THE NOME NUGGET
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Silver City, N.M., EnterPr3se: “Sometimes one
wonders if the government just hires men to dream up
ways to waste money. For instance: The Navy De
partment sends out releases to newspapers by the
thousands. The news release is run on a duplicator on
an 83/<>xll piece of paper, which is okay; but to mail
this piece a window envelope is used and inside the
envelope is a piece of index bristol the full size of the
envelope upon which is printed the name and address
of the newspaper, nothing more. . . . Know how private
industry would handle this? The release would be
, folded and clipped together and the address put on the
back, eliminating both the envelope and the index
bristol and more than 50 per cent of the weight.”
Picketed Cruise Ship
Sails for Caribbean;
Officials Wrestle Lines
SAN FRANCISCO, UP)— Horn-1
burg-hatted officials of the pick
eted cruise ship Tradewinds cast
off her lines here Friday. She
backed into the bay without the
aid of tugs and sailed for Los
Angeles and the Caribbean Sea
shortly after noon.
AFL sailors and stewards pick
eted the ship at Pier 16 in pro
test against the signing of a Ger
man crew and transfer of registry
from the American to Liberian
flag.
Formerly the American liner
Aleutian and manned by an Am
erican crew, the ship was in
volved in a riot when she last
docked here 13 months ago as
AFL sailors and stewards tried to
storm picket lines of rival stew- j
ards.
John E. Smith Jr., president of
the Caribbedh-Atlantic Line, and
Fred Metcalfe, another company
official, wrestled the heavy haws
ers and freed the liner when long
shoremen refused to cross the
picket line.
A hundred passengers board
ing here had to carry their own
luggage aboard. At Seattle, where
How to Live to 100?
ACQUI, Italy, (#>—Farmer Vin
cenzo Tosa, who drinks a quart
of wine and smokes 20 cigarettes
a day, celebrated his 100th birth
day Saturday.
Washington and Alaska
Congress Delegations Meet
On Air Route Controversy
WASHINGTON, (Jf) —Members
of the Washington and Alaska
congressional delegations meet
today to discuss the possibility of
united action in the States-Alaska
air route controversy.
The meeting, called by Sen.
Magnuson, was prompted by re
ports the Civil Aeronautics Board
is ready to recommend to Presi
dent Eisenhower that neither Al
aska nor Pacific Northern Airlines
be given renewed authority to fly
from the Pacific Northwest to
Alaska cities.
This would leave only North
west Airlines and Pan American
World Airways providing such
service.
30 passengers boarded, the ship
was also picketed. The Trade
winds will pick up 110 more pas
sengers at Los Angeles before
heading for the Caribbean.
Massey Speech
Opens 22d Session
Canada Parliament
OTTAWA, W)—Gov. Gen. Vin
cent Massey, in his throne speech
opening the second session of the
22nd Canadian Parliament, prom
ised Friday “a substantial in
crease” in public works to combat
unemployment in Canada.
“Although the national econ
omy is in a generally healthy con
dition,” he said, “the relatively
poor wheat crop is being reflected
by a small decline in the total
national income.
Massey also indicated Canadian
defense spending will be contin
ued at a high level.
Defense appropriations for the
current fiscal year amounted to
31,908,000,000.
The government also will pro
pose tighter control over the ex
port of power, he said. There will
be amendments to the Electricity
and Fluids Exportation Act. The
latter concerns the normal flow of
rivers crossing the international
boundary into the United States.
Massey said amendments to
tighten the national government’s J
authority over the use of river
waters would aim at “insuring
that natural resources are devel
oped in the best interests of the
Canadian public.”
The proposed bill, altering the
Electricity and Fluid Exportation
Act of 1907, is understood to be
aimed partly at blocking a deal
now pending between British Col
umbia and the U.S. Kaiser Alumi
num interests for Columbia River
water power.
Under the scheme, Kaiser would
build a dam to store water in the
Canadian Arrow Lakes in the Col
umbia River drainage area. The
water would be released during
low periods to feed the Bonneville
power system, from which Kaiser
draws electricity.
Trade Minister C. D. Howe has
called the arrangement unsatis
factory on the grounds that Brit
ish Columbia should get more out
of it.
12 Feet of Rain Last Year
At Quenault, Washington
QUINAULT, Wash., (#> — Quin
ault’s 1954 rainfall was just a
shade under 12 feet.
The rain gauge at the Olympic
National Forest headquarters
showed a total of 143.6 inches. It
was about 18 inches above the
average for one of the wette,'J
areas on the rainy Olympic Pen
insula.
Montgomery Loses Wart
LONDON, C/Pf—Field Marshal
Viscount Montgomery underwent
an operation today for removal of
a wart about an inch and a quar
ter in diameter from above his
left ear.
