BEGINNING ROAD WORK
At Present Local Fund Is Being Expended
and Town Gets Some.
Today road work commences under
direction of S. E. Heeter as precinct
road overseer.
The money collected here in town
under the law for local road work will
be expended on the streets and on this
end of the wagon road. In addition to
the work under the road law, in consid
eration of the fact that the citizens are
clearing away the rubbish pushed up by
the ice along the waterfront Mr. Ileeter
has volunteered to furnish a team and
repair the natural walk known as the
Boulevard, which was considerably dam
aged by the ice. The breakup left the
waterfront in unusually bad condition
this year, but with commendable zeal
the citizens went to work and have al
ready greatly improved the appearance
of things.
After the work at town is finished
Overseer fleeter will go to work on the
Mi nook road Slight repairs will be
made to the section already built and
the operations conducted along the lines
planned by the Alaska road commission.
It is probable that before the pre
cinct work is finished that of the road
commission will commence, so that op
erations will be continuous until the
ending of all the work of this summer.
RAINED DOWN
QUEER STUFF
Color of Sulphur and Consistency
of Paste —Came in Elec
trical Storm.
Today there was a heavy shower of
rain accompanied by much lightning
and heavy thunder. Afterward it was
noticed that all the pools of water were
covered by a yellowish substance which
looks like sulphur. Investigation showed
water in rain barrels to be similarly
covered. Quantities skimmed off the
water had the consistency of a thick
paste.
Where water soaked into the ground
there remained a thick, mushp coat of
the queer stuff. People gathered it and
tried it in the lire rnd are convinced it
is not sulphur.
The strange material may be pollen
from flowers. Whatever it is, it rained
down: and in the aggregate there i- a
great amount of it.
Very Heavy Rain.
F. W.Cohh, just arrived from F.ureka,
• pavs the down|H>ur of rain two or three
miles out on the Minook road wa- heavy
enough to be calk'd a cloudburst. The
culverts could not carry the water and
overflowed the ditches and (“Hired over
the roadbed [n many [daces.
The storm was of short duration.
Resident* <>f North I»uk<>t.i anil sev
eral other farti • .f the 1’nited State*
have |irv|iare»l (nr the rnd <>1 tin- world,
which they htlieve is near «( hand.
Since President Itiewvrll published his
statement of the re|ai)>iivan can p:iii.'n
committee returning all donations from
men who wanted other or other favors
prople are ready to Islieve any old
thin*. __
The 1-ahin of J. H. Wintfate, just U h w
the N f. store, has Iwen puri based by
tha*. \ Tra* ijer ami wdl !*• used a» a
warehouse.
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REMEMBERED
IN NORWAY
Former Ramparter Has Not For
gotten His Friends on
the Yukon.
Many people in this district will la'
>lad t<> hear from Pete Johnson, a for
mer partner of James Langford, who left
this district four years ago. He is farm
ing at his old home in Levang r, Nor
way.
Pres Ireland got a letter from him last
Monday, in which he manifested a keen
interest in affairs on the Yukon, lie
had heard of the strike on the Chandler
through a letter written by Mike 1,8
boski to C. R. Peck and printed in the
Valley News, later copied by a Seattle
paper and finally reaching him at his
Norwegian home to turn his thoughts to
gold again.
“Farming in this country now is up
hill business,” he wrote, “and the sooner
I ipiit it the better it will be for me.”
He says lie has advertised his farm for
sale and if he sells it he figures on taking
t trip to Finmarken—“there are some
diggings there.”
The letter was dated April 15, seed
lime in the writer's country.
Mr. Johnson sends his best regards to
ill his ltampart aci|tiaiiitaiices. No man
•ver left more friends or fewer enemies
m the camp.
TWO COME OUT
OF CHANDLAR
tieorge Rouse and Charles Rhenish.
Inn pr>>s|sa-tors, reached Rampart from
the t 'handler last Sunday. They hud
hut little t*» teil in the wav of news.
It was ueeessary, Mr. Rouse said, for
lhem to make a grulistake and no men
were luring lured in the fhandtar. lie
•aid there were plenty of ehunee* to |wit
up grub neeeeswry to work ground and
work share and shure alike with claim
uw ners.
They met the steamer Koynkuk at the
Indian village and Ishevcd it would
have no dtlKviilty lit reaching the Fast
Fork.
S. E. HEETER,
Freighter and Packer
Good Equipments and
Service Unexcelled
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No Innoko News
Nobody will regret more than the
the paper itself the Valley News’s ina
bility to give anything new about the
Innoko.
The interest in the country is recog
nized and a message was sent toTanana
appealing for news. Nothing has been
received. Men dislike to give out in
formation on such matters because they
know they are liable to be blamed by
disappointed ones no matter how hard |
they try to stick to the facts.
With the paper it is different. It |
likes to give all the information possi
ble. It has learned nothing about the
Innoko, however, beyond what it has
heretofore printed, and that is precious
little.
The Fairbankg Times of June 1, re
ceived this afternoon, had considerable
about Innoko, but no late or definite
news from there.
TO HAVE A BIG FARM
Reports cotne frimi Xobleville, at the
mouth of Eureka creek, that It. F. Noble
is farming on quite a big scale. It is
said he was expecting to plant about
eighty acres, and with the fine weather
and favorable spring it is likely he got
the seed in early. Fires several years
ago had destroyed most of the timber
and made the clearing of the ground
easy.
The principal crop will be grain for
stock feed. There is every reason to be
lieve it will pay.
Indeed the suitability of this country
for general and successful farming is
now considered proven. The cost of
bringing the ground under cultivation
and the stability of the markets for pro
duce are the only things requiring care
ful consideration from persons who
would farm for profit. Mr. Noble is
very fortunately situated in both partic
ulars, and would not lie surprising to
see stock raising added to his enterprise
with splendid results before very long.
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GENERAL
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