OUR INTERESTS AT
THE NATION’S CAPITAL
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a .-.letter indicating that he had been ^
working in Alaska that he could re-1
eaive transportation to Seattle and,
possibly from there to Alaska on a i
government boat. Of course he re
ceived the letter, and the next morn- j
ing a . squad of soldiers was awaiting
thte opening of the Delegate’s office'
t" make requests for siniiar. letters,.'
aa they *vanted to go to Alaska In
quiry brought out the faet tiiafc. thev;
were ali fro Illinois and the Middle
West and had never been to Alaska,
sa they had tr be disappointed in not
receiving letters that might, nave re
sulted in their going to the far
Norths in . search of work..
inquiring s to how the home loan
bank hill -would appy to the Terri
tory, When the House bil passed,
some, days ago, the. Senate wrestled
with various phases of the bill and an
agreement on the hill had not been
reached until shortly before the final
adjournment of Congress, and copies
of the. perfected bill are not yet
available, but will be mailed to the
newspapers of Alaska within a few
days.
About a. month ago the Presidentj
affixed his. signature to a joint reso- j
ution suspending assessment work!
on. mining, claims for the year from,
July t, 1931, to noon July 31, 1932. i
There was very little opposition to |
the measure, but after it was passed ,
many mine operators claimed that
the assessment work had already
been performed for the fiscal year j
named asd as a result no benefit <
would accrue to. them by reason of J
the resolution. Some, few complaints i
were received from Alaska, alleging ■
that the resoution would prove a
detriment because many miners who j
were usually employed to do the work
for large claim holders would be de-1
nied employment. Others wrote to<
the Delegate that if they were com
et Hod to do the required yearly as
sessment w >rk th.t they would be
compelled tv forfeit their cairns. But
f.om mining Stales. like California,
Arizona and Cohrado demands have
come for the passage of . a resolution
that would suspend the annual as
sessment wnrk for the year ending
J.dy 1, 1933 As a cons; pie nee on
July 12 Representative Eaton of j
Colorado, introduced a resolution ^
providing .That the provision of Sec
tion 2324 of the Revised Statutes of
the United States which requires on
each mining claim located, and until
a. patent fans been issued therefor,,
not less tlun $100 worth of labor to
be performed, or improvements ag
gregating sack amount, to be made
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each year, be, and the same is hereby,
suspended as to all mining claims in
the United States, including Alaska,
during the year beginning at 12
o’clock meridian July 1, 1932, and
ending at 12. o’clock meridian July 1,
1933.” The author of the resolution
made no effort to secure its passage
at the session which has just ad
journed. Ila states, however, that he
has no dobut about its passage soon
after the next session, in December.
Any Alaska miners who oppose the
resolution should write their protests
to Hon. Joe. L. Smith, chairman of
the committee on mines and mining.
That Senator Howell is not the
stumbling bock to the granting of
appropriations to the Alaska Rail
road was made evident in the Senate
on July 15, when Senator King, of
Utah, ended a criticism of the rail
road with the following statement:
“I give notice to the committee, and
to my able friend (Senator Howell),
that I shall oppose any further ap
propriation for the Alaska Railroad,
and I shall offer, a bill, if no one else
does, and at the December session of
the Congress, calling for the sale of
the railroad.”
Alaska gold production, in. the first
six months of the year amounted to.
$2,635,131, a slight decrease from
shipments for the same period of
1931, according to a radiogram re
ceived in the commerce department.
Beach mining at Nome, which pro
duced several million dolars’ worth
of gold in the gold rush of 1898, is
being revived, and although no big
pal has been reporttd, miners are
said to be making from $4 to $5 a
day with hand rockers.
Recent reports trom Alaska ot the
discovery of gold ond opper river
valued at $300,000,000, and rich ore
in Nuka Bay, on which valuations as
high as $50,000 per ton have been
made, have developed considerable
interest in the gold possibilities of the
Territory. Inquiries have been re
ceived from persons in various sec
tions of the East and fom Southern
Florida, asking the advice of the
Delegate as to whether they should
seek fortune in the new fields. But
whether the estimates of the proh
able vauations are or are not correct,,
at least the discovery of new gold
deposits confirms the prediction of
the Geologiral Survey from a series
of studies it has conducted on the
mineral potentialities of Alaska. Gold
has been the most valuable mineral
produced in Alaska during the past
30 years. *It is estimated that the
value of gold production h as amount
od to $398,659,000, while the nert
most valuable metal has been copper,
which has amounte dto $213,964,000.
Silver production has totaled1 $I1>
394,000, and coal $7,940,000. As re
ported recently by the Geological
Survey, gold production last year led
ill other mineral and meta production'
»nd exceeded by $1,000,000 the pro
duction n 1930. The value of god
produced in 1931 was $9,507,000.
Greater interest has been centered on
the discovery of new gold deposits in
Alaska since the Geological Survey
published reports on its studies of
minerals in vxaious areas. In 1931
Congress voted $250,000 to continue
mineral studies in Alaska, and from
;he investigations under this appro
priation various studies, have been
ssued from time to time and- will
:ontinue to be made..
The talkative old man was deliver
ng quite a lecture' on speedy travell
« the young man with whom he
hared a compartment.
“Yes, we travel fast thesedays,” he ]
:aid. “But have you ever thought of ,
he flight of time—of the fleeting ]
lours of youth, the golden-days that ,
wiftly pass away? Have you ever
:ounted th eminutes—?”’
“Look here,” said the young man, i
uspiciously, “I don't quite get the i
>ang of this. Are you trying to sel
ne a watch?*
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HOW THEY STAND.
Aso of August 17.
National League.
