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NOME, ALASKA, SEPT. 29, 1915.
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The announcement contained In tlu
telegram received by Mr. VV. E. Cream
er yesterday that an excellent price is
at present being ottered for the min
eral known as scheelite, should dc
i i’ich to encourage the miner to pay a
tlrtle more attention to that mlnera
than has been displayed In the past
ird should also do a great deal towart
stimulating development of the exten
sive scheelite deposits found in quite a
number of the streams in the western
section of the peninsula. At the price
of forty dollars per hundred weight in
dicated in the telegram it would seem
that this mineral could be mined at an
excellent profit In some localities, as
according to reliable testimony, there
re quite a number of streams thal
will produce fifty pounds or more pet
day by the ordinary methods of mining
We are also informed that there are
at least two streams In the immediate
vicinity of Nome where even greatei
quantities can be mined. On the basil
of fifty pounds per day alone, the ex
tracted values would approxmate twen
ty dollars and this would seem, ir
every way, a sufficient price to leave
a good margin of profit over and above
the costs of mining. As far back at
189fi it was brought to notice that there
was then the possibility of developlnt
an extensive industry in this sectloi
through the mining of this mineral but
although the matter was made public
there was apparently no Interest tak
en by the miner. Yet we are told tha
the great majority of mine operator
are daily handling more or less of th<
scheelite without making any attemp
tc turn it to profitable account. Als(
that In several sections, the mineral ii
so abundant that It Is really a hind
rance to the mining of the more prec
ious minerals. Of course the reasor
for the failure to save this product
lies largely in the fact that few of the
miners knew either Its character or
value. But few of the mining men ol
this section have more than an Indif
ferent knowledge of mineral values
aside from gold or other of the mon
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prominent minerul features of this sou
lion. Mineralogy Is not us essential ti
the mining business in this territory u.
elsewhere so this general ignorance o.
j the lesser mineral values is one that
Its in no sense inexcusable. Gold has.
been the principal object of the minei
land h: uas devoted himself almost «n
< lirely thereto, but it is clear that he
jha* been overlooking sohi'gthlh# in hi*
(failure to learn the commercial possi
bilities of a product with which he has
teen In almost dally contact in the nat
ural course of his business It Is doubt
less true, as suggested by a well known
mmlng man yesterday, that values ap
pioxlmallng several millions of dollars
' have been unwittingly thrown away by
the miners during the period of min
eral development in this section simply
because of this general disregard ot
utner inau the primary mineral values
it would seem that in the case ot thU
one mineral at least, that tho statement
contains a great deal of truth us then
have undoubtedly been many thousanu
ions of the stream scheelite thrown
I away, each and every pound of whicl
lepresented a considerable value. The
possibilities of mining this minerul on
' a commercial scale are not ascerluinei
us yet but it would seem that there it
. . ery Incentive to save the produc<
tvnere extracted in the ordinary coursi
of mining for us a by-product it un
questionably contains considerable
value.
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A survey oy the agricultural uepan
ment of the area of good agricultura
lands adjacent and tributary to tin
[ ...ute of Uie government s proposed Al
jaska railroad shows a surprising asset
, joJ potential (arm wealth in that pur
! i.uii of the territory.
in the Suaitna and Matauuska val
•ijs, from Cook inlet north, are 1,
JDti.UOti acres ot arable land, tuvoruble
i to the production ot temperate zone
crops, in the Tanana-Yukon region
and between these two rivers, lie ap
proximately 1,000,000 acres of land suit
aMr to grazing, root crops and oats
barley, wheat and rye and vegetable
crops.
This is by no means the extent ol
| ...i (arm lands, but Includes only
A,e lands that are tributary to tile pro
posed mil way. The survey, however
is suttlcient to draw attention to the
oieht possibilities of the territory, and
particularly to the probable early de
velopment of farm industry along thi
line of the railway.
intending settlers will be interested
,n the statement ot the department that
successful farming will be a matter oi
siow progress, not from lack of crops
,t because the local markets for sur
plus crops will he limited by the de
mands of a scant population and thi
a ce of an adequate road system.
iVith the construction of the railway
ind of good roads, and the development
ot mining Industry, will come an in
case In the population. It will take
some years to reach the point where
surplus farm crops w-ill be sure of con
venient and lucrative marketing, ant
possibilities of export will be limited
for a time by the expense of transporta
tion.
The pioneer farmer will require some
capital, plenty of patience and unend
ing Industry. For a few years the way
will be hard, but ultimately he should
be well rewarded.
Wrangell has the promise of a new
Jail.
Mrs. Jack Mercer died at White
hore of typhoid.
Cordova clams are said to be the
finest, may be canned.
The government has refused the re
quest of the Fairbanks Comtnercla
Club for a reward for the capture and
Conviction of the person who kille<
Mrs. \V. K Rowe recently near I.lttli
ISldorado.
