THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska
for enzry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879
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Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
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NOTHING TO STAMPEDE TO
HYDER FOR.
While the activities of this sum
mer at Hyder are very satisfac
tory and the indication are that a
g-ood mining camp will be developed
in the Salmon River district at the
head of Portland canal, there have
been no developments there that
would warrant a stampede, warns
a writer in a coast paper. The
country down there has been staked
for many years. Development work
has been in progress on various
properties off and on for a half
dozen years. The indications have
been good all along. This year
there has been more development
work than ever, and the results
more satisfactory. The Premier
mine, controlled by Mr. Neil, has
been shipping ore, and it is said
it has $15,000,000 worth of ore
blocked out and ready to mine. The
Big Missouri, Joker, and Forty-Nine
groups have shown well under de
velopment, and the indications are
equally favorable for other proper
ties.
However, it takes capital to de
velop lode mines, and lots of time.
At the present time. Hyder offers
many inducements to the capitalist
and mining engineer, but there is
little there for the average man,
and it is not likely that there will
be demand for a great number of
people there this season at least.
ONE MILLION FOR ROADS.
After a very thorough survey of
lie field, in the course of which the
requests and demands for new roads
and road improvements from all the
various sections of the territory, to
gether with their reasonableness and
practicability, had been taken into
account, Major Waugh, president of
the Alaska Road commission and
the practical head of all road build
ing organizations in Alaska, has es
timated that to meet the necessities
of the situation in this territory
will require an appropriation of
$179,000 from Congress next year,
and he will ask for this amount.
The largeness of this sum, explains
the Juneau Empire, is partly due
to the failure of Congress to ap
propriate more than $100,000 for
that purpose this year.
There should be a determined ef
fort on the part of the people of
all sections of Alaska, believes the
coast paper ,to get Congress tc
make this appropriation. It is con
ceded by those of all sections oi
this territory and those of all shade;
of political belief that more and
better roads are an absolute ne
cessity for development in the
North, there may be some divisior
of sentiment as to whether or no'
the Government railroad progran
should be extended, but there is ab
solutely none as to the need oi
continuing wagon and automobile
road extension and betterment. I
is admitted that no great sum o:
public money has been expended ii
this country from which greater o:
more needful benefit has been de
rived than from the money tha
has been devoted to roads—possill;
excepting that spent; upon aids t
navigation. The roads Alaska ha
built have served an indispensabl
jr.eed. and extensive 'urt’ier dcvel
j opment is dependent upon further
| road building.
j. iaskans will have the best of
; arguments, based upon right and
justice and practical common sense,
| tc offer to Congress for large road
appropriations for Alaska. It is es
timated that 98 percent of the
•resources of this territory are the
property of the Federal Government.
i
J Every dollar expended upon roads
j makes these resources easier of ac
cess and more valuable. The bene
fits, from a practical dollars and
cents standpoint, to be derived from
road building in Alaska will be
many times greater to the Federal
government than to the people now
here. The people of Alaska are
paying out vast sums annually for
road building and other public im
provements. and every dollar thus
expended adds many times more to
the value of the vaster resources of
the Government than to those of
the people. The Federal Govern
ment could expend a million a year
in road building in Alaska for an
indefinite number of years, and still
not bear anything like its fair share
of the expense in that direction.
Let us ask Congress for one
million for roads next year, and
again the next and the next, and
right along until the situation is
fairly met.
SINGLETON TO MAJCE
SPECIAL DELIVERIES
As will be noted elsewhere in the
columns of The News, in the adver
tisement of the Singleton roadhouse,
the owners of that enterprising es
tablishment, who conduct a general
store in connection with the hotel,
have inaugurated a system of de
liveries', being prepared now to de
liver goods purchased at their store
at any point in their district, ini
eluding the head of Toklat and the
several creeks in the vicinity of
Lignite.
Prospectors and trappers and
hunting parties going to the dis
trict should find the delivery of
goods at their camps a great con
venience, since it will relieve them
of the necessity of taking dogs oj
pack animals with them, or burden
ing themselves with heavy packs.
Goods are sold at Lignite at Ne
nana prices, plus freightage to th(
store, and practically everything car
be found there in the way of pro
visions and other supplies.
I The roadhouse is one of the bes’
. in Interior Alaska.
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Conquers His Shyness.
I A certain surgeon, who was ven
young and rather shy, was invitee
■ to dinner by a lady, who was a
i least fifty, but frivolous enough fo:
: twenty. She imagined ^erself ver;
i clever when making rude remarks
- At dinner she asked the young sur
S geon to carve a fowl, and, not hav
; ing done so before, he failed lam
t entably. Instead of trying to cove
f his confusion, the hostess called at
t tention to its pointedly by lookinj
r down the table and saying loudly:
“Well, you may be a very cleve
t surgeon, but if I wanted a leg off
7 should not come to you to do it.”