Won Lost
50
52
56
58
59
57
Chicago. 61
Pittsburgh . 61
Brooklyn _ 62
Philadelphia -. 59
Boston . 58
St. Louis . 56
New Yoork . 52. 6ft
Cincinnati .51 66
American League
New York . 78 35>
Cleveland . 68. 46
Phiadelphia . 69
Washington . 62
Detroit . 68
St. Louis . 53
Chicago —.—. 36
Boston . 28
Coast League
Portland . 79
Hollywood . 77
San Francisco . 74
Los Angeles . 75
Sacramento . 68
Seattle.. 64
Oakland . 59
Missions . 53
Pet.
.550
.540
.525
.504
.496
.496
.464
.429
47
51
53
60
74
86
.690
.596
.595
.549
.523
.469
.327
.246
59
61
61
62
70
73
79
84
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.553
548
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.493
.467
.428
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SALMON RU NHEAVY YUKON
RIVER; FUR IS INCREASING
(Anchorage Times.)
What with the fish extremely plen
tiful, fur coming back and mining
looking up, little depression talk is
heard aong the Yukon river,, accord
ing to Ca W. Franklin, pioneer min
ing man of the interior, who- returned
to his Fairbanks headquarters recent
ly from a trip along the Yukon river
from Fort Yukon to Marshall.
“The salmon run this year was the
biggest since I’ve been up and down
the Yukon,” he says. “The run isn’t
over yet. Silvers are coming up
stream now.
“The fur catch has been fair, but
prices are way down. The volume, if
anything, has increased since last
year. If fur prices would go up only
a little it would hep a lot.”
A few miners are working from 20
to 30 miles back. ct£ Russian Mission.
Theyare reported to be taking out
good money. The ground is shallow,
running, ftonv 8 to. 15 feet. Mr.
Franklin expects to see the district
opened up in a bigger way in the near
future..
“Ruby is showing signs of activ
ity,” he said. “Things are looking
twice as good as they did last year.
Residents of the camp are displaying
enthusiasm over the outlook.
“Fort Yukon remains the center of
Alaska’s best fur district, and. as
long as demand for furs continues
times are bound to be fair there:’’
The Miser.
Says the witty Dean Inge, in his
latest volume of easays:
“What is tHe paychology off that
time-honored comic figure, the misen?
rhe stock arguments intended to con
vinee him of his folly quite miss the
nark. ‘He shal carry nothi ngawiay
iway with hi mwhen he dieth,’ says
;he Psamist. ‘There are no pockets
in your shroud,’ says an Italian prov
jrb. The miser knows that well
jnough. I have heard only one in
stance of a man who wished to take
mone yaway with him—a man who
livided his fortune among three
Friends, an Englishman, an Irishman
»nd a Scotchman, on condition that
iach of them should put a hundred
pounds into his coffin. The English
man put in 20 five-pound notes. The
Irishman borrowed a hundred pounds
From the Englishman and put them
n. The Scotchman took out the two
lundred pounds and put in a check
ror three hundred pounds, paable to
>earer. To his dismay, he found next
lay that the check had been cashed;
te had forgotten that the undertaker
vas a Welshman.”
Mrs. Gabbins—Here is an interest
ng article on “What a Woman
ihouM Weigh.”
Husband—Does it, by any chance,
mention her. words?
Dad Knows, You Bet!
(Weekly Herald, Chltina.)
Dad tels u:- ‘hat we should study
the big newspapers & see how they
do things and why. He says that is
the best way to study journalism. He
said that anything we don’t know or
understand to ask him. Dad thinks
he knows everything. But the other
day we asked him why the big news
papers of California had made first
page news of Aimee Simple McPher
son for the last few years, and we
had him stumped first thing; he had
to admit he doesn’t know. But he
did say it reminded him of the story
of how the bagpipe came to be in
vented. The Irish made it & sent it
over to the Scotch & they didn't see
the joke & kept it serious. But of
course Dad had to ring in a dodge of
some kind & he said that there were
some reason that he knew, but that
we would not understand, & we knew
right away that he meant some of
that cosmic ray stuff that we hear
to much about nowadays.
TABLE OF DISTANCE8 BE
TWEEN NENANA AND FLAT
Nenana ......
Tavern Roadhouse ...
Knight’s Roadhouse _
17%
23%
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse..68 _
Diamond Roadhouse...76
Roosevelt .... 89
Lake Minehumina__115
Trappers’ Gabin .... 132
Lone Star Roadhouse_160
Tetida Roadhouse _ 169%
Slow Fork Roadhouse_ 187
East Fork Roadhouse _) 206
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse_327%
Big River Roadhouse_241
MqGrath ____ 263
Takoteia ... 280
Bill Gostf Roadhouse_291
Ophir....300
McCafferty..306
Brown Creek shelter cabin_318
Fritz shelter cabin _ 333
First Cham:e shelter cabin_346
Sohermeyer R. H. _ 860
Iditarod....376
Flat..... 384
Bonanzza sheler cabin, 12 miles
from Flat.
Crooked Creek shelter cabin, 19
miles from Bonanza
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NOTICE OF EQgFEftUKi
Notice is hereby given to F. W.
Carter, A. B. Ferguson, George C.
Friend, and E. Coke Hill, and their
heirs and assigns, that their portions
of the assessment work for the years
1924 to 1931, inclusive, done on the
Bonanza Association placer mining
claim, situated on Flat creek, tribu
tary of Otter creek, in the Otter Re
cording Precinct, Fourth Division,
Territory of Alaska, must be paid
within ninety (90) days from date
hereof, or forfeit all right and title
to said placer mining claim.
PATRICK SAVAGE.
Dated Flat, Alaska. Jan. 16, 1932.
First publication, March 5, 1932.
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