HUGE WATERFALL
RIGHTS STAKED
AT NUKA BAY
SUFFICIENT WATERPOWER DAILY
IS GOING TO WASTE TO
OPERATE MANY MILLS
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Bob Hatcher, who with his partner,
Mr. T. McDougal, is interested in
fine-looking quartz ground in the
* Nuka Bay district, 70 miles from
Seward, staked during the past sum
mer, one of the largest falls of wa
ter known to be in this part of the
territory.
A tremendously large size glacier,
extending for miles at a high altitude
is constantly feeding this fall of wa
ter.
The torrent of probably ten feet
in width, at the top, jumps off into
sheer space to the first shelf 1000
feet below where a deep pool has
been wrorn into the solid rock. From
this shelf the stream falls for many
hundreds of feet again, thence emp
tying into the bay. There is ample
power going to waste daily, it
is stated, to keep hundreds of mills
operating.
George E. Buchanan, well known
philanthropist and globe-trotter of
Detroit, Mich., -was a visitor in Sew
ard last summer. Mr. Buchanan was
so well pleased with his trip that he
will bring a party of boys back to
this region next year.
There are 40 moving picture thea
ters in Alaska.
G.W. Palmer
General Merchandise
Kenai, Alaska
Licensed Fur Buyer
Hardware
Groceries
A GENERAL STOCK OF SUPPLIES
OF ALL KINDS
CHUGACH ROADS
GET FUNDS FOR
SEASONS, 25 - 26
LARGE AMOUNT BECAME AVAIL-j
ABLE LAST JULY, SEWARD,
HOPE AND GIRDWOOD.
The sum of $203,000 has been al
lotted by the national forest service
for extension and completion of road
projects in the Chugach national for
est during the fiscal year 1925-26.
The total allotment for the two na
tional forests of Alaska is $353,000,
of which amount the Tongass for
est will get $150,000.
The sum of $135,000 has been des
ignated for use in extending the
Moose Pass road, of which 20 miles
already has been constructed. This
is also known as the Hope and Sun
rise project and is helping material- ;
ly to develop that promising mineral
district.
Last summer 120 Fords were sold
in the Territory, but this year, ac
cording to F. W. Donoghue, assist
ant general manager of the Seattle
branch of the Ford Motor company,
who was a Sew’ard visitor some
months ago, the number sold exceed
ed the previous year by far.
Nellie Lowing “An Alaskan Joan of Arc ”
Is Caption of Magazine Story Featured
By G. M. Kilbourn, Well Known Writer
An illustrated story appearing in the October isame of Sportlife,
entitled “An Alaskan Joan of Arc,” by G. M. Kilbourn, introduces
Mrs. Nellie Lawing to readers of that magazine and describes some
of the trophies adorning the Lawing establishment at Lawing, one
of the roadhouses she once operated at “Dead Horse” and one of
“Nellie and two of her playmates”—(a couple of cub bears). The
article was picked up by the Gateway and as we can’t add much
to the writer’s views on his recent trip this summer, we are re
printing the article as she looked to Mr. Kilbourn:
Could Joan of Arc make good bis
cuit?
Nobody knows. History failed to
state whether, in filling the place of
man, the national heroine of France
lost any of the crowning attributed of
woman. But no such doubt will exist
regarding a more modern Joan of
Arc, who happens to be the heroine of
the Yukon and the frozen North. The
multitudes who can testify as to her
prowess as a miner, a hunter, a lum-;
ber “man,” or a pack train driver, i
are exceeded only by the immense
and everincreasing number whose
highest dreams of Heaven are of some
blissful spot where Nellie’s meals are
always being served!
Anyone in Alaska who does HCt
know Nellie is a rank outsider, a
chechaco — tenderfoot! Twenty-five :
years ago, when men’s lives were !
cheap and dog sleds priceless, she |
arrived in the Dawson country as a !
part of the gold rush. And in the ,
ord. The trophy is shown in the
above picture.
was killed by Buffalo Bill.
