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A big deposit of copper has been un covered fifteen miles from Valdez. A snow storm, accompanied by a high wind, visited Haines last week. At Fairbanks it will cost $20,500 to maintain the schools for the ensuing term. Before starting for the coast, Dele gate Wickersham gave a banquet to his Fairbanks friends. some republicans have organized a club and are getting busy for next year’s territorial campaign. ‘The latest thing in the line of fakes is the discovery of a lot of cod fish, “doctored,” and sold as Alaska red sal mon. Petersburg hunters report a sharp en counter with a band of wolves, who were not scared away by the crack of their rifles. Chas Skofiand, an old timer from Kataila, when refused a drink in a Fair banks saloon, drew a revolver and shot himself through the head. Guetay Priessner, a druggist at Mc Carthy, has been arrested for selling liquor without a license. McCarthy is one of the dry spots in Alaska. The Copper River Northwestern railroad is employing more men and has a bigger payroll at present than at any time during the past two years. At Seward, the Gateway accuses the editor of the Post of having bought control of the town council, to pass a franchise for the Seward Light Com pany. Seward democrats are being urged by those of like politics in Cordova and Valdez to get busy and try to land the next democratic convention for the Terminal City. The Gold Builion Mining Company, operating a quartz property at Knik, reports a successful season,and a clean up which totaled 130,000. They employ about seventy men. Joseph D. Jourden, a pioneer mer chant of Nome, was frozen to death the other night on the river, having wan dered away from the road during a storm which suddenly blew in from the north. The announcement that the govern ment has decided to rent quarters for the post office rather than build to re place the office destroyed by the fire, is a disappointment to the people of Val dez,as it was hoped that the govern ment would erect a building on the for mer sight of the post office which would house both the offices of the Alaska Road Commission and the post office. Recent arrivals from Walrbanks state that strong pressure is being brought upon Judge C, BE, Bunnell to become the democratic candidate for delegate , to congress from Alaskas at the Novem ber election in 1916. It is said that the recent fire at the Shakan cannery entailed a loss of 387, 500, besides the loss to Chinamen of their personal effects, and in many cases money which they had bid in the bunk house that burned. Falcon-Joslyn, who has underway the building of a more effective wire less to the new camp of Brooks in the Tolovana region, will also build a wire less station in the Koyukuk to work in conjunction with the government sta tions at St. Michael and Fairbanks. The papers are poking fan at an edit ated schoolma’am because she writes poetry and teaches school. After read ing some of the effusions emanated by poetic aspirants, it is a source of won derment that poetry and brains can oc cupy the same cranium.—Valdez Miner. A correspondent asks us if we favor a dog tax. We do not, for while it might increase our city’s revenues several million dollars, it would be class legis lation. Only the immensely rich can afford to keep a dog with feed at twelve land a half cents per pound.—Valdez Miner, The word Matanuska suggests’ coal to most people, but the Cook Inlet Pio neer has another meaning when it says. There are an ease in Anchorage pota toes raised this season in the Matanus ka valley that for looks and for eating purposes can be excelled nowhere on this round earth. Copper ore from the Bonanza and Jambo mines at Kennecott is piling up, in Cordova so rapidly that the care of it is becoming a serious problem, on account of the lack of carrying freight ers to transport it to the Tacoma smel ter. The Times says that it amounts to $1,000,000. The merchants of Fairbanks report ‘that business is good in all lines and fully twenty per cent better that dur ing the fall of 1914. The return of pros perity is credited to the new business being offered through the development of the Tolovana camp, the government railroad activities and the increased output of the district. The four companies of infantry on duty in Alaska are to be brought up to their full military strength of about 160 men each, according to an an nouncement by the war department. The posts at Fort Seward, Fort Liscam, Fort Gibbon, Fort St. Michael and Fort Davis have at the present time about half of their war strength. Alaska commerce continues to show a phenominal increase. The total through the port of Seattle from Jan uary L to September 30, 1915, was 39 per cent, greater than for the same pe riod last year. This increase has been gradually growing since early in the year. For the month of July the in crease was 4] per cent, for August 60 per cent, and for September 67 per cent, John Jobson, aged 72 years, went to Anchorage about five months ago from the States, to seek his fortune in that land of promise. Exposure and hard work resulted in his death on October 10th. The attempt of the Valdez city coun cil to fine masters of steamers for not landing their boats at the city dock in stead of a private dock, has created a great deal of interest in Seattle ship ping circles. “Bob” McGillivray, the popular cap tain of the steamship City of Seattle, is one of the happiest salts on the South eastern Alaska run. He has just re ceived from Detroit a huge and very handsome silver loving cup, the gift of the “Detroit Twenty” band of tourists who enlivened one of the summer ex cursion cruises of the City of Seattle last July.