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>:• Sounding like n Flex Beach novel
or one of Jack London’s stories, (he
ijij tale of a race for thousands of miles
along the coast of Alaska by rival en
gineers for a cannery site on Bering
sea, was told in the Juneau land of
flee by II. FI. Waller, one of the con-1
testants.
~ The race started in Seattle and took
the contestants to Seward on pala
tial steamers, from there to the far
westward on small gasoline boats,
through the stormiest ocean in the
world, through howling gales and rag
ing blizzards, across miles of snow
covered Alaskan wildernesses and re
turn. all in the dead of winter.
Many times both parties were fn
danger of shipwreck and were close
to death, in fact they had their lives
in their hands most of the time, and
the slightest fault or breakage in tie ir
' gas engines would have resulted in
T 11 ueir nunin.
J The race was finished as far as ilie
+1 rival engineers are concerned in Ju
* Lean the other day. when the Admiral
- Farragut landed at the dock.
H. H. Waller, one of the contest
I ants In the race, while admitting that j
;i; the other man beat him to the ground, I
:[-refuses to admit defeat, and the next!
■: chapter will be told by the lawyers;
of the contesting parties.
;• The race started in Seattle late hist ]
;• summer when representatives of rival j
fish companies arrived there and told !
•: of having found a cannery site of J
:• great value, each one unknown to the!
other. At once each made prepara j
tions to locate and hold the site, and]
engineers were started north. The
first step was to file an application for j
i; location in the Juneau land office and
v this was done. At 9 o'clock of the I
£ morning of January 12. 1916, the N'el-j
son Lagoon Packing Company, acting [
•t through Will & Burton, filed an appli
_ cation for ground and the proper steps
towards authorizing a survey of the
land were taken by the land office of
ficials.
At ltt o'clock of the same day the.
steamer Jefferson landed at Juneau H.
H, Waller, acting for Henry S. Tihby j
and associates, filed an application for ]
the same ground. The descriptions of j
the land in the first application were
very vague and the land office offi
J cials could not be sure the two par
_ ties were applying for the same
ground, and owing to the fact that the
- descriptions of the ground in the Wal
ler application were very definite, the
survey on this application was also
authorized.
Waller at once left for the West
ward to connect with the steamer Dora
at Seward on his way to make a sur
vey of the property prior to filing his
application for patent, as required by
law. However, the dramatic part,
starts, the attorneys for the opposing
companies found out that Waller was
after the same ground. They got busy
on the cable, with the result that Al
•
exander Bradford arrived In Juneau
within a week and left for the west
ward the next day. Waller, in the
meantime was waiting In Seward for
the Dora to leave on her long run to
Unga and the westward. She was de
layed by heavy storms, and Bradford
arriver there before she pulled out.
Bradford was on his way to Kodiak,
where a gasoline boat was waiting for
him, and he planned to get a long start
down the straits ahead of the Dora.
Waller, however, found out that Brad
ford was on the way before his arrival
and immediately got busy trying to
hire a gas boat to take him to Unga,
but Bradford's principals had already
been working through agents, and all
available gas boats had been engaged
at a considerable expense. Waller
was unable to secure anything for
some time. Finally he secured per
mission from some one in Seattle to
use a boat which was at Seldovia in
winter quarters.
Bradford arrived at Seward on the
Admiral Farragut on Ills way to Ko
diak. and Waller and one of bis prin
cipals boarded the same boat for Set
dovia. The gas boat was frozen in
and the engine was out of repair, but
after working on her for practically
two days and nights she was ready to
put to sea, and the party started with
out any delay. Bradford, in the mean
time, had reached Kodiak, where a
large cannery tender was waiting his
arrival, and was already on his way
w 5t It -i cf art
Then for over a thousand miles
along lhe coast of the Alaskan pen
insula. bucking gales and snowstorms,
traveling in small gas boats every
mile of the way the race continued,
both boats being pushed for every
thing they had in them.
I nga was reached at last, with Brad
ford a good day ahead of his rival.
I log teams secured, both parties start
ed on the long overland mush to the!
shores of llerendeen bay, on Port
Muller, Bering sea, where the site
was located. Waller arrived there in
due time, hut found Bradford had been
there for at least a day.
The story of how the two parties
worked on the survey, each straining
every nerve and using every trick
known to heat out his rival, will pro
bably never be known, but Bradford
and his party finished first, and the
return trip was started. The story of
the return is lost for the time being,
but Waller arrived on the Farragut
at Juneau and filed his survey in the
office of Secretary Davidson at once.
Bradford's survey has not been re
ceived as yet.
The next step in the fight for the
site is up to the officials of the land
office, the attorneys of the opposing
companies and the department of the
interior, and it is probable that some
time will elapse before the question
as to which of the contestants really
wins is settled.
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