The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-18

w. F. McFay, oldtime Dawsonite, was a recent arrival in Fairbanks from Kennecott He is on a short visit tC the in interior.
 Alfred Lundborg recently complet- ed grading contract on the Hap >py Fairbanks line, and is planning trip soon to the states.
 Dr, E. M. Spaulding, has left the employ of the Alaskan engineering comrk kssion and is engaged in pri- vate practice in Anchorage, having taken over the practice of pr F, M. Boyle.
 About 100 tons of vegetables raised bv the farmers of the Fairbanks dis- trict are at their warehouse near the railroad station awaiting ship ment to Nenana, for the use or the engineering commission.
 Hawley w. Sterling, reconnals- sance engineer for the Alaska roau commission in the Kantishna region, is conducting a reconnaissance sur vev with a view to selecting a suit able route for a wagon road rom a point on the railroad into the Kantishna country.
 Information has been recelNed from Dawson to the effect that Mrs. Larry OKeefe is going to Fort Worth. Tex, to accept a position with the company in which Erie Brown, former Nenana agent of the N. c. Co.,, is interested.
 Fire Chief Henry Gohres Of Fair banks. was the guest of honor at dinner given at the firehall recently Ahout sixty were present and during the course of the dinner the popular chief was presented with nugget fob. Gohres expects to leave for the states in the near future.
 Ben Mozee well known old-time { resident of Panama, has been ap- pointed head of the government schools i'll the Yukon valley, succeed irc F. L. Forbes. MT. Mozee has just returned to Panama from a tour Of inspection along the Yukon river.
 I.ucien s. Robe, well known Alas ka mining engineer, formerly of Fairbanks and Ruby, and now work ing at Funter bay for the Alaska Admiralty Gold Mining Company, has been appointed United States mineral surveyor, according to an an nouncement made from the office Of Surveyor General R. J. Sommers.
 Charles F. Hobbs of Anchorage has applied at Juneau for a renewal OI t pei llII to llllllN 'ot'l -'i . Hobbs has been developing a mine at Houston, located at Mile l75 on the Alaska railway, under a permit issued him on May 3, 1918. This eX- pired last May. His application for a renewal covers until May 3, 1922,
 tn1n nh phone line of the Alaska engineering commission has reached Talkeetna with four telephone and one tele- graph circuits in service. With four crews pushing the work from Tal- keetna north to Nenana, the capaci- ty of the lines will be greatly in creased between Anchorage and Ne mana by the first of the year.
 As superintendent of construction on the government road, c. G. Jones hak been transferred to Gold creek, where he will supervise the bridge work now in the course of construc- tion at the Susitna river crossing The work is of considerable i'm portance, consisting of building the piers, trestles, etc., preparatory to swinging the immense bridge as soon as possible.
 J. R. Eakin, of the United States geological survey, who was in charge of the governments work this sum- mer in the Broad Pass district re- gently returned to the states to pre- pare his report on the work done. The party was considerably ham, pered by unfavorable weather condi- tions, but succeeded in making topo- graphical mans of tha region of