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WEALTH AWAITING DEVELOPMENT
Lying to the west of Seward, including the Kenai
peninsula, Kodiak Island and other regions is a country
larger than Belgium and possessed of potential wealth
sufficient to cause any country in the world to view it
with covetous eyes. But as yet the great land of prom
ise is hardly marked by the implement of industry. This
is because of lack of roads and aids to transportation
making it accessible to those who would develop it.
There is sufficient fertile agricultural land on the Ke
nai peninsula and Kodiak Island to maintain a large popu
lation of agriculturists, while the hills are storehouses
of precious metals, and its woodland teems with valuable
fur.
Kodiak Island has become the wintering ground for
bands of horses used by the various survey parties and
others for packing in summer. Owing to the mildness of
the climate and the abundance of good feed, these animals
winter well and come out in spring sleek and fat.
There is room on Kenai peninsula, the far Westward
and Kodiak for ranging hundreds of thousands of sheep
and the soil is capable of producing all the feed necessary
for animals kept in the barn and outdoors all winter.
The most important essentials to development are
roads and aids to transportation by water. These may be
secured by co-operation between the more populous cen
tres like SewTard and those resident to the westward. How
ever, the larger share of the labor rests with the urban
centres owing to the present isolation of the regions need
ing assistance. There should be no let-up in pressing the
question of roads into the peninsula country and every
effort should be made to assist the residents of the West
ward in securing what they need.
Evidence of the mineral possibilities is shown in
Nuka bay, where development indicates some big rich
mines are fast becoming realities. How much more of
these riches await the coming of capital and facilities for
turning them to account can only be conjectured, but it is
known that the mineral belt extends all the way to the
Moose Pass counry and that the field is large.
One may readily vision the importance this region
bears to Seward, the natural trading centre, and too much
cannot be said in support of co-operative movements look
ing to its early exploitation.
AN ESKIMO IN GOTHAM
Abie Broomfield is the Anglicized name of a 45-year
old dog driver, who has been enjoying his first visit to
civilization as illustrated by New York and its environs.
And he is getting many an eyeful.
Staring at the Woolworth building, Abie pronounced
it a “big, big shack bigger than Cape Mugford.” Most
of the sights he witnessed were observed in silence, but he
was evidently thinking a lot, as he had never been in a
settlement of more than 50 people before.
Being much like other sons of Adam, Abie was great
ly interested in the New York girls. Asked how he liked
them, he turned on a flow of Eskimo oratory lasting a full
half-minute, which was interpreted to mean, “very fine.”
But he thought they were too thin, and suggested that
they didn’t get enough to eat. Asked how he would like to
have one of them for a wife, he said:
“You bet: Take her one year first and give her plen
ty fried pork. I fatten her up so she’s dam fat, and good
wife for best dog driver this side of North Pole.”
Production of grain alcohol in America increased 74
per cent in 1925 over 1923. It’s truly remarkable how fast
the industrial use of this product has grown since the ar
rival of prohibition.
- Secretary Hoover is right. If waste could be check
ed, prosperity would follow. Waste in most cases spells
the difference between prosperity and adversity in the
home, in business and in the State and nation.
The more one contemplates the world, the better one
understands why new-born infants are red in the face.
E ON “SCOTTY"
(Continued from Page Three)
the best known mining engineers of
the West, importuned “Scotty” to
lead him to the mystic Eldorado.
“Scotty” promised, and with Norman
and Rol King, manager of* the Hol
denbeck bar, and led by “Slim,” the
'emblem of satanic perfection, they
slipped out of Barstow while the moon
bathed the desert in silvery splotches,
and headed for Death Valley.
The following morninfe found them
at Wingate Pass, where “Scotty”
said the trail led off to his mine.
There an enforced halt was made.
While “Scotty” was standing on an
eminence overlooking the valley, a
bullet whizzed past him. Soon they
began to come like swarms of hor
nets. “Scotty was struck down with
a bullet in his thigh. Norman and
King took to cover.
When the coast cleared, “Scotty”
was placed aboard “Slim” and the par
ty retraced its steps to Barstow.
Many versions have been given,
both as to the origin of the rich ore
and the cause of the ambush. Some
claim that “Scotty” never owned a
mine, and that the ambush in Wingate
Pass was a pre-arranged affair, but
went further than “Scotty” har antici
pated.
During the height of Scotty s fame
Goldfield, Nev., was in its glory as
a boom camp. It was known that
large quantities of ore had been high
graded, and at one time a carload was
intercepted w’hile being shipped away
by express. It was hinted that some
other avenue had to be found for
getting the high-grade out of Gold
fielyd, and that Death Valley was the
only means available.
It was therefore claimed that the
“Scotty” party ran into a caravan of
burros conveying ore from Goldfield
and that the convoys, fearing detec
tion, seoinr others with Him, •opened
fire to drive them back. Others aver
that “Scotty” was “in Dutch” with
his Goldfield friends, and had not shar
ed up the proceeds of his own ore
shipments. As' there wras no way to
prove or disprove the allegations,
they went merely as speculations on
the mystery of Death Valley.
! On one occasion “Scotty” arrived
in Los Angeles loaded with coin of
the realm. A miner arrived from
Arizona immediately after selling his
property for a million dollars. He
proceeded to paint Los Angeles red
in a spectacular manner,. Walking
along the streets he cast handfuls of
gold pieces into the laps of old flow
er women and showered it upon the
newsboys.
ocotiy rectjivtju uuiugo
record as a spender was being chal
lenged, and traced the man of gold to
the Lankershim hotel, where he ar
river just in time to see a shower
of five and ten-dollar gold pieces hit
the ceiling and fall rattling to the tile
floor of the bar.
“Say, Pal,” said “Scotty,” ‘ “they
tell me you are some spender. With
drawing a roll of bills said to contain
$50,000, “Scotty” laid it upon the bar.
“Now we will buy wine, tear it up or
give it away to the widows and or
phans,” he said. “Get busy with your
roll. The man who quits first leaves
town. I am the spender in this man’s
hacienda.”
The stranger, Hart by name, back
ed down.
As yet the question of the source of
“Scotty’s” gold remains a mystery,
with everyone taking his own version
as to the matter. “Scotty” still
sticks to his time honored answer:
“I had ’em guessing, didn’t I?”
Lucky Says: He is not
dealing in womens' goods
but sells Blue Ribbon figs,
three pounds, 50 cents.
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LIBERTY
THEATER
One Show Tonight 8 Sharp
Note—This program was advertised to be run
only Tuesday, but owing to the “Emblems of Love”
not arriving, we will show these pictures Wednesday
also.
JACKIE COOGAN
in his latest picture
“Old Clothes”
This charming little child star will surely enter
tain you in this fine feature.
It’s mostly comic, but enough heart interest to
set it off.
Something everyone should see!
AND AT LAST YOU MAY SEE
I wo reels, showing everything from the time of
arrival in Fairbanks to the final abandonment
Wilkens’ North Pole Expedition
rt
WRECKING OF BOTH PLANES
INSTANT BEFORE THE MAN WAS KILLED
Fairbanks from a plane and many other inter
esting scenes and people.
AND A GOOD PATHE NEWS
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