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_FEBRUARY 31,1935. CHIT ISA. ALASKA.. __ __
LI ORE FIRE Worse luck. .
Rasmaus Urdahl while •
listening to Hanes Ha-■
ney’s radio,had a vt- '
ry queer feeling.He
jumped up and. ran home
only to find, the floor
and roof were on fire.
He grabbed up a coup
le of pails of water
..and proceeded to put
it out .And did so.But
eirery thing.in his ca
bin was ruined. We
sure do sympathize
Fith him.
JfcliriTJ m.
{cent.}
Winchell doesnot take
the risk of flying in
| had weather,hut lands
his passengers & mail.
AH AVAIAHCKB OV SHOW
came down at Kennecoi
Copper Camp carrying
out part of the elect
ric power-line puttin'
part of the camp in
-y» If rj Q C3
AVA1AHCHE CF COPPER t
A slide cf ore at t]pe
mine carriwd down one
ALL SANT AND SOUND. |j
Oscar ^inchell start
ed out from Cordova -v
with,the' mail and one
?OK<KBW' IS THE BIRTHDAY OF CHE
CF THE GREATEST ESN (F HIS TO- 1
RY AND OUR FIRST IRE SI HEFT. j
'GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON
I of the workers ana
■Juried him until oth
ers could dig him out
only to find him dead
Mickey Norton is the
passenger in Gillam’s _
■Swallow Plane.He got tc Teikel(Fi.lol)
where the snow was so thick he could
hot see.So he started back for Cordo
va but it got too thick even then .He
then landed on the river.Pilot Win
. che11 & his passenger Harold Boeger
were very lucky to be so near as vdth
in only 3 miles of p, trackwalker’s
cabin.The Fts. being solid rock,pco
• pic like to follow the river courses
• because then it is easier tc build B.
ft’s,.and easier for planes to land on
sandbars or river ice.Having only one
pr of snow-shoes 1 in the plane,Boeger
nut them on 5: mush.ee to the track
walker’s' cabin,he having been in the ,
country aground 10 yrs,& being the mo
st experienced on snowshoes, could mart
kc hetter timc-j Winchell tried to
follow but could go vcr> Sj.owiy xoi
at File 101 the snow was 8 ft deep on
the level.The trackwalker hoofed it
down to Winchell with an extra pairof
snowshoes at Boeger’s request. They
stayed all night at the cabin & tele
phoned to Chitina that they'had landed
ed‘without hurting the mail,plane or‘
passenger,only bending the propellor.
Next morning they v;ent back to the
airplane to take the propellor up to
the Tiekel blacksmith shop where they
straitened it.Winc#ell again phoned
saying,*I make the mistakes & the lord
corrects them"for when he landed he
could not tell a snowbank from a cloud
or falling snow,in the haziness,and
lit nose down in a deep snowdrift.
After the night-wind when they reach
ed the plane,they found her turned up'
again on her sXiis,But with them
So they waited'for new sfeiis to be j
made at Kennecott,& tools to be brot
down to replace them.Wile waiting an
other mean wind blew up,and turned it
over again & broke two bottom v/ings#
Y/hich is called an act of God but is
net correct this time^All the pec)P^e
should be glAd to kn<** that Pilot
unfortunate victim,
! DUG OUT. _
|V7hcn Gill&m flew with the mail 1;
McCarthy the other day,the snow
was deeper than usual.But he ha ;
to land in it as there was net
other place,He also had to be sh >■
veiled out, ___
PILOTS GILLAM & WIHCIOLL wculdn'
have started on the trip when it
was .poor visibility in the Inter
or,but the telephone lines were
down owing to the unusual heavy %
unusually wet snow.So they could
not get their weather reports.
D0GTEA1£S __
-Dogtearns are coming back in favor
for. a few days at least,also good
old Shank’s mare,meaning Joe Goq-V
!a+‘w’s * Toe pita’s shank
The two natives mentioned hooked
up their 5 glogs to a sled 8c starl
ed-30 miles for Teikel with ski5;
& tools for Winchell’s plane.Gcii
was fuff 8c the dogs were not so
tuff.At Mile 114 Joes said *Enuf '
So they camped all night.Hext A.i
one Joe ahead breaking trail with
snowshoes,the other Joe mushing 2
dogs who sank in loose snow up t
their bodies every step.Soon the
dogs were completely played out/:
the 2 men packedthe tools on the
airplane skiis & mushed on to Tei
kel leaving the dogs behind.How
the 2 Joes are building a sled to
pack the sacks-of mail on to hrin/
to town Monday,if the wind stops
blowing down there.lt is 30 below
Goodlatw & sscaldita ought to be
appreciated for making such a har
trip to get up the mail.
GILLAM is downrat Cordova now wit
the big Zenith airplane to get th
mail off the next boat & bring up
Lookout for the woodpile,folks.