ALASKA NOTES
Cordova continues to attract
attention to itself in the states
because of the heavy shipments
of rich copper ore.
Rasmus Clipp, of Ketchikan,
who suffered a crushed skull as a
result of the falling top of a tree
striking him, died without having
regained consciousness.
A rich find is reported to have
been made on the Martin proper
ty in the Willow creek district,
where a vein of rich ore four feet
wide was uncovered under the
debris from the mountain above
While no new discoveries oi
importance have been made in
Ophir camp during the past year,
the camp is reported by miners
from that district to be holding
up well.
Eugene Meyers, sent to Alaska
in 1898 to establish a weather
bureau service, is visiting on the
outside for the first time. He
now holds the position of United
States commissioner at Eagle.
The attempt of the Valdez city
council to fine masters of steam
ers for not landing their boats at
the city dock, instead of a private
dock, has created a great deal of
interest in Seattle shipping cir"
cles
There is a report that the for
estry department is to be remov
ed from Cordova to the westward
and the Cordova Times asks why
not the Chugach forest reserve
with the office.
Bert Johnson, a Fairbanks
■ freighter, with a string of six
mules, went through the ice in
the Chena slough, but all were
fished out alive. One of the
mules wras so near dead that it
nad to be hauled to a stable.
Engineer R. J. Weir, who
spent the summer in interior Al
aska with the Alaskan Engineer
ing Commission, will have charge
of the work on the Seward divi
sion during the absence of Chair
man Edes in the states.
' Captain Herbert reports that
he is now mining coal, from a
depth of 400 feet, and that the
coal is of a mush better grade
than near the surface. The mine
is located at Kachcmak bay.
Is it legal to serve papers or
enter legal proceedings on Sun
day, is the question recently put
up to Judge Jennings, of the Firs:
division. The ruling will have
an important bearing on the case
which was tried there last week.
Application for the patent of
five lode claims has been filed
with the Juneau land office by
the Gold Bullion Mining com
pany. The claims are in a group
- which consists of the Eagle, Gold
Eagle No. 1, Nugget, Summit
and Bird claims.
The Ketchikan Progressive
says: Van Klein and Louis Fava
returned from their antimony
claim at Cape Camano, where
-they say they have a good show
ing of between two and one-half
feet thickness of ore that will
average 55 percent antimony.
The claim is situated about three
quarters of a mile from the beach.
Although there has been little
actual money taken out in the
Lituya district near Juneau, min
ers believe that the country has
an exceptionally bright future
ahead of it. A number of claims
are being opened up and the min
ers appear to be well satisfied
that Lituya will be a good small
camp And may develop into one
of importance.
Antimony has now been posi
tively discovered in the country
near Seward and the chances look
bright that the work of operat
ing it may be commenced im
mediately. Bill Cassidy, of Bear
creek, is,one man who is interest”
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cd in the find. He recently ar
rived there with a specimen of
the ore which goes about fifty per
cent antimony. \V ith that per
centage of antimony the ore can
be shipped outside for treatment
it a great profit and without any
trouble but to dig out the rock,
sack it and get it to the steam
boats. Mr. Cassidy declines to
say where the find has been made
out the place is near Hope or
.Summit.
Juneau’s vag ordinance has
een upheld by the court of ap
peals.
There is more than a strong
possibility that the Peabody-Al
iska Copper corporation, which
owns a large number of claims
on Sulphide canyon, close to VaP
iez, will employ a large number
of men next summer in extensive
development work on their pro
perties.
Advices were recently received
from Captain Peabody, who is
now in New York, stating that
be has been successful in financ
1 ing the enterprise and was as
1 sembling machinery for shipment
to Valdez early this spring.
Anchorage, March 18.—The
bird-dog team, driven by Gleason
won the first big Anchorage race
yesterday by thirty-four minutes
He made the distance of a hun
dred and eight miles in twelve
! hours, forty minutes and fifty—
) five seconds. Spencer’s team was
• second, doing the course in thir
l teen hours, twenty-six minutes
and five seconds. The combina
I tion team of Gustafson was third
I in the time of thirteen hours, fifty
' three minutes and thirty-five sec.
