Forty-Mile Items.
40 Miu:, Alaska, Fob. 1st. -The
Forty Mile district looks forward
to a prosperous summer. The un
usual drouth of last season was a
great draw hack as it caused a
total suspension of work, and con
sequently most of the pokes were
were rather small this fall.
Mr. Banr who owns the projwrty
known as the Kink, on the north
fork, will hydraulic that ground
this summer, and will also put a
dredge on some of his bar diggings.
It is said that these two plants will
be operating this summer.
The North American Transporta
tion A Trading Co. are placing an
hydraulic plant on their ground
on Miller creek this winter.
During last summer they put in
a ditch nearly 2ft miles in length
to carry sufficient water for the
plant, and this summer they will
have in operation what is said to
be one of the best hydraulic plants
in the northwest. The work is be
ing condncted under the supervi
sion of Mr. C. S. Rohe, a practical
mining engineer.
Each year sees tlie population
gradually extending toward the
interior of Alaska. In a few years
the country between here and Val
dez will be fairly well settled with
both miners and homesteaders.
Mr. and Mrs. Schultz, who have
been conducting a road house at
the boundary on the Forty Mile
river for several years, will doubt
less move over to the Tanana Cross
ing, to establish a road house there
this spring.
Tuttle A Smith, of Dawson, are
also en route for the same vicinity
with five tons of provisions. Jos.
Braxton, of Chicken creek, has also
taken up a ranch in the neighbor
hood of the Crossing, and will
mush on there in the spring. Joe
will doubtless quit the mining busi
ness, and hereafter occupy himself
with gathering alfalfa in the sum
mer and entertaining the itinerant
in the winter.
1 lie mail question is causing con
siderable discussion among our
population just at present. Law
rence, who has been carrying mails
at this end of the route this winter
has stated that henceforth he will
carry no more mail to Franklin
postoffice; that it is not on the
line of his route, and that conse
quently he does not have to deliver
the mail to that point. A postoffice
was established at Chicken last fall
and D. R. Radcliffe appointed post
master. He qualified by executing
and delivering his bond, hut still
we so far have had to go to Frank
lin for our mail. Tim contractor,
Lawrence (we presume sub-con
tractor under Fish Bros., of Val
dez,) has told Mr. Radcliffe that he
will bring our mail from Franklin
to the Chicken post office if we will
give him $25 monthly. Of course
the boys will do this rather than
go to Franklin for their mail; but
there are several questions the boys
would like to have answered, and
and if necessary will communicate
with department about. The most
important of these is: Does the gov
ernment establish postoffices
throughout the country, appoint
postmasters and forward the para
phernalia connected therewith and
then notify the people resident in
that community that if they will
only get their mail to that office,
why, the kind gentleman will dis
tribute it for them? Are postof
fices mere ornaments or things of
use? Walter B. Allen.
Valdes Society.
The following from a write-up of
Valdes, by Arthur C. Johnson,
will show how our society impress
es an outsider:
“As the orchestra pealed out
merrily and rcores of incandescent
lights beamed down on the elite of
Valdes, participating in the gayest
party of the- season in a hall as
large and ornamental as any you
will find in a town of 5,000 inhabit
ants in the states, I invited a dain
ty creature in furbelows, laces and
high heels to mention her locality.
Hhe named a small village in Mich
igan.
“Been here two rears, too,” she
volunteered.
“Like it?”
uYas, it’s pleasant. I’ve roughed
! it some with my husband, but we
i have had plenty of company. Peo
ple are all youn,* here »ii I they are
all jolly. No; I dnnt think 1 could
i go hack and live contentedly among
the slow folks in our slow town—
unless I had lots of money.” She
I proceeded to volunteer the informa
tion that the prosjafts for having
the ‘ lots of money” were bright—
in faet the days of privation were
well over—but she made no men
tion of tire plans concerning the
returning home to live. They nev
er actually get to the going home
point, these Alaskans. The gam
bling is too fascinating. There is a
youngness and a growiness about
this big empire that makes the old
home town, with its good old souls
who talk crops and hold political
conversations at the corner groc
ery, seem dreary.
“The music of the orchestra at
this swell Valdez function got gay
er and more raggy. It went to the
head of a blonde youth of scarcely
two dozen summers, who cavorted
through a two-step with a lass of
pale beauty clad in blue. He pro
ceeded to jar things by kicking
high and landing on the door hard
with both feet ns he swung his
laughing partner around corners.
“The village cut-up.” someone
suggested.
“Had too much red lemonade,”
someone surmised.
“Oh, no; he’s all right,” put in
the lady of the frills and furbelows,
who looked on him with a moth
erly interest. “He’s an awfully
nice voting fellow, and he has made
just heaps of money out of his
claims, and he has been here only
two years. Why last year he clean
ed up $30,000 just by selling a
claim that bad nothing on it, and
he owns some of the best lots on
Main street.” After this bit of
information no one ventured any
more remarks about the capering
youth. He grows irresistably fun
ny when you know he has cleaned
up $30,0(H) in one deal. Rut don’t
let instances like this deceive you
into thinking Valdez society is
snobbish. Those who have mushed
it in vain and come back to the
camp to run up a fresh grub stake
by operating a news stand or by
mixing drinks at the leading saloon
at so much wages per day, come to
the ball and are as happy as gold
dust millionaires. Of course they
mustn’t play leap frog or try to
kick the electric light globes when
they two-step, like the moneyed
cavorting blonde, or somebody will
think they are drunk. They take
their pleasures soberly, and the
hail fellow signal around the hall,
is passed out to them as heartily
as though they belonged to the
more successful class.
