Alaska News Notes
A rock weighing neatly a ton came
down the mountainside near Juneau
recently, bounced across the Perse
verance road into a five-room, one-story
cottage near Seventh and Harris
streets, and went through two rooms
and nearly out the front door, demol
ishing everything in its way. The
house was occupied by W. Holmes, of
the A. J. mine, with Lum See as the
housekeeper. The latter had just
started a fire for the midnight dinner
when the rock bounced through the
two rooms adjoining the kitchen.
A report from the Tolovana district
states that Pat O'Connor and Mike
Kelley have struck some new pay on
the Cascaddeu ground on Liveugood
creek, where they sturted a shaft some
time ago. Pat has sent to Fairbanks
for his brother Jack, and the latter is
going over there to help them take out
a dump. The Fontus claim, just above
where 0:Connor and Kelley are work
ing. has produced about a million dol
lars in placer gold, and the two part
ners are looking forward to a good
cleanup in the spring.
Chris Claussen, bridge carpenter for
the Alaska railroad, was seriously and
perhaps fatally injured u few days ago
while at work at Hagle river, where a
steel bridge is being erected. He was
crushed beneath a falling stack, and
when taken to the hospital at Anchor
age it was found that be had sustained
a broken collar bone and his chest was
badly crushed, Claussen was at work
near a boiler, and it is presumed that
oue of the guy wires leading to the
stack became loosened, permitting the
heavy stack to fall.
The Seward chamber of commerce
'went on record at a recent meeting as
being in favor of exterminating the
vast rookery of seals and sealions
which use seal rocks at the entrance of
Resurrection bay for their headquar
ters. It is claimed that these animals
do immense damage to the king sal
mon which enter the bay for spawning
purposes. It is estimated that one of
these sealions, which weigh up to 2,500
pounds, will consume from 50 to 100
pounds of fish a day.
The validity of the Alaska woman
jury law was argued recently before
the United States circuit court of ap
peals at San Francisco, in the case of
Charles H. Tynan, of Ketchikan, cou
victed by a jury of three women and
nine men of a violation of the Volstead
act. Tynan contended that neither
the Nineteenth amendment, the fed
eral court, constitution, nor the or
ganic act of the Territory of Alaska
authorized women on juries. The
, court reserved decision.
The legal controversy over the Daly
Alaska properly in the Hvder district.
Instituted 'by Charles F. Caldwell
against Knipple, Davis and McGrew,
the original owners of the property,
and the Daiy-Alaska Mining Company,
the present owners, was terminated re
cently in the district court at Ketchi
kan, when the case was dismissed
owing to the non-appearance of the
Plaintiff, Caldwell.
A committee of the Anchorage cham
ber of comme'ce has telegraphed Dele
gate Dan Sutherland asking him to in
troduce a hill in Congress for an appro
priation to extend the Alaska railroad
dock at Anchorage a distance of 200
feet, which, it is claimed, will give a
minimum depth of water of 45 feet at
the face of the dock.
The city of Juneau is making a
strong tight to have a separate land di
vision ersated, with Juneau as its head
quarters. _
The Alaska-Juneau mine plans to
put on one hundred additional men
*?arly this spring and to boom its daily
production to 10,000 tons of ore and
maintain it at that figure, according to
Fred A. Sorri. manager of the Gasti
neau Hotel at J>m au, who recently re
turned to that cuy from an extended
trip over the Pacific coast.
The herd of 2,000 sheep la nded last
fall on Unimak island, one of the larger
of the Aleutian islands, will be in
creased this year bv additional ship
ments to 30,000, according to A man
Moore, one of the promoters of the
project. “There is a wonderful stand
of grass on Unimak, knee high, and
not a tree or hush on the island,” he
said. The government has given a
lease on 350,000 acres on the island for
the enterprise, and has promised 150,
000 acres more when needed.
The country north of the Alaskan
Rockies, the range of mountains m
which the Alatna river has its source,
otters little inducement to the gold
seeker, according to Gerald Fit/, Ger
ald, assistant to Dr. Ralph Smith, who
with a party of geologists and topog
raphers is now on his way to the Col
ville river country for the purpose of
exploring and charting.
W. F. Thompson, editor arid man
ager of the Fairbanks News-Miner,
sends word to friends that he is rapidly
improving in health and believes that
an operation will be unnecessary. At
last accounts he was on his way to Hot
Springs, Ark.
Nome is boasting of an apple tree at
that place, which bloomed in Decern
Order and Notice of Pri
mary Election
To Be Held On April 29, 1924
In the Office of the United States Com
missioner, at McGrath, Alaska,
Fourth Judicial Division.
