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The output of the Iditarod dis
trict this year will not exceed one
million dollars, according to arrivals
from that part of Alaska on the
steamer Alaska, which reached Ne
nana late last evening. This falling
off in the yield is due to the fact
that one of the big dredges of the
district, the one formerly operated
on Flat creek, is idle this season.
Conditions, generally, are favora
ble for mining, with an abundance
of water, and the two dredges, on
Otter, which are working almost
side by side, are taking out a lot
of money. One of the machines
is known as the Otter dredge, for
merly owned by the Riley interests,
and the other is the property of
Beatson & Donelly.
As has been the case in all In
terior Alaska camps, there has been
a considerable decline in the popu
lation of the Iditarod district, and
those who remain there are scat
tered over a large area. It is esti
mated that there are approximately
400 people on the several creeks
and every man in the district is
busy. In fact, the demand for labor
has been greater than the supply
during the greater part of the sea
son.
She Had Experience.
“And then when you are up pret
ty high—three or four miles, say—
and you look down it’s positively
sickening,” explained the aviator,
home from the war on leave. “It is
stupendous, awful. A great height
is a fearful thing, I can tell you.”
“Yes, I can sympathize with you,
poor boy,” said a woman listener,
feelingly. “I feel just that way my
self when I’m on top of a step
ladder.”
The publication of the Iditarod
Pioneer, a weekly newspaper pub
lished at Iditarod by George M. Ar
buekle until about a year ago, has
been resumed, according' to arrivals
from that district on the steamer
Alaska. The owner of the plant
returned to the Iditarod country
from the States early this summer,
after an absence of a year, and an
I nounces that he will give the people
of the camp a paper as long as
there is sufficient demand for news.
When Arbuckle left for the Outside,
the plant was all packed, ready for
shipment, but the owner apparently
changed his mind about moving, aft
er he had reached the States.
The Pioneer plant, except for the
Mergenthaler typesetting machine,
which was purchased a few years
ago, was operated in a number of
Interior Alaska towns before arriv
ing at Iditarod. It was shipped into
the country in 1905 and a weekly
paper started the following year at
C.leary City. The plant was later
moved to Chena and operated there
I until the discovery of gold in the
J Iditarod country.
j Mr. Arbuckle came North in 1898
j and was located in Dawson for a
number of years as a member of
the staff of the Klondike Nugget.
Making Granddad Buck Up.
Summoning her eight-year-old
hopeful recently, a Philadelphia
mother said:
“Dickie, your poor grandfather is
very sick. Can’t you say something
to cheer him a bit?”
Whereupon Dickie approached his
grandpa and, in the most earnest
tone, inquired:
“Grandfather, how would you like
to have soldiers at your funeral?”—
The Country Gentleman.
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The steamer Tanana arrived from
Hot Springs at an early hour this
morning with a bargeload of rails in
tow, enroute to Chena, where the
cargo will be transferred to the
Tanana Valley railroad for ultimate
delivery at the end of steel south of
Happy Junction. The Tanana’s tow,
which is one of the two barges of
steel brought up the Yukon by tho
steamer Seattle No. 3, represents
the last of the rails needed to com
plete the Government railroad be
tween N'enana and Fairbanks.
The Tanana also brought some
oil, which was unloaded at the oil
house on the island opposite N'enana,
and some other freight for the
Northern Commercial company.
Upon arrival at Fairbanks, Cap
tain Green and the members of his
crew will transfer to the steamer
Reliance and prepare for a voyage
to Betties, on the upper Koyukuk.
The Reliance is billed out of Tanana
I on August 25, which means that
the boat will sail from Fairbanks on
Friday or Saturday of this week.
The only passenger on the Tan
ana is John Campbell of Minto, who
is on his way to Fairbanks.
The Tanana sailed for the upper
town about ten o’clock.
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Tom Smith, proprietor of the
Southern hotel, returned from Fair
banks yesterday on the Moody
launch.
Mrs. Dave Fairbum is enroute to
Tofty from the Outside to accept a
position as teacher of the Tofty
school.
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Joe Morrow, former cashier in
the employ of the First National
bank at Fairbanks, is now assistant
manager of the foreign exchange
department of the American Na
tional bank, at San Francisco.
