Review of Mining
Potentialities Of
Seward Peninsula
By HOWARD LYNG
TerriioriaJ Senator
The sixth in a series of articles
exclusive to the Nome Nugget
About four miles straight south
across the rolling hills from Dahl
Creek, another big producer
named Coffee Creek, is situated.
The Grant Mining Company has
has this creek, from Discovery to
No. 8 Above, under lease for a
number of years from the owners,
Dr. Knute Gravem and the Judge
G. J. Lomen Estate. The partner
ship is now reduced to E. K. John
sen and Henry Wuhrman, and
they, in turn, have forgone active
mining for-the past three seasons.
No announcement has 'been forth
coming as to further resumption—
if, and when.
The seven creek claims below
Discovery, on the flat, are held
under lease from the same prin
cipals by Mr. and Mrs. Herb Jenks
and Walter Wiedeman. While in
active during the war shutdown
and for several additional years,
some drilling has been done, and
mining will be resumed when
economic factors incident to gold
mining change for the better.
Joining Coffee Creek at Claim
No'. 7, on the right limit, is Dome
Creek, five claims in length. This
property belongs to oldtimer An
drew Wirum, who along with his
brother Pete, prospected it with
shafts as well as a drill. Pete Wir
um, pioneer miner of the Iditarod,
Ruby and Marshall, as well as
Council and the Kougarok, was
killed three years ago in a slough
over while doing some panning
under the bank on Eagle Draw,
another Coffee Creek tributary.
Andy put in most of the past sea
son in stripping and other dead
work, and anticipates a successful
season in 1954.
Iron Creek, some 20 miles south
of Bunker Hill, holds the Tolbert
Scott and Sons 2V£-foot bucket
dredge. Long a successful opera
tion, the dredge has been shut
down since 1942, but the Scotts
expect to resume when labor con
ditions and other factors become
more favorable. Tolbert Scott is
one of Seward Peninsula’s earliest
dredgemen, working for many
years in the Solomon River sec
tion.
On Benson Creek, not far from
the Scott dredge, Alfred J. P.
Hansen, known through the years
as “Champaigne Kid,” holds a
group of claims that he prospects
during each summer with favor
able results.
Seven miles east of Iron Creek,
on the Barney Rolando American
Creek ground, sits another 2Vfe-foot
bucket dredge, placed on the creek
prior to World War II by mining
engineer Lloyd Root of Reno, Nev.
This is but another of the 25 Sew
ard Peninsula dredges, all of
which were idled by the never
justified Washington D.C. order of
1942, and of which only one-third
have been able to resume dredg
ing to date.
A few miles east of American
Creek, the Niukluk River flows
southeast toward Council, or, as it
was called in its^ boom days,
Council City. Here, too, one of the
Seward Peninsula’s most famous
gold-bearing streams, originating
Price Of Gold
Reaches New Low
On Free Market
MEXICO, GP)—The price of gold
on one of the world’s few free
markets reached its lowest point
since World War II here at the
start of Tuesday’s trading.
Gold coins were offered at the
equivalent of $35 per ounce. That
is the price at which the U.S. gov
ernment buys gold. It is consider
ably below the former world price,
which ranged up to $48.
at the foot of the Bendelaben
Mountains, flows 18 miles south to
Council. Ophir Creek has the dis
tinction of antedating any gold
discovery at Nome or elsewhere on
Seward Peninsula. Many miners
were working on Ophir Creek
when the original six men, in late
September, 1898, sailed the Golo
vin Swedish Missions schooner up
the 75 miles of Bering Sea Coast
to make the first discoveries of
gold on Snow Gulch, Glacier and
Anvil Creeks, at what was first
called Anvil City, but later re
named Cape Nome.
(To be Continued)
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Congressman Asks
Civil Service I I
To Resign Post
WASHINGTON, Ufl—Rep. A. L.
Miller (R-Neb) Tuesday called
upon Philip Young to resign as
chairman of the Civil Service
Commission. He said Young is
blocking Eisenhower administra
tion efforts to place its own men
in key federal jobs.
Miller declared that because of
Young’s objections, the commis
sion has classified as appointive
jobs outside civil service protec
tion fewer than half the positions
requested by the administration.
“Inasmuch as you have not seen
fit to support the administration
in helping to remove those who
would sabotage the very adminis
tration who gave you a job, it
would seem that in all fairness
and decency you should submit
your resignation to the President,”
Miller said in a letter to Young.
Miller, who is chairman of the
House Interior Committee, made
the letter public.
The Republican congressman
said the administration has asked
that more than 1,600 positions be
placed on the commission’s Sched
ule C, which the agency describes
as “policy-determining or confi
dential and outside the competi
tive civil service.”
Miller said only about 700 were
allowed. The commission, in a
statement Tuesday, put the total
at 770 and said it had rejected 852
Schedule C recommendations made
by executive agencies.
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