INMACHUK NOTES
Special Correspondence.
Peering, Alaska, Aug. lti, 11115.
The summer in here has been quite
disagreeable. It was quite rainy and
stormy. When not raining it was
gloomy and damp; very little sun
shine. All the operators have plenty
of water and cleanups are frequent
and good. Luckily there is not much
traffic on the road, most of the sup
plies having been freighted up before
the tundra had thawed too deep, so the
road is not cut up as terribly as anti
cipated, although there are numbers
of bad places which the small allot
ment of funds will hardly permit of
being fixed this year.
The mad boat arrived today consid
earbly behind time. Besides a fair
^ cargo of supplies it brought as pas
sengers our territorial representative,
Martin Moran, and old timers I. Holli
day, Adam Nlchol, and Chas. Bedson.
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Paul Devidavoich, the Kobuk
freighter was over here again and took
away another load of lumber from the
destroyed school house and Eskimo
igloos.
A number of our successful opera
tors concluded to take a vacation trip
to the metropolis. On the last boat
leaving here it carried Pick Hammond.
John Grant and John Swanson and
wife. Nome must be affording them
considerable enjoyment for they have
not' yet returned. We hope Nome’s
automobile officers are not too strict
in speed limitation.
ThoB. Madden of the P. M, Co, has
gone to the outside.
We learn that Mr. Geo. K. McLeod
arrived In Nome with more horses for
his company. Mr. McLeod will return
here overland
Geo. Wallin Is preparing to do some
work under the lava. T. Spurlock and
F. Knapp are interested with him.
Mr. I. Holliday, who just arrived,
brought In an outfit and will operate
on some of his holdings the coming
winter.
Mr. H. Fries keeps his dredge plug
ging right along and the cleanups
please him mlghtly.
The Falrhaven Mining Co.’s several
hydraulic plants are running full blast
with plenty of water in the big ditch.
Work on our road Is nearing an end
—the fund being about exhautsed. Al.
Winkler, of Candle, and Galen Fry of
Kobuk and Nome, were the chiefs of
construction and fund disbursement.
The route mapped out and started by
our former road master, Mr. Frank
Knapp, was adhered to by the new
chiefs.
The machinery for Chas. Okuda’s
could not lie obtained in Nome ant
Charley had to send outside.
Ourt town looks pror ban s)u,.
the tine big schuolhouse has bveh torn
down.
A petition to the Road Commission
has been forwarded from here request
ing that a line of shelter stations lie
erected between the Kougarok and
Inmachuk. That is the shortest route
to Nome and there is considerable
overland travel that way.
Some more of our boys will leave
for Nome when the mail boat returns
thither. Mr. H. Brown and Mr. A. J.
Glass go on a business trip and Mr.
Wm. Bashaw will continue on to the
outside on a visit to the old home
stead.
Galen Fry, the Road Commissioner’s
representative from Nome, came to
town some days ago on horseback. His
upriver headquarters was with the
Deering Dredging and Mining Co.
('has. Nichol, up on Cunningham Is
well pleased with the cleanups he is
making. He is recovered from his late
indisposition.
Dave Chase is still working on the
Polar Bear claim, on which lie has a
lease.
Jas. Black and Frank Henry have
gone to the Noatak to investigate a
statement made by an Rskimo that he
can show them a place "where heap
plenty gold.” We hope the boys And
the place.
Rrny Fox has gone to the outside In
an endeavor to secure a lease from an
absentee owner of a likely looking
piece of ground.
•Toe Slgsby and Frank Bakin have
taken a lay and will delve for the “hig
thing” next winter.
Valentine Ziarnink has a lay on a
piece of the Stull ground and will see
bedrock the coming winter. •
Kinor Solon has also taken a lay
from Stull dnd hopes to take out a
dump during the winter.
1 Tarry Courtney has been over on the
Kobuk for some time looking over that
section. We expeet him back by re
turn mail boat.
.Tack Swiss, with a couple of com
panions, is contemplating a trip to the
Colville river. He is gathering up
dogs and other needed equipment and
supplies and hopes to get away with
the Arctic when next that vessel sails
for Point Barrow.
Large assortment of latest Victor
Records and Victrolas received on
steamer La Touche. Lomen Bros.
