The Nome nugget., 1924-03-08
HUGE AMOUNT MERCHANDISE
 AT ARMY POSTS
Supplies Valued at Nearly Two Million Now in Warehouse
 In Alaska

More than $1.500,000 worth of supplies consisting of merchandise of every description, from toothpicks to motor boats. is now in the ware house of the U. s. Army Post, as result of the abandonment and dis rnantling of the forts Gibbon. St. Michael and Egbert the past summer and of the local concentration of the supplies. according to Major J. F. Byrom. says the Anchorage Alaskan. In a statement yesterday, "In closing the above U. s. Army posts, all the property has been shipped to An chorage with the exception of one large motor boat, which still remains at Fort Gibbon. but which will he te brought here later.
 "A huge amount of clothing is now stored in our warehouses here to fully equip new army division, or 10000 men. An enormous amount of this property includes thousands of articles of Alaska issue, a few of which are as follows: Muskrat caps. wolf and buffalo robes and coats, snow shoes, skis, shoe packs and hip boots. German and rope socks, gloves. underwear. etc. Five car- loads of clothing are on the tracks at Seward and are guarded by de- rachment of ten men from the local post. This clothing will be brought tc Anchorage when through service on the railroad is resumed"
 "At the present time" Major Bly, rom said. "an inventory is being talk en of the supplies here. The inven- tory will be completed in about a month We have been authorized from headquarters of the Ninth Corps Area to sell the food supplies here and these will be placed on sale in the very near future"
 The Major continued. "The surplus clothing and such furniture. machin- cry and other articles will be turned over as far as is practicable to other Government attachments Supplies which cannot be disposed of here, will be shipped to the States prob- ably in July. on large U. S. Trans port
 During the past summer. the Mai or stated. approximately S100.000 worth of food supplies have been sold and transferred. There still is remaining in the Army warehouses here about s60.O00 worth of food supplies. Twenty-one carloads of supplies from Anchorage and Sew ard warehouses were shipped to Sc. attle last Spring on the U. s. trans. port Cambrai."
 Included in the most recent ship. ments received at the local post from the Interior, were six mules and six horses. and enough rolling equip ment for 100 vehicles. Among these was regular fire department hook and ladder truck and two chemical engignes. The chemical engines have since been disposed of to the Alaska Railroad fire department
 The fact that in these supplies is listed equipment to fully furnish ,nodern gymnasium. will no doubt be of interest to many Anchorageites.
 The gymnasium supplies are all that any club desires. Dozens of large floor mats are listed. metal lockers, which have never been un- packed from the original cases, gym horses, bars, rings, dumbbells. clubs huge pushba1l and everything else found in a gym. are included among he supplies.
 In dismantling the Interior posts, hundreds of pieces of furniture. wood and coal stoves, bath tubs, ice boxes. pianos. safes. office equip ment, typewriters. a full set of banl m nstruments. shot guns and ammuni- ton and a large modern machine shop. were sent to Anchorage. Among the Comm'ssary supplies are huge quantities o. dog feed. camel goods If all kinds, jams. jellies ard cn' lgn oatmeal to supply Alaska tor a solid year. Big r'les of-boxes full os choice cigars ani tobacco were al so received here iu the shipments.