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Fntared as second-class matter September. 2.1915. at the postofica at Seward. Alaaaa.
under act of March S. 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
ONE YEAR, In advance.$10.00 PER MONT, delivered.. .$1.00
THE ALASKA WEEKLY POST by mall 3.001 ADVERTISING RATES on application.
MAIL DELAYED l N HL IT S
NO BETTER THAN JI NK
The Iditarod Pioneer is peeved at
the mail situation existing by reason
of the small amount of mail carried
overland by winter and its stand is
well taken and its expressions con
cerning the situation are well put in
the following statement and letter sent
to Delegatee Sulzer:
“If there should have happened to
have been any inspectors of the postal
department, or any officials of that
useful branch of our government
wandering around in Alaska at thi>
season of the year, they could have
gained an insight into the workings of
the service with relation to this sec
tion of Alaska that would have been
a valuable object lesson had they hap
pened to drop into Iditarod during the
past week.
“More than 250 sacks of mail mat
ter, weighong some seven or eight
tons, was dumped into the local post
office on Friday night, June 22. A
very large proportion of this was sec
ond-«lass, consisting of newspapers,
periodicals and the like, with a con
siderable amount of parcel post mat
ter. In this collection were literally
tons of stuff that could be classed as
nothing else but junk — newspapers
and magazines dating from last Sep
tember, advertising matter of Thanks
giving and Christmas specialties for
IDIG, and sack after sack of material
that, had it been dumped into the
bay at Seward, where it had peace
fully reposed all winter, would have
saved expense to Uncle Sam in trans
porting it, and time and trouble to
the postiffice force and the recipients.
For it was of no earthly use to any
one.
“The remedy lies in increasing the
weight limit of the weekly consign
ments so that the Iditarod district,
consisting of Iditarod, Flat and Dis
covery, with the country immediate
ly adjacent, would be provided with
at least 400 or 500 pounds of mail
weekly.
“Heading matter, as has often been
pointed out, is almost as essential as
food in a country where the winters
are long and the days are extremely
short. It is believed that this could
be done without greatly adding to the
cost of the present service. With this
object in view The Pioneer has dis
patched to Charles Sulzer, delegate in
congress from Alaska, the following
letter:
“ ‘We have just reecived the
“big spring mail,” which consisted of
practically all newspapers and maga
zines mailed to us since last Septem
ber. Of course they are useless now*,
and it seems like a fearful waste of
energy, money and material in dump
ing this stuff here at this time. You,
as an Alaskan, can no doubt appre
ciate wffiat a boon the receipt of all
this reading matter would have been
to us during the long winter months.
“ ‘You might be able to do an in
estimable service to the people of the
Iditarod district by having the weight
limit on the Seward-Iditarod mail
route increased. The contract expires
next spring, and it is understood that
the new contract is to be let during
the coming summer. The present con
tracts calls for 400 pounds of mail
weekly between Susitna and Iditarod.
The great territory served by this
route, including the lnnoko, Iditarod
and Kuskokwim valleys, cuts the
amount received by l*'lat and Idita
rod to 150 to 250 pounds; this amount
is further lessened by the tact that
residents of outlying precincts which
are served by other routes receive a
large portion of their mail here and |
have it forwarded. The result is that
we get little more than first-class mail
and local (Alaska) second-class. Dur
ing the winter The Pioneer received
not one of its Outside exchanges, not
even a Seattle paper sifting through,
l or the past three days the local post
otlice force has been engaged day and
night in distributing the winter’s ac
cumulations, and we are regaled with
newspapers containing acocunts ot last
fall’s election, the Thanksgiving foot
ball games and the Christmas festivi
ties. Besides this, enormous quanti
ties of advertising matter dilating on
last fall’s clothing, Thanksgiving and
Christmas novelties are filling up our
waste baskets.
“4 We are sure the postal authori
ties do not realize the conditions here,
nor what an injustice is being done to
our people, who spend thousands of
dollars annually for publications that
they never receive until they are prac
tically useless. A peculiar thing about
it is that certain publications appear
with fair regularity, even during the
winter, while others are never receiv
ed until spring. The rule of the de
partment that newspapers and peri
odicals addressed to newspaper pub
lishers in Alaska shall be given a cer
tain degree of preference is entirely
ignored.
“ ‘There is a splendid mail trail be
tween Seward and Iditarod, and in
dividual mushers frequently have
made the trip in eleven and twelve
days. The mail contract allows twen
ty-live days. It would be a compara
tively easy task to increase the weight
limit to six hundred or eight hundred
pounds, and thus allow of our getting
practically all of our mail with the
1 exception of parcel post. And this
should appeal to the authorities as
nothing more than right in view of
the fact that the Fairbanks district
is provided with a tri-weekly mail
service which inscres the reecipt of
all mail at all times/ ”
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—Gans in Baltimore American.
