THE ^OWDER HORN
Though the. boxes to be known os
the Pioneer Powder Horns ore not
yet un the idee has taken hold and
we publish herewith the first com
munication to conio under that head.
In case you have missed the in
terview referred to, it was one giv
en the Anchorage Times by Harry
Sears in which he had nrnissd the
amount of work done by Mr. Walter
Hpnel of Tract #106. Mr. I. M.
3 .ndvik of Tract #47 answers.
Butte Camp #10
Dec. 36, 1935
Matanuska Valley ^ioneer,
D a line r , A1 a s k a.
Dear Sir:
I seu in the ”Anchorage Times”
that there is at .least me man
among us colonists that has solved
the problem of dec.ring timber land.
Mr. Piooel not only has 12 acres
cleared but 15, also has it plowed
and ready for planting.
Out at the Putto a number of us
kent asking for a tractor .nd nlow
to break with but not untill it
started to freeze did the Powers
that be see fit to do so.
When the two men that w^re sent
out to alow had been o1 owing (or
breaking) three .and a half days on
my place they caim, to two small
stumps, neither of which wer over
six inches in diameter and they re
fused to hook on and null them, in
forming me that their boss Mr. Har
ry Sears had given them mams not
to null stumns.
I didn’t want r:. c ouole oi stums
left with a big niece of unolowed
land left in the field s^ I t~ld
then to null off which they did. I
asked them to havo Mr. Seers out to
scG fod* himself if I was asking
something unreasonable of them but
neither Mr. Seers ~r the two nlow
men showed up. Consequently I have
three Dr f^ur acres yet unolowed
which should hove been br^ke.
ITm quite sure that quite a num
ber of us out at the Butte vmuld
wgIconic r. demonstration in lend
clearing whereby wo con clrar end
nlow seine of our timber land, at
least ten ^r twelve acres.
Perhaps I have. the wrong Inures
oion about clearing land.
We have one man out our way that
has fifteen or more acres broke up
ond this ground hasn’t been cleared
before either. Fact is Mr. Dregiiorn
thinks he lias almost twenty acres
plowed. Seems LIr. Soars has for
got ton that there are quite a num
ber of colonists on this side of
the river too, so we will bo look
ing for him.
Mr. Breghorn by the way is one
of us that used his five dollars
recreation money to help got this
Land into cultivation.
I also had the co-operation of
•y neighbors Mr. Nelson, Mr. Ste
phnn and Mr. Bergen besides other
he In that I raid for to get ny
piece plowed.
Yours truly,
I. M. °andvik
Another coon .uni cat ion out of
the TFkrnT is a natter of consid
erable iinncrtancc t^ the families
out m tile tail end of Carr p2.
Mortgage Pmrk, as they call it.
"Vdy not have regular deliv
eries for such distant onints as
•that area occupied by the tracts
of" ay Wi1ke s , Al Sexton, .Arnold
Carson, H. Leander, Johan Johnson
and Francis Pi airy?
The above would mere than wel
c01:10 a to lan whereby a regular
weekly delivery would be made with
feed and would suggest that the
dgy chosen be Wednesday. It is
m sy enough' to get in for the mail
but the hike back with packages is
a long me.
Uni or the present system the
trucks probably make more trips
than they would if every man knew
he had to hoove his orders in f^r
delivery at a certain tine, to say
nothing of the convenience to those
from "IWrtgage P.mrk.tT
nrvid Johnson, who for over
norths was confined to his hod, is
now out and about in fino share.
Ho is e?..n able to get a little
work done around the r lace and sayr
that '-'169 will snn be caught uo
with the neighbors.
J Tin Osseward, in charge of the
c amiss.ary, •: Inins the oriel thal
n radre clothing can be sold to tin
corporation enoloycos by pointing;
out the fact that so much was our
chased there at one tine that it
left hiio unable to fill the needs
of the col my.
Hen Corliss, who had charge of
tT'c farn nachinery and the feed
nill, is just 5 ft. 7 a inches tall,
but on December 21, the shortest
day in the ymr, he cast a shadow
65 feet long.
FOR HALE: Phmogrorh and about
100 records, all in good condi
tion. JlO.uO. Cmie to the PIO
NEER offic. and sec for yourself.
FOR SALE: C: oico building l^ts,
just north of Cun:unity Center.
Last of railroad and south of nain
anchorage highway# 50x135 with 60
foot streets and 35 fo-'t alleys.
Three blocks to be surveyed and
offered f or sale ire iod lately. See
Ilr. M. D# Snodgrass for details.