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'IRAN, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1907,
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" 1 R. HECKMAN, Vice Pres.
ANDREW CH1I.BERG, Pres.
MINERS & MERCHANTS BANK
Of Ketchikan, Alaska
Transacts a Genera! Banking Business
The easiest way to establish your credit in a community is
to open an account with your home Bank.
Small accounts are welcome
M. A. Mitchell - = “ Cashier
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offering at figures hitherto unknown in
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it imperative that you come soon if you 0fl
wish to get any of them. They re going gH
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superintendent U1 IflU iillUK, l
solidated mines, returned on the Cot
tage City, and informs Tho Mining.
News that work at the mine will I
resumed at an early day. The Hadley
consolidated is one of the dividenc
paving mines of the district,the tem
porary suspension-of which was en
forced by recent weather condition
and the lack of coal and coke at tin
Hadley smelter to which all Us pro
duct has heretofore been delivered a
; it probably will be in the future
! At the Sea island property, abor
k four miles above Kasaan village
» _i from the Hydah, sun
I ing anil drifting is in progress in a*
l body of high grade copper ore, whicn*
i also carries some gold. This property*
I which was located by “Davy Niiol*
I together with a number of other*
is under bond to the Pacific Coa*
1 Securities company, of which Mr. > *
W. Steffner is manager, and b*
which operations are being proseeui*
ed with the most encouraging pros«
poets for a successful issue. ■
S. D. Colvin, who is elsewlierH
mentioned as being in town awaitin*
a south hound steamer to take him t*
Seattle, having received news tha«
his contemplated trip would be one om
pleasure only, if made, has taken ta
the woods again with a view to loca«
ting something that will comraenB
—» itself to the favorable attention <■
men on the lookout for copper proper
ties, in which to invest. He will In
heard from, and that at no distant day,
W. T. Fink, assayer at the Niblaei
mine for the past two years or more,
has resigned and gone to Nevada,
to enter the employment, in a respon
sible position, of the Nevada Smelting
tnd Mining company, whose property
is located at Silver Peak about thirty
miles distant from Tonapali. It is not
publicly known who will succeed Inin
at the N ibl tek.
The steamship Farallon, which
irrived up on Wednesday last, took
US tons of coal and 200 tons of coke
o Hadley. It is doubtful, however,
unless the management has more
•oke in sight, for early delivery, if tin
smelter will he started up again foi
svhat would otherwise necessarily be
a short run.
The barge Potter is at Nibalck tak
ing on a cargo of from 1800 to 200<
ons of ore. Her loading has beer
lelayed by some custom house co.npli
■ations, involving a fine of S100C
.vhich had to be paid before she eoulc
be allowed to take on cargo and
proceed on her way.
Williams and Harris, old and ex
perienced miners, have taken a con
tact to sink the main shaft at tl e
Nfiblack mine 80 feet deeper into tin
lowels of mother earth, and wart
oms) experienced machine men tc
issist in pushing the work.
M. L. Bell, who has been engaged
die past several months in the con
struction of the surface tramway, at
lie Ilydali mine, is in town, having
jompleted the work to the perfec
satisfaction!! of the company.
The Gold Standard has sent dowi
from its mill at Helm bay, for ship
ment to the Tyee Smelter, ten tons
if concentrates which are expectei
lo, and probably will, yield returns
jf not less than $150 per ton.
W. H. Archibald, the well knowr
■nigneer lately in the employ of the
3rown-Alaska company,'has transfer) -
>d his affections to his old love, and
,'one to take a similar position at
che Valparaiso.
The Reason Why.—Much resent
ment, some of it aimed in the wrong
direction, was manifested here when
the steamship Jefferson—the fastest
Jiip plying in the Southeastern
Alaska trade—arrived here on bet
last voyage up without In inging any
nail. Those who had not been
nade aware of the reasons were in
dined to blame the steamship com
pany, and comparativly few knew
that the fault lay entirely with the
postal authorities, who had preferred
a request that no mail should be
handled on that trip either north or
south hound, for the reason that the
company had already exceeded its
contract for carrying the mails during
the months of January and February.
