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PORTAGE BAY DESCRIBED
BY NEWSPAPER WRITER
Carter B. Join's, a Seattle Sun reporter,
.■..•i inpaiiieil the tir.-T party of the Alaska
railv. .> engineering commission's surveyors
to Ala>k.i an.l landed with them in little
hie an IV:cage bay. He thus describes that
place :
Portage bay. on whose banks the first
party to be sent by the Alaska engineering
commission landed. June 0. is claiming the
keen attention of the federal experts.
V ; only did the government send its
nr.-t -urvey party to Portage, but the
Coast Geodetic Survey met this party on
the spit, it may be said, sending the Alaska
cast survey vessel Taku into Portage bay
a few days before the engineers arrived.
The Taku. under the command of Captain
Gilbert Rude, and carrying Deck Officer
l.\*rett K. Mumaw, will make an accurate
description of the bay.
Th• depth of the water, the location of
rot k>. the existence of channels--these mat
ters today are occupying the attention of
the Taku’s crew of skilled engineers.
Surveying Harbor
The land party, under the direction of
\Y. C. Guerin, assistant engineer to the
■ umii.i.-.'H-ners in charge, is using the first
m..nih < f its stay to survey the harbor,
“with a view to discovering its possibilities
as a railway terminal city.” official orders
were.
While the geodetic men are sounding the
bountiful blue waters of the bay. the land
.-urveyurs will be measuring the ground
and taking the elevations of the bay’s ter
minal?.
It should be short work- the labor of
preparing a terminal report for the com
mission, uf drawing maps of the vicinity.
Meanwhile the commissioners are looking
over the respective merits of Resurrection
Pav, where Seward is built, and of other
spots as terminals.
First Ship in Bay
The steamship Alameda of the Alaska
S. eamship Company, under the command of
J. Cl. Xord, poked her nose warily into
new territory. Tor never before had a big
ship pushed into Portage bay.
it was virgin water, and the navigators
worked slowly into the rippleless arm of
tin* sea. The channel was deep, the pas
s-go easy. Half a mile from shore the
ijMiiiu requested anchor. Down went the
quartermaster's cord- down, down.
“No bottom yet, sir." he reported after
a while.
Well, keep going,” ordered Captain
Xord. “and you will find bottom."
He did in 120 fathoms of water! Moor
ing buoys would have bean necessary to
anchor the Alameda fcere. Farther in the
av’s bed was nearer. Various soundings
; v the Alameda discovered the depth of the
bay to be, roughly speaking, from 12 to 120
fathoms.
Town Already Started
A boat was loaded with the surveyors’
supplies and lowered. The third officer and
his crew then rowed ashore Guerin and his
six men. the trail-breakers and the writer.
It was not quite 4 o’clock in the morning,
but a brilliant sun already was high in
the heavens of that far north country. The
sun was warm and the air delicious with a
coolness from the snow-gowned hills that
landlocked the bay.
The country was primal, untamed by
man. But already man was there. Seven
little cabins, ranged along the shore, formed
the first rude outline of what some day
may be the terminal city of the first gov
ernment rail.vay system to be established
in this country.
Exhibits Chunk of Quartz
Men were there before the surveyors
that stalwart clan that always has bored
into the primitive- there because they had
heard Portage bay was being considered as
the terminal. One of them, an old pros
pector, displayed a big piece of quartz
which he averred was freighted with gold.
The 3,000-foot hills that landlock Portage
bay are untouched, a natural challenge to
tbr' prospector.
. ne surveyor deposited their outfit and
prepared to make camp, ami the Alameda’s
lit tie boat sped back to its mother ship.
Guerin estimates it will take him three
weeks to survey the land at the harbor.
Then he will climb over the backbone of
the mountains, whose snow lines come down
to the ground in the summer, and push
his way inland, push on until the hard hand
of Arctic winter drives him away.
Eleven Other Parties Working
The government will have eleven other
survey parties working from Fairbanks all
along the Interior toward Portage bay
and Seward.
H. Deyo of Valdez has just started out
with a new locating party, beginning at
Chitina and running down the Chickaloor
river toward the Matanuska coal fields.
Guerin, the first arrival, will make his
maps on a scale of 400 feet to the inch.
He has in his party M. I). Glessner. travers
man; II. M. Chittenden. Jr . and H. S. Sat
terthwaite, recorders; II. C. Davis and W.
