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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 8, 1879.
Hub of Alaska —_Where Rails and Rivers Meet
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Company, at First and B Streets. Nenana. Alaska
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WEEKS' ALASKA VISIT
While visits of Federal officials
do not occasion much interest in
Alaska, the trip nert summer of
Secretary of War John W. Weeks
and members of the Appropriation
Subcommittees on Military' affairs of
both House and Senate will command
wide attention in the Northland be
lieves the Seattle Times. The visi
tors will inspect just one military
reservation. Fort William H. Seward
near Haines, as that is the only
place where there now is an Army
post, but they will be importuned
to gro to all parts of the Territory
to learn the need for transportation
facilities—roads, trails, railways and
steamboats.
The Secretary and the lawmakers
who will compose his party have
jurisdiction over matters that re
quire the largest share of the Con
gressional funds allotted to Alaska.
On the opinion of the visitors will
depend the extent of Alaska's de
velopment. By withholding money
required for extension and main
tenance of means of transportation,'
the officials would retard the Ter
i
itory’s progress. Aside from fisher
ies. Alaska's greatest wealth is in
the Interior. And most of it is se
cure frcm disturbance because of the
excessive cost of transportation.
To make the treasures of the
North accessible the government ha;
constructed many roads and trails
built a railway that when supplied
with feeders will serve an area of
more than 40,000 square miles and
has arranged for ts'rte operation of
steamboats on the Tanana and Low
er Yukon Rivers. The investment is
heavy. Yet it is not commensurate
with the vast riche.-, that Alaska ’na=
yielded the nation.
Plans of the Federal Road Com
mission. which is under the War De
partment and which has control of
all transportation facilities, call for
$1,000,000 annually for ten years.
The sum is little enough. It would
care for maintenance of present
roads and trails, and, with new j
construction, would insure a com
phehensive system at the end of the
decade period_ In addition to the
road and trail funds, indefinite but
comparatively small amounts will
be necessary- in the next two or
three years to cover deficits of the
government railway, but these losses
it'is expected will be overcome on
completion of feeder roads and trails
and a few short branches.
Virtually all the thirty-seven Fed
eral boards and bureaus that admin
ister usually in wretched fashion, the
affairs of Alaska send representatives
or committees at government ex
pense to the Northland every sum
mer. The visitors file reports of
their observations, but except in rare
instances the only benefit of such
journeys is the pleasure afforded the
travelers, and. indeed, in nearly ev
ery case that is all that ever is in
tended.
The Weeks party promises to be
an exception to the rule. In any
event for the immediate future it
will determine Alaska’s welfare.
THE STROLLER AND DAN
The press dispatches carry the in
formarion from Washington that as
a result of the recent verbal fire
works of Delegate Sutherland an in
vestigation of the fishing industry
of Alaska is in order by the next ses
sion of Congress. Great is the states-'
manship of Friend Dan writes the
Stroller, in his interesting weekly.
Hail to the achievements "of the Alas
kan Delegate! Failing the accom
plishment of anything else for the ■
Territory he can stir up another in- :
resrigation. If there is one thing
that Alaska can always count on
! from Congress it is investigations.
; Pursuit of them has been the favor
! ite indoor sport of the overworked
jsolons at Washington for lo. the
past dozen years. It has been refined
down to the proportions of a fine
art. So well and often have they
been practiced that they are now ac
complished with neatness and dis
patch—chiefly dispatch—and the
scores put down against the account
of the Territory! Mr. Sutherland has
done well! If once more drawing up
on us the eye of the nation in scan
dalized review he has pat us in the
way of another exhibition of Con
gressional junketing which will at
least be entertaining to the bleach
ers. Let the good work go on! Con
gress must be given diversion from
the ennui of listening to muck-rak
ers and windy politicians. In Mr.
Sutherland's thoughtful activiteis in
this direction he deserves the encon
iums of Ms colleagues and the plaud
its of the proletariat.
COL, STEESE TELLS OF WORK
FOR ALASKA AT WASHINGTON
After spending- more than two
months in Washington, appearing
before verious departments and Con
gressional committees in the inter
est of Alaska legislation. Col. James
G. Steese., President of the Alaska
Road Commission and by recent ap
pointment chairman of the Alaska
Engineering Commission, returned
to his headquarters at Juneau on
a recent boat. In the matter of ap
propriations. he said in an inter
view in the Juneau Empire, Con
gress had dealt liberally with the
Territory, all things considered.
