The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-23
ALL ALASKANS WANT HOOVER
 TO COME AND SEE OUR NEED
Charles Kraemer Tells of Situation and High Life
 on the Classic Chestochna.

Charles Kraemer of the Slate Creek Mining Company, of which J. M. Elmer is the head, will leave here on the first train north for the big hydraulic gold mining works on the middle fork of the Chestochina riv- CT. He has been here since March 12, waiting for train. His outfit is on Slate creek, at the head of the Chestochina, tributary to the Copper river.
 There's lots of room for energetic prospectors in the section, MT. Krae- mer said today. Three big placer outfits are operating in that section, including one organized by John Ma loney and Harry Cleveland, said to be called the Middle Fork Mining Company, and MT. Kraemer said the chances were good for the discovery of some new pay streaks. Maloney and Cleveland have been working there couple of years and are en- larging their plant this year.
 MT. Kraemer's company is doing we'll His average depth is only six to twelve feet, but work on the side is sometimes 60 to 100 feet. de- pending on how far back the pay streak runs. The outfit is working in Miller Gulch.
 MT. Kraemer also spoke hopefully of the prospects of Charles Meier, who has a road-house and a hy- draulic property in that section.
 ALAskANs WANT MIR. HOOVER TO COME UP THIS SUMMER
 In a conversation last night with a party which included George | Armstrong, another well known old timer, MT. Kraemer remarked-and it was generally agreed-that Sec retary Herbert Hoover should be sent to Alaska this summer by Pres- trent Harding to inspect, as best he can, the primary needs of the Ter ritory MT. Hoover is a competent mining engineer, it was said, and would understand readily many prob lems which would be like sealed book to the President. In the first place. they agreed, there's hardly a chance that the Great COnsOli- dated Aggregation of Windbag5' in | Congress will deflate their balloons in time fer adjournment before snow flies again in Alaska, which would preclude the possibility of visit by the Chief Executive. MT. Hoover is more 'fOOt-lOOse" and even now is at PalO Alto, his Cal ifornia home, while journeying about to promote the Colorado river pro- ject. Besides MT. Hoover, being a mining engineer. would enjoy such trip to Alaska and would what the famous Conway told about so elo- | cucntly--"Acres of Diamonds" on ev- cry side.
 TERRITORY CAN ILL AFFORD ANOTHER YEAR OF DELAY ] MT. Kraemer and others urged that the suggestion somehow be trans mitted to the Presidential send MT. Hoover and get something done for Alaska. The Territory can i'll afford another year of delay, they said. MT. 1 Hoover should come and should take | .<rlt h,,ir cJn Secretary Fall for educational pur- poses, but it were better, perhaps, l if MT. Hoover came alone, ready to rough it for two or three months and to do the greatest work of his life, measured by results.
 Life in the wilderness is quite en- durable, in some respects enjoy able, MT. Kraemer said. His camp population is about thirty men this summer, all sports Good humor prevails, and helpfulness. They have an excellent CCok, books enough, 1 phonograph music and the grandest ] art gallery in the universe-on every l side, spread round aDOut.
 INDIANS NOW WANT LIPTOM'S TEA, IN THE FANCY CANS
 The Stick Indians bring them mountain sheep from the Panama and the mail carrier sometimes brings in 50 to 100 pounds of fish. In eX- change for their game, the Indians ask for tea, flour, sugar and tobacco, and nowadays they insist upon Lip tons teas, in the fancy tin cans. The Indians are crazy for music and are afflicted with an incurable gambling mania. They are moderns now and their cabins are as good