Two Brothers Complete
937 Mile Kayak Trip
Skagway to Seattle
SEATTLE i/T — Two brothers
from Cleveland, Ohio, who paddled
a kayak 937 miles from Alaska in
two months reached Seattle Tues
day and called it a “once in a life
time" triji.
Peter and Christopher Knight
raised their paddles overhead in
a victory sign as they completed
a journey begun June 29 at Skag
way, Alaska.
The brothers said their father,
Charles Knight, once paddled down
the St. Lawrence Seaway in a
kayak.
“He’s never quit talking about
it,” said Peter. "Now we’re one
up one him.”
Peter, 21. and Christopher, 19,
braved wind, rain and choppy
seas in the light craft but said
they never were in real danger.
Their mother and a brother,
Johnathan, lfi, were among the
welcoming shoreside crowd.
The brothers said they camped
on shore most of the way but oc
cassionally slept in real beds at
lighthouses. They met hundreds of
people, including prospectors and
Indians.
Their craft is a Swedish-built
kayak, modeled after the Eskimo
version. The top is skin-covered
fore and aft, with two openings in
which the paddlers sit tandem.
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Alaska Minerals
Production Shows
liise of 39 Per Cent
The Bureau of Mines, Depart
i ment of the Interior, has just com
| pleted an advance summary ol
minerals production in Alaska for
1961, indicating total production
rose 59 per cent above the previous
year. Total value of the production
was estimated at $.'14,9 million. The
increase was due in part to- the
“specatcular rise in value of crude
, oil, from $1.2 million to $17.6 mil
lion,” according to the report.
Petroleum led the list of commodi
ties, followed by coal, sand and
gravel, and gold, the four com
modities comprising 91 per cent
of the value of mineral output in
i the state.
| Exploration activity is described
in the report as strongest in the
oil and natural gas fields while
: explorations for beryllium con
! tinued on the Seward Peninsula
: and in Southeastern Alaska at such
locations as Lost River, Ear Moun
[ tain and Cape Mountain. Coppei
| was produced in minor quantities
but exploration for copper or cop
per-nickel deposits continued ir
the Southeastern, Northwestern anr
Copper River areas.
Twenty-one gold mining dredges
! were in operation during the year
| despite a sharp drop in total gold
i production, in the Yukon River and
j Seward Peninsula regions. Kusko
I kwim River region and at Wood
I chopper Creek (Fairbanks district*
j Klcry Creek <Kiana district*, Solo
mon, Kougarok, Inmachuk and
Niukluk Rivers (Seward Peninsula
and at Gaines and Flat Creek;
(Iditarod district*. This does no'
include the Goodnews Bay area
where gold is a by-product o
platinum mining. The value of golc
production fell 32 per cent, $■
: million below 1960's output.
Mercury output dropped 7 pe
j cent, and value was down 13 pe
I Sa tel! i t e TV St a t i o n
'Operating in Kenai Area
A satellite television station on
the Kenai Peninsula began opera
tion last Friday, it was announced
by A. G. Hiebert, president of
Northern Television, Inc.
The satellite station will re
I broadcast the CBS affiliate KTVA
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; the estimated 5,000 viewers in the
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operation a satellite in th D It a
Junction area which reb road cast.
KTVF-TV in Fairbanks. A satellh-.
is also in operation at Eklutna, e- jj
broadcasting KTVA. Authorisa- . I
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elude one in the Anchors ,e rea j
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Sutton, and others in the Fair
banks area 'Clear and Kenans> for
installation this fall.
cent, the report shows, with most
of the activity at the Red Devil
mine (Kuskokwim River region*,
although exploration continued in
the central Kuskokwim and White
Mountain areas.
The report also shows that strip
mining produced 85 per cent of j
the state’s coal output, with only
one underground mine producer !
in operation during the year. It j
notes that the military is the I
largest coal consumer in Alaska.
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