Among the items in connection
with which Colonel Steese appeared
before Senate and House Committees
were. Rivers & Harbors, Roads and
Alaska Cable and the Alaska Rail*
roa4.
List of Allowances
Everything asked for by the
Board of Engineers for Rivers and
Harbors was allowed. I deluded in
this was provision for the Wrangell
break-water. $ 50,000; completions
of the Nome Harbor project, SI5.1
000; for survey and design of the
Juneau government dock. $600: ad
ditional funds for investigation of
the Gastineau Channel, Hawk Inlet
and Oliver’s Inlet, dredging and
canal projects, $6,000; for fish trap
administration and other work by
the District Board, $7,500.
The most gratifying item, howev
er said Col. Steese. and one that
was increased only with greatest
difficulty, was that for the construc
tion of roads and trails in Alaska,
for which $650,000 was appropriat
ed. This is an increase of 40 per
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cent over the amount originally re
commended by the Budget and in
cluded in the House measure. There
was strong opposition in the House
to the increase to $1,000,000 which
the Senate allowed and it was only
overcome after personal contact
had been established by Colonel
Steese through the assistance of Re
presentative C. F. Curry, of Califor
nia, with Chairman Madden of the
House appropriation committee. The
aid was given by Mr. Curry, who
is chairman of the committee on
Territories, was invaluable, said
Colonel Steese. Other items allowed
included an appropriation of $750,
000 for the nest fiscal year for the
Alaska cable and authorization for
incurring obligations for an addi
tional $750,000 on the same pro
ject; approximately $2,000,000 for
the Alaska Railroad, covering 51,
000,000 for operations and a like a
mourt for construction.
No Plans Settled
Plans for the consolidation of the
activities of the Alaska Road Com
mission and the Alaska Engineering
Commission will not be consumated
until after a conference between
Colonel Steese, Colonel Means and
Colonel Gotwais, which will he held
in Anchorage this month. Colonel
Mears has been ill in Seattle and
when he comes North he will be
joined at Juneau by Colonel Steese
Colonel Gotwais meeting them at
Cordova and accompanying them to
Anchorage, Colonel Gotwais has
been appointed as vice-chairman of
the Alaskan Engineering Commis
sion, the first time a second member
has served on that body since 191 ■">
The Road Commission and the
railroad organization, said Colonel
Steese, will be maintained as separ
ate entities, the former remaining
as in the past under the War De
partment, and the latter continuing
under the Department of the Inter
ior, where jt has been since the in
ception of the railroad project. The
consolidated arrangement, said Co!#
Stee-e will be continued until some
permanent form of organization for
operation is settled upon by Con
gress. This matter was not touched
by Congress last session.
.Maintain Juneau Office*
While no arrangements for the
future were discussed by Colonel
Steese he said that the Juneau
offices of the Alaska Read Com
mission would be continued in Jun
eau and that he would spend as
much time in Juneau in the future
as had been done in the past.
The Road Commission's work this
season while not definitely outlined,
will be sonsiderably enlarged. The
Federal appropriation. combined
with the Alaska Fund and co-opera
tive funds provided by the Terri
tory. if this arrangement is contin
ued. will make available approxi
mately $900,000 for maintenance
and construction of roads and trails
by the Commission.
Deputy Marshal Jame- Hagan
went co Fairbanks yesterday on offi
cial business.
Gus Conradt. was a round trip
passenger from Fairbanks yester
day.
WANT ADS
FOR SALE—Three burner oil
• stove with oven—like new; small
Victrola; hand sewing machine; ice
’box; 2 coon coats and a few other
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odd pieces. Leaving March 23. Ap
ply Mrs. J. R. Bowen.
FOR SALE—Basket sleig. Inquire
• Charles E. Bergman.
FOR SALE—Complete outfit of
safe deposit boxes. Mrs. E. A. Wil
! liams. postmaster, Xer.kna, Alaska.
, ""healy^LAUNDRY FOR SALE.
! Complete outfit. Inquire J. M. Smith
“EVERYBODY can buy groceries,
| feed and supplies WHOLESALE,
j Write for free pricelist- Peoples
j Grocery, 701 Olive St. Seattle.”
