FAIRBANKS MAN TO SHIP
LEAD TO THE OUTSIDE
The Tanan Valley is to have
another industry in a mining
way which may eventually prove
to be of great benefit to interior
Alaska generally. For E. L. (Si)
Scrafford, the local mining man,
who recently returned from the
outside, has decided to mine and
ship lead ore to outside smelters,
says the Alaska Citien of March
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There is every reason in the
world to believe that Mr. Scraf
ford will do as he says, for he
has investigated his chances of
mining lead with a profit very
thoroughly. And it will be well
remembered that it was Mr.
Scrafford who built up the in
fant antimony industry of the
Tanana valley and who made a
big success of shipping antimony
ore to the outside last summer.
Mr. Scrafford has already se
cured a lease on a quantity of
ground which he knows contains
ore running about 80 per cent,
lead. The claims are the Schuye
meress No. 3 and ^ie Schuye
meress No. 4, located at the head
of Cleary creek. They are own
ed by Julius Hoffman and others.
Aside from the lead values Mr.
Scrafford hopes to realize con
siderably money from the silver
which the ore contains.
A shaft has already been sunk
on the property on which Mr
Scrafford will operate. And it
will be used in the new opera
tions. The ledge of rock which
will be worked is of varying
vidths, but Air' Scrafford states
that if it holds out as well as he
thinks it will, he will ship ap~
| proximately 1,000 tons of ore
| luring the coming summer. He
j nas already made contracts for
| shipping the ore, all of which
j will go to a Tacoma smelter.
The latest mining journals re'
ceived in Fairbanks quote refined
lead at from six to seven cents
per pound. There are no quota
tions of lead ore, but it is figured
out that high grade ore such as
will be shipped by Mr. Scrafford
will bring between $i and $1.25
per unit. Which means that ore
running 80 per cent pure lead
will bring about $80 per ton.
Lead ore is very easily smelted
and for this reason the charges
are very nominal. The chief cost
of handling the ore will be its
mining, as the transportation
charge on the ore are also very
reasonable It can therefore be
reasonably supposd that, should
Mr. Scratford’s venture prove to
be a success from a mining point
of view, he will clean up a nice
sum of money this summer.
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CAUSE OF BREAKS
IN ALASKAICABLE
Prom notices appearing in va
rious papers throughout the ter
ritory, regarding the Seattle*
Valdez cable, the tenor of which
leads to the belief that this cable
is of inferior material, b~ings the
following communication from
Capt. Robert M. Nolan, officer
in charge of the First division of
the Alaska Military Cable and
Telegraph lines, with headquar
ters here, says the Valdez Miner.
“It lias been noticed that some
-of the newspapers in Alaska are
apparently under the impression
that all breaks in the signal
corps cables are due to the con~
dition of the cables, which of
course is not the case.
“The cable staff of the Burn
side found the last break on
he Valdez-Sitka cable in water
200 fathoms deep, the break hav
ing been caused by the anchor of
a fishing boat catching hold of
the cable and sliding along it for
a distance of three miles. The
armor of the cable was as
good and strong as when first
laid. The nearness of the cable
to shore renders it more suscep
| tible to breaks due to the action
of the tides grinding the cable
on rocky bottom, where such
rocky bottom exists, than would
be the case if the cable was laid
in deep water farther from shore
as in case of cables crossing an
ocean. It* is impossible to change
the route of the cable so that no
portion will be in water near the
shore. The recent break in the
Va 1 dez-Seward cable was caused
bv similar action.
"It will be appreciated if the
above is published for the benc
; It of your readers who are inter'
sted in this."
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NOTICEi TO BARTENDERS.
Pursuant to an order of Local
No. 8f»8, H. I. L. of A. (Affiliated *
with A. P. of L. members are !
hereby notified that the summer |
wage scale of $7.50 per day of
eight hours and Si per hour over
time. becomes effective June 1.
Notice is also given that overtime
rates shall apply to all parts or
subdivisions of the full day of
eight hours.
AL NICHOLSON, President.
COMPLETE RACE STORY.
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day, with the score card was
i printed in issue of April 15
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: clone—before the boats arrive,
i prompt service and reasonable
price, at Nugget office.
That fortune smiles on some
Alaskans wherever they go, is
proven by the fact that John Me'
Ginn, Jack Price, Frank Manley i
and Lv J. Ives are into the money
in an old claim in Tuoloumne
county, in California.
Mr. McGinn was offered an
option On a placer mining claim
in Tuoloumne county for a small
amount of money. The claim
was immediately above one from
which Senator Hearst, father of
William Randolph Hearst, took
several million dollars. It has
been worked for many years, but
somehow did not seem to yield
very much. But McGinn took
the .option on the ground and
asked Jack Price to go there and
inovestigatc it.
Mr. Price went to the claim.
Te went down in the hole and
,vas picking on bedrock. He
bund gravel on the bedrock.
This led him to believe that the
hole had never been sunk to real
bedrock, and lie ordered a couple
of men to keep on picking and
sinking. Today $2 and $3 pans
: are not rare finds in the claim'
It was just as Mr. Price figured
it out. They were on the rim
of a boulder. They drifted and
struck the paystreak, and are
now in the money, and in it in
no uncertain wav.—Ex.
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just or curiosity, the Ketchi
kan Progressive-Miner asks:
Supposing that a man go£s to
the hills at this time of the year
and kills a deer Supposing the
game warden meets him and ar
rests him for killing a game ani
mal o\tt of season and in viola
tion of the law made and provid
ed, and brings him before the
United States commissioner and
charges him with violation of the
law to which the man pleads
• guilty.
And supposing further that the
commissioner is very kind and
everything, and fines him $20,
and by way of impressing on the
mind of the offender the gravity
of the offense, confiscates meat,
gun and all, and tells him to go,
but sin no more, which ends that
part of the business.
All this, however, is only a
lead to what we should like to
know, which is this: What will
become of the meat? Now, we
have never been accused of be
ing curious. As a matter of fact,
we are positively non-curious;
nevertheless we should like to
know what the commissioner
and the game warden do with the
meat. That's all We may add
by way of explanation that this
question would never have been
asked had they passed a steak or
two around. That’s a cinch, be
cause we can keep a secret.
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\ good spring tonic taken at this time of the year is of i
great benefit to everybody.
Among the simple and < fticient spring medicines the fol
lowing are recommended.
CASCARA BARK
SASSAFRAS BARK
sulphur and cream of tartar
Also
APARIENT POWDER.
Which contains Sulphur, cream of Tartar and other valua- j
hie ingredients.
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SOMETHING NEW
Last fall we had a few cases of Ranch Eggs put up in
sealed cans according to the government formula, liquid
glass. They have kept so perfectly that you cannot detect
the difference from Nome laid eggs.
They are $5.00 per can o f nine dozen or 75c per single
dozen.
Telephone White 17 for a dozen.
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