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Fresh Apples
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And other FRESH things at
TANANA COMMERCIAL CO.
TO ESTABLISH
A NEW POST
Lavelle Young to Take Goods for
N. C. to Upper Kuskokwim.
The Northern Commercial Company
has definitely decided to establfsh a post
on the upper Kuskokwim river. It has
been rumored among prospectors and
others for several months past that the
company would take this step, but it is
only within the last week that it was
given out with authorfty that such will
certainly be the case.
The post will be near the mouth of
the Taketna, a right-limit tributary of
the East Fork. The Takotna is some
what over 600 miles from the mouth of
the Kuskokwim, and is a trifle west of
south a distance of about 180 miles from
Tanana.
The steamer Lavelle Young will leave
St. Michael with supplies for the new
post about June 25. She will carry a
barge which will be used as a storehouse
until suitable buildings can be provided.
The steamer will ply between Bethel
and Takotna the balance of the season,
and it is expected she will winter at the
latter nlace.
Prospectors From That Country.
Bert Lucas and Newt Helenias arrived
on the Tanana last Monday night, from
the upper Kuskokwim country, having
boarded the steamer at Nowikaket, to
which point they bad made their way in
small boat.
These men left Tanana last March
and freighted with nine dogs about a ton
of supplies to the headwaters of the
Tatena, at a point only 10 or 12 miles
from comparatively deep water on the
Kuskokwim side of the divide. They
had intended to remain in the coun
try throughout the summer and come
out over the snow, but the outlook ap
peared so favorable to Mr. Lucas that
he decided to build a small boat and de
scend the Tatena to the Nowi, and
thence to the Yukon, to determine what
facilities that route affords for boating
supplies into the region he has selected
for a long period of prospecting. As far
as the purpose for which it was made is
concerned, the return trip was wholly
unsatisfactory.
The course of the Tatena is long and
tortuous. For miles it is sluggish and
easy boating except for many series of
shoals which sometimes extend for long
distances which make it necessary to
haul even a light unloaded boat out and
drag it over the moss. On account of
the impossibility of this route for freight
ing in supplies, Mr. Lucas will return
by the mouth of the Kuskokwim, thus
covering a distance of considerably more
than a thousand miles in order to reach
a point approximately 175 miles from
Tanana by the cross-country route taken
in winter by hunters, trappers and pros
pectors.
Had Mr. Lucas knowTn the Northern
Commercial Company had decided to
establish a trading post in the upper
Kuskokwim he would have been saved
the hard work and much time consumed
in the trip out and back into the coun
try again. He says he confidently ex
pects to see several placer camps opened
up in the region within the next year or
twTo. On some of the streams flowing
northward from Mount McKinley good
prospects have been found, and to Mr.
Lucas the whole vast country seems to
present unusually favorable indications
of being rich in gold.
Col. Sawyer, the census taker, has
computed the population of our city to
reach the comprehensive total of 2,675
souls. If notice is taken of prospectors
who have been absent from the burg
during the months when the census was
taken the total will be found to be some
what over 2,750. So it seems there were
some left in the city after all the boats
left last fall, and in all probability, there
will be a goodly few of old reliables stay
ing with it next winter when the frost
king again assumes control of the ele
ments.—Nome Industrial Worker.
Personal Mention
Billy Porter is purser on the Teddy H.
Mrs. McMorry, the Tanana dressmaker,
took the White Seal for the Iditurod.
H. L. (“Slim”) Hedrick joined the White
Seal at Tanana last Saturday as engineer.
Mrs. Patterson accompanied Captain Pat
terson of the White Seal on the down trip.
Mrs. Burns, of the laundry, has been seri
onsly sick for several duys, but is slightly
improved today.
W’alter Sundborg has accepted a position
in the N. C. store at Rampart and Mrs. Suud
borg conducts the mess.
Dr. Emil Pohl, Romeo Hoyt, Judge Erwin
and John L. Sale, all of Fairbanks, returned
from the Iditarod on the Tanana.
United States Marshal Love is on the Susie,
due from Dawson this evening, returning
from the outside to his post at Fairbanks.
