cur tained in his acceptance speech
\Ve shall expect to hear much
within the next two months about the
positive success of A1 Smith, as vve
usually do in Alaska about the pre
dicted victory of the Democratic
party. But when the votes are count
ed on the night of November Oth, it
will be realized how easy and com •
plete the victory really was for the
Republican ticket.
COOK INLET NOTES
By The Rambler
The assistance given to A. E. Lath
rop by tlie Donohoe-Marquam Demo
crats was one of the big factors that
resulted in the defeat of Major Ai
brecht for Republican Natinal Con
mitleenian. For instance, in Audio*
age at the primary Lathrop polled
100 or more Democratic votes, one
of said votes being cast hv A. A
Sehoiibech, Democratic Precinc!
Committeeman tor this section, who
called for a Republican ticket in or
der to help out his friend Lathrop.
The aid given Lathrop by the fe
deral officials of the third Division
was another strong factor in the re
sult. At Anchorage the U. S. Deputy
Marshal’s office made up a so-called
Lat hrop ticket and had one of I lie
deputies distribute same in tin' pool
rooms and cigar stores, and worked
Incessantly all day in support of
same . Said ticket consisted of How
ard for Delegate to the Convention
Murray, Foster, Tarwater and Dean
for representatives.
t is common report that a flea'!
was made whereby for the support
g’*ven Lathrop by the Democrats of
the tliird Division at the primaries
that at the general election in Nove n
her the so-called conservative "Repub
licans will vote for Grigsby for Dele
gate and Dimond for Senator, both
Democratic nominees. This trading
game generally brings results. Any
one with any ordinary degree of in
telligence knows that the cannery
trap and steamship interests control
the so-called leaders of both ma
chines here in the Third.
Engineer Wood of San Francisco
arrived in Anchorage today to take
charge of the construction of the
Eivlutna Hydro-Electric Power Plant.
This plant is to be located at Eklut
nu, about 30 miles north of Anchor
age, and is to furnish light and
power to the town of Anchorage
and also to the Alaska Railroad at
Anchorage. The Eklutna River and
EMutna Lake will be utilized to de
velop the necessary power required,
it is figured that the sum of $400,
000. will be expended in (he neces
sary tunnel work, erection of
building the power house, installa
tion of machinery, poles and wires,
and that by April 1st, 1929 every
thing will be in readiness to turn on
the juice. Mr. F. I. Reed, propriet
« r of the Anchorage Hotel, is to be
given credit for the promotion of
snnl project. He has labored pa
tiently oil the proposition for the
past three years and this past winter
interested San Francisco parties in
furnishing the necessary capital to
put the deal through.
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Mr. Noel W. Smith, Manager of
the Alaska Railroad for the past four
;>pars, has tendered his resignation
and leaves for Washington, 1). C.
.July 15tli, 1928, Secretary of the In
terior work has named Mr.Otto C.
Ohlson of Duluth, Minn, to succeed
Mr. Smith. Mr. Ohlson conies from
Die Northern Pacific Railroad, hav
ing held the position of Division
Superintendent on one of the branch
es of said road for some years pari,
pist.
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At tlie present time tlie waters of
Cook’s Tnlet appears to be teeming
with salmon, particularly silver, and
Che canneries are working day and
night to can the catch. It is report
ed here that some of the hand can
neries could not take care of the fish
caught in the traps and had made
deals with the large canneries at
KenMi and Kusiloff to take over the
surplus. There are more canneries
m operation on Cook’s Inlet this year
than any other known year. On the
east side of the Inlet they are strung
out every one or two miles from An
chorage to Seldovia, and quite a
number are operating oil the west
side of the Inlet also. There are
•our small canneries at Anchorage,
vi/: Gorman & Co., II. J. Emard. J.
F. Toman, and McGill’s Alaska Gen
era! Fisheries, and for the past week
sueir help have been working day
and night shifts to catch up. McGill
turned a bargeload or two of his
cnt*h over to the Libby people at
Kenan.
With the intensive fishing it is a
small wonder that any salmon are
left at all to spawn.
i short time ago the Evan. Jones
oal Mine at Jonesville in the Ma
tanuska Valley received a contract
from the Alaska Railroad for 40,000
tons of coal, and a force of about 50
miners are at work getting same
out.
r! lie Premier Mine at Moose Creek
is operating with a reduced force, as
there is not much demand in the sum
mer time for the coal output, outside
of the coal used by the railroad.
There are about 125 men employ
ed at the mines in the Willow Creek
Quartz Camp. The properties oper
ating are The Lucky Shot and War
Baby on Craigit Creek; the Thorp
property on Grubstake Gulch; the
Mable Mine on Arch Angel Creek,
the Gold Mint Mine on the Little
Susitna River. E. H. Bartholf and
some men are prospecting on the
old Gold Cord property on Fish Hook
Creek; T. S. McDougal and a fev
men are doing some development
work on the Fern Gold Mine at the
head of Arch An'gel Creek; Mike
Sherry is driving tunnel on the Lit
tle Giant property at the head of
Arch Angel Creek; Ed Holland is
driving tunnel on his property at the
head of Purchase Creek, as is also
Jesse Garver on Craigie Creek. The
most active outfit in the camp this
year is the Marion-Twin Mining Co.,
operating the Gold Mint Mine on
Little Susitna River and doing de
velopment work on the Company’s
property at the head of Craigie
Creek. There are about 40 men em
ployed. The manager of the Mari
on-Twin Company is P. A. Marion,
who has prospected and mined in