MAKING NEW
SALMON MARKETS
11 is said that the wife of a
groat scientist came upon him
Oiie morning while he was en
gaged in the business of cook
ing his own breakfast. Ab
sorbed in deep thought tht
goodly gentelman stood star
ing intently at an egg held in
bis hand while his gold watch
simmered in a kettle of boiling
water on the stove.
To such great extent is the
altention of the average sal
mon canner focused upon tht
del ails of his packing oper
ations that, in his preoccupa
I. on, he has neglected Ihe worn
of developing a market for tht
ever increasing pack of salmon
in somewhat the same way as
the professor did his breaik
fast. And the canned salmon,
it might be added, has suffered
in much the same way as the
soft boiled watch.—Ex.
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FORM NEW SALT FISH CO.
The Prince Wiliam Sound
Fish Co., organized under the
laws of Alaska, was recently
formed at Valdez. Dr. David
II. Sleem is president and
treasure; J. H. Gann, vice-pres
ident and A. D. Calferty, scc
leiary of the company which
is capitalized at $25,000. A.
R Grisby of Valdez, who is in
terested in the company while
in Seattle last month stated the
company plans at a cost o.
$b'J,000 to erect a cannery next
year at Port Wells, 90 miles
fiom Valdez. This will be the
second cannery on Prince Wil
liam Sound. Several trap sites
have been located. As Reds,
Humps and Silvers in abund
ance run in the Sound those in
terested in the project
confident (hey have a good
location. Port Wells the past
three years has been the cen
ter of considerable mining ac
tivity but little fishing has
bren done there. The com
pany is salting herring this
summer.
DRAW UP NEW
AGREEMEN5
The three years agreement
between the Alaska Fisher
man’s Union and the salmon
cannerymen expires with the
season and a new agreement is
to te drafted this fall. The
fisherman’s organization is de
sirous of making some altera
tions in the form cf the con
tract used and beginning with
October will hold a series oi
meetings to draw up their sug
gestions for changes. The new
draft will then he considered
J»y a committee of fishermen
ihnd cannerymen and if satis
factory accepted.
A CHINESE HERO
Thai heroes are born and not
node was demonstrated last
night at the Roe Point cannery
when a Chinaman named
Charles Yen sacrificed his life
to save the lives of others and
thousands of dollars worth of
property from destruction. It
appears that somebody at work
in the cannery dropped a
lighted match on or into an
an open can of gasoline setting
il on fire. Yen realizing the
danger grabbed up the can of
»'.! and started to run out of
the building to throw it over
board, hilt it exploded while he
had it in his arms, inflicting
ierrihlc burns on his face,
i Iie4f abdomen and bonds. lie
was put on hoard the laujirh
Petty and started for town, hut
became unconscious on the
wn\ and died about fifteen
minutes after arriving at the
Yates Hospital, shortly after
ten o'1 clock last night.
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Tfca Daily Miner, $1. par. mo.
N. C. R. MAN TELLS
OF NEW STRIKE
Emmett Harris, representing
the Natoinal Cash Register
company of Dayton, Ohio, re
turned the 9th of September
from a trip to Fairbanks and
other points in the interior of
Alaska. In speaking of the con
ditions throughout the terri
tory, Mr. Harris stated that all
the merchants are doing a good
business and that great faith is
placed in the ultimate estab
lishment of a good camp in the
new Chisana district. “When
we reached the mouth of the
White river on our way out.”
said Mr. Harris, “ We met a
party of five prospectors, who
diggings, on a raft, bound for
Dawson, where they were go
ing for a supply of provisions,
intending to return to the new
strike after the freez-up.
These men staled that pay had
been located on eight creeks
in the new district, and that
they had personally seen the
eleanr-up from the labors of
men, working two days, and
that the result was half a gold
pan of course gold.
“The men all stated that
there was a great scarcely of
grub and supplies in the new
diggings,” continued Mr. Har
ris. “and that the wise old pros
peetors were leaving for the
outside to obtain supplies
which they expected to take in
Immediately after the freeze
up. There were between 700
and 800 people in the country
at the time these five men left,
and when they reached the
confluence of the Donjek with
'.be White, a road house and
si ore was under construction,
ami there was preparations for
a considerable stampede thh
winter. The men confirmed
the roport that the country
was high and that wood was
very scarce”.
