NENANA’S BEST APPOINTED HOTEL
Cooney Hotel and Annex
HOT AND COLD WATER AND BATHS
ROOMS SINGLE OR EN SUITE
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TYPEWRITER PAPER IS
ON SALE BY THE NEWS
A shipment of typewriter paper,
of tlie standard American brand,
has just been unpacked at The News
office, where it is on sale by the
box or in any other quantity desired.
The sizes include both legal and
letter and the weights range from
the lightest to heavy.
The paper was bought right and
i is being sold at a close margin of
profit.
The News also has unprinted en
' velopes for sale by the box and by
the package—all sizes, from baroni
al to legal, white and colored, and
bond and wove.
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Prospectors
F armers
Trappers
Tourists
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The 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.
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.
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Detailed information regarding the
resources and possibilities of the Ne
nana district may be obtained from the
Nenana
Commercial
Club
CLOCK IS READY
10 SOUND ALARM
WHEN ICE MOVES
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For the benefit of those residents
of the community who are not in a
position just now to keep in per
sonal touch with ice conditions, The 1
News is able to report today that
everything is in readiness for the
ice to go out—that is, everything »
ready but the ice.
Head Electrician Frank Murphy
reports that the clock in the power- j
house, which is to register the offi-!
cial time, has been carefully wired
so that it will stop automatically ;
when the official flag on the ice
moves the required distance, suffi
icient to set the electrical apparatus
jin motion which will stop the clock
I and start the commission whistle
blowing.
i All the* details have received at
tention, and it is now merely a case
j of waiting for the river to get busy,
; which will not be tomorrow or the.
1 day after, or even the day after
that. As a matter of fact, the river
j ice looks about as solid as it did in
January. No sign of a breakup
anywhere, and horses are crossing
' the river every day with perfect
safety. A year ago today the river
was open in front of Nenana.
j The cold weather of the past sev
■ eral days has brought disappoint
ment to a large number of guessers
(in thfe big ice pool already, and, as
the days pass, the process of elim
illation will assume big proportions,
a very large number of guessers
having backed the ice to move be
tween the third and the tenth. There
are many now who are ready to
; believe that the fifteenth will be
closer to the mark.
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j It takes water to make the ice
go, and it takes snow to make the
water. And arrivals from the hills
j report that there is a great deal of
Jsnow still on the ground, with very
; little thawing in process at present.
rherefore, warmer weather must |
:ome before the ice will be serious- I
y endangered.
Those interested in the arrange
Tients for recording the official time
jf the breakup are invited to in
spect the clock in the power-house,
rhe flagpole, with which the clock ,
is connected, is firmly planted in J
the ice at a point in front of Ware- j
house No. 1, about midway between
the banks of the river.
OVER-THE-ICE EGGS, *1.50 per
dozen, at Fowler & Morris.
SPANN WILL COME
BACK NORTH SOON
Charles Spann, formerly in the
employ of the Alaskan Engineering
commission in Nenana, having left
here last summer for the States, is
coming back to Alaska again, ac- !
cording to a letter received on a
recent mail by Frank liourke.
At the time of writing, Spann was
in St. Louis, traveling over the
country in search of engines for
the company with which he is now ,
associated, and although he had a '
good thing, he planned to quit it;
all and return to the North.
“I have been running around
from New York to Philadelphia, j
then Pittsburgh, now here,” he
writes. ‘‘It appears the company
can’t get any new engines from the
manufactures, so they are buying1
and shipping wherever they can
purchase oil machines, for the time
being, to send to China. Mr. Muir
is not working for this concern. He
is in Los Angeles.
“I am not going to remain out
here any longer than six months. I
don’t like this climate—too change
able. People are dying here like
sheep of flu and other diseases.
Very unhealthy and the air is not
as pure as it is in Alaska.
“Although I am my own boss and
drawring good wages, with first-class
travel and other expenses, I am not
going to stay.
“The company is having a hard
time keeping men in China. They
say it is too windy and dusty and
unhealthy.
“I will be in to work my ground
about July if I can get off."
Ifenana. Alaska's Interior Fuel Depot
REPORTS SHOW WINTER
VERY MILD IN ALASKA
At Juneau, the cohlest weather
experienced during the present win
ter, according to climatological data
(kept by the U. S. weather bureau,
jwas three degrees above zero, nor
lhas below zero been recorded at
!any point in Southeastern Alaska.
In the Cook Inlet country the cold
iest reported was 18 degrees below
zero, and in the Interior 50 below
.zero is the coldest for the winter,
: where from 60 to 65 is usually
! recorded at least two or three times
' during the winter. In Southeast
Nenana Steam Laundry
Phone 73
OUR EQUIPMENT COMPLETE
WORK EQUAL TO THE BEST
J. F. BENNETT.
GEORGE RICH
BLAIN KFI ELD EXPRESS
CONNECTING WITH FAIRBANKS TRAIN.
PASSENGERS BAGGAGE MAIL
Clean Dry Wood for Sale Hauling of All Kindt
OFFICE AT THE TERMINAL.
IF YOU WANT
FRIENDS
in the States to know about the country
you live in, send them the Development
Number of The Nenana Daily News—
or, better still, let us do it for you. Ten
copies mailed to ten addresses in the
States for $1.50.
ern Alaska there has been more j
sunshine and less rain thus far dur- 1
ing the winter months, and all in
dications point to an early spring. ;
OVER-THE-JCE ECGS, $1.50 per
dozen, at Fowler & Morris.
Operations are continuing in full
force at the Whalen mills at Swan
son bay, British Columbia. There
are about 450 men employed at the ;
plant and new improvements for in
creased efficiency are continually be
ing put in. One of the latest in
novations is a wood room, where
logs are culled, and those that are;
not fit for lumber are sawed into !
cordwood lengths, barked and sent
to the pulp mill. This eliminates
the cutting of all logs as formerly.
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OLD PAPERS FOR SALE AT
THE NEWS OFFICE
WATCHES
JEWELRY
Watch Repairing
DESIGNING AND NATIVE
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ICE and EXPRESS
CYRIELE VERHAEGHE
OFFICE AT
THE TERMINAL
SKOF HOUSE
That’s the Place
GOOD BARN FOR HORSES
IN CONNECTION.
Second and Market Sts.
MRS. JAMES LAVIN
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| Miners and Prospectors! |
i NOTICE OF CHANGE OF RECORDING PRECINCTS I
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1 According to a recently issued Court Order by =
| Judge Chas. E. Bunnell, the Nenana Mining and Re- |
= cording District has been enlarged to take in the Bon- E
| nifield and Totatlanika Districts. |
I Miners and Prospectors of these districts will be |
| enabled by this change to do their recording and f
§ transact other business at Nenana, which is within |
| easy reach of their mining activities. g
| NENANA COMMERCIAL CLUB. |
| J. R. Bowen, President. R. J. Diven, Secretary, f
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