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AND BAKERY
Ike Resort of the Epicure
FRUIT AND FANCY CAKES
FOR THE HOLIDAYS
WM. ROD1GKEIT : Proprietor H
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Phone 84 Front Between C and D
11 Johnson’s Store
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
PRICES REASONABLE LOUIS JOHNSON, Prop.
HYLAND’S CIGAR STORE
CIGARS POOL TOBACCOS
Soft Drinks Candies Fresh Fruit
Warm Comfortable Rooms
Barber Shop in Connection
Mike Hyland, Prop.
A Satisfied Customer
IS OUR BEST ADVERTISEMENT
QUALITY PRICE ' SERVICE
Co With Our
WATCHES CLOCKS JEWELRY
Tells the Time in the Dark
$3 Alarm ClocKs—Small and Large
We Have a Line of Safety Razors, Blades, Sharpeners and
Strops. Best Flashlight at $2- . Refills and Repairs.
Wm. TAYLOR
JEWELER
Be Prepared for Cold Weather I
We Have a Large and Varied Assortment of the Leading Brands o jjj
MEN'S CLOTHING and FURNISHINGS
MACKINAW COATS MACKINAW PANTS
Army and Navy Sweaters SPORT SHIRTS, Heavy Wool
SWEATER COATS WOOL SOCKS, All Weights
UNION SUITS and TWO PIECE GARMENTS
GENUINE DANIEL GREEN FELT SHOES
BALL BAND ARCTICS
WOOL BLANKETS BLANKET SHEETS COMFORTERS
SEE OUR BRUSSELS £F,d WILTON RU6S, ALL SIZES
Bisse.l’s Vacuum Sweepers Electric Vacuum Sweepers
We Carry a Full Line of
MINERS’ and TRAPPERS’ SUPPLIES
and Can Furnish Your Outfit Complete at Special Prices
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL CO.
CENTRAL RESTAURANT
FIRST CLASS QUICK SERVICE
HOME COOKING OUR SPECIALTY
NEXT DOOR TO CASCADE LAUNDRY
KETOOROKY & CO.
(BETTER KNOWN AS RUSSIAN JOHN)
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
ROTTING POLES
! RECALL LABORS
OF EARLY DAYS
| WHITEHORSE, Y. T.—Here and |
there along the basin to the Yukon
river are a few crumbling holes, be-,
lieved to be about the pnly remain-:
ing visible remnants of a great
futile project launched by the West- j
ern Union Telegraph Co., over half
a century ago to connect New York
and London with a telegraph line
across Alaska, the Bering Straits
and Siberia.
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When the project was launched
.in 1863 the first of the Atlantic
j cables had been laid but had not
! proved much of a success. Before
the telegraph enterprise got well
under way, however, another cable
had been laid across the ocean and
had worked satisfactory. So the
telegraph line plan was dropped after,
it has been said, it cost about
$3,000,000 and several lives and
much time had been wasted upon it.
Thousands of miles of the route
selected for the telegraph line lay
through country which at that time
was wholly unexplored. It was plan
ned to build the line north from
San Francisco, across British Colum-1
bia and down the Yukon basin of
; Alaska to a point on the Bering
Straits. Here it was to cross on
buoys or anchored boats and con- i
l nect with a line to be built eastward
;from Petrograd, then St. Petersburg,
, by the Russian government.
! The task got but a ilttle way be
. yond the surveying and experimental
I stage. Climatic conditions were
j studied, experimental lines were.
| built in Alaska and Siberia and sur
j veys were made on both continents.
! It has been said that the trans-Si
| berian railroad, when it was built
j later followed many of the survey
j lines set out by the American tele
! graph corps.
i Members of the surveying parties
j sent North suffered many hardships.
| One of the leaders, Robert Kenni
| cott, head of the scientific corps,
j died at Nulato, Alaska, from ex
j insure ^norner member, George
■ Kennan, who made many surveys
; for the line in Siberia, later became
: "'ell known as a traveler and lec
| turer. William I). Hall, who suc
ceeded Kennicott as head of the
I corps, wrote a book of his finding
\ Lake Lebarge, a widening of the
j 'j ukon river between here and Daw
js°n, was named after Michael Le
I Barge, a member of the expedition.
