The Chitina leader., 1914-12-08


 vice was commenced. The amount to ss .A,len eacn ti}p is limited to 47o pounds.
 Auto stages on the Chitina-Fair-
 banks road are doing big business.
 Municipal operation of the Royai
 Theater at Vancouver is contem-
 plated -:'
 E Tho Fairbanksr colony at ; the
 Washingtons state university ,numbers
 10 young men and, women. s.,s-
 Business mem of Fairbanks, have startedEa movement stof build a good road to the now Toaovanaf district.s
 | Valdez has T fdistributeda printed
 materiai enunerating. .as,numher1 of reasons why. the railroad should start from that plaess e
 The Yukon Council at it's last meeting appropriated the sum of |S5.o00 for the construction .ofSe new. territorial assay oiilcs at White horse. Ii A tvo-foot ledge- of copper ore
 was found by Frank twaskey, former Delegate to. Congress. while excavat- ing for a. cabin on the bank of the
 Yukon at Marshal M t-s.s.s
 The Canadian government has re- duced the tolls on press messages from Vancouver to Dawson to, one half cent per word. The cut has been
 made in order that the Northern residents may be enabled to secure complete telegraphic accounts of the European war. -s.. t4 .~ Statistics compiled. by the Depart ment of Agriculture show that among the products of the Tanana valley last summer were 700 tons of potatoes and 900 hogs One hundred and twenty-five tons of potatoes were imported, the home product selling for cents and the imported tubers for cents a pound.
 The Fairbanks Times quotes Geo. Wheeler as saying rich pay had been found on his claim on Livingood
 creek, No. 3 below discovery. The pay runs $3 to $4 foot for g feet above bedrock; but from there to the surface, approximately 20 feet,
 gold is found in sufficient quantities to make it profitable working.
 While carrying mail from Kaltag
 to Holy Cross. James Atchison, the sourdough trader and mail con tractor of the lower Yukon river, was drowned early in November. His dogs having returned to Anvik with their harness chewed and with out the sled, an investigation was made and the body of Atchison was found near where the sled had broken through the ice as he was making a cutoff on the river. Ap- pearances indicated that he hung to the handles of the sled and was dragged some distance. The body was found in eight feet of water a short distance below the open hole J. w. Dawson, passenger fron Seward for Seattle on the Mariposa, will return in Marcn with a force of I25 men and sawmlll machinery for
 the plant which he is to erect on the Dawson-Nutter property on Crow
 Creek. I'ne sawmill at Ketchikan will be shut down for three months in order that improvements may be made to the plant. The past season has been
 the most prosperous in the history
 of the enterprise.
 Over in the Koyukuk country they have changed their day of recreation from Sunday to Wednesday, accord ing to reports received from there,
 says the Fairbanks Citizen. The req
 son for this change is that the en- forcement of the Sunday closing law for saloons has prevented the min CTS from being able to go to towl. and cash their dust on Sunday, so another day for visiting town has been chosen. Before the saloons were closed on Sunday the miners of the. Koyukuk had the habit O; talk ing their dust to town on that day and cashing it. The only places where the dust can be cashed there are the saloons. There is no coin in circulation in the. Koyukuk country and thus gold dust is the medium of exchange. ''~'i oi- t~as The most extraordinary sled team on record is now being trained at Seward, says the Gateway. It is nothing less than team of bears which Joe Morris is busy preparing to take the place of dogs. One of the bears gives every indication of being easily turned into a first class malamute. but the other seems to