E. Williams, rodmen, and A. C. Hartle.
cook.
GAMBLER GETS LIGHT SENTENCE
Joe Honda, who was arrested early in
the week on a warrant charging him with
gambling, appeared before Commissioner
Albrecht on Thursday afternoon last and
pleaded guilty. He was let off with a fine
of $100 and costs. He went to jail in de
fault of payment of the fine.
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! In a report to Senator Key l’ittniun and
Congressman William Houston, chair
! men of the senate and house committees on
j territories respectively, made public on May
! 31 last, mention of which was made in
i The Pioneer’s dispatches at the time, Scc
I ret ary of the Interior Lane urges the pas
sage of the bill creating a development
board for Alaska, and gives his reasons ut
length. The bill provides for a board to
1 have general conduct of all government af
fairs and resources of the territory, and
among other things provides for abolition
of divided bureau control, which has re
tarded the development of the country;
more aid for homesteaders; simplification
of the procedure for persons desiring to
develop timber, water powers and miner
als; solution of native land titles; increased
impetus for road building, and an Alaska
budget for accounting of all Alaska funds.
Following are excerpts from the secretary's
report :
“While this patchwork system of ad
| ministrative machinery has answered well
enough while the government’s policy has
been merely to keep the door shut and dis
courage development, it will not answer
under the new policy.
“If the work needed in the future were
to be purely and solely administrative, it
must still be efficient and under responsi
ble and readily responsive supervision.
Alaska’s remoteness alone makes anything
like supervision by bureaus located in Wash
ington more or less perfunctory and super
ficial.
“What we now have in Alaska is little
more than a number of independent and un
related agents, acting largely upon their
own initiative, each attending only to some
special branch of police work, and no
branch adequately organized to cope with
its own problems, without even attempting
to co-ordinate its work with that of the
other branches.
A Task of Construction
“But the task of administering the law\
relating to the disposal and development of
the public domain and resources in Alaska
is also a task of construction. The prob
lem is the settlement and development of
the country and of all its resources to the
best advantage. Each branch of work, now
under a different supervision, is a part of
one and the same problem. It is a huge
tnsk that is ahead, but it is a single task,
and to undertake it successfully it must be
put into the hands of a single authoritative
directorate.
“It is proposed and urged that the board
should take over such authority now exer
cised by various departments and bureaus
.as may be necessary to give it supervision
over practically the entire public domain
and all the natural resources of Alaska,
and control of such activities as are closely
related and essential to the development of
the physical resources of the country.
“The board would do the work now
clone in Alaska by the general land office,
tlie forest service, the road commission, the
bureau of mines, the bureau of education
and the secretary of the interior. It should
take over a part of the work and authority
of the bureau of fisheries. There are good
reasons why the control of the seal indus
try. the salmon hatcheries and die s-a fish
eries should be left in the hands of the de
partment of commerce.
Control All Government Activities
“Beginning at the shore lme. however,
the development board should have com
plete control of all government activities
and interests connected with the develop
ment of industries and transportation, and
the settling of the country.
“This should include the control of water
powers, building and maintenance of roads
and rates of the railroads and telegraph
lines.
“It should include protection and control
of game, fur-bearing animals, public lands,
mineral deposits, coal, oil, gas, hot springs,
timber lands and timber. The board should
also take over the work of education among
the natives and the supervision of the rein
deer industry.
Should Aid Homesteaders
“It should control the work of the sur
veyor general's office. It should have au
thority to either succeed the department of
agriculture in supervision of the agricul
tural stations in the territory or to supple
! ment these with demonstration farms for
! the benefit of homesteaders.
“All of these activities are closely re
lated; all form a nart of the one big Alas
| kan problems. Their direction should all
be in the same hands.
“The present national forests do not in
clude all the Alaska forests, and yet. a very
large part of the present forest reserves are
untimbered lands. If it is desirable to pro
tect a part of the timber lands in the ter
riterv there seems no reason why they
should not all be equally protected.
Would Include Timber
“Large quantities of timber will he needed
in the full development of mining and other
industries in Alaska and the settlement of
the country. The timber supply is none too
great to meet those future demands. In
the face of these facts, the forest service
is planning to sell large amounts of timber
for export. If the general laws prohibiting
exportation of Alaska timber are wise laws
they should apply to all the timber in the
territory. There seems to be no reason for
j making fish of one tree and flesh of an
other.