Although the telegraph survey
; parties did not accomplish what they
| set out to do, they did, by their
. findings, add much to the knowledge
! the outside world then had of Alaska,
j One point they definitely settled was
; that the ^ ukon river, as described by
the trappers of the Hudson Bay com
pany was the same river that the
Russians spoke of as the Kwipak.
Nenr.na, Alaska'* Interior Fuel Depot
SkofHouse
CLEAN WARM ROOMS
Mrs Norman Campbell
j SlielJon-Oiason Stage Line |
Carrying U. S. Mails |
For CHITINA and WAV POINTS <
j1 Every Tuesday b'orning <
{ Special Auto for parties of four
or more any time.
C. Ha-ry Wood wi rd, agent 1
Fairbanks 1
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Wood Sawed
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On Short Notice By 1
JOHNSON ;
Leave Orders at The Portland
WAR TIME ROAD !
10 BE USED 10 i
DEVELOP LANDS
PORT ANGELES, Wash—Wash-1
ington’s “trackless Olympics” as the
towering Olympic mountains in the
far northewestern tip of the United
States are sometimes called, were
penetrated last summer by huge
crews of soldiers and civilians, hast
ily laying a government railroad and
preparaing to get out spruce for
airplanes.
Blasting aside rocks almost moun
tainous in size and cutting their
way into apparently primeval forests
of fir, hemlock and spruce, the crews !
under general charge of Major Mott
Sawwer, U. S. A., hewed a railroad
right of way thirty-six miles long,1
laid rails along twenty-two of the
miles and were almost ready to make
their first shipment of spruce over
the line when the armistice terms
were signed. i
Men and money were thrown into
the work by the government in order
to get to what is said to be one
of the finest bodies of standing
timber on the continent It has been
estimated that in the area blocked
out by army engineers there are
800,000,000 feet of spruce, prob
ably the largest single tract of spruce
anywhere in the world.
Unofficial estimates place the
amount of money spent by the gov- |
ernment on the work at between
four and five million dollars. When
the task was at its height about
0,000 men were employed, most of
them soldiers of the spruce produc
tion division of the Signal Corps. !
Unprecedented progress was made
by the railroad builders. At first
the crews progressed about 6,000 ,
feet a day. Later the crews made j
over two miles a day. Rail laying
gangs followed the pioneers and,
in places, steel was down on the
graded right of way almost before
the timber cutters were out of the'
path. Many difficulties were met. j
On one mile of a river canyon more i
inn An * * ... .
had to be blown out of the way. i
Brigadier General Brice P. Disque,)
whose headquarters arc in Portland,
Ore., and who had charge of the
army s task in the Pacific North-'
west of getting out timber, spent a '
great deal of the time at the big
job near here. A new railroad town
and one of the many towering moun
tains along the line have been named
Disque, after the officer.
T he main line of the road starts1
about two miles west cf Jovce
which is west of here. The road I
runs in a general westerly direction j
of a terminus at Lake Pleasant. The '
line is all standard guage. One'
hundred and fifty miles of logging j
roads were planned to radiate from
the Lake Pleasant terminus. The'
Bisque end is connected with the j
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
railway. i
Now that airplane spruce is no!
longer needed by the armies over
seas, the road may be completed and j
used to open up not only the great
timber tracts but also a rich and ,
extensive agricultural section. The 1
country has possibilities along dairy
ing and farming lines. There are
very few of the rich valleys in the
Olympics being cultivated. Plans
call for the movement of 2,000,000 1
feet of logs a day over the road
when it was running full blast.
No definite announcement has
been made regarding the future of
the road. Possibly some of the big ■
transcontinental roads may take it
over. Late despatches said the gov- ji
ernment probably would complete it.
Within 18 days after the declara- j
tion of war the President had signed
the bill authorizing the first issue!
of Liberty Bonds and providing for ■
loans to the Allies.
NOTICE
See the issue of December 3 for
parCculars, mail your' suggestions,
to the Contest Committee, Nenana
Commercial club, win a prize and
help boost Nenana.
DOG FISH—Sc a pound. Johnson’s
Store.
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Not Better Than the Best,
But Better than the Rest.”
NENANA ..... ALASKA
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NOTICE
Anyone desiring to obtain quar
antine ribbons, or pay lot assess
ments during the absence of the
townsite manager in Fairbanks, may!
do so at the office of the special1
disbursing agent, at the main office I
building of the Alaskan Engineering
commission.
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