Seward daily gateway., 1923-05-12
Notes of the Northla Id -


 The salmon canneries at Freshwa ter Bay and at Aux Bay will be oper ated this season by Carlson Bros.
 Products of Alaska shopped from the Territory in March of this year to. taled in value $1,055,493, compared with s1,5O4,OOO last month.
 The steamer Admiral Evans which sailed south on her last trip loaded 25,O00 pounds of fresh halibut and 20 boxes of shrimps at Petersburg.
 Tourists seeking information OF trips to various sections of the North. land are visiting the Alaska rooms several weeks earlier this year than usual, is the report from the Seattle Chamber of Commerce.
 President Bradley of the Alaska-Ju- neau Gold Mining Company states that before the end of the current year il is expected to have the overall ca pacity of the milling plant brought up to ten thousand tons day with oper- atins costs and sorting reduced to 20 cents ton.
 John Light a colored sailor on the freighter Cordova, recently suffered crushed hand when the vessel was in port at Petersburg when a large lump of coal weighing several hundred pounds fell from one of the hoistng buckets and struck him.
 o. J. Berg of Cordova has recently bonded the North Midas mine near Strelna to a syndicate of Massachu- sets capitalists who have put MT. Berg in charge of the property. SIX thousand feet of work have been done already on the property which is now equipped with a 2O-stamp mill, air compressor and drills.
 With s6,OOO allotted for the build ing and maintenance of trails ln the Chugach national forest several pro- iects are contemplated for the Cor dova district this season including an emergency trail between the railroad and Katalla; construction of a trail from the railroad right of way near Alakanik to the head of Mckinley Lake: and the completion of the Eyak road to the territorial fish hatchery at the head of the north arm of Eyak lake.
 The Seattle branch O. R. L. Polk 6; Conpanv. Inc. the national director! publishers, are making announcement that plans have been perfected for the publication of a new Alaska directory This edition of the directory will GOV CT fully southeastern and southwest ern Alaska with the addition of Fair banks and all towns along the govern ment railroad.
 E C.. Guerin, cadestral engineer with headauarters at the Juneau gen. eral land office, field division, has been transferred from the land office to the geological survey on a special duty as assistant chief in charge of topographic and triangulauon work ln northern Alaska for probably three wears. The party will work between Wainwright and Pt. Barrow with head quarters probably at the former place.
 The Territorial Senate in commit tee of the whole, before adjournment agreed to purchase the Garside build ing at Juneau to be used for housing the Alaska Museum and Historical h. brary and for offices of the Territorial Treasurer, Attorney General and Com missioner of Education. The agree ment included an appropriation ot sl5,OOO for purchase and $2,OO0 for re- moving the offices from the present location to the new building.
 improvements in Alaskan mail ser vice will be made with wider and more frequent distributions to points in the interior of the territory as re- suit of a conference in Seattle recent ly between E. G. Wetzler, chief clerk of the U. s. mail service and w. C. Vandervoort, superintendent of the 18th division. With completion of the railway to Nenana, that point is the distributing station for interior Alas da and points on the northern coast during the winter months Mail from Seattle will reach Nenana in nine days via Seward and the railway. Two main routes lead out of Nenana where Mr. Wetzler maintains his headQuar- ters. One follows the railroad across the Tanana river and into Fairbanks, there to be distributed over govern ment mail trails through the Chesto- china country and the mining camps along the border of the Yukon terri tory. The other route covering a large part of the remainder of Alaska lies down the Tanana to the Yukon river and thence down that river to Holy Cross where second distribu-