3END MUCH BEER
DOWN TO IDITAROD
That the product, of the
Rarthel Brewing company is
appreciated in places other
ilian Fairbanks is evidenced by
too fact that the steamer
White Seal, on her last trip
took down 210 barrels for
the Iditarod. On the trip, be
fore this 800 barrels were
taken down to Ruby, Iditarod
auad way points by the Seal.
BETTER MAIL SERVICE
NOW IN PROSPECT
In the furtiire the American
Yukon boats will carry the mail
between Fairbanks and Daw
f >\\, the necessary authoriza
tion haying been received by
Postmaster Boyer. President
Djckeson of the White Pass
company, made the offer to the
postoffice authorities at Wash
i'lglon to carry the mails free
lo help provide a better servics
between the. two points and
I.is offer was accepted, but
action was deferred until (he
necessary authorization had
l-een received form the post
master general by the post
masters at the two terminals.
The new arrangement will
mean that Fairbanks will get
a much more frequent mail
service ps the Northern Nav
igation company will, of course
continue to carry the mails
whenever they have a ppptgo
ing or coming between iiawr
s,- n and Fairbanks and all way
points.—Skagway Alaskan.
FINISHES THE WORK
Capt. Pedersen, superinten
jdant of the Quadra cannery is
0 ioral visitor today. He states
'that his cannery finished lab
*eliing and boxing last night and
j crew and pack are now ready
|< be shipped south. The
ty|,nl pack this year was 35,000
cases, yf which 10,000 was
shipped .so,m,e ff/nc ago.
HUMBOLDT HAS
TROUBLE WITH MAIL
There seems to be consider
al>l trouble lately between the
Humboldt Steamship company
and the post office department
on account of that ship leaving
the mail on the dock and not
delivering it to the post office
as has been done here to fore.
It seems that the company has
been receving one dollar per
trip to carry and deliver the
mail to the post office but for
some reason that was discon
tinued recently and instead of
taking the mail to the office
when they arrived here it was
left on the dock until the boat
left and then the officials of
tin post office had to carry it
lo the ofice. As the Humboldt
is only a one line company
the government does not enter
into any mail contracts witli
companys of this kind for the
reason that if anything hap
pened to the boat the company
has no other to fulfill the con
tract. The Humboldt, has
been carrying the mail gratis
except for the one dollar for
carrying the mail to the post
office and say that unless they
arc paid they will discontinue
the service altogether. The
matter has been taken up with
Ihe department and the local
office was asked lo find out
what they could hire a mes
senger to meet the boat each
way for and the matter will
likely be settled at once and the
mail continued as before.
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FISHERIES WIRELESS
AIDS ALASKA
The Marconi wireless equip
loom of the Glory of the Seas,
(he floating cold storage plant
which is freezing fish at Idaho
Inlet did excellent work recen
tly during the time the govern
ment cable between Sitka and
Juneau was out of commission.
Tne Glory’s wireless, which is
ihe heaviest and most complete
on the coast outside of the land
stations, relayed many messa
ges between Sitka and Juneau.
The break in the vablc was not
repaired for several weeks.
The Marconi station at the
connery of the Kake Packing
Co. at Kake, Alaska, which was
closed down during the winter,
is again in operation. This
station has a two kilowat equip
ment which is in regular com
munication with the Sitka wire
iess. The use of the wireless
ii’ the fishing industry is grad
ually increasing. Aside from
the plants on the salmon fleet
vessels, three large halibut
schooners running out of Seat
tle are equiped with wireless.
They are the Zapora of the In
ternational Fisheries Co,, t lie
Starr of the San Juan Fishing
lx Packing Go., and the Chicago
if the Chlopeck Fish Company.
—Pacific Fisherman.
The halibut schooner San
Jose, Captian Mike Meagher,
which was out of commission
for four weeks while under
going repairs, left Seattle for,
the fishing grounds Aug. 15
A new mast, a new pilothouse
ai d other improvements have
iicpn made on the schooner.