DAVISON IS
ORDERED TO
REPORT EAST
Officer of Alaska Road Commission
Board Called East for War
Service
JUNEAU, Aug. 14, (Mail Corres
pondence).—Lieut. Col. Peter W.
Davison, member and disbursing1
agent of the Alaska Board of Road
Commissioners, has been detached
from duty in Alaska and ordered to
report to the Adjutant-General of the
.United States Army for orders.
No announcement has been made
as to what changes the new order of
things will make in connection with;
the Road Commission. It had been
the intention of Col. W. P. Richard
son, President of the Commission, to
leave for Fairbanks by way of Skag
way and the White Pass this week.'
Lieut.-Col. Davison was to leave for
Valdez and thence to Fairbanks over
the road. He and Col. Richardson
then planned to return to the coast
overland and back to Juneau.
Lieut.-Col. Davison was assigned to
duty as a member of the Road Com
mision nearly two years ago, succeed
ing Capt. Kunzig as disbursing officer.
He previously had served in Alaska
with his regiment at Fort Davis,
Nome. His assignment to the Road
Commission was welcomed by hun
dreds of former friends, and his as
sociates on the Commission, and his
services on the board have been high
ly satisfactory to the people of the
Territory.
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WOMAN ENDS LIFE
AT NUSHAGAK CANNERY
SEATTLE, Aug. 21.—Gladys Bur
gess, wife of E. E. Burgess, an em
ployee of the Northwestern Fisheries
company at its Nushagak cannery,
committed suicide by taking poison to
day. No cause is advanced to explain
the act.
NEW DREDGE
WILL BE USED
YEAR ROUND
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Equipment Taken I p Inlet lor Instal
lation on the Nakochna
River
W. W. Woodard and son. who have
been developing placer and dredging
property on the Nakochna and Ki
chatna rivers during the summers and
spending their winters in Seattle,
passed through Seward recently to be
gin dredging. The property, consist
ing of nine miles of ground, was re
cently incorporated in the Nakochna
Gold Dredge company.
The development work of the past
few years has proven the ground and
a dredge with a daily capacity of 2500
yards‘will be installed this summer.
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The machinery and equipment is now
at the head of the Inlet and will be
taken up the river. Woodard was
over two months late in getting the
machinery from the factories on ac
count of the extra amount of rush or
ders ahead of him. He was forced to
pay a big bonus before he could get
the boilers and the prices of all ma
chinery parts have materially ad
vanced. For instance, Woodard said
that the price of steel cable had ad
vanced from 17c to 42c in the past
year and was hard to get even at the
advanced price. He estimates that
the outfit complete cost the company
in the neighborhood of $8000 more
than the original figure, which is a
fair comparison to the advance in all
other lines.
Chas. M. Hudson and his son Bert
arrived on the Admiral Watson and
will have charge of assembling the
dredge. Woodard brought five experi
enced dredge men with him from Se
attle and will employ in the neighbor
hood of fifteen men on the Nakochna
and Kichatna properties.
The company will also erect a saw
mill and put on a tractor and will get
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The fast power-schooner, “Kumback,” running between Kern Creek
and Anchorage and way points, meets all Seward trains at Kern Creek.
A chance to see the new road on your way to Anchorage.
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Sailings from Seattle:
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Northwestern....Aug. 27 Alaska.Sept, t
Santa Ana will sail westward after the arrival of the S. S. Alaska,
which left Seattle August 18th. .
S. S. Ketchikan will leave Seattle August 21st with oils and ex
plosives.
All ships go through to Anchorage.
For further particulars of service, rates.apply to Agent.
A. H. MCDONALD, Agent.
For the benefit of those Interested in Alaska in
General and Seward in Particular an
INFORMATION BUREAU
lias boon established in connection with this paper, and all those desir
ing information as to the value of real estate and business opportuni
ties are requested to address their communications to
INFORMATION DEPARTMENT, SEWARD
GATEWAY.
Seward, Alaska.
out its own timber for housing th<>
dredge and building cabins and ware
houses suflicient for many years’ work
in the country. Woodard advises that
the company will work all winter and
is abundantly fitted out with steam
pipes to insure against freezing and
the boiler is arranged with surplus
capacity to guarantee steady opera
tion.
PASSF.NCER LOST OFF
YUKON RIVER BOAT
FAIRBANKS, Aug. 3, (By Mail).
