■Alaska News Notes
r Word has been received at Dawson
i that practically all the placer fields of
i the Klondike country will be consoli
dated and operated by a single com
l pany, made up of British capitalists.
.i A. N C. Treadgold. who operated the
first large company in the Klondike
and got concessions for 75 miles of
creek claims, which were afterwards
sold to the Yukon Gold Company, was
the promoter of the new corporation
.1 nnd consolidation. It is said that thou
sands of mining claims are involved in
< the new promotion.
C. O. Thatcher, a locomotive fireman
on the Alaska railroad, was painfully
but not seriously injured recently near
Indian, when extra train No. tiOl, south
bound, sideswiped a ditcher, from the
top of which a plank projected.
Thatcher’s left arm was bruised and
cut and he suffered deep lacerations of
the face. The accident is attributed to
. carelessness on the part of the ditcher
crew in failing to see that the plank
did not clear the main iine.
Jack Henry Post, No. 1, American
, Lagion, through its building organiza
tion, the Legion Associatson, Inc., is
, planning to build a Legion home in
Anchorage. At a recent meeting of
the association it was plamned to build
a log building 00x80 feet, on the Legion
lot. A regulation basketball court and
gymnasium is contemplated, with an
auditorium in conjunction that will
seat 300 people. The project will be
. financed by an tssu9 of bonds.
Henry Ford, of ‘‘Tin Lizzie” fame,
will visit Alaska during the cominu
summer, according to J. E. Chovin, of
Anchorage, who was a^choolboy chum
of the big manufacturer. While in
i Detroit, recently, Mr. Chovin had a
talk with the .auto manufacturer, dur
i iog which the auto manufacturer is re
ported to have expressed his ioiention
to visit the /.Territory shortly. Tbe
, purpose of bis visit is said to be to look
into-Its waterpower resources.
Mayor Conroy, of Anchorage, -insists
i that all city employes' shall tender
their resignations, holding that their
term of employment expires with the
. council which employed them. Appli
cations for all city jobs will be revived
* by the new council.
A report from the Joe Henderson
. quartz property, on Esther creek, in
the Fairbanks district, states that the
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lead is showing up better of late. He
has 500 tons of ore on the dump now
and as much more broken down, with
another 1,000 tons blocked out. All
the ore carries good values, and good
returns are expected from mill runs.
Mrs. Charles S. Mathison, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. John Gilpatrick of
Seward, died recently at the home of
her parents, following a long illness
from cancer of the brain. Mrs. Math
ison was the wife of C. S. Mathison,
who for a number of years was a resi
dent of Hope, but last fall the family
moved to Anchorage.
The government Bureau of Mines
station at Fairbanks has been closed by
the Department of the Interior. A por
tion of the equipment of the station
has been turned over to the Aiaska Ag
ricultural College and School of Mines
at Fairbanks, and the remainder will
be shipped to Anchorage.
Mrs. Grace Ryan, proprietress of the
Miners’ Hotel at flyder, was the vic
tim of a robbery at the hotel recently,
whereby she lost money, jewelrv and
other personal property valued at
$J,000. The robbery occurred while
Mrs. Ryan was absent from the hotel
for a short time.
The American Legion convention,
held at Sitka recently, adopted a reso
lution urging the passage of a literacy
test law by the Territorial legislature,
the vote being unanimous. A resolu
tion was alBO adopted asking for a land
grant to ex-service men.
Lyman S. Ferris, proprietor of the
Steadman Hotel, Ketchikan, announces
that he has plans under way for the
construction immediately of a 200-room
hotel, to be of concrete and steel, tire
proof. The hotel should be ready for
occupancy in about six months.
J. S. Smith, who recently snot and
killed Bert Grayle at fa'etobikan, fol
lowing a quarrel, has been bound over
to the grand jury on a charge of second
degree murder.
A. T. Willett, steamboat engineer
and owner of the Nenana machine shop,
died recently in the Nenana hospital
from Bright’s disease.
The public schools of Juneau were
closed for several days recently on ac
count of measles.
■ According to official government fig
ures, the geographic center of Alaska
(including islands) is 95-miles south of
Tanana.
An official of the Geodetic 3urvev de
fines a geographic center as follows
“The geographic center of an area
may be defined aa that point on which
the surface of the area would balance
if it were a plane of uniform thickness,
or, in other words, the center of grav
ity of the surface.”
