The Cordova daily times., 1921-06-15
NENANA NEWS T0LDIN SHORT
 PARAGRAPHS
Especial Correspondence)

master Williams has been directed to ask for bids for a winter mail service between Nenana and Kantishina, be- ginning November and ending April 30. Two forms of proposals are want ed, one for two round trips month, with limit of 200 pounds, and the other for one round trip month, with a limit of 400 pounds per trip each way. Bids must state the rate per round trip and must be in the hands of the local postmaster by July 1. The kantishna mail was carried by c. H. Calhoun last winter.
 Traffic has been resumed on the Anchorage Hurricane Gulch line re- pairs having been made to the line where the washout occurred several days ago. The first train was sent over the repaired line yesterday.
 There is no mail on the trail at the present time, owing to the inter- ruption in rail communication between Anchorage and the end of steel at Hurricane Gulch.
 A gang of men under Foreman Van Bidder are making repairs to the bridge which spans Deadmans slough, on the Nenana-Fairbanks division of the Government railroad Piles are being driven to replace the seven bents taken out during the breakup. Passengers are transferred across the slough by boat.
 Reports from the lower river state that number of cabins owned by natives, at the mouth of the Tolovana river about to fall into the Tanana river, as the result of bank erosion The high bank is being undermined rapidly by the swift Panama current and will soon reach the Vachon ware. house, which must be moved to be Isaved.
 The weekly force report of the AL askan Engineering Commission for the period ending May 14. shows a total of $40 on the payrolls in the Northern division and, in addition, laborers, making a grand total of 1,O- 27 for the division.
 Mail Carrier Carl White arrived from Fairbanks, enroute to the Tol, ovana with mail, passengers and con- siderable freight. More freight will be loaded on arrival of the train from the south this afternoon and the voy. age will be resumed this evening. The trip is being made by launch but up. on arriyel at the mouth of the Tolo. vana be placed taooiinnioatethodin vana river the steamer Carl Waite will be placed in commission and will be used on the run between Tolo. vana and Fairbanks, connecting with launches on the upper Tolovana The through passengers on the launch include Internal Revenue Agent V. E. Crocker, Billy Mahan, G. A. McQua- rrie and Miss Myers.
 The court officials have left Fair. banks for Iditarod, for term of Court. Bunnell is already in the Idit. arod, having gone down river over the ice several weeks ago to attend to matters in connection with the chang ing of the boundaries of the Second, Third and Fourth divisions.
 Internal Revenue Agents V. E. Crocker and w. D. Peck, who arrived from the coast by way of the Broad Pass trail several weeks ago, will take take passage on the steamer Panama next week. headed for Iditarod and Nome. MT. Crocker will leave for the Tolovana but will return in time to make connections with the Panama. MT. Peck will board the steamer at Fairbanks.
 The Alaska Road Commission is advertising for from four to ten teams of horses, with drivers, for use in grading operations.
 There is report in circulation in Fairbanks to the effect that Ike P. Taylor, formerly of the railroad en- gineering forces, with headquarters