ALASKA NOTES
The employes of the Treadwell
company subscribed and paid for
§140,000 worth of stock in that
company, paying Sio per share
for it.
J. YV. Tool of Fairbanks creek
district has invented a new un
derground dredge which will
facilitate mining to such an ex
tent that ground heretofore un
workable on account of the ex
pense may now be worked with
profit.
The Fairbanks News-Miner
isay9 that an important gold
quartz ledge has been discovered
on the divide between St- Patrick
and Eve creeks.The ledge is said
to be four feet wide, carries good
values and is so situated that it
can be economically mined.
The young moose which at
tracted the attention of tourists
at Fairbanks last summer is no
more. Too much frozen cab
bage caused an attack of colic
and the moose could not stand it.
The animal was captured last
summer by two prospectors who
saved it from a forest fire.
The Alaska Free Gold Conr
pany, owner of a gold quartz
property in the YVlliow Creek
gold camp, has declared an an
nual dividend of 16.2-3 Per cent
from the royalties received from
William Martin, lessee. Upon
the basis of gold production
since Mr. Martin took over the
property, the company, if opera
ting thei mine itself would be
paying an annual dividend of 300
per cent.
There is one traveling sales
man on the Alaska run who is
♦sure that the members of the
crew of the steamer Admiral
Evans are honest. On a recent
trip of the steamer southward
the salesman got off at Ketchi
kan, leaving his purse under his
pillow. When he discovered his
loss he sent a wireless to the pur
ser and received an answer that
the purse and contents were safe.
The Clark-Graham* company
will soon begin the work of
erecting their new cannery at
"(Mountain slough, Southeastern
Alaska, and the vessel is now
enroutc north from Puget Sound
with eighty thousand feet of
lumber for the buildings. It is
expected that the plant will be
installed in time to permit of a
full pack being made this season
When the wharf at Seward was
destroyed in January a big safe
belonging to the Alaska Engi
neering commission dropped into
the bay where the water was 14
feet deep at low tide. The feat
of raising the safe was performed
by George Madsen, an old time
beach expert of Nome, who slip
ped a cable under the safe and
brought it to the surface.
Several cases of beer which
went to the bottom of the bay at
Seward when the wharf was des”
troyed by fire have been recover
ed by men who had idle time on
their hands. It is known that
one shipper in Anchorage had
several hundred cases on the
dock when the fire occurred and
the bay in that vicinity is to be
given a thorough prospecting.
There appears to be some
doubt as to the exact location of
Lewis river where some good
placer ground is reported to have
been found. Most people believe
that it runs into Cook Inlet be
tween Beluga creek and the Su
sitna. One old timer of Seward
says that it empties into Beluga
creek itself but in either case it
cannot be more than forty or
fifty miles from Anchorage
The Mother Lode Copper Mine
company shipped one hundred
and fifty tons of ore to the Ta
coma smelter recently. The ore
is not the highest grade ore that
has been transported from the
Interior but it is expected to
average better than thirty per
cent pure copper. The shipment
had a value of $21,000. The
mine is employing a force of fifty
miners and expects to soon send
another shipment of ore to the
smelter.
The Fairbanks News-Miner of
February i8, tells of a heavy
electric storm which prevailed
between Tanana and Fairbanks.
The storm began at 5 o’clock in
the evening and steadily grew
worse until it burned out a
couple of keys at the telegraph
office and caused other annoyan
ces on the line. The electrical
storm in winter was something
.new to the operators and at first
they did not know what was the
matter, believing that a line had
become crossed with one of the
electric wires of town.
William Byers, the pioneer
trader and storekeeper of Gold
en, Port Wells, has disposed of
his business there and will en
gage in foxraising on Byers and
other islands in the sound. He
will also operate in connection
with one of the Cordova salmon
canneries during the summer.
Mr. Byers is postmaster at Gold
en, and has sent his resignation
to the department in Washing
ton. Mr. Spaulding, former sup"
erintendent of the Golden Eagle
Mining company, is the new
owner of the Golden trading
post and will probably be ap
pointed postmaster there.
The Juneau Empire of recent
date says that it is reliably stated
that a strike of much significance
has been made on the benches at
Lituya bay. The find is report
ed to have been made recently
and a large quantity of nuggets
were taken out by the locators
from the first hole to bedrock.
Heretofore much work has
been done along the benches and
the strike the value of which has
not been fully determined, is
sufficient to cause a stampede.
Several miners have already
left Juneau and Douglas for the
scene of the strike and some of
them are preparing to take in
their families.
Writing to Senator Chamber
lain regarding the request of the
Columbia River Packers’ associ
ation that a radio station be es
tablished at Unga, Secretary
Daniels of the navy department
says that so far as the navy is
concerned that the station would
be superfluous.Experts of the
navy department have furnished
estimates that fifty thousand dol
lars would be required to estab
lish the plant and if congress will
furnish the money the depart
ment would build the station.
Secretary Daniels says a higb
.power station is no* advisable
for Unga as merchant 9hips do
not possess highpower sets of
radio instruments.
SYNDICATE TO BID
ON AERO SERVICE
After many years of faithful
service, the Alaska mail dogs—
those of them that have not been
■‘conscripted” for service “some
where in France”—may get a
wrell earned rest next winter,
says Jack Underwood in the Se
attle Times. The government has
called for bids for the delivery of
mails by aeroplane in all Alas
kan towns not open to steamship
service.
A syndicate of Alaskans is
now in California arranging for
the construction of machines.
One aeroplane is now under con
struction and in the event the
syndicate being unable to get
favorable contracts for mail de
livery, it will be used to earn’
gold from the interior each year
after the transportation by water
has been suspended.
Should a mail contract be made
with the government a fleet of
aeroplanes will be built this
spring and summer. Every year
more than $1,000,000 is taken out
by the miners of Iditarod and
other interior camps, after nav
igation is closed, and this gold is
usually hauled by dog teams, the
journey requiring several w'eeks.
The Alaskans figure that the
saving of interest on the money
in transit would pay the cost of
operation of an aeroplane.
The introduction of a fleet of
flying machines will be hailed
with general rejoicing by inte
rior Alaskan cities, both winter
and summer, especially Iditarod
and Fairbanks. In summer mail
to these points is sent by steam
ship to St. Michael, then up the
Yukon river and its tributaries.
Jt usually takes a letter from
twenty to thirty days to travel
from Seattle to Fairbanks and
about the same period of time
is lost between Seattle and Idi
tarod With aeroplanes operat
ing from the coastal towns this
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time would be cut down more
than 70 per cent.
'['he routes over which the gov
eminent has called for contracts
for the delivery of mail, per aero
plane, are as follows:
From Valdez to Fairbanks, 358
miles; from Fairbanks to Tan
ana, 162 miles; from Tanana to
Kaltag. 381 miles; from Kaltag
to Nome, 225 miles; from Seward
to Iditarod, 380 miles; from Sew
ard to Anchorage. 110 miles.
The syndicate of Alaskans
which brought the project to the
attention of the government has
recently tested a biplane which
carries 1,000 pounds of useful
cargo in additon to its aviator,
glsolinc and equipment; It is
believed that with a fleet of this
class of machines, if provided
with suitable landing places and
machinists to make necessary re
pairs a dependable mail service
can be established.
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great benefit to everybody.
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