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OUR EQUIPMENT COMPLETE pL 7Q
WORK EQUAL TO THE BEST TllOne iO
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BLAINKFIELD EXPRESS
CONNECTING WITH FAIRBANKS TRAIN.
PASSENGERS BAGGAGE MAIL
Clean Dry Wood for SaU Haulin* of All Kind.
OFFICE AT THE TERMINAL.
Nenana Sheet Metal Works
HEATING AND PLUMBING
STOVES OF ALL KINDS MADE TO ORDER
SHEET METAL WORK A SPECIALTY.
PAUL PALFY, Proprietor. MARKET STREET
Prospectors
F armers
Trappers
Tourists
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The Nenana district offers oppor
tunities for prospecting, fanning, and
trapping that are unequaled in any
other section of Alaska.
Gold placers of known value, close
to Nenana, are producing annually sub
stantial amounts, and there are scores
of streams within the district on which
little or no prospecting has been done.
These streams, until a short time ago
almost inaccessible, are now easily
reached by means of the new Govern
ment Railroad, and undoubtedly soon
will be the scene of much mining ac
tivity.
Farming in the Nenana district has
the advantage of a growing season fully
ten days longer than that of any other
section of Interior Alaska. There is
much desirable land in the district open
to homesteaders, and marketing possi
bilities are being expanded steadily.
Fur-bearing animals of the Nenana
and adjacent districts are noted for the
fine quality of their fur, and trappers
annually bring large numbers of pelts
to Nenana and receive for them higher
prices than are obtained for the average
furs of other districts.
Game of all kinds abounds in the
Nenana district, there are scores of
trout streams easy of access, and the
scenic wonders of the district are un
surpassed. The district is the natural
gateway to Mt McKinley National
Park, and close to Nenana may be
viewed the largest coal ledges in the
world.
Detailed information regarding the
resources and possibilities of the Ne
nana district may be obtained from the
Nenana
Commercial
Club
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SICK OF STATES
“Why, I’d rather be an old
spruce tree out there on the trail
than a banker in some of the towns
I visited in the States," declared
Ira Ball to a representative of The
News last night, shortly after his
arrival in town from the Outside,
where he spent the winter rambling
over the country, sizing up condi
tions. and enjoying himself gener
ally. Ball doesn’t know what it is,
but there is something about the
life in Alaska that has an irresisti
ble appeal to him, just as it has
for most of the oldtimers who ven
ture to the States,
j Ball viewed Outside conditions
from every angle. He met oldtime
acquaintances in nearly every sec
tion of the -country visited by him,
from Seattle to Arkansas, and he
was able to obtain first-hand in
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formation that gave him a real in
sight into conditions. He even
.worked at his trade a day or two
inow and then, just to “prove up”
on information obtained otherwise.
The result of it all is that he is
back in Nenana determined to stay
with the country. Things may be
a little slow in Alaska now, he ad
mits, but even at that, business in
this country seems to be on a firmer
basis than it is in many parts of
the Outside. Conditions in the
States are very unsettled and he
saw manv elaborate establishments
in large cities laboring hard to keep
their heads above water, in spite of
the fact that prices everywhere Out
side are very high.
In speaking of prices, Mr. Bali
says it appeared to him as if the
businessmen in the States had form
ed a combine. Wherever he went,
he found staples quoted at the same
prices. There was no competitive
bidding for trade that he could dis
cover, and some of the prices made
him long for the Northland,
j Wages are way up in all sections
of the country, even in the South,
where commonl labor receives a
wage of $5 a day. Mechanics of
all kinds get top wages, ranging
from $7 a day upward, and there
appears to be plenty of work. That
sounds big. Ball admits, but he says
the workers who • receive the big
wages do not appear to be any bet
ter off than they were years ago,
when average wages ranged from
§2.75 to §1 a day.. And they work
only eight hours now.
1 Prices are very high in t'ne boom
towns of Texas and the service one
gets there is very poor. This is
especially true of the hotels—in
fact, he says, the small town hotel
in almost every part of the countr;.
he visited is an inferior establish
ment. He found many of them
without heat in cold weather, with
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out stationery and many of the oth
er things usually expected in a ho
tel. “Not as good as a roadhouse
in Alaska,” is the way he describes
some of the Outside hostelries.
Ball visited a number of cities
along the Pacific coast, saw a con
siderable part of Texas, and re
newed old acquaintances in Arkan
sas. He found oil excitement in
many sections of the country, with
considerable activity even in his
home state, where there are a num
ber of producing wells. He also
visited a number of towns along
the Alaska coast and found Ketchi
kan and Juneau very live places,
due largely to the fishing industry.
