In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago.
October 7, 1915: Mr. J.E. Chilberg and son are in town again, having made the trip down from the camp on the river to get a new scow boat to make the trip to the mine. Mr. Chilberg will try a new stunt in river navigating when he leaves for the mine again as he intends to hitch a couple or three Evinrude motors to the stern of the scow for furnishing the power and promises to navigate anything up to a sandbar. Finley C. Mitchell and W.C. Mitchell, well-known mining men of the Cassiar country, will be passengers south on the Princess bound for their home in England. The Mitchell boys have spent the past season working their property and report a very successful summer.
October 11, 1940: The Chamber at its Monday luncheon meeting devoted an hour and a half to discussion and suggestions on the plan and assured city officials full support in every way in the endeavor to get Wrangell on the airways map of the north. In addition to the site back of Mt. Dewey, already approved by the Alaska CAA, the possibilities of Stikine flats for a major field were outlined, with the thought advanced that Wrangell and Petersburg both should get back of this plan in a joint endeavor. Stikine flats, where the New York to Nome flight planes landed several years ago, offers a variety of sites for a major field with ample room for approaches and runways. Most important, it is the ideal location in Southeast Alaska for a short connection with the interior, and with the International Highway becoming a reality as is generally anticipated and would afford an excellent link with the big highway.
October 8, 1965: Fifteen representatives of the Port of Seattle will be in Wrangell for an informal luncheon with the Chamber of Commerce and interested persons Sunday, Oct. 17. The group will stop over while en route to Juneau from the state Chamber of Commerce meeting in Ketchikan. They will be accompanied by state board member and local chamber president Frank Murkowski. Primary discussion will center on developments in the Stikine River area and the possibilities of development and construction of major port facilities in Wrangell.
October 11, 1990: A recent attorney general’s opinion is concerning aquaculture association officials across the state—and could bar the Southeast group from taking over the Beaver Falls hatchery in 1995. Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association Manager Don Amend said SSRAA’s one-year contract to operate the Beaver Falls Hatchery is not affected by a recent attorney general’s opinion. In that opinion, a lawyer for the state says money from cost recovery fisheries can’t be used for capital improvements at state hatcheries run by regional aquaculture associations. That has officials with the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association and the Prince William Sound Aquaculture Association concerned about plans to sign 20-year contracts with the state to take over operation of the hatchery facilities. The Cook Inlet group appears ready to sign the contract and work to change state law at a later date.
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