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McGRATH, ALASKA. MAIL 22, 1022
Predicts That Xan
tishna Will Be Next
Big Mining* Camp
Nenana News.
“The next big mining camp of Alaska
will be in the Kantishna district,” is
the prediction of \V. S. Layman, well
known old-timer of the Interior, who
was in Juneau recently on his way
South, after a st.av of three months on
the Alaska Peninsula, where he looked
over the oil region and staked a few
claims.
“ Mines capable of developing a big
tonnage for the railroad,” Layman told
a representative of the Juneau Empire,
'•will he developed in the Kantishna
country in the not distant future.” He
described the Quigley property, near
Eureka, as being rich, declaring t.hat(
‘•Quigley is sitting on a million dol
lars.”
The discovery of galena deposits car
rying gold and copper values in the
<lopper mountain region, last summer,
he said, is important. From all indi
cations there is an enormous body of
ore there, but real development of
mines, lie explained, will be compelled
to await the coming of roads, it being
impossible to do more than prospect
under present conditions. Lajman in
formed the coast newspaperman that
he intended to return to the Kantishna
in the spring.
Mr. Lavmon’s view of the kantishna’s i
mining future, continues the Empire,
is apparent'• shared by Harry Buhro,
another o'< ;mer of the Interior coun
try. In a letter just received from him
by Surveyor General Karl Thielp. he
made the assertion that Tom Aitkeo
took out and shipped more ore last win
ter than the entire Mayo camp, in
Yukon Territory. The latter camp, he
added, is being boomed and will un
doubtedly make a good one. He is un
able to understand why more is not
being said about the Kantishna. Buhro
is interested with Duncan Miehie and
Archie Cameron in ground on All Gold
IO those who will be in need
-*• of dental services, will say
it is my intention to return
North on the first boat landing
at Bethel, early in July, and
cotna. Optair, Flat and all other
places heretofore covered.
During my stay on the Out
side it is my intention to take
an up-to-date course in Optom
etrv, my purpose being to return
North prepared to test the eyes
of all those in need of this spe
cial attention, as well as to sup
ply accurate lenses and other
optical requiraments.
C. D. Carter, D. D.S.
later will visit McGrath, Ta
creek, in the Dawson district, and
Miehie has some silver interests in tht
While River watershed. The All Cold
creek ground is showing up well, good
pay having been struck in three shafts.
All pans taken from the pay gravel in
the three shafts, Ruhro writes, av
eraged $1 on the dump.
Refused Privilege of
Talking Transporta
tion. Seattle Chamber
Commenting upon Attorney General
llustgat'd’s recent experience in Se
attle, where he says he was refused the
privilege of discussing Alaskan trans
portation matters before the Chamber
of Commerce, a .Juneau paper savs:
John Rustgard, attorney general for
Alaska, charges the Seattle Chamber
of Commerce refused to allow him to
address that organization on Alaskan!
teansportation matters, and that Se
attle daily papers refused to publish
his views on the same subject, lie an
nounces he will shortly tour South
eastern Alaska, speaking to cummer- I
cial organizations in opposition to Se- ;
attle business interests.
Speaking at Juneau, Rustgard said:
“I am in favor of patronizing Araer-1
ican industry and American shipping'
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j in preference to any other, but 1 am
I not in favor of permitting American
1 shipping to charge us rates that are
unfair and absolutely higher than any
! where rise in the world.**
| As an instance, Mr. Kustgard says
j that the ship’s charges for shipping
! canned salmon from Ketchikan to Se
| attle is $7.50 f»er ton, wito the ship
j having the choice of charging either
j weight or measurement weights. I he
same cargo, he says, can he shipped
I from Seattle to Kngland or the conti
nent of llurope. through the Panama
| canal, a distance of thousands of miles,
for $12 per ton. He also compares
other rates from Seattle to Alaskan
; points, showing that flour and wheat
may bo -hipped to the United Kingdom
’ for $6 gross ton v/eight. and to the
I Baltic for $10.
Regarding shipments of canned eal
' mini. Mr. Rustgard said he learned in
Seattle just before he left that one
company was now offering to carry sal
i mon to Liverpool for $(>, cutting tiie old
i •
rate in two.
As i.o pulp, Mr. Rustgard said the
rate from Seattle to Liverpool-was onlv
about 50 cents a ton more than it costs
I to ship it from Southeastern Alaska to
Seattle, including the ship’s charges
and the wharfage and other charges
j which are added on.
f'nder these conditions, Mr. Rust
gard is in favor of throwing open tc
competition Canadian or other boats,
but is more particularly in favor of the
passage of the New bill, which would
give the Secretary of the Interior the
right to force a fair rate to Alaska or
else put Government ships on to handle
! the business.
Walter Stephens, of Candle, soent
a few hours in iowd on Sunday.
W.T. Vanderpoo! left yesterdav for
Nixon, taking up a load of freight.
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