Weekly News
VOL: IX
McCarthy, alaska, Saturday,
Dec. is, 1J^6.
No.")]
BRIEF LOCALS
Don’t forget the big XMAS
Dance in the Pioneer Hall. Kenn
ecott Jazz Orchestra will play- A
good time for all who come.
Miss D, Shippey of Latouche> i
arrived on Tuesday’s train to visit
with Dr. and Mrs. Scruby until i
there return to Latouche on Dec-I
i
ember :20th.
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Mrs. K. Kennedy entertained j
at dinner Tuesday evening. Covers ■
were laid for eight,
Carl Anderson and Lou An—
derton, who are doing the assess-!
meat work on the Joe Murray !
property, were in for supplies the!
first part of the week.
Don’t forget the dance Xmas?
On Friday afternoon Dec. '24, '
at two o’clock the McCarthy
school children will hold their
Xmas entertainment and tree, at
the school house. Everyone should '
make a special effort to attend.
A black wolf pup arrved this
week from Chitina for Bill Mahar.
He will use him for breeding.
.1. W. Nickell our Big Game
guide, received two beautiful in
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largements of live sheep taken by !
'«•* Joe Powell, whom he had out last!
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Paddy Devlen went to work ;
at Kennecott this week*,
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Boy Snyder is spending a few i
days at Dan Creek, repaii ingagas
engine lorJ. J. Price.
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Dance Dance Dance
Bill Bub be returned on to
days tra.n from Chitina where
he has spent the last few weeks. ,
A MECCA FOR PROSPECTORS
John E. Barrett, tells about
the country southeast of McCa
rthy.
Since the Alaska Road Com
mission built the winter sled
road from the end of the McCar
thy Nizina Highway, to the up
per Clntina Vailey, pi os pec tors
and men with means, can now
sled mining supplies into the
upper Ohitina country.
With a little more work next
Summer upon the north side of
the Chitina River, this will also
make a good Summer pack trail.
There is a mineral belt which
has not been prospected, exten
ding from the Bremner River
three hundred or four hundred
miles east, and from the Chitina
R», y to the gulf of Alaska, a
hundred miles south. This belt
one hundred miles wide by lour
hundred miles long is very mou
ntainous and the formations are
mostly mineral bearing
Some prospecting lias been
done on the north side of the
Chitina ttiver, gold, silver lead
copper and mollybdenum, has
been found there. There is a
very large showing of lead ore
now being held by Win Slim pert
and Chick Nelson, two well
known pros pec tors of this section
but r.o development work has
beeu done for the lack of funds.
A few miles north of this
belt where prospecting and
development work has been done,
some of the richest mines in the
world are now being worked.
The Mother Lode and Kennecott
mines, and also the Dan Creek
and Chititu placers.
The way is now open from
McCartey over the McCarthy
Nizina Highway, to the winter
sled road leading into this new
mineral belt. There is plenty ol!
good saw mill timber in this
upper Chitina Valley, and it has
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REAL DETECTIVES NEEDED
TO TRACE THIS THU EE
Sheridan, Wyo: Southern Montana
and Northern Wyoming officers
are trailing560 skunks which hava
been stolen from pens at Haven
l'ield Butler skunk farms at Har
din, Montana. The entire stock
was taken with the exception of
40. No one lives at the farm.
the highest timberline in Alaska
timber grows to an altitude of.
5o00 feet. The snow fall is light!
and also the rainfall, irrgalion
would be necessary to grow
vegetables in tins valley. This
will he the ideal country for the
farmer, so far none have located
there, but now that tin* way is
open for the prosper toi , it will
not be long before the fanner
will follow.
KENNECOTT MOVIES
Sun iay December '.9th
Lois Wilson Raymond Hatton
in
"Contraband”
Comedy News Music
Wednesday December 22nd
Richard Dix
in
‘'The Shook Punch” .
Gang Comedy Review
WONDERFUL DISPLAY OF
TOYS AT HEN JACKSON’S
Baby Dolls Boy Dolls
Girl Dolls Charleston Dolls
Automobiles Red Roadsters
Blue Limousines Trucks
Mechanical Toys that will delight
any child.
Enjoy Xmas by attending the
.Dance in the Pioneer Hall.
XMAS
XMAS
There is absolutely noth in
that you can send out to you r
I ifiends for the holidays that will
he appreciated so much as the
Hubrick, Tinted Panorama pint—
j ures. In mailing t ubes, or Framed
and crated ready for mailing.
. J. P. Hubrick
TORONTO MOTHER WITH
LARGEST FAMILY WILL
BE AWARDED $800,000
Toronto. Ont.: There will be app
roximately $800,(XX) awaiting so
me Toronto mother who during
the next ten years gives birth to
the largest number of children.
Charles Millar’s will, which has
just, been filed for probate, shows
assets of $880,000. It is expected,
however, that other property not
listed will bring the estate up to
$500,000. Mr. Millar, lawyer and
sportsman, died some time ago
leaving no heirs. He bequeathed
the residue of his estate for the
largest family raised in Toronto
within ten years. The will des—
cribes itself as ‘‘necessarily un
common and capricious.” Jockey
club stock was left to ministers of
the Gospel apposed to horse rac
| ing. Other ministers received
; shares in a brewery, as also did
an outstanding prohibition agent
jiving in Toronto.
FOR YOUR XMAS DINNER
Ripe Olives Fresh Oysters Pickles
Lettuce Tomatoes Celery
Green Peppers Sweet Potatoes
Cluster Raisons Bananas Nuts
Chicken Turkey Goose
Mince Meat Cranberries
Plum Pudding
at
J. B. O’Neill’s