"RICH” TELLS OF INTERIOR ALASKA
(Dawson News. Sept. 12.)
An interesting estimate of the gold
output of the various placer camps of
the Interior of Alaska and review of
he mining and other activities of that
i Hgion is given by Volnev Richmond,
superintendent of the Northern Com
mercial Company, who is in Dawson
after having just completed his annual
tour uc inspection of company’s posts in
'hat large area, Mr. Richmond says:
“From data gathered from various
reliable agencies in the different camps,
I estimate the placer gold yield of each
of the camps this season will be ap
uroxiraate)\ as follows:
Fairbanks $800,000
Iditarod . 750,000
Polovana. 700,000
Kuskokwim . 250,000
Circle 225,000
Rubv 125,050
Koyukuk 100.000
Marshall . 75,000
Hot Springs. 00,000
Ophir District 50.000
Rampart 25,000
Chandlar 20,000
“Fairbanks as usual heads in the ln
• erior Alaska gold camps. VVhile its
Yield has dropped off much compared
to the earlier days of the camp. Fair
banks is a producer of no iiule conse
oiience, ami the fact, that it is so exten
sively an individual camp means the
menev is well distributed. Fairbanks
is the center of activities in the Xanana
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valley, and the caiBpc, of Tolovana and
Hot Springs are within the 60-mile
radius, which means’ they may well
be counted a portion of the Fair
banks camp. The entire Tanana val
ley lias a population of 3,600, which
! means it is one of the most active cen
ters in the North, and one of the most
j progressive in tfie entire Yukon basin.
I "Nenana, which does not appear
! among the gold producers, is the gov
lernment railway town only 40 miles
j north of Fairbanks. The work on the
i railway t.c connect. F'airbanks and Ne
! nana has been progressing si eadily all
j season, and will lie completed bv the
end of November, this year, when the
two towns will have steady rail com
munication. The roadway is built for
a standard gauge road, and ties pro
vided for that width,,but for the pres
ent tile line is to,he made narrow gauge
and so arranged that the rails can be
spread to-standard measurement when
required.
"It possibly may be a couple of years
, before the railway t» connect Fairbanks
i and Nenana witli the Alaskan coast
will be completed, depending, of course,
largely on the appropriation which
Congress will allow each season. Autos
i now run out .the 310 miles from Fair
banks to Chitina. the interior terminus
of the Copper P.iver, & Northwestern
railway, wuich cenueols on the coast
end at Cordova. The autos have been
making the trip over the road steadily
during the good weather this summer
in two and a half to three days. The
wagon road to .Valdez is 60 miles longer
and quite mountainous, so is not used
so much as the Chitina route. A good
many tourists have been traveling the
auto route from Fairbanks to the coast
this summer. After the railway is
j completed from jNenana to the coast, I
i look for a heavy tourist traffic down
| the Yukon annually and out over that
| railway. It will make a wonderful
i trip with no repetition of scenery, and
; many new phases. ,Now is the time for
the North to begin to exploit this
great circle route, and keep the busi-!
ness coming by wav of, Dawson.
| ‘'The Koyukuk camp did not develop!
| the big proposition which some thought
earlier in the season would be proved
j on the Hatties river. < It is to be re
I gret'ed the thing did not. prove out as
; big as some anticipated, but continued
i prospecting may yet prove there is a
! rich pay streak in the country, and
! mean the opening of a very active
i camp.
“In the lditarod earnp the chief oui
i fi's at. work this season comprise the
I small Uiiev dredge on .Otter, and the
i small Beaton & Donnelley dredge on
I the same stream; Walsh and Ford,
| open-cutting on Flat creek; and the
| Upgrade association, who are u-ong the
I scraper .system. The big Yukon Gold
Idredgtq on Flat, is shutdown, and the
| future intentions respecting it are uu- i
; Known.
i "At Marshall the situation is quiet
i this season. The same, may he said in
\ respect to Ruby, in the Circle district
I the Berry dredge and some other oper
j ators are continuing operations and
making good showings.
