The Chitina leader., 1911-05-27
Local News

Company. pulled the local out on Thursday. Dan recently returned from trip outside and Is now busy negotiating sale of his mining prop erty at Mckinley Lake.
 Jack Mcbride was an arrival from Cordova on Thursday evenings train in company with several of a party who are being sent to the Dan Creek placer diggings by R. H. Birch, of the
 Dan Creek Mining Company. Elgin Vaughn, who has been running an engine at the front all
 winter. has taken furlough and
 will spend some time with his par ents at Seward. Elgin says he ex- tpects to be back again however. for work with the Katalla Company. Mrs. Etta Hoag has taken the cabin formerly occupied by Kimberlin, now
 owned by Jack Courtney. and will
 remain here all summer. Her broth CT, Geo. Powell, is making the place comfortable and homelike before
 leaving for his mining prospects down
 the line near mile 1O9.
 J. o. Pearson arrived in town last night from his mining prospect on Holland creek. near the new cutoff trail. Mir. Pearson, who has been doing some development work this winter, states that he has recently out and that they are very promis- ing. There is a ten-foot ledge, and while the ore is low grade, it has in- dications of permanency, and he be- lieves he has a mine.
 J. L. Ridgeway, who has been a, the front with different train crews, arrived here Thursday and left Fri day morning for Cordova.
 Excavations are being made at mile l46 for a standard water tank of the Fairbanks-Morse pattern.
 Shorty" Mcfarland is in charge of he work.
 A new shed over the cut which has been giving so much trouble, will soon be erected by Supt. P. J. O'Brien. Two new spans over the Copper crossing are now under con- struction and another span across the second channel will no doubt be added. The piers for the spans were finished on Friday night.
 Conductor Oscar Larsen is in charge of the local train running from Chitina to the Kennecott with Frank Thompson for his brakeman.
 ack Reed (not the handsome one but
 he locomotive engineer on this line celebrated for his shape) is pulling the train with the six-spot. with Charley Hitchman at the scoop.
 Ed. Conden, Kid" Hogan, Louie Hegstrom and Pete Walen, left on Mondays train for the Kennecott. where they have been engaged with other carpenters to construct new buildings at the Bonanza mine.
 Tommy Brady, the old-time con- ductor, has been laying off few days this past week and has kept Hospital Steward Farraly busy ban dagfng up bunch of pet boils, which have appeared on his head and neck. He arrived on Thursdays train from mile 146, and will spend few days in Chitina before returning to work. in the capacity of night watchman at the crossing of the Copper since the going out of the ice and the busy days of reconstructing the tres tie.
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 Andy Harms, the Long Lake ranch CT, claims to have the best garden on the line of railroad, and expects to raise sufficient green stuff to sup ply several of the camps in the vicin- |ity of the lake. While his garden |stuff Is growing he Is busy with hooks and lines, catching the splen- did lake trout, grayling and linn cod some of which he cures for winter, and can supply the camps as well with fresh fish.
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