The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 24, 1936, Page 16

HOMER WANTS MORE ROAD TO SERVE DISTRICT Kenai Peninstla Commua- ity Petitions for M llion Dollar Project A petition bearing 1190 name residents of the Kenai Pe and sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. ceived by the Governor ing that additional a tion be carried on in the Homer dis- trict which is across Kachemak Bg from Seldovia Two proposals petitioners, one asking ing road from Homer to the end of the Bureau of Pub Roads e 1 sion near Skilak Lake, a distance of and the the > by connect- about 110 miles, other a ing a connection between Homer ind Seldovia, a distance of about around the end of Kachc 3 ot Bright Prospects for m on the pe- tition are not brig this time recording to the Alaska Road Com- 10 the direction of which the work would come. It ystimated by the Commission that would require roughly a million ars to build a road from H ‘ : LET’S RUSH TO THAT FIRE Fires at the Arizona Stae Teachers’ College at Tempe should be popular functions when this fire truck swings into action. For co-eds at the college have formed their own volunteer fire brigade, and he here they are ready for the alarm to sound. (Associated Press Photo) munity of settlers have been im- proving the lands, ouilding roads, dredging and dyking small boat harbors, and struggling with the in- convenience and high cost of trans- portation to and f n outside dis- triets Work Out Cwn Problem For the most part this work has been done without government aid. They tackled the problems con- ing aercially, last year being & notice- ble improvement. In the meantime, three small salmon canneries oper- ate during the summer. have been moving into this Chain Letters Revived to Help Relief Clients She placed a box in a local drug!land 4 findings have been made public. subject may have a larger part m"populuuon of 321,712) as he hand- 3 BEAGH GflLD DF Last summer Linn Blankmann flew | Alaska's future gold history than|ed over the mayoral cham‘ 19‘ ‘hifi |2 party of private geologists Into has been true of the past sor with a sigh of relief § | | Tugidik Island, just southwest of ->> 3 a terrible strain ally a n mentally ! L | Kodiak, and 'they spent several { ph ) — and fisancislly, P | weeks sampling, but their findings L . el e Mo i {also have been kept secret. el S e to - avaeh lvx)rmg e ! For many years fishermen, fox ST drilag e e i mers, settlers and some old time SR : A i ! i have been panning ‘the s RS A | e | seaches and working back into the Heads of En glish Cities b R e i at many places along the coast. | Ty Find Their Posts Expensive 1 time to time, a number of have made good wages along he shores of Cook Inlet, on Kodisk rear Red River anc along | Good Colors Shown in Var-| | ious Places and Pros- | | pecting Continues | CORRECTLY REBUILT MINING Island he head of the Gulf of Alaska LONDON, April 24. — Sir P { Beach gold is something that still | Where it Comes From ‘Vincen(. newly-elected Lord Mayor DIACHINERY jexcites the imagination of many There is always argument atson of London, receives mocre . than aad Tih Alaskans living in the coastal Te-|pench miners as to whether beach |$50.000 a year, twice the salary of i al Equipment 1% Yard Brownhoist Gas Shovel or Dragline; 1 Yard Erie Gas- Air Shovel or Dragline; Sullivan 170 cu Cne reason is that so little | gold came down from the back- |® British Prime Minister, but it te information is available on|jands or was washed in from ine has been calculated that he will 1bject. The nnown gold bearing the original | have to spend as much more from scean floor—leavi areas inland have been pm}f»pt‘((;(od. ource of ocean floor gold to end- his own pocket ft. Portable Air Compressor; Allis * tested, mined, surveyed by the U. S.|joss additional conjecture. ; e g ; ihe 21 Survey and, for the most | Byt regardless i theory is | ,And In every city in England the N'ba ; V_b?OL_JawS s BRIt o o3 £ “EPr .~ | Mayor, when his term £~ offige. srcepeaty VOREBGE IAFEED 4 Yard mped over many tim [ correct, and whether their big strike | *7&Y ! e Sauerman Slackline Bucket; 110 h t fo this, extensive areas | is to pe made by dredging the ocean jends next Novemb: will look rue- p. American Monovalv 4 L "h'. st along the Alaska Peninsula|fioor or by tracing colors back into | U1V ab his bank balance and dis- e pi piesel Engin B0y RER nd the various Island groups ihe hills, it is certain that for many | COVer (as previous Mayors have all . & gine, PM; e | L 3 ai e et B 24 .. 60 h.p. American Monovalve Light en visited by few men, Tare- | vears yet there will be men follow- | discovered) that the official allow- oo nhiecel: Jeffery 1 v if ever prespected, and never es- |ing Fortune along the thousands of | 81C€ never is nearly enough to cov- g gc,ra o3 P .’"’f, e imined by the Geold Sur 'miles of Alaska's shoreline, and ®r his expenses. Er: Jing v;., ‘:m; it sl The Department of Mines hos|fom tiute to. tire they will break| In fact, ‘many Mayors ‘complain|to S8l iCi5h ; Coverninesit reports, made in 1911, | into the news that the gold chain of their office o gy ol Mgt : ment you need. We can save you n thie Apollo mine at Unga, which | The vastness and the relative iso- |15 the only gold with which they [from 1891 to 1904 produced embraced, the |come into contact during twelve|monty Ib both first cost and up- keep. List your surplus equipment v lation of the territo: Seldovia has for a number of TARBORO, N. C, April eral millions, and operated briefly | fortunes awcady taken and still|Tuinous months as first citizen. " years been gaining way as a “win- continuance of federal relicf in 1502, Beyond that and a small|peing taken from tLe Nome sands,| “You have to be pretty fit to with us. ter resort.” More and more of the created a problem for the coun.y development in the Chi areas, | and the records of old timers in|face all the tasks that fall on an WASHINGTON MACHINERY Alaskans who “hole in” for the Win- welfare department, so Mrs. E. L.