THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for entry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3. 1879
Hub of Alaska — Where Rails and Rivers Meet ,
Published Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday by the Nenana Printing
ComDanv. at First and B Streets. Xenar.a. Alaska
R. G. Southworth ...
Mrs. R. G. Southworth .. .
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ed States Senator Davis of Illinois j
made an address in which he said:
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it is located, in boostng, praising,
and for lodges, churches, schools,
etc. The editor in proportion to his
means, does more for the town
than any other man in it, and he
ought to be supported, not because
you like or dislike him and fcss
style but because a local paper is
one of the town's best features.
Today the local papers are doing
more for less pay than anything on
earth, and its a fact in many cases.
of free notices.”
NEW CHAIRMAN OUTLINES
PLANS FOR RAILROAD WORiC
Upon his return to Juneau re
cently, after having assumed h:s
duties as chairman of the Alaskan
Engineering Commission, Co! -Jas
G. Steese gave the following inter
view to the Alaska Daily Empire
relative to the transfer of authority
from Col. Mears to himself, and
plans of the new management in
connection with the railroad:
“With reference to published ac
counts concerning the unfortunate
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outbreak of Colonel Mears at tne
Anchorage Chamber of Commerce
luncheon. 1 have no statement to
make except to invite attention to
Secretary Fall’s published an
nouncement that the relief of Col
onel Mears had been under advise
ment for about a year and that he
had prevailed upon the President
to let him remain this past year to
complete the big. Tar.ana River
bridge.
“Uutil a few days before my re
turn to Alaska in February I had
no inkling of any proposed change.
Secretary Fall made his decision, so
far as I know, without consulting
any of his usual advisors except
the President. When he offered me
the job I accepted on condition that
Major Gotwals should also be ap
pointed as my assistant.
No Personalities
“Both the President and the two
secretaries, apparently, were inter
ested only in the economies and
closer coordination in all transpor
tation matters, whether by water,
rail highway.or trail, that would
result, and personalities were not
considered. I know nothing of Col
onel Mears’ relations with the In
terior Department and naturally
was not consulted as to the propos
ed change except as to our faciliti
es for handling the additional work.
The work remains under the De
partment of the Interior and my
status is the same as was Mears’.
“My orders from the President
are to put the railroad upon a com
mercial operating basis as rapidly
as possible and in order to attain
that end to utilize all facilities
under my control interchangeable,
wherever it will promote the public
service so to do.
“I have merely obeyed orders
and have declined to enter into a
personal controversy of any kind.
My record for the past three years
should indicate my interest in the
levelopment of the Territory of
Maska and I hope the activities of
Major Gotwals and myslef, while
n charge of this enlarged division
>f engineering and public works,
nay result in hastening this much
iesired development and may have
:he support and good will of the
jeople generally.
"We shall be unable to please
everyone in every detail, but we
•hall always be ready to give every
one a hearing, as we have always,
lone in the past. When our work is
finished, if it ever is., or when the .
President or the departments in
Washington make other arrange
ments . we shall reluctantly bu:.
cheerfully transfer our activities
to other fields."
Gotwals In Charge Duties
Colonel Gotwals assumed his du
ties as vice-chairman of the Alask
an Engineering Commision April 5
last and the same day was placed
in charge of the construction and
maintenance, transportation, mech
anical and stores departments. The
remaining departments, which are:
Hospital, mining, accounting and
disbursing, purchasing and the em
ployment office, are under the
supervision of Colonel Steese.
Since his relief as chairman and
engineer of the Commissoin, Col
onel Mears has continued on special
duty with the Commision and com
pleted his transfer of outstanding
activities on April 14 last- He ex
pects to leave on the Northwestern
for the States. Mrs. Mears will re
main in Anchorage until their
children have completed the current
school year.
Spring Operations
"The change in the management
was made at exactly the right time;
that is, sufficiently before the be
gininng of active spring operations,
to enable necessary preparations to
be made.” said Colonel Steese. “As
Colonel Mears had been absent
from the Territory for four months
it was unnecessary for him to get
back into detail again. He merely
had to turn over reports of the
matters he had handled while out
side both in Washington and
Seattle, and to be available for con
sultation for a few weeks on loose
ends still outstanding.
