Alaska Notes
Gathered From Territorial
Exchanges.
A cleanup from the mine of the
Alaska Hills Mines Corporation at
.Nuka Bay arrived in Seward recently,
1 being the second cleanup of the
i month, the two cleanups totaling
more than GO pounds of gold. At the
I present rate it is indicated the con
• cern may declare its first . dividend
i this year, which is only its second
; season of operation.
As the outcome of the death of J.
L. Masino. a Filipino worker, from in
juries received May 26, 1924. when a
steam retort blew open at a Koggiung
• cannery, a damage suit for $50,000
was recently filed in Seattle against:
Libby, McNeill Libby and Wong On,
• doing business, as Wong & Co., alleged ]
• operators of the plant.
.1. I.. Shepart, of the Juneau office
(of the 1’. S. Geological Survey, ar
i rived at Cordova recently after a 100
i mile hike among the mining proper-;
til's of the Copper River district. He
: accumulated a gunny sack full of j
.samples and a yellowjncket sting, ac-j
i cording to the Cordova Times. |
“Otherwise the trip was all right." he
i commented. “We saw no signs of
wild life except wolf tracks and rab
1 bits. The bunnies chewed up the gar
i den at the Hurlock camp and thus
i made everybody happy. Two of Mr.
Hurlock’s employees, Frank McKenna
.and Fred Bogart, who giro •working.'At,
Tall Creek, told me they had seen an
i unusual battle, four wolves fighting
t three rams. They engaged hi combat
for half an hour before the sheep got
; aw ay.”
Timber sale contracts for the six j
months ending June 30 show.,a slight
increase this year over the same
: season in 1925, according to statistics
just compiled by forestry headquar
■ ters. During that time the Chugach
National Forest made 31 timber sale
< •ontraets, covering 2,915,310 board
feet, having a stumpage value of
. $3,080. In the first half of the year
: 2,902,980 board feet, with a stumpage
value of $4,750, were cut under exist
ing contracts. The Alaska Railroad
<,:ut on the forest, under free use,
.3,844,000 board feet, onw hich there
'was no stumpage charge, and re me, veil
:270,740 cubic yards of rock, gravel
:and earth having a yardage value of
: $13,537, under the same free use priv
ilege. Figures covering the last fiscal
year show that the forest paid out
$8,429 for trail building, $10,400 for
salaries, $15,505 for general expenses,
$975 for maintenance and improve
ments, $4,589 for timber surveys, and
' $9,099 for fire fighting.
Development of the silver proper
ties of Moose Johnson and associates
in the Chulitna district, north of An
chorage, will begin early next year as
the result of a deal recently concluded
between I lie owners of the ground and
W. F. Deaner, wbo is said to represent
San Francisco capital. Under the
terms of the agreement, which is in
j the nature of a lease and option, or
! working contract, Mr. Deaner will be
| gin active operations in June, 1827.
1 In the meantime buildings are to be
■ erected both at Chulitna and on the
j properties. These will be log struct
i ores, two of which will be built close
j To the railroad, for the accommoda
| tion of freight, and, three at the scene
| of operations, for camp use. The
| buildings will be built by Moose John
i-on and hi- partner, Harry Wertz,|
: and after Hint work is dene they will j
| do the annual asses - < ; on the j
| properties
I The ore eonta:;.' r • Chulitna'
| properties is similar to.that produced;
j by the famous.Premier mine in the
j Portland Canal district, containing
| both silver and gold, and the work
thus tar done by the owners indicates
that there is a large body of ore in
the ground, rich in values and very
accessible, with an ideal mill site and
an abundance of water power avail
able.
i Cannery buildings in the Bristol
Bay region had -a narrow escape from
destruction during a spell of warm
weather when fires were sweeping the
forests of that section of Alaska, ac
cording to II. B. Frele, general man
ager of the A. & P. Products Com
pany, a subsidiary of the Great At
lantic & Pacific Tea Company. The
fire became so threatening, he said,
that it was necessary to set the can
nery crews to Vork as fire fighters,
and for several days the situation
was very grave. The fire was stopped,
however, before any of the cannery
property was destroyed.
John Joseph Gilmore, son of Mr.
and Mrs. P..F. Gilmore of Ketchikau, |
has received notice from the adjutant;
general's office of the War Depart-;
ment of his appointment as a cadet I
at the United States Military Acad
einy at VVe.st Point, \. Y.
He has .accepted the appointment,!
and will present himself before a j
board of officers at Chilkoot Barracks, '
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at which time hs warrant of appoint
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date of admission, will be delivered to
him.
John Gilmore was horn in Ketchi
kan, and after going through the
grade schools was a graduate of the
high school class of 1925.
faptain E. ,1. Rowden, president of
the Detroit Mining Company, operat
ing on Hammond river, in the Koyu
kuk section, arrived in Fairbanks a
few days ago. Captain Rowden in a
statement to the News-Miner, said •
that considerable difficulty was en-1
countered in taking material to the |
property on account of the North
Fork of the Koyukuk being very shal- |
low in spots. The river is easily navi- f
gated up the Middle Fork as far as i
Betties, tint becomes almost unnaviga
ble from them on.
A fiFt\ mile ditch for hydraulicking
has been surveyed by L. S. Robe.
The ground to be operated by the
Detroit Mining Company at Ham
mond river will he drifted, but adjoin
ing ground, six miles in length, will
be worked by hydraulicking.
FIVE MINERS BURIED ALIVE;
RESCUED AFTER SEVEN DAYS
Salem, N. Y.—The five miners were
rescued alive after being imprisoned
in the cave for seven days.
Rudolph Collins, the first man out,
said: “Hello, boys! I'm not sick. We
all lived in hope. We had only four
matches, no food, and a small tobacco
can full of water, which we shared
moistening our lips. We used one'
lamp at a time, conserving the light
for a long time. When the light
burned out we were left in the afful
darkness."
Roy Jones, who became separated
fro mthe others, was next to Gettrage
in being rescued; Castillar was deliri
ous and near death from pneumonia;
U. B. Wilson and Harry WaWtson are
apparently well.
ALASKA MINERAL OUTPUT
SHOWS LARGE INCREASE I
Seattle.-—A dispatch to the Times
from Washington says the Geological
Survey has reported Alaska’s mineral j
output as having increased by $700,- !
000 last year, aggregating $18,220,692.1
Copper totaled $10,300,000; gold,!
gold, $1,200,000; silver, $482,000; coal,
$404,000. Copper production de
creased 800,000 pounds during the
year, but prices were higher.
The total mineral output since 1880
is valued at $553,000,000.
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When (irnndad Went to Market in the
Year 1913.
(Fort Yates, 6. I)., Pioneer.)
When our grandad went to market
with his basket on his arm in 1913,-he
didn’t have to stop at. the bank to cash
a fresh Liberty bond or negotiate an
other mortgage on the cow pasture
back of the barn. He took a ragged
old dollar bill and after buying a
complete layout for the Sunday din
ner, from soup to nuts, had enough
chonge left to buy a hair cut, shave
and three drinks at the Commercial
House bar. And they were regular
drinks, too—none of this 2.76 stuff.
In those good old days there was so
much bacon lying around on the prem
ises that they used it for carp bait
and to grease hoots with. As for pig,
iamb and roast beef, they got so tired
of those things that they would walk
a mile and a half to shoot some wild
turkeys, just for a change. The
butcher always got peeved if a cus
tomer would not take a pound of
liver home with him for the cat, just
to get it out of the way. ;
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Wednesday, 0c020i
At 8:30 P. M.
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“The reason is it takes so long, I
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at it when we’re in company.”—Yonk
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