Seward daily gateway., 1926-03-23
BRISTOL BAY NEWS
Feb. 27, 1926.
(By Special Correspondent


 (By Special Correspondent
 Mr. and Mrs. Carl Trowbridge de- parted from the U. s. Government Orphanage last week. for Togiak, where they will commence teaching and do settlement work with the na- tives. Mrs. Trowbridge completed the Domestic Science course in the Idaho State University and should prove a valuable asset to the natives of that region, who subsist on dried fish, seal nil and tough hot cakes fried in ket tie of seal oil.
 From the 20th of December until the goth of February, Bristol Bay ex- perienced the mildest mid-winter ever known, there being only two days that mercury reached zero and most of the time, it barely reached the freezing point, and at no time has there been as much as four inches of snow. But for the past week, the thermometer has been registering from zero to 25 degrees below and there is still hopes of snow enough to make trail.
 Beecharoff Lake, which is on the Dillingham-Kanatak mail route has been wide open all winter, with no ice on the beach and Mail Carrier Harris , had a tough time dragging around the lake his February trip, the ground be- | ing barren of snow. He was eight days making seventy miles, and had no feed for his dogs the last two days.
 MT. Theodore Looff, U. s. Fish Com missioner for Bristol Bay district, to- gether with his wife, left Dillingham; March l, for Naknek, to be ready for the spring work where the Bureau of Fisheries now have a ways of their own with a number of patrol boats The Bureau of Fisheries expect in a short time to have a large steamship to bring all their crews and supplies to Alaska, including the stations on Pribilof Islands where the seal herds are looked after.
 Kid Williams mushed from Good News Bay last week and is spending vacation at Dillingham; and especial ly enjoying the dances which are be ing given at the new Government building at the Orphanage. MT. Will kins has operated the Water Moose mine near Good News Bay from which quarter million dollars worth of gold has been taken, the past eight years
 It is only question of a few years when Reindeer will be roaming al over the foothills of Bristol Bay, vir tually back in the caribou wild state as numerous small punches are con tinually breaking away from the mair herds, and scattering in every direc tion. The writer of this, saw on : trip this month, about 20 Reindeer fully 50 miles from any herd, tha stood looking at the dog team, unti within few hundred yards, wher they started on a run for the foot hills.
 Dillingham; has resident, who ha: been an applicant for both of the post offices on the Nushagak River, is now trying to get job with the Alasks Game Commission and is a standin& ] candidate for U. s. Commissioner O. the Bristol Bay precinct. What ht does not know about the duties O. these various jobs would fill one O Libby's large warehouses full of vol umes, but what he thinks he knows would fill several of them.
 Word comes from San Francisco that the Alaska Packers Association are buying large steamships, and vii abandon using the sailing ships, also that they will not operate all thei1 large canneries in Bristol Bay, owins to the limitation of gear. As all the other cannery companies have smalle canneries, they will operate all can neries, but perhaps not run to ful capacity