Mfs. James Frederickson left Friday eve
ning on the Teddy H. to join her husband,
who went to the Iditarod on the last of the
snow.
L. W. Lingwall and Thomas Ellingson, car
penters of Hot Springs, were among the
passengers on the White Seal for the Idita
rod last Saturday.
Jack Ronan, Mark Sullivan, Charles Suter
and Jack Barrett are prominent Fairbanks
men who ware on the steamer Minneapolis
bound for the Iditurod.
Micky Berry, formerly of Grant creek, in
company with Charles Swanson passed down
from Fairbanks in a small boat en route to
the Iditarod last Saturday.
Dave Lewis, who came up on the steamer
Tana, w'hich arrived at noon Tuesday, left
for his post midway between Melozi and
Louden in a small boat this morning.
Nels Johnson, Bob Andrews. Jim Gibson
and Anderson (whose partner was frozen on
Dali river and died last winter) left in a
small boat for the Iditarod last Friday.
The thjee Harper brothers, Sam, Charley
and Fred, and Billy Sipary arrived at Tan
ana last Sunday with a large wood raft,
brought from above Fort Hamlin on the
Yukon.
Montezuma L. Downing, well knowu at
Tanana, Hot Springs and neighboring pluces,
is said to have valuable ground in the Idita
rod. He left Tanana a year ago intending to
go to the Kuskokwim side.
General Transportation Agent A. F. Zipf
of the Northern Navigation Company came
from the Iditarod on the Tanana and left
for his headquarters at St. Michael on the
Robert Kerr last Tuesday.
M. A. Pinska, the well-known merchant,
and Jack Reagh, of the Dominion Commer
cial Company, returned from the Iditarod
to Fairbanks on the Tana. It is said they
have decided not to go into business in the
new district yet awhile.
A1 Goslaw, who was on the Julia B. on her
late passage down the river from Fairbanks,
was not bound for Iditarod. He expected to
get off at Nowikaket and go up the Nowi
river about seventy miles. He will be back
this way in a few weeks.
Harry Burruss, formerly in the freighting
business at Rampart and Hot Springs, is now
at Prince Rupert, B. C. He has written to
friends here that he is very prosperous in
the new terminal city and looks on the town
and the country back of it as having a bright
future.
General Manager W. H. Fairbanks, Assist
ant Auditor Howard Turner, Attorney Tom
McGowan and Manager at Fairbanks Yolney
Richmond, of the Northern Commercial
Company, arrived from the Iditarod on the
steamer Tanana last Monday night and are
here attending to routine duties pending an
early departure for Fairbanks.
Edgar Crompton, for years conducting a
trading post at Mouse Point, who went out
side last fall and secured property at Prince
Rupert, B. C., the terminal city of the Grand
Trunk Pacific road, passed down on the first
trip of the St. Michael and went to the Idit
arod. Very few of his Tanana acquaint
ances knew he was aboard, and it cannot be
said whether he expects te remain inside or
not.
It is announced in the Fairbanks News
Miner that a successor to Rev.C. E. Betticher
has been appointed for the Episcopal mis
sion in that city. Bishop Rowe and Arch
deacon Stuck will come from the outside on
an early steamer and at Eagle will board the
launch Pelican for a trip to Tanana and
Fairbanks. Mr. Betticher will join them on
the launch for a time, but it was not said
where he will ultimately go.
Mike Dunworth and two companions ar
rived from up the Yukon in a small boat and
departed for the Iditarod last Friday. Mike
has prospected from the British Columbia
line to Nome and from the Coast range to
the Arctic divide. Fortune has tapped at his
door twice and found him at home each
time, but failed to cross the threshold. He
is now casting blandishments at the coy god
dess again, sure that if he can gain her no
tice once more he will win her for his own.
H. C. Wallick and Jack Desmond, who
went to the Iditarod recently in a small
boat, stopped over a few days at Grant
creek. Mr. Wallick has been in the Gold
Mountain district before and is known to be
very favorably impressed by the prospects
there. If he does not like the Iditarod he
will probably return to the Gold Mountain
country. He has sold out his holdings on
Tofty gulch, Hot Springs district, to his
former partner Joe Eglar.