"The most necessary purchases
had been authorized and large pro
portions of material are ready
on the grund and are rapidly mov
ing to the front, including special
bridge material and the large and
new steel required for standardiz
ing track between Nenana and
Fairbanks.
New Daylight Service
"Before I left Anchorage stand
ardizing track had passed Dunbar
and will reach Fairbanks early in
May. On May 6 we expect to in
augurate the new all daylight ser
vice between Seward and Fair
banks, requiring two 12-hour runs,
with a night layover at Currey,
where we will open the new hotel
Sin time for this service.
“All arangements have been made
for managing steamer and barge
! service between Nenana and Holy
Cross, with a supplemental launch
sendee for mail and passengers be
;ween Holy Cross and St. Michael.
New Tariff Ratca
“Our new joint tariff No. 5, ef
fective April 25, has just been re
ceived and a substantial reduction
is made over the rates of 1922. It
quotes through rates on all classes
af business from Seattle or Tacoma
to all points on the Alaska Railroad
inland, to river points between Ne
nana and Holy Cross, and also to
Shageluk and Iditarod, as we have
completed a through traffic agree
ment with Ira Wood, who will oper
ate on the Innoko and Iditarod Riv
ers in connection with the Alaska
Railroad.
"During April all the extra crews
steam shovels, ditcher, etc., are be
ing put into the field and spring
maintenance is being aggressively
pushed on all sections as rapidly as
the frost comes out of the ground.
“The coal mining situation is now
being completely overhauled with a
view to finally getting Alaska coal
distributed to all parts of the Ter
ritory. Colonel Gotwals has been in
Fairbanks the last few days holding
a hearing on the question of Fair
banks as a suitable railroad term
inal.”
Colonel Gotwals will return to
Juneau in about one month at the
time Colonel Steese .will leave for
Anchorage.
Colonel Steese was accompanied
to Juneau by R. C. Hurley, who
will he here until Colonel Steese
returns to Anchorage, on railroad
matters. Mr. Hurley has been with
the Alaskan Engineering Commis
sion sometime. He is formerly of
Juneau and is a son-in-law- of Mrs.
A n na W ebste r.
Col. Steese will remain in Ju
neau about a month, in connection
with affairs of the Alaska Road
Commission.
FORMER ALASKAN INVENTS
PROMISING ROTARY PLOW
F. T. Hamshaw, well known min
ing man, formerly of the Atlin.
British Columbia, mining district
where he operated a hydraulic planl
on McKee Creek, and later was en
gaged in mining in the Shushanna
district, Alaska, is now in New
York and Chicago, engaged in th<
manufacture of the Rotary Plow
an invention of a brother, C. M
Hamshaw. The latter will be re
membered as a pioneer miner oi
Dawson. Nome and Fairbanks.
The Rotary Plow is a tractor
driven agricultural implement tha'
plows. harrows and seeds tht
ground at one operation, at tht
rate of twenty acres in a ten-houi
day. Four years' work has brough'
the machine to a stage of compara
tive perfection, and manufacturim
has just commenced. That the Ro
tary Plow will work a revolution ii
agricultural and make a fortune foi
the owners is a conservative state
ment.
R. R. Byrem. an oldtime Alas
kan, who has been assiciated witl
Mr. Hamshaw in Ijis mining opera
tions, is the secretary and treasure
of the Rotary Plow Company, witl
offices in the Lowman Building. St
artle.
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R. K. Neill, rediscoverer ant
heavy- owner of the great Premie
mine in the Portland Canal dis
trict and a leading mining opera
tor of the Northw-est for the las
twenty-five years, returned to Spo
cane recently after concluding -
business trip to New York and oth
er Eastern cities. He is now on
trip to Nevada and the state o
Nayarit, Mexico,- where he is de
veloping properties of great prom
ise.
