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• CHITIKA, ALASKA AUGUST 28, 1932
Weather:
Blight Frost at
Hite.Fall (hays.
[Sunshine .Aurora
'borealis.2 X «
flight-A veiw of
the bridge just
before it was
completely wash
ed away. T here
are 176 bent, 60
of which were
carried away
%peiirHhe i mile
bridge. The pile
driver is on its
Side in the cur
pent and if it
had not been for
a sand bar that
Tfras partly sub
merged it vjould
have been carr
ied away.
5^copyt20^iho.,
)50^3mo ., $1.6mo.
-25£fKPost. on
3mo., 40£'on6mo,
The water in the R. is down to what
used to be the highest in 20 years,
•& is still going.town so the road
will be opened pretty soon,5c the Rd
between here 5c Cordova in a week at
least. The Trail is open for traff
ic between Chitina 5c Fairbanks tod
ay. At the Delta where the wash out
is the tractors pull them across the
lowering water. The Govt. R.R. 2nd.
to biggest steel bridge went out
at Whitneys'Cache & it will take a
lot of time, labor & expense to get
it back in.
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DEMOCRATICCMDiDATE
P01
HI6HWAYENSINEER
Election November 8, 1932
__APVT.
A few days ago when Gillam was fly
ing out from Nabesna with a big lo
ad of concentrates he'ran out of gas
about 3 miles from Copper Center &
had to make a forced landing on a
plot that was so muchy that he had
to get a crew of men & have themmale
a feild for him to get off of. The
men made the field Sc Gillam started
to take off« As he was doing’ tfeat
he ran int a fiicre inche trad. The
prop just cut the tree down without
hurting it a bit. Wes Rhodes just
brot in #25,000,worth of Nabesna
gold & Gillam says there is #50,0,00
oo worth more on the feild in there.
Kirkpatick flew the Zenith out and-,
with a few minor repairs they will
be alright Sc fit for flying .Yes t er
day Gillam f lew tc Ho Oar thy with"'
a passenger who • was stranded inmi
dez,&has mabr " Cher tT’; . • •
STOCK'QUOTATIONS
Kennecott *.• • • • 10w
Alaska Juneau,... ^.Hi
Nabesna.....*50
GOVENGR PARKS was at Anchorage re
cently on his way to the Interio r
over the Gov’t', Ry. Gov. Parks has
been put at the head of all the Rd
work in Alaska by Secretary Wilbur
of the Interior Dept. K.F.Q.D.said
that the GUV* that when he was at
Valdez he learned that there were
many heavily loaded freight trucks
running over the rain soaked Rich
ardson Hy., ;:Some carrying as muc h
as 10 tons. The Gov. said that in
his opinion the,.Hy• would nouldnot
stand up unter v.jBuch treatment and
when it goes t.6' peices "it will be
just too bad'because thefcc are not
sufficient fjgn&s available to keep
it in. repa|^P K.F.Q.D. said that
the repairework on the-Ry. is hoi
ding up well in spite of the cont
iniued wet weather.
When. Charlie Go odlataw was passing
Paddy Kings fish cache a few weeks
ago he noticed that a hear ha,d his
head in the doorway & so that' he
would not eat Paddy* s fish he shot
.him.- When he went to lrhok at him
he noticed that his foot was in a
trap. The hear had been in the ca
che the nite before & so that he
wouldn’t get any more fish Padd y
put the trap .there, t
When the election comes Alaskans Sc
everybody are going to make a lot
of racket. The- trouble with us is
that we just Waste our lung power as
we canIt help the * election along
as mucr ,3,p a .'fiejs, but at least we
esn ye i.l cl I we to & we'ceem
to :n :cr ■-1 ■ ‘ten :?:&■/# v tv- ■; . — Itji tor.