The Kusko times., 1928-11-17
Alaska Notes Gathered From Territorial
 Exchanges.

Exchanges.
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 While the Canadian Pacific steam ship Princess Charlotte was lying at the Skagway. wharf, recently, her porter, a lad of IF or IS years of age, decided to scale the mountain, at a. point just.back of the wharf. He no- ticed ttlaNsfaees of rock far up on the mountainsidef had been painted, and he concluded that if painters could seae the.preeipitous cliffs he could do likewise. All went we'll until he was sayeral<hundred f eet up the steep niountainside, when a false step sakssedehim to slip and he began to roil He kept rolling until within feM feet of the edge of sheer drop aft200;feet, when he managed to grab bushrwhich enabled him to not only stop his fall but to crawl onto a small saeifr '9fcrocks. The lads cries were heard, and attention was called to his perilohs position. Members of the Chariotte's crew got busy, but it was several hours before the boy was res cued, andfound to have broken one of his arms at both the shoulder and the elbow,.a and to have sustained several cuts on his head, which required many stitches to close. He was taken to the White@Pass hospital in Skagway, where he was reported to be getting along we'll considering what he had gone through.
 Confident that mink farming can be mads very profitable when m s1.- aged properly and carried on in To- cality where climatic conditions are favorable, a group, of Anchorage men have acquired the Pollardplace, near the aviation field, and embarked n the. fur industry on targe scale, ac- cording 10 the Anchorage Times, which says that advantage is being taken9ofs the many experiments that have been carried 6n in recent years in the railroad belt and elsewhere. and the company is starting with the choicest of the famous Susitna valley steckse. gathered from established fatms along the railroad within easy shipping, distance of Anchorage. The pens are. being filled with proven breederssof dark color as rapidly as they acaas be- obtained,
 The new company is.-known as the Anchorage Fur Farm Association, and as.soon as the venture has been fully. financed the company will be in- corporated. The company already is going concern, with nearly enough units sold at $25O each to meet the requirements of further expansion. For the present, Dr. c. A. Pollard is acting as president, E. R. Tarwater of the Bank of Alaska as treasurer, and William T. Murray, of the New Method Tailors- Cleaners, as secretary.
 The Pollard property, which in- eludess aamodcrn residence and nine acseseof land admirably suited to fur farming purposes, was purchased by the company as the first step, after whichscame the erection of two mink houses; each containing thirty pens. Ground has since been broken for a third house, which will contain forty pens. These, houses represent the last word in mink quarters, combining as they do all the desirable features of the best mink houses in the, Territory and some additional improvements de- vised by R. M. White, an experienced mink farmer, who has been placed in charge of the new ranch as manager. The pens save a concrete floor, and there is every facility for keeping them clean and healthy. nnfiar all con-