The Alaska daily empire., 1919-12-29

 f farms on Prince William Sound re-
 ports that all of them are doing well. I They visited six farms and found the foxes in captivity all doing well get, ting plenty to eat and wearing thick.
 glossy coats.
 i William Meals was recently elected 1 Fire Chief at Valdez, Fred Coleclaugh assistant Chief, and Robert Kelsey,
 Secretary
 The principal methods of taking
 salmon are by gill nets. seines and ! pound nets or traps. There were S33 scines in operation, the aggregate
 length of which was 131.127 fathoms;
 1867 gill nets. measuring 479,112 1 fathoms and 552 pound nets or traps. l Mike Conley. operator around Ophii and owner of much valuable property ! left Idtarod two months ago over l the trail for Seward. Since leaving 1 Iditarod he has not been seen. Pete l Krgarod and five other men were i dcputized to make q search for Conley
 on the way out but they reported
 they found no trace of the well known miner.
 ] Mike Cooney of Nenana has started a dog team express between the two ends of steel via the Broad Pass Route and will carry baggage for mushers, also carry passengers. It Lynch Brothers,' diamond drill men located in Alaska Building at Seattle, will concentrate all their energies in Alaska this year. This concern for merly made their headquarters in Juneau but removed z to Seattle. They have one drill operating at Kennecott and one at Gypsum, two drills at Jualin and will have half dozen operating in the Hyder district in a few weeks.
 Major L. E. Douglas. late of the depot quartermaster's office in Seattle, has been elected secretary of the Association of Pacific Fisheries. and will be in active charge of the associations office in the L. C. Smith building. Seattle. Maj. Douglas has served eleven years in the United States army and retires with an enviable record He is we'll qualified for the important duties of his new position.
 Thirteen carloads of news print paper were recently shipped from Ocean Falls to New York for the Times. The paper was made from spruce logs cut on the Queen char lotte Islands for airplane purposes. The government has sold large sup plies of lumber. cut for airplanes and left over. to the plant to make paper of.
 Many Valdez citizens raised potat- oes and other vegetables in sufficient qlantities to last them until another crop comes in. Many citizens have also raised their own pork this year. -(Valdez Miner,.
 Phil Donahue was Thought 10 the Arthur Yates Memorial Hospital from Helm Bay at an early hour this morn ing with both feet frozen. Donahue has been prospecting and bunting on the Dick Nuccols properties at Helm Bay for several weeks. He had his camp in onc of the old mine buildings on the property. He was forced to re main at Helm Bay for three days before boat arrived. He is being attended by Dr. j. II. Mustard. --(Ket- chikan Chronicle Dec. 13)
 Tho signal corps telegraph stations between the coast and Fairbanks have two men to each station. an operator and an infantryman. The life is lonely one and the men hunt for both food and to relieve the tedium.
 Hyder has an organization called the High Dive Club. and initiates victim every little bit. The town IS built on piling up over the bay anu every day or so. some unfortunate falls into the bay or on the mudflats. He is forthwith declared 10 be a member of the High Dive Club. Judge Bunnell appointed Horace Leach bailiff during the recent session of Court at Cordova.
 Wolves are said to be raising havoc with sheep in the White River district -tValdaz Miner.