aqiNGS OVER IN RUBY
AND POORM AN SECTIONS
(Fairbanks News-Miner.)
On several of the creeks adjacent
to Poorman in the Ruby district pros
pecting operations are being earned
on (this winter, according to Deputy
U. S. Marshal Thqpnas H. Long, who
is in Fairbanks to attend the court
session.
Other creeks where strikes made
lasf, winter attracted scores of stain
peejers are now in the producing
stage.
Prospecting operations on Nevada
cr^ek are being watched closely, said
Deputy Long. A couple of holes were
put down on the creek last winter,
and in one of them Bill Ferry is said
to (have found good pay, apd in the
otfycr Dennis Coyle found good pros
pects. Both these men, as. well as
Dark
Interior
Pen-Bred' i
Wipi Order* .
t
Talcotna. Ala*** ,
others, are continuing prospecting
this winter. Coyle recently %|fe. a
cabin on the creek.
Beaver creek, magnet for;- atam
peders last winter, is- the of
considerable activity:. Cabins have
been put up, a blacks until shop
and a lot of wood hgwled -to-., the
ground. The three original discover
ers, August, McDonald japd partner,
are taking out a dump nyw.
John Vig and John ,V«(gtor . and
Jack Nevins and George. Burmaster
are prospecting' on Beaver,
Jack Shropshire js taking out a
dump on Wolf creek, as. are Billy
Gragen and hip brother Alex. They
are said to bft in good , pay.
Albin Martin (The Patch Kid) ,and
partner liaye been prospecting. . a
Creek th^-. other side of Wolf. They,
put a hole down }80 feet, but were
unable to reach bedrock because the
shaft keep sloughing in the warm
‘weather. It is said .they intend to
continue sinking as soon as the
weather becomes colder.
A feeling, of optimism exists con
ceding. the possibility of discovering
new paystreaks, Mr. Long said. Prac
tically all prospecting is being done
by local men, nearly all those who
stampeded there Inst winte? having
left the camp...
GIRL, 17, REVENGES SLAY- .
• ING Oh HER FATHER
DEWITT, Ark-i—Mrs. Helen Spence
Eaton, 17 years old, after sitting in
the front row in the . court ropiq alj
day listening to the trial of Jack
Worfe, 30, charged with killing her.
father, drew a concealed pistol and,
shot four times, killing WotIs.
The shooting occurred just as the
' Frank,J,: Gu^:ey, :
NqtaryvEu&jiCc
McGrath, Alaska
jnry was ready to retire to consider
jtft ayg. The girl arae arrested. Sire
aUea;pted to cpounit suicide si month
ago.
MWERAL OUTPUT’OF
ALASKA - DURING- 1930
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this field on essentially the same
cale as heretofore-.
A revival of interest in the devel
pment of the oil fields, near Katails
and Yakataga was shown by reports
that several companies were making
preparations for,.active drilling in
these regions and some were actually
shipping in the necessary equipment.
In addition, to well justiled attempts
to extend the area of well known oil
lands in this part of Alaska there ap
pears to have beep considerable spec
ulative promotion .whereby individ
uals have been induced to pay many,
thousands of dollars .for services in
obtaining oil holdings . that could
have been obtained directly from the
Government at a.po^ina^. charge. In
their initial stages it is difficult to
distinguish between the worth-while
and the. fraudulent promotion
schemes, so that^actual performance
in the field must be watched closely
before decidin ginto which class any
indivdual project falls. That there is
some oil in this region is clearly
proved by the producing wells near
Katalla and by thp numerous seep
aves at many pojnts between Katalla
and Yakataga, bat whether it occurs
under such conditions as will make a
commercial field must await the evi
dence furnished by the drill.
Drilling for oil in the region west
of Chickaloon was continued by the
Peterson Oil Association. Much time
was lost because of the necessity of
extracting or avoiding a topi that had
become broken off in the well. Drill-t
mg ceased earyl in the fall, but the
operators report that thev will re
sume work there nert spring. No
search for oil by drilling is reported
to have been in progress in any of
the other parts of Alaska that are
believed to hold promise of being oil- j
hearing, such as the Alaska Penin-'
sula or the naval petroleum reserve
in Northern Alaska.
, Other Minerals.
In addition to the mineral products
already- mentioned, Alaska also pro
dpced during 1980 some lead, marble,
limestone, tin, uicksQver, and plat*
ininn. The aggregate value of the
output of these minerals in 1930, to
gether with that of petroleum, is es
timated to have been $341,000. Most
of the lead was obtained as a by-pro
duct from the gold ore of the Alaska
Juneau mine. The output of marble
m 1930 came, as heretofore, entirely
from the quarries of the Vermont
Marble Company, near the west coast
of Prince of Wales Island, in South
eastern Alaska. The mining of cer
tain limestqne deposits on Dali island
in Southeastern Alaska by the Pacific1
Coast Cement Company, as a source
of one of the constituents of.;its ce
ment was successfully, continued;
throughout thp year. The r^w ma-;
terial after preliminary crushing . iss
shipped to the company’s main plant
near Seattle. The tin ore was , de
rived principally from placers near
Tin City, in Seward Peninsula, but
small amounts were recovered from
placers in the Hot Springs district of
the Yukon-Tanana region. Prospect
ing for tin ore near Big creek, in the
Ruby district, was continued, but no
recent details regarding the results of
the search are available. The plat
inum metals came principally from
placers in the Goodnews Bay district,
at the mouth of the Kuskokwim river,
and small amounts from the eastern
part of Seward Peninsula. The finds
in the Goodnews Bay district contine
to be encouraging, but not such as to
justify any rush of prospectors.
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