Alaska sentinel., 1908-02-20

week for some supplies, etc. The crew has returned to the properties, while Jorgen is off for Seattle to take three hundred pounds of ore to the assayer, and to make arrangements with the to commence work on large scale about the first of April. Jorgen expects to return about the fifteenth of March, at which time he expects to bring with him power boat to be used in travelling to and iom the properties, towing piling, etc. It is the intention to make this mine, Pay as it goes: that Is, tram road will be laid from beach to mine, and the ore will be taken out by hand and shipped until a sufficient amount is realized to permit the insta'- lation of a steel road or aerial tram for carrying the ore to salt water, and air or electric drills for mining. The ore brought in last week was the finest of its kind ever exhibited here, and Mir Berg says there is an endless quantity of it, as the outcroppings can be easily | traced for miles, The success of these properties will surely lead to the locas ton of large areas of other properties and thorough prospecting of the adia- cent country; therefore, it behooves all Wrangellites to boost this young enter prise for all they are worth.
 A party consisting of Harry Gartley, J. II. Wheeler, Ole Johnson, Frank Far Ter, George McGee, Larry Mckechnie, Claire and George Snyder went down to Konk's Lake with Walter Waters in the Sea Girt, Sunday, to fish for trout. For an hour and a-half the party widowed and foundered through about two feet of snow, and after reaching the lake and digging through sixteen inches of ice, two of the party caught four trout. Be- ing thoroughly disgusted the crowd left there for Pats Lake, and arrived there just at dusk. After two hours fishing the party returned home with forty-one fine trout. Larry McKechnie caught fourteen, while the rest got from one to six each. The only reason we can give for this is that Larry lives in one of the Patenaude cottages.
 Things appear to be moving up about Cordova, according to the Alaskan. It says: "Three hundred and seventy-ive men are out at the front shoveling in snow four and five feet deep pushing ahead on the const. uction work of the Copper River & Northwestern Railroad. The pile driver gang is working day and night out on the flats, while at camps two and three gangs of men are busy widening cuts and fills and building wagon roads over the flats for the pur- pose of hauling supplies to the new camps. Last Monday Auditor Kane spent two days distributing pay checks to the men. Something over $42,000 was paid out to employees. About 400 men are on the p5yroll.
 The fire company met last Wednesday night, and there was a good attendance. On account of number of the members being out of town the greater part of the time, a campaign for new members is to be instituted. so that there will be 5uffi- cient members remaining in town to handle the apparatus in case of fire. At this meeting the company voted $9O of it's funds for the purchase of new fire extinguishers, which will be presented to the town. So, you see, the fire lad dies have the welfare of the town at heart, and talk over the best interests of the property holders, despite the fact that only two of the bigger property owners attend the meetings of the fire company.
 A movement is on foot for the estab- lishment Of good free reading room, and it is probable that a series of enter tainments will be commenced before long to provide funds for this purpose. A reading room is an institution which every town should have, and we trust that the coming effort to secure one for Wrangell will prove! successful And, Dy tlIc way; lul5 hOl4u Dt il idCdl " dS to dipose of the fund derived from the Leap Year Ball.
 Woodbridge X Lowery have just put new marble altar in St. Philips church. It is beauty, and looks just as good as if the marble had come from Vermont or any of the other well krown marble quarries. It also shows that with a little push on the part of the Wrangell people, this town could have one of the best marble industries in the country.
 1.-The Pacific Fisherman" is the name of neat new magazine emanating from Seattle, copy of which has res ched our table. As the name suggests, this pub lication is devoted to the many branches of tho fl chiro ip1uatrv If ia ara1ita-