FUR NORIK SAWMILL
BANISHES IGLOO
Up at Noorvik, north of the Arctic
circle the world’s “farthest north’1
sawmill is being operated by natives
who, until a few years ago, never saw
a steel tool; whose parents truly be
longed to the stone age, t
Noorvik is east of Kotzebue sound,
on the Kobuk river. There, through
its Seattle office, the United States
Bureau of Education maintains an edu
cational plant, of which the sawmill
is a part. Its operations are directed
by Jonathan II. Wagner, in charge of
the Alaskan bureau of the department,
from his offices in Seattle.
Not one of the millworkers ever
saw another sawmill, yet the lumber
turned out is surprisingly good and
the plant is making a profit each year.
And there isn't an igloo in the vil
lage! Every one has been replaced
by a frame home. Every home is
Strictly fresh candies. Schallerer’s
Alaska Shop.
You read it in The Gateway first.
floored. Every family sleeps in, a
bed and his furniture, turned out by
the mill.
Theres’ a native church and co
operative store. They were built from
lumber produced at the mill.
Just to show what they can do, the
natives are building a 55-foot schooner
from their own lumber and a river
scow of the same dimensions. They
already have built three power launch
es and more than 300 sail and row
boats. and in addition, they’re selling
their lumber surplus to other settle
ments.
The bureau, under it 5 system of edu
cation. owns the equipment. 'It fur
nishes fuel and oil and maintains su-1
pervision through Sylvester Chance,
in charge of the station. Chance is
superintendent of the norrkwest dis
trict. 1
The Eskimos operate the mill and
give the government one-sixth of all
the lumber sawed. The co-operative
store acts as a bank, pays for the la
bor and markets the material. Under
the system the Eskimo makes good
wages and has plenty of lumber for
his private needs. The going price is
$50 a thousand feet.
On this basis, besides the church
NEBRASKA TRACK SQIUD
BEITS COLORADO MS
DENVER, April 6. (#*)—'The Uni
versity of Nebraska track squad had
little trouble in disposing of the
Colorado Aggies and Denver Univer
sity in a triangular meet here today.
The Cornhuskers piled up 81 points
to 27 each by the Aggies and Denver.
The Nebraska squad is now en route
to California to meet, the University
of California team.
and store, the government school and
hospital were built almost entirely
from native lumber. The window
frames and so forth came from Seat
tle.
On the self-help basis the natives of
Norvik have become one of the most
prosperous communities in Alaska.
The latest in Easter nov
elties from the Pig’n Whistle
company in cutest of de-j
signs. Candy Cottage.
WANTED—To Buy, Clean cotton rags, j
will pay 5c per pound. Gateway, tf. I
CONDITION OF FERDININD
SKID TO OF IMPROVING
BUCHAREST, Rumania, April 6.
(#*)—The condition of King Ferdi
nand, who has been critically ill with
grippe, improved during the day in
creasing his chances for recovery.
Physicians said last night that Prince
Carol was flying by plane to his
father’s bedside.
SAN DIEGO, April 5. (/P)—Crush
ed beneath his machine when it
plunged 150 feet down the steep em
bankment on the biologican grade
just opposite the observatory, Harry
L. Waltman, Corporal from the Mar
ine base was instantly killed shortly
before seven o’clock last night.
Seattle Tee Cream at Schallerer’t
Alaska Shop. tf
GREATER HITT OE '
STUDENTS CHRISTIANS
NEW YORK, April 6. (JP)—A great
majority of American college stud
ents are Christians according to Rev.
Chrales Stedzle who has just com
pleted a survey among 100 American
colleges. His survey did not include
larger universities such as Harvard,
Yale or Columbia.
OAKLAND, Calif., April G. T/P)—A
man was found slashed nearly to
death on the streets of Oakland Sat
urday morning and his wife found
chopped to death with an axe in the
Friedas home. He was arrested on ,
charges of murder and is accused of
killing his wife in a fit of jealousy.
Mens shoes resoled, heeled and
polished $2.75. Seward Leather
Works.
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-the password to
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GIVE the sign to the man behind the
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—the national joy smoke!
&1927, R J. Reynolds Tobtces
npany, Winstan-SsJenj, N. C.
P. A. is sold everywhere in tidy red
tins, pound and half-pound tin humi
dors, and pound crystal-glass humidors
with sponge-moistener top. And always
with every hit of bite and parch re
moved by the Prince Albert process.
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