FASTTRAVELING
IS POSSIBLE ON
INTERIOR TRAIL
Improvement as well as mainte
nance of the Richardson road, the par
tial repair of the connection between
Valdez and the Richardson road, and
the repair and maintenance of the
roads throughout the Interior occu
pied the attention of C. G. Morrison,
engineer in charge of the work in
those sections for the Alaska board
of road commissioners, who is now
in Juneau. There was very little new
road-making. Speaking of the sum
mer’s activities, Mr. Morrison said:
‘‘Considerable damage was incurred
during the middle of the summer on
the road from Valdez to Wortmans.
Floods destroyed two miles of road
in the Keystone canyon, and a tempo
rary trail for pack animals was then
opened up over the top along the route
of the old Abercrombie trail. It is
hoped that congress may appropriate
sufficient funds to permit the reloca
tion of this road away from the Lowe
river, on the hillsides and over the
top of the canyon. Such a line will
allow Valdez to regain the trade which
she once had with the Interior Copper
river points. Considerable Interior
travel will also be diverted this way
when the stages may make the trip
with the certainty of not being inter
rupted by the Lowe river floods.
“We have made considerable im
provements on the road from Chitina
to Fairbanks; soft spots have been
rebuilt and covered with gravel; old
and dangerous culverts have been re
placed with new ones; and an attempt
is being made to maintain all sec
tions as well as in the past. Stretches
of road of several miles in length
which in the past had filled auto driv
ers with trepidation are now surfaced
with gravel, so that it is possible to
make the through trip of 31S miles
with only one night stop. Several
trips were made by stages this sum
mer with a running time of twenty
two hours, and a total time on the road
of forty-six hours.
“In addition to work along the main
highway, the commission maintained
the roads out of Circle, Hot Springs,
Rampart, Eagle, Ruby and Tolovana,
and is now repairing bridges and stak
ing trails in the Interior for winter
travel.
“In the early part of the summer
numerous improvements on roads in
the Interior and to the westward were
i under way or contemplated which had
j to be abandoned .when congress low
| ered the appropriation.”
PRIBILOFF SEAL IS
' FAST MULTIPLYING
Reports received by the United
| States bureau of fisheries apparently
j justify the wisdom of the law passed
| in 1912, by which pelagic sealing was
i made an unprofitable industry and the
i killing of the government herds on
! the Pribiloff islands was greatly re
! stricted. The bureau has just re
j ceived its annual census of the seal
herd, and the figures show that the
number of animals has practically
| doubled during the last six years;
j 215,738 seals of all ages were on the
island in the year 1912. The number ■
had increased to 512,269 this spring,
although a number of surplus bachelor
seals were killed each year.
More than 10,000 sealskins were sold
by the bureau last May, and this year
22,027 have been taken on St. Paul
island and 3,354 on St. George island.
These skins will be placed on sale at
St. Louis this winter. Last year the
skins brought an average of $47 each,
and it is figured that a somewhat simi
lar price will prevail this year.
Twenty years ago ther<^ were more
than two million seals on the Pribiloff
islands, but pelagic sealing and unre
stricted killing gradually reduced the
herd to the point of threatened extinc
tion. Male, female and pup seal were
killed indiscriminately, and one of the
great factors in the rapid depletion of
the herd was the seal poaching.
The female seal carries her young
at the time she is suckling a pup.
The mother seal would swim to sea
to hunt, and her death at the hands
of pelagic sealers meant also the de
struction of two other seal lives—the
one unborn and the pup left ashore.
No female will suckle any other pup
than her own, and hundreds of these
young animals starved to dea^h every
summer.
MOUNTED POLICE TO
PATROL LOGGING CAMPS
VANCOUVER, B. C., Nov. 7 (by As-j I
sociated Press).—The Royal North-;'
vest mounted police, the “horselesi
■iders of the trackless North, hav<
ibtained a big launch and establishec
m ocean patrol to visit logging an<
ishing camps along the Pacific shor<
if British Columbia.
Congoleum Rugs, suitable for ever}
oom in your house, can be found al
he Northwestern Hardware Co.
You honor the Red dross and your
elf when you join.
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There is also due a charge of $ 1.40 on each M
j J one hundred dollars of bonds purchased, §j
| covering interest on deferred payments, jj
I To avoid the possibility of forfeiture pay- jj
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o clock M. Brock and
F. H. Foster will
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list of players, showing their
handicaps, is now posted at the
Horseshoe.
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not you are a "shark," for if
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and you will have an opportu
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Nov. 30 .ALASKA...4 Deo. 8
Steamer Alameda will make trip to Anchorage. j
Frequent sailings of freighters carrying explosives.
This schedule subject to change without notice.
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Trains leave Cliitina for Kenneeott Tuesday and Friday.
Trains leave Kenneeott for Cliitina Sunday and Thursday.
Trains leave Cliitina for Cordova Tuesday and Friday.
Dining Car in Connection with all Regular
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Freight received and delivered at Cordova
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one hour before departure of trains.
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