The Alaska daily empire., 1920-04-16
ALASKA NOTES

well over 300 tons, in fact the ship was so heavily loaded that it was forced to wait in the harbor more than day for favorable weather. The shipment was the heaviest sent from the Premier this winter. D. l.. Pitt, formerly assistant general man. ager, has been appointed general manager to succeed R. K. Neill who recently resigned. MT Pitt has re turned from business trip Outside bringing Mrs Pitt with, him.
 At the recent election, Wrangell voted in favor of issuing bonds for school house and for a floating dock, but against issuing them for a water supply system and for a sewerage system and a municipal dock. The proposals to issue bonds for the water system and for the mu- nicipal dock were each beaten by one vote.
 Guy s. Chapin, the Carheen can nery man, has arrived from the South to prepare for the summers work.
 MT. and Mrs. Martin Lynch of Juneau are guests at the Jess Neville home. They made the trip down on their boat Dixie.- (Wrangoil Senti- nel.)
 MT. J. H. Hume, manager of the J. H. Hume Company who operate the Naket Inlet Cannery, states the radio station at Naket Inlet cannery is in operation again.
 Fred Nagle, formerly in the trans fer business in Anchorage, and who was in Hyder for a couple of weeks last fall, has returned from the Outside. He had a motor truck shipped in on the Gedney and will start a transfer business at Hyder.
 The Hyder Lumber Company have purchased all the merchantable tim Der on the Lindborg townsite from the Hyder Townsite and Improvement Company and will log it off this spring. A cruise of the timber shows that it will scale between 100000 and 125,nOO feet.
 T.. J. Marks, manager for the Hyder Townsite and Improvement Company, has received word that the supplies for the Hyder Bank have been forwarded and should be here on the next Grand Trunk boat. MT. Marks will open the bank as soon as the supplies arrive. 3g With the installation of a power full new engine at their mill, the Hyder Lumber Company is now in a position to supply practically all local demands for lumber, the mill having a daily capacity of 15,OOO feet.
 The new Mayor and Council of Ketchikan took their offices the night RhtCA CiCttioi, hpiH ttu.
 The success of Tom Aitken and associates and others who are oper. ating in the quartz properties of the Kantishna district and cn placer grounds there is expected to bring a rush into the country next summer according to Herb Wilson, the United i States Commissioner there. Mir. Will sons wife just poined him in the Kantishna after spending year with relatives in the States.
 David Cascaden, pioneer of the Interior, who has recently returned to Fairbanks from trip to Shaw Creek, where Frank Lawson and others are mining, says the outlook in the new section is very favorable The field is placer gold diggings. Key. Charles E. Betticher. formerly -of Fairbanks, is now one of the editors of the Spirit of Missions, published in New York City. He and Mrs. Betticher recently became the parents of baby girl born in New York. l Mrs. l.. A. willard has sold her lodging house at Hyder and will erect a number of cottages there She has joined her husband who is logging at Totem Bay and will spend the summer there.
 ! Heinie Dahl has been appointed school tax collector for Petersbure by the City Council and will start actively after the money shortly
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