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Kramy Brown of Nabesnl It a famous guttle and packer and can talk
to--a hOPtse in three languages beside profane so we are told. He has never
seen a horse yet that he was afraid to climb on to,,If a horse looked too
tough Jimmy just took a drink or two and the horse looked as harmless as
a parlor settee. But airoplanes looked like the Devil’s angels to Jimmy
and he couldn’t be induced to go near one. But in at Habesna a few days
ago Jimmy took a little drink of some kind of high grade that worked on
his immagination wonderful and when Gillam landed there with the ZENITH
Jimmy thought it was a horse fly. He came down to the field and climbed
onto the plane and stuck his spurs into the load of sacks of concentrates
that Gillam had on and he shouted to Gillam to turn her loose• Gillam
shut the door, gave her the gun and before Jimmy knew what had happened
he was up in the clouds and a few minutes later he had finished a several
days horse back ride and was at Copper Center, Well that experience had
the same effect on him that it has most everybody who takes a ride,he
font want to travel any other way now and they say he does’nt even like
the smell of horse. He flew back to Nabesna with Gillam by way of Chisana
hich is onljr 100 miles out of the way. On his return and with his mind
wore refreshed and normal like Jimmy looked down on the snow of Cooper’s
dass and the swamps and rivers and bogs and. boulders and nigger heads
,nd mud and brush and rain on the pack trail below him and he said he
felt a lot more comfortable and safe than if he was on the back of a
eayuse,
Business is Good.
We hear a lot about a deppression these days that has hit the
whole country,but the people out at Copper Center donf t seem to have
heard that it is the thing these days to be depressed and things are just
booming out there.John FcCrary is putting up a big new hangar for the
Zenith Plane.The one he built first is for the Little Swallow and is not
big enuf to let the Zenith in,McCrary is one of the leading contenders
in Alaska for the championship in get: there - .r ourcef ulness .As far as we n
can learn he has never been stuck yet, He is 'iing to put up a new hotel
at Copper Center and if he cannot get lumber ,ny other way he will go
into the woods and pack the logs out on his shoulder and he and °'lim
Williams will turn the saw mill by hand if the engine breaks down. A few
days ago McCrary was bringing a load of airorlano in his truck from
Valdez.The load was too high to thru the truss'bridges by just a few
inches; McCJ‘p,ry let the a ir out of 4 big t ires,daiove thru and then had
to puuummmpppppp them up again. lie did this to two bridges.
V' A T E K F E L 0 IT S
'Then we wrre at Copper Center a few days ago we were rather
sprized to see so much wattuh melon on the table at dinnah. We showed
our surprise along with our pleasure and so some one explained that mrs,
BP-rnes had sent mistah v'altah Preston the cook from Norfolk Alabama who
mn.de himself famous with his barbecue last Pourtii, to Valdez for a load
of supplies for the Hoad House and he came hack with a load of Water
melons.
The report has come out from Ne.besna that they have struck nine
feet of £115* ore in the lower tunnel, vhat will you take for your stock
now? The Nabesna Company now intends to operate until cold weather stops
them which will be about the 20th of October.
Ernie Gerkin and James Brown have found a prospect across the
Kabesna Kiver from Carl ^hitham’s place that looks and sounds very good.
There seems to be lots of gold up in that country, IT.?,Nelson has found
a good placer prospect at the head of Jack Creek and is taking un outfit
in there to spend the winter sinking on the ground.
Louis lieCallum has staked seven quartz claims near Chisana and
has a very rich prospect running thru them.
Asa Baldwin,the well known Fining Engineer has recommended the
driving of a 250 foot tunnel on the Earner property in the Bremner River
countryo This will give a depth of aDout 150 feet on the vein.
Moose Johnson’s carpenter went to Gulkana but he left^his work
behind and went on to Copper Center, It is raining today and th^-s is gcoo.
weather for ducks. The season opens on the 1st day of September,1551.