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No. 10
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A letter from. residents of
the Butte district reporting road
conditions as found during the past
year was read to the Land Use
Planning Committee last Led. even
ing. After some discussion, the
secretary was instructed to inform
the Butte people by letter, of the
reactions of Mr, King of the Road
Commission and the recommendations
of the L. U, P, C.
The subject of a telephone
line serving the 7'oose Creek Road
and Camp 6 district was considered.
People in that neighborhood having
signified their willin ness and
desire to cooperate in vet"ing out
poles and putting up the line,
thereby holding the actual cash
outlay at a minimun. Through the
efforts of the Planning Commit toe
it has been found that several tel
ephones can be secured in Fairbanks
and will be made available to the
community that is first ready to
use ther-.
Information re^ardm^ lime
deposits near the railroad was
contained in a letter from t'ae Land
Of f i ce.
After the reading of a tel
egram from the director of the in
tension Service regarding the stat
us of the Territorial Veternarian,
a motion was passed to contact
Gov. Gruening and Director Old
royd concerning the probleir. of the
Veterinarian,
A report was made, including
timely recommendations regarding
the securing of credit facilities
for Valley farmers, by a com'-ittee
appointed some time ago for that
purpose,
"Increased agricultural pro
duction, which can be ^reatly aided
by adequate agricultural credit
facilities, will make the Alaska
population more independent of
outside food sources and thereby
strengthon the Defense program/
(ConTt on cage 4)
CO-OP NOTES
The Board of Directors has
authorized the construction of the
new Co-op building in Anchorage.
This building will house the past
eurizing and bottling plant and
cold storage. The whole-sale dis
tribution of silk, ice cream, gar
den produce, neats, etc. will be
handled from those new quarters
and will enable us to give better
service to our customers, the mer
chants of Anchorage and the Army.
The building will cost between
,15,TOO and |?20,000. Six apartments
Will be built on the second floor.
The construction 01 these apartments
was made necessary by the housin
shortage in Anchorage, and will
considerably help our employees in
solvin^ their housing pro loins.
Preliminary work on this pro
ject has already been started.
1t is planned to move all pas
teurizing and bottling equipment
from Palmer to the new location
which will result in a substantial
new payroll for Anchorage in the
personnel that are already employed
there and the additions that will
be transferred from Palmer.
This undertakin marks another
milestone in the rapid development
road, growth of the business since
under Cooperative management and
will place the marketm0 Assn, in
position to distribute the rad
ically increasing production from
the Valley farmers in the expand
ing markets of Anchorage,
12 dairy cows are for sale
that can be added to the-dairy in
dustry of the community. Terms
for th o purchase of these cows may
be arran0cd, interested farmers see
A, ^. oto ek.
V .GATABLAS GAC'iJRS I,:..AG
All vegetable growers
attend a nee ting liar eh 12 a
Axtension Office,
IIIG
should
t t he
H, Kler