THE KUSKO TIMES
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Catered as second-class matter August
Jfth, 1925, at tbe Post Office at
Tokotna, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. MAR. 29. 1924
Gotwals Will Quit
Railroad Is Rumor
Anchorage Times: Unauthenticated
ibnt apparently reliable reports received
from Washington, D. C.. today declare
•that Major John C. Gotwals, engineer
.carp*, U. S. array, expects to be re
1 laved from his duties as chief engineer
-of tha Alaska Railroad.
Tfaa report says that some time ago
Major Gotwals requested the war de
partment to assign him to other duties
and that he has renewed his request
eince his recent arrival at the national
capital.
Six Million Each Year
From Lead, S. D.. Mine
Lead, 6. D.—Six million dollars is
the revenue from the 1,500,000 tons of
ore that are mined annually at the
Homestake gold mine here, according
to figures of the mine.
To mine this ore, 1,554,117 pounds or
11,108,234 sticks of dynamite are used
each *,ear If these sticks were laid
end u ■ nd they would reach from Lead
to Aberdeen, a distance of 329 miles
an«i Z u96 feet.
In • xploding this dynamite 3,816,724
feet o( fuse was used. If the fuse could
be put into one continuous string and
lighted, it would burn 971 davs. 20
hours, 22 minutes and 8 seconds, over a
distance of 722 miles and 4,564 feet.
Laid ead to end, the 1.468,393 caps
used would reach from Lead to Belle
Fourche, a distance of 31 miles and
4,740 feat.
If the total amount of drilling for one
year were in one long hole, it would
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measure 1,000.000 feel, or from Lead to
Mitchell, a distance of 303 miles.
Stamps in the combined stamp mills
of the mines raise and lower 122.522,400
times annually.
It tequires 1.224,000 feel, or 232
miles, of No. 15 wire, to make the ’“Old
Abe” skip hoisting cable, used for
hoisting the ore, an approximate
weight of 17,211 pounds.
Approximately 100,000 tons of coal
are used by the mine every vear.
Right of Locators, Mc
Kinley National Park
Numerous inquiries have been made
to the register of the land oflice at An*
chorage concerning the status of min
ing locations within the boundary of
McKinley National Park, says the An
chorage Times.
The act of Congress approved Febru
ary 28, 1817, under which this park
was established, contains the following:
“Sec. 2. That nothing herein con
tained shall alfect any valid existing
claim, location or entry under the laud
laws of the United States, whether for
homestead, mineral, right-of-wav, or
other purpose whatsoever, or shall ef
fect the rights of any such claimant,
locator, or entiyman, to the full use
and enjoyment of the land.”
Hoyt Jury Stood 9 for
Acquittal, 3 Conviction
Fairbanks.—The trial of Romeo
Hoyt, charged with robbing the Fair
banks postolfice about a year ago, end
ed in a disagreement, the jury deliber
ating 27 hours. .Ni.De of the jurors
were for acquittal, and three, including
two women jurors, were for conviction.
Judge Clegg announced that the case
would be retried next fall.
The trial was a very costly one, the
government bringing many witnesses
from the States, keeping them in Fair
banks for several weeks.
Attorney Guy B. Erwin, assisted by
L. R. Gillette and E. B. Collins, prose
cuted the case, while Hoyt was defend
ed by Thomas A. Marquam.
The fox farms in the Cook iDlet dis
trict are worth approximately $300,000,
according to J. L. Waller, Anchorage
attorney, who is manager for the An
chor Point Silver Fax Farm, Inc , says
the Anchorage Daily Alaskan. Three
of these fox farms alone are valued at
half that amount, or $150,000, and there
are a few others whose values run into
large figures.
The last winter the Anchor Point
silver fox farm disposed of about fifteen
pelts, which brought an average of
$250 each. Mr. Waller slates. The
general price on the inlet for a pair of
young foxes is about $000.
.The city of Juneau won a complete
victory in the injunction suit com
menced by Emory Valentine to restrain
the city from appropriating city funds
to pay the expenses of a represeosative
at Washington to boost for Territorial
division. Counsel for Valentine de
murred to the answer of the city, and
the court overruled the demurrer.
Judge Wickersham, of counsel for Val
entine, announced that the plaintiff
wouTd stand on the demurrer and re
fused to proceed with the case, where
upon the courtdismissed the action and
dissolved the temporary injunction.
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A Little of Everything.
A new invention, intended chiefly for
traveling men, is a self-illuminating
safety razor, whi"’u makes it possible
to shave in the dark. In the handle of
the razor is » tiny electric bulb, en
cased in a rubber holder, which pre
vents dampness from rusting it. The
lamp is adjusted so that it always
throws its light on the spot where the
razor is cutting. A clean shave in
pitch darkness is said to be possible
with this device.
It is often said that the Japanese
never kiss. This is not quite true.
They do kiss occasionally in their own
homes, but never outside of them. So
strong, indeed, 19 the feeling agasnst
kissing in public that when moving
pictures were first taken to Japan the
audiences there hooted at the tender
passages.
A seven-story structure in Chicago,
which has been carried a distance of 84
feet to a new site, is said to be the
largest building ever moved. The task
was accomplished with five two-horse
teams, which operated five capstans
and pulled the load of 8,000 tons
through 14,000 feet of steel cable.
Listening by long distance telephone
from Boston to the tolling of several
bells at Troy, N. .Y , enabled a church
committee deputed to purchase a bell
to make a decision without the exnense
of a trip to the factory.
Kitchens of large hotels are equipped
with automatic egg boilers which, be
sides registering the number of min
utes the eggs are to be boiled, pull
them out of the water when the time
is up.
Oysters cannot live in the Baltic sea,
the reason beiDg that it is not salty
enough. They can only live in water
that contains at least 37 parts of salt to
every 1,000 parts of water.
The cottage where George Pullman
dreamed of sleeping in comfort while
traveling still stands in ihe shadows of
the Rockies, near Denver.
With the aid of a small machine
blind stenographers can take down dic
tation which they afterwards transcribe
on ordinary typewriters.
Frederie Sauvage, who is credited
with the invention of the screw pro
peller, was imprisoned and died bank
rupt and insane.
It is 307 years since the office of poet
laureate was instituted in London, and
during that period 16 writers have re
ceived the honor.
Doctors in London are suggesting a
“black list” of patients who go from
one medical man to another iustead of
paying their bitls.
Out of 12,607 women students who
have passed from Oxford University,
England, only 657 have married.
Married women, for the first time in
the civic history of London, are eligible
to bold the freedom of the city.
In Finland married women control
their own property and have equal
guardianship over their children.
Out of a single pound of cotton 4,770
miles of thread has been spun.
In Paris i9 a library composed solely
of books written by women.
Professor—-You seem very sleepy
Were you out last night?
Student— I had to sit up with the
! baby last night.
( Professor—Oh, I see. How old was
the baby?
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