The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-04-03
Attractive Alaska Exhibit

Attractive Alaska Exhibit l During the past week the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce has l had a very attractive Alaska exhibit
 in the display window of their
 Washington headquarters, located in
 the National Press building. This office has been maintained here for three years and is in charge of a former Alaskan, Ivan E. Goodner, asI manager. The latter, some years ago. resided at Juneau, where heI was an engineer for the Bradley in- terests. Alaska was featured the past week largely because of thel presence here of Charles P. Bayer, manager of the field service and exposition department. Many curiosI of ivory, baskets and other nativei i novelties, in addition to illustrated literature, were all furnished by thel , indefatigable worker for Alaska, Ernest Walker Sawyer.
 It was MT. Bayer who conducted last summer the excursion Of 17Ol representative people of Los Angelesl to western Alaska. He is now ar-l ranging for a similar excursion tol leave Los Angeles in a special del luxe train, on June g, and to sail from Seattle on the morning of Junel 12 on the specially chartered steam-I ship AIeutian, operated by the Alas-I ka Steamship Company. Already oyerI fifty reservations have been made at Victoria, Ketchikan. Wrangell. Ju-l tneau, Sitka, Cordova, Valdez, La touehe and Seward. From the latter town a train on the Alaska railroad will take the tourists to Anchorage,
 where Col. Ohlson will provide some special features of entertainment.
 Some of the party will stop over a
 week and make the trip into Mo
 Kinley National Park or Fairbanks. The other will reach Seattle on the
 return trip on June 25.
 Evan Jones Co. Mine Award
 About three weeks ago z. J. Lous-
 sac, of Anchorage, appeared in Washington and as an officer of the
 Evan Jones Coal Company was much l perturbed because the interior de-
 partment had set aside a contract for coal, for the Alaska railroad, that had been awarded his company. Bartley Howard, president of the
 Alaska Matanuska Coal Company, one
 of the original bidders for the coal ontract, had previously been in l Washington to protest against the
 award that had been made to the
 Evan Jones Co.,, because of some tech
 nicality. His contention was sus- I tained. Soon after MT. Loussac ap- peared and through attorneys main
 tained that the department had made an error in canceling his contract.
 While the matter was being consid-
 cred by the office of the secretary
 of interior Mir. Loussac made trip
 to Miami. On his return last Mon ] day he was greeted with the in formation that the department had ! again considered the coal contract and decreed that the Evan Jones
 people were really entitled to furn-
 ish the fuel.
 Mail Contract Not Renewed E The postoffice department has de- cided not to renew it's contract with ! the Northland Transportation Go.
 for summer mail service between
 Seattle and way ports to Juneau.
 This contract was especially desired by the Petersburg Commercial club but the department has decided that the summer schedule by the Alaska Steamship Co. and the Pacific ,, Steamship Co., will afford a good , mail service for Petersburg.
 Dog Team Mail Service MT. Oscar Samuelson, of Bethel,
 and other residents at small towns
 along the Yukon river. had written Delegate Wickersham expressing the fear that with the coming to Alaska of air mail that the old methods of delivery by dog team would not be rendered to the small and re- mote localities, and that road houses and small stores would have to be , abandoned. The delegate took the matter up with the postoffice de- 2 pertinent and after looking into the situation Harold N. Graves, ex- ecutive assistant to Postmaster Gen. eral Brown, wrote a reassuring let 7 ter to the delegate, in which he | states:
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