Interior Alaska is receiving some
very undesirable advertising at pres
ent, Ball says. He met a number
of former residents outward bound
from N'enana and elsewhere in the
Interior, and some who had been
out for some time, and their refer- '
ences to Nenana and neighboring
districts were anything but flatter
ing. They told him that the rail
road work had shut down and that
practically everyone had fled from
the Interior. And he was very
agreeably surprised when he stepped
from the train last night, upon ar
rival from the end of steel, to find
the town looking very much as
usual. In fact, he says, it looked
awfully good to him, and he is firm
in the belief that better times are
coming for the whole Interior coun
try.
Ball had the flu shortly before
he started North. He first discov
ered that he was ill in Sacramento,
where a doctor told him what was
the matter with him. But he did
not stay long in the capital city.
He returned to San Francisco, and
soon afterwards started North, be
fore hg had recovered. He was
still somewhat under the weather
when he reached Portland. Dutch
Blankfield escorted him North as
nurse, but left the steamer at Cor
dova, to come in with a shipment
of eggs by way of the Chitina trail,
while Ball continued to Seward and
mushed in by way of Broad Pass.
Some work is in progress on the
Anchorage end of the Government
railroad. Ball reports, but deep
snow, he says, makes it difficult to
do very much. He noticed a steam
shovel and piledriver at the coast
end of steel, working slowly north,
and beyond the end of steel sev
eral large cs mps are being pre
pared for the commencement of
spring work. The size of the camps
indiea ed to him that work is to be
prosecuted on a very ia^ge scale as
soon as conditions will permit.
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Davis came
North on the steamer which brought
Bail, but he was ahead of them in
leaving Anchorage. He says they
may reach the canyon today, with
Billy Butler, who made a special
trip to Talkeetna to meet them.
They were to use two teams as far
as the summit, and complete the
journey with the Butler team.
Ball saw many oldtimers in the
States, Seattle being full of them.
But he did not hear many of them
talking of returning to Alaska right
away. He saw Erie Browne in Fort
Worth, and says he has a big place
there, with all the business he can
handle. He is selling auto trucks
about as fast as he can get them
from the factory. He also saw Pete
Godfrey there.
Ranger has a large quota of
former Northerners. Among them
he met Micky Fleischman, who was
employed in a large business place.
Micky told Ball he had been un
lucky in oil buying. John Demos
was met in San Francisco, and Ball
heard that Andy Hoey was there
also, but he did not see him.
Ball did not hear much political
talk. The South is very much Dem
ocratic, as a matter of habit, and
the great majority of the people
there seem to be well satisfied with
the Wilson administration. But the
political pot had not begun to boil
at the time he left the States.
The February number of The
Alaskan Churchman is now off the
p-ess. Sample copies 25c at The
News office.
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Suita mended, pressed and cleaned
Underwear renovated. Old fura re
modeled, bought and sold. Goods
called for and delivered. Telephone
32 Green.
D’ORSAY TAILOR SHOP
Third and A Streets.
Nencna. Where Kalla and Rivers Meet
WOOD
Sawing
ICE and EXPRESS j
CYRIELE VERHAEGHE
OFFICE AT
THE TERMINAL
CARLSON’S
BROAD PASS
ROADHOUSE
42 Mile* from End of Steel.
GOOD ACCOMMODATIONS
KENNELS IN CONNECTION
WATCHES
JEWELRY
Watch Repairing
DESIGNING AND NATIVE
JEWELRY A SPECIALTY
WM. TAYLOR
ARCTIC BATH HOUSE
stands alone in par-excellence of
service and sanita«*y convenience.
Turkish, Steam, Shower
or Plain Baths, at
MODERATE RATES.
Rooms for Dressing and Resting
in Connection. Also Rooms for
Rent, Transient or Permanent.
Mr. and Mrs. Heimburger
Proprietors.
If Comfort, Economy and the
Environments of Home
Appeal to You,
STOP AT THE
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SPECIAL RATES BY WEEK
OR MONTH.
MRS. BERT JOHNSON
Proprietress
SKOF HOUSE
That’s the Place
GOOD BARN FOR HORSES
IN CONNECTION.
Second and Market Sts.
MRS. JAMES LAVIN
Wesana. the Gateway to KcXialey
Watlonal Work.
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| Miners and Prospectors! j
I NOTICE OF CKAN6E OF RECORDING PRECINCTS 1
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i According to a recently issued Court Order by =
| Judge Chas. E. Bunnell, the Nenana Mining and Re- |
S cording District has been enlarged to take in the Bon- |
I ni field and Totatlanika Districts. |
| Miners and Prospectors of these districts will be |
| enabled by this change to do their recording and §
| transact other business at Nenana, which is within |
1 easy reach of their mining activities. I
1 NENANA COMMERCIAL CLUB. |
| J. R. Bowen, President. R. J. Diven, Secretary. |
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