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From all available data it appears
that, there is an ample supply of wood
cut on the creeks to last them through
the next season and that it will sell at
a fairly reasonable figure.
From the same data it looks like the
denizens of this fair city are tip against
it with wood that will come almost as
high per slab as Rex bacon, unless
some modest cords can be dug up from
way back in the tall timber.
Mining men say tiiat they will use
something like 10,000 cords in their
operations on the creeks next season
and that from all appearances there is a
large proportion of that already piled
on the ground. It is figured that it
has cost about $(i to cut this wood, and
that it can he laid on the c'aims for not
more than $1. Others place the figure
higher than this and opine that wood
will cost in the neighborhood of $12 on
the creeks.
Flat creek is said to have enough
wood in its own watershed to supply
all operators thereon for at least one
season, while Otter and Black will sup
ply wood for several seasons to come.
Along the right limit of Otter in the
vicinity of Flat, there are some thou
sands of cords which will be easily
transported when the snow gets good.
Eventually it appears that the wood
for the creeks must come in from the
Bonanza side of the divide where there
is reported a fait' supply of good tim
ber.
Just how many cords of wood there
are avilable iu the environs of Iditarod
City is hard to guess. Quite a number
of men turned their attention to this
proposition in the late summer, but a
good proportion of them devoted them
selves to steamboat wood for next sea
son. and it is difficult to estimate what
proportion of wood was cut for town
use.
However it is said that there are a
good many hundred cords in the woods
within a radius of three and four miles,
which should be hauled here over good
trails at not more than $4 a cord. Plac
ing the cost on the ground at $0and$7,
wood should not cost more than $11 in
this town this winter.
Still there are those who claim that
it. cannot be touched at $4 for a hauling
charge, and they cite the prevailing
price of $20 per cord, sawed and de
livered as evidence of the fact that
every consumer is due to get it in the
neck this winter.
At the local mills and sawing con
cerns they are getting this price, but
that cannot be used as a criterion for
the prices that will prevail here when
trail conditions become propitious. Al
though foodstulis and horse feed is
much higher than it was in Fairbanks,
there would seem to be no good eco
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nomical reason why the price of wood
should he twico as high as it was there
with much shorter hauls.
OTTER BUSINESS MEN
GET THE RIGHT HUNCH
Sunday night a meeting was had
among the residents of Discovery Otter
for the purpose of raising funds to build
a winter trail from Otter to the Kus
kokwira, and to prepare in a measure
for the big traffic that will be necessary
between the two points in order to feed
the many that are there.
The idea met with a hearty response,
since it offers every inducement in a
business way to the merchants of this
section. There being no grub at
Georgetown, it becomes necessary to
take it all from here and a double-ender
trail is said to be entirely practical,
with a possibility that grub can be
taken over as low as five cents.
The proposed route, as far as de
termined upon, and subject to change
without notice will follow up Otter and
up Little. It will then follow down
Nugget, crossing Bonanza.
Going down the Kuskokwim side the
trail will probably pass down Michigan
creek and down George river.
A committee was appointed at the
meeting to look into the matter of rais
ing funds for the work and these men
are now on the job taking the mazuma.
Work will begin almost immediately
and the going should be good by the
time snow fllies in earnest.
FLAT CREEK NOTES
There were high jinks at the dance
given at the Grand hotel at Flat city
last Saturday night, when Mrs. Selma
Swanson tendered the second ball of
the season at that hostelry. A large
concourse of people had assembled who
came just for the purpose of having a
good time and they did so, continuing
the festivities until late in the morning.
Although everyone at Flat is extremely
busy in the daylight hours, preparing
for the coming of winter, they are
never too tired to swing ’em on the
corners when the chance affords.
In the absence of Jack Connolly, who
went to Fairbanks to secure a license
for a saloon at Flat City, Mrs. Con
nolly lias started construction opera
tions on the new building that will
house the joy emporium when it finally
arrives. According to the latest dope
it appears that this license will surely
he granted but its issuance will be de
layed until word can reach there from
this city.
Drs. Carter and Spaulding, who re
cently consolidated the two branches
of the Pioneer drug store at Flat city,
have just completed a second-storv ad
dition on their store building. This
will be occupied as living quarters.
Bill Casey's new place, next to Frank
Stanley’s roadhouse is already and
waiting with open arms for the re
ception of the proprietor who is some
where between here and Fairbanks
bucking the ice of the Tatiana, the Yu
kon or the Iditarod. With the installa
tion of the machinery, the shining up
of bottles and the storing of the red
stuff that cheers, Casey’s place is ready
to become the first saloon of Flat City.
The Globe Bakery, the property of
Carroll & Thorns is now safely stored
in winter quarters where “ham and”
can be expected to smoke with proper
savor the rest of the winter. Both
Chas. Carroll and A1 Thirns are busy
putting up cabins for their winter
habitations.
I. Jaffe, the clothing merchant of
Fiat City, has just moved into his fine,
new store building. They do say that
Jaffe has one of the finest gents’ fur
nishing stocks in the whole country.
