More Than Billion
Dollars Spent In
Alaska, 1944-1953
(Anchorage Times)
WASHINGTON, July 7— Sen.
Henry Dworshak of Idaho last
week submitted figures to the
Senate showing that some $1 bil
lion has been spent in military
public works by the armed forces
in Alaska during the fiscal years
from 1944 to 1953, inclusive.
* In addition, he offered figures
to show that $317,747,180 ’were
spent in the territory during the
same period for civil public works
by the Departments of Interior,
Commerce, and Health, Education
and Welfare.
Interior Department expendi
tures totalled $256,076,780, he said.
These included $50,000 for
buildings for the Bureau of Land
Management, $13,460,140 for hos
pitals and schools of the Alaska
Native Service, $19,861,400 for the
Eklutna power project bv the Bu
reau of Reclamation, $896,600 for
buildings and other minor con
struction of the Fish and Wildlife
Service, $1,405,740 for utilities
and minor roads of the National
Park Service, $79,406,000 for the
rehabilitation of the Alaska Rail
road, 5133,480,700 for the con
struction of roads and $27,516,200
(half of it reimbursable) foT the
Alaska Public Works Program.
The Commerce Dept, spent $56,
305,405 during the same period.
This included $13,259,293 for roads
in the national forests and $43,
046,112 for the Civil Aeronautics
Administration.
Public works funds for the De
partment of Health, Education and
Welfare included $3,364,995 for
schools and $2,000,000 for hospi
tals.
Robert Sommers, head o'f the
Sommers Construction Co., which
was active here during the con
struction of Nome Field, is in
town visiting with friends on a
combined business and pleasure
trip.
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DEL BARTLETT REPORTS ON
GEOLOGICAL WORK UNDERWAY
(From Del. Barileirs Office)
Anticipated demands for the
1954 fiscal year indicate the need
for further expansion of coal pro
duction in Alaska, according to in
formation released this week to
Delegate Bartlett by Dr. John C.
Reed, staff coordinator of the
Geological Survey, in announcing
a comprehensive Survey territor
ial program for 1953.
The needs will approximate
900,000 tons, as compared with
the 1952 production of 686,191
tons and the 1951 figure of 496,558
tons. The report also disclosed that
as of April of this year, seven coal
leases, 29 coal prospecting permits
and eight coal licenses were in ef
fect, covering some 68,212 acres in
Alaska.
The field work in Alaska, which
will be carried out by the mineral
classification, water and power
branches, geologic, water resourc
es and topographic divisions of the
survey, includes the following ac
tivities in this area:
Attempts at an aerial reconnais
sance of selected parts of west
central Alaska along the south
flank of the Brooks range in con
nection with anticipated field
studies to evaluate petroleum and
other mineral resource possibili
ties.
Reconnaissance examinations of
several known and reported ura
nium occurrences in various parts
of Alaska. Prospectors may have
samples examined for radioactivi
ty free of charge at the Geological
Survey laboratory, P.O. Box 922,
College, Alaska.
Studies of selected deposits con
taining antimony, lead, tungsten,
uranium and zinc in the central
Yukon region and southeastern
Alaska.
Extension of geologic studies in
the valley of the Goodnews River,
to the headwaters of the Togiak,
■and southeastward to Kulukuk
Bay.
Continuation of investigation of
the tin and tungsten possibilities
of the western part of Seward
>
Peninsula, with especial emphasis
on reconnaissance for possible
lode-tin sites in the Anikovik Riv
er area, the Kanauguk - Upper
Rapid Rivers area, and the Don
Pinguk Rivers area; study of tin
tungsten mineralization north of
Nome, and reconnaissance of the
tin-tungsten area in the upper
Kougarok basin.
Detailed geologic mapping at
the Lost River lode tin rpine as a
basis for search for additional re
serves.
Considerable work on revision
of the geological map of Alaska.
Continuation of permafrost stud
ies in Naval Peroleum Reserve
No. 4 and in the Fairbanks area.
Drilling of three test holes in
the Anchorage area, one at the
east end of Elmendorf Field, one
at the International Airport, and
one in the Spenard area, in the
ground water investigations con
templated for the season, with as
sistance to the Alaska Native Ser
vice with reference to a well at
Bethel.
NOTICE OF SALE
Notice is hereby given that sealed bids
will be received on August 4, 1953, in the
office of the Territorial Highway Engi
neer for the purchase of the following real
ar.d personal property of the Territory of
Alaska, situated in the Second Judicial
Division and declared surplus by the
Board of Administration, and more par
ticularly described as follows:
All that real and personal property
identified with and being a part of that
segment of the former Seward Peninsula
Railroad, the personal property consisting
of rails and ties lying between the north
ern end of the U.S. Smelting, Refining
and Mining Company’s thaw field just
south of the Little Creek tailings, then
south to the shore of Bering Sea in the
City of Nome, and the real property con
sisting of the right of way underlying the
said personal property from the afore
said northern end of U.S.S.R. and M. Co.’s
thaw field to the northern boundary of
the City of Nome.