In addition to logging and hauling
bridge decking in the early days, the
woman whom all Alaska knows by
her first name once commanded the
pack train of a gold mine in which
she was a stockholder. She later
ran a hotel for transients twenty-six
miles from a town or railroad and did
her own hauling of all camp supplies
both winter and summer. On one
such trip, with her horses, dog and
a pet bear, she was caught in a bliz
zard and had to dig deep under the
snow to keep from freezing in a storm
of several hours. Horses, dogs, bear
and woman burrowed there together,
her shovel punching air holes from
time to time. Keeping herself dry
with a rabbit robe and canvasses,
she was able to dig a way out as
soon as the storm was over. The
animals were none the worse for the
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PIONEER CLU
| W here the Oldtimers and Youngtimers Meet.
Soft drinks and Cigars
Candies and Fruits
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Standard Brands of
Tobaccos
Popular Makes of Cigarretes
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intervening years, she has always fill
: ed the place of a man—the place of a
; real “he-man”—along the outposts of
j a great frontier.
Address a letter simple to “Nellie,
| Alaska.” If it gets past Seattle, there
' isn’t a chance but that it will safely
i reach Mrs. Nellie Lawing, Roosevelt,
| Alaska, 23 miles up the Alaska Rail
• road from Seward on Kenai lake.
The walls of this modern Joan’s
unpretentious but comfortable log
1 cabin are lined with the heads of
bears, both black and brown and
white and grizzly—wolves—mountain
lions—-'deers—-seals—lynxes —leopards
{and many other animals, most of
j them having been killed with her
i own rifle!
The original Joan of Arc, whose
fame rests largely on the not uncom
mon womanly habit of subduing mere
men, would probably feel outclassed
in the presence of one who beards
the beasts of the forest in their na
tive lair.
Nellie’s greatest trophy is the
head of a huge brown bear. On her
way to the barn one day to feed a
pet cub, she heard a menacing growl.
Turning quickly, she sawr her pet
had been killed by the brown bear,
which instantly made a lunge for
her. Dodging the blow, she ran for
the barn, barely reaching it. Just
as she was closing the door, a long
swipe from the beast’s claws raked
her hand open, breaking bones in
two fingers. Although forced to wait
an hour, she was finally able to slip
into the house for her gun.
Ignoring the pain in her hand, and
filled with rage and sorrow at losing
her pet, she took up the trail of the
monster—and bagged a hide that
measures nine and a half feet! She
shows it to all comers, with a light
of righteous vengeance in her eye.
Another of her treasures is a moose
head valued at $5,000. It has 54
points, which she believes is a world’s
record. And it boasts a spread of
56 inches, which is said to be within
two and one-half inches of the rec
experience, either.
Running a frontier hotel during the
construction of the Alaska Railroad,
for five years she was never late
with a meal for a single train crew;
and she proved equal to the task
of serving large numbers of unexpect
ed guests at any hour, day or night.
During this period she had to feed
| many dog teams as well as men and
, often had to go hunting for dog
feed. One day she put some porcu
pine meat on the stove to cook for
| the dogs and went out to shoot some
I more. When she returned, after sev
eral hours, the kettle was almost
empty; but supposing it had sim
ply boiled dry, she put on more
meat to cook, and thought no more
of it. The next day, however, a
bunch of prospectors trooped in and
asked how much they owed her for
the fine mulligan eaten in her ab
sence the day before, declaring they
had been almost starved and that it
was the finest mulligan stew they
had ever tasted.
Making porcupine meat delicious,
however, is one of Nellie’s easiest
miracles. Why, in a region where
tomatoes cost fifty cents a pound
and bananas only three dollars a doz
en and where scrambled eggs retail
for twenty-five to fifty cents each,
Nellie lets you eat to your heart’s
content—and charges fifty cents for
the meal!
Yukon River Is Second
Largest United States
The second largest river in the
territory of the United States is the
Yukon, the source of which is in Can
ada and fairly splits Alaska in twain.
It is 2,300 miles in length.
The largest, or rather longest riv
er waterway in the world, is the
Mississippi-Missouri river system. The
length of the Misissippi from its ex
treme source to its mouth is 2,486
miles, while that of the Missouri is
2,945 miles.