FRIDAY Y/AS ARFICTICE DAY. Y/E ARE ALL GLAD FOR PEACE &
THE BRAVE MEN TOO BROT IT TO US .
WEATHER'
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CHITINA ALASKA NOVEMBER 13, 1932
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I ; ' IT ABE SOT SPECIAL.
Well,the Great Nabesna Special
came up on Armistice day & return
ed to Cordova yesterday.There was
no trouble as the Ry.Co. had sent
men to pick away, the ice where the
springs running out of the hill
sides &ad glaciered over the travk
There were 3 cars of heavy mavhin
ery & the. trucks are already busy
hauling this from here 150 miles
to within 8 miles of the mine.
This is as far as the road is pass
able with a truck.They will haul
it the last 8 miles with a cat &
slads as soon as there is enuf
snow,It is lucky that there is no
snow this year at this time .Most
years there is so much snow at
this date that trycks cannot run
5c it costs lots more to haul with
cats and sleds. They say the road
is smoothe & hadd.lt should be
hardvfor it has been from zero to
25 below since the 1st of Nov.The
trucks can haul 3 tons each & at
the end of the run the loads will
be lifted off with a hoist and
lowered onto sleds for hauling to
the mine.The engine in a crate
weighs 8900 pounds 8c as no truck h
here can haul that much up Tonsin
akotsinatazlinagakona hill the cat
1 will have to come to Chitina to
get it-when there is snow enuf.
Nabesna Gold Mine is now sure of
starting off fully equipped next
.May as soon as there 1$ water enuf
witli which to operate the mill.
‘They are taking in a Flotation
outfit which will save a much gre
ater % of the gold than the system
they, now use.And they will re-work
all’of the old tailings for the
gold they missed.The flotation
system sounds something like this,
They gring the ore into a very
fine powder.Then they put into it
some flotation oil'which cticks to
all particles of metal and gol#
but. not to the par-ticles of rock'
which it will not8 "wet".This is
then passed thru ‘the water in the
flotation tanks where the oil
cause’;s\the gold to float on top
. while:. the rock particles settle to
the bottom.The gold is skimmed off
the surface and the trucks will ha
haul it. out to the coast to be
shipped’\to- the mint.
The Nabesna. Special Train brot
a lot of freight for the Chitina
Cash Store,All kinds of meat,fruit
sausage,turkeys,chichens,cranberri
es,apples,Prestone wood saws, etc.
Gasclins now sells for 35/ a gallon
THE LAST TRAIN ON THE COPPER
RIVER RAILROAD.
(Written by Lewis Denahay,a 98er
for another 98er,Dick Platner,the
brakeman,who sings so blithely
about being with us in the Spring)
The train is leaving Chit’na
It is leaving here at dawn
The last train out of Chit’na,
Til the winter’s snow is gone.
"The last train leaving Chit’na
All aboard”,we hear them shout,
"Aint you coming to Cordova,
Aint you sourdoughs going out?
"The last train leaving Chit’na,"
We hear the brakeman sing
("Like the last rose of Rummer,)
We$ll be with you in the Spring."
"We’ll be with you in the Spring
time" 4
Hear that brakey chirp again.
•When it’s Springtime in the Rock
Cuts,
You can listen for the train.
n^hen it’s Springtime here in Chit
nft,And the track is clear right
through,
"^e’ll be coming round the mountain
"We*11 be coming back to you”.
—#.#--#
Weflill be glad to see you coming
We’ll be glad to see you back'
Wien the ice has left the river,
And the snow has left the track
When it’s Springtime in Cordova,
And you get the some old rain,
There’ll be-sunshine here in
Chitina,
While we’re waiting for your train.
(Lewis Denahay is baggage master &
general utility man at Chitina R,R.
Station) Printed by special per
mission of the poet.First came out
in The Cordova Daily Times.
The Native Boys Who are Patients
in the new Indian Hospital are stil
sick but are coming along better
now Mis Lambert was very busy with
out a Dr.to help her 8c she has
done a good job pulling them thru
such a bad illness .The hospital
is fixed up fine,and say,is it
clean and shiny inside and out?
Haynes Maney and Con Norris
came down from Nabesna a few days
ago and are going right back for
the winter. They say that the•
Indians up that way are in a hard
fix this winter as there is no
game in the country for meaj, The
caribou have all gone to some
other section.About the only thing
in the country is coyotes and JEEDfc
wolves and they are hanging around
the cabin doors. The Nabesna beys
heir the Indians as much as th y