Old Matanuska Townsite Lot Sales 1916

A July 1916 issue of the Deseret News, in Salt Lake, Utah, described Matanuska Junction:
"About 60 lots at Matanuska Townsite on the U.S. Railroad branch into the Matanuska Coal Fields were sold on July 26th. The new town will supply the agricultural country in portions of the Matanuska and Susitna valleys. The government has a commercial freight house and depot under construction there, and contemplates errecting a warehouse and lumberyard. This is the first government town located on the main line of the railway from tidewater."

On July 26, 1916, 56 lots were sold to private people at Matanuska Townsite

BLOCK ONE

LOT	NAME OF PURCHASER	PRICE PAID	NOTES
1	Fred M. Polley	$400
2	Louie Bker Aristo Emiizas John Pappas	$355
3	Sam Juvenil	$285
4	Mike Diryak Jack Wrklin	$300
5	Ed C. Smith	$300
6	Ivan Hanus	$280
7	Diamante Zarelli	$250
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9
10	Harold W. Howard	$240
11	Halle Aptula Savas Kerean	$245
12	William Maitland	$250
13	Zeke Perovice	$225
14	Reuben Nichols	$210
15	Charles W. Allen	$180
16	Charles Martin	$180
17	Edward Johnson	$90
18	Reuben Nichols	$50
19	Camille LaRochelle	$75
20	Heino Sarklinen	$80

BLOCK TWO

LOT	NAME OF PURCHASER	PRICE PAID	NOTES
1	Harold Peckenpaugh	?
2	Philip H. Allen	$40
3	Philip H. Allen	$40
4	Nell Beattie	$50
5	Joe Lester	$65
6	Tom Antoniach	$50
7	Harry Weikert	$60
8	Hattie Moore	$95
9	Mike Soine	$260
10	Tony Soine	$260
11	George P. Jankow	$245
12	Ernest Ferguson	$250
13	Louis Goumas Samis Semon	$280
14	Ellen S. Horton	$275
15	Reuben Nichols	$255
16	Rudi Marcela Glen W. Mustard	$255
17	George Paropat	$285
18	Mike Roche	$270
19	Mike Roche	$255
20	Adolph Smith	$200
21	Phillip H. Allen	$225
22	Mrs. Albert Church	$225
23	George Kaloff	$305
24	Arthur A. Shonbeck	$475

BLOCK THREE

LOT
16

NAME OF PURCHASER
Ed C. Smith

AMOUNT PAID
$75

NOTES

BLOCK FOUR

LOT	NAME OF PURCHASER	AMOUNT PAID	NOTES
1	Charles Martin	$50
2	Adolphus Smith	$50
3	Phillip Allen	$50
12	Archie Lewis	$85
13	Fred B. Wood	$85
14	Frank A. Hoffman	$70

BLOCK FIVE

LOT	NAME OF PURCHASER	AMOUNT PAID	NOTES
1	John L. Hughes Harry C, Munro	$50
2	Harry Watson	$115
3	Dora Hatton	$80
4	Henry Hall	$100
5	Thomas Wade	$60
6	Annie Gordon	$85
7	Frank Maki	$55
8	Walter Sahlstrom	$75
9	Fred B. Wood	$25
10	Frank A. Hoffman	$30
11	George Nylan	$25
12	Ralph Weiss	$25
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14	Hugh McCoughy	$25
15	Peter Lindquist	$25

Information found at the National Archives: Townsites along Railroad 1915-1916 Alaska