To The P.-I.
Following is a portion of a com
munication sent to the Seattle P.-l.
by the Chamber of Commerce, with
the request that it be published:
Valdez, Alaska, Feb. 28. 1904.
Pobt-Intelligencek, Seattle, Wn.:
The undersigned have been in
structed by the Valdez chamber of
commerce to protest against the
misleading statements made in an
editorial appearing in the P.-I. of
the 16th instant, under the caption
“Alaska Roads.”
The said editorial, so far at least
as it purports to state the condi
tions prevailing in Alaska, is whol
ly untrue
There should be no rivalry be
tween the Alaska Central railroad
and the Valdez-Eugle wagon road.
The Alaska Central railroad, as
shown by prospectus, is to be built
from Resurrection bay, on Kenai
peninsula, up the Shushitna river
and down the Tanana to the Yukon
river. At no point along the en
tire main line of road does it ap
proach nearer than 200 miles to
the proposed wagon road. Resur
rection bay, the western terminus
of the railroad is about 200 miles
from Valdez, the western terminus
of ti.e wagon road. And the mouth
of the Tanana, on the Yukon, the
eastern terminus of the railroad, is
several hundred miles from Eagle,
the Yukon terminus of the wagon
road.
The great Copper river valley,
over 200 miles in length and 4(1
mile in width, and the many hun
dreds of miles of tributary streams
the vast regions along the Yukon
anil its tributaries between Circle
city aiul tbc Canadian tmundary
line, comprising the most extensive
and |ierhaps the richest mineral
country in the world, will not lie
remotely lienetittcd by the con
struction of the Alaska Central
railway.
We cannot understand, however,
why the promoters of said railrond
should op|>ose the Yaldez-Eagle
wngon road hill. If, as claimed bv
them, and as stated in your editor
ial, “the money lias been obtained
and the construction of the Alaska
Central railroad is, in fact, assur
ed,” why make this fight against a
wagon road through an entirely
different country? Will not the
fact that such a fight is being made
create a doubt in the tninds of the
intelligent public that all is as
serene and lovely with the Alaska
Central, as its friends would have
us believe?
Brown Up Against It.
A dispatch from Washington P.
C., says:
Special agents ol the department
of justice will he sent to southeast
cam Alaska to examine into the
affairs of the federal court for the
first district, ihe examination hav
ing special reference to many re
ports that have come to the presi
dent and the attorney general re
flecting upon the conduct of Judge
Melville C. Brown.
One of the charges against Judge
Brown relates to his connection
with one of the two rival water
companies at Ketchikan. Written
and verbal reports, with lot; of
ginger in them, have come to the
president that the judge owned a
large interest in one of the compan
ies, and that he held it during the
earlier stages of the hitter fight in
Ketchikan by which the town was
actually deprived of a public water
supply for some time. The charge
is that Judge .Brown disposed of
his interest just before the water
company litigation was brought
into his court; that the man to
whom his interest was transferred
was his friend, Watson J. Hills,
clerk of the court, and that the ap
plication of the Hills interests for
an injunction against the rival com
pany was heard and granted by
Judge Brown.
The Santa Ana reached port last
Thursday with the following pas
sengers:
W A Bell and wife. Mrs W P Marius, E H
King, C P Wilson, N K Ohlason, A Dalton, P 11
Herbeiira«h. H Mo*es, .1 t*rriahi. K .1 Kjeld, P
Paulaon. H Ivetft, Saul Storm. T W Blakency,
J Monk. C ]| llawkins, <ieo Warren. K J Smith.
B Smith. L C l.araon, K C Mvhren, Ceo Young,
M Dineon, M Happcl, W DeLaney, J C Carlson,
H Ringdahl, E Sexton, C Carlton, B P Foss.
Idaho will make a big exhibit of
tin ore at the World’s Fair. Im
portant discoveries of this metal,
so rare in America, were made re
cently near Salmon City, Idaho.
If anyone should ask you, just
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Notice oi Forfeiture.
Values. Alaska. Jan. 1.190J.
To Walter L. W hite and K. F. Willis:
You are hereby notified that tin undersigned,
A. II. It lev, ha* expended during the year
1W#. four hundred (fl'Mi) dollars*in labor upon
the Lost Chord, the Helen. the Cold Hollar and
the Hlack Hear mining claims situated on the
benches of Slate Creek and .Miller (iiilcb, in
! the Chiana mining district, Alaska, in Val
dez Recording District, the location notices
of which claims are now of record in the
office of the United States Commissioner at
1 Valdez, and to which notices reference is made
fora more particular description thereof, in
I order to hold said claims under provision of
i Section 2%M. Revised Statutes of the United
| States, and the amendments relating thereto
I concerning annual labor upon mining claims,
b 'in* the amount required to hold said claims
during the vear 1*M, ending December 31.
! 1‘.m;5. And if at the expiration of ninety
daVs from the publication of this notice, you
full or refuse to contribute your proportion of
; such expenditure, your interests in said claims
will become the property of the undersigned,
your co-owner, who has made the required ex
penditure by the terras of said section.
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