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VOLUME I, NO. 20. _ VALDEZ, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1902. OFFICIAL CITY PAPER.
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Slate (reeli News.!
SNOW HAS DISAPPEARED.!
CLAIMS ALL WORKING |
TROUBLE IN CAMP.
Slate Creek, June 12.—The snow
is all gone on Slate and for
two or three claims uj» Miller
Gulch, and nearly every one is at
work on their claims. The Tacoma
claim is working two shifts, with a
large force of men. The owners are
putting in a 2,000 foot ditch,taking
their water out of Slate below dis
covery and bringing it along the
hillside to the head of the claim.
Should the water give out on Mil
ler Gulch the work on this piece
of property will not cease. The
ditch will furnish water during the
entire season. “Government” Ed.
Dickey has charge of construction
of the ditch and l>r. Bradley and
Bill Scott are managing the claim.
The “Humdinger,” Date & Ros
enthall’s claim on Slate, is lteing
opened as rapidly as possible. Geo.
Krau has charge of the work. Just
at present only one shift is being
worked. Mr. Krau informs me
that as soon as a cross-cut has lieen
put across the lower end of the
property he will put on three N
hour shifts.
The “California Boys” com
menced shoveling in to-day. James
Baker and Sinq son have charge of
the work.
Breluue & Larson Bros, have
hcen shoveling in for some time.
They are working two shifts of ten
men each.
N. K Ohlsson’s claim, leased to
Carl Swanson, Garrett Hanson and
others, is having a great deal of
work done on it this year. The
top of the entire creek property is
lieing ground-sluiced. Already
nearly four feet of the top gravel
has la-en taken off. They will com
mence to shovel in next week.
Sandlierg lias two shifts at work.
He rejHirts much lietter results
than last year. He is employing
aUiut twelve men.
Active operations have not 1k
gun yet on the “Four Black Dogs.”
The late freshet last year tilled in
most of the cuts, and they are be
ing ground-sluiced out. The work
on this priqK-rty is in charge of1
Holier 8mitli and James Black.
Jack Miller has been working
two shifts for the last week, hut
shut down yesterday on account of
frost. Jack’s last years out filled
up with tailings front the claims a
bove. \\ hen he opened up this
year he sluiced the tailings through
the boxes and took out enough to
pay for opening up his claim this
Spring.
Kramer A La voile were put to
quite an expense and not a little in
convenience by the nig slide. They
spent nearly $2,000. to get the snow
euf out. and are working two shifts
now. Dorsey is running the night
shift and ('has. the day shift. Thev
are employing about twenty meti.
Bert Hurd was in the slide hut
shoveled his way out, and has two
shifts at work.
1 ullv and Garrett are playing in
hard luck this Summer. Thev
have alsitit IS feet of snow on thc-it
claim. It will he sometime la-fort
they get to work.
Boh Coles has a large force o|
men on the Dempsey iV Coles claim
Work has been at a standstill fot
some time, hut will he resumed to
morrow.
Neil Rols'son it Sam Miller art
shoveling snow on their Millet
Gulch claim. The claim is so higli
that they will he quite lute in get
ting started.
Date »V Roscnthall’s claim, tin
"Marie”, has quite a hit of snow o
it, and will not he opened much he
fore July 1st. Fred Date, w ho is
managing theprnpertv, tells me lit
has everything ready to start as
soon as the snow isoff theground.
Me. Neffe Bros, leased the Von
Zeiple property next above the Ma
rie. They are in the same boat as
Date and Kolteson. These are the
three highest claims on Miller
tiulch. and they are so near the
sky-line the snow is slow to leave.
Sam Taylor and Bert Me. Dow
ell have their shaft down sixtv
feet. Neitherone of them say very
much hut both seem happy. 1
guess it is all l ight. When every
thing is all right Sam is quiet and
smiling, but when it is not he is
noisy and scowling.
Over on Chesna everybody is at
work on their property.
liazlctt it Meals have both plants
in full operation.
The "Jack Pot” is open. Billy
Finiele opened it fof a big clean up.
Todd. Frazer, Stoker, tiillis, Mason
and several othei' are at work on
the property. They arc working
two shifts, and are open two weeks
ahead of last year,
For Seattle and way ports Str.
Santa Anna, Friday June 27ih.
Tickets at Fish Bros.
Dad. Nokes is doing quite a hit
of work on his upper Chesna prop
erty this year.
(•rogg tte Johnson are giving
their entire time and attention to
their Chesna property.
Mr. Dempsey has a large force of
men at work on his various proper
ties. He is camped at the ferry.
The people owning properly on
Middle Fork are sending over quite
i large number of men to do as
sessment work.
there was quite a little excite
ment caused the other night by
I'apt. Johnson going down the
L-reek calling for a miners meeting
tv settle a dispute between Demp
sey, Coles and liosford. Nearly
the whole camp turned out’ When
the meeting was called to order,
Judge Lcvelle was elected chair
man, and the disputants stated
their cases. It appears that Coles
LV Dempsey, who own a half inter
est each in a claim on Miller Gulch
had an agreement not to sell their
interests without first consulting
together, and giving each other a
chance to buy. According to the
testimony at the meeting one is
lead to believe that Hosiord brought
some influence to bear on Dempsey
whereby he secured a bill of sale
from Dempsey of his one-half in
terest without Dempsey consulting
Uole, Dempsey said liosford told
him that Boh was willing that
Dempsey should make the sale.