I "Tom Aitken, tiie veteran Klondike
operator, is carrying on big operations
in tiie Kuskokwim and the Kantishna, j
and is one of the live-wire miners of I
i tiie country, lie lias a dredge produc- i
ing steadily on Caudle creek, lt> miles j
from tiie Takotna river, at the head of,
the Kuskokwim, where Mrs. Aitken,
formerly Miss McHenry of Dawson, has
rendered great assistance as local man
ager. Last spring she mushed in over
the trail from the coast to Candle and j
got tiie crews together, and started tiie!
dredge while Tom attended to some of
h is business on tho coast. Tom is!
classed as a millionaire, and the firm of
Aitken & Aitken, as it is styled, seems j
prospering in every respect."
‘“The latest Aitken exploit is to open
j two silver properties. Tom calculates i
j on getting 1,000 tons of silver-lead ore
I this winter on Nixon Fork, about.101
m>les above Takotna. He will have to i
i make a haul of 12 miles over the snow J
I to the river. He has ordered 20,000
| sacks through us for t he ore, and they
i are being delivered this season up the
j Kuskokwim river by Captain Wallace :
j Langley’s steamer Tana,
i ‘’Aitken also has ordered 20,000 sacks I
j with which to deliver 1,000 tons of sil- j
i ver-lead ore from a propet ty which he i
will work this winter in the Kantishna I
country, not far from Fairbanks. He1
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IDITAROD, ALASKA
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will have to make a 30-mile haul to get
the ore to the steamer. Tom’s brother,
William, who recently passed through
Dawson enroute from the Outside, went
to join Torn.
“The Carlisle Packing & Canning
Company, which has a cannery oper
ating on the Yukon river near the
mouth, has been doing well, and it is
estimated the pack will be 50,000 cases
for the season. The product is being
shipped our, by wwv of St. Michael.”
CHANGEOFMAiTTRAIL
Anchorage Times, Aug. 30: Alvah
Karnes, chief railway clerk for this sec
tion and in charge of interior mail
routes, is in Anchorage on ufficial busi
ness.
Mr. Karnes will leave for Kodiak on
the Admiral Watson. Mr. Karnes in
forms the .Times that ihe-Seward-Idita
rod mail route has been discontinued,
and that hereafter the Iditarod mail
will be routed by way of Cordova,
Chitina, Fairbanks, and thence to Idit
arod.
In speaking about the change this
muming Mr. Eames stated that the or
ders came direct from headquarters,,
and while lie could give no further ex
planation, it may be presumed that the
former route through here has proved j
more expensive than anticipated for
the manner to he served. The popula
tion of the intermediate section as well
as Idita**od has materially decreased]
since the original schedule was put I
into effect. The towns and camps along
the proposed government railroad has
drawn from the Interior places until
there are practically no one to sei ve I
along the old route. The change does
not make unv particular difference to
the people living in the district, and,
according to Mr Earnes, a better ser
vice will be furnished by the new
route, although a longer distance will
have to be traveled.
l’he infrequency of the steamship
service during the winter months to
Seward as well as the uncertainty of
the railroad connections between An
chorage and Seward also have impor
tant bearings on the.questiou, and have
been prime factors in causing the
change to be made.
! REMAINS OF J. C. MOODY
SHIPPED TO LOS ANGELES
—
I Whitehorse, Y. T.. Sept- 5. —The
j body of the late J. C. Moody, of Flat.
City. Alaska, whose death from bright*
disease occurred aboard the steamer
Casca last week while that vessel was
upstream bound between Dawson and
this place, was, under direction of Capt
A. J. Bell, of the R. N. W. M. P , ir
compliance with a telegraphic request
sent by the deceased’s brother from hi*
home in Los Angeles. Calif., enclosed
in a hermetically sealed casket and
shipped Monday to Seattle in charge of
Matt De Courcey, who has attended
the dead man on his way up the river
I from Flat City.
A valise belonging to tha deceased
containing toilet articles and a limited
supply of wearing apparel, was turned
over to De Courcey, as was also the
check for a trunk that had been sent
th taugh in bond to Skagway. The
checks and cash taken charge of by tin
police, amounting to $1,180, with the
exception of a few light expenses in
preparing the body for shipment have
been sent to John Black, public admin
istrator at Dawson.
Herb Kearney, an old-timer of the
Northland, returned to camp last Sat
urday after a trip to Chechaeoland.
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