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_"DEVOTED TO TFSTNTEREBTS OT~htOOSEPnSS' AND ICENAI TEflINSULS
?6i. 2_ Moose Pass. Alaska * June 29, 1941_
No. 23
U. S. TO ALASKA HIGHHAY
TELL PROBABLY BE INLAND
Four different routes
have boon proposed for the
contemplated highway be
tween the United States anc
Alaska, two of them coastal
and two inland.
Construction difficul
ties, as woll as strategic
disadvantages, are said to
have practically.climinatoc
consideration of the two
proposed coastal highways
vie Vancouver and Prince
George. j
ililitary authorities are
said to favor a route
which would connect Alaska
with the industrial east, j
and 'such a highway would j
pass via Edmonton, Alberta.
Groat Slave Lake and the
Norman oil fields, west of*
Great Bear Lake. This in-j
land highway would be self-j
fueling, since it would
skirt two extensive petro-i
leum fields, the "tar
sands" of the Ucliurray dis
trict of northern Alberta
and the oil region of Fort ‘
Norman on the lower Mac- !
kenzic river.
Prom the Norman oil
fields to the upper navi- j
gable v/c.te-rs of thu Yukon j
River, the distance is
,about 400 miles and this i
route would enable the
joint defense commission |
of the United States and
Canada to pour unlimited
quantities of petroleum
thru the back door of Yu
kon Territory into Alaska. ‘
COST HALF THAT ' .
OF BATTLESHIP.
Two highways, one coast
al and one inland, could- 1
be built, according to
those who know, for less
than half the cost of one
battleship. Also, if is
said that the inland route,
the one the least difficult
to build, could be built in
half the time required to
build a battleship.
Members of the Internat
ional Highway commission
met in Juneau this month
and arc on record as favor
ing immediate construction.
CARRIE JACOBS BOND
VISITS MRS. LAVING
Last Wednesday,while the 8
Aleutian was in port, Carrie
Jacobs Bond, famous writer of
songs, visited Mrs. Nellie
Neal-Laving. During her vis
it, lira. Laving and guests at
her resort, had the pleasure
of hearing Mrs. Bond play and
sing her famous song, "The En<
of a Perfect Day." Mrs. Bon<
was motored to Luv/ing and to
other points of interest by
Miss Maude May.
This is*the noted song-v/ri'
tcr’s second trip to Alaska.
In 1927 she made the circle
trip from Skagv/ay to White
horse and Dawson, down the Yu'
kon River to Fairbanks,thence
to Seward over The Alaska rai.
road. On her return to her
home in Hollywood, Cal., fol
lowing that trip, she wrote
her song "Lazy River" with th<
Yukon in mind.
Mrs. Bond is nov 79 years
old uadhas written 175 songs.
Literally everybody knows and
loves three of them: "I Love
You Truly," "The End of a Per
fect Day," and "Just A-<aary
in* For You."
Tourist trevel, stimulated
by defense spending, will be
at least 10 per cent higher
this year than last, according
to a travel authority in De
troit .
All travel records were
smashed in 1940 and he thinks
it very likely that the recorc
v/ill be exceeded in 1941.
'.hot her this applies to
tourist travel to Alaska re
mains to be seen.
'Then Mrs. J. H. Pierco,forn
erly of "loose Pass, nov/ at
Kodiak, was Outside this
spring, she bought a soda foui
tain and equipment,for her
shop, The Rendezvous, in- Kodi
ak. Mrs. Pierce took a pro
fessional course in the art o:
ice cream making and learned
to make a "marble” ice cream
which is described as ".scrump1
tious" and only obtainable in
Alaska at Mrs. Pierce’s Kodial
shop.
| FINDS ONE HUNDRED
PLANT SPECIMENS HERS
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3| J. P. Anderson, Juneau
florist for 20 years, who
jrecently sold his business,
spent -a month in and around
' Moose Pass, maxing tho Moose
5Tavern his hoadquarters. He
'left June 23 for the north.
jNext Fall ho will go to Amus,
^lov/a, to occupy the chair
*jof floriculture at lov/a
!State college.
Mr. Anderson owns the
I largest collection , of plants
'of Alaska that is to be
|found outside the national
herbarium at ./ashington(D.C),
jvhieh houses 25,000 speci
"mens of Alaska plants. :\ir.
jAnderson says his own collec
tion numbers one-third that
;mny.
j In and around ..loose Pass,
r. mderson found 120 dif
ferent wildflower plants.
!At Hopo, 193 different spec
jies; 80 at Cooper's Landing
jond close to 100 in and a
lround 'Seward. He stated
‘that the plants of Cooper's
iLunding are different than
ithose at Moose Pass.
In returning to Io»/a State
^college Hr. Anderson goos
jback to his Alma Hater whore
'he was given two degrees 30
iyoars ago.
' Two "formerly of Moose
[Puss" women distinguished
[themselves this month in the
[writing world. Mrs. F. 7.
j^illiamson with on interest
ling article in The Alaska
■Sportsman titlod "Kodiak
'Grows Up" and Mrs. John 0.
iEbing won a $35 prise vdth
|a radio-contest letter in
^Alaska Life.
The two most interesting
'articles in the ‘./Oman's ^lub
^edition of the Juneau "Al
aska Press" Were written by
"[Mrs. Ebing and Mrs. Milliam
json. Mrs. Ebing wrote a
;bout her island home near
Sitka and Mrs. Milliamson
Wrote about "Suchlacons,"
'the herring-like fish usual
ly slandered with the native
‘ inspired name'," ooligans'.'
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