A passenger named A. Jemischi
mysteriously disappeared from one of
the lower Yukon river boats near Holy
Cross several days ago, according to
information received yesterday by the
U. S. marshal’s office. Jemischi went
on be ard at Dikeman and took pas
sage for Nenana. After leaving Holy
Cross the man was missed. Deputy
Marshal Vawter, who was on the
boat, wired hack to Holy Cross, hut
no trace of the missing man could he
found, nor could any information con
cerning him be learned. The man's
! nggage and dog were sent on to Ne
lana. It is possible that he fell over
board, but that is not considered at
ill likely.
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No. 02763.
In the United States Land Office at
Juneau, Alaska, June 21, 1017.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOK
PATENT.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
That under and in pursuance of the
Act of Congress of May 14, 1898, as
amended by the Act of Congress of
March 3, 1903, granting additional
land to soldiers and sailors who served
in the army and navy of the United
States during the Civil War, the un
dersigned, Kennecott Copper Corpor
ation, a corporation, the post office ad
dress and place of business of which
said corporation is at the Town of
Latouche, upon Latouche Island, in
the Territory of Alaska, has made ap
plication for a patent to a tract of land
situated upon the westerly side of
Latouche Island, in the Territory of
Alaska, containing 20.73 acres entered
in the United States Land Office at
Juneau, Alaska, under the serial num
ber 02763, and surveyed and platted
as United States Survey No. 713. The
said Kennecott Copper Corporation
has entered upon the said tract of land
as the assignee of Henry J. Engell,
who served in the army of the United
States during the Civil War, from Oc
tober 2, 1861, to October 10, 1864, in
Company “I,” 86th Regiment of New
York Volunteers, and who received an
honorable discharge from said ser
vice.
The said tract of land lies adjacent
to the Town of Latouche, which said
town lies upon the western side of
Latouche Island, in the Territory of
Alaska, and upon the easterly shore of
Latouche Passage, at Latitude GO de
grees O.’i minutes north, Longtitude
147 degrees 54 minutes 50 seconds
west, and the said tract is bounded
upon the most northerly end by the
Gravina lode mining claim, United
States Survey No. 782, and by the
White Wing lode mining claim, United
States Survey No. 782; upon the west
erly side by the Julia lode mining
claim, United States Survey No. 584,
and by the Creek lode mining claim,
United States Survey No. 584; upon
the southwesterly end by the Eagle
lode mining claim, United States Sur
vey No. 584, and upon the southeast
erly side by the Chinega lode mining
claim, United States Survey No. 584.
A more particular description of said
tract is as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, from
which Corner No. 1 United states Lo
cation Monument No. 1 bears south 87
degrees 20 minutes west, 25.55 chains
distant, and from which Corner No.
1 Corner No. 4 of United States Non
Mineral Survey No. 712, concurrently
entered by the Kennecott Copper Cor
poration, as assignee of the aforesaid
Henry J. Engell, bears north 34 de
grees 29 minutes west, 4.22 chains dis
tant; thence south 27 degrees 57 min
utes west, 22.82 chains following the
southeasterly side line of Julia lode
mining claim, United States Survey
No. 584, and the northerly part of the
southeasterly side line of Creek lode
mining claim, United States Survey
No. 584, to Corner No. 2; thence south
62 degrees 03 minutes east, following
the northerly end line or boundary of
Eagle lode mining claim, United
States Survey No. 584, 9.09 chains to
Corner No. 3, the said point being
identical with the most northwesterly
corner of Big Bonanza lode mining
claim, United States Survey No. 584,
and the most southwesterly corner of
Chinega lode mining claim, United
States Survey No. 584; thence north
27 degrees 57 minutes east, 22.81 Va
chains to Comer No. 4, the said Cor
ner No. 4 being identical with the most
northwesterly comer of said Chinega
lode mining claim, United States Sur
vey No. 584; thence north 62 degrees
03 minutes west, following the most
southerly end lines of White Wing
lode mining claim, United States Sur
vey No. 782, and Gravina lode min
ing claim, United States Survey No.
782, a distance of 9.09 chains to the
place of beginning. Magnetic vari
ation, 26 degrees 30 minutes east.
The foregoing description by metes
and bounds is according to the official
plat and field notes on file in the office
of the Register of the Land Office at
Juneau, Alaska, a copy of which said
official plat is posted upon the land
with this notice of application for pat
ent.
Date of posting this notice on the
land, June 14, 1917.
C. B. WALKER,
. Register.
First Pub. Aug. 8,1917.
Last Pub. Oct 18,1917,