The Leader on sale at Postoffice Lobby.
‘p'OR SALE—Two cabins centrally located
on Second st., partly furnished. Bargain
if taken quick. H. A. STOCKMAN.
Steamer Movements.
ARRIVALS
Minneapolis 7 p.m., 9th, from Fair
banks.
White Seal 3:40 p.m., 11th, from Fair
banks.
Robert Kerr, 9 p.m., 12th, from
Chena.
Tanana, 12:05 a.m., 14th, from Idit
arod.
Tana, noon 14th, from Iditarod,
Samson, 1 a.m., today, from Fair
banks.
Jacobs, 2 a.m. today, from Dawson.
DEPARTURES
Teddy H., 8:05 p.m., 10th, to Iditarod.
Minneapolis, 2:45 p.m., 11th, to Idit
arod.
White Seal, 9:50 p.m., 11th, to Idit
arod.
Robert Kerr, 7:20 a.m., 14th, to St.
Michael.
Tana, 2:50 p.m., 14th, to Fairbanks.
today’s BULLETIN"
Kerr down Kaltag 9:30 a.m , 15th.
Xo. 3 down Tolovana 6 a.m., today.
Tana up Minto 11:30 p.m., 15th.
Reliance down Eagle 10 p.m., 15th.
Susie down Circle 5:30 p.m., 15th.
Koyukuk, Little Snug and Caribou at
Fairbanks.
Jacobs up Tanana 11 a.m., today.
Light, Klondike, Sarah, Campbell,
Isom, Barr, Louise, Herman, Healy,
Weare, Monarch, Julia B., Evelyn and
Jeff Davis at St. Michael.
Men coining down the Yukon in small
boats the past few days say there is a
local stampede on to the Seventymile
country. Particulars could not be
gained, but it is said the new find was
much talked of on the upper river. The
Seventymile is quite a river, enters the
Yukon on the left limit twenty miles
below Eagle, and has been a producer
in a small way for many years. It
gained international fame a few years
ago when an English company lost a
very large sum of money to promoters of
a hydraulic venture on the river.
The horse belonging to Joe Shaw and
Bob Buchan, who started for the Old
Man and Kovukuk river regions last
Thursday, came back to town Saturday.
Mr. Shaw returned and with the ani
mal made a new start. Mr. Buchan’s
dog Bob, who was bearing a minor part
of the burden, also returned, but seems
to think Tanana is good enough for him,
and was not in the second start for the
northern regions of promise.
Proposals for Logs.
Quartermaster M. H. Thomlinson will
open proposals June 25 for furnishing
sawlogs to the Fort Gibbon military
post as follows:
Forty-eight thousand feet over 12 feet long
and not less than 11 inches in diameter at
the small end. Also:
5 logs 26 feet long 17 inches at the small end
5 logs 26 feet long 12 inches at the small end
33 logs 24 feet long 12 inches at the small end
33 logs 22 feet long 12 inches at the small end
36 logs 20 feet long 12 inches at the small end
100 logs 14 feet long 12 inches at the small end
The date for opening the proposals
was postponed from June 18.
Go toNussbaum’s Barbershop for first
class work._
Unclaimed Letters.
Tanana, Alaska, June 1, 1910.
Beloat, Walter G.
Brown, Geo.
Bauchand, Fabuir
Davidson, N. G.
Ellinghouse, Mr.
Flanigan, Jno. J.
Foster, Frank
Fitzpatrick, Mr.
Johnson, Rasmus
Johnson, Walter
Kahler, Reuben
Kelly, J. F.
Love, Walter
McGuire, Dan.
McKenne, Geo.
Nakamura, M. (Japa
nese)
Post, Thos. Albert
Phillips, Geo.
Ronander, Otto
Remington, 0.
Schaffer, J. G.
Samson, Amos W.
Snipes, Will F.
When calling for any of the above please
mention “advertised list.”
G. H. TIFFANY, Postmaster.