MOOSE PASS MINER
_ By L. H. Allan_
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IF IT’S IN TIME MAGAZINE
IT MUST BE TRUE
TIME issue of February 19 contains some
gems of information about The Alaska Rail
road. It leads off with calling Colonel
Ohlson a "dour, 69-year-old, spectacled,
Republican Swede." Says that in an ordin
ary year's work he copes with 50 below
zero weather, 20-foot snowdrifts, avalanch
es, live glaciers, moose caught in the
tracks*'f.nfl, in the northernmost part, per
petually frozen subsoil that requires a
special roadbed. (We've heard a lot about
the southernmost part of the railroad be
ing hard to keep up and now, here goes the
good name of the "northernmost part.")
During 110 days of summer TIME says
that Colonel Ohlson has truck competition.
That in winter sled-trains, including bunk
houses on runners for the crew, slide up
and down Alaska's snowy roads .
(all out to see the sled trains go by).
The article says Colonel Ohlson gets
permission to cut his freight rates each
summer in order to compete with the vast
horde o trucks that ply Alaska but in win
ter he puts hi freight rates back up again.
It says that Colonel Ohlson's schedule
is six trains per week in each direction
in summer, three in winter. That freight
rates are so high that TIME and a nickel
bottle of Coca-Cola each sell for 20£ in
Fairbanks. A haircut costs $1.00 (The
freight rate on Fairnamks haircuts must be
something awful).
Then the article states that because
Siberia is only 50 miles from Alaska, war
measures may require a 14 mile cut-off to
be built for Colonel Ohlson but the arti
cle doesn't say that Mount McKinley and
a thousand miles or so up hill and down
dale lie between the Alaska Railroad and
Siberia.
France may face a food shortage. Mobil
ization has robbed the farms of 30 to 60
per cent of their workers, so it has been
decided that all agricultural laborers in
the army shall be furloughed.
John D. Rockefeller,Jr., has contributed
$100,000 to the Finnish Relief fund.
The Republican National convention will
meet in Philadelphia on June 24.
An earthquake early Friday morning of
last week rumbled and bumped in a most ter
rifying manner. Campbell's soup at Moose
Pass store and other canned goods changed
locations.
NEWS
LOCAL
Joe Vonah's 28th birthday was celebra
ted on February 29 with a big dinner at
Crown Point cabin, Anson Gouldsberry
prepared the dinner and the guests were
Miss Eleanor Watson and Miss N. M. Waltert
nurses at the General Hospital in Seward.
The menu included:
Fried Chicken
Creamed New Carrots
Mashed Potatoes with Cream ffravy
*
Fresh Tomatoes, lettuce and celery
*
Real champagne, Birthday cake, and
Vanilla Pudding with cream
Among those who attended the dance at
Hielo's Roadhouse last Saturday night were
the following from Seward: Ur. and Urs.
Jack English, Mrs. Bill Estes, Miss Kath
erine Hanson, George Nelson, Frank Wilson,
Bobby Stanton, Jim Nelson.
Mrs. Harry L. Smith is attending the
annual Ice Carnival and Dog Derby at Fair
banks. Also visiting her daughter,Miss
Jorene Smith, student at the University
of Alaska.
Mrs. Smith made the trip from Anchorage
to Fairbanks by plane. She writes Mr,
Smith that it was a wonderful trip.
Mrs. John 0. Ebing writes from Sitka
that the weather is so warm there that
the salmon berries are in bloom and the
raspberry bushes are putting out leaves.
She says that one roshbush at their place
has a bud and the primroses have budded.
In a letter she received from Miss Ama
Smith, from Montana, Ama says that she
has seen Mrs. Lawing's picture,"Alaska’s
Nellie." That the picture is"grand."
That Kenai Lake is so beautiful that it
made her violently homesick. She says
that one scene of Sewarc dock has her
cousin, Jorene Smith, "right up in front,*
Lyman Graves went to Fairbanks to be
a spectator at the Dog Derby and Ice Car
nival .
Dr. Howard Roraig of Anchorage has ac
quired the Jim Newman place near Cooper's
Landing and will build thereon a summer
home for himself and family.
R. L. Hatcher returned on this week's
boat from the States to start early work
at the mine of the United Mining and
Development Company at Mile 44.
Helen Velanis was highest in scholar
ship average al; school, again in February,
Mr. £nc Mrs. Paul Williams have moved
to Seward.