The operation, a minor one,
went “entirely according to plan,”
the King Edward VII Hospital for
officers announced. Montgomery
is expected to remain in the hospi
tal only until Wednesday.
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Mining Claims of Sen. Jones, Straub,
Kammerer, Andy Peterson, Mae Bale
By Howard Lyng
No. 17
Four miles over Buster divide
from the junction of Lillian with
Buster Creek in a' northeasterly
direction lies Bonita Creek. Here
Senator Charles Jones owns two
miles of mining ground, and in
addition, three claims on Ida
Gulch, and six claims down Os
borne Creek, which is formed here
by Bonita and Eldorado coming
together.
For the better part of the past
four seasons a considerable
portion of these holdings have
been drilled and prospected for
both gold and sheelite by Cassi
mer Chechkowski and partners,
and in 1953 by Erickson Placers.
Most of Cnechkowski’s drilling
was on Osborne Creek for gold
and Erickson Placers was on Bon
ita for sheelite. The sheelite drill
ing was particularly encouraging
and ^Charley is now negotiating
with Erickson to place some of his
patented Isaacson Iron Works
built machinery on Bonita Creek
next season.
Getting back to Nome River
again and moving up to the 16
mile post on the old narrow
gauge railroad, we reach Basin
Creek, where Mr. and Mrs. Herb
Engstrom have been mining since
1941 with the exception of the
war years.
Straub, Kammerer, Arbele
Five miles above Basin, Darling
Creek enters into Nome River,
another of its numerable tribu
taries. Here the Ace Mining Co.,
consisting of Elmer Straub, Clyde
Kammerer and A1 Arbele have
been gold mining for two seasons,
using the bulldozer and ground
sluicing method.
Eight mining claims are involv
ed in the operation, and of late
the prospecting and drilling has
indicated considerable sheelite
values contained in the ground.
This coming season particular at
tention will be given to sheelite.
Darling Creek is held under lease
from Arvo Saario, long - time
Nome businessman.
Lindfors, Bale, Jones
Two and a half miles beyond
Darling Creek, Rocky Mountain
Creek becomes a tributary of
Nome River. The first two miles
of this stream were mined for
their gold content by long-time
miner Hugo Lindfors. Three years
ago a partnership was formed be
tween Hugo, May Bale, and Sen.
Chas. Jones, to carry on a con
certed search for sheelite. An or
iginal sheelite outcropping has
been traced for over a pule, and
a four-inch vein exposed. Depth
and body will be ascertained in
the spring.
In 1953 Hugo extracted ap
proximately 1 Vi tons of sheelite
from a pocket. A government
agent came from Seattle, inspect
ed the sacked ore, and purchased
it for shipment to the States.
Sheelite is purchased in 20 pound
units, but not less than one ton
of weight at any one time. The
base price is S3.15 per 20 pound
unit and $6,300 per ton which is
the minimum shipment. Likewise
the content of sheelite ore must
not be less than 60 per cent tung
sten. Assays at the Territorial
Bureau of Mines, Nome office, can
determine this.
Andy Peterson Claims
Old-timer Andy Petersen of
Nome, some years ago, re-located
3-mile-long Dorothy Creek, which
runs into Nome River 3Vi miles
above Rocky Mountain Creek, ap
proximately 27miles out from
town. Andy has other holdings on
several creeks including the well
known Iron Creek 5 miles further
along, and says preliminary pros
pecting indicates the presence of
silver in the proportion of 11 oz.
to each one of gold found in Dor
othy Creek.
There is also considerable evi
j dence of sheelite and Andy will
take a look at that phase of it
next season. The area is very
highly mineralized. v
Road Extended
For a number of years a short
piece of road has been added each
summer to the well-known Dexter
road, and as rapidly as the seg
ment of road was installed, sev
eral summer cabins were con-,
structed along it, for the Nome
river valley is a very pretty
stretch of country—and the fish
ing is good, too.
Two years ago the decision was
made to begin construction of a
trunk road that was to connect
at Bunker Hill with the 40-mile
Kougarok road constructed before
World War II, for the benefit of
j that large mining district. This
j trunk road, including the Dexter
' road serving the summer colony,
| and the road-building of the last
| two seasons, is now out about 17
| miles. The Alaska Road Commis
| sion’s program calls for the road
! building to proceed each season
j until the road reaches Bunker
| Hill, about 65 miles remaining to
' be constructed.
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Tournapulls For Road-Building
With the acquisition of four
; “Tournapulls”—heavy earth mov
1 ing machines brought over to the
A. R. C. in flying boxcars last
September—we have every rea
son to believe road building will
go ahead much faster than in the
past. There is also reason to be
lieve that funds will be consider
ably increased, with consequent
increased employment. The pro
jected road rises out of the Nome
river valley, traverses a pass thru
the Sawtooth Range, then drops
down into the Kougarok valley. It
is prospecting country all along
the way—filled with opportuni
ties.
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