Hesse Says Keep Away
From British Guiana
Fairbanks News-Miner.
William Hesse, mineral surveyor and
pioneer in Alaskan development, who
returned to Fairbanks Tuesday after a
several months’ visit to the tropics,
brinks'back word to his friends here of
the diamond fields of Erltish Guiana.
Mr, Hesse says:
“Brttish Guiana lies between the
Orinoco and Ama::on rivers on the east
coast of South America. It is rich in
mineral resources, gold and diamonds
being widely distributed. The dia
monds are found in shallow alluvial de
posits that lend themselves to the prim
itive bute highly efficient methods in
use in the mines.
“The1 climate of British Guiana is
very agreeable, and, contrary to the
general impression, the heat is in no
sense oppressive and cases of prostra
tion from it are unknown.
“Veoomooous snakes are there, but
they are by no means plentiful, and
none were seen by our party during
six weeks-of tramping through the for
ests."
Mr. Hesse brought back several line
diamonds, still uncut. Speaking oi
them, he went on to sav
“The diamonds found in Guiana are
very fine in quality, there being none
that surpass them and few found that
equal them. There is no kind of rain
ing that furnishes the ‘kick’ that this
does, but the fascination of winning
these gems is offset by the fever condi
tions met with in the diamond fields.
The lowlands lying between the Ama
zon and Orinoco rivers are probably
the worst fever-infested countries on
earth, there being yellow, black, water,
typhoid, malaria, dysentery, hookworm
and leprosy. There is no escape from
the fever. Some survive, and some do
not, but they all get it.’’
Mr. Hesse told of the cost of sup
plies in the mining district.
"The cost of supplies in tho Macaroni
district is exorbitant. Smoking tobacco
is $9.60a pound, and everything else at
prices that takes one’s breath.
“My advice to rav frfends in Alaska
13 to keep away from Guiana. If vou
have four or five thousand dollars that
you can afford to lose and you are will
ing to gamble with vour life, your
chances of being rewarded are prob
ably better there than thev are here,
provided that you could stay on yonr
feet—I could not.”
Tokyo, Japan, was planning a subway
before the earthquake.
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Nobody on Mars to Get
Signals, Scientist Says
Princeton, N. J. -Radio fans who
pass their nights listening In, hoping
to get a signal from Mars, are wasting
their time, Professor 11. S. Dugan, of
the astronomy department of Princeton
University, declared today.
Professor Outran, after long study,
has decided Mars is uninhabited. He
refuses to speculate as to whether radio
communication could bo established
with the neighbor planet if it were in
habited.
The astronomer concedes there may
be vegetable life on Mars. The argu
ment that Mars must, be inhabited be
cause it has its canals is answered bv
the professor with a doubt that the
canals really exist. Photographs of
the planet do not reveal the oanals,
and he believes them to he the imagin
ary creation either of the defective
human eye or the imperfect telescopic
lenses.
A Little of Everything.
Eight dollars per capita is the esti
mated cost in damage to fabrics and
laundry bills done by the soft coal
smoke from Chicago chimneys.
It is estimated that the addition of
two grains to an ear of wheat bv Lu
ther Burbank has added $5,000,000 to
the world’s annual wheat crop.
A windshield wiper, operated bv a
small piston and compressed air, for
use on trolley cars, has appeared in
Cleveland.
Bright colored walls are said to cut
the cost of lighting, white being the
most desirable, with chrome yellow
second.
English officials are experimenting
with an electric machine designed to
eliminate the dense fogs which visit
London.
A pipe o’gan in the Philippine isles,
constructed of 120 pieces of bamboo,
has furnished music for more than 100
years.
Duralumin, ar. alloy of aluminum
used for airship girders, is as strong
as the best steel and only one-third as
heavy.
Automatic “eyes,” to aid aviators in
fog, give a reading in feet when the
craft is within 100 feet of any object.
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A subway system of pneumatic tubes
I beneath New York street delivers live
1 million letters daily to substations.
j Less than 2.000 Datives of Australia
j are found today, who numbered 200.000
a century ago.
Light rays, projected from a recent
ly devised machine, are being used in
the treatment of burns.
Iron alloyed with 15 per cent alumi
num is resistant to a very high tem
perature.
The largest herd of buffalo in exist
ence is in Canada, numbering over
8,000. _
A motor driven road grader operat
ed by one man is in successful opera
tion!
A Scottish preacher had contracted
a habit which annoved his wife. He
would refer to “my ' house, “my’’ table,
“my” piano, “my” 'ooy, “my” room.
His wife took him to task with some
asperity and pointed out that the use
of the singular possessive was deroga
tory to her, and that he should say
“our.” He was duly attentive.
One morning the preacher rose early
and began to dress. Apparently he
was unable to find something.
“What are you looking for. John?”
asked his wife.
“I’m looking for our trousers, my
I dear,” he said,.meekly.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Charles Eebbnn and Max Menard,
your heirs and assigns:
You, and each of you, are hereby
notified that I, vour co-owner, have ex
pended in labor and improvements the
sum of one hundred dollars per vear
for each of the years 1021, 1022 and
1923 upon the Eva Bench placer mining
claim, on the right limit below Discov
ery on Yankee creek, tributary of fn
noko river, in the Ophir recording pre
cinct. Territory of Alaska, in order to
hold said claim under the provisions of
law respecting annual labor on mining
claims.
And if, within ninety days! after the
publication of this notice, you fail to
pay your portion of such expenditure,
your interest in said claim will be for
feited to the undersigned co-owner,
according to the provisions of Section
2324 Revised Statutes of the United
States.
Ed Nor.i.KTTi.,
Co-Owner.
First publication, July 5, 1924.
Last publication, Oct. 4, 1924.
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A Dredging or Hydraulicing
Proposition. Yankee Creek
X am the principal owner of a block of ground
on Yankee creek, about seven nines long, extend
ing from No. 1 Below Discovery down'to the mouth
of the creek.
Pay has been located all along for a distance of
about three miles from'the upper end, and pretty
well prospected and cross-cut.
The average depth of the ground is from seven
to twenty ?eet. The top is all black muck, that can
be moved freely. No rock bigger than one’s fist.
The width of the pay. for a distance of about
three miles, is from 100 to 200 feet. Orossculing
work indicates that the ground will go from 15
cents to $1 per square foot of bedrock. My belief
is that the pay will average 50 cents per foot.
I have a ditch on the ground, three miles long,
together with water rights. The ground is prettv
well cleared. There is also a drain, three miles
long, with the water right. I also have a water
•right on Ready Bullion ereek. from which water
can be brought to Yankee creek with a ditch less
than a mile long (4,900 feet), which will give four
sluiceheads of water,| with a pressure or fall of 120
feet, being 1000 feet to the work from the ditch.I
After doing away with the muck, there will be
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from four to six feet of dirt to handle. The pay
runs mostly in the bedrock of porphyry and slate.
The ground is virgin, only about $11,000 having
been taken out by windlass in prospecting.
Prospecting work during the present winter has
resulted in finding values that run up to $1 per
square foot of bedrock.
The Flume Dredge Company has a dredge above
this ground, which has been in operation for the
last three seasons.
The Government road crosses Yankee creek, t
also have a road down the creek that connects with
the Government road.
1 am also the agent for owners of ground other
than that held by myself.
The ground can be worked either with dredge,
drag-line scraper, or by hydranVicing.
1 will either sell the ground or give a lease on
it. If the prospect is satisfactory to the buyer, a
cash payment will be expected. A good bargain
will be given to the right party.
For further information, terms, etc., call on
ground, or write or telegraph me.
ED NOLLETTK,
Tokotna, Alaska.