The Cordova daily times., 1921-10-26

J. A. Sofoulis and his gang of twelve men recently completed a largt con. tract for the Alaskan engineering com mission on the northern division The boys had their headquarters at Mile 3l9 and during the life of tho con tract. ten month. they moved approx imately 50,00O yards of dirt and gravel.
 Included in a recent shipment from the north consigned to the Bank of Anchorage was more than $20ooO in gold bricks recovered from various operations in the Willow creek quartz district.
 Tom Weathcrcu has just come in from Cache creek where Inc is inter. ostcd in mining operations Mir WoatUorcU reports a very successful season, although somewhat handi- capped hy the shortage of water
 Rod Mckenzie. who has been out at Camp &l& for the past five months. has finished his contract there and will spend some time in Anchorage until he is permanently located elsewhere
 Karl NJ. Sinclair. one of the old reliablcs connected with the building of the Great Alaska railroad. is down form Sutton to attend to business con nccted with his official duties MT. Sinclair advises that the washing plant at Sutton is rapidly nearly com pleton. The power plant has been erected, the power installed and the cleaning plant building inclosed. With in thirty days, Mir. Sinclair states, the work will be fully completed, and ready for operation next spring. More than 125 laborers and technical men are now employed in the construction
 Mrs. D. F. Kenyon came in from the interior and has been doing work at the Russian mission on the Yukon for number of months.
 Miss Emily Borgen of Seward was passenger from there to accept a position with the commission and ex- poets to remain in Anchorage for the winter.
 Word was received in Anchorage that the Pacific Steamship Company will follow the line of sound business and keep the Anchorage office open this winter Local people will be glad to learn that the popular and accom- modating agent. c. H. Bach will con tinue in charge of the office.
 After spending a few weeks in the woods on the Kenai peninsula in search of big game. Chas Cadwallader and Ralph Kitzmiller returned to town resembling two modern Robinson Crusoes. They had lots of wet weath- CT during the trip, but their spirits were never dampencd and the hunt ended very successfully, with two brown bear to their credit
 A. T. Budd, who has been very sue cessful in his management of the Gold Bullion property operated by a Cana dian syndicate, is in town for a few days on business matters. Mir Budd advises that this seasons operation has been very satisfactory. About thirty-fivc men are employed at the Gold Bullion and the mill will be oper- atcd for at least two weeks longer
 Officials of the Alaskan engineer ing commission report work of clear ing the branch and main line railroad tracks is under full headway, with | prospects of traffic being resumed shortly. One ditcher and augmented crew has been placed on the branch line with the result that the track will be cleared for service tomorrow. One ditcher and one pile driver are work ing on the main line in the vicinity of Talkeetna and the work of repairing bridges and clearing the mud slides Is progressing
 1 Mrs. George A. Cotter, perhaps bet ter known as Helen Van Campen, the authoress. was among the recent pass cugers from Seward