' Alaska News Notes
George Moody, of Fairbanks, received
i letter recently from Hugh McCrorie.
who is at the present time in Hritish
* Guiana on his wav to the diamond
v fields there. Mr. McCrorie states in
the letter that he is just starting on
the long trip up the Maxaruni river to
. the gold and diamond placer diggings,
i and explained the difficulties of travel
; and transportation in that country.
; "Freighting costs there are eight cents
per pound for each 150 miles, and,
owing to the density of the forests, all
passenger and freight travel is on the
river in 4J-ton boats, which require
over twelve Degrees with paddles to
i propel. He says that there is all kinds
of cnouey to be made freighting, if
properly equipped. There was over a
million dollars’ worth of diamonds
taken out during the month of Janu
ary, although the methods of mining
are primitive, there being very few im
plements and tools and practically do
machinery. There are many women of
all races and colors going into the fields
to stake claims. The size of the claims
allowed to be staked is 27 acres.
A total value of $151,121 is given 31
islands and farms in Southeastern
Alaska, the estimate including houses,
boats and other equipment. The same
number of farms report over 3,600 blue
foxes on„hand at the end of the calen -
dar year. This makes a total value for
the farms of abous $510,000, or an av
erage of $15,000 per ranch. Many of
the farms al3o have silver foxes anil
i marten on hand, which are not includ
ed in the above figures. Preliminary
figures compiled at. Juneau give 121
island blue fore farms in operation in
Southeastern Alaska at the close of
1923, and about 200 in all Alaska.
■F. F. Winchester,. twenty years in
the Interior of Alaska, and up-to-date
farmer of Matanuska valley, has sold
his farm, one of the best improved of
the entire valley, to Charles Marino, of
the Experimental farm. Mr. Winches
ter will take a trip to his old home in
England, after which he will seek a
new location either in the States or in
Alaska.
Reports recently received in Dawson
are to the effect that Captain Miller
has mined between 000 and 700 tons of
coal at the Five Fingers coal mine dur
ing the winter, and that the tunnel has
been driven about 800 feet on the vein.
The vsin is about nine feet wide, and
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when properly opened up will be capa
ble of supplying; all the coal needed in
the Yukon for years to come. The
mine is located at a considerable dis
tance from the Yukon, hut an incline
takes the coal from the mine to the
bunkers on the river at very little ex
pense.
Several toDs ot machinery, intended
for use in mining the gold-bearing
Treadwell beach sands, arrived at Ju
neau recently. The eauipment includes
tables, motors and other devices for re
coveiing the fine beach gold. N. F.
Gil key and associates are backers of
the efTort to work the beach deposits.
Nels Anderson has & small force of men
employed on the plant of the Jteadv
Bullion Company, which also plans
operations on the gold-carrying beach
sands in the same locality.
A report from Nome sayn that a
great scarcity of furs is reported
throughout the Second division, the
shortage being attributed to overtrap
ping. The only redeeming feature in
trapping this year is the muskrat
catch. In the Selawik and Kobuk sec
tions it is reported that the catch of
rats will be greater this year than has
ever been made before in those sec
tions.
A report from the Tolovana district
states that a stampede is in progress to
Montana creek, northeast of Logjam
The discovery is said to have been
made by A! Lynn, who has been in
that section for some time, and who is
reported to have found no&rse gold on
the rim.
A petition asking for the appoint
ment of Charles W. Carter to the posi -
tion of postmaster is being circulated
in Juneau, to succeed Postmaster Z. M.
Branford when his term expires, and is
being generally signed.
Charles Olson, formerly of Nenana,
who was taken out to Morningside san
itarium in July, 1918, died at that in
stitution of pulmonary hemorrhage on
April 9. according to word recently re
ceived at Fairbanks. v
iJave t'ayton, a well known eidiimer
of the Territory, who for a number of
years past has been living at Martin
Lake, was brought into Seldovia re
cently in a serious condition, due to a
stroke of paralysis.