! O. M. Jackson, of the Portland,
.arrived home from Fairbanks yes
terday, having made the trip down
river on the Moody launch.
Frederick Coudert, international
lawyer of note, who represented
! England and several other Allied
I
I nations in the United States during
the war, with headquarters at New
i York, has spent a considerable por
tion of the summer in Alaska as the
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guest of Governor and Mrs. Riggs.
He is a brother of Mrs. Riggs.
i visit to Hyder, the American outlet
to the Portland Canal mining dis
| trict, which is enjoying a mild boom
•just now. ^
! Mrs. C. E. Bunnell, wife of Judge
Bunnell, was an incoming passenger
'on the steamer Alaska, enroute tc
her home in Fairbanks from a visit
i in the State. She is accompanied by
her little daughter Jean.
Neil McCaul, the Eva creek hard
rock man, expects to leave town on
tonight’s train for his camp south
!of Nenana.
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Clifford Taylor, messenger at
tached to the local signal eorps sta
tion, left for Fairbanks yesterday
on a brief visit.
A Dismal Outlook.
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i “I’ve got just about the peartest
bunch of dogs that a man ever had,’’
admitted Mr. Gap Johnson, of Rum
pus Ridge, Arkansas; “and it hurts
me powerful to think that if things
go on this-a-way much longer I’ll
have to trade them faithful var
mints off for something that will lay
eggs or give milk.”—Exchange.
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SALVAGING SHIPS
SUNK BY HUNS IS
DANGEROUS WORK
LONDON. — Salvage crews face
death in many ways trying to save
the vessels sunk in the war by 'Ger
man submarines. One of the most
perilous incidents of this service was
that of a navy commander who cut
away the nose of a live torpedo that
had become jammed in the deck of
a destroyer. So dangerous was the
task that the naval authorities towed
the destroyer three miles out to sea
before they would permit the at»
tempt.
This salvage work has advanced
very rapidly and become very profit
able. Submersible lifting devices
never before thought of have been
devised and put into successful op
eration. Dangers from gases due
to decaying grain cargoes have been
eliminated by scientific research.
Diving appliances have been greatly
improved.
The cutting of steel plates under
water is now only a detail, and the
construction of the standard patch
to cover holes in hulls has reached
the point where it is now merely a
part of the day’s work of the sal
vage men.
New Puritam and Premium Hams
and Bacon. Fowler & Morris.
Prof. C. ('. Georgeson, head of
the Government agricultural experi
ment stations in Alaska, was a pass
enger on the steamer Alaska, en
I route to Fairbanks on his annual
'tour of the Interior country’.
Shocking.
; An elderly lady of very prim and
severe aspect was seated next a
jyoung couple, who were discussing
I the merits of their motor-cars.
J “What color is your body?” asked
the young man of the girl at his
I side, meaning, of course, the body
of her motor.
j “Oh, mine is pink. What is
yours?”
“Mine,” replied the man, “is
brown with wide yellow stripes.”
This was too much for the old
lady. Rising from the table, she
exclaimed:
! “When young people come to ask
ing each other the color of their
bodies at a dinner-party, it is time
I left the room.”—Tit-Bits.
A road commission truck reached
Fairbanks last evening, bringing Ma
jor Waugh on a tour of inspection
|of Interior Alaska, his first visit
since becoming head of the Alaska
Road commission.
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SELL YOUR FURS TO A HOME INDUSTRY. WE GUARANTEE
YOU HIGHER PRICES THAN OUTSIDE
CONCERNS WILL PAY.
During the last season we conducted an advertising campaign
throughout the North and arc prepared to send you the names of
people in all sections of Alaska and the Yukon who will verify our
statements.
Our excellent Eastern connections, and the tremendous amount
of mail order business we are receiving from all parts of the
States for furs made to order enables us to turn our stock quickly
at a reasonable profit, but we must have fur, for which we guar
antee top prices.
Make us a trial shipment. If our price does not suit you, the
goods will be returned charges prepaid.
WE MAKE FURS TO ORDER
at more reasonable rates than can be obtained Outside. At present
we are working three operators, and need others. If you are an
operator and finisher, and want a good year-around job, com
municate with us.
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