The Seward gateway., 1923-01-13
Notes of the Northla nd =

The Presbyterian church at Wran- gell was recently dedicated by D7. S. Hall Young.
 The eighteenth degree of Masonry was recently administered to a large class at Ketchikan.
 The towns of Sunrise and Hope in the Turnagain Arm district have a much larger population this year than for many years past.
 The new Hotel which Jack Single ton, the Healy hotel keeper is building at kobi station, is rapidly nearing completion.
 Dr. J. R. Bowen, with holdings in the Healy River Coal corporation, has ,Adisposed of his interests to Capt. A. E. Lathrop, Of Cordova.
 The city council of Fairbanks has fixed the tax levy at r mills This is accounted for on account of many i'm provements to be made.
 Harry Stevens, operating on Crook ed creek in the Kuskokwim section, is reported as cleaning up over five thousand in the two weeks prior to the close of the season.
 The detention hospital building has been taken over by the Bureau of Education. Alterations will be made to transform it into 8 school house. Nome at the present time has an enrolment of e5 pupils.
 Tom Edmons, a native of Wales and an oldtimer of the Circle district, was frozen to death recently on the Yukon river about 20 miles below Circle. He was about 70 years old and at one time acted as mail carrier
 Little Eldorado in the Fairbanks mining district, will commence min ing operations soon. According to re ports five large and two small boiler plants will operate as well as several windlass outfits.
 George A. Parks, chief of the field Division of the General Land Office is at present in Washington conferring with the head of his department. He expects to return to Juneau about the latter part of February
 Anton Politus native of Greece died recently in the Fairbanks hospit- al, from tumoc of the brain. He was buried in the interior town cemetery under the auspices of the Fraternal Order of Eagles.
 4. NJ. Hansen and Chris Hansen, miners in the Nome district, and who have been prospecting on Holyoke Creek below the third beach line are are reported to have struck encous- aging prospects at depth of thirty feet
 Nome Pioneers are starting a move ment to have the Pioneers Home nov ed to California. A resolution will be presented to the next legislature ask ing that an act be passed providina pensions sufficient for the old miners to select their own locality for resi- dence.
 The Nenana City Council since talk ing over the public utilities from the l commission have reduced the power service to 25 cents for the first three ! hundred kilowatt hours! 20 cents over 1 that amount The new rate commenc- ed on the first of the year.
 According to Ike Spink, who recent l ly arrived in Nenana from the Koyu- kuk mining district. there is an abun ! dance of provisions in the northern mining camp. Flour is $14 hundred 1 weight; Rolled oats $1.25 for ten pound sack, butter. 2-pounds for $50, | sugar SIT hundred and rice s16.
 Mining men of the Kantishna and | Iditarod sections are boasting strong y for the new Kobi trail, which will | run from the railroad to these two | mining centers. Those in the Kusko- kwim regions also strongly favor it on account of it being a nearer approach | to that section that the old Nancy 1 trail.
 Having completed a trip of inspec- ton of water power sites in southeast ern Alaska, J. c. Do-t, assistant dis trict engineer of forest reserve, left