George C. Hazelet, of Cordov
and Katalia, was operated on in
hospital in New York City recent!
for ruptured appendix, accordin
to telegraphic advices received b
Falcon Joslin. The condition of Mi
Hazelet w-as considered serious say
The Alaska Weekly whereupon Mi
Joslin a few hours after receipt o
the message departed for the mei
ropolis to be at the bedside of hi
close friend and business assoeiati
LECTURER COMING BACK
TO DEVELOP MAYO MINE
Dr. Leonard Sugden, pioneer of
the North, for many years a resi- j
dent of Whitehorse, but for the last
several years lecturer on Alaska
and Yukon territory, has again
turned miner and will become a
Mayo operator says the Juneau Em
pire, if his plans work out as they
have been made. Dr. Sugden was
a passenger on the Princess Mary,
which passed through Juneau re
cently on his way to the silver
camp of the Interior. He has ample
; backing, he says to carry on large
operations.
Since he was in Juneau five years
i ago geting pictures of the North,
! Dr. Sugden has been constantly on
the lecture platform. He lectured in
nearly all the large cities of the
■ United States and Canada and spent
: more than three years abroad. For
14 months he was in South Africa,
where he carried the story of the
North and his pictures to the people
; From here he went to Brazil, where
' he spent two years.
Dr. Sugden says he will spend
| considerable time in Mayo before
coming out again.
“It will be impossible not to find
an oil pool in the Cold Bay field.
; With the known favorable forma
jtion and perfect structures and the
j seepages of high-grade oil. where
jthe sands are upturned and exposed,
or faulted, the elements of chance
are lessened almost to the zero
point. The frequency of the struc
I tures along a well-defined fold that
i probably extends the full length
! of the Alaska peninsula, means a
! field of great magnitude. Within
another twelve months Alaska will
j cease to be thought of as a fishing
| ground, a placer camp or a reindeer
pasture, and will take its place
with Texas. Oklahoma and Californ
ia as an oil producing field. It is
j certain to come as was the north
i Texas fields, after the finding of
. oil in the water wells a few years
j ago."—Statement of H. G. Perry
j of Fort Worth Texas, who visited
i the Cold Bay oil field last season,
i and appearing in an article written
| by R. H. Whitney in the Oil and
j Gas Journal. Tulsa, Okia.
C. F. M. Cole, formerly editor and
: proprietor of the McCarthy News,
has purchased from Sidney Charles
the Sitka Tribune, and left Cordova
recently for Sitka to take over his
purchase. Charles was engaged in
newspaper work in Fairbanks in
the early days of that town. He is
i quitting business now on account of
eye trouble.
P. G. Charles and R. E. Hard
castle have formed a partnership
at Ketchikan for auditing, insur
ance of all kinds and real estate, to
be known as the Charles & Hard
castle Co., with headquarters in the
office of the Ketchikan Real Estate
and insurance company, on Front
street. They opened their office the
1 first of April.
Charles Lamb, who as a partner
i of Billie Leake won a fortune from
. Bonanza Creek, in the Klondike, is
living in Stockton. Calif.
Ten per cent reduction on
spring dresses and coats. Abe S
son.
ORDER YOUR
COAL
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Coal
Corporation
PHONE YOUR ORDERS
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RAILROAD CIGAR STORE
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Alaska Steamship Co.
SAFETY SPEED SERVICE
VESSEL
ALAMEDA .Mch. 17
NORTHWESTERN .Mar. 28
ALAMEDA .. Apr. 7
NORTHWESTERN .— Apr. 18
VICTORIA . Apr. 28
Lv. Seattle Lv. Seward Lv. Anch.
Meh. 25
ALAMEDA
..May
Mch. 26
Apr. 4
Apr. 13 Apr. 14
Apr. 25
May 5
May 11 May 12
FOR RATES AND RESERVATIONS APPLY TO
J. H. FL1CK1NGER, A. H. McDONALD,
Agent, Seward. Ala«k» Agent. Anchorage
A. A. SHONBECK
ANCHORAGE
LIME, PLASTER, CEMENT, FIRE BRICK, FIRE CLAY
Explosives and Blasting Supplies
COAL OIL GASOLINE LUBRICATING OILS GREASES
MAY and GRAIN
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WANT ADS
FOUND—Two keys attached to
small ring. Owner can get them
at the News Office.
