Nenana Steam Laundry
OUR EQUIPMENT COMPLETE DL 7C
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BLAINKFIELD EXPRESS
CONNECTING WITH FAIRBANKS TRAIN.
PASSENGERS BAGGAGE MAIL
Clean Dry Wood for Sal* Hauling of All Kind*
OFFICE AT THE TERMINAL.
Prompt Reliable Satisfactory
STOVES OF ANY KIND MADE TO ORDER
All Workmanship Guaranteed Pertaining to Heating or Plumbing.
The Nenana Sheet Metal Works street.
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Prospectors
F armers
Trappers
T our ists
Hie Nenana district offers oppor
tunities for prospecting, farming, 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.
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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
ON VOLCANO TOP
CLOSE 10 WATER
PAPEETE, Tahiti.—The Island of
Makatea, northeast of Tahiti, where
operations on the rich phosphate
deposits have been held up by a
strike of Japanese workers, is said
by scientists to be founded on a
submarine volcano, Rases from which
developed the phosphate
The volcanic mountain has partly
erupted, but has never succeeded in
breaking out a flow of lava, it is
said. Originally the island was a
coral atoll, standing at the level of
the sea, a ring of limestone forma
tion surrounding a central lagoon,
i This by volcanic action has been
raised and lowered several times.
Now it stands a flat-topped plateau,
300 feet above the level of the sea,
sloping down toward the central
basin of the ancient lagoon.
The action of volcanic gases on
the coral limestone, it is said, has
formed during the ages a deposit
of rich phosphates, which are now
being developed by a French com
pany.
The whole island is full of caves
and hidden . pitfalls. Unless the
stranger follows the established
pathway he is likely to fall into
'some vetgetation hidden aperture
to unknown depths.
The phosphate deposits lay un
suspected until about 12 years ago.
For decades traders had had op
portunities to take tracts of land
on the island in payment for debts
of the natives, but they considered
it worthless.
JAP CENSORS REMOVE
KISSES FROM MOVIES
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—Because
| kissing in public, and therefore in
' motion pictures, is forbidden in
jjapan, the police censors of that
i country in six months have re
moved 2,350 kisses from the films
according to a recent copy of the
j North China Daily News of Shang
hai. just received here,
j “Curiously enough,” the newspa
per said, “the objectionable film:
mostly come from America, when
Isome old laws against kissing stil
are in existence.”
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Wenana—Tb* to XcSlnle]
Vattonal Park.
UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT
YOU
CAN
BUY
WAR
SAVINGS
STAMPS
NOW
Governor Thomas Riggs, Jr., has
about completed arrangements with
the department of agriculture for
co-operation in road building in the
First and Third divisions of Alaska. |
through which the agriculture de-;
partment will expend $128,000 on
roads in the sections mentioned.
The expenditure, says the Alaska
Daily Empire (Juneau), will be
under the co-operative plan. The
Territory has agreed to expend $78,
000 on the road projects on which
there will be co-operation, and the |
Alaska Board of Road Commission
ers has agreed to put $14,000 of
its fund in these roads, making a
total expenditure of $220,000.
It Ls partly to complete the ar
rangements for the expenditure of
this fund that Major W. H. Waugh,
head of road construction for both
the war and agricultural depart
ments, has left for Washington, D.
C. The money will be expended
under his direction during the 1920
season.
! The co-operation of the depart
ment of agriculture in this work
will be greater proportionately than
in any of the states. The rule of
the department is not to bear more
than 50 percent of the cost of the
roads that are built through the
'co-operative plan of federal and
state construction. More often the
percentage is far less. In many in
stances it has been as low as 10
percent. The plan arranged by
Governor Riggs contemplates that
the department of agriculture will
bear more than 58 percent of the
construction in Alaska. The Terri
tory will bear something over 351-4
percent, and the Federal Alaska
fund, under the Alaska Board of
Road Commissioners, a little less
than 6 Vs percent.
The Territory’s share of this co
operative fund will be borne by the
appropriation made by the last Al
aska Territorial legislature for the
benefit of the First and Third divi
sions.
See J. A. Slippem for new rates
on subscriptions and renewals of all
leading magazines and periodicals.
Club rates on application
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THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR EYES
Showing: “Yank, in Rhine Town.," ENTER DARDANELLES."
First and only pictures showing the entry of Allied
warships into the famous Dardanelles.
Metro Pictures Presents
WONDERFUL
Emily Stevens
IN THE PLAY THAT THRILLS THE SPINE OF THE NATION
“The Slacker”
William Christy Cabanne, its author and di-ector, has surpassed
the masterpieces of all time.
IN SIX REELS OF POWER
MUSIC-VIOLIN, PIANO AND DRUMS
General Admission 50 cents Reserved Seats 75c
SOLDIERS AND CHILDREN 25c.
SHOW STARTS AT EIGHT O'CLOCK.
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DEATH VALLEY 10
i
LOS ANGELES, Cal.—Death val
ley and the Funeral range, a coun
try heretofore used chiefly as the
setting for fiction and motion pic-:
tures. is to be made a tourist re- ■ s
sort, according to an announcement
made here by officials of the Tono- i,
pah ii Tidewater railroad and the
Death Valley road.
* The temperature in Death valley i
rises to 100 degrees in summer, but
from October to May it seldom;
rises above 70 degrees. The rail
road and some manufacturing in
terests which mine borax in the
valley will construct a hotel, it is
iannounced, which will be open only
during the cool months.
, Scenic features and climatic ben
efits for certain organic diseases j
will be advertised as the attrac-,
■ tions, and as a preliminary step ai
■ well-known Los Angeles phographer ;
and writer has been sent to the
\alley to make a series of pictures,;
w ith accompanying text, to be used;
in making the new resort known I
nationally.
RUBY DEPUTY MARSHAL
HASTENS TO IDITAROD
Deputy Marshal Loup, of Ruby, |
has been urdere.l to proceed to Flat •
City, in the Iditarod district, '.o;
take charge of an insane native |
who was recently taken into custody
there. Long will bring the native i
back to Gibbon, from which point;
the Gibbon deputy will bring the
prisoner up river to Fairbanks.
The native is said to be subject ;
to violent spells, during which he is
very hard to handle. At other.
times, however, he is a model pa- i
tient.
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Second and Market Sts.
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AND
Home-Made Bakery
Northern Cafe
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| Miners and Prospectors! |
| NOTICE OF CHANGE OF RECORDING PRECINCTS |
| According to a recently issued Court Order by H
| Judge Chas. E. Bunnell, the Nenana Mining and Re- I
| cording District has been enlarged to take in the Bon- |
i nifield and Totatlanika Districts. |
I Miners and Prospectors of these districts will be f
| enabled by this change to do their recording and |
§ transact other business at Nenana, which is within |
= easy reach of their mining activities. I
| NENANA COMMERCIAL CLUB. |
| J. R. Bowen, President. R. J. Diven, Secretary'. |
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