The daily Alaskan., 1913-10-09
CHATIENDA Is NAME OF
 NEW TOWN IN CHISANA

NEW TOWN IN CHlSANA
 Chsana, Sept. 11-Springing up al- most in a night, division of the camp in the Chisana district has been named Chatienda (prouounced Cha-tend-da). and the new town. has grown at a tremendous rate. About twelve cabins are alread com pleted, sixty are well under way, and fifty more are under the first I.steps of construction. The most de- sirable sites are already taken and the spot which two weeks ago was timbered wilderness, now fair ly huns with a sound of axes and the noise of building.
 A meeting of the miners was call ed Tuesday afternoon, the first. assembly since the strike, and Ned. Hill was elected recorder by the miners. There are now two recorders| in the district, one for Woodrow and the second for Chatienda. This new appointment followed the dis. satisfaction over the removal of the recorders office to Woodrow, on. Wilson creek.
 The removal of the office follow ed the departure from the district. of Judge Morgan, who had served the camp in fair and impartial manner, miners say, both as record CT and commissioner.
 Judge Morgan and his wife left the diggings for the "outside" Sep tember ?. Attorney Finnegan, of Seward, who succeeded Judge Nor gan, immediately remOvel the re corder's office to Woodrow, much to the indignation of the miners. A trip to Woodrow practically means an aIl-day hike, for the town is six teen miles away.
 The new town of Chatienda was started by Chitina and Fairbanks men, who decided on the flat, level plat of land about seven miles from the mouth of Johnson creek.
 They immediately stared the cree tion of cabins preparatory to the coming winter, and were quickly fol- lowed by dozens of others from all iparts of the diggings.
 A petition for a postOfrice has heen sent to Washington, a pio- ueer store in tent has been start ed. roadhouse and saloon is under construction and Chauenda is estab- lished as a permanent town unless the diggtugs should prove to be an absolute failure from the stand point of the gold seekers.
 The new town site is below the gold diggings and is protected from the winds. There is a heavy growth of spruce trees to ward off the fury of the winter storms.
 A great deal of attention is paid. to the laying out of the town. All though the streets are as yet thicklyI strewn with logs and trees, the cab-I ins are built with regard to streets. The lots are 50 X 1SO feet.
 Oscar Friedman, hotel proprietOrl of Cordova, Chitina and other points who has a road house at the Chit istone river, arrived in camp last week with tweuty-fOur horses load . ed with provisions. These he re-. tailed at from $1 to $1.5O a pound. 1 He left for Mccarthy and expected. to return in two weeks with fortyI head of horses. It is understood that he intends to build a roadI house and store here.
 Ed. Turk, another packer, arriv ! ed at the diggings about the sameI time as Friedman, and sold the few provisions he had at about halfi the price Friedman demanded l. Turks rates were the most reas-. enable at which food and supplies| were offered since the strike. He| charged about 50 and 60 cents al pound for flour and sugar He will enter the country again with anoth-I CT outfit of supplies. All trips in-| 10 the diggings in the future are. more or less uncertain, as the weath 1. CT may leave the trails impossible. |.
 Hundreds of tons of provisions are at the head of the Panama, l awaiting teams to transport the sup! | plies into the diggings. Until theI