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• t, By the Gazettefs Special Reporter:
*We see a number of Natives (Indians) are back to the Old Village
They usually return about this tine of year to go their fishing hero
in tho Copper River, particularly at "Salmon point". This is a sharp
point of rock teat protrudes into tho channell and it is here that
thousands of salmon have been dipped out with nets or baskets during
tile past fifty years. Two or thro., years ago the river channel moved
cut av/ay from this point of rock for no apparant reason and tie "dipping1
for salmon hu3 been no good there* • This year tho channel moved back and
i3 now fine•
The Indians can and smoke tho fish for their winter use.
Old Tom B^ll rcturnos each summer to th Village anu plants spud3,
Cabbage, C'.ri-ottj etc. for his winder use*
Being as how i t'Ti* summer and people "are beginning to stir
about I have had trz pleasure of talking to quite a number of them.
Seems that about all of th~n are getting the notion that this Nov;
Statehood is pretty much of a crazy iuen. They mean that it is for
everyone oxce-pt- the lucky politicians, ^nd most people are beginning to
realise that a few of the cld timers (7,000) knew \vhat they wore
\ talking about wk .n they voted "N02. If the Al' skans were to vote
today 1 think it would be a nip *uid tuck battle, so m .ny people are
beginning to v/ake up and wonder what ancl why .and how.
. • Wo wait to cor.plinbnt the. fellows v;ho or*., keening the road up
be two on the Richardson Highway and Chitin.a, 4C nilos,in such good
condition, ov.eiv tourist and driver has renarked that tlx road is in
Very good condition, a?id a pleasure to drive. Also on this drive wo
have a now a-to el bridge over the Tons inn River, replacing the long,
narrow v.ocu n one.
Jack Wilson of TTllso:ifY flying' Service just returned homo from
Cordova where har has be n for the past tv/o months. Jack wa3 kept busy
in Coro.ova with his flying etc. Now that the fishing season is on ht
will be doing a lot of flying to his fishing carp .at deb ay ^akes, also
charter flights. Maybe in his spare tine ho will get .a board or two
nailed on the* new hejngar he.is building at dive Nile airstrip.
The ‘rr.Inbov; trout’In Ihbr.y L’\k’~3 "’.re reported to bo big end
fr.t rnd hungry this yor.r, The flort pi-nos hero* tnko the fishermen
over there in l-ss thr.n 30 minutes,
The r.ccor.odntione. for t eking cn.ro of fishing folk .''.re
consider hbly :c?r\ndcti end improved this yonr. Probr.bly no finer fishing
con be h\d in Alnskn for the cost of this trip.