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l airhaven District, Aio. 2 Mining
Area on Peninsnla, Being Revived
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By Sen. HowaTd Lyxrg
The number two mining area
on Seward Peninsula is the Fair
haven Mining and Recording Dis
trict, which was created back in
the early 1900s. Candle, .-eight
miles Up the Keewalik River, and
approximately 145 miles north
east of Nome, is the location of
the Recorder’s Office and the
center of .a large, once-flourishing
mining area that is slowly but
steadily being revived ab the
prospector and miner continue to
reappear in the hills and <sn the
creeks.
In the western portion of the
Fairhaven District, the Imma
chuk River flows into Kotzebue
Sound at Deering Village. Here
several hundred Eskimos live,
with their post office, school,
store, church and missionary.
Placer mining was carried on ex
clusively along the Immachnk
River during the days of the pick
and the shovel, hydraulic lifts,
horse teams, and 40-mile ditches.
Today it is done with dredges—
two of them.
The organization operating these
dredges is called the Casa De
Pa-ga .Gold Co. It operates two
3-cubic-foot bucket flume-type
dredges capable of digging la feet
below water and handling from
1,200 to 1,500 yards per day each.
The -main camp was moved in
195'2 from its river location to a
location high and dry on a
worked-out bench, 19 miles up
the Immachuk Road. An excellent
gravelled road parallels the river
for some 22 miles. One dredge is
approximately a mile above the
camp, the other a mile below. The
camp consists of a cookhouse,
wash house, three warehouses,
one complete :shop, one black
smith and welding ship, an office,
a mill and 12 small buildings for
personnel.
From 24 to 40 are employed
during the season, depending on
the amount of thawing required,
and as it is all frozen ground,
:most of the time, 24 mem are hired
1 for thawing purposes alone. Ap
proximately two miles ®f the xiv
er has been dredged to date, with
around eight miles left known to
contain dredging values. Tardage
handled for the 1953 season by
the two dredges was 328,810 yards
dug, and 103,300 yards of oxer
burden were bulldozed off ahead
of the dredges.
Equipment besides the dredges
consists of thawing equipment for
two dredges, three bulldozers, two
tractors, four trucks, three pump
'mg units, one six-inch drill, one
'four-inch drill, light plants, small
pumps, complete shop tools, etc.'.
Deering supplies all the labor re
quired, both in the field and on
the dredges. The Eskimos axe ex
cellent workmen, good mechanics,
and take pride in their work..
Company officers, all Seattle,
Wash., residents, are as follows:
Robert G. Gillespie, president;
Kenneth Fisher, vice president;
Robert Stitt, secretary-treasurer;
Don Stewart, general manager;
and C. L. Dempsey, dredgemaster.
Discovery Gulch, a mile or so
up the Immachuk from Stewart’s
camp, was the center of mining
operations of the Dick Hoogen
dorn family for over 30 years.
Oldest son Jack, Immachuk
rc*ad foreman for several seasons
past and who has been sinking
on the Gulch for several winters,
sends word down to his younger
brother Bill at Noipe to join him
in taking out a winter dump. Jack
has hit good pay—three feet of
50-cent dirt, 50 cents to the pan—
and bedrock at 16, 18 feet. Jack
thinks he has struck one ,of the
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Efcj Aluminum Firm
investigating Possibility
Of Manitoba Plant
'WINNIPEG, Manitoba, —R.
D. Turner, minister >dT industry
and commerce of Manitoba, Tues
day confirmed that one of the
world’s largest aluminum manu
facturers is investigating the pos
sibility of establishing a plant in
northern Manitoba.
Reynolds Metals Cov:an Ameri
can firm, has had an engineer in
Manitoba recently checking pow
er resources in ihe north and a
possible site for aaa aluminum .re
duction plant.
Mr. Turner said negotiations
are geing on with the metals com
pany and he has asked Ihe water
resource officials of the depart
ment :to launch an immediate
study <t>f northern power condi-,
tions fur the firm.
