N. C. COMPANY
AGAIN ENTERS
BUSINESS HERE
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The Alaska Commercial Com
pany, or rather the A. C. Com
pany, as it was better known,
was started in 1868, in southeast
ern and western Alaska, includ
ing the Aleutian Islands, among
trading posts established.
Following the gold rush to
Nome in 1899, the company es
tablished a branch store, ware
house. and cold storage plant,
under James M. Wilson, super
intendent of the company’s busi
ness in Nome, at St. Michaels,
along the Yukon river to Dawson
in Yukon Territory.
The first manager at Nome was
a man by the name of Pope, but
h' was succeeded in 1900 by
Otto W. Carlson, better known as
C -Vain Carlson. In 1901, Captain
Carlson became interested in
mining and he was succeeded in
J re, 1901, by Howard Turner,
who continued to mnnnge the
b jsiness until 1903 When he
made a trip to San Francisco for
the company, it wras arranged
that he would open a branch at
w nat is now Fairbanks.
During the winter of 1901, a
merger wras formed of the Alaska
Commercial and other corpora
tions in the North, and the nr.'
organization was called the
Northern Commercial Company,
w n;ch took over the Nome busi
ness on May 1st of that year.
fn add.tion to Howard Turner.
William J. Erskine, now a suc
cessful merchant in Kodiak.
Alaska, was in charge as office
manager and cashier. Henry
Tomlinson, now of Seattle, was
r.ot only in charge of the dry
goods department, but looked aft
er collections as well. Rurt Spen- •
car, later of Hot Springs and
Fairbanks, W'as general store
manager. The plant was located
&n the North side of the street i
about three blocks east of the
Spit, and poposite the John J.
Sesnon Lighterage Company. The
plant consisted of a large store
building, a cold storage plant in
the rear, and a large warehouse.
Just east of the store was a large
comfortable mess house, where
the personnel lived.
A. F. Zipf took over from Tur
ner in the fall of 1903 and on in
structions of the Home Office,
closed out the merchandise stocks
and later disposed of the build
ings.
Following the closing of the
Nome branch in 1903, the com
pany opened a branch in what is
now known as Fairbanks, in
1903, and in subsequent years,
opened other posts in various
mining camps throughout the
Territory.
A slogan which has followed
the company throughout its his
tory is, “The Pioneer Trading
Company of the Yukon District.”
Up to 1914, the N. C. Co. op
erated a fleet of fast ocean steam
ers between San Francisco, Se
attle, Nome and St. Michaels,
eormactina with their large apd
speedy river boats for all points
on the Yukon and its tributaries.
In that year the floating equip
ment was sold to the White Pass
and Yukon Navigation Company.
Now, 41 years after the closing
of the Nome branch, the N. C.
again is established in the loca
tion formerly owned by Leh
mann’s, which the company re
cently purchased.
The store opened Wednesday
after a two-day stock inventory
taking, and is ready to give the
people of Nome the same fine
service, based upon experience of
the company in other parts of the
Territory.
It is the belief in India that all
animals are entitled to their share
of the earth's substance, with the
suit that rats and other pests do
immense damage. Here we try to
eliminate them.
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URGES USE OF
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1 WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept.
22 —(AP>—The use of army air
, bases in Alaska, as a contribu
te the development of the Terri
tory, has been urged by the
House Interstate Foreign Com
merce Sub-Committee for addi
tional transport service, essential
to the growth of Alaska, it was
reported today.
The commitee, headed by Rep
I'esentative Alfred W. Bulwinkle,
the North Carolina democrat, re
ported to the House on commer
cial and private aviation, and the
committee recommended it
should be allowed to use such
airports and aids to navigation
i owned by the army in Alaska.
The committee described as en-1
tirely practical, the air route to
the Orient by way of Alaska or
the Aleutian route, asserting the
! route is much shorter than from
Seattle, and may be operated
, without consent of the Canadian
government.
LIBRARY TO BE
OPEN SATURDAY
Miss Frances, the librarian at
the post, who is in charge of the
Air Corps, Post and Hospital li
braries, has kindly volunteered
her services to the Kegoyah Koa
ga Public Library on Saturday
afternoons. Many people have not
availed themselves of the oppor
tunity of using the library as it
has been open only on Friday
evenings from 7:30 to 9:00
o’clock.
Miss Smith, who comes to Alas
ka from Boston, Mass., is an ex
perienced librarian and has serv
ed at other posts in Alaska, most
recently at Fort Raymond. She
; praises the local library for its i
fine selection of books and the
variety which it has to offer the
public. I
She will open the library every j
Saturday at 2:30 o’clock. Her ser- j
vices are especially appreciated j
as she has a full program at the i
Post. {<
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SAY GERMANS
LEAVE SECTOR
CAIRO, Sept. 22.—(AP)—Re
liable reports said the Germans
have abandoned the great part of
Peloponnesus, the southern-most
sector of Greece proper.
The area comprises about one
sixth of the country, and has
such towns as Sparta, Patrai,
Pyrgos. *
The great port of Salonica was jj
bombed last night. i
Every Army division going
abroad carries with it an 8,000
book library.
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