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8HITINA, ALASKA. July 3, 1932
Big 4 Page INBEPENBANCE BAY Edition
THEY ROUTEB THE RAIIRQAB ENGINEER OUT ;
last reek and Again ^his week at 4;00 ]
in the Horning, to take them to j
rne uJLaciers. ^
Since the Tourists got
away with it twice they b£
decided to do it again Lg
at Chitina, But for seme fc
reason or other only \
of the Tourists got on
the £rain when'it was
supposed to go, gnd so the
engine men had to turn cow
hoy and round them up. The
Engineer and all the other
train men like accomodate J
and so make a gg.od nq.me
frtr MasVn.. -hut even at ~
that the engineer says he is Ip
going to "buy a lnssoc to round *
them up with next week, They all went
up to Kennecott and saw the big co p
per mine in operation, and on return
ing to Chitina,they all took a bus for
the fine trip over'the Trail and we
hope they enjoy it, v
.They were:
Mrs, Yf. R, & Patricia Holman
Pacific Grove, Calif,
Mr. & Mrsi, Max Reuils Heimer--Senttlc
Mr, & Mrs, S, G. Harris-Tarrytown H Y
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MAYBE the Tourists thot that-starting!
4 hrs. early in Alaska, would be even-!
ed up by starting 4 hrs. late the next:
day, just like the‘daylight of summer!
evens ap the darkness of winter. ■ j
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THE HABESNA MINING COMPANY IS GETTING;
lots of ore out now. A few d^ys a goj
they, smarted to the Tacoma Smelter with
1000 lbs of concentrates in .10 sacks
worth about’ $13,000. They had heard
„ that Valdez is a beautiful little sea
port where the boats call in evctyveek
with frieght and mail for Valdez and
the Copper River Valley and freightfcr
Fairbanks . So they decided to take th
... ej/r concentrates .to Valdez and ship it
byrExpress, to.the Smelter. But when
they got to Valdez they found that the
Express Co* got mad at the l)ock and.
would not do buisness on it. So there
was no way to ship the gold from Val-,
dez Qnd the Nabesna people had to haul
it 90 miles back to Willow Creek and
then into Chitina where they accept ,
Express for any'point in the world any
day in the week.
WHSK GILLAM FI$w US3 WEEK FROM ^BAT
tle to Cordova it took him only 15 hr.
It takes the stamships 5 days.
3 Pages of News
LETTER PROF ROAD COMMISSION CAMP —
i'rom Billy Fcore’s sister Mary.
Ai I:oores uamp
Alaska
Dear Adrian and Philip
I am sending yc-u scm e
news from out here. You can
say that we left Chitina
^ Ifonday the 20 at 8 oclock
^ and after we got on the
other side of Kenny Lake are ure
fell off and we didnt have any
. thing with us But a little cres
ent wrench sc we took the "dig
est reck we co.uld find, and got
a strong pole and lifted it
up^WellFr. Ifoore put it hack
on r«> an so we get goingagxin
^ _ . » . * c\
and get tc GulKana ax nave yaeo
and. ate lunch. And we got going at
15 minnits tc 1. And got at Paxons*
at have past 4. And staed at Paxons
over night. Thera is a mother cat &
to kittens there. And after supper
why I thet that I heard Maggie(Th c
little deg they cwn) bark at someth
thing. And I whent out and Maggie vrs
chasing the* to kittens and pert.y scar
the mother cat came out an,d got -the-..
to Kittens safe and then she .start
ed after Maggie and got her on her
back and cuffed her good. So they
started the fire place going 8c Mag
gie got as close.as she could to
the ,fire so I bret her- pilow to the
fire place, and she staed there ad.1
night and when we woke up the next
morning it was raining hard so we
ate our breakfast and v/as on ourway
again. And we got to camp just at
.neon the sun was shining then But ,
after lunh it started to cloud up 8
it started to thunder and rain and
then lighting. It sure did scare me.
And then the next day the sun was
out all day and Thursday. It was nir
but to Day it is raining again. Wc
are going into Fairbanks in twomoic
weeks with Don Miller.'We are going
to stay in there for to or three w
0 0ks
(Mary is 9 yrs. old.) Love
'• Mary
Editors Note: Here in Alaska thun
der and lightning are very seldom &
that is the reason for Mary’s fri^.t
«7e can proudly add that Mary is ft
very brave girl, and if-it did not
happen'so seldom she would not not
ice it. It was probably because they
were so high up in the mountains 1htt
the damp air made the lightning. As
we never have' thunder strms down here
in the Valley. Two claps of thunder
were heard here some weeks ago, the
first ever heard in yearMile 140
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