FOUND—Pioneer charm. Finder
can recover same by calling at the
Terminal and proving ownership.
FOR SALE—Old Town canoe in
goo ' condition. Inquire Ne vs Office.
FOR SALE—One 8-disc cultivator
one improved post hole digger; one
V-bar barrow; price $75, f. o. b.
Heaiy. Inquire News.
~FOR 'SALE—T91T Maxwell auto
cheap. Must sell. Going outside. 20
H. P. Good condition. Inquire Cal
ifornia Market, Fairbanks.
FOR SALE—1 bed complete.
I brass bed complete.
1 Three quarter bed spring.
1 Writing desk.
1 Dining table
4 dining chairs, leather seats .
j 1 Cupboard, glass doors.
1 Cole air tight heater.
3 50 gallon hardwood barrels.
Screen doors, kitchen table- and
other furniture.
1 Road house 8 miles south of
Heaiy with equipment.
1 Log cabin and lot.
Cheap to settle estate.
Inquire E. T. Sullivan. B st. be
tween 1st, and 2nd.
HERMAN ANDERSON’S
MODERN RESIDENCE
FOR SALE
Has the following rooms:
1 Entrance Vestibule.
1 Large Living room, 3 6X26.
3 Berrooms leach has clothes clo
I set.)
1 Large Kitchen, white enamel,
with breakfast nook, seating six
; persons.
1 Bathroom, finished in white e
namel, with bath tub. wash basin
j and lavatory.
1 Good well, with clear water all
1 the year.
1 Edison Gold Medal Phonograph.
A houseful of A 1 oak furniture.
1 Dustproof warehouse, 45X45.
The basement of the house can be
; used for warm storage. Capacity ov
| er 50 tons.
For further information see Her
man Anderson.
COMING SOON: Mary Pickford
in “Little Lord Fauntleroy.”
Trappers Traders
SHIP TO
GEORGE R. GOSHAW, INC.
Dealer in Raw Furs
SEATTLE
Alulu Building
NEW YORK
127 W. 27th Street
Former Governor W. B. Hog
gatt. of Alaska, is president of the
Keyes Products Company, a big
concern in New London, Conn.
I am back again at the Skof
House with the best washing powd
er known to science. It will wash
your clothes snow white without rub
bing and will not hurt your hands
or the finest fabrics. It will save
you labor and, in an economical
way, repay you for the cost.
FRED HOELER
NOTICE
T. \\. Buchholz, of N'enana, has
been named authorized representa
tive of the Fairbanks Clothing Co.
in Nenana and vicinity and is em
powered to receive money due the
company on old and new acounts.
J. R, FOWLE
LOCAL TRAIN SCHEDULE
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
Trains leave and arrive N'enana as
follows:
8:00 p. m.. Tuesday and Friday for
Seward and intermediate points.
Returning arrives N'enana 6:45 a.
m.. same days.
1:30 p. m., Tuesday and Friday for
Dunbar, Fairbanks and Chatanika
i Arrives Nenana 12:30 p. m., Tues
i day and Friday.
j Pullman sleeper charges: Lower
berth, $4.50; upper berth. $3.50.
Tickets entitle holders to priv.
leges Observation car.
Pioneers of Alaska
Nenana Ijfloo No. 17
MEETS AT UNION HALL
FIRST AND THIRD MONDAY
AT 8:00 P. M.
Visiting Members Always
Welcome.
Alfred J. Chezzi R. C. Morri*.
Secretary. President.
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D. H. WILLIAMS
Undertaking Parlors
Licenced Embalmer
Funeral Director
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Anchorage — Nenana — Seward
CHAS. E. BERGMAN
Nenana Manager
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