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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1920
DEVELOPING cold bay oil
FIELDS
* Three or four very strong com
panies have been organised to develop
the Cold Bay oil fields. They are all
composed of business men of wide
experience, men who have become licl.
because they have dared to back thou
judgement with thei£ money. That
’ they will find oil if it is situated in
that section of Alaska there is ni
doubt, because they have raised the
money to give the country a thorougl
lest. These men have not formed these
companies and consummated theii
plans for the expenditure of a vast
sum of money in development without
knowing what they are about. There
ip every favorable indication to en
courage them in their undertaking.
The oil seepages are abundant and the
formation indicates oil. The United
States Geological reports and oil ex
perts who have investigated the field
all have been impressed with the
promise. The experts have unhesitat
ingly advised the development that
will be in full swing this year.
' To say that the promise that Alas
ka will soon have another producing
«dl field is very hopeful is being very
conservative.— Juneau Empire.
MUST LOOK TO ALASKA
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It is to British Columbia and Alas
ka with their unscratched areas 01
pulp wood and never failing, exhaust
less water power, that the consume is
of print paper and pulp wood must
look for relief from high prices. Set •
the cost of logs at the raaxftnum oi i
SIR— it is often nearer $8— the’
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freight at $24, the fair price of manu- i
facture which includes logs at $65, and I
between $89 and the prevailing price
of $140 is a wide enough spread for i
big returns to attract capital at low
er prices to relieve the consumer.
The disadvantage of Pacific Coast
supplies is that the very remotness ot
the areas necessitate not only the pre
liminary expenditure of $3,000,000 to
$14,000,000 to install the plant— and
both the two biggest mills on the Pa
cific Coast have spent closer to the
last figure than the first— but nec^
essitates also the creation of ideal liv
. ing communities, housing, hospitals,
schools, in order to hold workers and
their families in the remote wilder
ness. This both the plants at Swanson
and Ocean Falls have done, spending
not less- than $3,000,000 each on the
housing conditions.—(Boston News
Bureau.)
There are further advantages to the
investor in the pulp and paper business
in Alaska that are not mentioned by
the great Boston financial paper. In
Alaska the Forestry Bureau makes
contracts with users of timber that al
low them to take the timber off a
certain area of land and to pay for it
as it is consumed. Much of the invest
ment in pulp and paper mills in Brit
ish Columbia and the iSast is in tim
er lands. This arrangement of the For
estry Bureau makes this great invest
ment unnecessary in Alaska. Here the
Government holds the timber.
WEATHER REPORT
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SEWARD 15 Clear Calm.
Anchorage 4 A Cloudy Calm.
Matanuska\o B Cloudy Cahn.
Chickaloon 9 B Clear Calm.
Wasilla 18 B dear Calm.
Talkeetna 3 A Cloudy Cabo.
Hurricane s B Clear Bast
Supimit 4 B Clear Calm.
Healy 0 Clear Calm,
faiiba^ t B Cloudy Oahu,
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VALDEZ DOUGS
URDU TOLD
VALDEZ, Jan. 17— Parties return
ing from Down Sound report that J.
D. Jefferson, who is fox farming or.
Bald Head Chris Island has killed sev
enteen animals this fall, besides sell
ing several pairs early in the season.
Jack Stainer, who in company with
Louis Van is raising foxes on Axel
Lind Island, arrived in town on the N.
and S. Mr. Steiner reports the fur
business very good and says his firm
has killed sixty-four blue fokes this
season, realising.$11* per skin.
A. M. Dieringer has one of the
swiftest horses in the United States.
It went three thousand feet recently in
a little less than half a minute-j- down
a mountain side. * The animal was
caught in a snowslide and carried to
the bottom of the mountain escaping
without injury.
Warrant Officer N. W. Kirby left
an the Northwestern for the States.
Mr. Kirby will be assigned to duty in
Manilla, P. I.
