Alaska News Notes
cFairbanks, apparently, is on the eve
of a substantial revival of mining, and
its future seems brighter than for
> biny years, according to George A.
Preston, general manager of the
Northern Comqtarcia!-Company s Fair
bankestore,- who was a local riaitor
• last night while the Alaska was to
i port, says the Juneau Empire.
Mr. Preston.aaid that mining engi
. aeere representing three large groups
, of capital hare been sombiag the
t creeks in the Fairbanks district, tak
ing options on .many claims, and buying
others where possible. These engi
. Beers, be said, represent the Hamnion
interests, which are now engagad in
■si a lag on a large scale on Seward Pe
ninsula; the U. S. Smelting & Re fining
A Exploration Corporation, and the
Metal Export Corporation. M. A.
fjouger, representative of the latter
, corporation, was also an Alaska pas
senger. He seoured a number of op
tions on Cleary creek claims, which he
regards highly. He also looked at
other ground, but competing oSert
were higher than ha felt h» could
i make.
< The entry of any or all of these com
panies. said Mr. Preston, would entail
t large capital investments and the in
stallation of dredges, flumes, ditches
•ad other work incidental to the estab
, Hshment of operations, which would
give employment to a large sum
V her of men. lunna,generally belleyed
, In Fairbanks, he *aid, that all of the
, companies would+entar the field in the
t -- set distant future.
Directors of the Anchorage Light A
. I*owerCotnpany, whieh ,i# promoting
abe power project at ICklutna.lahe, met
r recently with Robert*Howea,'bvdraulic
engineer from Seattle, who- has been
* .examining the site.; The,comoany was
-advised-that it has a fine.power site
and'that It should experience no trou
ble in construeting a plant and convey
< ing the electrical energy to Anoborage
t and the Matanuska coal fields. Con
struction work on the first unit of the
I pleat will probably start withis ninety
, Aaye, with power being furnished come
i i Sime next winter. w
The Canadian Cabinet bee decided to
abolish the representation of Yukon
Territory in the Dominiod Parliament,
according to word received in Dawson
, recently/ It ie said that the new die
aributioa bill, when it shall be pro
poned, will not provide for a member of
Parliament from that Territory. The
chance will not affect the term of Cap
, *ain George Black, the prenent repre
,, man tali ve. _
jhiiaaGraoe Fisher,chief deputy clerk
etf> the district court at Fairbanks, hae
received word from her brother, Wal
i tar Fisher,-formerly e mining operator
, inihe Fairbanks dietrict, from'PortO’
• Spain, on the British island of Trini
, dad, off the soaat of* Venezuela. He
left Hew York in February for the dia
, mead fields of British Guiana.
John Harrington, agedS4. died sud
dealy while sittieg on a bed* with a
piece of bread ia his hand, in the cabin
of ScottyMurphy, at Anchorage, re
. » oently. v He had been employed by the
Alaska railroad aa section fereman at
> Bird croak. _
The United States Smeltirg end Re
fining Company, through its represent
ative, Engineer Norman 0. Stiaes, has
made a deal with Henry Wagfcer for
< the purchase of all bis holdings on
Coldstream, Fairbanks district, includ
* Spg machinery.
H. A. (Al) Buhring, a pioneer resi
dent of Ketchikan, died recently at the
Pioneers -Heme at Sitka.. He was «7
tears of age. _____
Paul Denhart, head ef the Salcha
Mining Company, arrived ia Fairbanks
r recently with, a caterpillar tractor and
several trailer*, which will be loaded
with supplies for the company'• camp.
The company plans to operate on a
large scale during the coming summer.
John T. Giles, a pioneer of Valdes,
for many years engaged in carpenter
ing and boat building, was found dead
at bis home in,that place, recently. He
was 82 years of age, and was born in
London, Engi , Prior to coming to
Valdez, in 1902, he was a resident of
Teller. _
Carl Sjoberg was found dead in bis
cabin at Fairbanks, recently. The body
when found was lying oo the door in
the front room .of the cable face down,
and was clad only in a shirt. He had
beeu daad many hours.
Mrs. C. D. McCauley, wife of a well*
known Fairbanks gardener, died re
cently at Atlanta, Ga., where aha was
visiting.
"■i.WjMi. — •
It ia estimated that there are over
42,000 reindeer io the Buckland dii
triet, adjacent to Kotzebue Sound.
Feeble Minded Boast
Highest Birth Record
New York.—“That trenchant and
outspoken thinker, the deau of St»
Paul’s, Dr. Inge, in a lecture on “Na
tional Decay and Regeneration,' point
ed out that in each generation the
cream of all classes ia skimmed off,
raised to a better social position and
there sterilised,” writes the London
correspondent of the Journal of the
American Medical Association.
