WANTED-MOUNTAM OR
RIVER WITHOUT NAME
By J. «*. Underwood.
Anybody knowing of a nice, high
mountain In Alaska without a name
one a little higher than Mount KcKln
k.y preferred; or falling a mountain,
If they know of a river In. Alaska that
U as big or a little bigger than the
Yukon, they will confer a favor on a
number of residents of the territory
and of the Fairbanks region In particu
lar, by sending Information as to loca
tion and other particulars. The Falr
bankslans want to name It Mount
Brooks or Brooks river, In honor of
Alfred H. Brooks, head of the United
States geological survey.
Brooks spent seventeen years In
scientific exploring In Alaska. He has
discovered numberless unnamed rivers
and mountains, and has Indicated a
dozen times the places where gold and
other metal would be found. He ex
plored the headwaters of the Tanan.1' j
river many years ago. In 1902 his re
ports indicated that gold would be
found at a certain point on this stream.
Prospectors went there and searched,
wltn the result that the town of hair
bunas sprang into being. Two or three
years ago Ins reports indicated the
presence of placer gold In the Toloa
vuna region. It was found there by
Jay LIvengood on a stream which he
named for himself
Alaskans are not ungrateful. They
had seen their mountains and rivers
and towns named for people of more
or less consequence and thought It
about time that the head of the
geological survey should be recognised.
He had been too modest to name any
thing for himself. So, when somebody
at the miners' meeting which followed
the discovery, asked for suggestions on
a name for the camp, a dozen voices
shouted: “Let's name her after Dr.
Brooks." It was carried unanimously
and enthusiastically. Brooks It was.
But, it didn’t remain Brooks very
long. A postofflce was asked for, and
then some clerk down at Washington
discovered that there are already a
couple of postofflces in the United
States named Brooks, so they changed
the northern one to Llvengood.
Were the miners going to stand for
this affront to their meeting? They
were not. They consulted Federal
Judge Charles K. Bunnell, requesting
him to create a new district, and di
recting that the court be situated at
v
the city of Brooks. So, hereafter le
ters must be addressed to "Brooks.
Alaska, Llvengood postofflce."
And that isn’t the end of it. The
northerners are going out to look for
a new mountain or a big river, 90 they
can name it Brooks, and if the postal
authorities are not watchful they are
liable to steal the name from Mount
McKinloy or St. Ellas and stick up a
' Brooks monument at the summit.
WITH THE 49’ERS CAL
GOLD DISCOVERIES
The historically important discovery
of gold in California was made In
January. 1848, at John Sutter's mill on
South Fork of American river near
Coloma, a point only 10 or 16 miles
southeast of the town of Auburn.
From I860 to 1863 the greatest yield
largest annual output for this period
was more than 366,000,000, in 1868
There was some reaction In 1854, due
to previous wild speculation, but a
production of about 350,000,000 a year
cnlefly from placer mines, was main
tn'ned up to 1861.
At first the gold was won chiefly
from the gravels along the present
streams. Those who first got posses
s. on of Hie rich bars on American,
; itha, Feather and Stanislaus rivers
t. nd some of the smaller streams In
iue heart of the gold region made at
times from $1,000 to $5,000 a day. In
3M8 $500 to $700 a day was not un
usual luck; but, on the other hand,
the Income of the great majority ot
miners was far less than that of men
who seriously devoted themselves to
trsde or even to common labor
The gold pan, the “rocker,” the
"tom"' the sluice, and the hydraulic
, “giant,” or “monitor,” named In the
order of Increasing efficiency were the
tools successively used by the miners
Into the "rocker” and the "tom,” the
THRILLING ADVENTURES
OF An ENGLISH WOMAN
Mrs. Malcolm Carter, an English
vcman of Belgian birth, who arrived
in New York recently, told the story'
of how she escaped from Belgium by1
disguising herself In the costume of a
Flemish peasant and creeping under
the barbed wires on the Dutch frontier.
Mrs. Carter comes to this country to
seek aid for Belgian soldiers who
have been blinded or permanently dis
abled.
She went from London to Belgium to
visit her father, and says that her,
passport was taken away and torn up
on the orders of General von Btsslng,
the military commander. She was
suspected of being a spy, but after two
months obtained a new pass from an
other Q-rman commander, but that
also was confiscated.
Reallzln? that her only means of
escape was by subterfuge, she went
to the h< me of a friend In Antwerp and
emeijel from the house In disguise.
She wte cnrrl“d In the cart of a Bel
gian cheosemcnger part of ths way
to the Dutch border, and smugglers
guided her the remainder of the way.
"There were times,” said Mrs. Car
ter, "when we were crawling oa the
ground, and It was eleven hours before
we reached the barbed wire that marks
the border. Then I was literally pok
ed and rolled through the lines of
twisted wire to safety."
RELICS OF A
LOST RACE
When in 1494, on his second voyage
Columbus discovered the Island of
Jamaica, It was populated by the Ara
wak Indins, who, although at Hr*
hostile to him, became friendly on his
giving them clothing and other arti
cles before unknown to them
When later the Spaniards settled
the Island they forced the Indians not
only to do agricultural work In their
own Island, but to labor In the gold
mires of Haiti. So hard were the
Spanish taskmasters that by 1658 the
whole Arawak nation was extermin
ated.
During recent years Q. C. Longley
of Pelham has been seeking to recovet
all possible traces of the lost race
To that end he spent much time or
the Island In exploring the old kltcher
middens or refuse heaps of the Ara
waks, la which he has found, beside;
shells and pottery and Osh, turtle and
cony bones, many celts or rude chisels,
grinding atones, stone pendants and
ai.cs—1,600 objects in all.
The whole collection he has given
to.the American Museum of Natural
Hlrtory in New York.
The most interesting objects are the
cylindrical stone pendants, which were
fashioned with sand and stone by end
less rubbing. Pendants of exactly the
some sort are worn today as Insignia
of office by chiefs or head men of
tribes In northern South America
WE CAN DO IT..
For Hret cr««s work and prompt de
livery phone Main 151 and the People's
Steam Laundry will send and get yeur
laundry.
W. J. WILLIAMSON, Prep
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xdner shoveled gravel or ‘'dirt." rock
ng the machine as he poured In water
xnd catching the gold, often with the
ild of quicksilver, on rlfflea set across
vhr bottom of his box. Sometimes
t stream was diverted into a flume
to lay hare the gravel In Its bed so
.hat the miner could get at It. In
Juicing, the gravel was shoveled Into
i similar but much longer box through
vhlch a stream of water was allowed
.< run The hydraulic giant was em
ployed to wash Into long riffle set
Juices immense quantities of gravel,
especially from the higher (Tertiary')
leposlts, much of which was too lean
to work out by hand. Water was
brought for many mllqs in ditches
and flumes from the high Sierra and
conducted under great head to a noz
ile from which It was projected with
•remendoua force against the gravel.
It was the vast quantity of refuse
washed Into the steams by these
hydraulic operations that brought
about the conflict between mining and
agricultural Interests, finally decided
in favor of the farmers Of late years
the gold obtained from quartz vein*
In California has exceeded that won
by placer mining.—Overland Guide
book.
Calling Cards at the Nugget Olflae
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