Fred Carter, who is now engaged in
freighting between this city and the
creeks, has fixed up very comfortable
quarters at Flat for the winter. He
contemplates an early trip to the other
side of the divide.
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COLO WEATHER POTS
BREAKS ON A TRIFLE
Owing to the difficulties attending
cold weather, work on the creeks is be
ing slightly hampered with the result
that cleanups suffer slightly in the
final total.
Doc Mading arrived in the city Tues
day with a poke of $13,500, representing
a nine-day run on the Wildcat associa
tion where he is still working a con
siderable crew, and where he has hopes
of continuing at least until the first of
the month.
George Riley was also in the first of
the week with a cleanup that is re
ported at something less than 1000
ounces.
With the exception of Lynn and Nel
son and Bates brothers on 1-A Otter,
these are about the only outfits that
are now sluicing and they will soon be
hushed by the all-embracing touch of
winter. _
Have your nuggets made into souve
nirs at Simpson’s, the pioneer jeweler.
Odorless Closets complete at The
Tin Shop.
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Jim Jeffries comes out with a
statement now and says he believes
that he had been tampered with,
probably doped, and that his bad
showing against Johnson on July 4
was caused by his mind being mud
dled and his physical condition not
up to its usual standard. Jeff is
quoted in a long article which he
gave out after his return from a
fishing trip at Catalina island.
Poor old Jeff has been along time
coming out with a statement, and
he would have made a popular
move if he had not said anything.
The old gag of being doped has
been brought into play so often
that it has worked itself into stale
ness, and now the fans give any
fighter who makes this cjv the “ha
ha.” That is what Jeff is getting|
| and there is but little stock taken
j in his story.
Seldom lias a champion been
DR. B, F. BROOKS,
Physician and Surgeon
Over Merchants Cafe, First Avenue
Telephone 30
Dr. Heinrich Wortmann
Physician ansi Surgeon
Office at City Drug Store, Tel. 36
First Ave., bet. Willow and Richmond
DR. E. T. BRADBURY,
Dentist
Over Merchants Cafe, First Avenue
Telephone 3-OB
CHAS. D. CARTER,
Dentist
Offices, Pioneer Druj? Stores,
Flat Creek
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Iditarod, Alaska Phone No. 7
The Pioneer Attorneys of This Camp
ALFRED E. MALT BY,
fU. S. Commissioner]
Attorney at Law
Notary Public
Practice only in District Court. IDiTAROD
F. E. BECKER,
Attorneyand Counselor at Law
Office—Iditarod Pioneer
CHAS. E. TAYLOR,
Attorney at Law,
Notary Public, Conveyancing,
Abstracts of Titles
Iditarod City
J. S. HARDING,
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George Auten Dave Ferguson
beaten but that he had an argument
for a return match, but it is not so
with Jeff. The big fellow is judged
by the fans as a man who has
passed his days of usefulness in the
ring, and what he might have done
to Johnson five years ago is a mat
ter for the past.
There is little Chance that Jeff
and Johnson will ever clash again.
In fact, the big fellow says that he
is through, and everybody' thinks
that lie is wise by' saying so. But
as a matter of argument, if the men
were ever rematched it’s a dollar to
a doughnut that the colored fighter
would be a 3 to i choice. And it
is also doubtful if the fight would
draw a corporal’s guard, as any'
man who had the sympathies of the
white fighter at heart would not go
to see him get a gruelling as he did
last July. If two-thirds of that
crowd ever had an idea of the out
come before the last fight they
would never have gathered in that
arena
Jeff said in his quoted statement
that he could not remember a single
incident that happened when he
went down the aisle of the ring into
the arena. He said that he was a
bit nervous when he entered the
ring for former fights, but was
never scared. He said that he was
not nervous on July 4 last, nor was
he scared.
Again he declared his brain [
would not work on that day, and [
that it he had known his condition !
would have had the bets declared
off.
Another statement which is pur
ported to have come from Jeff is
that he entered the ring with Lis
legs straddled tar apart, and that
when he was given a great ovation
he did not respond in a becoming
manner.
He says he cannot understand
now how he would have overlooked
that applause if he had been right
Well, Jeff acted just as he had al
ways acted. When it come to
being civil, that was out of Jeff’s
makeup.
A Nome View of iditarod
The people who go to make lip
the population in the Iditarod coun
try must be made up of genuine
stampeders, for a report where two
men had taken out $goo, or $450
each in a year, was enough to fire
their blood, and away they were
like a flock of wild sheep, running
over hill and dale trying be first
upon the ground to grab a few as
sociation claims for self and friends,
to say nothing about the dummies.
There can’t be so very much in
sight at present in the Iditarcd if
every mother’s son can afford to
drop pick and shovel, business men 1
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Black Street, Near Slippern’s Mill
close their doors to stampede to a
reported strike many miles away
and the amount of gold discovered
very limited.—Nome Nugget.
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Norland's,