Coles denied that he told Hosiord
anything of the kind. Coles had a
lease on Dempsey’s interest, Hos
ford came to collect his share of
the profits on the bill of sale and
Coles refused pay, saving that
i'ouiiuuetl ou fourth JNift*.
SURVEYS
connEKED.
VA1DEZ (OPPtR DIVtn 8 TUItOII RAfLDOAh
Has (tawed idiie Operate.
Fifteen Engineers Arrive Here And Commenee the
Surveys for a Standard Guage Road
To Eagle City.
Work on the Vahlez, (.'uppei
| River, >V \ ukon Railroad has com
menced. A party of fifteen en
gineers arrived hereon the Str,
Santa Ana from Seattle last Tues
i day and on Wednesday morning at
ti o’clock they commenced work on
j the surveys, under the direction ol
I Henry Dcvo, who is at present in
jehargeof the work.
.Mr. O. P. Hubbard of Iowa City.
Iowa, and Washington 1>. (_’., tlu
| legal representative of the emit
i pany, also arrived on the same
I boat to attend to the legal busi
ness of the company at this place,
femperary offices of the companv
are living established in the White
building at the corner of McKinley
street and Broadway.
Mr. E. (lillette the well known
engineer who surveyed a portion of
this route in 1899, is the chief en
gineer of the new road and will
arrive here in two or three weeks
with a corps of 25 surveyors and
assistants, and will push the work
of construction as rapidly as possi
ble, and the road will probably be
completed to the summit for tin
spring trade.
Surveys w ill now In- made from
Hazlett to Valdez and Bloomcrville
and one of these places will la
made the terminal point of the road,
but which place has not yet been
definitely settled.
A vessel is now on the way
around the Horn loaded with rails
for the road and enough are alreadv
purchased to build 70 miles of the
line. Mr. Honey has not received
the contract but it has been let to
one of the most prominent railroad
contractors in the United States.
This is the company which Mr.
B. F. Millard is representing here
and the one he has said ever since
he came up this spring would
build tie- road. His statements
that a railroad would be built from
Valedz bay to the Yukon and by
the company he represents is prov
ing correct.
The i\ I. of the 15th has the fol
lowing to say regarding the project.
"A standard guage railroad, com
plete in every department, running
from Valdez to the Yukon river,
over an all American route, is one
of the certainties of the next two
years. The men Iceland this ven
ture are no idle dreamers- They
have no stock tic sell, but they have
what is better, a complete survey
of the proposed line, money enough
to float the project, eomicetent en
gineers to surmount the ditliculties
to Ice met along the line,anil one of
the ablest railroad constructors in
the United States to push the work
of construction through. The men
who are furnishing the money for
this road have built railroads in
Nicaragua and South America, not
to s)ccak of the roads built in the
United States, and are going about
the work *n a quiet, business-like,
determined way that means succesa.
The advantage that tins railroad
will have over till others talked of
in Alaska is the fact that it is not
only an all American route, but the
line will Is- kept open all winter.
\ aider, can Ik- entered by sailing
ships as well as steamers the year
round, and with a run of three days
from Seattle to Valdez, and a trip
of one day from Valdez to the Yu
kon by rail, Dawson is brought to
the very doors of Seattle.
Senator Kittridge, of South Da
kota now has a bill before the (J. S.
senate, asking that the government
grant a subsidy of every alternate
• section for ten miles on each side of
I the tract for building the road.
The promotors of the road would
like very much to have this subsidy,
of course, but state emphatically
that the road will be built, subsidy
or no sultsidy. By the building of
this road, the longest in Alaska, all
'that great American territory now
tributary to Dawson,—St. Michael,
j Circle City, Eagle City, and all
! the territory tributary thereto will
j get freight from Americans hauled
' in by an American road.
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The route over which the road
will l»e built extends from Valdez
to the great copper fields, following
the valley of the Copper river,
crossing the Tatiana river and
thence to the Yukon, with lines
running to the celebrated copjier
fields of the Chittvna river. The
road will open up all that wonder
ful country in Eastern Alaska, so
rich in coal, copper and gold, which
has a climate as favorable to ag
riculture as that of Norway and
Swecdcii, and which has enough,
natural wealth to sup)*ort a mil
lion of jtcople.
rittecn engineers leave for \ al
dez on t lie Santa Ana this morning
and they-will be joined in aliout
three weeks by another party of
20 engineers under the direction of
E. (iillette, the engineer in charge
of the new railroad. These engin
eers go to make cross sections of
the survey and prepare the route of
the railway for the contractors.
Mr. (iillette now holds a respon
sible position with the Burlington
railroad in Montana, and that
stamps him as a competent railroad
mail. Mr. (iillette in shaking of
the new road in which he is inter
ested, is careful to say that it is not
a Burlington project, though some
of the men financially interested in
the latter corporation may he be
hind the new venture that is to do
for Alaska what the transcontinen
tal lines did for the Pacific coast,
by bringing that region in touch
with the outside world.
1 went over this whole route
while with the government, said
Mr. (iillette and I have no liasi
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