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Empire Hopes for
Tin, Tantalum
And Cohimbium
From March, 1954.
Territorial Dept, of Mines Bulletin
2nd Division Mining Activities
A number of newspaper items
have reported that a group has
optioned the old Empire tin prop
erty on Cape Mountain and will
conduct a drilling program there
this season.
In addition to tin, they hope to
find economic quantities of highly
strategic columbium and tantalum
minerals, traces of which have
been found in the area.
This will increase to five the
number of companies actively ex
ploring for or producing tin on
the Seward Peninsula.
A rather late item is the news
that the holdings and equipment
of Helcolicon Mines, Inc., were
purchased by Graham Lammers
at a U.S. marshal’s sale in Fair
banks. The property is a gold
drqflging proposition on Klery
Creek, which is in the Kobuk
River drainage near Kiana. Lam
mers was the former owner and
operator of the property before
Helcolicon.
Prospecting Education
Interest has definitely increased
in the University of Alaska’s min
ing short course given at the uni
versity, and the mining extension
courses which are taught through
out Alaska.
The short course is a nine-week
course given in three sections—
mining and milling, mineralogy,
and geology—and is taught by
specialists in each field.
The extension courses are four
week courses covering the same
subjects but more briefly and
without the advantages of the
laboratories and equipment avail
able at College.
Other subjects covered are
prospecting methods, mining law,
and the formation of ore deposits.
There are no educational pre
requisites for the courses and costs
or fees are very small. Mining ex
tension courses are given in most
of the larger towns every year
and in small communities less
often. Courses this year are being
given in Nome, Kotzebue, Unala
kleet, Anchorage. Juneau, Ketchi
kan, Valdez, Ladd AFB, Fort
Richardson, Kodiak, and perhaps
a few other places.
Persons wishing to have a course
taught in their community need
only to show that a sufficient
number of people there will take
the course if given. Further infor
mation should be obtained from
Dean Earl H. Beistline, School of
Mines, University of Alaska, Col
lege, Alaska.
Prospectors who are sufficiently
“well heeled” to spend the winter
in Seattle can take one of the
prospecting classes offered by the
University of Washington each
quarter. The subjects are about
the same as those mentioned
above and are reported to be well
presented. The next course starts
March 29, but enrollments will be
accepted up to April 5. Corres
pondence concerning the Univer
sity of Washington course should
be addressed to D. A. Pifer, Direc
tor, School of Mineral Engineer
ing, University of Washington,
Seattle 5, Washington.
Fine Jeb Printing at the Nugget
Arctic Sanitary Service
Phone RED 181
States in Those Days Were
Admitted in Pairs, Senate Hears
WASHINGTON, UP)—A n y o n e
who drops in on the Senate these
days is likely to get a lesson in
American history—and a mighty
interesting one., too.
The Senate is arguing this ques
tion: should Hawaii and/or Alaska
be admitted to the Union? In do
ing their homework, the senators
dug up some instructive facts.
For instance: why was Nevada
brought into the Union?
At the time—1864—it had only
7,000 residents, or 26 less than
now live in Farmington, Conn.
There were other reasons for
its admission, of course, but Sen.
Anderson (D-NM) said there was
this compelling reason for haste:
the Lincoln Administration want
ed to make sure it had enough
states favorable to the ratification
of the 13th Amendment, abolish
ing slavery.
“Nevada,” said Sen. Douglas
(D-Ill), was admitted under cir
cumstances less than sanctimoni
ous.”
Anderson would like to have
Hawaii and Alaska admitted at
the same time. And he cited in
stances in which states were ad
mitted two at a time.
Douglas: “It is my understand
ing that up until about 1854 the
states, like the animals entering
the ark, came in by pairs—one
slave state and one free state
together.’
Anderson: “That is not exactly
true.”
Douglas: “It is approximately
true.”
Anderson: “Tennessee, Louisi
ana and Ohio do not fall into that
pattern at all. Vermont and Ken
tucy do. Indiana and Mississippi
do. Then Illinois and Alabama—”
Douglas: “And Maine and Miss
ouri.”
Andersen: “Maine and Missouri,
Arkansas and Michigan, Iowa and
Florida. Then comes the case of
Texas, which apparently does not
fall into that pattern.”
Sen. Daniel, Democrat from
Texas got up.
Anderson: “I now salute the
junior senator from Texas, who, I
am sure, will agree with me that
there could be no pattern broad
enough to encompass the virtues
of that great state.” (
Aspirin was discovered about
100 years ago by an Alsatian
chemist but was a laboratory
curiosity for 50 years before men
learned what it was good for.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Gradual clearing tonight. Fair
and colder Saturday .Occasional
gusty north winds.
Low temperature expected to
night -16, high Saturday -3.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
12, low -12. Max. wind 16 mph
from the north. Sunrise 6:31 a.m.,
sunset 5:53 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 10, low 4. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 34 in 1917,
low -37 in 1947.
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -17 Snow
Kotzebue -9 Blowing snow
Wales -18 Fog
Nome -11 Cloudy
Unalakleet -4 Snow
Bethel -5 Snow
McGrath 9 Snow
Anchorage 27 Cloudy
Fairbanks 5 Cloudy
Whitehorse 2 Cloudy
Edmonton 23 Cloudy
Juneau 35 Rain
Ketchikan 37 Rain
Seattle 36 Fog
San Francisco 50 Part cloudy
“Let’s Keep That Smile!”
8 - -XV:. -v. \ ^
Four-year-old Bruce Dugan
wisely reminds the more than 90
percent of the nation’s school
age children who have dental
deficiencies that they no longer
have to look forward to losing
five teeth through decay before
they’re 21. Bruce gets set to
scrub his pearlies with a brush
load of Ipana A/C ammoniated
chlorophyll toothpaste to help
the nation’s dental societies call
attention to this year’s children’s
■^sk i E3
dental health campaign.
Emphasized are the impor
tance of beginning tooth care at
an early age, and prevention of
decay. Recommended are: Home
care of the teeth through regular
brushing with a good dentifrice;
a well-balanced diet, and regular
trips to the dentist, beginning at
age 2xk Bristol-Myers Company
reminds that only a dentist can
correct decay once it has oc
curred.