Three thousand dollars changed
hands in the betting
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A special dispatch to the Skag
way Alaskan from Atlin, R. C.,
! says: Chas. Petit, who has been
i trapping on Hitchcock mountain
twenty five miles north of this
place, reached town recently and
gave himself up to the authorities
stating that he had killed his
s partner, Alex Swanson, have mis
taken hint for a moose. In tell
ing of the accident Petit said that
they had established a camp and
| he_had_niade a ^ trip which had
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taken two weeks. He was re
! turning to camp and had reached
a point about a mile and a half
away when he heard a commo
tion in a clump of bushes about
| fifty feet from him. He thought
that it must he a moose, not hav
ing the faintest idea that Swan
son would be that far from camp,
and without investigating any
farther, he fired point blank into
the rustling brush. When.he in
vestigated the spot he found that
he had killed his partner.
The cost of expeditions for t lie
relief of wrecked fishermen and
| lost hunters in Southeastern Al
aska has become such a burden
| wO the communities of the district
that the Ketchikan Commercial
Club has started a ^movement to
have a revenue cutter stationer;
1 there during the winter months.
1 he Alaska bureau of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce is investi
gating the matter and will render
such assistance to the plan as
seems advisable.
i One night last October, while
the good ship Senator was steam
ing from Nome to Seattle with
the social hall of her third-class
passengers crowded with boister
ous, good natured miners, some |
one turned a deck hose through
an open skylight into the midst
of the party. As the sea water
sloshed over the group panic fell
on them. Some one shouted I
"fire,” and the crowd instantly
charged toward the ladder lead
ing to the upper deck. J.F.Kelly
was standing in the way. No
one thought of walking around
him, so they walked over him.
Kelly went down, and the hob
nailed boots of forty miners
climbed the length of him.
Twice Kelly managed to rise,
only to go down again beneath
die boots of the milling miners.
When the excitement subsided,
Kelly brushed off his clothes and
announced that some one was
going to pay for using him as a
door mat Recently a jury in
Judge Tallman’s department of
superior court gave him a judg
ment of $250 against the Pacilic
Coast Steamship company, own
ers of the Senator.—Seattle Post
Intelligencer.
The N Uggei in giving its suhsorihers
nure telegraph nws than any other
.taper ip Alaska oud will continue to
do so. Send In your name and ha< e
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FLOATING MASS OF
PUMICE NEAR
FIJI ISLANDS
A mass oi floating pumice,
some live miles in vviutli anu
of unknown length, wag encoun
tered by a party which was re
cently cruising in a ten ton mo
torboat among the Fiji islands
and other groups. Pumice is lava
having a frothy or spongy struc“
ture which has been thoroughly
permeated by gases; It is otten
so porous.as. to float on the water
for a considerable time after be
ing ejected from a volcano, but
ater its pores are filled with wa
ter it sinks to the bottom, its
specific gravity being nearly two
and one half times that of water.
The edge of the unusually large
mass discovered by these voyag
ers seemed like floating froth and
dust, and the boat moved through
it easily. But later on there was
difficultyfin making headway, and
at times the craft was brought
almost to a standstill. The pro
peller could he heard striking
hard lumps at each revolution
and occasionally the pilot steered j
to one side to avoid solid masses,
as much as 4 feet in diameter. In
some places the pumice was so:
compact that a native was able to
stand on a small plank thrown on
the top ol it. The spongy mater
ial clogged the pipes of one oi I
the engines, which had to be tak' j
en apart for repairs. It took near - i
ly two hours to pass through this |
floating mass, which on the sides,
reached as far as the eye could I
see.
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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 t nine dozen or 75c per single
dozen.
Telephone White 17 for a dozen.
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