- - THE CHILKOCT POST - -
ChilPoct Barracks, Baines, Alaska,
Published without expense -to the Government.
VOX. D.
It Iday,' May 15 th'.
1925.
No.19.
dO# Quarterly.
$2,00 Yearly.
THE NEW SHRIMP CANNERY HAS ARRIVED.
Haines is all agog with excitement. It is the biggest week
since the days of ninety eight for the little village. And the
cause of it all is the arrival of the floating Shrimp Cannery
from Petersburg as predicted by the Chilkoot Post in last week*s
issue.
The big scow arrived at the Haines dock last Tuesday
about one o’clock P.M. At the wharf was a delegation of citizens
headed by Ur.L.Pryer, President of the Haines Chamber of Commerce
and Mr.B.A.Barnett, local representative of several steamship
companies. The scow is 120 feet in length and as it was being
towed up Lynn Canal towards it’s mooring place, the resemblance
to house boats on the Mississippi river was very noticeable.
No time was lost in beginning operations. Word was sent
out for sixty five shrimp pickers and these may be either men or
women.
PORCUPINE MINERS ARRIVE.
A party of miners from Seattle came in on the Admiral
Rogers Sunday and were taken to Little Boulder Monday by Steve
Sheldon, They will cross the Klehini river at that point, and
proceed to Porcupine to begin work at the gold mines,
Mr. Tom Vogel, manager of the mining district, is expected
on the Queen next Sunday with fifteen or twenty workmen.
Haines is certainly on the boom with work going on at the
Porcupine mines and the Shrimp Cannery in operation.
ROAD COMMISSIONER SHEPERD ON TOUR.
Road Commissioner Sheperd left on the "Estebeth” Tuesday
for a tour of inspection of the roads around Skagway and will go
later this summer into the interior.
MR. McCULLY AND MR. PAGE PROSPECTING.
Mr. McCully and Mr. Page came in on the Rogers last
Sunday from Heider, Washington, and are looking over the ranches
around Haines, with the intention of settling here if they can
obtain suitable farms.
HAINES LOCAL ITEMS.
Mrs. Anna Brown and Judge W. B. Stout were visitors to
Skagway last Saturday on the James Fornance.
Miss Jacoby, a teacher, and Mrs.Rider, a nurse, arrived
on the"Estebethu from Juneau Tuesday.
1 Miss Florence Barnett, who has been teaching at Hoonah,
returned Tuesday to spend the summer with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. B. A. Barnett.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Stanfield and two children arrived Tuesday
from Hocnah on a chartered gas boat, and left immediately for
their fur farm in Chilkoot Inlet,
Mrs. Fred Handy of Ketchikan who has been visiting her
father, Judge W.R, Stout, returned home on the Alameda Sunday.