The Nenana daily news., 1919-04-12
NENANA'S NEEDS ARE DISCUSSED
 AT CLUB MEET

mana commercial club was held last night at the club chambers in the Union Hall With quite a large attendance of the membership, Chairman Mcdonald called the meeting to order shortly after s o'clock
 After the usual preliminaries had been disposed of, the secretary read communications to Delegate Sulzer regarding the freight rates on the government railroad on emigrant outfits, mining and agricultural machinery and relative to obtaining press rates on telegrams sent by the club to similar commercial bodies, the territorial legislature and the delegate from Alaska, cover ing business matters. A communi- cation from Major Waugh, address ed to F. D. Browne, requesting in- formation regarding the proposed road to the kantishna mining dis trict was also read The detailed information asked for in Major Waugh's letter had already been mailed, MT. Browne said
 MT. Browne, as chairman of the power plant committee, thought that the ground had been very thor oughly covered by the Alaska Chap ter of the Mining Congress, who had also taken proper steps to fur ther the scheme for the establish ment of the plant. He therefore moved that the Nenana Commercial club support and endorse the ac- tion already taken by the Fair banks Chapter of the Mining Con- gress and render all possible aid, when necessary, toward the accom- plishment of the great scheme. The club, which was in accord with Mr. Browne's suggestion, unanimously adopted the resolution.
 Mir. Browne then gave some inter- esting facts regarding the recent coal tests. The exact figures, he said, will not be available for publication until after the tests have been duly approved and veri- fled, but a rough estimate from the tests made showed that in heat ing value a trifle over ton of the raw coal was equal to cord of good dry wood. When the rela- tive values of the wood and coal are taken into consideration. how ever, 1t would be found that the coal IS far superior as a fuel With little drying, the coal will give better results than the tests dis closed. The freight rate on the coal from the mine to Nenana has not been definitely fixed as yet, but MT, Browne thought that it will be in the neighborhood of SIPS per long ton.
 
 The matter of a free ferry across the river, and fire protection for Nenana were next discussed, and full account of these matters will be found elsewhere in these col umns, as will also the matter of Arbor Day.
 The question of sprinkling the pools and marshy places around town with oil for the purpose of abating the mosquito nuisance was taken up. After some desultory discussion, statement was made by Townsite Manager Carl Schmidt to the effect that the matter would be attended to by the townsite authorities.
 The quesion of the summer mail service was next discussed at length as result of which a resolution was adopted empowering the secre- tary to make arrangements, if possible with Postoffice Inspector Wetzler, with view to getting a moro frequent service than the weekly one performed by the regu- lar steamboat line.
 MT. Southworth called the at tention of the club to the fact that during last season the boats . of Uyh;+a Co L