The Alaska daily empire., 1920-04-12
ALASKA NOTES

| ALASKA NOTES Walter McBrien defeated Clyde Rogers for City Clerk at Skagway l last Tuesday The dispatches said that Rogers had won the election The vote was Fl to 62. k. J. Shaw received S2 votes for Mayor against l 54 for Gene Smith
 C. F. Caldwell, president of the Utica Mining Company of Slocum, $. c., has been in Seattle on his way to Alaska. He will go to Hyder to formulate plans for the construction of railroad twenty miles long from Hyder up the Salmon river. Active work is under way for fit ting out fishing fleet for Alaskan waters. Most of the Southeastern Alaska canneries expect to decrease their pack from one third to one half normal size. Alaska salmon i pack last year was 4,592,201 cases, the smallest since 1915. Seattle
 Chamber of Commerce Publicity Blu reau.)
 Major c. E. Dole, head of the purchasing department of the Alaska Engineering Commission, announces
 that 800 men will be sent to Alaska
 this month to work on the railroad
 construction. The first contingent
 was sent on the steamship Vic toria which makes a special voyage,
 carrying large quantities of supplies
 and materials for the Territorial rail road.
 J. Arthur Hall who purchased the
 Lindenborg addition of the town of
 Hyder, from Dan Lindenborg last
 summer, and who proposes to es-
 tablish bank there, is expected to
 arrive in Hyder the fifteenth of this month.
 J. Russell Waller, accountant
 for the Alaska Engineering Commiss-
 ion at Nenana has been transferred
 to Anchorage.
 Walter E. Goodwin, pioneer Al askan, who made the preliminary survey of the Seward-Iditarod trail
 for the Alaska Road Commission, is now in the road equipment business
 in Seattle. For many years he
 had charge of the road work on the
 Seward Peninsula for the Alaska
 Road Commission.
 Charles La Belle, pioneer mining
 man of the Slate Creek district in
 the Copper River valley, passed away
 at his home in Seattle last week.
 o. w. Ashby, an Alaskan sourdough
 who spent several years in the min ing game at Nome. in the good old days" recently sold 1,280 acres in the heart of the Graybull oil fields of Wyoming to the Olympia Oil De velopment Association. H. B. Selby, proprietor of the Valdez Miner. was a successful can didate at the recent councilmen's election at Valdez.
 
 The Alaska Road Commission vii.
 build a bridge over the Salmon river in the Portland Canal District this
 coming summer. The building of
 this bridge will aid prospecting and
 mining on the American side of the border.
 The Northern Hydro-Electric com. pany of British Columbia, intends putting in a plant in the Salmon River Valley this summer if sue
 cessful in getting franchise. The Harris Brothers of Hazleton and Major A. w. Davis, are organ izing development company which will do considerable stalking and re- search work in the Stewart, Hyder and other mining districts of the Portland Canal this season. L. w. Storm. Alaska mining en- gineer. formerly located at Valdez, has decided to locate at Hyder. After careful study of the big silver camp, he is convinced that it will prove large and permanent producer.
 Dave O'Toole, formerly with the Alaska Engineering Commission at Anchorage is now purser on the steamer Havilah. operated by the Admiral line in the Oriental trade William I. Evans, pioneer resident of Hollywood. a suburb of Seattle. who died there recently, was the