! “Sales of timber from the national lor
j ests in Alaska have not been sufficient to
pay the expenses of the forest service in
the territory. It would seem that the time
has come when the protection and pres
ervation of the forests in the territory
might safely be left to the same adminis
tration that, is trusted with control of other
parts of the public domain. The forest
service might very well be left in an ad
visory capacity to the development board
in matters relating to forestry.
Unnecessary Officials
“It is probable that such a board as pro
posed would discover most of the present
separate and overlapping inspection and
police forces in the territory to be unneces
sary. and would secure greater efficiency by
having some of these special policemen do
general patrol duty.
“The duties of forest rangers, game war
dens, protectors of fur-bearing animals, rein
deer guards, bird wardens, etc., woiild not
seem to be of a nature requiring such a
high degree of expert and specialized knowl
edge and ability that they might not all
be performed by the same men, and much
of the present duplication and multiplica
tion of cost and effort be eliminated, with
increased effectiveness.
Would Eliminate Long Delays
“Under the proposed consolidated admin |
istration of land and resources, a single set
of experts and agents would be more effi
cicnt than the present duplication of field
forces. Instead of lengthy and involved
correspondence between agents in the field
and several bureaus in Washington to de
termine questions of law and of fact, the
questions of fact would be decided on the
ground, in Alaska, under the administra
tion of the development hoard, and all the
papers in any land claim would be thor
oughly prepared before the case conies to
Washington.
“This would simplify procedure, help to
reduce the congestion in the general land
office, give fuller and more exact informa
tion upon which to base decisions, and ob
viate and eliminate the long delays cauased
by the present methods.
Native Land Titles
“Under the law natives and other origi
mil settlers in Alaska are guaranteed un
disturbed occupancy of their lands. No
provision is made, however, for granting
titles to those lands, and nothing has been
done toward a solution of this problem,
which is constantly becoming more vexa
tious.
“This is one of the problems which must
be worked out on the ground by men
familiar with conditions, and whose recom
mendations will carry with them assurance
of complete information and disinterested
ness.
“Transportation and communication arc
the nerves and arteries of civilization and
commerce. Railroads and wagon roads are
equally essential to good mail service. Set
tlement follows close upon the heels of the
road builders everywhere.
To Have Charge ot Koad building
“The construction of roads and trails is
very closely allied with other problems in
volved in the opening and development of
Alaska and its resources, and it would seem
the part of wisdom to place 'his authority
and supervision in the hands of men charged
with the broad work of encouraging de
velopment.
“The army has done the pioneer work
in this line, and done it well, but since the
general development of the country must
be considered from a much broader point
of view than that of military necessity or
strategy, it seems reasonable that the han
dlmg and disposition of the public lands
and natural resources and tlie opening and
maintenance of the roads essential to the
opening of lands and development of nat
ural resources should all be in the same
hands.
Government Must Build
“For many years road building must be
carried on by the government, as the mile
age to be built and cared for will be too
heavy a burden upon new settlers and
young and experimental industries.
“The di vi.-ion of road funds and const ruc
tion work before referred to seems wholly
useless aid without justification. If roads
are needed in the sections of country now
within the forest reserves, they should be
built without regard to the percentage of
timber sales; if they are more needed else
where in the territory, it seems the height
of absurdity to spend the money arbitrarily
fur constructnig little patches of trails and
board walks here and there in these reser
vations just because they are forest re
serves.
To Aid Agriculture
“It is perhaps too much to predict that
Alaska ever will become a rich farming
country, in which its agricultural products
will predominate. There is little doubt,
however, judging from results already at
tained, but that the territory is capable of
increasing agricultural possibilities which
will be sufficiently profitable to enable the
supplying of home markets with home
grown agricultural products to a very large
extent.
“The reports of the agricultural experi
ment stations in Alaska show crop produc
tions in potatoes and some grains that com
pare favorably in yield with highly-favored
sections of the United States, while the
market value of the crops locally is of
course much larger.
Alaska’s Problem Peculiar
“Alaska's problems are largely peculiar
to Alaska. Our present system of govern
ment there is heterologous. Instead of one
1 government in Alaska, we have a number,
interlocked, overlapped, cumbersome and
confusing.
“There is a government of the forests, a
government of the fisheries, one of the rein
deer and natives, another of the cables and
telegraphs. There is a government for cer
tain public lands and forests. Each of these
governments is intent upon its own par
ticular business, jealous of its own success
and prerogative, and all are more or less
unrelated and independent in their opera
tion.
