The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-16
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ALASKA NOTES

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 Miss Hunter daughter of Robert Hunter of Anchorage, was recently
 married to Robert Holdren of that place.
 John Anderson, a Willow Creek
 miner, has enlisted in the Army. Ground yielding more than $1 foot in placer gold and carrying
 considerable quantity of placer tin
 has been discovered on lowed Pat
 terson Creek, about 22 miles from
 the Hot Springs. The town of Hot Springs is forty miles from the line of the Government railroad at Ne mana.
 About $60,00O, it is expected, will
 be realized this year by farmers in the Matanuska valley on their hay crop. In the neighborhood Of 800 or 1000 tons of hay, with oat hay predominating and the rest timothy and alfalfa, will be harvest ed. This years yield of hay is the first of any consequence in the Mat anuska valley.
 The Le Roi mine in the Willow Creek district on Cook Inlet will be operated all winter. A compressor plant will be installed on the prop -erty immediately A stamp mill will be installed the first thing iii the Spring. The winter work will be of developing nature, 1t is said the prospecting period has been passed and the value of the prop erty proved.
 Magnetic readings will be taken at Cordova and at other points in Prince William Sound during the l next few weeks, the results of which ! will enable the government to draft l! new naval maps of that section of the Alaska coast line, according to J. ". Green, of the United States | coast and geodetic survey, who is at | Cordova.
 John Bartholf, who came down from Willow Creek Friday, reports high grade ore and plenty of it in | the property he is opening up on Cragie creek, near the Gold Bull lion. MT. Barthoh intended going out for the winter, but the lure of I the future dividends has caused him to change his mind. and he will now invest his tourist stake in mine machinery and tramway, and prose cutting work on his holdings all win ter.-tAnchorage Democrat)
 Charles E. Mcleod, Dawson rear ed boy, has been admitted to the l bar, having passed the examinations | at Dawson. He studied law in the office of J. P. Smith and was admit | ted on motion of Fred T. Congdon. | former member of Parliament. The | new Dawson lawyers parents are Dawson pioneers. and he attended the high school there.
 A wood boom went to pieces at Dawson, belonging to J. L. Labbe, and 100 cords of wood was swept down the Yukon.
 Harry Carter, a miner on Chicken Creek, fell from bucket that was being hoisted and was so severely hurt about the head that he was unconscious for two .or three days. He was taken down to the mouth of Fortymile and doctor went to his aid from Dawson. The Dawson News of August 3Oth said his con dition was serious.
 Mrs A. D. Rofinot died at Daw- son recently. Mrs. Rofinot and her husband went to Dawson in 1899, and have resided there ever since. She was 68 years of age, and a na- tive of Carthage, New York, from which place she went to Dawson.
 "The weather here is similar to that in Southeastern Alaska, for it rains at least once every twenty four hours," writes Carl Chester Carlson, a former Cordova boy now in training at Killingholme. England. He states that sugar is very scarce, and although there is little candy to be had for the buying, it is much
 inferior to the American brand. One of the big features of the last Pioneer meeting was an address by Stroller White, who happens to be with us just now in the capacity of publicity man. Stroller White is not
 a pioneer because he just happened
 to be North at that period which
 entities him to join the order. but 1 for the reason that he has that