MOOSE PASS MINER
By L.H.Allen__
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(Continued from page 1).
noon it began to rain again. I had tried
to pick my way and keep the socks fairly
dry, but it was no use to spend time doing
so. As on the day before, slop, slop,
slop thru the mud, ooze, wet spears of
grass and cold, icy streams that crossed
the road. We were getting into country
that was familiar to us, so we were less
curious to look. As it worked into a
steady rain we were more anxious to get
out of there. My feet were no longer com
fortable. They were wet and sprained
from the flat position. I wanted to get
thru before my legs went lame entirely and
before my socks wore thru to the ground.
The pack on my back was cutting my should
ers. We speculated on what we would do.
It would be about four o'clock by the time
we reached the highway. We could stay at
Bill's cabin all night and hail a car next
morning, or we could start out that evening
and hope for a ride. As the rain became
more steady, we decided that unless a car
came into Bill’s clearing that evening we
would keep under cover and wait until the
next morning.
The two yellow purps barked at us, and
Bill, the old major-domo of any situation
yelled "come in," He nearly fell over
when he saw us and heard from where we had
come, but not so that he couldn't hurry a
fire and start coffee. We had fresh
bread, bacon and eggs and coffee, and then,
miracles at last, a car from Seward came
to the door and we were piled in, hurried
over the highway in de luxe quarters, cov
ering a distance greater than that which
we had been two days in going, to home, by
seven o'clock that evening.
Ho, for the early pioneers!
Ho, for the men of today!
And ho, for the women who quelled their
fears
To follow the unknown wayl
Men of the past, and men of the now,
Who played the harder part?
Neither has paused to question, how?
As they work with valiant heart.
What if the trail is steep and hard?
What if the gain is slow?
Strength to do, is its own reward,
Hope, and the will to go.
-From The Alaska Weekly
It takes patience and skill to get a
closeup picture of an inquisitive ermine,
but H.A.Johnson of Moose Pass has one
which was published in the national "Every
day Photograph Magazine", showing one in
its natural habitat, and taken with no sun.
Johnson's hobby is to take pictures of wij.d
animals and he has some very wonderful
specimens.
LOCAL NEWS
To ait in comfort and view black bears
lumbering or galloping along streams and
up the mountain side* to see herds of
mountain goats wandering unconcernedly
within 15 feet of the spectator, to have
moose look you right in the eye and not
move an eyelash, to see flocks of lovely
willow ptarmigan, grouse and spruce hens, ^
all in natural color, was the pleasure en
joyed at Hielo's roadhouse Sunday night
by those for whom Ed Estes ran his reels
of scenes of wild life and mining activi
ty on Kenai Peninsula* Mr* Estes has a
wonderful collection of these beautiful
pictures, all of which he,himself, has
taken and he shows his pictures with an
excellent projection machine#
Mrs# W. G. Culver of Anchorage and her
daughter, Miss Margaret Culver, who have
been house guests of Mrs# Ralph Reid dur
ing the last week, left for their home on
today's train. Mrs, Reid gave an infor
mal afternoon tea Wednesday to enable her
Moose Pass friends to meet her guests#
Dr. Howard Romig of Anchorage,came to
Moose Pass Saturday to be guest of the
John L. Nelsons. Mrs. Romig joined him
on Tuesday.
Mr, and Mrs. Frank Rave and four child
ren, who spent the summer at Grant lake*
have moved to Seward and will return to
Tacoma on an early boat.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Williams and Frank
Wilson left Sunday morning on a goat hunt
at four o'clock. Within an hour they saw
four goat8 - but not within good shooting
range. Before they could get closer to
them the goats went into retreat in the
dense forest growth. The party spent
many hours searching for the same goats
any goats.
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Nine Seward residents, including Charles
Sheldon, Glenn Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. Larry
Huff, Mr. and Mrs. Taw, Miss Taw, Jerry
Proxman and Mr. Nipps, spent Saturday
I night in the open near Cooper's Landing,
in order to be on hand at the opening of
the goat season. They spent a miserable
night, due to the cold rain that fell,and
were too weary to shoot goats by Sunday
morning even had one come pesticating
1 around the camp.
Walter Hoben, Tom Tessier, Leo Douglas,
Dr. Bannister, Charles Gilliland, Fred
Chielkeski and one other hunter, all of
Seward, hunted Sunday at Crescent lake.
Charles Hanson has nearly completed a
log Cabin which he is building on his
homestead near the Alex Bolams of Forest
Acres,
A mud slide at Mile 49 Tuesday night
disrupted The Alaska Railroad schedule.