The Alaska citizen., 1914-09-14
Town Gossip and Stories
B. The Iat.Ier.

before II Was Idillll'i anu sum pti the Alaska coast.
 Concerning the innovation intro duced by the management of the Admiral line. the Valdez prcspector of recent date contains the follow ing:
 The passenger agent of the Pa cific Alaska Navigation company operating the Admiral line. has iu stalled upon the Admiral Sampson d moving picture machine and oper ator for the pleasure and entertain ment of the passengers who make the trip North. A machine will also be placed upon the Admiral Evans.
 The company plan to increase largely the tourist trade and hope 10 make all who take the trip so well pleased with the voyage that they will return and spread the gos- pei of Seeing Alaska First"
 Nightly shows were given on the steamer from Seattle to Valdez" 1914 Is This seems to have been Profitable profitable year for In Alaska people in Alaska, from
 reports that have reach ed here In the first place, the AA water for miners, who have gen orally done better than they had anticipated Then. it seems, that the fishing season has been unus- ually good. from the following item, sent to a coast paper from knik:
 From parties just returning from the westward it is reported that very large salmon pack was made in the Boring sea this season. Twenty eight full-rigged sailing ships and six or eight schooners will be loaded to capacity. The Dirigo on her last trip brought 10 GOO cases from the Libby. McNeil X Libby cannery at Nushagak ApproXi- mately the pack of Bering sea will be 1.75O.O0O cases.
 Heretofore fishing has been done entirely by traps or gill nets. This season the Pacific American Fish cries have used purse seines which have proven very successful"
 Prospects Railroad surveys through Found On Broad Pass, which sep Survey arates the headWaters
 of the Nenana and Su- sitna rivers, have evidently stimu lated the prospecting for gold in that vicinity with promising results. The following appeared in a coast paper, under a Knik date line of August Il:
 George P Perkins and T. C. Brunton have just returned from the Broad Pass country and claim they have traced the Wells boys lead  says run about s25 in gold and 8 ounces in silver.
 ID. S. Rae, the Knik assayer, re- ports that on assays made by him last winter on ore from the Wells property prospects ran from $l2 10 s130 in gold and silver. He believes that the Broad Pass will make a great mining country. basing his be- lief on assays he has made on sam ples brought out by prospectors." Wickersham There is reason to be- To Be On lieve that Delegate J. The Coast Wickersham will con
 fine his short campaign for reelection to coast towns of Alaska, and will not return to Fair banks before election time
 He is reported to have left Wash ington for Alaska, and it seems from the following, appearing in recent issue of the Seward Gate way, that MT. Wickersham is going to start his campaign in the home territory of his opponent. Charles E. Bunnell the regular Democratic nominee for delegate to congress-:
 Delegate James Wickersham ought to be in Seward within a couple of weeks. In letter dated at Washington July 27, which was written to s. Lundblad, MT, Wicker sham states that he will be in Seward in five or six weeks so 1t may be expected he will make personal campaign this year.
 "As time goes on the fight prom ises to be one of the most remark able kinds Every effort is being put forward to land Bunnell and he will probably receive a larger vote than any of the regular party candidates who ran before. On the other hand the coming of MT. Wick ersham to the territory may have the effect of stiffening his support ers In the last campaign he re- mained in Washington and his cam- paign was conducted by his friends Republicans It is sometimes quite c$;II chau c,rpr;o; ;pu t0 road ahOut