—Alaskan. Col. A. W. Swanitz says Valdez has a good chance to get a railroad as a part of the government system, within a short time, Col. Swanitz recently had a long talk with Secretary Lane, in which he pointed out to the secretary the importance of a line to develop the country between the Copper river and the Susitna,a very wide area with great mineral possibilities. Great concern is felt at Fairbanks and other interior camps over the pos sible drowning of a party of ten per sons who left Iditarod on October 6th, in the launch Tramp, bound for St. Michael, where they were to take pas sage on a steamer for the States. There are several women in the party, one of whom is an invalid. The launch has failed to reach St. Michael and no news has been received concerning her fate. Reports from St. Michael state that the Yukon is frozen over, and it is feared that the little craft was caught in the ice and crushed and that all lost their lives, adding another to the list of northern tragedies. San Francisco, Oct. 19—On display in the Alaska exhibit in the Palace of ‘Transportation today is an array of vegetables of this year’s growth, brought from Tanana Valley, Alaska, which is within one hundred miles of the Arctic Circle, by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company for exhibition during the celebration of the 48th anni versary of the Purchase of Alaska, which was held at the exposition yes terday. Potatoes, one of which would make a meal for a small family, par snips and carrots as large as California grown turnips, which ordinarily weigh sixteen pounds, and cabbages as large as wash tabs were among the shipment. If any reader is from Missouri, and feels that he must be shown, he should visit the exhibit and see the farm truck grown beneath the midnight sun. On the way to San Francisco is a shipment of fruit, also from the Tanana Valley, consisting of strawberries four inches in diameter, blueberries which can only be compared with black cherries in size, and cranberries which grow in such abundance that a field of them has the appearance of a scarlet cloud floating near the earth. Literally, tons may be gathered from a single patch. James Hurley, of Craig, Alaska, has filed at the Governor's office an appli cation for a pension. Mr. Hurley is 83 years of age and came to Alaska in 1877, from Oswego county, New York. He is at present a fisherman. It is feared that another tragedy has occurred and that the treacherous Tan ana river has claimed two more victims. William Zacharias and wife, who for merly lived in Fairbanks before being attracted to the Chisana, left the Tan ana river point some time ago, but have failed to reach their destination. Men who came from Chisana and witnessed the departure of Zacharias and his wife have been in Fairbanks several days. The Tanana is running full of slush ice and it is feared that the couple were caught in the ice and their trail craft crushed. The mercury has dropped to zero and the river is expected to close over very soon. A. B. Shubert, Inc, Chicago, the largest house in the world dealing ex clusively in American raw fare, sub mite a very interesting article for the readers of the News. Millions of dol lars will change bonds between the trappers and dealers in raw furs during the coming season. It is indeed won derful to contemplate, when one thinks of the thousands and thousands of fur bearing animals killed every year throughout North America, and still the supply does not seem to be wither ing. Many people are of the opinion that the fur industry is becoming ex tinct, due to the fact that the animals are being killed off in many parts of the country. This is not the case, in fact, it is just the opposite of condi tions as they exist. The Demand of Fashion, the competition of the large circular houses and the general utility of fur garments have sent the price of furs up to such an enormous height that a clever trapper can make a small fortune, if he handles his catch proper ly. The fur trade has rightly been called the greatest of our natural re sources. No industry, agricultural, mineral or otherwise has been the ori gin of as much wealth to this country and Canada as the fur industry. Before a single field was cultivated, a single mine was opened or a single railroad constructed, the far-bearing animals of this country were the only source of revenue. This was one of the main reasons for the rapid colonization of our country especially of the West. It was the trapper’s trail that formed the path of the first highway and the trap pers far formed’ the first cargo that was ever freighted on any of the inland waters of this country. It was also the trapper's catch that brought the first foreign wealth to this country, and ever since, we have been practically supply ing the world with furs. No other of our natural resources have been pro ductive for so long a time or have yield ed such an aggregate wealth as the far bearing animals, so after all the far industry is not dying out. The fight is getting keener, and this promises to be the banner year for the trapper and far shipper, “SITKA HOT SPRINGS.” Accom modations, American or European plan, For terms apply to Dr. L. F. Goddard, ‘Sanitarium, Alaska,—Advertisement,
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Douglas Island News
Douglas, Alaska, US
Wed, Nov 03, 1915
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