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DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF MOOSE PASS AND KENAI PENINSULA
Moose Pass, Alaska - August 24, 1939
No. 28
COLORFUL STORY OF A
HIKE OVER JOHNSON PASS
By Mrs. Ray Stafford
(Conclusion).
Shoe pacs were still damp inside, but
other than that our clothes were in good
order. With a hot breakfast to stimulate
us we started out. Lynx creek was four
miles down, where we would find people anc
Silver Tip where Bill Carden camped was
three miles farther. It was 12 miles to
the highway. We would have to make bet
ter time than the day before.
My heel hurt the day before. After
the pacs had gotten wet they lost shape
and they quickly began to rub the shin
bones and the sore place on the heel. Be
fore we had gone a mile I was limping.
That couldn't go on. I was tense and
strained from trying to humor the eching
places. Pull off the pacs and go bare
footed.
The morning was warm and soft. The
road was good. It was traveled over by
a cat hauling to the mines. We walked
steadily, watching the scenery in what was
to us, new country. Mountain passes and
streams rushing down them. Lakes and a
beautiful, broad valley. In places the
road was flooded. I picked my way and ii
the water was bad, slipped on the pacs as
a pair of boots in order to keep my feet
dry. The heavy pair of wool sox padded
the sharp edges of rocks when w§ hit grav
el.
tseiore noon we were ax Lynx creek, an
old location that was originally used as
a roadhouse for the early travel over
Johnson Pass, and later as a camp for pla
cer mining. Ted Boyd and his aunt, both
of whom we knew, took us in and we visited
for an hour or more. We hadn’t noticed,
but almost with no signed of effort at all
a hot dinner was set on the dining table
and at noon we were sitting down to what
was not, as had been our fare the day be
fore, hotcakes with ashes, over an open
fire. W$en a man shares h£s best grub,
that has been back-packed over a steep
trail, then you know you have again found
real Alaskan hospitality. We even had
pie served to us.
We couldn’t stop very long. After
dinner we started down the road. I was
still in sock feet. If only I had oar
ried along a pair of tennis shoes. The
loveliness of Alaskan scenery followed us
on each side. We reached and passed Sil
ver Tip. Bill was gone, so we knew he
would be at his highway camp and have the
cabin warm when we got there.
Clouds had gathered and by mid-after
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TWO SEWARD YOUTHS GET A GOAT
Martin Urie and Jerry Proxman, both of
Seward, lads around 14 years old, sallied
forth Tuesday morning from the Urie cabin
at Snug Harbor, on the first goat hunt of
their young lives. My, my, such a tale
, as they will have to tell their grand
children, for they shot simultaneously at
a goat on Porcupine Island and after that
the goat was very dead. They had gone to
Porcupine Island over Kenai lake in Martin's
boat equipped with an outboard motor and
they lost no time loading the goat in the
boat and returning to the camp at Snug Har
bor with-their trophy. Then they skinned
and car'ved the goat and enjoyed some ele
. gant steaks.
Charles Hanson, whose homestead is on
Kenai lake near Forest Acres, killed the
first goat of the 1939 season in this sec
tion, early Sunday morning just back of
his cabin.
The Duke of Sutherland delayed his trip
to the westward with a longer stop than he
1 had intended on the panhandle. He wired
Alex Bolam to expect him and his party on
or near the 26th, which is this Saturday.
Railway Mail Service has asked for bids
to carry a star rout between Seward and
Moose Pass, performing delivery and collec
tion service to and from the mail boxes
en route. It is estimated by Earl March,
chief clerk of the RMS that as many as 75
mail boxes will be served. Dates of ser
vice on a star route would depend upon ar
rival and departure of the mail boats.
Filings on placer locations on Lost
creek have been made recently by Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Luckie and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wil
’liams.
The open season on goats and sheep is
August 20 to November 30; on moose, Septem
ber 1 to December 31; on bear, September 1
to June 20.
Ptarmigan and grouse may be hunted from
September 1 to the last day of February,
with limit of daily bag of 25.
George Lindsay was in Moose Pass for
supplies for his Summit mine, Tuesday.
Legislation has been proposed by Dele
gate Dimond to authorize postmasters in
Alaska to act as notaries public in ad
ministering oaths and affirmations. Under
the bill the fees would be the same as
prescribed for a notary public.