The Cordova daily times., 1920-06-17
TEACHERS ARE ENJOYING TIE
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Two of Cordova's former teachers, Miss Mary Edelbrock and Miss Mar garet Kolbenson, have written friends here accounts of the vacation trips 1 they are now enjoying. Miss Edel- brock, who left a week ago last Mon day on trip of several thousand miles, through Fairbanks, Dawson and Skagway to her home in San Diego, California, writes from Chitina, her first stopping place:
 ''I certainly have wild trip ahead of me. The trail is good at both ends but there is a stretch of about forty miles over the summit where we will have to go on horseback Won't that be fun? I am going on Gibson's stage, and Billy Frame will be the driver. I saw Mir. and Mrs. Phillips. They have cozy little place over the sta tiOn. I also saw MT. Oss and Warren Taylor and MT. Schwartz, who has had such wonderful success at theI Indian school at Copper Center The sehWartzes have new baby over at 1 Kennecott. "a a,-.ss,a -,
 Do you remember little Kingsley Mcleod who was one of my pupils last fall? His father and mother live at Strelna. The mine of which MT. Mcleod is superintendent is closed, ,l but there is a gold and silver mine belonging to MT. Ole Berg, about t5 miles from Strelna The McLeOds have two autos, a Ford and a Franklin. Yesterday eight of us-four in each car-started to the mine. The party was as follows: Tn the Ford were Mrs. Mcleod, driving; MT. Corser, Kingsley and |; in the Franklin, MT. Mcleod, driving, Mrs. Corser, MT. Dwyer and Mr. Graham (Ethels father). It had been showery ever since we left Cordova, so we wore old clothes and big boots. It was lucky we did, for it just poured. There were no tops on the cars, but with a couple of umbrellas and pieces of oil cloth we kept dry in spite of the rain and hail. The road was awful In one place the men had to chop away the ice.
 Finally we came to a place where the road was no more. The bank had slid down on the road and even as we stood it kept on sliding We had to hustle to get out of the way of rocks and mud. AS we were only about three-quarters of mile from the mine, we hiked it while MT Mcleod and Mr. Dwyer backed the cars to a safe place. Tn places the road was soft mud where we went half way up to our knees. We crossed streams of mud and water. Finally we reached the mine mill. MT. and Mrs. Berg knew we were coming and had a hot fire and coffee ready. We sat around the fire and dried out little. The mine was away up in the hills, too far for Us to visit, but we went through the mill where the gold is extracted by a cyanide process.
 "Then we crawled into our very wet garments and hiked back to the machines. The road on the way back was worse than it was. in coming, for the slide had kept sliding. But we got through safely, and not one of us felt This is just a sample of what have ahead of me"
 Miss Kolbenson, who left CordOva more than two weeks ago for a camp ing trip with her friend, Miss Myra Phillips, has been having some strenu- Ous times, as may be judged from a letter she wrote last Sunday:
 "We started on our camping trip Monday, the thirty-f1rst, and returned Tuesday evening eight days of it. It was wonderful. We visited Chilkat cannery the Davis mine, the Boring river coal camp, McDonald's Gan old coal mine on Boring lake), and other places around the lake. I cannot be- gin to tell on paper all the wonders of the trip, so will wait till get back to Cordova
 Suffice it to say that it was eight