The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-09-16
EIfin Cove
 News Notes
Special Correspondencel

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 ELFIN COVE, Alaska. Sept. A. There are great many boats here fishing echoes and many of them are leaving for the south also to fish inside waters. Boats fuel- ing at the Standard Marine Sta tion here are the Vesta, Penguin, Anna G, 3lW583, Ross Lee, Mary M., Red-Boy, Ventura. Boomer, Chilkat. Paul Revere, 31D694, 31- DAY. Nesral, Iva Ann, Pep, Mar ian Jean, Einar S., Blithe Spirit, Repeal, Norman, Jadah, Odd, Rest less, Janet F., Alaska Maid, and others.
 The boat Neptune is on the grid to be scrubbed down and cop- per painted.
 Jack With bought fine sea- going inboard motor boat from Fred Wilcox, who owns the boat Relief of Paulsbo. With will use the boat for trapping and hunting.
 Fred Pickle is leaving soon, talk ing his boat to Lopez Island where Russell Davis will rebuild the boat this winter. Pickle is having a new stem and a complete new wheel-house and all of the top side of the boat, including the liv- ing quarters below redone in red cedar.
 Glen Wise put his boat, the Imp, on the grid and scrubbed down and did the copper painting while the tides were right.
 Passengers from Juneau on our mail boat the Treva c. Friday were Mrs. David Davis, Elliott Fremming and son David.
 ELFIN COVE, Sept. 8.-The many friends of Gradner Sullivan will be pleased to know that another letter has been received from him reporting that he is feeling bet ter. He also writes that there are as many Holsters off the coast of Maine as there are king salmon here.
 MT. and Mrs. Don D. Foster have returned from Juneau where they had their two sons, Vern and Donnie, to the dentist for their annual checkup and are moving ashore to their home here for the school term.
 MT. and Mrs. Kenneth s. Mar tin are new residents in the Cove, having bought the Estrata home. The Estrata family will be missed by all the Covites. While the Estratas were summer resi- dents, the Martins plan to live here the entire year They have the boat 31D60l.
 Skipper Ed Reyburn on the troll- CT Atica lowed the boat Rosemary from Soapstone to Elfin Cove yes- terday Skipper Hugh Tennison on the Rosemary said he could have made it on his own power, but the trip was much faster being lowed by the Atica. Part of the clutch on the Rosemary broke and the damage will be repaired at Jim Lingaards shipyard here.
 c. R. Craig, engineer for Stan- dard Oil Company here, and his crew have the two automotive die- sel tanks installed on their con- crete foundations. The tanks have capacity of 24,0O0 gallons each and these, added to the present huge tanks, gives Elfin Cove one of the finest marine stations in Southeast Alaska. It is midway station for boats plying to the westward to take fuel supplies be. fore crossing the Gulf, as well al hundreds of fishing vessels that are here during the fishing sea. son. Walter Larson, who ha. pioneered the gasoline selling hert when barrels were the only meani of getting fuel supplies into ths Cove, is in charge of the station and certainly more capable at tendant would be hard to find Walters smile and untiring efforts to please the customers is known from Mexico to the Boring Sea.