The Seward gateway., 1923-01-06

Rich ore bodies al depth oI one thousand feet w."a tap; ed recently oh .l. Var Bab" ".i'.. in tt. .: illow r.,e' district.
 The property of the Valdez Gold Co. at Shoup bay will be operated by large force of men the comming sum- mer, according to reports.
 The first of December the Dawson lodge of Yukon Pioneers celebrated the twenty-eighth anniversary of the finding of the order.
 A. R. Larson, former cashier of the Miners and Merchants Bank of Ket- chikan is raising funds to start anoth- CT bank in the portal city.
 Woodbury Abbey, well-known Al askan is trying to secure a concession to erect number of hotels in Me hlnley NdllOHdI pdTk.
 The big Larsen building at Tacotna is coming right along and will soon be completed . An attempt to locate wat CT was unsuccessful
 Reindeer slaughtered in the Idita- ;, dition averaging 125 pounds, 29 car casses going as high as 136 pounds.
 Only six tourists visited Mckinley National Park the season of 1922. It is expected that when the hotel at Curry is completed mang will register.
 Col. w. J. Rattles trustee of the Girdwood mine, at Latouche. is on visit to a sister in New York whom he has not seen in twenty-five years.
 The Losey brown bear cubs recently shipped to the states bv pr Chase rf Ccr6ova, have been placel in tie Was hington, D. ', ml' ,:''' # natural history.
 Mrs. Frank Larsen has taken over the Mclean roadhouse near McGrath J. H. Mclean has retired to private life having fitten up home near the old N c. store.
 For fire protection and community purposes the people of Tacotna have decided to sink community we'll. The shaft is already timbered and a heater will be installed.
 Moody Green, while coming down from Nixon Fork. fell about thirty.five feet from tree, which he had climb ed in an endeavor to sight game, and fractured his ribs.
 Reported discovery of gold placers in the Chatanika district caused a small stampede to the diggings. Ten dollars in coarse gold was taken out of the gravel, thawed by wood fires.
 Casey McDannel, the noted caterer on the Alaskan Railway, has made a proposal to put in a first class hotel at the base of Mt Mckinley to ac- comodate tourists.
 The Alaska Dispatch recently pub ished a list of salmon packing com panies doing business in Alaska The Kodiak Canning Company at Seward is left out of the list .
 Los Angeles and Wyoming oil men are planning to place rigs in the Cold Bay district in the spring. A permit has been secured to drill on 40 acres belonging to the Blum permit.
 Percy DeWolfe, Dawson mail car rier lost valuable team of horses re- gently, when they crashed through the ice. DeWolfe by heroic efforts saved the mail. This is the third outfit he has lost in the past four years.
 IS soon as ne L.E C ,:i being erect ,d 6: Curry is co'n, .l.c trains from Fairbanks to Seward, will remain overnight there. The track between Nenana and Fairbanks will be widen ed as soon as the big steel bridge ac- ross the Tanana is completed.
 The Alaska depar: nlent of the Seat tie Chamber of Commerce put on real Alaska fish dinner at the Arctic recently at whica the features of the banquet were various products of AL askan waters and lands, from Shrimps to crabs.
 James Frawley, on behalf of the