Third Division
Mine Interests
May Organize
_
L. V. Ray, prominent attorney of
the Third Division and resident of
Seward, who has always been keenly
interested in the development of min
eral resources of the Territory, has
been asked by Frank OTarrell, sec
retary-treasurer of the newly formed
Alaska Mining Association, at Fair
banks, to organize the mining inter
ests in the Third Division, says the
Seward Gateway.
in part, Mr. O'Farr ell’s letter to
attorney Ray. who at present is in
the Interior on mining business, said:
Will Improve the Industry
“Some of the mining men around
Fairbanks have recently organized
the Alaska Mining As-oeiation with
the idea of looking after mining in
rcsts in general..
"If you will do so, we should like
o have you organize the mining in
terests in the Third Division. The
procedure we follow here (in- Fair
banks) was to get as many together
as possible, elect a board of. directors
, 3 president and secretary.
■W; have organized here c.; a Ter
-toria A--seeiation, hut as soon sv
.l thing gets well started, we shall
rm a Fourth Division section. Who
er is chosen to be the chairman of
Third Division may be appointed
_ vics-president of the Territorial
s o iation by the territorial board
oi directors.
Local Units
‘ C pies of the Constitution and By
laws and application blanks should
be sent to some person in each camp
who will take an- interest in the mat
ter and organize the local unit.
“Each member should pay his So
annual dues when he jo:ns and erf this
$3 should be kept by the divisional,
section and $2. ferrwarded to the ter
ri tonal-secretary-treasurer, at Fair
barks.”
Commenting upon the formation
of a Third Division unit, Elwyn
SwetmEtm, Seward businessman, and
outstanding in his personal: interest
in mining, said that the. plan is to
nave a unit in each, camp or town;,
then a divisional unit which m turn,
will have representation on the terri
-torial board and have annua! meet
ings at various points in the Terri
tory.
“Unquestionably, such a move must
prove of inestimable benefit to the
mining industry as a whole, giving
the organization standing and, due
to its concerted action, foster legis
lation beneficial to the miners as well
as prevent legislation detrimental to
the mining business."
Continuing Mr. Swetmann said: “If
any miners, prospectors or others in
terested in forming such an organiz
ation here will leave their names at
the Seward Drug Store, we will, when
we bave a representative group, call
a meeting and organize.”
“What was Columbus famous for'.*”
“His memory.”
“What makes you think that?”'
“Well, they erected a monument tw
it.”
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ANTARCTIC GOLD TO BE
SOUGHT BT WALKER PARTY
LONDON—WhQe Great Britain was
still celebrating the Coro nation, 30
young: men sailed into the unknown
They are the Walker Antarctic ex
pedition, who, after a year of hard
planning, are sailing to the regions
of the South Pole in a three-masted
schooner on a survey expedition
With the aid of a plane, they also
will search for gold and other pre
cions metals.
All members of the expedition art
young men under 30. They are be
ing led by Commander E. W. Walk
er, mho went to the Arctic in 1931
and 1931.
For 15 months this group of vouns
men will brave all the worst rigor:
of the uncharted world. Accompanies
by geologists, they will set up a bas<
at Wood Bay and a sub-base at Ros;
Island, and. using a 200 m.p.h. plane
they will flv over vast stretches o:
iceland in an endeavor to trace th<
uncharted coastline of Oates Land
named after the heroic Captaii
Oates, who, rather than be a burder
to his harassed companions, walkec
out into the ceaseless blizzard 21
years ago and died.
Risks to Be Great
“AD of us know the dangers ir
advance, and there will be no squeal
ing once we have started,” Command
er Walker said. Exploration, aftei
all, is essentially a business foi
young men. Risks must be taken in
dealing with the unknown, and they
are surely hetter taken by young
men who are unattached, and whose
deaths would not cause sorrow to de
ependents. Only tirree of our mem
bers are married, and they have made
ample provision for their wives and
children.
“The aerial survey, a particularly
hazardous business, is being under
taken by Robert Pickett, a brilliant
23-year-old pilot, who will have to
fly over 1.000 miles of icy stretch.
“He will fly 300 miles from the
main base to a fueling station, and
from the fueling bases out and back
again for a distance of 1,000 miles al
together. If anything goes wrong
with his plane, and he has to come
down on the ice, it will not be a hap
py prospect for him, for even il
there were any relief parties, we
would not know where to find him.
Visions Vast Wealth
“The charting of Oates Land is
important in itself, but we are going
to the Antarctic well prepared foi
surprises, and it may turn out to be
a treasure hunt as well. There is
good reason to suppose that the An
arctic conceals fabulous wealth ir
gold, silver and radium.
“I have long had a theory, which
is shared and partly proved by othei
specialists, that as the earth moves
on its axis, the poles constantly
change in position—which may ac
count for she fact that some explor
ers claim that parts of the Arctic
which were much colder years ago.
are becoming w a r m e r—and thas
parts of the world, which, centuries
ago, might have been ocean or ittours
tainland, now constitute the North
Poles.
“If that is true, there must be un
limited supplies of precious minerals
awaiting exploitation. Prof. Alben
Brammeil; of the Royal College o1
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With his pretty little, dark-eyed
wife laughing shyly by his side, Mar
tin Slisco, 63-year-old Wiseman road
house operator, stood on the deck of
the S. S. Yukon at Juneau recently
and told of the two-months’ battle he
had with the United States and Jugo
S1 avian diplomatic authorities to
bring his bride to this country from
his native Dalmatia, according to
the Jtineau Daily Press.
After marrying the girl last win
er when he returned to his homeland.
, Slisco’s difficulties with the immigra
tion authorities made front-page
. news all over the nation as he bat
tled the red tape of Washington, D.
| C., in his efforts to bring his wife,
, Pera. into this country to return to
|; his trading post at Wiseman.
,j The United States consul at Zagreb
' • Jugo Slavia, would not let her leave
, j the country until Slisco could prove
. j that he could support her, so the
| Wiseman citizen had to return to
• New Y'ork and Washington. D. C..
| finally to gain permission to bring
his Dalmatian bride to this country,
j __ “Oh. there is so much red tape’”
i Slisco exclaimed today after intro
ducing his wife and persuading her
i to say “How do you do?”—the only
; English words she knows—yet.
“I do not know yet what it is all
j about,” Slisco said. “I had to go all
the way across the Atlantic ocean in
| the “Queen Mary” and in eight days
I was in Washington, D. C., fighting
! for my wife to come to this country!
• but it was no use—they would not
let Ker come until I could prove I
; could support her! And I own a store
at Wiseman!
“I was so mad! But finally I had
to come across the conrir.en* to S -
■ attle to get affidavits from ih - who!'
Mines, will make researches in this
direction.”
Fifty Canadian huskies will be ta
. ken to draw the expedition’s sledges,
but no women are allowed, despite
hundreds of offers from well-mean
ing women and girls.
sale houses who do business with me
to prove I have some money. And
now everything is fine. Pera says
she likes the country better every
mile, so I just tell her that is good
because we are going all the way to
Wiseman.”
While Slisco talked, his tiny bride
—she blushed and refused to answer
when her husband aske"1 how much
she weighs—ran to her cabin to ex
i change her slippers for street shoes.
“She doesn't like high heels like
women wear in this country,” Sliseo
laughed. “They make her feet sore.”
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