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Leaving: Seward for Cook Inlet, Iliamna, Kenai and other
ports: Aug. 4, 13, 25; Sept. 8, 22; Oct. 6, 20.
Capt. Heinie Berger Seward, Alaska
The Alaska Railroad
(Mr. McKinley Park Route)
TRAINS ARRIVE
Each Thursday 6:30 p. m.
Each Friday 6:30 p. m.
TRAINS DEPART
Each Friday 9:00 a. m. Mc
Kinley Park and way points.
Each Saturday 7:30 a. m. Fair
banks and way points.
Mixed train from Anchorage and intermediate points ar
rives each Wednesday p. m.
Mixed train for Anchorage and intermediate points leaves
not earlier than 10:00 a. m. each Saturday.
Mixed train carries a coach and handles passengers.
Alaskan Airways Inc.
Fly With the Mail on Weekly Schedule
To All Interior Points
It is to your advantage to make arrangements for trip
after seeing our pilots:
JOE CROSSON MATT A. NIEMINEN
NOEL WEIN
Anchorage, Alaska
STEAMSHIP STARR
CAPTAIN C. E. ANDERSON
NEXT SAILING AUGUST 3
SAN JAUN FISHING & PACKING
COMPANY
Chas. A- Jansen, Agent
Phone Madison 139 Seward, Alaska
Travel by the
Dollar Steam
ship Line from
Pacific Coast
ports to New
York via Pana
ma Canal.
Vessel
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Vv'.t tsan
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Vi a son
Seattle Arrives South
Leaves Sewrd Seward
July 22 July 29 Aug. 3
Aug. 5 Aug. 12 Aug. 17
Aug. 12 Aug. 19 Aug. 24
Aug. 26 Sep. 2 Sep. 7
Patscnger acrammodaUona as ah !
Admiral Lina Teuala hava be»n cam- i
Bittciy and materially improved. Tea 1
will find them very ettraetiva aad •
cumfortaMa.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
LARGEST A /
FLEET ™
T»EAIMk\tNE
Steamer
Lvs. Seattle
Northbound
Lvs. Seward
Southbound
ALEUTIAN .July 25
YUKON .Aug. 1
ALEUTIAN ..Aug. 8
YUKON .Aug. 15
July 31
Aug. 7
Aug. 14
Aug. 21
Denali sails July 10
R. A. Hall, Acting Agent
PHONE MAIN 125
of
LOSS OF UR FLOW
FROM ARCTIC, SAID
A “flood” of cold air from the
Arctic regions to Europe, which
depleted the supply that might
have come to the United States,
is believed to have been one of
the causes of the prolonged
drought of last • year in America,
according to the United States
Daily.
Previous studies by the Weather
Bureau have shown that the
drought was a result of a pro
longed stagnation of the air over
the United States, Mr. Humph
reys, of the Bureau said, and his
theory of the flow of cold air ac
counts for this stagnation.
Mr. Humphreys reached his con
clusions, which have not hereto-1
fore been made public, as a result
of studies of weather conditions
throughout the world last year,
combined with general knowledge
of meteorological principles and j
data. The following information j
also was given orally by Mr. |
Humphreys:
“The cause of any considerable '
rainfall is the rapid cooling of an |
large of warm, moist air. This j
usually is brought about by inter- '
action between currents of cool I
and warm air, the warm flowing
up over the cold, or. in other
cases, the heavier, cool current
forcing its way under the lighter,
warm current, raising it to a
higher elevation and causing it to
cool. The cooling reduces the wa
ter-carrying capacity of the vol
ume occupied and causes the for
mation of drops of water which
are precipitated in the form of
rain.
“Generally speaking, there is a
amount of warm, moist air. This
flowing from the tropics, and cold
air from the Polar regions, the
contrasting currents meeting with
the result that the warm air is
raised and cooled, and rain falls.
The flow of cold air from the
Arctic however, takes certain pre
ferred paths, such as the great
trough of comparatively level land
extending down the MacKenzie
River valley in Canada and the
Mississippi valley in the United
States, or the path across the At
lantic east of Greenland, toward
Europe.
“When an unusually heavy flow
of cold air from the Arctic rushes
down one of the preferred paths,
as for instance, the path toward
Europe, the pressure of cold air
in the Arctic seeking to move
southward is lessened and there
is less tendency for a movement
along the other paths. The result
is heavy rainfall along the path
taken by the rush of cold air
where it meets warm currents,
and at the same time during sum
mer, a warming up northward
along the other paths.
“Many absurd suggestions have
been advanced as causes of the
drought. Probably the one heard
most frequently last year was that
operation of radio stations thru
out the country was responsible.
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE
FOR THE JUNEAU LAND DISTRICT
AT ANCHORAGE, ALASKA.
In the Matter of the Application of AL
ASKA PACKERS ASSOCIATION, a corp
oration, for a soldiers’ additional homestead
SERIAL NO. 07084
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR PUTENT.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the
Alaska Packers Association, a corporation
organized under the laws of California, and
doing business in Alaska, has filed ap
plication, Serial No. 07084, for patent under
sections 2306 and 2307 Revised Statutes of
the United States for a tract of land em
braced in U. S. Official Survey No. 1866,
situated on the west shore of Uyak Bay, ap
proximately 7,000 feet south of Alfred Is”
land, Kodiak Island, Alaska, in latitude 67
deg. 23 min. 04 sec. N., and longitude 163
deg. 60 min. 20 sec. W. and more partic
ularly described in the field notes and plat
thereof, and containing an area of 8.50
acres. Corner No. 1 of said survey is sit
uated at a point on Uyak Bay from whence
U. S. L. M. No. 1866 bears south 80 deg.
43 min., W., 0.72 chains.
Ar.y and all persons claiming adversely
any of the above described land should file
their adverse claims with the Register of the
U. S. Land Office at Anchorage, Alaska,
within the period of publication or thirty
days thereafter, or they will be barred by
the provisions of the statutes.
Dated at Anchorage, Alaska, this 8th day
of June, 1931.
J. Lindley Green,
Register
First Publication June 24, 1931
Last Publication August 19, 1931
Publish: June 24, July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 Aug
ust 5, 12, 19, all of 1931.
But radio programs were about as
numerous and constant in Europe
and Canada as in the United
States, and there were substantial
rains in Canada, while Europe had
heavy rains and floods. Radio
waves do not effect the moisture
content of the air. The Bureau
has received, incidentally, num
erous complaints that radio was
causing excessive rainfall.
“Another “cause” suggested was
the widespread use of .automobiles.
No logical connection between
rainfall and the use of automo
biles is known. However, for ev
ery gallon of gasoline used in au
tomobiles, water vapor equivalent
to about a gallon of water is dis
charged into the air through the
exhaust, so the effect, if there
were one, should be the opposite
The amount of water so dis
charged is too small to have any
effect, since it requires 113 tons
of water to the acre to produce a
good, but not excessive, rain of
one inch.”
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