This request, while not wholly pro
hibitiory, was equivalent to an
order implying that, if the ship
handied the mails on that trip, it
must do so without hope of compen
sation from the government, and the
management was averse to establish
ing a precedent of that kind. The
fault is, therefore, that of the govern
ment and is likely to occur again, not
once alone hut frequently, unless the
people of the sections most directly
concerned bestir themselves in an
effort to secure regular mail service
on each an every one of the fast boats
plying on the route. If proper repre
sentations are made to the postal
authorities a Washington, The Min
ing News has confidence in the belief
that a recurrence of such annoying
breaches in the service can be pre
ven ted.
Have You Registered?—If you
haven’t, and fail to do so before 4 p.
m. 30th inst., if you vote at all at the
municipal election to he held on the
2nd of next month, your ballot will
have to he cast in the air instead of
tlie ballot box. All voters, no matter
how long they have resided in the
fcown, must register as a prerequisite
to being allowed to vote. Registra
tion officer canJieJoun£jtt_the^ouncil
SALMON PACKING
A More than Usually Profitable
Season Anticipated--No Idle
Concerns This Year
As the salmon canning and salting
season approaches, more than wonted
activity prevails in making prepara
tions for the season’s work. The
indications are that all the canneries
in Southeastern Alaska, without ex
ception, large and small, will be run to
their full capacity the coming season,
limited only to the extent of a possi
ble failure in some cases to secure the
supply of fish necessary to keep them
in steady and uninterrupted opera
tion,. This last mentioned contin
gency is not likely, however, to
iccur in this part of Alaska, inasmuch
is that contingency is one
which operators will consider of
primary importance and take every
measure to provide against.
The canneries in this district, only
a part of which were operated, made
an output last year of 260,000 cases,
in round figures, a product which
bids fair to be largely increased the
coming season. All those that were
operated last year will make strenuous
endeavors to increase their output,
which will be further increased by
| (hat of two concerns which were
idle last year, and one which had
ts product curtailed by fire which
lestroyed its plant and occasioned a
urther loss of 10,000 cases previously
packed. This has reference only to
lie canneries embraced in the Ketchi
can district, and does not take into
he account those tributary to Wran
gell, those on the west and north side
>f Prince of Wales, or those further
lorth and west, but within the dis
.rict of country generally designated
is southeastern Alaska. Taken al
ogether these canneries give promise
if an increase of not less than 50 per
cent, over last year’s pack.
Mr. J. R, Heckman, manager of
he Loring cannery, will go below
shortly to tit out a ship with supplies
ind full force of Chinamen for putting
jp the season’s pack, witli the ex
pectation of having everything in
readiness to take full advantage of
whatever the season may afford in
the run of salmon. The cannery will
be operated to its full capacity, sub
ject only to limitation in the supply
if raw material, 'and therein no
difficulty is anticipated, the manage
ment having a way peculiar to itself
of always being able to gather in all
the fish required.
The Northwestern Fisheries com
pany will operate the Hunter’s bay
and Boca de Quadra concerns and, as
mentioned elsewhere, the Kasaan
cannery will he rebuilt in time to
engage in business the coming season.
So far as The Mining News can learn
there will not be an idle cannery in
southeastern Alaska this season, while
there will be the usual activity at the
s.alteries, at which it is expected
large quantities of dog salmon will be
salted to fill the Japanese demand ior
that article.
In addition to this there is likely to
be an added impetus given to the
business of dry salting of salmon and
halibut for both domestic and foreign
markets. The New England Fish
company, which recently purchased
a plot of ground here at Ketchikan,
is understood to be preparing the
plans for buildings and a complete
cold storage and fish curing plant,
of which Mr. Pratt, former superin
tendent of the Fidalgo Island company
cannery, will have charge. It is
given out that this plant will ho one
of the largest and most complete of its
kind on the Pacific coast, and that
Mr. Pratt is now in Boston consulting
with the company in regard to plans
gives reasonable assurance that this
promised industry will ere long take
on permanent form and substance.