Mark It. Anthony, u pioneer of 1807
died at Tenakee on August 17.
A Fairbanks citizen is training u
young bloodhound to hunt for crim
inals
The Treadwell buseball team baa been
declared the winner of the Oastlneau
Channel pennant.
John Finlayson, aged 103 years, a
resident of Wrangell since 1874, has
applied for an Alaska pioneers' pen
sion.
Citizens of deward, dissatisfied as tc
the assessment of property for the pur
pose of taxation, are about to appea
to the courts.
The (list fort> dollars paid out of the
Alaska Forest reserve fund went tt
pay for surveying the Charcoal Point
road, near Ketchikan.
duMlord Makeever, mining man, pie
dms that Juneau will have a popula
tion of 100,000 within the next five years
and a monthly payroll of 33,000,000.
At Xanana, a man named Williams
accompanied by his wife were sailing
in the Yukon In front of town when the
boat upset, 't he woman wus drowned
In the school election held at An
chorage on August J, 3.&00 votes wert
cast. As there was but one ticket in
the field, it was not surprising that
they should be elected. The ticket was
Director, Mrs. W. T. Normille; treas
urer, M. Flnkelstein, clerk, A. J .
Wendler.
Gold precinct has been established •
by Judge Jennings on Chichagof isl
and, Joseph Bowers has been appointee
commissioner for the new precinct. Air
Bowers is preparing to install a smal
w ireless plant at his home, which he
will operate under a contruct with th*
Chichagof Mining Company.
District Attorney Spence, who passed '
by on the Watson, stated in answer tc i
a question that there is no truth to thi j
rumois about any graft or anything
like It in connection with work on tht
government railroad. The grand Jury
and the law officers looked into the
rumors and found they were nothing
but 3treet talk.—Seward Gateway. *
An item in the Seward Gateway
generously copied in all parts of Al- |
aska, that a terrible waste of fish was
taking place in Cook inlet, for which the
canneries were responsible, is corrected
by a more recent statement that it If
not so. The Gateway got its informa
tion from a deputy game warden, whom
it n'W "rivs. must have been deceived
A Fairbanks report says that the
quartz properties on upper Fairbanks
creek are now worked to the limit
One mill is overworked entirely, hut a
second mill which is now being erect
ed will be ready for operation In a
month. The rock now being worked or
the Drury property is worth seventy
five dollars a ton.
According to a new law passed by
the legislature at its last session, the
people of any Alaska town may elect a
mayor separate from the counctlmen
|or they may- retain the jyreaent method
and elect only councilmen, who wil
seiweet the mayor from one of thelt
own members. In Fairbanks'it has been
the custom to select for mayor the
councilman who received the greatest
number of votes, and this Is probably
as good as any. Anyhow, It seems tc
be giving satisfaction here.—Citizen.
In a letter to Sam Godfrey, one of the
old Fiorbanks boys and the dlscoveret
of Ruby, Charles l’orander writes from
Stockholm, Sweden, that he is tied
up there Indefinitely. He went across
the ocean last spring with passports, but
owing to the fact that his second pa
pers are still in Alaska, he was nabbed
and hold as a prisoner for two day's
or !LieT;.a.«..ji-iii . imt
Our Smaller
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with buckets
from 1/z foot j
capacity to 5 :
.foot capacity,
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(Sweden and is virtually held there. 11
WTftt'fe to Sam Godfrey to secure hi
i leeond paper's from the court here.
I News-Miner.
Valdez Prospector: Chas. Crawfori
who yesterday secured the contract fe
i che building of a new home for th
i Prospector, started a big crow of me
to work this mining and will rush th
work as fast as possible In order tha
the new and expensive machinery re
cently purchased by Elliot Stewart an
U. B. Selby may be Installed and
larger and better paper published. Th
new structure will be 22 feet wide an<
tJU feet deep and will be one of the bes
I buildings in town.
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I air banks—Julius Miller and Will
Ham O'Connor have been held withou
oail on the charge of murdering Mrs
1 it owe, of Olnes. At the preliminary
learlng It was shown that blood was
found on the clothes of both men am
they were unable to prove where they
bud slept on the night of the murder
other evidence of the most damnim
.aid hud been produced against them
i me man swore that Miller had tried ti
get him to aid In committing the deet
and hud later described the manner ir
vhich the murder had been done.
■ a tourist from the “outside” mighi
.tell have imagined that he was on u
, isii to the “sunny south” had be wit
nessed the horticultural display In tht
Congregational church last Sunday
The harvest festival services were a
decided success, and the varied exhibit!
from tile beautiful gardens of Valde:
vonstlluledf a practical refutatlonofan
impression erroneously held by mos
people in the states that Aluska Is a
fiowerless wnste, as frigid and barret
as an iceberg. The church was resplen
dent with all kinds of cut flowers, pol
plants and vegetables, which were dls
played in an artistic manner.—Valde’/
Miner,
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