H. J. Raymond, a well known resi
dent of Ketchikan, has purchased the
Bell Island Hot Springs in that dis
trict. "Sight OTmiortable -cabins are
situated on the grounds convenient to
the springs.
John Barrett, well known through
out Interior Alaska, and for years
agent of the New York Life in Alaska,
is now located at Long Beach, Calif.
Thomas J. Maher, an old-timer from
ihe Interior, and a resident of Alaska
for 23 vears, has "been appointed game
warden at McCarthy.
James K. Collbreath (Cassiar Jim)
has been appoiuted school tax collector
for Nenana and vicinity.
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White Fisheries Bill
Amended in Senate
A Washington dispatch, under date
of April 25, says:
“The Senate committee on Alaska
Fisheries has eliminated from the
White bill that section which would
have prohibited the construction of
traps and the use of purse seines or
other fishing appliances in any bay,
inlet or estuary in Alaska the entrance
of which is less than three miles in
width, or within one mils of a bay har
ing an entrance less than two miles
wide. The bill was otherwise reported
to the Senate in the same form in
which it came from the House.”
Ij«o Geffe reported to have made a ■
new coal strike twenty miles above Ki
ana. on the ’<obuk river, and the mine
is so located that the coal can be load
ed directly from the mine to barges on
the Kobuk river. The coal Is said to
be a high grade bituminous, which
burns freely, with very little smoke.
GeTe expects to sell a uuannty of the
coal in Kotxebue at $ld per ton. Can
dle will purchase practically all the
coal that can be mined during the com
ing summer, a saving to Jandle resi
dents of $30 per ton, as coal shipped in
from the Slate : is now selling at Can
dle at $50 per ton.
Half wav through the second act the
heroine, after having been left starving
with a bunch of children, and having
been greatly abused, got tired of this
sort of treatment and shot the villain. '
dead.
“What have i done.'” she cried.
%‘What have r done?”
“Shot the best actor in the show,
miss,” came the reply from the gallery.
“My wife wants to have an interview .
with you at your convenience,” said
the man.
“With me?” replied his employer.
“What’s the trouble. ”
‘’Nothing Hut she’s convinced that
3’bb worth more money than I’m get
ting, and I’ve told her to coine down
and give the same line of talk to you.”
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A Dr edging.or Hydraulicing 1
Proposition. Yankee Creek
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j am the principal owner of a block fof ground
on Yankee creek, about seven' mues Ions, extend
ing from N >. J Below.JDiscovcry down'to the mo t.h
of the creek.
Pay has been located all aioDgJfor a distaneejof
about three miles from the upper e id,. and4 nret’.y
well prospected and'eross-eut.
„ The average depth of the ground lis fromlseken
to twenty feet. The top is all black muck.ithatjean
be movedjfreelv. No rock bigger than one’s fist.
The width of the pay. for a distance lot about
three miles, is from 100 to 200 feet. Crosseuting
work indicates Jthat 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
iontr, with the water right. 1 also have a water
right on Ready Bullion creek, from which water
can be brought to Yankee creek with a ditch less
than a mile long (4,’>00 feet), which will give four
sluiceheads of water, with a pressure or fall of 120
eet, being 1000 feet to the work from the ditch.
After doing away with the muck, there will be
I from four to six feet of dirt, to nandic. The nay
runs mostly in the bedrock of porphyry and slate. i
The ground is virgin, only about tll.CO® having
■ been taken out by windlaBS id pro*pe«t;e*:)
Prospecting work during the present winter has
resulted in finding values that rnn np to U par
square foot of'bed rock
The Plume Dredge Company has % dredge above
this ground, which has been in operation for the
last throe seasons.
The Government road crosses Yankee sreeh.
, also have a road down the creek that connects wish
the Government road.
i am hiso 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 hydrauliting.
I will either sell the grdnnd or give a .ease on
it. If the prospect is satisfactory to the buyer, a
cash payment will te expected. A rood bargain
will be given to the right party.
for further information, terms, ou., sail o®
ground, or write or telegraph me.
KD NOLLETTE.
Tokotna, Alaska.