ALASKA NOTES
Louis Shortridge, of Haines, ac
companied by his wife and two other
Alaskan natives, recently completed a
tour of the eastern states where they
gave concerts. Their shows were
highly spoken of by the press at the
places wher they appeared. Short
ridge studied law and is soon to prac
tice in Alaska.
A ledge carrying free gold has been
found in the Tolovana district and has
been traced for nearly three miles
along the left limit of Llvengood creek,
where gold was first discovered in the
camp. The ledge is twelve feet
wide and promises to develop into a
big proposition. It Is being investigated
by the quartz miners.
The residents of Garden Island,
Fairbanks, are uneasy about their
property, ns the tract has been con
cluded In the reservation created by
the government for railroad terminals
there. A mass meeting called to dis
cuss the proposition and It was de
cided to have a townsite plat made
of their tract and attempt to get title
to the ground.
The gold from the Tolovana when
melted and assayed goes $18 per oz.,
and is among the highest priced gold
dust in Alaska. The Goldstream pro
duct assays $18.60 and the Big Eldo
rado $19.00, both in the Fairbanks dis
trict. The purest placer gold ever
mined in Alaska came from the Ham
part country and was mined at. the
highest altitude of any placer camp In
the country.
The Kennecott Copper Corporation,
a Guggenheim company, estimates that
If the present price of copper is main
tained for the balance of the year!
that the company will declare dlvt
dends equal to $8 per share. The net
profit of the company Is expected to
be $6,000,000 for the year. The shares
are selling at $27 in Boston and are in
demand owing to the promising out
look for a good dividend. There are
720,000 outstanding shares. Holders of
the Beatson Copper company, also a
Guggenheim interest, are being per
mitted to exchange for shares in the
Kennecott company receiving five
shares for one.
Eighteen saloon licenses were grant
ed in Juneau on July 1, the number
being one less than last year. None of
the applicants were refused.
While working at Abercrombie re
cently, excavators uncovered the
[skeleton of a man. According to ar
jautopsy the man had evidently died
about 1898 but there was nothing to
reveal his identity.
Senator Dan Sutherland has pur
chased the interests of Dan McCarty
on Flat creek, Ruby district. McCarty
is heavily interested in Tolovuna and
has good prospects of making anothei
big stake like the one he made and
lost again in Fairbanks.
J. E. Boyle, a stowaway on th(
sternwheel steamer being brouglv
north to operate on the Susitna ant
Yentna rivers, committed suicide
when the boat was near Petersburg
Despondency, caused by heavy drink
ing is believed to have been tin
cause.
T.atest reports from Fairbanks stati
that the spring wash-up to June 30th li
in excess of the output last year t<
the amount of $300,000. The sprim
operations of the big open-cut opera
tors begun at least three weeks earlie
Ihmi usual and this hue been a ma
terial factor in the increased output.
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, America's oldest fish house, that of
' Thus. Woodward * Hons, New York,
| has closed a contract with the Co
j operative Fish Co., of Wrangell, to take
! til the mild-cured salmon the fisher
men can furnish. The prices agreed
i upon are the most favorable to the
fishermen of Alaska which they have
ever received.
Fifteen Montenegrins recently left
Douglas and thirty from Juneau went
south on one of the last steamers to
Vancouver to return to their native
country to fight in the war. The men
had been called to their colors and in
structed to report to the Canadian au
thorities, where they would receive
transportation across the continent and
the Atlanticc.
A telephone will he built from the
end of the Seward line to Anchorage
as soon as the copper wire reaches
Anchorage from the Panama canal
zone. It will take a month to build
the line after the arrival of the copper
wire.
A rich strike of platinum Is reported
to have heen made at Windham bay.
Southeastern Alnska. Platinum was
first discovered In the United States
and this country still bolds first rank I
in its production, although it has heen
found in the Ural mountains, and in
the copper ore of the Alps. Pure forg
ed platinum takes a higher lustre than
silver and Is nearlv as white. It is,
very ductile and malleable and resists,
the strongest heat of forge fire though,
it can he fused by electric current. It
it the heaviest known substance ex- ,
cepting ismium and irridium.
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