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OF SEWARD, ALASKA. — Established August 19, 1904
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ROAD FUNDS IN DANGER
Efforts will be made to induce the Legislature to make
special appropriations for roads which have been consider
en inadvisable by the Alaska Road Commission because
there are many primary projects such as trails and road
improvements into mining and other centres where there
is little if any communication with the Alaska Railroad.
Any appropriation which has for its purpose the opening
of a specific region to commerce and development merits
consideration, but roadways not having this object in
view, and which are looked upon as merely agencies for
the expenditure of money in a given community should be
frowned upon. There were instances where this was
done last year, the only benefit accruing being to the in
dividual legislative sponsors for the project.
Alaska has one of the best road construction agencies
in the nation in the Alaska Road Commission. Its func
tions are limited only by appropriations from Congress.
When this agency, with its mass of data at hand and full
grasp of the needs of the Territory, decline to consider
costly stretches of road that do not serve all the purposes
for which roads are constructed, it would appear the en
terprise does not carry merit.
Every time the road funds are dipped into for politi
cal purposes some needed project suffers. Advice to the
Lelislature to begin projects to ultimately cost a hundred
thousand dollars or more* is bad.
SPEAKING OF SPEECH
We do not usually pay very much attention to the
many special “weeks,” which are set aside for this or that
purpose, still it is not amiss to give serious consideration
to the movement throughout the nation for employment
of better English, as sponsored by the General Federation
of Woman's Clubs.
It is notorious that the American people are careless
in speech, both with respect to choice of words and gram
matical construction, intonation and modulation. Many
who have a fairly comprehensive vocabulary mar their
discourse through faulty diction, while few, indeed, are
impeccable in pronunciation.
Well spoken English is a beautiful language, yet in
these days of rapid-fire progress the average person is
more apt to consider speed than euphony, transforming
what might be a pretty phrase into something like a pack
age of fire-crackers exploding and crowding the entire
effort thru the nostrils to the ignoring of the vocal chords.
Considering the difficulty of mastering the English
language and the comparatively slight stress placed upon
it by our schools, it is no wonder that this is so. Lan
guages, such as Spanish and French ,which are accorded
praise for their beauty find their charm more in modula
tion than to structure of words.
But correct speech is worth striving for, if only to en
able us to better appreciate the incongruities of the perpe
trators of our comic English.
It is evident, now that Congress has adjourned, that
Seward got what she always got before-NOTHING.
Perhaps the change in chiefs of the Biological Sur
vey in May Seward may be able to get a game warden
stationed here.
POPE RECEIVES PREACHERS
ROME, March 9. (JP)—The Pope
received 100 Lenten preachers and
impressed unon them the need for
drastic actions on immodesty of
womens dress, and prayer during
Lenton season.
NEW WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, March 9. (JP)—
President and Mrs. Coolidge, moved
to the home of Mrs. Elmer Sohless
inger, which will bo the temporary
white house.
URGE SEVERANCE RELATIONS
LONDON, March 9. (/P)—Tory mem
bers of Parliament again urge sever
ance of British relations with Russia,
but the government announced thru
Minister Chamberlain that Great Bri
tain will not answer the Russian note.
LEAVES CHAMBERMAID $100,000
NEW YORK, March 9. The
will of Dr. Percy Stickney Grant,
founder of the Church of the Ascen
sion, showed he left two-fifths of his
estate to his chambermaid, Mary
Findleton, amounting to $100,000.
JANe MURRAY
TAKES OPTION ON
WILL MOVE PLANT TO POINT
THREE MILES DOWN CREEK
WHERE PAY IS GOOD
“Jim” Murray, one of the best
known and most successful placer
mine operators of Central Alaska,
and one of the biggest operators on
Cache creek, has taken an option on
the Dredge which has been operating
on upper Cache for many years, and
will move the plant to a point three
miles down the creek, where good pay
is known to exist, according to an
nouncement made by Mr. Murray
when he passed through Seward a
few days ago.
The action means at least ten years
longer life for dredge operations on
Cache creek, which has produced many
millions of dollars both from dredging
and hydraulic operations.
For the past several seasons the
company owning the dredge has leas
ed it to operators. Two seasons ago
it was leased by White and Harris,
who are said to have split some $75,000
profit on the season. Last year it was
under lease to Englehorn and associ
ates, who had a very successful sea
son until they broke a spud and were
compelled to close down near the end
of the season.
The dredge is now at a point at the
extreme upper end of the creek, and
owing to the ground growing more
shallow ground was encountered last
year which materially handicapped
operations, yet it is claimed ground
running as low as six cents a yard
was worked through without loss.
Last year Mr. Murray completed
a deal for much of the ground hither
to held by tire dredge company, along
with much side pay which the outfit
could not reach, and in addition ac
quired other valuable holdings. Du
ring last season he operated on Nug
get creek, a tributary to Cache, and
also operated a giant and tailing stack
er a few hundred yards above dredge
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headquarters in ground which is said
to have paid handsomely.
The acquisition of the dredge by
Mr. Murray settles the question of its
future, and guarantees to the enter
prise at least ten years longer life
and the maintenance of continued out
put from this rich district.
Improved transportation facilities,
including a roadway now extending
from Talkeetna, a distance of approx
imately 50 miles to the dredge head
quarters, serves materially to lessed
the cost of hauling in supplies both
winter and summer.
The dredge is equipped with hy
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droelectric power plant and all neces
sary buildings, constituting a complete
camp, where Yentna post office Is
also located.
Mr. Murray announced that several
engineers had made inquiries about
the district lying to the west of Cache
creek, including Fairview mountain,
where Matt Huggar, Frank Irwin,
Pat Collins and others have found
pay, and where dredging operations
are said to be ideal, including water
power, timber and immense seams of
high-grade lignite coal.
Matt Huggar, who made a strike on
Mills creek, below Fairview mountain,
last season, writes that a number of
Fairbanks miners contemplate going
into the district on the spring thaw,
when others now holding creeks in
the district will also take in supplies
for the summer’s operations.
This district is reached from Cache
creek via the old Yentna trail passing
the face of the Kahiltna glacier. Last
fall the Alaska Road Commission
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strung cables and bos'n chairs across
the larger streams, making access by
foot for a distance of 20 miles com
paratively easy.
VERY SAD NEWS
NEW YORK, March 9. (IP)—Liquor
was found in baggage of Trans-At
lantic travelers as inspectors sud
denly clamped on a close search.
INDOOR SPORTS
CINCINNATI. March 9. (jP)—The
wife of Adolph Luque, star pitcher
for the Cincinnati Baseball team has
brought suit for divorce.
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“TIS. FALSE!"
WASHINGTON, March 9. (JP)—
President Coolidge denies the rumors
that Secretary Kellogg will resign
because of illness.
TAKING ANOTHER CHANCE
DENVER, March 9. (JP)—Mrs. J.
J. Brown, widow of the mining mil
lionaire, announced her engagement
to Duke of Chartres.
A FEW POUNDS DIFFERENCE
LONDON, March 9. (JP)—Estimat
es for the cost of maintaining the
British Army in 1927 set .the amount
at 41.565,000 pounds compared with
41,500,000 pounds last year.
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