All of the aforesaid property is to be
sold in two lots by separate bid for each
loL to wit:
LOT 1, personal property only, consist
ing of approximately six thousand (6000j
linear feet of rails weighing approxim
ately 26 tons, located at Lost River in the
York Peninsula and approximately 20
miles northwest of Teller, Alaska;
LOT 2. real and personal property, con
sisting of the previously described right
of way, and approximately thirty-nine
thousand 139,0001 linear feet of rails
along with the underlying ties, said rails
weighing approximately 165 tons.
The above 2 lots of personal and real
property are to be sold under the follow
ing conditions:
< a i all rails and ties within the cor
porate boundaries of the City of Nome
are to be removed on or before the first
day of August, 1954, or be forfeit to the
owner, either municipal or private, of the
land on which the said rails or ties are
laid.
(b> no rails may be removed from
the Territory of Alaska until specific
permission to do so is given by the Board
of Administration.
(ci all bids shall be accompanied by a
cashier’s or certified check, or an U. S.
postal money order, made out to the
Treasurer of the Territory of Alaska, in
the sum of five percent (5 °/ol of the
bid, said check or money order to be re
turned to the unsuccessful bidder or bid
ders after the opening of the bids.
(di final payment shall be made on or
before the first day of September, 1954.
(ei no guaranty of the number of lin
ear feet nor weights of rails in the afore
mentioned lots of personal property, nor
the amount of real property, as set forth
in this notice, is made by the Territory.
Irving Reed,
Territorial Highway Engineer
Publ. July 17, 24, 31, 1953.
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NOME. ALASKA
WHEN IN THE MARKET FOR EQUIPMENT AND TOOLS,
It Will Pay You To Investigate The Many Lines Which We Represent—
Allis-Chalmer Mfg. Co—Tractors Pumps, Belt
Drives, Electrical Equipment
Baker Manufacturing Co. — Dozers and Plows
DeLaval Steam Turbine Co. — Pumps
Detroit Diesel Engine Die. — Diesel Engines
Gar Wood Industries — Dozers
Gates Rubber Company — Belts
Hobart Manufacturing Co. — Welders
* Hydraulic Supply Mfg. Co. — Pipe
Jaeger — Compressors
Jaeger — Concrete Mixers
Jaeger — Pumps
A. Leschen & Sons Rope Co. — Wire Rope
Lincoln Engineering Co. — Greasing Equipment
Mallory — Blocks
Onan — Light Plants
Owaionna Tool Co. — Hand Tools
Power Machinery Co. — Power Saws
S K F Industries — Bearings
Smith Welding Equip. Corp.—Welding Euipment
Thor — Electric Saws
Thor — Pneumatic Tools
Thew-Lorain Shovel Co. — Cranes & Shovels
Timken Roller Bearing Co. — Bearings
Willard Batteries — Batteries
Wisconsin Motors
I ALSO DEALERS IN LUMBER, STANDARD OIL PRODUCTS, LIGHTERAGE AND
COASTWISE WATER TRANSPORATION
FORMER NOME MAN
SUED BY DAUGHTER
LO^ANGELES — Suit to col
lect $182 monthly from her 95
year-old father, Herbert Green
berg, formerly of Nome, has been
filed by his daughter, Mrs. Esther
R. Frank, 65, a divorcee.
Mrs. Frank informed the Supe
rior Court that she is ill, out of
work and charges that Greenberg
has refused to' help her. She as
serts that he is worth more than
$100,000 and has an income of
over $700 monthly.
The suit also sought $500 attor
ney’s fees and $100 costs.
Lightning can strike steel-topped
automobiles without injuring the
people in them.
Nome Branch of American
Heart Society Is Organized
Robert V. Titus, representative
of the American Heart Society,
has been organizing units through
out the Territory and has named
Dr. F. Langsam, chairman of the
local board.
Others on the Nome board are:
G. R. Jackson, treasurer; Dewey
Goodrich, M. J. Walsh, Rev.
Reeves Havens, Rev. Paul B. F.
Carlson, Mrs. Maxwell Kennedy,
Mrs. Pearse Walsh, Mrs. Emily
Boucher, and Jim von der Heydt.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Alvin Pootookooluk
o'f Lost River and James Dexter.
Discharged: Ruth Towner and
twin sons.
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