h’BEP CARLSON, FORMER
FAIRBANKS AN, WRITES OF
MINING WORK IN SIBERIA
(Fairbanks News-Miner.)
Writing to R. H. Ogburn of the
Fairbanks Exploration Coinpany un
der date of November 14 from Ir
kutsk, Siberia, Fred Carlson, one of
the Fairbanksans who contratced
with the Soviet government to in
struct gold miners in the Alaska
methods of mining, says in part:
“I have not done any thawing yet,
but I suppose I will be in a month or
sOi I have been traveling most of
the time since I got here. I arrived
at.- Irkutsk the 1st of September and
I was here ten days when they sent
me tq a mining district to look over
the ground ahead of the dredges in
regard to steam and water thawing.
I was 'on that trip al^out, ten days,
“In the district I was in there
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v' 1 miners working
a. - r. g and open-cut
mining.
“You would be very much surprised
to see the way they are mining in.
l'-is country. In an rkpesi-.cut mine
.hey haul the dirt up- with a vsrnall
two-wheel cart and a woman driver.
In some drift mines they are- using
horses for hoisting the dirt up,
“A wooden drum is. used, and an
endless cable and two (jackets. They
have a double shaft and one bucket
omes up as the other goes, down. In
some places they are using steam for
hoisting in the same way.
“The sluice boxes start from the
shaft. The.buckets come up and they,
have two men there to trip them into
the sluices. They have a very steep
grade on, the boxes. Four women
tend to the sluices. Tailings are
hauled away with horses and dump
cars. The track is laid in a circle.
I The drift mines run all winter. Boxes
,are built from the ground up, and
steam is used to keep the water from
freezing. It is a very expensive way
of mining.
“Miners take out 45 cubic feet per
six-hour shift. The working hours
are six hours underground and eight
hours on dredges, or any other work.
The dredges are noit digging very
much, in fact not half as much as
they should be.
“They are buil'Fng twelve new
7 1-2. cubic feet steel dredges in Si
beria this year. At all mines and
dredges that I have seen they have
about twice as many men as we
would have in Alaska doing the same
amount of work.
“This city is the headquarters of
the mining industry in Russia. They
have a big office To i ce here with.
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Win i . ei (the American engineer,
who was responsible for securing
Alaska mit ers) and I have been mak
ing out lists for thawing • equipment
for 32 steam-thawing plants.
“It is mostly naturally thawed
ground that the dredges are digging
in, there being only occasional frozen
spots. There is no thawing equip
ment of any kind at any of the
'redges, and I am afraid it w 11 take
a o g time before we will get any
hing to speak of in the line of equip
ment.
‘I am going out to Aldan in a few
days and teach them how to drive
points in the drift. Mr. Wimmler is
caving Irkutsk for Amer ea tomor
row for good.”
REIIIAGE CASE GOES TO
TRIAL AT FAIRBANKS
Two diametrically opposed view
points on what the evidence in the
John Freihage murder trial will
prove were put before the jury of 12
men who will decide the guilt or n
nocence of the Ruby man, says the
Farbanks News-Miier. .
Freihage beat Mrs. Big Joe, native
woman, so severely with a carpen
ter’s iron clamp that she died from
the injuries, United tSates Attorney
Julien A. Hurley told the jury.
In resisting her attack when she
returned home drunk Freiha.®©
pushed the woman back and she fell
against a bedstead, suffering injuries
from which she died several days
later, defense attorney Louise K.
Pratt told tho juJ-y.
Freihage and Mrs. Big Joe had
been living together in his cabin at
•Ruby many, months, said Mr. Hurley.
About the-middle of September Frei
hage entered the house with a bottle
of liquor in his hand and attempted
to force the native woman to drink,
he continued, and when she refused
he beat her with an iron clamp on
the head and body, inflicting severe
injuries, one of which proved fatal.
The next morning, asserted the pros
ecutor, she went to William Frost,
who, while not a licensed physician,
tends to the ills -of those at Ruby.
He dressed her wounds and took care
of her until her death a few days
after, Mr, Hurley declared.
The defense attorney did not deny
that Freihage and Mrs. Big Joe had
been living together.. He placed the
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period of their intimacy at from
hree to four years and admitted the
iwu had been drunk fresuently to
gether, adding that the woman was
quarrelsome at such times.
Freihage, a carpenter, found two
bottles of whiskey while tearing
down a partition in a house an which
he was working. He took the whis
key home and both drank a consider
able amount, the jury was told.
Mrs. Big Joe left the house and
Freihage went to bed, said Judge
Fratt, only to be awakened about 10
o’clock by a pounding at the rear of
-he building. He arose and went
ba.k to find that the woman had
lacked in the botorn panel’of,.' the
door, according to the defense. When
Freihage opened the door the entered
in a rage and struck him over thfe
head with a flashlight, then sprang at
him and bit him, stated the defense
attorney. Continuing, he declared
Freihage pushed her back and she
struck a home-made bedstead, and
the defense holds she then received
-he injury that was to cause her
death. Judge Pratt explained the
ron clamp by saying Freihage used
it as hammer to nail a board on the
broken panel of the door. Mrs. Big
Joe left the house again immediately
after the scuffle and returned twice
more that night, the last time at 5
a. m., when, according to the defense,
she was very drunk.
Judge Pratt said the defense would
be that Freihage was attacked in his
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own home fey the drunken woman
and he dSd nothing fciut: protect him
se.f. The woman did not go to Mr.
Frost for treatment, but was taken,
by Freihage, the defense-counsel said.
He added that it ia hSs bblief she
would have recovered had she been
properly treated..
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en: e money will be used toofihd.a
remedy far radio interference/' A.
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nc: has just been ordereddby thfe
.y at a cost of $300. .
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