|and an old mine on Unalaska Island | places like Yakataga Bay where to- |English Mayor,” said George Henry RS ter, and go out in the summer to Forbes, welfare officer, thought of 'here is no officiol information on |day, as in Nome, they still pan gold 'Bull, Mayor of Islington (one of 7336 E. Marginal W ; o make (heir money fishing or min- Jast year's chain letter craze | Western A or the Aleutian Ts-| after storms, indicates that this London’s largest boroughs with a AT e Scaiye to the BP.R. connecti at Skilak fronting them on their own initia- ' region to live, attracted by the n}l](. store to receive susberiptions, then Samples Look Good b: ® tive, and paid the prices they had | climate and the economy of living. led five wi N " Yo X Lake and an equally sum of f called five women over the tele- ng the past winter, John . < i wak to pay to bring in their own cattle. | Seldovia is famous for its prolific pnone asking il > = o e woney to construct around Kache- phone, asking them to donate a dol- of Unalaska brought to t ) Nearly all of them are fishermen clam-beds, upon which a large part .. cact " ¥ v WY e g i mak Bay which is an especially ) o q : ar cach and to writz letters to five 2l Department of Min rugged. mountaincus country. as well as farmers, or really more of the population lives throughout .th .y women, asking them to do the| esd i apin Rl b pe fishermen than they are farmers,|the year. With coal for the waking|game ;2 ¢ come samples from his claims on o Rankin and Albert Tor- Unalaska |gersen of Kodiak did considerable work there last fall, and at various It was explained by the Commis- sion that no appropriation is avail- able for such an undertaking and nd on the beach near Homer, | moose in the hills behind the ¢ much of the money that they spend on their property coming from their ult: $15 in the | First day's 1 heir Seldovi idents I b TR B ke summers arnings in their boats. eldovia residents have een that as the Interior Department H. Lepper, fri e I ‘ g it Ma S : i~ & i ao PATMENE 1)) the spring and fall months, and | to keep expenses down. P. . Lepper, ifrom Owymp:a, times it has been reported that they 1ill carrying the road appropriation D {arrived in Seldovia to take over|have valuable showings. R sometimes in the winter, they sup- The their £y s still in conference it is not known gement of the pioneer navy on trip whether any additional money will be granted this year. It is proba- Lle, officials believe, that not much more than enough to maintain pres- st routes will be forthcoming 13 Miles Farm Road At the present time there is about 13 miles of passable road in the Hemer community, built to aid the farmers in that section in getting o and from their places to the dock Homer, where connection is made by small boat to Seldovia, five miles across the bay. The regular teamers stop once a week at Sel- ‘nvin and the small shuttle serv- jce is maintained between the two places. The Homer section is reported as particularly fertile and effort is Leing made by residents of Seldovia Homer to interest settlers in plement their other income by tak- ing coal off the ledges on the near- by beaches, :nd selling it in Sel- dovi Further speculation about this lo- cality centered around the possi- bility of a naval ase on lower Cook Inlet, as a result of the incpection visit there last winter of the air- plane carrier Ranger. Kachemal Bay, an extensive and sheltere deep-water channel extending fa into Kenai Peninsula between Hc mer and Seldovia has been men tioned as a favored site. Seldovia Seldovia is at present the me ro {polis of lower Cook Inlet ‘The upper end of the inlet, at Anchor- age, is frozen during the winte months, but the mild climate at the |and preparing Leavenworth Prisoners an Harvesting Spring Crops| LEAVENWORTH, Kas., April 24— Convict-farmers are getting in their crops this spring at the two prison arms near here A crew of 150 is working about half the 4,000-acre state prison farm, sowing oats, clearing land, plowing to plant corn and vegetables. In addition, the “farm- | ers” have 140 calves to care for. | the 750-acre federal Eighty men are assigned to work prison farm, which is planted 500 acres to corn and 250 acres to truck products for use in the prison. B LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 24 Radio Patrolman Bloom and Gil- :cl.‘\n(hsm,fl. establishment of Charles through the Islands had a geologist d Colwell CORBY The Finest Canadian Whiskey Canada’s Largest Distillery! nothing on their with them, but by lower end has given Seldovia year the community. round water connections by smal | more saw Benjamin Reynolds hav- For years a steadily-growing com- { hoats with surrounding villages. | ing trouble starting an automobile. TRY IT ON YOUR As Homer has no present shiy |So they obligingly gave him a « | harbor, most of its freight has gonc ' shove h the police car. Shor J t ce t | through Seldovia, but starting in afterwards the owner of the ma- NEXT ORDER! ust on ry last year Heine Berger's small mo- chine reported it stolen The two patrolmen, slightly red in the face, spent a couple of em- | tor ships Kasilof and Discoverer have been calling at Homer G. E. Oil Schilling | There is some belief that the | barrassing hours until ti | building of a breakwater and con- | ally located Reynolds. He i JUNEA“ LlQuon STQRE Furnaces t | itruction of wharfage there would | on charges of auto theft ! | result in extensive growth on thal e e A i | side, leaving Seldovia in the back- FLU AMONG STUDENTS [ i | ground. Seldovia flourished origin- Seward junior high school t “ PERC{ REYNOLDSr Manaqer SU w MER TIME ally as a herring center, but six and the Junior high school 1 3 . 1)’(‘2\1‘5 ago the herring deserted, and were postponéd when the Seward lnnamon | the town slacked down considerably public schools were closed for a PHONE 36 Prompt Delivery A l R i g [in its activities. 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