The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-10-31
NICHOLSON EXECUTE
 VICTORIA TO CONFER
 WITH BISHOP ROWE


 Yukon Wednesday and is stopping off in Wrangell until the arrival of the Princess Mary Saturday night when he will take passage to Victoria, B. C., where he will con- fer with Bishop Rowe.
 The Anchorage Times last week carried the following write-up con- corning MT. Nicholson's activities during the past year:
 Having completed another busy season in the interior. putting up new buildings and making other improvements at various of the Episcopa missions, N. J. Niehol- son, pioneer of the north, arrived in Anchorage yesterday on his way to the states for the winter. The work done by MT. Nicholson for the Episcopal missions, N. J. Nichol- the past four years, under the di- rection of Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe, represents an investment of approximately s200,000.
 ''The work done during the pres ent season included the construe- ton of an eight-room modern cot tage for the accommodation of mem Ders of the teaching staII at AIat- na, on the koyukuk river. And when that work was competed. MT. Nicholson moved his outfit to Fort Yukon, where he built a concrete reservoir beneath the mission hos pitaI, for the storage of a reserve water supply.
 The Fort Yukon hospital is slI- uated about a quarter or a mile from the shore ot the Yukon river, on an elevation, anu all oI tue wa ter used at the hospital uas to De pumped from the river. The reser- voir will make it possible to store | about 3O,OU0 gallons or water TOT emergency use. It is a sort or sub basement and cost about S3,O0U.
 Mir. Nicholson also installed an SASOIAAS lighting pAdht All IAS AOo- pltal, the equipment including a 15 n. D. Diesel engine and the cost be- ing about $65U0. The plant was just about 10 get under way at the time MT. Nicholson left Fort Yu- kon and it is estimated by him that it will be possible to generate elec- tric energy there for about 10 cents per kilowatt, which is considered low figure considering the distance the fuel oil must be transported.
 When the oldtimer goes into the wilderness to erect a new building, as he did this year, he takes saw mill along to reduce the trees to lumber. This sawmill represents the first and last word in portable equipment, consisting of a saw, an arbor, few rollers and a tractor to do the moving and furnish the power. The whole outfit is trans ported on a small scow on which the contractor also carries his oth- CT building equipment and supplies, the craft having capacity of about eight tons. It is lowed by small river boat powered with a 35-horse power Speedway engine.
 MT. Nicholson travelled about $500 miles on the interior rivers during the season, starting from Nenana in the spring, and complet- ing his travels there just before the ice began running in the Tana- na river. Last year he travelled about $500 miles.
 Conditions are good along the interior rivers this fall, the old timer says, notwithstanding the fact that the summer catch of fish was not up to normal. All of the communities visited seemed to be fairly prosperous and health con- ditions good.
 "One of the jobs undertaken by MT. Nicholson last year was the moving of the mission equipment from Stevens village on the fukon river, to Panama, where boarding school was built at cost of about S1S,0OO. It is the policy of Bishop Rowe to provide substantial, mod ern structures for the missions as rapidly as funds will permit"