Joe Crosson lit on the lower L.
in a big Red winged F.A.A. Fair
child Monoplane. V/ith Paul Gord
on, anf Dr. Troast as passengers.
He circled around the fild uptown
but finally landed in the lower
lake. The snow was about 2 feet
deep on the lake &‘he plowed it
up like Aa sn®wpl®w. Messrs,Gordon
& TrOast were on a tour inspec
tion, they are the heads'of #he
Bureau of Indian Affairs, They were
here earlier in the'year with Mr,
Clayton Scot.t, &' Mr .Douglass in
Scotts amphibian. They had come
frsm Cordova, & after having stay
ed a few hours, left for Copper
Center.
Mr.Carl VThitarn, of the Habesnamin
ing Co . is living here in Chitina
& probaly will stay, until * the
Cats come for the machinery. He
will superintend the. hauling o f
the machinery that came up on.the
Habesna Special last Mov, There
is about 10 tons of it here in
Chitina & the cat which has been
hauling supplies for the last 2
months from'CaribounCreek to the.
Mine, a distance, of about 30 mis,
will start- in here in a few days
for this last- heavy load whichwiU
finnish the freighting, the heavy
winds of the last few days have •
drifetd the show, & the going
‘will be heavy.
This has been a cold winter s®
far. Last week the main line in
the water, system froze up in sev
eral places & broke in 2 places ,
But it has been thawed out b y
pushing a small pipe thru the
2)arge on© & pumping hot water in
against the iOe. The breaks 'have
lieen repaired, k the faucets are
all alive again. The water system
at'the Hative Hospital also fr®ze
up, but Chitina Charlie has it
gaing again.
.
-It is a good thing there is seld-*
om a,ny wind here in the wintertime.
If the wind blew here in the win
ter as it does in the summer • thd
fliers could not use Trout Lake ,
for landihg as it & when the -wind
blows it jvhirls around in gusts,
in all directions. Today we had
ine of the few strong winds we
have had in winter, 8c when Gillam
came up with'the'mail today in
the St carman, he-lc eked down- 8c
saw the snow whirling round onth6
lake 8c he wnt up the R. 40 miles,
and landed at Copper Ctr. If the
wind qrcites tomorrow he‘will? fly
our mail back down here .Because tf
the strong winds in summer the
airmen say they could not land at
Chitina in the summer even if we
had a landing field.
Frs ,W .R.Cameron had a bridge
party last Rat.night and Runday
morning. There v/c-re six tables &
24 people and 100 Chichen sandwich^
es and 2 cakes and 5 Gals of Coffee
present. When the party was over
only the people & tables were left,
and they didn’t want to leave.
Frs. Kiemi got the ladies’ prize
and Jim Lyons got the mensfi prize.
They say that Frs. Gamer cm is an
” incomparable hostess ” whatever
that means.
The radio has been fine this wih
winter and it has been fine to get
the news every night from K.K.^.L.
at Anchorage,and very often now we
get some from K.G.B.U. at Ketchikan
This cold weather seems to make the
ether vibrate well. If Alaskans
were to vote on what is the best
thing in Alaska they would probably
give the most votes to the Anchor
age Radio Club,
t t
Alaska as a whole is infested
with three pests. The mosquitoes
come in the summer.Fany of their
victims are now at Forningside,Ore.
The wolves are known to have been
very numerous many years ago but
in more recent years when the white
people first came to this part of
Alaska the wolves were rather rare
,But the£ are increasing now and in
the last few years have covered
Alaska in alarming numbers.
They are killing off the game and
fur animals. The Territory now
pays a bounty of f15.for each wolf.
But that is not making any noticabl
impression on the number of wolves.
On all sides and on the radio ahd
in the press people are saying
" something should be done about
it "^ell we don’t want to appear
pessamistic but we remember that
the mice once decided that the cat
was a menace and something should
be done about it.And it was decid
ed that a bell should be put on the
cat. -ne have yet to hear of a
plausable plan-for putting a bell
on the wolves. The Territory can
not afford to pay more for exter
minating the wolves than the game
& fur is worth. Someone once say/
an old negro dropping a dollar
thru a crack in the'sidewalk. They
askfed him why he did that and he
replied that he had just lost a
nickle thru the crack and-he was
dropping a dollar in to make it
‘worth while to tear up the boards.
In a lay/suit at Valdez n few
days ago Judge Clegg decided again
st J.F.Blmer and in favor of Arne
^undt who will now continue to
mine on Slate Creek as he has for
the past five years.
Congress just voted to give
the phillipines their .independence
yrre hope Congress will riot do that
to Alaska*