The Seward gateway., 1923-02-03

purchased the equipment of the mill at Thane.
 Ketchikan will float bonds for the construction of new school building expected to be one of the largest and finest in the Territory.
 Considerable talk is in progress in Fairbanks regarding the installation , of a hydro-electric plant on the Tai mana river at Bates rapids, just oveI the river from the town. It is said that fully 10000 horsepower can be developed.
 Arrivals from the interior report that the new steel bridge spanning the ~anana is in place and all false work remnved. Riveting will now go for ward, the structure soon being com pleted. Three men are employed in the 1 Cordovada camp during the winter do- l ing assessment work and some pros l pecting. The Cordovado company this year completed it's 40 mile hydraulic | ditch and used it for the first time in their mining operations. The ditch has a carrying capacity of HOO miners inches and from the time that the wa | ter was first turned in to the end of the season the mining operations were amply supplied with water.
 Hansen and Hansen operating on the Elk claim between Bourbon and Wonder creeks in the Second division are making extensive preparations to take out the exceptionally rich pay discovered in their leased ground. Wm. Pangman and assistants re- gently moved bunk and cook house from the Mable mine to the Elk mine, distance of about 1900 feet, the work requiring a team of 16 horses. 1.-Two new boats will be added to Southeastern Alaska for Presbyterian Mission work in this district, it is stated by Dr. 5. Hall Young, superin- | tendent of Presbyterian Missions in Alaska. One will be operated out of Juneau and the other out of Rake.
 The Secretary of War has approved in excess of the s465, ,000 recommended by the Bureau budget, additional esti. mates for the Alaska Road commiS, sion for the next fiscal year in the sum of $631,000.
 One thousand dollars has been ap- propriated by the war department for a survey of Juneau harbor for the pur' pose of building government dock. | The Wards Cove bridge, a APO foot span between Ketchikan and Wacker City is now completed. It is now pos sible to go from Ketchikan to Wards Cove a distance of seven miles.
 Financiers who are interested ir the proposed paper and pulp development at Elliott Bay, near Wrangeli, are ready to go ahead as soon as con tracts can be secured for timber SUD- plies, according to a telegram receiv. ed by District Forester Charles Flory from J. c. Calvin, promoter, now in New York.
 Chris Anderson, an old time Nome resident is reported to be in dire dis tress in his cabin on Rock Creek. His feet were badly frozen recently the nails and skin sloughing away from the limbs. It is said that he has no supplies and no money, and a purse is being taken up by the townspeople to give him aid and medical assistance
 William G. Paxton, mining recorder and acting gold commissioner, also government agent, died at Atlln ln St. Andrews hospital, Friday. Decem' Der IS. MT. Paxton has been a resi- dent of Atlin since the early days, and has taken an active part in its development. Deceased was native of Edinborough, Scotland, and outside of brother who is on the staff of the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Vancouver, there is no knowledge of other relatives.
 Mark Walker, who was trapping with Dick Davis, when he met death in the icy waters sof Short Bay lake, near Ketchikan on January 14, says that Davis staNed out trapping, and when he did not come home. Walker followed his tracks to the arm of a