KING CRAB CATCH UP
The catch m the Kodiak area in
the July-December 1961 period to
taled 1,695(824 king crab, an in
crease of 116 per cent over the
693,247 crab taken during the
same period a year before.
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| OIL NEWS |
Approves Contract
For Development
The fourteenth oil and gas de
velopment contract for Alaska
was signed when Secretary of the
Interior Udall approved the appli
cation for the British Petroleum
Exploration Company,
The five-year exploration and
development contract covers
about 564,000 acres identified as
the Outpost Development Area
located to the east of Umiat on
the Arctic 3lope of Alaska ap
proximately 250 miles northwest
of Fairbanks.
During the life of the contract,
the company will be required to
drill at least three exploratory
wells and spend not less than
$1,100,0O0 during the period.
Secretary Udall stated that
since the first development con
tract was signed in February of
1053, 20 deep exploratory wells
have been drilled or are now drill
ing. Some 6,900,000 acres are in
cluded in the 14 contracts out
standing in Alaska.
Conditional Oil,
Gas Leases Asked
For Shore Lands
Legislation providing for the
granting of conditional state oil
and gas leases to federal lessees
of lands covered by navigable wa
ters have been submitted to the
Legislature fey Gov. William A.
Egan.
Under the bill a lessee of oil
and gas lands under a federal
lease would have the right to ob
tain from the State at any time
Eager Beaver
Fuel Oil Co.
DISTRIBUTOR FOR
Texaco
Heating Oil
for the
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during the life of his federal lease
a conditional State lease to any
areas within the federal lease
which have been or may he ad
ministratively or judicially deter
mined to be “shore lands.” Only
the State has the right to lease
“shore lands,” those located be
neath navigable nontidal waters.
The }>seference right would pre
vent interruption of the oil and
gas operation as a result of the
changed status.
To protect- the State from the
lessee’s use of his conditional
lease to keep valuable oil and gas
lands out of State control, the
federal lessee would be given 60
days after notice by the Commis
sioner of Natural Resources to
file for an ordinary state lease
on any area determined to be
“shore lands.’’ If the leasee fails
to apply within 60 days then the
conditional state lease would no
longer encompass that particular
area.
Other language in the bill
would safeguard the State’s right
to classify these “shore lands"
areas as competitive or noncom
petitive regardless of the federal
classification of the surrounding
lands.
MINERAL LEASE REVENUES
A check for $2,050,060.36 was
received by Gov. William A. Egan
in February as Alaska’s share of
bonuses, royalties and rentals re
ceive-;! by the Federal Government
on public domain lands in Alaska
during the six months which end
ed Dec. 31, 1961.
SUPPLIES FOR TYOXEK
HOMER—The Chilkoot and the
Pacific, landing: craft, arrived at
the Homer dock Iasi Wednesday
evening- to load supplies for oil
operations at Tyonek. Bulk of the
cargo consisted of barrels of fuel
oil which were loaded out Thurs
day. Sailing of the vessels was
delayed pending arrival of Ivar
Rockwell, owner, from Cordova.
WEATHER STATION
HOMER—A U. S. Weather Bu
reau recording station has ’ been
set up on the Homer pier, with
Pete Lenz, PUD dock manager, in
charge. Erection of the new facil
ity was in charge of Jim Harding
of the Weather Bureau. Consider
able variance is often noted be
tween weather at the airport and
at the Homer Spit. The new sta
tion was set up primarily to keep
reports that may assist the dis
trict engineer in the construction
of the small boat harbor.
TO ENCAMPMENT
HOMER — Company C, Army
National Guard, which includes
41 young men from Homer and
Kodiak, left Sunday for Ft, Rich
ardson to participate in the an
nual. winter encampment, March
18 through April 11. They will
train with regular Army troops
and will study chemical, radiologi
cal and biological warfare.
FIRST 1962 SAILING
HOMER—The first 1962 sail
ing for the Homer port'was Alas
ka Steamship Company’s “Susit
na" which docked Friday evening.
RECORD BEAR
Pete Kesselring of Seward took
a record polar bear in the vicinity
of Point Hope and was awarded
a Boone and Crocket Club award.
The skull is on display at the
American Museum of Natural
History in New York,
CONCRETE BLOCKS
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and Supplies
Nestor Concrete Products Co.
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JOBS
WORK PLANNED
CONTRACTS LET
Contract Let
On Small Boat
Harbor at Seward
Ramstad Construction Compa
ny of Anchorage has been noti
fied to proceed with construction
and installation of new float fa
cilities in the Seward Small Boat
Harbor,
Cort Howard, director of the
Alaska Division of Water and
Harbors, said the Anchorage
firm’s bid of S29,935,&0 was the
lowest of five bids received by
the state.
The project actually was bid
on two separate bid schedules.
The first calls for removing the
•■••listing main float and gangway,
pulling 22 float and stall piling,
removing finger floats, and pull
ing 26 finger floats,
The second schedule calls for
reinstalling the main float and
gangway, driving nine float pil
ing, constructing and installing
3,750 square feet of floats, fur
nishing and installing 18 float
piling and driving 24 stall piling,
Specifications stipulate that the
contractor will he required to
stait work 'within 45 calendar
days after he receives notice to
proceed, Howard said. All work
must be completed within 100 cal
endar days after receiving the
notice, which was mailed from
Howard's office on March 8.
HIGHWAYS
Federal aid highway and bridge
construction projects totaling $1,
757,000 for the Kenai Peninsula
are now under contract, according
to Sam Johnson, Director of the
State Division of Highways. They
inelude the following:
Soldotna-Kasilof, 13 miles,
$981,000: Moose River Bridge, 0,2
miles, $142,000, and North Kenai
Extension, 5,3 miles, $634,000.
The '‘Nugget’’ was Alaska’s
first newspaper. It was first pub
lished in Nome in 1899.
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