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McGPvATH, ALASKA. DEC. 24. 1921
Former Iditarod Man
Tells of a Big Mining
Venture On Outside
Oscar Sohbakke, formerly a well
known resident of Flat, writing from
Ellensburg, Wash., to a friend here,
tells of a promising mining proposition
in which he has become interested.
His letter, in part, is as follows:
“First, I must tell you I quit Lilly’t
in June and became interested in a
creek up in the mountains, 22 miles
from here. It is called the Swank,
and about ?3,000.000 has been taken
out of there with the pick and shovel,
on the benches mostly. It has prac
tically been deserted for twenty years.
Two brothers have been six years get
ting hold of the ground, and the com
pany now has eleven miles of dredging
ground. The Clark interests of Butte
became Interested, and we gave them
an option on it for 90 days on a royalty
basis, if they.take it. They are now
up there prospecting, and I am con
fident they will take it and put on
three dredges. I have a nice interest
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For a Nice Lunch
or First-Class Meal
Call At
Durant’s Cafe
Flat City
Max Simel
The Pioneer Trader
Furs Bought and
Sold:
Miners’, Prospectors’
and Trappers’
Supplies
Steamer Service On the Inoka
River.
Ask the People of Ophir about us.
STATION
Fairview, Innoko River
in the company—raised a pood bunch
of money by sale of stock and took
stock for my commission; also bought
all 1 could get money to buy for. I will
go away in the hole broke if my guess
is wroDg. If mv guess is right I will
make a piece of mooev.
•‘I get colors aud up to half a cent in
eight out of ten pans taken on the snr -,
face any place up or down the creek.
The gold on bedrock is very coarse. ;
The latter part of May a couple of
gopher miners found one nugget worth
$96 and one worth $111. I bought the 1
$111 nugget and carried it around for a
couple of months until I sold it and put
the money in stock. The largest nug
get found was $1,000. The creek is so
wet that a pick-and-shovel miner has
no chance, but a dredge will make a
mint of money there, I am quite sure.
Eight miles on one creek averages 18
feet, and three and one-half miles on a
tributary averages 75 feet deep. Gold
is fouDd from the surface dowo. 1 have
washed upas much as $9.10 to a cubic
yard of dirt on bedrock. In 62 holes
the creek shows up 32 cents to the
cubic yard from the top down. They
are dredging ground in Montana going
five cents to the cubic yarl and mak
ing monev. This letter isn’t for the
purpose of causing a stampede, but
just to give you some facts. All the
ground is staked for miles, and noth
ing to get that is at all promising.
Andy Hutchinson. Thorp. Fred Smith,
Lee. Arne Erickson, Chris Tolland
and several other Alaskans have been
there, and it looked good to all of
them.
**Abe Weiss arrived in Seattle last
week. J. Farrell has a proposition
selling canned good in a market in Se
attle. Met Curly Robinson, Holmgren
and Ga.-rity last week. Bill Solibakke
and wife have a daughter, and Bill
feels very proud of himself. Steigler
put a thousand in xhe Swank and feels
confident we will win out. Did you !
hear that Henry Riley and Manley
weat broke in Texas oil? Saw Frank
Stanley in Yakima yesterday. He is
suing for divorce.”
Paroled, He Weds Ex-Warden’s
Daughter; Back to Pen He Goes j
Leavenworth, Kas. — Thrust back!
into the Kansas penitentiary because
he violated his parole by marrying the
daughter of the former warden of the
prison. Elmer Inman is placing hope
that bis shattered love romance will be j
restored through executive clemency. I
His bride of six weeks formerly was
Miss Lavona Codding, society “bud”
and daughter of J. K. Coddiog, assist
ant state’s attorney general. Until last
spring Codding was warden of the pen
itentiary. The marriage, which was
revealed when Inman was again placed
in prison, took plaee at. Bartlesville,
Okla.
Inman began serving a sentence of
from 10 to 20 years m the prison in
1916 for a $20,000 diamond robbery at
Arkansas City. As a trusty he served
as chauffeur for the warden’s family,
and the romance began.
Last summer he was paroled, and
one of the conditions of a Kansas pa
role forbids marriage during the parole
period. _
Coastal Waters Need Charting.
Washington.—Director Jones, of the
coast and geodetic survey, in his an
nual report, says the primary and im
portant need of Alaska at the present
time is the complete charting of her
great area of coastal waters and the
control of surveys in her interior. “In
Alaska we have no fundamental con
trol of surveys whatever. This is not
a creditable control of affairs,” says
the geodetic director.
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ber of All Kinds
9K0 LUMBER CO.
man
GEO. HOFFMAN
Napamute, Alaska
Pioneer Trader df the Kuskokwim
Valley
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Prop.
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