A point ^5 miles south of Tanana
would fall approximately on the west
ern shore line of Lake Minchumina at
a point midwav between its northern
and southern limits. -Alaska School
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Personal Attention Given to Freight Ordered
for. the Kuskokwim. Send in Your Orders.
' For Rates and Accommodations apply to
Kuskokwim Fishing & Transportation Co.
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Reapportion Alaska’s
4 Judicial Divisions
Washington.—Congressman Charles
F. Curry of California introduced a bill
in CoDgres3, recently, amending the!
organic act by reapportioning the rep-,
resentation of the four judicial divi
sions in the Territorial House at Ju
neau. The bill was referred to the
committee on terr'tories and ordered
to be placed on the calendar.
The First and Third divisions under
the bill will have greater representa
tion than the Second and Fourth divi
sions, on the basis of population.
On one point ( a;a very clear: We
need an immigration policy and an iiu- I
migration law that will operate solely
for the benefit of America--America
todav and America in the future. Wc
are under no obliigation, moral or
legal, to allow any nation in all tihe
world to say whom wc shall accept as
citizens of the United dates, 'mmi-j
gration, in the final working out of the
problem, is an American issue. t is
the right and duty of the United States
to protect every American citizen, of
today and tomorrow, from contact with
mental, moral and physical delinquents
of all the world.—James J. Davis.
One does not need to be a Napoleon,
a Grant or a Dewey in order to ustify
his life. For my part ' take o'T my hat
to the average man and woman of So
ciety, and submit it is -more com
mendable in an instructor to point his
pupil to an honest neighbor as u model
man than to parade-before him the
name of Bonaparte and oi her stifeh
nuisances of history.—Dr. Daven
port, University of llinois.
Pedantic Gent—What is that strange
bird, my man?
Longshoreman—Why, that's a halba
iross.
“A rara avis, isn't it. ”
“We call it a ^albatross.”
“Yea, yes, but 1 call it a rara avis,
just as I would call you a gen s homo.”
“Oh, do you? Well, call it a hal
batross, just as f would call you a ,
blooming idiot!”—Tit-Hits.
McGrath, Alaska
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Proposition.
i am the principal owner oi a dock [o. ground
on Yankee creek, about sevenjanoes long, extend
ing from No. 1 HelowJDissovery down'to the^mouth
of the creek.
Ray has been located allaiong^for a diatance’of
about three miles from the upper end,; aad^ pretty
well prospected aneTcrosscut. J
The average depth of the ground lis fromlseven
to twenty feet. The top is all black muck.|tbat|can
be movedjfreely. No rock bigger thaa'one’s Ii9t,
The width of the pay. for a distance lof fabout
three miles, is from 100 to 200 feet.£ Crosscuting
work indicatesgthat the ground will go from^lS
cents to 91 per square foot of bedrock. My belief
is that’the payjwill average 50 eentstper foot.
I have a ditch on the ground, three miles long,
together with water rights. The ground is' pretty
well cleared. There is also a drain, three miles
long, with the water right. I also have a water
right on Ready Bullion creek, from which water
can be brought to Yankee creek with a ditch less
than a mile long 4,lJOO feet), which will give four
sluiceheads of water,iwith a'pressure or fail of 120"
feet, being lfiOO feet to the work from the ditch.I
After doing away with the muck, there will be
from four to six feet of dirt to hand* ''i n# JW.J
runs mostly in the bedrock of porphyry and *)*»«.
The ground is virgin, only about ill,OB® haviOf
been taken out by windlass in prospering.]
Proepectlag work during the present winter baa
resulted in rinding r&luss that run up to *1 per
\ uare fcot of bedrock.
The Flute i/rsdge Company bas a dredge aosra
this ground, which has 'been in operafWn fer the
last three seasons.
The Government road crosses Yankee arts*. I
also have a road down the creek that co* fleet* with
the Government road.
x am also the agent for owners of ground other
j than that held by myseh.
The ground can be worked either with dredge.
■ drag-line s.raper, or by kydraulieinc.
. will either sell the ground or give a lease on
it. If the prospect it satisfactory to the buyer, a
cash payment will te erpected. A pood bargaie
will be given to the right party.
lor further information, terms, etc., sell m
ground, cr writs or telegraph me.
ED NOL-LITTK,
Toketna, Alaska.