Sergeant and Mrs. Williams left on
the Northwestern for the States where
Sgt Williams will go to Monterey,
Cal., after a short visit with relatives
in Seattle.
Writing to friends in Valdes, Dr.
C. A. Winans states that he is located
in Medford, Oregon where he‘has a
fine chicken ranch and is doing well.
The former Valdezan recently hatched
1020 chickens and Jost but 28 out of
the number. They like the country
very much.
S. O. Casler was elected to th^posi
tion of Master Mason at a recent elec
[ tion of Valdez Lodge No. 168, F and
A. M.
Private Clement Schirripav former -
| ly stationed at McCallum as a lineman
returned on the Steamship Northwest
em from a six month’s visit with his
mother in Italy. He reports business
conditions in Italy very bad, owing to
the many strikes and the Bolshevik
agitation. Prices on food stuffs were
very high and wheat was scarce. King
Victor Emanuel is beloved by his sub
jects. Fiume was the principal topic of
discussion* when Mr. Schirripa left
Home. It was against the law to talk
against the dictator of Fiume and pun
ishment by imprisonment.
Merwin W. Parker and son Charles
of Bellingham, Washington arrived on
the steamship Northwestern to take a
position in the Miner office. Mr. Park
er is a first-class bookbinder, ruler
and pressman, and will be a valuable
addition to the force. Mr. Parker will
| move his family to Valdez in June.
/ Charles Romohr, driver for the Val
dez'Transfer Company is seriously ill
at his home on Front Street Mr. Ro
mohr has been having a slight hem
orrhage of the lungs.
Valdez Post No. 2, American Le
gion has elected the following officers
for the ensuing year; Bur Snyder,
commander, Fred Coleclough, vice
commander, John Miller, Post Adjut
ant Sgt Odle, finance officer, George
Fawcett H. G. Clifton and Charles
Naud, executive committee.
The Order of Alaskan Moose are
re-organizing again. A new building
will be erected this coining spring and
membership cards sent out All the
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Old Timers who belong to this order
are requested to get in touch with it
again.
II. D. Campbell is circulating a pe
tition at Wrangell according to the
Sentinel for the apointment of John
Rustgard for district judge.
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MASONIC NOTICE
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Stated communication Seward lodge
No. 219, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 1921, at
8 p. a. Work hi the second degree.,Ail
members rsfusatsd td bo prassnt, ih«
iting mwuhifs welcome.
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ARCTIC ICE TRAPS TWO STEAM- j
ERS IK KUSKOKWIM RlVfeU'
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After a thrilling but futile race
with winter to reach their destina
tion before the long Arctic freeze
ups, the river steamers Tana and
Quickstep are dangerously lodged in
the Kuskokwira river ice, their crews
facing a winter of isolation 130 miles
from the nearest camp.
This news was announced yester
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day by Capt. Wallace Langley, a pio
neer river master of the North, who
has just arrived in Seattle to organ
ize aid for his trapped steamers aft
er a twenty,- five day trip from Kus
koquim. Capt Langley, while con
fident he can save the steamers, willj
return to the scene in March to as-1
sist infsalvaging the vessels from the'
spring ice break-up.
Late last fall, owing to the combi*!
nation of low water and cold weath
er, both boats were caught in the
ice 130 miles below McGrath, where
they were supposed to go into winter
quarters.
.Capt. Langley, who has been op
erating steamers on the Kusk'oquim
for the past five seasons, is well
known among Alaskans and for sev
eral years operated the Tana on the
Yukon river. The Tana was always
the first boat to. leave Lower La
Barge in the spring with perishables
for the lower river.*
The Kuskokwim district, according
to Capt. Langley, is not a mushroom
camp, but will in time prove to be
a big producer and will add mate
rially to the wealth of Alaska.
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The S. S. ALAMEDA will sail from SEATTLE on
the 14th via Inside Passage.
The sailing of the VICTORIA on the 10th of Jan
uary has been cancelled.
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