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Game Warden Stephen Foster,
who returned to Nenana recently
from an extended trip to the upper
Kuskokwim country, brings word of
a rich copper strike which had been
made in the Nixon Fork country.
From all accounts, the strike
would appear to be a good one, and
those who had staked are said to
be prepariijg to develop their hold
ings. It is entirely within the
possibilities that the rich deposits
will be worked soon.
Those interested in the strike are
said to be well satisfied with their
find.
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KGVUKUK MS
MAKES LONG ISIS
| 10 ASCI ME
News received recently by Frank
Knight from Betties indicates that
natives arriving at that far northern
camp from the Arctic brought re
ports of having met Jack Smith’s
party on their northward way.
Smith, who is a well known tradej
and freighter of the Koyukuk, left
Betties on his gasoline scow last
fall with a party of Kobuk Indians
and a considerable trading outfit.
He went up John river, some 80
miles north of Betties, to a point
as far up that stream as it was
possible for a scow to get, and then
the party took to the small boats,
in which they traveled to the summit
between John river and the Anak
tuvuk, a tributary of the Colville
river, which enters the Actic ocean
at Harrison Bay.
At the summit the sleds taken up
by the party were loaded and the
long trip to the Arctic was com
menced. The trip was undertaken
for the purpose of trading, trapping,
fur buying, etc., the remote native
settlements being the objectives.
Jack Smith was the only white
man in the party, the rest were
Kobuk Indians and was composed
of Mashonic, who acted as cook;
Silver Charley, Sam Hope and Foxy
Sam, guides (Sam’s wife accom
panied the party) and Timbuk, trail
breaker.
The natives coming into Betties
from the Arctic slope reported that
they had seen Jack Smith’s party
shortly before Christmas, away over
in the Arctic country, headed for
the North Pole. Smith did not send
any word about the expedition, but
most of the Betties people expect
to see them all back on the tail end
of the last run of ice.
VICTORY DRIVE
Yesterday afternoon, at the Fair
banks commissioner’s courtroom,
the Fairbanks Boy Scouts held a
meeting for the purpose of discuss
ing plans for their part in the Vic
tory Loan campaign.
The Boy Scouts’ drive in the
\ ietory Loan campaign begins on
Saturday and will end on May 10.
It is expected that these lads will
do as well as they have always
done in previous drives.
Norman Russell and Sam Ivey,
members of the fairbanks Boy
Scouts, but residing in Nenana.
have been notified by Scoutmaster
Lumpkin to begin active canvassig
for subscriptions to the Victory
Loan on Saturday, and as both these
boys hold ace medals for their
energetic work in previous drives,
it is expected that they will roll
up a good count by the time the
campaign closes.
HIGH SCHOOL HOP
TOMORROW NIGHT
—
The older boys of the Franklin
K. Lane school have issued invitations
for a dancing party which is to be
held at the Bowen building Friday
night, May 2.
The dance is intended primarily
for the older boys and girls of the
: school and their parents and more
! intimate friends only, and the in
1 vitations are therefore, necessarily
j limited.
This is the first attempt to gel
1 up a school dance in Nenana and
indications point to the fact tha1
the affair is going to be a very
successful one.
The neat cards of invitation state
that the dancing party is to be from
9 p. m. until 1 a. m., with the possi
bilities strongly in favor of the
dance being continued indefinitely
by the sheer exuberance of youth
ful spirits. The kids will, of course,
be properly chaperoned.
SIEVE FOSTER IS
BACK FROM TRIP
IN WILDNERNESS
Game Warden Stephen Foster re
, turned to Nenana recently from the
I Kuskokwim country and brought to
! a termination thereby a very inter
! esting trip which involved several
side trips into the little known
parts of the country contiguous to
the McKinley Natonal Park, Lake
Minchumina and the headwaters of
, the Kuskokwim river. During the
| trip he covered 1388 miles by dog
i sled.
The journey to Tacotna was be
gun on February 12, when he left
| Nenana for Stony creek. From
j Stony creek he went into the Me
j Kinley Park country in search of a
| man named Kamsguard, wrho w’as
! said to have been lost. He spent
, four days in that region, but did
not find any trace of the man. From
the park he back tracked to Eureka,
, Glacier and Roosevelt creeks in the
Kantishna country. After a few
j days spent in the region on the
! business which called him there, the
I long journey to the headwaters of
I the Kuskokwim and the Tacotna
j river region was commenced.
