The Cordova daily times., 1916-11-22
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month, the Seattle Chamber of Com merce Record says:
 To C. II, Anyway, of Haines, Alaska was awarded the first prize, a silver cup, donated by the Arctic Club. foI the best individual display of agricul tural products exhibited in the Alaska section of the Northwest Land Pro ducts Exposition. Mir Anway's dis play consisted of three varieties o apples, Duchess of Oldenburg, Seed Hngs and Crabs. Strawberries ot greater size than any of our loca berries. White clover nine feet long Oats; spring wheat and winter wheat celery; three varieties of rutabagas and cabbage.
 To II. Vermeirc, of Hainos. Alaska was awarded the second prize donated by the Western Dry Goods Company His exhibit consisted of beets. tur. nips, kohlrabi, carrots. cabbage. eel cry and potatoes.
 To Benjamin X Gillsinger, of Eagle river, Alaska, was awarded the third prize, donated by the F. s. Lang Stove Company. Their exhibit consisted of turnips, potatoes, rutabagas, carrots, parsnips and beets.
 Other Alaska individual exhibitors having most creditable displays were W. Wills of Skagway; r. F. Winches- ter and Mccain Gardens. Anchorage. Eakin X Whitaker, Matanuska, and Ed Adams, Of Skagway.
 School work of Alaska Natives.
 The exhibit of school work by the Alaska natives attracted much atten- tion and praise It consisted of pre- served fish, clans and berries from Yakutat by the Yakutat school child ren. Preserved vegetables from Kluk- wan and industrial work of the native boys from MetlakahtIa and other dis tricts embracing miniature houses, picture frames iron heaters and tin work and a most creditable display of needle work by the native girls con s!sting of doilics. pillow cases, guest towels, table runners, moccasins, etc
 Exhibits of Commercial Bodies.
 From the Fairbanks Commercial Club came the greatest grain exhibit ever sent out of Alaska. which proved o rava1a+f1, fy tL.,., not F-,,,;I ,,-;4t, the agricultural possibilities of the north, This exhibit consisted in great part of grain grown at the agri- cultural experiment stations at Fair banks and Rampant. and comprised some eighty bundles of grain in the sheaf and some six bushels of threshed grain. The exhibit embraced winter rye, Rampant Hybrid beardless barley, Canadian Finnish black and South Dakota oats Romanow spring. Russian spring, Marquis spring and KnarkoW winter wheat Of particu- lar interest at this time is a news item to the effect that the Panama valley now boasts Of q flour mill Mir Magnus Nelson. one of the progress sive ranchcrs of the Panama. recently received his flour mill and is now pre- pared to make his own flour from wheat grown on his farm This mill is but the beginning, marking the com mencement of an epoch in the history of agricultural interior Alaska.
 From the Ketchikan Commercial Club came an exhibit of ores from the Elliott X King mine on Helm bay. The Apex mine. NcCIean's arm. The Cymru, Dean and It. Gold Standard, Wakefield, Goodrow X Chilberg Heckman X Thompson, Copper Noun tain, Ready Bullion, Poorman. Nib lock, Crackerpack, C. Reynolds Wright, Tom Stevens and other mines of the Ketchikan district.
 The Cordova Chambo~ of Commerce sent an exhibit consisting of coal from the Boring river field; copper ore from the famous kennecott, Mother Lode, Tjoseyig mines and from the Chitina, Nizina, Taral, Elliott creek, Spirit mountain. Fidalgo and other districts. Gold quartz from the Port Wells district and a mammoth clam measuring eight inches in length.
 The Anchorage Chamber of Com merce sent an exhibit of vegetables from the Anchorage and Matanuska regions. Coal from the Matanuska field and ores from the Center Star and Bluff mines in the Broad Pass district and from the Mable, Jessie E. and Alaska Free Gold mines in the Willow creek district
 The Nome Chamber of COmmerse sent a nexhibit of coal from the Cape Lisburne coal fields: gold quartz from the Clan Chattan lode, and exhibits of uranium and antimony ores from the Nome region, display of vegetables raised by Fred Sickler, government native school teacher at Shungnak, on the Kobuk river ninety miles north of the Arctic circle and samples, pf t,pgsteu ore from the Rock creek