Mr. Turner said ihe province
has “been trying for some lime to
interest someone in a program
b'ke this. It will have a miraeu
loius effect on northern develop
ment.”
Atomic Age Dress
BONN, GERMANY — Here’s a
preview of what air raid wardens
will look like in the atomic age.
These two men are dressed in
clothing to protect them against
radio activity. The demonstration
took place at a meeting of civil
defense personnel in Germany.
NOTICE
The City of Nome now has its
1955 Car Slickers. These are re
quired by all cars thai are in op
eration.
Collection of Ciiy Drivers Li
cense has been ^lspended for the
calendar year of 1955.
City of Nome
By Carrie M. McLain.
Ciiy Clerk
Pub. Jan. 12, 14, 1955
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE
CAPE NOME PRECINCT. SECOND
DIVISION. TERRITORY OF ALASKA.
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
EDWARD BREEN, deceased.
No. 998
Notice of Hearing
On Final Report and Account
And Determination of Inheritance
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that M. J.
Walsh, Administrator of the above named
estate, has filed his First and Final Re
port and Account, and that the 7th day
of March, 1955, at the hour of ten o’clock
A.M. of said day, at the office of the
above named court. Nome. Alaska, has
by court order been fixed as the time
and place for a hearing on the said Re
port and Account; also, at such time
and place the court will determine and
adjudicate the heirs of this estate.
Objections, if any, to said report and
account and proof of heirship will be
heard at this time.
DATED this 3rd day of January, 1955.
M. J. WALSH.
Administrator.
Publ. Jan. 5, 12, 19, 26, 1955.
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H. J. Lannen Posts $2,000
For Rectum t of Ballots
For Labor Commissioner
JUNEAU, liP)—H. J. Lannen of
Cordova, defeated Democratic
candidate Jor territorial labor
commissioner, this week posted a
guarantee .check of $2,000 with
Secretary ®tf Alaska Waino Hen
drickson for a recount of general
election ballots.
Lannen appeared in the secre
tary’s office with Territorial
Treasurer-elect Hugh Wade.
There are approximately 264
precincts in Alaska and it was
indicated thal a recount of most
of them would be requested by
Lannen, who was defeated by a
margin of 27 votes.
The job will take about a
month after an official is appoint
ed to conduct the recount
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U7SL Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Partly cloudy tonight and to
morrow. Lowest temperature ex
pected tonight -5, high Thurs. 8,
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
10, low -4. Max. wind 6 mph
from the WNW. Sunrise 9:39 a.m.,
sunset 2:41 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 14, low -23. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 34 in 1944,
low -27 in 1947.
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33 Air Troopers Jump
From Burning Transport
Enroute to Alaska
MILES CITY, Mont., —Red
flames streaking from the dark
skies from an Air Force Flying
Boxcar sent 33 air troopers para
chuting to safety, amid near-zero
temperatures in southeastern
Montana early yesterday. The
plane’s crew rode the big ship
down to a forced landing on the
Miles City airport.
Only two were reported hurt
and their injuries were not con
sidered serious.
The 33 were part of Operation
Snowbird, and were being trans
ported to Alaska for special train
ing maneuvers.
Widely scattered airborne sol
diers were picked, up in police
cruisers along U.S. Highway 10-12.
West of Miles City the left en
gine had conked out and caught
on fire. The pilot feathered the
propeller. All troops were wearing
parachutes when' the jump was
ordered from about 1,500 feet.
Letter-Size File Folders For
Sale At The Nome Nugget Office.
Having Stove or Oil Problems?
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WINTER SCHEDULE
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NOME TO FAIRBANKS
MONDAY, TUESDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY
NOME TO KOTZEBUE
TUESDAY AND SATURDAY
BUSH FLIGHT FRIDAY
NOME TO DEERING, CANDLE,
BUCKLAND AND KOTZEBUE
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