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IF YOU WON IT WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
This is the season of the year when many Alas
kans are wondering what they will do when they win
the Nenana ice contest; wondering whether they will
continue to be a slave or transplanted overnight into
the sovereign class.
Perhaps some will do as Dives did; lean back in a
luxurious chair and inhale snorts of “red-eye,” while
some Lazarus scratched his bureaucratic fleas on the
front door step and explored the garbage can for bones.
What would we do? Well that's difficult to say.
However, it would be nice to have more holidays;
more time to sit down and reflect that it is good to be
alive. Not so much time chasing the almighty dollar like
a hungry coyote camping on the trail of a corpulent
jackrabbit, and spend Sunday figuring how to circurm
vent his fellow citizen.
There's too much of a rush from the cradle to the
grave. If you loiter along you are called a bum. Seems
like we are born in a hurry, live by electricity, vitamins
and Republican alministration, and die with scientific
expedition.
Yes, if we won, we would buy more leisure.
SHOULD HAVE BEEN UNANIMOUSLY AGAINST
Alaska’s own legislators almost put more shackles
on the Territory’s infant mining industry when they
voted eight to seven to table the Johnston-Nerland pla
cer mining 8-hour proposed law. It will be interesting to
learn how the vote was split for future political guidance.
Instead of adding a couple of more handcuffs the solons
should light now be mowing heaven and earth to make
the way easier for development of the countries natural
resources.
A MATCHLESS RECORD
The harbor of Resurrection Bay on which Seward
is located, has a clear record for immunity from danger
such as few harbors in the world can match. In well over
a quarter of a century since ocean vessels first began
making this a regular port of call, they have safely
come and gone at all hours of the day in the year, win
ter and summer, in clear weather and in thick weather,
without a single accident
THE RECORD OF ALASKAN SKIES
It is greatly doubted if Airplane Inspector Wiley
Wright, now enroute to examine planes, pilots and
equipment* will discover anything out of place with Alas
ka planes, or that he will ground any of the pilots. The
airways of Alaska are dotted with fliers of unusual abil
ity and skill; their planes of the best. We doubt if ever
a single passenger has ever been killed or even met with
a serious accident! Can any other State or Territory in
the Union equal that record?
After climbing to the top of Mt. Marathon to ob
tain snow scenes of the surrounding terrain, the local
photographer recalled he had forgotten his glasses.
His friend, of Scotch descent, replied: “Never mind.
There is no one here, so we can drink out of the bottle.”
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The best thing in life is to depend upon yourself,
then there won’t be any excuse for your failure.
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An Eskimo band from the Arctic is preparing to
broadcast native jazz to the States. We knew if we wait
ed and persevered Alaska’s revenge would be sweet.
National Editop 1 at Association
110 SPANNING THE
ALASKA PENINSULA IS
NEEDED NOW, EH
A lot of people in the Bristol
Bay country, the Alaska Peninsu
la proper and at Kanatak, look j
forward to the day when the j
Westward area receives more at
tention from government and Ter
ritorial officials with special ref
erence to roads, states H. N. Evans,
fur buyer and trading post own
er who at present is in Seward.
When the cannery season is
over there is little to do until it
is time to go out on the trap line.
But if a road was constructed
across the Alaska Peninsula from
Kanatak to Bristol Bay, the resi
dents out there could make a
! better living by salting fish and
I taking it out over the road to
| an open port—Kanatak. As most
(people know, Bristol Bay is more
or less iced in during the long
winters. It is an easy country to
build roads in, being a high re
gion covered profusely with ex
cellent gravel.
There is need, Mr. Evans said,
right now for at least a good trail
from Kanatak to Ugashik, a dis
tance of approximately 100 miles,
and from Ugashik to Igigik,
another 50 miles.
More shelter cabins are needed
and those now there are in a sad
state o€ disrepair. This route is
used continually during December,
February and March; the winter
mail is brought out from Dilling
ham this way. In years past, the
mail was months in reaching the
Bristol Bay district. Last winter
the first mail arrived for Christ
mas.
Another piece of work necessary
is that of blasting rocks from the
rapids at the connecting point of
Igigik River with Lake Bacharof.
This is the only danger spot on
the entire inland water-course to
Bristol Bay, one day’s travel, and
each year one or two boats are
lost in these rapids. Last year Mr.
Evans barely escaped with his life.
The cost of this work would be
small and he stands ready to co
operate in anyway in order that
these rocks may be cleared away.
Indications, he said, are that the
blasting may be done this year at
a cost of about $1,000.
The old oil company road lead
ing to the domes is in poor shape
and should be given some atten
tion this year but a six mile road
t-o Bacharof would eliminate a
number of miles via the other way.
The road needs of that imme
diate region are not great, but
what little there is, would eer
ily be appreciated, Mr. Evans
said, and ■would help solve many
problems for the residents on the
Alaska Peninsula.
nIviei>YeJ?£i[EVT TRIKD HOBLUCKU
CREAM TOD HAVE MISSED
SOUTHING GOOD. Sold only at the Gandy
LEGAL NOTICE
u. s. land office
^An®J‘or*Ke, Alaska March 10. 1931.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby Riven that Marguerite
Lowe, widow of J. C. Lowe, deceased, has
made application for a soldiers* additional
homestead serial 07252, for a tract of land
embraced in U. S. Survey No. 1921. situate
on the north shore of Nushagak Bay near
Snag Point east and adjoining U. S. Survey
No. 1930, from which corner No. 1 of. said
survey No. 1921, U. S. I. M. No. 13A bears
S. 73° 23' 62" W. 61.41 chains, containing
0.06 acres. Latitude 59° 02' 21" N. Longi
tude 168° 26' 19" W.
Any and all persons claiming adversely
and of the above mentioned land should file
their adverse claims in the U. S. Land Of
fice, Anchorage, Alaska, within the period
of publication or thirty days thereafter or
they will be barred by the provisions of the
Statutes.
J. Lindley Green,
Register.
Date first publication April 18, 1931.
Date last publication June 18. 1931.
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