
ke an explosion and flung red he
through the door of the great si
ed where the trials were held.
KENNECOTT MOVIES
Sunday February 6th
Reginald Denny
in
“I’LL SHOW YOU THE TOWh
NEWS
MUSIC
Wednesday February 9 th
Claire Windsor Conrad Nag'
in
“DANEC MADNESS"
COMEDY
NEWS
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