“The lowest birth rates at pressnt
are those of physicians, ministers of
religion and teachers. If it were the
skilled workmen who filled the .ceadlee
there would he less cause for alarm.
But it ia the slum dweller, the untaxed
dole receiver, who is producing more
than his share of the nest generation.
The highest birth rate ef all is that of
the feeble-minded.
“Civilisation," the dean considers,
“has brought with it an arrest in
human evolution." Even in brains
man makes, no further progress. What
we* oall progress ia the result of accum
ulated experience. There has always
bsep in England a larga elass of sub
men—beggars and wastrels—who were
outside the social syatem, but the enor
tuque death rate of the towns kept them
down. They were not subsidized and
encouraged to^puhiply as they are to-,
day.
“The unexampled decline m f,D«
death, rate, due partly to sanitation and
median! skill, but partly also-to adapta
tion to town life, baa created the men
acing problem of over-population, but
it baa oot gone far eaough to remove;
the danger. This decline in itself is
dangerous, because it is steadily im
pairing the quality of the population,”.
Queer Notions Indicat
ed Jby Police Answers
,/Lee Aegeles.—Los Angelas police
men sr« ambitious. Soma timn ago mm
examination was hold for a few vacan
cies In tbs eergeaata’ ranks. Several
hundred men on the fores took tbs.
teats, hoping for adraccemaat.
Secretary Clark King, of the civil
serviee commission, went through the
papers. Yesterdav he announced a
fen .unusual answers to some ef the
questions. “These answers nre in no
way faked,” King said. “They are
some of the actual answers made by
policemen to the questions given.”
Here they are:
Q. What would rou do in case of a
riot?
A. Get the number of both cars.
Q. What is sabotage?
A. Beating the la we of the Sabbath.
Q. What first aid' treatment would,
you give to a persan haring an epilep
tic.fit?
A. Taka blragto & doctor and.hare
the bite treated.
Dominant Issue as
Predicted by Bryan
Springfield, 111.—Campaign funds—
not the oil mess. tax reduction or per
manent peace—are-likely to represent
the dominant issue in the coming cam
paign. William J. Bryan declared in as
address before thg Mid-Day Iiueoheon
Club here today. Abolition of fayorit
iem purchased through cacapaig* con
tributions, he predicted, will b« de
manded by the people
“Tbie policy of favoritism,’’ Bryan
said, “is a natural rcsalt of a system
uodet which lar^e campaign fundu are
collected from the predatory interests
with a promise, either expressed or im
plied, that the conditions will he re
turned with compound interest from
the pockets of the public.
Bryan denounced republican acts
which, he charged, “would give, favdred
individuals nearly four billion dollars—
all in return for generous campaign
contributions/'
Max Simel
The Pioneer Trader
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Yankee Creek
I am the principal »wn*r of a Woe*’ onground
on Yankee creek.’about seven bum long.'Jeatend
ing from No. 1 Below Discovery down so tbe mouth
of the creek.
Pay bae been located all alone for^a fdiatancejof
about three miles from the upper end,; and, pretty
well prospected and cross-cut~|
The average depth of the ground lie? fromtseven
to twenty feet. The top i» all black muck.; that can
'be moved freely.- No rosk bigger, than one’* flat.
The width of the pay. fori a distance of about
three mile3, Jis from 100 to 200 feet. Crosscuting
work indicates that the ground will go from' 16
cents to tl per square foot of bedrock. My,belief
ia.that the pay will average 50 cents per foot.
1 have a ditch oa the ground, three miles long,
together with water rights. The ground is pretty
well cleared. There is also a drain, three smiles
long', with the water right. I also have a water
right on Ready Bullion creek, from which water
can be brought to Yaakee creek with a ditch lass
than a mile long (4,tt00 feel), which will giva four
eluicaheada of water, with a pressure or fall of 120
feet, being 1400 feet to the work from the ditch.
£ After doing away with the muck, there will be
from four to sla tset of kiri te knsA!e. The pa.; , 1
runs mostly Ik the bedrock of porphyry sad. elate. k
The ground is virgin, only about 411,06k h**':*f
been taken out by windlass in prospecting.
Prospecting work during the present. winter ui ^
resulted in finding values that run bp to tl per
square foot of bedrock, „
?
Tbe Flume Dredge Company baa a dredge above
this ground, which has been in operative for the
last throe seasons. *s
The Government road crosses Yankee creek,
also have a road down the csreek that tea cents with
the Government road.
I am also the agent for owners of gronnd ether
than that held by myself.
The ground oac be worked either with 5radge
drag-line scraper, or by hydraulicing.
I will either sell the ground or give a lease ea
tt„ If the prospect is satisfactory to tb* buyer, a
cash payment will be ezpected. A rood bargain
will bs given to the right party.
: For farther information. terns ste , tall y*
ground, er write or telegraph me.
«D WOLLSTTE,
Toketn* 1’aeka.