The Peschawa, recently put.
into commission as a halibut
schooner by the A'cw England
I'sh Co., at Vancouver, lost
her propeller off White Rock
i,isf month, and proceded to
Prince Rupert under her own
sails.
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J’he turkey trot dancers are
keeping the chiropodists bur-y
making over their feet. What
they need is somebody lo make
ever their beads.
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Club women of S'. Paul are
preparing to boycott the manu
facturers of sld skirts. The
latlorshould worry a lot and
build a new factory on it.
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V NORTHERN HAPPENINGS *
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Lieut. Frank L. Austin, of
the United Stales revenue cut
ler TJnalga, is registered at the
Rainier Grand. Since the
vessel’s return from a three
months’ cruise of Alaskan
waters a short lime ago, Mr.
Austin has been popularly
known as “Deacon” Austin,
says the Seattle P.l. lie was
called upon to officiate at the
nuptial ceremonies of Miss.
Elizabeth Faraquer, of Austin,
Tex., and Mr. Hannah, at St.
Paul island, about a month ago
Mr. Hanah is a government
agent of Alaskan fisheries and
looks out for the safeguarding
of the seals. He correspon
ded with Miss Farquer about
two months ago from Bristol
bay, where he was then stat
ioned, asking her to come im
mediately to St. Paul island,
where he planned to he located
at the time his bride-to-be
arrived. Miss. Farquer ex
perienced conquerable dif
ficulty In reaching the island,
finally being forced to travel on
a government tug. On her
arrival she found no trace of
Mr. Hanah. in the meantime
Mr. Hannah had missed con
nections and be could not get
from Bristol bay to St. Paul is
land. The revenue cutter Un
alga was cruising about Bristol
ba> in the latter part of July
r.nd Lieut. Austin, hearing of
the predicament Mr. Hannah
was in, after a consultation
with the captain, offered to
convey him to the side of his
bride-to-be. When the Unalga,
with Mr. Hannah aboard reach
ed St. Paul island there stood
the pretty Texas girl on the
very edge of the wharf. Lieut.
Austin, who is empowered with
judicial powers, was immediate
ly tagged to officiate at the
nuptial ceremonies. He con
sented, and Miss Faraquer be
came Mrs. Hanah. “And now
they call me ‘Deacon’,” said
Lieut Austin yesterday.
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All Royal Northwest Mount
ed Police posts on the White
river trail to the Chisana will
be mining recording offices.
The police in charge of the
various places have been des
ignated by Gold Commissioner
George Mackinzio ex-offico re
corders, and will receive ap
plications for placer, quartz
and other claims allowable
lo be staked under the laws.
AAA
Of course there are all kinds
of opinions concerning the
value and the extent of the new
gold diggings in theChisana
country. But in that respect
there is no difference between
the views held in the earlier
days of the strikes in (he Klon
dike, Nome, Fairbanks, or Idil
arod countries. And as in
those stampedes, many hund
reds are rushing to the Ghisana
when they are so lightly equip
ed that about all they can do is
to turn around and mush out
again. A large majority of
these men speak well of the
country. If is mostly the men
who turned back at McCarthy’s
(tliiHistone and Skolai that give
the diggings a black eye. They
are the kind of men who never
should have started, and the
kind that the people of Cordova
sought to induce to turn hack
from here. Most of them were
lacking in both grub and cour
age, and left the, states with
the idea that they were going
on an exciting pleasure juant.
■"sGhitina Leader.
The Skagway council has
L ken preliminary steps toward
confining the Skagway river
within permanent hanks. Co
operation between Ihe munici
pality and the White Pass and
Lukoil is proposed. The plan
is to build dykes that will keep
the water runnnig straight for
Lynn canal instead of spread
ing over large sections of the
town when the river is high.
As a result of the loss of
•
the steamer Slate of Califor
nia in Gambier Bay, Alaska,
Senator Jones has called the
attention of the department of
commerce to the necessity for
additional aids to navigation in
Alaskan waters. The investi
gation hy the department with
a view to securing estimates
for installing the necessary
additional navigation aids is
asked by the senator, who
points out that the numerous
wrecks within the past few
years have been proof of th3
need of additional lights and
charts.
