The Alaska prospector., 1902-06-26
Took |n|ef News h0tRS From the Mines. CannerieS
 And Summer Resorts.
 MOOSE ARE PLENTIFUL.
Special to the PRGsPEtTo..

are now having very beautiful weather at present. although this spring has been colder than usual. snow and ice has all disappeared from this neighborhood although the snow appears to be plentiful on the other side of the Inlet.
 Quite number of hunting part les have gone over to Snug Harbor and vicinity for bear, and beaver. Some of them are from British Columbia and others are from here hut they all use Kenai as their starting point.
 The last steamer brought school teacher, sent bv the Edu- catlonal Department, MT. A. x. Evans, who has been teaching school in Wood Island. during the last winter. It was what we most desired here, an American school. although the summer k a hard lime to get the children, as they all work, helping to put up fish for the winter. He has had an average of twenty scholars since starting which shows pretty well.
 The hydraulic plant of the Kenai Lake Mining Co. on upper Kenai River, started to work last week. but as yet l have not heard how they have done,
 The Northwest Ninino and DeVlopment Co. on Indian River. tributary of kussiloff Lake. have qulte a gang men and expect to nave their plant working in July. They ought to do well, hayinp n saw mill now in operation and Il gasoline launch on the lake to do towing etc.
 The King salmon are runnino very well now, the traps for the different cannerics are about finish ed and they have already canned several hundred cases.
 The steamer Tonquin connects at Homer with the Bertha, Excel 'ior, and Newport, bringing their freight, passengers and mail. and as she IS small enough to come in the rivers, it is a great deal more convenient than having the freight and passengers landed in small boats from steamers laying off about four miles. Plenty of steamers in the Inlet this Var, Chico is to make regular monthly trips 1 be- lieve.
 June 15.
 Talk about your summer resorts m California, why if one of those Jagged out, brain weary city men, after spending week on Cooks Inlet, especially in Kenai, was not cured, it would be beyond human belief. The weather lately has been beautiful, We have had it as hot as l6 in the shade, but always little breeze, enough to keep off the mosquitoes. l grant that a little rain would be most beneficial especially to the gardens. The agricultural station has finished all their seeding and quite Il number of the plants and grains show above ground. This year the superintendent has tried some fruit trees and berries. The straw berries and gooseberries are looking very well as also most of the trees. On the Tonquin, last Monday. there was a party of men going up the Shushetna River to look over the ground for proposed railroad from Resurrection Bay across the peninsula, striking the Shushetna, and then on to the Yukon. The Aurora Gold Mining Co. has closed down temporarily, but antic- lpate starting again next month. J. I. Cornforth. General Manager of the Northwest Mining and De- velopment Co.,, came in on the Ton gum, accompanied by Warner E. smith, 2 civil engineer, formerly of lllamlna, and six or seven more men for the plant on Kussiloff Lake. Their saw-mill has been running quite while, having now about 10000 feet of lumber for fluming Indian River. They expect to start their hydraulic plant lst of Aug.
 Capt. Ray, of the Cook Inlet Coal Fields Co.,, at Homer, has gone to seattle, by the way of Juneau, where he will attend to little law business.
 The stwo scanneries at Kussiloff and kenai are doing finely. Both of them have a seining crew at Eng fish Bay, and have taken over 5000 red fish at one haul,
 have never seen the moose so plentiful as they are this year, especially around this immediate vicinity. All one has to do is to drift up the river on the tide about five miles and then drift back, be- ing almost certain of seeing moose or two. it resting with his marks