Now, on this day, pursuant to Chap
ter 39, Session Laws of Alaska, ap
proved May 3, 1919, entitled “'^n act to
provide for the holding of primary
elections in the Territory of Alaska, to
fix the manner and time of boldiog the
same, to prescribe the qualifications of
candidates to be nominated at such
elections, and to designate the manner
of filing and authenticating their can
didaev, and for other purposes,” and in
conformity therewith,
tt is hereby ordered that for the pur
pose of the primary election to be held
on April 29, 1924, all of the territory in
the recording district known as Mount
McKinley Recording District, outside
of incorporated towns, is hereby divid
ed into voting precincts, in each of
which a polling place is hereby speci
fied. Said voting precincts are de
scribed and bounded as follows:
Polling places at—
Pioneer Hall at McGrath, Alaska;
Pioneer Hall at Tokotna, Alaska.
Notice is hereby given that a general
election will he held on Tuesday, April
29, 1924, for the purpose of nominating
candidates to the various political par
ties for the following offices, to-wit:
A Governor for the Territory of
Alaska;
A Delegate to the House of Repre
sentatives from the Territory of Alaska:
An Attorney General for the Terri
tory of Alaska;
One member of the Senate of the
Territory of Alaska:
Four members of the House of Rep
resentatives of the Territory of Alaska;
Two Road Commissioners for Road
District Number Four;
And for the purpose of electing the
following officers, to-wit:
A National Committeeman for the
Democratic Party of the Territory of
Alaska;
A National Committeeman for the
Republican Party of the Territory of
Alaska;
Six Delegates and Alternates to the
Democratic National Convention;
Six Delegates and Alternates to the
Republican National Convention.
The said election will be held in the
voting precincts above named and at
the polling places therein specified.
The said polling places will be open
between the hours of eight o’clock a. in.
and 7 o’clock p. m. of said day.
Dated at McGrath, Alaska, March 15,
1924. W. T. Vanderpool.
U. S. Commissioner for the Mt.
McKinley Recording District.
Fourth Division. Territory of
Alaska.
ber The tree is in Bahlke’s restau
rant. it is eleven years- old and was
grown from a seed. The tree is filled
with blossoms and buds.
G. N. Meals, an old-timer o? the
Nome country, now residing in Seattle,
has just perfected a machine for the
recovery of fine cold, which he oav3
will revolutionise this form of placer
mining.
The body of John M. Heady was
found in his cabin at Palmer recently.
He was 75 years of age, and had been a
resident of the Matanuska valley for a
number of years.
Volney Hoggatt, formerly a well
known pioneer attorney of Nome, is lo
cated in Denver, Col., where he is ed -
itor of the weekly edition of the Denver
Post.
Joe Wright, who was Nome’s iirst
postmaster, in H i9, died recently in
Oklahoma.
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A Dredging or Hydraulicing
Proposition, Yankee Creek
l am the principal owner of a block of ground
on Yankee creek, about seven miles long, extend
ing from No. 1 Below Discovery down to the mouth
of„the creek.
Pay has been located all along for a distance of
about three miles from the upper end,' and pretty
well prospected and cross-cut.
The average depth of the ground is from seven
to twenty feet. The top is all black muck, that can
be moved freely. No rock bigger than one’s fist.
The width of the pay. for Ta distance'of about
three miles, is from 100 to 200 feet. Crosscuting
work indicates that the ground will'go from;il5
cents to ?1 per square foot of bedrock. My belief
is thatjthe'payawill 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
long, with tho water right. I also have a'water
right on Heady Bullion creek, from which water
can be brought to Yankee creek with a ditch less
than a mile long v4,;»00 feet), which will give four
sluiceheads of water, with a pressure or fall of 120
feet, being 1000 feet to the work from the ditch.
£ After doing away with the muck, there will be
from four to si* lest of dirt to handle. 1 be pay
runs mostly in the bedrock of porphyry and slate.
The ground is virgin, only about $11,000 having
| been taken out by windlass in prospecting.
Prospecting work during the present winter has
resulted in finding values that run us? to SI per
square foot of bedrock.
The Flume Dredge Company has a dredge above
this ground, which has been in operation for the
| last three seasons.
The Government road crosses Yankee creek. T
also have a road down the creek that connects with ■[
the Government road.
I am also the agant for owners of ground other
than that held by myself.
The ground can be worked either with dredge,
drag-line scraper, or by hydraulicing.
I will either sell the ground or give a lease on
it. If the prospect is satisfactory to the buyer, a
cash payment will be expected. A rood bargain
will be given to tlie right party.
tor further information, terms, etc., :all on
qround, or write or telegraph me.
ED NOLLETTE,
Tokotna, Alaska.