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Newspaper
Iditarod Pioneer
Location
Iditarod, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1911
Page
2
A historic newspaper fragment lists Frank E Becker as editor and Gao M Arbuckle as publisher. Subscription rates shown include 10 dollars for one year and six months, 5 dollars for one month, plus single copy and advertising details.
A playful citizen muses on Iditarod as a refuge for humanity and humor, praising the climate and health vibe. The piece imagines inviting John D. Rockefeller to visit with a library, jokes about a health syndicate trading goods for collateral, and extols laughter as the best tonic amid small urban anxieties.
The passage extols Alaska not as a land for long life but for its air and the resilient character of its people. It mocks diseases and pests as mere disturbances, celebrating a hardy, bucolic ideal and a confident, carefree outlook despite troubling themes.
The district celebrates as Otter creek direct access is secured for next summer. Discovery City gains from lifted conservation on Discovery, signaling more jobs and doubled output at Otter. A paystreak is likely, with potential ground open below Discovery as claims are stripped.
G L Milligan reports increased business for the Alaska Wireless Telegraph Company and orders two additional Telefunken wireless plants. The $5,000 units will serve Iditarod Nulato and Kusko towns with plans for Georgetown and Bethel stations. The quench spark system, praised for efficiency, may be adopted by the signal corps next summer as installations proceed.
Mr Milligan manager of Alaska Wireless Telegraph Company hopes to depart Pair banks for Seattle by December 1. He aims to import Telefunken plants next spring via Lake Leberge ice to have the system operational by summer. Upon arrival at Iditarod he will assess, and may open a summer wireless station at Dikewman in addition to the year round facility at Iditarod city.
Public accounting by the Dog-Race Committee lists amounts subscribed and collected from local businesses, with receipts from subscriptions and entrance fees. Expenditures detail trail marking, extra telephone service, poster printing, progress reporting, and awards, followed by totals of subscriptions and cash received.
A letter to Dave Cascaden from Alois says laymen taking a lease on a quartz vein and agreeing to install boilers and compressors on the site soon signals a genuine move toward hard rock milling, reflecting guarded optimism.
Friedricks a lodge owner and investors Dave and John Cascaden show interest in the Vault Creek site in the Wairbanks district. A fissure vein 410 to 5 feet wide lies between porphyry and schist walls. Karuck estimates 8200 to the ton. two leases, Glazier & Crochet and Kenest Peterson, each to develop with a 30 horsepower plant, air compressors, and drills, starting immediately.
For sale one Scotch marine boiler nine feet four inches in diameter back of stack. Allin ciss vondith address Pionec call for bock.
W A Wikeman visited Seward after a trail journey and bought a letter to Cotter who recalls early Alaska figures Hughey Dougherty Captain L B Anderson Jack Noon and Barnette and Hamil. Cotter runs a store and praises Seward while promoting mail service and dog race posters reaching Alaska the states and England.
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