“Experience has demonstrated that effi
cient administration is best secured by cen
tralizing responsibility and authority in the
hands of a few' men. who can be held to
strict accountability for the results of their
actions. The proposed development board
for Alaska follows this modern and well
tested plan for securing efficient adminis
tration.’’
Divided Authority
In pointing out seme of the red tape
caused by the present division and multi
plication of authority in Alaska, Secretary
Lane says:
“There is one procedure for making
homestead, mineral and other land entries
within the national forests; another pro
cedure for making such entries in lands
outside the forest reserves. Water power
and jiower sites within the forest, reserves
are leased and operated under permits from
the forest service; there is question as to
whether authority exists for disposal or
leasing of water powers elsewhere in Alaska.
“A citizen who wanted to lease an island
for fox farming carried on a correspondence
with three different departments for sev
eral months in an effort to learn which
had jurisdiction and authority to make the
lease. It was finally decided that none of
them possessed this authority. Certain
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islands along the south coast of Alaska may
be leased by the department of commerce;
adjoining unreserved islands may not be
leased, but may be acquired under the gen- ;
eral land laws, from the department of the j
interior. Still other islands are reserved for !
special purposes, under the control of the ;
department of agriculture.”
Alaska Revenues and Disbursements
It is pointed out in the report that under
present conditions it is difficult to obtain
accurate information as to Alaskan revenues
and disbursements, because they are han
dled by so many agencies. He advocates an
Alaskan budget, in which all Alaskan funds
can be reported and accounted for on a
single page.
a detailed statement of Alaskan receipts
and expenditures for 1913, not including
those of the territorial government, is con
tained in the report, which shows that the
receipts were §802,613.65 and the expendi
tures $5,029,9S0.37.
The expenditures include $314,051.49 for
the treasury department, $54,224.37 of the
navy department. $2,247,494.13 by the war
department, $552,898.82 by the postoffice
department, and $732,643.28 by the depart
ment of justice.
“Although a statement of the receipts
and expenditures.” says the secretary,
“shows a large discrepancy on the debit
side of the ledger, this is by no means dis
couraging. There are many items of gov
ernmental expenditure in the territory that
are not fairly chargeable to Alaska. Prob
ably one-half or more of the present and
past expenditures come under this head.
The deficiency remaining is one that may
easily be overcome.
4 Alaska can be made self-supporting
within a very few years, as soon as con
ditions are created which will enable set
tlement and development and produce rev
enues. So far the government has done lit
tie, aside from the care of the seal herd,
to bring returns. It is unreasonable to ex
pect revenue from an undeveloped and un
settled country.”
System of Red Tape
It is pointed out in the report that at
present each of at least a score of gov
eminent bureaus in Washington, divided
among the various departments, have some
thing to do with the government of Alaska,
and that there is a vast amount of red
tape and circumlocution in the administra
tion of public affairs under this system. In
stances are given in the report of delays
>f several years in the handling of uncom
plicated land and other matters, which
should have been promptly disposed of.
LEAGUE BASEBALL
Standing of Clubs Up to and In
cluding June 21
Northwestern League
Won Lost Pet.
Vancouver 44 22 .667
Seattle . 43 24 .642
Spokane . 39 27 .591
Portland . 25 40 .385
Tacoma . 25 44 .362
Victoria 23 42 .354
Pacific Coast League
Won Lost Pet.
Venice 43 33 .566
San Francisco 43 35 .551
Los Angeles . 42 35 .545
Portland 32 35 .478
Sacramento . 34 39 .467
Oakland . 29 46 .38/
u
American League
Won Lost Pet.
Philadelphia —. 36 21 .631
Detroit . 35 25 .583
St. Louis . 31 26 .544
Washington . 29 27 .518
Boston . 29 27 .518
Chicago . 26 31 .456
New York . 20 32 .385
| Cleveland . 19 36 .345
National League
Won Lost Pet.
New York . 31 1^ -^20
Cincinnati . 31 25 .554
Pittsburg . ‘25 24 .510
St. Louis . 29 29 .500
Chicago . 28 29 .401
Philadelphia . 24 26 .480
Brooklyn . 21 28 .429
Boston -. 21 30 .412
Federal League
Won Lost Pet.
