The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 22, 1937, Page 8

IMPROVED HILL AND TRAIL SET FOR SKI TROOP CCC Crew Softens Landings for Jumpers—Makes Climb Easier Wide open spaces are ahead for Gastineau Channel ski- ju mpers when they cut loose from Mother Earth this winter. No more tree branches to duck, and below — an unbroken expanse of snow the size of a football field, upon which they can fall where they may. The lads with the hickory wings on their feet will have the Forest Service and the CCC to thank for what should prove a jumpers’ para- dise, after the narrow slope upon which they were fo! to periorm last winter Under direction of W. J. McDon- ald, Forest Inspector, a CCC crew of abc has devoted en members SHOULD BE MAILED SOON THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, NOV. 22, 1937. the past month t6 cleafing the wilk derness about the bottom of the “big hill,” to grading out a sweep- ing landing slope and approach and to the construction of a sturdy, timber takeoff. Work on the jump has followed plans drawn by Dan Moller, the leading influence in local skiing as| CHANNEL BUS |Quartz Property ' COMPANY SOLD | May Be Mined in BY W. E BACON| Open @Manne well a Forest Service staff mem- ber. 1In preparing his plans, Mr.' i ‘ Moller gave greatest consideration| Two Drivers, Tom Cole and{Famous Big Quartz Deposit to beginning jumpers, locating the takeoff close to the slope and run- cut to allow for short distance leaps. | The. takeoff platform stands at an elevation of about sixty feet above| After five years in operation of the clearing below, while the land-'the Channel Bus Line, which com- ing slope is long enough to permit pany he founded shortly after his|INSula mining man lifted himself on Jumps up to approximately One 'arrival in Juneau, Walter H. Bacon |15 €lbow in his berth this morning hundred feet. The approach, which|has disposed of the company to.o8 the steamer Yukon and smiled leads, directly off the regular skilTom Cole and Forest Fennessy who|¥hen asked about his Bluff quartz trail as it swings down along the|wil continue to operate the bus|Mine hear Bluff, a short. distance hill en so pitched as to limit'jine in the same manner as here- |West of Nome. the of: “over-jumping” the | ofore. “Sure, we have a big thing there” Forest Fennessy, Pur- | on Sewad Peninsula chase Business | Will Be Worked Jerry Galvin, genial Seward Pen- KAY KENNEDY - HEADED OUT Kay Kennedy, summer in Bristol Bay, surveying the Japanese fishing invasion ahd|yypharq was married to Lucille in Goodnews Bay, watching the ;ayery of that city. They are mak- ing Percy’s hospital ihoneymoon. How long they will re- main Outside, they do not know. platinum fields develop. Miss Kennedy, who would rather | write than sit at a Thanksgiving table, is going back to South Dsko-‘ ta to visit her mother. i “But I'll be back as soon as pos- | sible!” Kay let it be understood ‘ “This country gets you.” And she will—if she says so. Kay| is that way | She has a host of friends from one end of the Territory to the other, and has walked the trails that hard- effervescent and aviator who crashed his attractive, a young lady who follows |tailspin near Fairbanks her nose for news wherever things|and smashed an ankle are breaking, is a through passenger | oing outside to have furth % for Seattle on the Yukon, after a|po v ke W FAIRBANKS AVIATOR |LIEUTENANT MORRIS "v G | " HONEYMOONS ABOARD | TEMPORARILY HERE Sa ol YUKONONWAYSOUTH| FOR SALVATION ARMY A | A radiogram received by The Em; of Pire from the Ketchikan Chonicle s ¥ . says a baby girl was born Saturday ship in a| who was 10 4, 45 and Mrs. Joseph Anderson of |have spent the winter in Canada last year g Juneau. The Andersons own the Badly; following transfer from Juneau, has , . Hiawatha: i returned here to take charge of Salvation Army work in Juneau Some 102000 boxes of Brazili until a new leader is appointed. | oranges were shipped to Cana Her return was necessitated by |during the 1937 season. The pe: the departure of Adjutant and Mrs. of the Brazilian orange season h: Gecrge Tanner for British Colum- passed and no further shipment bia. Miss Morris had gone only as Canada is contempated at the press far south as Wrangell when she |ent time, according to reports fro’ was asked to return here. | Rio deJaneiro. H » & Percy Hubbard, popular Fairbanks | Lieutenant Margaret Morris |the Salvation Army, is | Just before leaving Fairbanks, trip their Look at hill Announcémeht of the transaction |¢ Smiled. “The ore body is an im- It is anticipated that the new hilllgiateq that the purchase involved Mense thing, shows values—and Joe will do much to develop interest a1 the equipment, franchise and|SWlllvan took out $175000 from the in' the art of soaring aloft on the good will of the business. Equip-|Bering Sea floor just in front of wooden runners, especially among|ment listed includes four passenger |OUF Property this year!” the younger skiers. Also, the wide pygses, shop and Juneau Depot, as! The Bluff quariz mine was lo- clearing balow the hill will allow!ye ag confectionery. |cated in 19800, is composed of rotten ample room for a large crowd of | e Pn_‘qum'lz. and when Galvin brings in spectators to witness the J\lml)mk‘“re]y tamiliar. with tfx: eration & steam shovel and mill next sea- spectacles, while it has been so' €y TR b son, it will probably be the only open planned as to allow a long, sweeping °f - the bus. line, having been em-| quartz mine in Alaska ployed as drivers for the company run up to a branch barricade, al< for the past two years or more. ' “The stuff is rotten all the way down, Galvin said, “and working ened men have found tough going.' She is Alaskan, through and through D LL THREE! A new British chemical process for rendering wool non-shrinkable has attracted considerable atten- tion. Chemicals utilized by the pro- cess are said to cost 15 cents per lowing the leapers to come to an Both are long time residents of easy halt The take-off platform r Y 1‘ y ha e ake p! l orm Gastineau Channel, Mr. Cole hav- a big bulldozer on the property this was 50 installed that it may bc‘h‘g 11 hare- kineb* chijdhood summer, we cut two big crosscuts moved to or away from the landing! = s ion either side of Daniels Creek, each ball, the final position to be determ-| Having completed severing. his'gog feet long, 10 feet deep and 12 ined through use, the only practical connection with the Channel BUS feet wide.” means for exact locating, Work on Line, Mr. Bacon took passage from | Galvin explained that four shafts the jump is now in the final stage Juneau aboard the southbound of 100 foot depth have been sunk and shouid be completed within the Steamer Yukon, intending t0 re- in past operations on the 40 claim next two weeks |main in the States until shortly ylock. Each hole is vertical and |after the first of the year, Onipgg shown values. The two assayed !pleasure and business. After hiS'showed all the way from $5 to $70 trip he will return to Juneau, to 4 ton, st than the jump, mountain Of more inter to the ordinary run of sliders, is ihe stretch of new trafl| i constructed by @ CCC crew last|eDgage in business, the nature of = The two shafts assayed will be spring. Opening from the hlghwayiwmch he did not disclose. |connected by a 300 foot drift next about six hundred feet south of the| Mr. Bacon plans to spend the symmer. A steamshovel will be old ski trail start, the new stretch Doliday season with his parents in 'hrought in and a 300 to 500 ton mill curves along up the hillside to Seattle. ~He will then Jjourney ywill be erected if present plans go hundred pounds of dry wool, and little special equipment is required. ONLY 2 MORE DAYS To assure yourself of the Best Thanks- giving Dinner Ever —by placing your join the mxin trail just above the steep slope of the “jump hill,” giv-‘ ing an easier course up the gmde‘ and eliminating the climbing of the ‘big hill." | The new trail will also prove a| boon to skiing tyros, in that they| may now make their way out of the| woods without risking the abrupt| descent of the old course, wmch" If you are planning to remember some one “out- side” on Christmas, it would be well for you to begin shopping. Our shop has many of hose things your friends would buy if they were here. You are invited to visit us and snoop around. | hazard to the inexperienced. Cut- through two years has proved a re“‘ixrown steadily to the present flour- | further south to Los Angeles, where 'through. he will visit his brother, Ed Bacon,| welve other cuts in addition to Turkey order who was in Juneau the past sum-lthe two made this summer have at the Mt {been run from 200 to 500 feet across Coming to Juneau little more the holdings. The ore body itself, MEAT CO. than five years ago, Mr. Bacon composed of decomposed quartz, is ED SHAFFER founded the Channel Bus Line by goo feet wide. Phones 49—13 putting into ,operation on the TUD | Galvin will go to New York on a five-passenger Studebaker auto- girjval in Seattle, whence he will| mobile. . The business immediately return to supervise work of a crew met with public favor and has jeft at the property ‘ B e |ishing state. RAMSTADS ON YUKON | Check STYLE QUALITY VALUE . 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Before that he had been a well known Fairbanksans. - "Only the Best Quality” ] - being necessary, but will doubtless; A resident of Anchorage, Alaska, em- S e bring rgrth l.hc1 blessinigs of many ployed by the: Alaska Railroad. 5 g i s, R Before boarding the steamer Mr. 2 To those who choose the thrilligp & expressed the opinion that § 0_11 high‘-spele:l[ng_l%own ;h:m‘?s:?‘me new owners of the bus line S, S AT, | would no doubt be entirely success- tain is still available. Not only! 4 . ful in their venture, stating that available, but in much improved poth are wmply qualified. condition. The ride down the steep A/ SSURE S ADAE SA SRl pitch now gives out into the wide| clearing made for the jumpers and from there makes its way to the | highway along a greatly straighten- ed and consistently graded course. ‘Topping off all the work done dur- ing the summer op the trail by the Forest Service 1s the streteh of car-packing ground filled in along |the highway at the trail entrance. | No longer will the highway to Doug- las be choked by the cars of moun- | tain-bent skiers. {MARY NORDNES IS HONORED AT PARTY For Miss Mary Nordnes, who left (on the Yukon for a six-week trip {in the south, a handkerchief shower and going away party, were given iby Mrs. John Halm, Friday even- CLERKS IMPORTANT MEETING TUESDAY NIGHT 7:30 0’CLOCK—UNION HALL BE SURE AND ATTEND! ‘ing. The affair assembled Miss Etta Mae Kolasa, Miss Gladys Brewis, | Miss Blanche Thorgerson, Miss Mil- |dred Apland, Miss Marie Potjer, {Mrs. Harold Brown, and Mrs. Harry ! 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