): “No, madam,” he replied, polite
31 ly, '‘but then, you see, you are no
e a chicken.”—Stray Stories.
'SYDNEY-LONDON
AERIAL ROUTE IS
: BEING SURVEYED
• SYDNEY, Australia.—Survey pf
’ j the route of the first section of
,! the projected aerial service between
11 Sydney and London was recently
I j completed. The section extends
II from Sydney to Darwin, which is
on the north coast of Australia and
i relatively near the Malayan archi
1 pelago. The service will be carried
on by a Sydney company.
From Darwin the route will cross
I the sea to the island of Timor, pro
ceed along the Malayan archipelago
{to India, and thence run to Bagdad
or Port Said—probably the latter.
jFrom Port Said it will cross Europe
j to London. The survey of the sec
'ond section of the route, from Dar
;win through Malaya to Delhi, is now
going on.
i It is expected that the first flight
{will be made within the next few
! months, and it is planned to have
I the proposed passenger and eom
jmereial sendees in full operation
i in about two years. If the com
jpany succeeds, London will be reaeh
J ed regularly from here in six and
! one-half davs.
i
! The Sydney-Darwin section is
!2,000 miles; but the survey party
traveled about 4,000 miles in order
'to select the most satisfactory land
ling places or sun-ev stations.
When the flights are in full swdng.
I business between Sydney and Lon
don wdl! be greatly facilitated, from
the fact that letters may be an
swered within two weeks of their
despatch ffibrn here.
' RAILROAD WORKERS
OFF FOR NEW TOWN
J Among the outgoing passengers
jon the steamer Yukon today were
[three former employes of the Alas
kan Engineering commission, who
are headed for the Portland Canal
district, which is attracting consid
erable attention along the Alaska
i coast just now. The trio will go
’direct to Hyder, and from there
across the line to the mines, sev
eral of which are said to be in
process of development on a large
scale.
i The three men are John Lind
] quist, a former member of Sur
facing Gang No. 2; Fred Johnson,
who has been firing on the 208 dur
ing the past couple of years, and
Jim Monroe.
Three Classes on the Cars.
t An Italian drummer explains in
the Milan Domencia del Corriere
that ‘‘in the first class the pass
engers abuse the trainmen, in the
[third class the trainmen are rude
. to the passengers, and in the second
■class the passengers insult each oth
Calling Cards printed to order oo
sho**t notice at the News Office.
Board of School Directors
Neuu Public School
Nenana, August 29, 1919.
NOTICE OF SCHOOL ELECTION
^ Complying with the laws of Alas
ka. notice is hereby given that a
i special election will be held in the
(town of Nenana,
Monday, September 8, 1919,
1 for the purpose of electing one
t school director to fill the vacancy
r; caused by the resignation of Mr.
George W. Pennington.
The names of candidates must be
- in the hands of the Clerk of the
- School Board not later than Friday.
- September 5.
r j The polling place will be located
- i in the Fire Hall, adjoining the
jjTownsite Office. Polls will be open
from 8 a. m. until 7 p- m. on the
r day and date of election.
I J. H. SCOTT,
Clerk of School Board.
- Approved:
t ROBERT JOSEPH DIVEN,
President.
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tisement.
CHAIN. Reward for return to
George Sarantis at The Terminal.
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long. Practically new. Cheap.
Inquire Mrs. Herman Rosburg.
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Reliance, down Marshall, 8 a. m.,
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Seattle No. 3, down Holy Cross,
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Davis, up St. Michael, 10 a. m., 2d.
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Yukon, down Chena, 6 a. m.
Alaska, down Fort Yukon, 4 a. m.
The Japanese atrongly object to
the use of the word “Jap.”
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M. V. TYLER,
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Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commieaion
NOTICE
Passengers leaving on the train
for any point on the line south of
town are required to purchase
i tickets before entering the train.
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office is
in the employment office, on the
ground floor of the general office
building, Alaskan Engineering com
mission.
Tickets will be on sale at any
time during office hours, and can
be purchased in sufficient time be
fore the departure of the trains.
Regular trains leave the foot of
iA street on Wednesdays and Satur
days at 8 a. m.
i On and after july 15th the freight
; on the North side of the river at
| Camp 415 dock will be shipped out
i Tuesday and Friday of each week,
I leaving at 8 a. m., until further
J notice.
I Dr. J. R. 80WEN
DENTIST
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