Since the above was put in type
the large ocean going tug Kingfisher,
belonging to the New England fish
company, arrived in this harbor and
after a short stay left on a prospect
ing cruise to the west coast of Prince
of Wales, intending to go as far north
as Coronation island. She has on
board a crew of 40 fishermen, and will
look out for the best halibut fishing
grounds, taking on board such’fisli as
she may be able to secure, and in case
of failure of a full catch, will com
plete her cargo at the fishing grounds
in Dixon’s Entrance. It is the avow
ed purpose of the company to estab
lish a station here which will be
made their headquarters for all this
part of Alaska.
Some Young Salmon. -The Fort
mann hatchery will turn out ninety
million young salmon this season.
One hundred and five million eggs
were secured, but an unexpected
freeze up which cut off a part of the
water supply for the hatchery caused
a loss of fifteen million, and will re
duce the production of small fry tc
that extent. These young fish are all
from spawn of the red salmon and.
taken with the millions heretofore
turned out of this hatchery, with the
other millions to follow, if indeed il
bo true that the salmon always returr
to their native waters, ought in time
to replenish and maintain the supply
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collency, the governor of Alaska,
without unnecessary delay. j
Esther Mitchell and Charles Johnson
are being held in jail at Juneau to
insure their attendance as witnesses
in the murder case sent up from
Ketchikan. In the case of the
salacious Esther there is’no place she
is better fitted to adorn than the in-'
side of a jail, provided it is not cleaD
enough to be easily soiled. 1
The Alaska Packers’ cannery at
Wrangell is to he enlarged to a
capacity for 200,00!) cases, which the
Sentinel says will he double that of
the Loring concern. We think the
Sentinel is a litte bit mistaken: the
T.oring cannery has certainly packed
very nearly, if not quite, 300,OOo
cases in a single season, and can do
so again- the raw product being avail
able and the market calling for them.
A silver lining is forming on the
cloud of dullness which has been
hovering over Wrangell for, lo, these
many years. Increased capacity of the
ajdacent canneries forces an increase
in the output of the sawmill. The
new cannery buildings will require a
great number of good shingles, and
the Wrangell shingle mill will prob
ably he called upon to furnish them.
All this will create a demand for
labor, and by the time next winter's
snow Hies we will hear the jingle of
coin in the pockets of all.—Sentinel.
Some people’s idea of heaven is a
place where they will have nothing
to do but sit around in the sun am
plunk a golden harp. They may be
right, but we can't, help admiring tlu
crowd that got busy, even if they
were thrown over the back fenci
afterward. Those people who live ii
Alaska and are so blamed well satis
fled with present conditions that the,
dread a change, like a tramp dread
a bath, have no business in tin
country. They should all move t<
Connecticut, and take up the busines
of whittling out wooden nutmegs
—Douglas News. ;
“By the way,” queries the Skag
way Alaskan “what progress di<
Juneau’s governor make with tha
$200,000 appropriation for a capito
building at Juneau'”' The Alaska)
don't seem to understand that con
gross dosen't provide for the erec
t.ion of capltol buildings for unorgan
ized territories, and that the bill t
which it alludes was for a “public’
building such as congress is wont ti
provide it) all the states and organ
ized territories wherever needed b
lie requirements of the public ser
vice. It was introduced in hot
houses by members who are in favo
of a territorial organization fo
Alaska, at the instance and reques
of an advocate of home governmen
by whom it was drawn. Perhaps, th
governor lias been too busy lobbyinj
against a recognition of the express
ed will and wishes of the people in th
matter of home government to perrpi
of any attention on his part toanotlie
of so much Importance to his hom
town,