Indianapolis . 29 21 .580
Buffalo . 27 24 .529
Chicago . 28 25 .528
Baltimore . 27 25 .519
Brooklyn . 22 23 .489
Kansas Citv . 26 29 .473
St. Louis . 26 31 .456
Pittsburg . 24 31 .436
CHARLEY ROSS HEARS
OF DAUGHTER’S ARRIVAL
On Sunday last, July 12, in Seattle, to
Mrs. Charles Ross, wife of the president of
the Miners & Merchants Bank of this city,
a fine nine-pound daughter was born. The
good news reached Mr. Ross on Monday
morning. The young lady has been named
Mary Elizabeth.
Copying and enlarging, also all kinds ol
portrait and view work. See Clemons
Koon, Flat City.
Dora Rescues Shipwrecked Crew
Messages received at Seward on June 16
from the steamer Dora, which was storm
bound at Port Dick, on the outer coast of
Kenai peninsula, eighty miles from there,
stated that the Dora had aboard thirty-five ^
survivors of the wreck of the ship Para- ;
mita. The message stated that the Para
mita was wrecked in Lost harbor early in
May. Whether any lives were lost or what
were the experiences of the survivors be
fore they were taken aboard the Dora is not
stated in the message.
“Woodrow" Is Alaska’s Newest Town
“Woodrow” is the name of the city that
sprang into existence in a day at Ship
creek, according to Mrs. Isabel A. Gilman,
the Alaska school teacher, author and law
per, who passed through Juneau recently.
It is the headquarters of the engineering
parties of the Alaska railroad survey, and
Mrs. Gilman says it divides honors with
Knik as the most active and interesting
place in the Westward country.
Newspaper Published on Shipboard
The passengers on the Admiral Sampson,
which arrived in Juneau on June 19, en
joyed a daily newspaper while en route
to Juneau from the Westward, George J.
McCarthy, agent for the Admiral line at
Juneau, was editor of the “Wireless,”
which appeared daily. It contained wire
less news dispatches and accounts of inter
,'-t happening aboard ship, all information
about the ship's schedule, and something
concerning the ports of call.
Single Tax for Alaska
A measure that is now pending before
congress promises to stir up considerable
interest throughout Alaska and be an issue
before the forthcoming party conventions,
says a dispatch from Juneau. The bill re
ferred to was drawn up by United States
District Attorney Rustgard, and is designed
to permit the different municipalities of
Alaska to adopt the single land tax should
a majority of the voters so decide. The
bill was sent to Delegate Wickersham, and
he in turn passed it over to Representative
Warren Worth Bailey of Pennsylvania, who
introduced it. Mr. Rustgard has received a
letter from Representative Bailey request
ing that those who favor the passage of
the bill by congress make known their de
sires in the premises by sending him peti
tions and letters. He also suggests that a
resolution by the municipal councils and
commercial organizations throughout the
territory Would aid materially in securing
consideration for the measure.
An Alaska Bear Hunt
The banner hunting record of the year
was made during the past week by our
townsman, W. M. Wolff, and his friend
from out the line, known as “Dick the Trap
per." They went on the railroad to Mile
39, where they struck off across the coun
try tawords Ixatalla for a distance of ten
nr twelve miles. In one day these mighty
hunters scared up three brown bear, and
in order to protect themselves from attack
were compelled to use their guns in self
defense. With unerring aim they brought
down the big animals, not one getting awaj.
During two or three days’ cruising around
Wolff and Dick were again attacked by two
black bears, but they nobly stood their
ground and with mighty roars the black
boys rolled over and died. Mr. Wolff
had only time to catch the train yester
day morning, but the trophies of their hunt
will be brought to town by Dick on I’ ri
day’s train.—Cordova Alaskan.
Big Real Estate Deal at Seward
A big real estate deal was closed at
Seward on June 16, by which Robert Ash
' land, formerly of Cordova, has purchased
I the 38-acre homestead of Fred Laubner s.
; It adjoins the city limits, and it is ex
pected that it will be platted and sold in
lots. The price paid by Mr. Ashland was
8.30,000 cash, and he expresses himself as
I well pleased with his bargain. He has
I confidence that Sewmrd has a great future
in store for her, and that when it comes
to make a decision between Portage Bay
and Seward for railroad terminals there
will be nothing to it but Seward.