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Fairbanks held a fair on the
1st and 2nd of this month and
it was a decided success. Not
only was there a fine display of
agricultural products, but the
horse races which were held
on the fourth of July were re
pealed at the fair this fall, and
added a great deal to the pop
ularity of the occasion. In
addition to the large industrial
exhibition, which excited the
greatest rivalry among the
business men of the city, a
baby show was held at the fair
building and proved to he a
great attraction. Great prep
are tions were made for the en
tertainment of the youngsters,
and a platform upon which the
coming prospectors were dis
played, prevented the crowd
ing which was evidenced last
year.
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The armored cruiser Mary
land, which has beert making
tests of coal obtained from the
Bering river coal fields near
Kafalla, Alaska, proves the coal
unfit for use of the navy. The
navel officers who superinten
ded the tests declare the coal is
unsatisfactory in that it con
tains too much dust.
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The government surveyors
who made, an attempt to reach
the summit of Mt. St. Elias
failed in their effort. They
reached an altitude of 10,000
feet when they were compled
to turn hack owing to a fierce
storm raging. They express
the belief that the mountain
ran be scaled with the proper
erpiipment earlier in the sea
son. There were apparently
between the place where they
were forced to turn back and
the summit.
“It is a marvelous land, a
vast empire bright with great
Ihings, and every man on his
Imst visit lo Alaska must echo
ihe sentiments of Service in
his spell of the Yukon, ‘the
freshness, the fairness, how I
am stuck on it all.” This was
the statement of George W.
Jlibbard, general passenger- ar
gent of Ihe ^Jillwakee, who
had just returned from a tour
of southwestern and south
eastern Alaska, including a
trip over the Copper River &
Northwestern line.
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According to a news jtetn
pnblished in thp Vancouver
World of the 17lh given out by
C. J. Rogers purchasing agent
tor the White Pass & Yukon
Route, that company is prepar
ing lo build a railroad up the
valley of Ihe White river lead
ing to 'the Shushanna, and that
work on the new line will start
as soon as the thaw starts in j
the spring.
Skagway took steps early lo1
provide for a safe and sane
Fourth pf July next year by
passing the other day an or
dinance making it unlawful to
make, sell or otherwise dis
pose of fire-works in that city.
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P. Lane, a man well known
nhclit Fairbanks, was declared;
insane at that place Sept. I2lli
lie had been roaming about
the country without taking
lime to eat or sleep, fleeing,
so he said, from “three little
rnen with guns”.
The Matthison Mining Comp
any of Hope are in the coarse
money and are now working in
pay that is better than any
I hey have over before uncover
ed:. Last week they had one
of the largest clean-ups that
Lhey have had since they
■started to mine on Resur
rection creek. A three days
run netted them the tidy sum
of $1800.00 or six hundred
dollars per shift. The Mat
thisons have fo8rmed a stock
company and the stock is held
and owned exclusively by mem
hers of flic family. They
have a very complete hydraul
ic plant on the ground and a
careful estimate of Hie ground
shows that they have and are
the sole owners of it,and that
they will not he able to work
’! out before sometime in Sep
tember in the year 2007. In
the meantime they will be
taking out money every year!
from their little Resurrection
gold pot, and bid fair soon to
beceome members of the pre
datory rich, and the strange
part of it is that there is not
a “sour dough” on the whole
Kcnai pennisula but wishes
them the best luck with their
property.
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Like the fale of the Arabian
Nights is the oppinion given re
cenlty by an expert on the
future of Alaskan gold mining.
It is based on the testimony of
Mr. Falcon Joslin, who addres
sed the Senate Committee at
Washington. We quote Mr.
Joslin’s testimony from the
Engineering and Mining Jour
nal,
“In my judgement, the placer
mining industry of Alaska will
last a thousand years, the crea
suitable for placer mining is so
enormous. What we are work
ing there now is only the grav
els that carry from $3 to $10
per yard. You connot work
gruvaels that carry less than
that,but once we have trans
portation, and work as they do
in California, those carrying 7c
a yard, we have got so nearly
an unlimited aerea of it that no
man can forsee the end of that
industry in Alaska. There are
2o or 30 dredges in the Seward
Peninsula. There is one dredge
at Fairbanks and another in the
Circil district. There are
eight or ten dredges in the
Klondike. They operale about
150 days per year They usual
ly work until November, be
gniing som time in May. They
a"c working gravels at Dawson
which is an older camp than
Fairbanks, that carry 50c, per
yard. And in some cases they
are working gravel by dredg
ing as low as 40c.per yard at a
profit in the Dawson country.