Several cases of violation of the
; game law's were discovered in the
: Kantishna country, but owing to the
: fact that there was no commissioner
in the district, the violators were
not prosecuted. No less than 74
quarters of caribou and the car
casses of a dozen cow moose were
found in one cache, and apart from
taking steps to have the meat cured
and taken care of for human con
sumption, no further action resulted.
The entire journey from Nenana
, to McGrath, on the Kuskokwim
! river, is some 335 miles; the greater
j portion of the distance lies through
; little known country and over un
j broken trails. During the journey
| a great many side trips became
i necessary and, consequent^, much
time was consumed before McGrath
1 was reached.
! In the territory within the juris
j diction of the U. S. commissioner
: at McGrath, in the mountains sev
; era! miles removed from the nearby
| settlements, large quantities of wild
| meat were found in caches. All this
, meat was hauled into McGrath. Mr.
| Foster states that he found a whole
j sale violation of the game laws in
this region, which resulted in his
being able to obtain 14 convictions
| —white men in every case—fines
1 of varying proportions being im
! posed by the commissioner.
The meat was not confiscated, as
it would have resulted in its total
■ loss, but the hunters were com
pelled to cure and take care of the
meat for food.
The game in the upper Kusko
kwim region, Mr. Foster states, are
dying in large numbers as the re
sult of disease. The moose there
are said to be in very poor condi
tion; the disease they are suffering
from even arresting the growth of
their horns, which, in some cases,
are said to be about the size of a
man’s hand only. There is said to
be practically no feed, as the result
of forest fires, for the caribou
, herds that annually roam the coun
try in great numbers, and they
would appear to have migrated else
| where in search of food. The pres
J ence of vast herds of these animals
in parts of the country adjacent to
Lake Minchumina, where they had
j never been seen before, is thus ac
j counted for.
[ The mountain sheep in the upper
1 Kuskokwim would also appear to
| be affected with a disease known
I as lump jaw, and Mr. Foster stated
| that they were reported to be dying
i by the dozens. This disease is said
to be very contagious and it is
feared will wreck sad havoc among
the flocks in the mountains before
it spends itself.
Everything portended an early
spring in that region, and the
streams were open and flocks of
ducks and geese were seen in the
neighborhood of McGrath on April 4,
Mr. Foster left the upper Kusko
kwim country on April 7, arriving
at Nenana on the 19th.
On the return journey, large herds
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i of migrating caribou were seen, the
! trail in some cases led through
zones of the forest fires that would
appear to be pretty general every
where. Mr. Foster stated that vast
areas appeared to be on fire and
predicts that it is bound to result
in a shortage of both big and small
game later on. The fires are driv
ing the caribou farther away and >s
also destroying the countless nests
and nesting places of the grouse
and other birds.
There would appear to be no fire
wardens in Alaska, and no provision
seems to have been made to ade
quately protect this great national
asset, the forests.
SHOTGUNS and Shotgun Ammu
nition—new stock just opened, at
Anderson Bros & Norland.
MAIL ARRIVED TODAY
FROM UPPER TOWN
The mail shipped on Thelin’s,
stage, which came as far as Dun- j
bars last night, was brought safely
, across the river by Dutch Blank
field this afternoon.
The shipment consists of second
class Outside mail and a little local
first class mail.
Andrew Anderson and John Ber
nard arrived in town last night from
I the Bums coal mine. They are in
| town on business and will probably
leave for the mine again in a few
! days.
REAL ESTATE CHANGES
AT ARMY POST TOWN
Recent advices from Tanana in
dicate that David (Scotty) Kay pur
chased the Grand Hotel at Tanana »
from the Chanquist estate and will
run it himself in the future
Theo. Deiderick, postmaster and
general merchant of Tanana, has
purchased the buildings which now
house the postoffice, also from the
Chanquist estate.
Nenana—The Gateway to McKinley
National Park.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Dr. R. R. Myers wishes to an
nounce to his patrons that he will
leave Nenana on the first boat for
down river points, and will be absent
for some time.
The date of return will be duly
announced later.
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