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Nenana Steam Laundry
Phone 73
OUR EQUIPMENT COMPLETE
WORK EQUAL TO THE BEST
j. F. BENNETT._
GEORGE RICH
BLANKFIELD EXPRESS
CONNECTING WITH FAIRBANKS TRAIN.
PASSENGERS BAGGAGE MAIL
Clean Dry Wood for S.le . Hauling 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
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.
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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
I 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 strums easy of access, and the i
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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CLUB MS WAGES
FOB R. RJIIORKERS
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was designed and heralded by Con
gress as the one that should make
possible the settlement and develop
ment of this our last great frontier.
Another glaring and ominous fact
is this, which also supports our ar
gument : Almost no new homes are
being established by the sturdy men
an capable, attractive women of the
country. Perhaps an explanation is
disclosed by the words of a man be
longing to that large and inestimably
important class designated as “com
mon laborers,” when he said: “If I
loved a woman enough to marry
her. I’d be loving her too much to
ask her to marry me under present
conditions. I’d not want her to
take a chance on having to skimp
and worry- like the wives of a lot
of these other poor devils who
were married before the war or be
fore they hit this country.”
Is it not clear to every construc
tive mind, that the Government’s ap
propriations for Alaskan develop
ment should be expended along lines
that will make possible, and as easy
and speedy as possible, the estab
lishment of communities consisting
of families, instead of camps of
single men, men who drift hither
and yon with every passing breeze?
Let no man mislead you into think
ing that this land will not eventu
ally become a land of homes?
While the foregoing is happening
to the family men, how fares it
iwith the single men? and is there
a wage relation between the two
classes?
\ The single men have been quite
generally silent on the wage ques
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tion, and to all outward appearances
comparatively well situated. If any
set of men can be satisfied with
i present wage- conditions the single
men should be, as the following
situation clearly indicates: They get
: their meals at the messhouse at a
j trifle more than one-half of what it
'costs the Government to provide said
meals. Their rooms, heat and light
are furnished them at the nominal
charge of $1.50 a month each, which
|we are safe in asserting is without
; profit to the Government. They
purchase their working wearables
and sundries, if they so choose, from
the Government commissary, on th-'
same terms as the family men do,
iwhich means that they pet such mer
chandise and sundries at 10 percent
above Seattle invoice, plus freight,
j The family men, whether living
, in Government cottages on the re
serve or maintaininp their homes out
in town, pay for their dwellings,
• their light, heat and water at a rate
j which puts them in a class by fhem
1 selves; a class that is at least one
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dollar per day worse off per man
(than the single men who are follow
ing similar lines of employment and
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drawing the same wage. To this
fact add the information, that the
Government commissary does not
carry women’s and children’s mer
chandise.
As citizens who are interested in
the development of the country, we
are unable to find justification for
either the origination or the con
tinuation of such a situation. As
we see it, if single men were charged
what their board, room, light and
heat cost the Government to provide
them, and then wages given to
cover the figure, it would be much
better every way. If both single
men and family men were placed
on an equality, and then wages
made to conform to that adequacy
which present conditions clearly dic
tate as just and necessary, the Alas
kan railroad would begin to be felt
as a development project, here
abouts, and would seem less like a
determined effort on the part of
the Engineering commission to com
plete the road without due regard
for the purpose for which it was
originally planned—the only purpose
in which we can find sufficient jus
tification for its being built at all.
It IS true that the single men can
make out under present conditions,
when employment is not too inter
mittent; and not a few of that
class, chiefly aliens, have already
pocketed neat sums saved from their
wages and have hit the trail for the
States or for foreign parts. But
the family men, unless they come
under the classifications indicated
earlier in this paper, cannot longer
remain in this Interior country and
maintain their homes here, even ac
cording to any of the very reason
able standards of comfort commonly
regarded as essential in this region.
We, as citizens of the United
States and therefore partners in this
public enterprise, implore you to
whom this communication is ad
dressed, to give immediate attention
to the things we have set forth. And
if you cannot readjust the present
system in the Interior, then in the
name of simple justice let the wage
scale be so revised as to afford the
needed relief. Remember that one
of the greatest benefits the Govern
ment railroad can quickly bestow
on Interior Alaska, is to stem the
tide of outgoing resident popula
tion; that population which above all
others the country cannot afford to
lose, and which will not be easily or
quickly replaced.
Very truly,
The N'enana Commercial Club.
STATE GETS FORTUNE
OF ELK CLUB WAITER
SAN FRANCISCO.—The $35,000
estate left by Harry Hastings, a
waiter at the Elk club here, will go
to the state, because the public ad
ministrator has been unable to lo
cate any relatives. Hastings came
here from the East 25 years ago.
Henana. the 'latewnT to McKinley
National Park.
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NEW
CENTRAL CAFE
FIRST CLASS
Every Respect
in
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JOHN KETOOROKY
Proprietor.
r.s. McDonald
Public Stenography Typewriting
Bookkeeping Conveyancing
REAL ESTATE
RENTALS .LOANS
LIFE INSURANCE
FIRE INSURANCE
Only tke moat reliable compenies
Safety Deposit Boxes
, For Rent.
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ON SALE BY THE NEWS
A shipment of typewriter paper,
of the standard American brand,
has just been unpacked at The News
office, where it is on sale by the
box or in any other quuntity desired.
The sizes include both local and
letter and the weights range from
the lightest to heavy.
The paper was bought right and
is being sold at a close margin of
profit.
The News also has unprinted on - •
velopes for sale by the box and by
the package—all sizes, from baroni-j
al to legal, white and colored, and
bond and wove.
Suits mended, pressed and cleaned !
Underwear renovated Old furs re-1
modeled, bought and sold. Goods
called for and delivered. Telephone i
32 Green.
D’ORSAY TAILOR SHOP
Third and A Streets.
WATCHES
JEWELRY
Watch Repairing
DESIGNING AND NATIVE
JEWELRY A SPECIALTY
WM. TAYLOR
ARCTIC BATH HOUSE
stands alone in par-excellence of
service and sanitary convenience.
Turkish, Steam, Shower
or Plain Baths, at
MODERATE RATES.
Room* for Dressing and Resting
in Connection. Also Rooms for
Rent, Transient or Permanent.
Mr. and Mrs. Heimburger
Proprietors.
If Comfort, Economy and the g
Environments of Home
Appeal to You,
STOP AT THE
MONTANA
SPECIAL RATES BY WEEK
OR MONTH.
MRS. BERT JOHNSON
Proprietress
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SKOF HOUSE
That’s the Place
GOOD BARN FOR HORSES
IN CONNECTION.
Second and Market Sts.
MRS. JAMES LAVIN
Xanana, the Gateway to McKinley
Rational Park.
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| Miners and Prospectors! |
j NOTICE OF CHANGE OF REC0R0IN6 PRECINCTS |
| According to a recently issued Court Order by =
| Judge Chas. E. Bunnell, the Nenana Mining and Re- |
5 cording District has been enlarged to take in the Bon- =
| nifield and Totatlanika Districts. §
| Miners and Prospectors of these districts will be 5
| enabled by this change to do their recording and f
1 transact other business at Nenana, which is within |
= easy reach of their mining activities. §
j NENANA COMMERCIAL CLUB. 1
| J. R. Bowen, President. R. J. Diven, Secretary. |
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