When our transportation gets
licller, we shall lie able to
work similar gravels in Alaska.
“One great thing is Hud nearly
the whole area of Alaska is
gold bearing, There are plac
and quartz. It has been
*«id, and I belive the statistics
and explorations of the Geolo
gical Survey show' it, that you
could go from Alaska, at Ket
chikan, where there are im
poriant mines, along this route
by way of llanies, clear out to
Nome, a distance of 2,000
miles in a straightline, and
iliut in every 20-mile strip a
lung that route yon could de
velope gold mines. It is in
fiqlautely greater thnn any
other area of gold country
Him hns ever been found in the
world."
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Four thousand dollars is due
ill ft city of Fairbanks from
back taxes.
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Pistol praclice in a disorder
ly house at Flat City resulted
in Hie shooting of Leonard
Dodge, a prospector. Be foie
he died he stated that the
woinqu dicj if aeridenlly.
Judge R. \.. .J, ■ . re
cently in receipt of a coble
gram from Attorney General
James C. McReynolds inform
ing him that he was to hold a
special term of court in Valdez
during November and follow
ing I he October term of court
in.that place which will he held
by Judge Fred M. Brown. The
special lerm is to be held in
Valdez by Judge Jennings lo
try those cases in which Judge
Brown is disqualified.
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A recent report from the up
per waters of White river
located rich pay dirt on Car
roll creek in that section of the
country.
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Speaking of agriculture in
Hie Tanana valley, Prof. G. C.
Georgoson says: “Next to the
grains, 1 regard alfalfa as the
most important toward the ag
riculture success of the Tana
na. Alfalfa not only provides
food for cattle, but also main
tains the fertality of the soil.
Turning under a field in which
alfalfa has been grown is equi
valent to manuring the soil.
There is no question that alf
alfa will do well in the Tanami
Valley.
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The operators of Hie Ruby
(here is a shortage of miners
in that country. They are of
fering $0 per day and board
for good men.
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Three pack trains arc being
operated between McCarthy
and Ghisana. The latest es
timates to be made on the pop
uiation of the new district
place it at between 400 and
500 people.
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What came very near being
a fatal accident accured at the
saw mill this afternoon about
two fourty-five when a board
about four by twelve, the last
of the log caught on the car
nage and flew and caught A.
Simpson a Philipino, knock
ing him about fifteen feet up
against 1 he side of the building
and breaking his left leg just
below Hie hip. The log had
been sawed up and all laken
away and the last board left is
somewhat thicker than the rest
and the dogs that hold it up
right had been taken off arid!
Ihe board thrown on the rolls
Ih'I in some manner the end
l'-crame fast on the head block
on the carriage and was not
noticed until the carriage
started hack when the loose
etui flew catching Simpson
who was running the live rolls
in fhe leg driving him up n
gainst, the side of the building
breaking it. Had I lie board
caught him higher the results
would of been fatal but for
some unexplainable reason the
board did not go in the air.
Simpson was taken to the
hospital and will he laid up for
some time.
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The closed season for Sock
eye in Puget Sound under the
Washington state laws lijegau
Aug. 25 and will continue until
Sept 15. The law provides that
any Sockeyc taken between
these dates must be inmediatly
liberated and put back into the
water. The fishing in the
Skagit river, Washington, is
dosed from July 15 to Sept. 15
evcept with nets, flic closed
meshes of which are not less
than 8 1-2 inches, stretch
measure.
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AF'rcnrh writer advises- girts
to judge their sweethearts
by the way they eat peaches.
r! bis is a sort of test, which
ought really to hoar fruit.
A London writer says the
eighth year is (he crices in
married life. How about the
lirsl ei me Mr. Newlywed
ccmes in late and finds wife
writing for him?