The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-18
MINING IS HIT
 HARD BY TIEUP,
 ASSERTS FL0RY
Local Official Finds Long shoremen's Strike Dam-
 ages the Industry

The mining industry or all Ol interior and northern Alaska has been seriously crippled by the ship ping tieup resulting from the longshoremen's strike, the effects Of which is felt by every com- munity in the north, declared Charles E. Flory. Alaska Commis- sioner for the Department of Ag- riculture who, with Mrs. Fiory, returned home yesterday from a two-month trip covering almost every section except Southeastern and the eastern portion.
 Failure to receive supplies and equipment, delay in delivery when shipping did open for & short time, has materially shortened the mining season and affected both employment and production for the current year, he said.
 Surveyed Agricultural Work
 Much of his time was spent in surveying the aerial weather ser vice now rendered by the United States Weather Bureau, and a study of the needs of the airplane industry of the interior and north. In this connection he visited Fair banks, Nome, Teller, Deering, Kot- zebue, Wiseman and Fort Yukon. While commercial aviation is ex- randing in the north, due to the abandonment and closure of a number of signal corps offices, the aerial weather service has had to be curtailed, MT. Flory said. There is a great need for improvement in this work.
 He has gathered considerable data on the subject and is sub mitting report on it to the Sec retary of Agriculture. He did not comment on the recommendation he will make.
 He spent some time in Fairbanks conferring with Dr. C. E. Bunnell, President of the Alaska College, and L. w. Palmer. head of the Biological Surveys experimental program in that district. He wis., ited briefly at Anchorage and with District Ranger Sherman at his summer headquarters on Kenai Lake.
 Wireless Phones Operating
 The wireless telephone system just installed there is working splendidly, MT. Flory said. It in- creases the efficiency of the field forces 100 per cent.
 Boarding the tender Chugach at Seward, he proceeded to Kodiak, Ouzinkie, Kalsin Bay and Afog- nak, returning to Seward and then to Cordova. At Kalsin Bay 5000 acre tract of land reserved | for the use of the Forest Service i was turned over under permit to Sid Olds, stock rancher, on which to range his cattle. He in- spected the ECW trail from Afog- nak to Back Bay.
 Programs Link Road
 At Seward. after conference with business interests, MT. Flory agreed l to a program for construction as soon as possible of the so-called | missing link road" connecting Moose Pass with the head of Ke- l mai Lake at Lawing. This is a H. mile stretch.
 Cooperating with MT Flory, | Seward has promised to put a ferry service on the lake, thus connecting Moose Pass Highway with the Seward -Kenai Lake High way. MT. Flory said today he hoped the project could be adver- tised at once and construction work started this Fall.
 Some Food Shortage
 Everywhere MT. Flory went he found shortages on some items of food staples. Usually it was eggs and butter and green stuffs. Sometimes it was fresh meat. This would have been serious in the north except that the reindeer herds furnished a supply where beef was not obtainable.
 At WiSeman, the roadhouse man cooked the only potato in the vil- lage for Mir. Flory who recalled rather regretfully that there was so much other food on the table. couldn't eat the potato after all"