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| CHITINA,ALASKA. AFRIDL 3, I932-J
KLUTINA BRIDGE
A1 Moore and some of the me'n re
turned home from Copper Center where ‘
they, had been repairing the bridge
which weakened last fell ever -the
Klutina River, It is a,i auto" bridge
and as heavy trucks cross it.It has
to be always in the best of shape,
fYCU AIN'T GCT H0' SQUAWK COHIH1 "uh-Y
less the Depression hits you;as hard
as it hit this farrtierHe sbld two
calves to a market,and after driving
them ini,went f or his money .All he’
g ot was 10 y apiece and he^, was pretf
ty sore. {Contributed by Mhry1 MooreJ
THE TRAIL tS RATHER HaPL . TO- DRIVE OH
just now Jas "the .snmv -and ice... is high
; in the ::teiddle>Tahdvslopirife’,,.off under t.
the ruhnersysoothere are glaciati
. ions^at^ !ffiyr9- 'Mi’l & at '.Bear Creek
.about,,a mile this side ; of *
y th£:, Gulkand., Lodge, Nevertheless Carl
. -&pxla on' is 131 g - e niif t o pick up his
, &nowhird--sthd rearry''right across any"
over floe ;fif iieetisdyand neither he or
Mrs ,Tayloryleft :tft£ : Trail' worry: them,
|rs., Tayl-otf .canae.. in... in the auto to . y
♦get the Outside mail Thursday,and al
so had the"codrage to •start for Cop
yPd* venter iSh'e's go t there , too. If the
' 'yo\i.n^g ,V^niiet'6r jher son from the
States? whp-; cafes up-with Pilot Gillanr
last:trip of"the airplane, takes to
Alaskan-life a3 we'll as the other mem‘
mhefs of the family do,mushing dogs,
-etc, then we shall have another good
:: Sourdough soon, •
SPEAKING OF MAIL, the Rumor Hound of
the Cordova Daily TIMES says:
MWe Alaskans find we get along very
pleely on one- delivery a•week.Wonder
why Congressmen who think we could
get along on less cbuldnrt take our
suggestion and have the same mail sen
Vice we have. This,we "believe,would
wipe out (entirely the postal Deficit.
Imagine tkie excitement in little old
New York when the Five Million people
pushed down to the dock to see the
pail Bo^t come in. ’ " '
Spring colds are prevelent.
Laytime temperatures this week have
SAID A WITTY FRENCHMAN, 1 now see
things as. ’ theyPare*, i't.i is time for
me to dieo* Now■ look atthis : The
improvadlnt white men and. the Ind
Ians here at Chitina are. squaking'
because there. is"no ejnpiymcnt and
they cannot; live. The’ sevral'depts
of the Gov't here in Chit iha, shipii
from British Columbia, Can. ^some
thing around*50 tons of coal a yr
at about $25,00 a ton which is at
least $1200.00. Chitina is surrour;
dedwith unlimited forests of ex
cel eht firewood,where a very medi?
ocer woodcutter can cut a cord in
| 8 hrs .Allow the .cutter $4.for cutt:_
j mg,and the man who hauls it$>3,0Q
! and you have $7.00 a cord,which me;
Ians about fen If the cost of'ccal fqi
i the same ain't of heat. The'Gov't a
K^encies here •’in Chitina used to bu
[in only wood.There are sevral reas
| ons why they changed to Canadian
! coal.But the principal one at the
time the change was made,wAs that
it became so hard to.get the wood
cut and* delivered. The Indians- me
stly insist on getting paid lor t.;
v/ood before-they-cut it .Or immedi
ately after .They will not cut vjoo.y
in many cases unless they can get
better than §5,for 8 hrs for a ver?y
lesurely woodcutter0If they canTt
get that ihost of them prfer to pe t
tetion the Gov*t that they are‘st
arving for opportunity to w or k £ £ cm-'
u-of3 the Indians have come to feel
that the man who wants wood should
beg'them to cut it,take short meas
ure ;& feel lucky if he gets it st
all, speciallyif it has been paidlv
in advance.Some folks may be intei
ested enuf in'Indians to deal witu
them that way,bdt of bourse.the G.
vernment wasnot^and now their heo\:
ing plants are suited only for bir
Hiftg- coal.An *unscientific attitu. >
ffi4!#- paternalism* is developing in
many of the Indians a hopeless at
titude of‘dependance,indiffrence ■
self pity.
This wire was rec^d bya civil en >
ineers wife who took bhly wdolenc ■}
the tropies.SOSBVDCODFPq. ' •
oeeB above freezing .Wear snowglasse./
1 (ever :