DSVPKSS TO THE INTERESTS OF MOOSE PASS AND KENAI PSNINSUM___
Vol. 1_Moose Fasa» Alaska - July 21. 1939_No,..24
LIBRARY BOARD ANNOUNCES
SALE OF MEMBERSHIP CA$DS
Membership cards for Moose Pass library
are now on sale for $1.00 for a year. The
library will be open every Tuesday after
noon from now on with some member of the
board present to give out and take in
books. The hours are from 2 to 4 o'clock.
Fifty-five new books were purchased by
the board during the summer and the mem
bership fee plan will enable them to add
more books from time to time. New books
now on the library shelves include the fol
lowing* Drift Fence,Grey; Man the Unknowr
Carlo; The Mother, Buck; And S© Victoria,
Wilkins; Listen For A Lonesome Drum, Can
non; From the Ramparts We Watched, Eliot;
Storm Girl, Lincoln; All of This and Heavei
Too, Field; West Point Today, Banning;Epic
of America, Adams; Tomorrow's Promise, Bai
ley; Around the World in Eleven Years,Abbe:
The Good Die Poor, Clune; The Green Past
ures, Connelly; Home For Christmas,Douglas;
The Lord's Annointed, McKee; Meaning Of
Culture, Powys; White Oaks of Jalna,Roche;
Northwest Passage, Roberts; Kingdom In The
Cactus, Selzer; Spring Came On Forever,
Aldrich; Omnibus of Faith Baldwin; Uncle
Sam's Attic, Davis;Smoky, DonaldsonjState
ly Timber, Hughes; Little People Who Became
Great and Famous Children of Storyland,
Large; North To The Orient, Lindbergh; You
Can't Have Everything, Norris; Night Must
End, Price; Old Jules, Sandoz; One Hundred
World's Best Novels; How To 7/in Friends
And Influence People, Carnegie; The Woman
At The Door, Deeping;The Langworthy Family.
Corbett; The Citadel, Cronin; Seven League
Boots, and Flying Carpet, Haliburton; The
Friendly Road, Grayson; The Good Earth,Bucli
Come and Get It, Ferber; The Album,Rine
hart; Gone With The Wind, Mitchell; Spell
Of The Yukon, Service; River House and
Spawn Of The North, Willoughby; My Son, My
Son, Spring; Man The Unknown, Carrel; Hat
ters Castle, Cronin; We Are Alaskans,Davis;
Listen,The Wind, Lindbergh; Old Yukon,Wick
ersham; Story of Orinetal Philosophy,Beck;
Arctic Village, Marshall.
When Joe Doshen, Gus Manthey, chief en
gineer Knolls and second engineer Guy Urn
Winters of the SS Columbia, were returning
to Seward Thursday night from a fishing
trip on Russian river, in Mr. Doshen’w car,
the car skidded in the gravel, turned com
pletely over and fell off the highway. It
landed in some trees, then toppled over on
its side. The occupants immediately got
out of the car, amated that they were alive
after such a spectacular fall. None was
injured. The accident happened at appoint
near the Fred Laubschor home.
COLORFUL STORY OF A HIKE
OVER JOHNSON PASS
On Wednesday of last week, Ur. and Mrs.
Ray Stafford left Moose Pass on a hike ov
er Johnson Pass. Mrs. Stafford wrote the
following interesting account of their
trip for the Miners
"At last we have gone over Johnson Pass,
after seven years' planning to make the
trip. We WOULD pick high water and a sea
son after a flood.
The train stops at Mile 34 to drop pas
sengers wanting to go that way, so we took
lgun, pack sack and started out, voiding
the four miles over the ties by boarding
the train.
The morning was good, not too hot. With
la couple of rainy days behind us, we thought
we had clear weather ahead. So, like the
'early trekkers, we filed up the gradual
climb from the track, pushing through al
ders that had overgrown the old wagon road,
watching for old mile posts and speculating
on how long it would take to reach the sum
mit. We wanted the thrill of Balboa,on
coming out suddenly into a vast and vacant
space.
Our pack sack held flour for hotcakes,
a loaf of bread, some sliced bacon, butter,
coffee, can of milk and/small sack of su
gar. We carried tin cans, a couple of
plates, forks, spoons, butcher knife and
frying pan. We had no accessories more
than matches, shells for the gun, handker
chiefs and one pocket comb. We wanted to
travel free and easy, taking plenty of time
to look around and rest. A two-day trip
would make easy walking.
Followed Old
5 Wagon Road.
Johnson Pass was the old thorofare from
the railroad to Sunrise. The wagon ruts
show plainly and the path in the middle,
made by horses and hikers, is thebe,packed
down so hard that brush will be very slow
in filling it. We knew the route had been
'used steadily every year by Mr. Brewster,
an old timer, but his last report waB that
water and weather had so flooded and des
troyed the path that he would have to aban
don the railroad end. The farther outlet
has been kept open by truck travel.
We reached the summit without unusual
difficulty. Signs of game were very plen
tiful. Thru the day the prowling animals
evidently kept out of sight, taking their
regular siesta.
Following along the edge of the last
lake in the chain of lakes, which we passed
at the summit, we struck water from a moun
tain stream. The trail disappeared and
we were forced, either into the alders
along the slope or onto the beach. We
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