The Nenana daily news., 1919-02-26
NtNANA|TES ARE
 GLAD ID BE BACK
 IN ALASKA AGAIN

1ASIlldS ID 4. S.
 man, and John Miller, formerly with
 A. Ghezzi, arrived in town yester- day evening from Nenana Crossing,
 finishing their journey from the l States. Mrs. Morrison, who came in over the Broad Pass with Byrne and Miller, stayed at the Crossing for the night, and will come in on the train this evening.
 Tommy Byrne, who was one of the crew of the Brown hoist last summer, quit his job on June 18th and went down river to investigate the reported strike in the Good News Bay country He travelled down river and crossed over to the Kuskokwim at the portage near Russian Mission. The country did not look good to him, and the pros poets were not alluring, so after short stay he back tracked to the Yukon. reaching Russian Mission by way of the lakes and portages.
 From Russian Mission Tommy went to Marshall and stayed at the diggings in that district for about month and then left for Seattle. He says he had to wait sixteen days at St. Michael to catch a boat bound for the States. and that the Victoria, on which he made the trip, was a very long time in reaching Seattle.
 No difficulty at all was expe- rienced in getting a job at Seattle; in fact, he says. he could have picked out any kind of a job at any time. The pay also was good; much better than obtainable in Alaska. but the cost of room rent and living was so high that the big wages received did not begin to compare with the money obtainable in Alaska for any kind of work He worked in Skinner & Eddy's shipyard for two months and was one Of about 13,000 workmen who strucl, in obedience to orders from the J-s
 He left Seattle January 26, ar irving in Nenana lasr night, being just month on the way. The boat coming North was seven days making the voyage and he had to wait six days for train out of Seward. The train service between Seward and Anchorage he described as very poor.
 The trip over the trail from Tal- 1 keetna to Nenana was most delight ful, and he says he does not under stand why all the mail and express is not brought in over this trail, which he thinks is the only logical trail from the coast to the Interior. The going was fine, he says, all the way through and no difficulties of any kind were experienced. He thinks that a wagon road should be opened up and says that when this is done the trip between rail ends can be accomplished in about three or four days at the most i
 Mir. Byrne has been in Alaska for the past twenty-one years, and his trip to the States was the first in that many years. Everything is fine and dandy, he says, in the big cities Outside, at the beginning; but the novelty soon wears away and the average sourdough gets very tired of it all in about a week or so. This was his experience, and he was longing for the North all the time. He says he met a great many Alaskans in Seattle and every one of them were preparing to come North; some in the spring and others as soon as they could get away. The States, with all its manifold at- fractions, is no place for an Alas kan, and he says, that when he newt feels that he should take holiday he will go to Lake Minchumina or the Mckinley Park country, where