(By Special Correspondent)
We are about all snowed under
■p here in the Broad Pass region;
for the past three weeks we have
had a continuous bunch of snow
storms and it has kept the big
rotary plow busy keeping the main
line open. There are five feet of
solid, settled snow on the ground
here now, which is unusual for
this time of the year, when we
used to have around two feet by
Christmas. But it all came early
and there should be no more snow
until soon after New Year, and
then pretty cold weather for Jan
uary and February is looked for,
with some snow for March and
April.
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Trapping during any big snow
storm is out of the question, but
I look for a pretty fine catch of
beaver for this winter; but at the
same time the beaver will be;
pretty well thinned out for they
have been trapped steadily for the
past three years. There are a few
mink and ermine signs in the dis
trict but they aren’t very plenti
ful
* # * *
The snow plow went North last
Sunday clearing out the big drifts
for the passenger southbound on
Monday.
4= $ * *
Roy Boedeker got back to Chu
litna after working at the Willow
Creke mines till the last break
down and is now busy with his
brother Elmer getting out their
traps for the winter.
, •* # * *
Dick Tousley is at Chulitna
with a trapping outfit and will
trap over by Ruth Glacier, 30
miles west of Chulitna, wner3 he
prospected last sumer.
* * * *
Gust Borg, a young Cheechako,
2G years old, and six feet three
inches tall, arrived at Chulitna
with a trapping outfit and made
Moose Johnson’s his stopping place
while he used Moose’s dogs to
freight his outfit to Jim Herdinan’s
camp, 13 miles east of Chulitna on
Portage creek. From there he will
pack his outfit up to the head of
| Portage another 18 miles and trap
the rest of the winter. He has a
good cabin there to camp in. Mr.
Borg has been in Alaska about 14
months and he said he aimed to
take the mining short course at
the Alaska College as soon as he
can afford it and then turn him
self into a real prospector, as he
says working for wages is the
bunk. So here is wishing that the
new man lots of luck in Alaska.
* * * *
Mr and Mrs. Will Johnston,
mink farmers at Gold Creek, Mile
264, raised around 60 new mink
this last season and the mink are
all looking fine.
* * * *
Steve Nicholas, section boss at
Chulitna, says this rotten wea
ther is the bunk; all the boys can
do is keep the switches clear of
snow and that’s some job, in a big
wind-storm.
* * * *
Jim Williams, mink farmer at
Canyon, has turned bachelor again
while his wife Is visiting friends
at Anchorage.
* * * «
Mr. and Mrs. Van Kirk arrived
back at Honolulu Section, Mile 289,
after spending a two week’s vaca
tion at Anchorage where they had
the opportunity to take in some
“talkies.” Mr. Van Kirk is section
boss at Honolulu Section.
* * * *
Moose Johnson is busy every
day shoveling snow away from his
big log house and dog yard, be
sides breaking trails to his traps
and getting in wood. He sure is
one of the busiest men around
Chulitna. •
Work on the Thane road by the
Bureau of Public Roads, Juneau.!
was closed for the winter a few
days ago, reports the Empire. In'
April the work will be resumed. |
Now is the time to look over old
packs and have new bottoms pn*
on lor winter.
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