Signs of the Times
Now that it has been practically acknowl
edged by all that Seward is to be the center
of activity in Southwestern Alaska for the
next few years, it is time to step to the
front, says the Sew ard Gateway. ith this
end in view, the Gateway has equipped
for itself the finest newspaper office in
Alaska, and has ordered the latest improved
machinery for its new plant An Intertype
machine, the very latest mechanism for set
ting type a line at a time, has been or
dered by the Gateway. A new press is
also among the improvements under con
templation.
Alaska Northern Aids Commission
Colonel A. W. Swanita, chief engineer and
general manager Tn charge of the Alaska
Northern railway, has arrived from bhip
creek, where he witnessed the unloading
of the Alaska engineering commission’s ex
pedition from the Northwestern, says the
All. persons are hereby notified htat the
™ partnership h**r«*mrcire .wisting betwim
C. A. Moisant and John Cameron. «■«uufim-t -
Ing a general teaming btisiness at I lat City,
Otter preeinet. Alaska, has been dissolved.
All persons having Haims again>t the said
business will present the >am»* to either*
< r the undersigned at their oftlees in Hat
city.
joh.n camkiuj.v
C. A. MO!sAA T.
July 7. 1914.
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Seward Gateway. When seen, Colonel Swan
itz said that it was the policy of his com
pany to furnish the government railway
locators with every possible assistance
“With that end in view, all maps, profiles
and field notes showing the surveys made
between here and the Tanana and the Mata
nuska coal fields have been turned over to
the commission,” said Swanitz. “These
documents represent an outlay of $300,000
for the survey work along the line. To the
same end the free use of the road, its
equipment and office building has been of
fered. To avoid any appearance of par
tiality to the Seward-Tanana route. Chair
man Edes preferred to pay an equal share
toward maintaining the present motor car
service as maintained last year by a citi
zen.s’ committee composed of business men
and mine owners near Seward. This serv
ice is maintained under a permit from the
attorney general, such service to be of no
pecuniary value to the railroad.”
A. B. Camp at Juneau
Juneau Camp No. 31. Arctic Brother
hood, with a charter membership of fifty
six, was instituted June IS. After the in
stitution of the camp, officers were chosen
for the term ending next November, and
installed.
PROMINENT N. C. OFFiCIALS
VISITING IN IDITAR0D
Among the passengers on the Prairie Bell,
which arrived here early Thursday morn
ing, was a party composed of prominent
officials of the Northern Commercial Com
pany, who are here to inspect the com
pany’s extensive business in this locality.
The party consisted of W . L. Gerstle. vice
president of the company ; W. H. Fairbanks,
general manager; Volney Richmond, super
intendent, and T. A. McGowan of l air
banks, general counsel for the company.
Mrs. M. E. Averil. stenographer, accompa
| rued the party.
NOTED CHARACTERS OF
EARLY DAYS IN NOME
Major L. II. French, soldier, miner, finan
cier, author, doctor of laws and medicine,
pioneer railroad builder in Alaska and
founder of many enterprises in Alaska and
in the States, passed through Valdez last
night on the steamer Northwestern, says the
Valdez Miner.
In company with Charles Herron, the
chairman of the Republican territorial com
mittee, who recently made sveeral hundred
thousand dollars in big irrigation projects
in Washington, the two Alaska pioneers are
headed for"Seward, and will investigate sev
eral mniing properties they have become
interested in, and will return later to \ aldez
to acquire mining property in this section.
Major French was one of the first road
builders on Seward peninsula. Besides ex
tending the railroad for ninety miles into
the Kougarok country, he built, at his own
expense, many miles of wagon roads in the
vicinity of Penny and Cripple rivers.
Major Frensh played a prominent part in
the early development of Nome, and was
one of those who fought the Noyes gang,
when an attempt was made to steal from
the miners by illegal procedure the rights
of their discoveries. Judge Noyes and a
number of his receivers were finally landed
in the penitentiary. The incidents formed
the plot for Rex Beach’s story, “The Spoil
ers.” Beach at this time was a foreman
on Major French's gold claims, one of
which was the famous No. 5. An\,l creek.
Besides opening up a number of mining
claims. Major French built several big
ditches in Northwestern Alaska, among
them the Cedric and Solomon river water
ways. He purchased the Wild Goose rail
road, a fifteen-mile stretch of steel rail run
ning from the beach to Anvil creek, and
extended the system ninety miles into the
interior. He afterwards built the North
western & Cuban railroad.
Location Notices at Pioneer office