PEOPLES GROCERY COMPA.\*Y
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ANCHORAGE
LIME, PLASTER, CEMENT, FIRE BRICK, FIRE CLAY
Explosives and Blasting Supplies
COAL OIL GASOLINE LUBRICATING OILS GREASES
MAY and GRAIN
Miss Thelma Blaker, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Julian Blaker of Fair
banks, was among yesterday's arri
vals from the States. She was sum
moned home from school on account
of the illness of her father.
Sam Sanders >n is a guest at the
, Cooney hotel :: m the Kantishna
district.
Em - Sweazy returned to Nenana
from the States where he spent most
of the winter.
COMMITTTEEMEN ARE NAMED
TO CONDUCT ANNUAL POOL
A committee consisting of Wil
liam Thomas, of the Railroad C;ga$
Store, W. B. Reaburn. of the Alaska
Railroad, and E. J. Cronin, of the
Northern Commercial Company,
have full charge of the big annual
sporting event, assisted by Superin
tendent of Public Utilities H. C
Henshaw and Charles A. Sheldon,
of the T & T department of the
railroad.
This committee will place all of
the tickets, make all the rules gov
erning the contest and have charge
. of the money until such time as it
is turned over to the winner of the
pool. The rules governing the con
test will practically be the same as
last year.
Five thousand tickets have ben
printed and nearly all of them have
been placed by the committee. It is
expected the demand will be such it
will be necessary to print several
thousand additional tickets before
the closing date, April, 20.
O. E. Combs and H. S. Little ar
rived from the States yesterday en
route to Seward peninsula to take
charge of the two nine-foot Ham
mon dredges which are being in
. stalled on Little creek and which
will be ready for operation by the
first of July. The dredgemen went
to Fairbanks yesterday and, upon
their return to Nenana within the
next few days, will take the trail
with the Senator Brown dog team
which they recently purchased from
Tom Jones.
Misses Nellie and Viola Strope
were among yesterday’s arrivals
from the States, having made the
trip from Seattle to make their fu
ture home in Nenana. They are the
daughters of Mrs. Josephine Reece.
m
Martin Josephson, well known
oldtimer of the Koyukuk who was
severly burned in a cabin fire in
the Arctic camp winter before last
and who went Outside for treatment,
returned yesterday fully recovered
from the terrible ordeal through
■ which he passed and showing few
marks of the facial burns He is
enroute back to the Koyukuk.
yiss N'ellie Cashman, sourdough
musher and mining woman of the
North, arrived yesterday from the
States where she was engaged in an
effort to promote a mining propo
sition in the Koyukuk. She went on
i through to Fairbanks.
Six horses ' will arrive from the
south tonight—two for C. B. Frank
and four for the X. C- Company.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior
L. S. Land Office at Fairbanks
Alaska. February, 5. 1923.
Notice is hereby given that James
Sizeland, of N'enana. Alaska, who,
on October 6, 1922, made Original
Homestead Application, No. 01090,
for Lots No. 1 and No, 4 and No. ii
and E ^2 XEU—Section 10 and
Lot N'o. 8 SE'*, SE l* and N'Vi SE1.
i Section 3 Township 4 South, Range
i 7 West, Fairbanks Meridian, ha->
' filed notice of intention to make
five year Proof, to establish claim
to the land above described, before
P.ob’t W. Taylor, Ex-officio Register,
at Fairbanks, Alaska, on the 14th
day of April, 1923,
Claimant names as witnesses:
George C. Moody. Fairbanks Alas.
George Black, Fairbanks Alaska.
Louis Johnson, N'enana, Alaska.
Adolph Nelson, N'enana, Alaska
ROB'T W. TAYLOR
Ex-officio Register.
First publication February 10, 1923.
LOCAL TRAIN SCHEDULE
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
Trains leave and arrive N'enana a*
follows:
8:00 p. m., Tuesday and Friday for
Seward and intermediate points.
Returning arrives N'enana 6:45 a
m., same days.
j 1:30 p. m., Tuesday and Friday for
Dunbar, Fairbanks and Chatanika
Arrives Nenana 12:30 p. m.. Tues
day and Friday.
Pullman sleeper charges: Lower
berth, $4.50; upper berth, $3.50
Tickets entitle holders to privi
‘ leges Observation car.
Trappers Traders
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