RE-DREDGING IS UNDER
WAY IN THE KLONDIKE
Re-dredging of old placer goW
croelra—something new in the rortfe
land—has been started in the Klon
dike camp, according to recent arri
vals in Fairbanks from Dawson. A
heavy percentage of the gold content
of the gravels and the bedrock was
lest by the first dredges, which work
ed there 20 to 30 years ago. it i;
nr rstood. and the more rr.odemh
equipped dredges are digging deepei
in: the bedrock and recoverrns
Birrh lost gold from the gravels wi.l
aid of more efficient modern mean,
of washing and recovery in th
dredge riffles.
r he new dredge operations on th
v,- -ver gm-und are understoo<
to hr. been tt.- ugurated by the Yu
ken Consolidated Gold company o:
gi :ni ■: n lower Bor.ansu Creek, a
-r T."rr its mouth. Some 100 mile
: --nr*. Eldorado and Hunke
-• -re mined with dredges dur
r rst period of dredge opera
T h f ore the present eompan;
. er the major operations o
c r-p. Many miles of claim
v ly the dredges had bee:
w '•••■' previously by indlvidu®
tv ‘hr-ds. Should they be dredgei
again, this will be .their third work
inc. ' A’ out 100 miles of place
gr ‘.md t n Sulphur, Dominion an<
. r creeks in the camp held by th
big . ,.nu>any are yet to be dredged
S'me dredges are now working oi
th - ground and others are being in
st: ”?J. Three dredges also ar,
w rkrng cn the Klondike vail y
where they’have been engaged foi
marry years.
New Dredges
George Anderson, pioneer pian
dealer md tuner, who arrived it
Fairbrrks recently after a tour o!
the upper Yukon camps, gives an in
tei-eating review of the situation.
“Much irVr.ing ground.” says Mr
Anderson, “is being worked ovet
mar Dawson with satisfactory re
sults. A number of new dredges st.
being installed in the camps. Th*
White Pa=s & Yukon Route has hac
a heavy inbound tonnage of dredge
materials during the season.
Dawson Picks lip
“Daws n continues the metropoTi;
of the Yukon and is making manj
improvements. "The *N. C. stone is
adding a new depnrtment. St. Mary’s
Hospital has made extensive im
provements and several buildings art
being erected. Real estate in th*
town " has taken on value? nevei
di earned Of a few yeats ago, aftei
the first boom days.”
ST!ver Camp Thrive?
The Mayo silver-lead district als<
is enjoying a tiriv.ng condition, ar
corning to Mr. Anderson. The ramt
is shipping some 9,000 t«ns f crude
ore and mill concenTates this year
most of which is mined and shipne;
L bv the Treadwel’ Yukon* Company
Billed company of the Alaska-Jur.eat
* and -he Bunker EH! & Sullivan mm*
in Idaho.' controlled by the same in
teres f-n Quite a number of the inde
pendent operators of the Mayo dis
trie* also are shipping heavily thk
year.
Most of the ore produced this yea:
is from mines on Galena Hill, 3i
miles from Mayo. Prior to last yea:
the bulk of the shipments were from
Keno Kill, adjacent to Galena Hill.
The town of Mayo, reports Mr. An-'
derson. expects to soon have a new \
and modern moving picture show.
Mayo town is at the river landing,
and is the distributing point for the
mining area, which is served by good
roads. The ore is hauled to the town
with trucks.
47,500 RADIO HAMS
HELP IN BIG DISASTERS
SAN FRANCISCO —Is a flyer
i down at sea? !s a ship on fire?
;j Have floods cut off a city from nor
t mal communication with the outside
| world 7
In emergencies like these some
i 47.500 amateur radio operators or
- (“hams,** as they like to call them
i selves, swing into action over the na
l iion to backstop rescue work.
i 'They knew that the big commer
r c:al and government radios will
-1 probably pick up all distress mes
- sag^s,” says Robert Reimus who op
r •; rates W61XZ here.
f “But there is always the char.ce:
; that at some little amateur station:
i conditions will be just right for re
1 ception of a life-or-dea*h app al that
! otherwise would be lost.'7
When Amelia Earhart was forced j
- i wn in the Pacific many a set was
I uned to her frequency of 3.1C5 kil -
: cy:!es and many a hopeful bat du
bious message reported to the coast
i guard.
i;day, says the American Radio1
. Relay league, “practically no explor
ing trip starts t*o remote parts of
■ ;he world without arrangements to
: communicate through amateur ra
I dio.” . I
The government encourcg- s and V-:
censes amateurs, less for their peat (
ime value than to provide a skilled
communications staff in time of war.
In 1917-18, though ham sations we- -
in their infancy, they contributed
h.5?0 radio men to the army and
navy.
Amateurs are assigned the “short
waves” that commercial companies
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>nce thought they didn’t want.
Now operating mostly on bands at
160, 80, 40, 20 and 10 meters, the
‘hams" are exploring the possibili
ties of wave lengths of five meters
ind less. Occasionally a whole state
iiolds a “five meteT day." Operators
take their sets to hilltops and sea
hore and try desperately to extend
the wave length's normal range of
me or two hundred miles.
When there are no emergencies, the
amateurs spend their time fishing
for distant stations and chatting
back and forth.
They also have an organised mes
sage system, available to the public,
but accept no money for transmis
sions.
SHIP SERVICE PLANNED—
Operation of regular steamships
between Seattle and Anchorage is
contemplated by the Northland
Transportation Company, L. B. Fitch
representative of the company, de
clared recently in Anchorage. He
has completed a survey of business
conditions at Fairbanks. Go< sinews
Bay and Nome. Mr. Fitch declared
that the Alaska Railroad refused to
agree to have its trains conn t with
Northland boats at Seward and that
consequently :f the steamship com
pany enters the field it will be com
pelled to operate its vessels direct to
Anchorage and unload by means of
bargts and tugs. He asserted the
Northland C mpany’s system could
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