THAWS 6ROOND WITH COLD WATER
The thawing of mining ground by
using gravity water is proving a very
economical and satisfactory means of
operating the goldships on Otter creek
this summer. Both the Riley Invest
ment Company and Deaton & Donnel
ley have done away with the expensive
and laborious system of thawing by
steam, thereby effecting a daily saving
of at least $500 on each dredge.
By lite gravity-water system about
one-fourth the amount of labor is re
quired to keep plenty of ground pre
pared in front of the machine as bv the
steam process, and the saving of from
12 to 15 cords of wood daily (averaging
at least $15 a cord), together with
eliminating the greater part of the
“point” men and the wear and up-keep
of huge boilers and other equipment,
certainly reduces the operating ex
penses to a minimum.
This great, saving in the cost, of run
ning the Otter-creek dredges has been
a most timely h ipp mstanue for the
owners, for the simple reason that hoi h
dredges during the greater part of the
season been grinding in a class of
ground, and at a profit, too, that would
have been a bankruptcy proposition by
i he steam-thawing method.
it is not claimed that the new system
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of thawing does away with the steam
points, as it will be necessary to em
ploy steam for a short period in the
spring before water runs plentifully,
and again in the fall of the year while
winter is tightening its grip on the
water supply.
Since the mining seasou opened last
spring both the Otter dredges have
been working steadily, especially so is
this the case with the Beaton &Donnel
j ley ship, which, it seems, has scarcely
i lost a moment’s time since it was tuned
| up. The Riley ship was forced to lose
| about 10 days' time during the first
■ half of last month on account of engine
i trouble, but has been doing good and
j steady work since that time.
] Bulb machines are now getting into
j much richer ground than any they
I have worked this year, and greai
'cleanups may he looked for during the
| remainder of the season.
I When the machines work regularly
cleanups are made at intervals of 10
| days. The Riley concern made a clean
!up last Saturday night that realized
jover $20,000, which is one of the best
j of the year. It is believed that the
1 next few cleanups will greatly exceed
; i bat amount.
GOT DREDGE TO MAYO
Dawson News, July 25: The dredge
: which has been at the mouth of Mc
:Quest.en river for a long- lime was de
j livered safely at Mayo last week. It
j was lowed up by the steamet Dawson.
(The steamer had a hard poll getting
i round Sterling bend, and for a time it
j seemed the boat would not make the
: rittie. Soundings were taken and the
steamer swung te one side, when the
dredge and steamer scraped over the
gravel and barely gut past. Had the
water been a little lower, it would
have been impossible to get oast, the
bend.
Many men and reams were on the
Mayo front busily preparing to dis
mantle the dredge and haul it to Highet
Creek. The waterfront is described as
having Ml the activity on a small scale
of the old Dawson front in the early
days. K. YV. Bradley, the Juneau min
ing matt, and his assistant. Thomas
McDonald, went up on the Dawson, and
will remain in the camp for a number
of days, visiting the silver properties.
Couldn’t Be Kept Back
Washington, Aug. 11.—Railroad
labor leaders declare the men’s de
mands for increases in wages and lower
living costs has brought prominently
to the fore the question of public own
ership of railroads.
For Bargains in
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GO TO PEX, FLAT
Travel in Comfort!
Ira K. Wood’s Powerful and S)ieedj Gas Paunches
Nancy Bell and Prairie Bell
Connect with All Steamers Arriving and Leaving Dike
man Landing, Best Accommodations.
_Closing-Out Sale!
GUT GLASS p SILVERWARE
BELOW COST.
Watches and Jewelry
AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
Leaving on the Last Boat
Cris Anthonisen, Flat, Alaska
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Miners & Merchants Bank
IDITAROD, ALASKA
Capital and Surplus, $75,000.00
CORRESPONDENTS: Scandinavian Amei-ic,in Bank, Seat
tle; National Park Bank, New York City; Anglo London
Paris National Bank, San Francisco.
We Sell American Bankers’ Checks.
Fourth Liberty Loan Bonds for Sale.
OFFICERS:
CHARLES ROSS, President
CLAUDE BAKER, Vice-President
R. C. BUTTON, Cashier
CARNEGIE IS NO MORE
Lenox, Mass., Aug. 11.—-Andrew Car
negie. tlie “iron master” philanthro
pist, died this morning at Shadow
Brook, his summer residence, of broD
cnial pneumonia, after an illness of
three days. His wife was with hint
when lie passed away.
Andrew Carnegie was born at Dun
fermline, Fifeshire, Scotland, Nov. 25,
1835; came with his family to America
in 1848, settling at Pittsburg; married
Louise Wliii field, of New York, in 1887;
one daughter, Margaret, was born to
them, who, a few raonihs since, mar
ried an army officer. Young Carne
gie’s first work was as a weaver's as
sistant in a cotton factory at Allegheny,
Pe.; became telegraph messenger Ooy
in Pittsburg office of Ohio Telegraph
Co. 1851; learned telegraphy, entered
employ of Pennsylvania Railroad Co.,
and became a telegraph operator, ad
vancing by promotions until he became
superintendent of the Pittsburg divi
sion of the Pennsylvania Railroad sys
tem; lie joined Mr. Woodruff, inventor
of the sletping car, in organizing the
Woodruff Sleeping Car Co., gaining
through it the negleus of his fortune;
careful investments in oil lauds in
creased his means; during the Civil
war tie served as superintendent of mil
itary railways arid government, tele
graph lines io the east. After the war
Mr. Carnegie developed iron works of
various kinds, and established at Pitts
burg the Keystone Bridge Works and
union Iron Works. He introduced in
this country the Bessemer process of
making si eel, in 1868; was the princi
pal owner a few years later of the
Homestead ami Edgar Thomson Steel
Works, and other large plants us head
of the firms of Carnegie, Phipps & Co.
and Carnegie Bros. & Co.; these inter
ests were consolidated in 1899 in the
Carnegie Steel Co., which in 1901 was
merged in the United Stales Steel Cor
poration, when tie retired from busi
ness. Mr. Carnegie gave libraries to
many towns and cities in the United
States and Great Britain, and large
sums in other benefactions—totaling
more than $300,000,000.
At the Belah hospital in Flat last
Sunday morning, August 10, Mrs. Dare
E. Brown, wife of the widely-known
oldtime miner of this camp, presented
her husband with a tine baby boy, and
Dr, Belah reports botn mother and
cheechaco doing tine.
General Kruska Is Called For
I London. Aug. 9. -The surrender of
| General Kruska, the commander of the
German prison camp at Kaiser, has
been demanded by the Allies, as the
first of enemy officers to be tried for
the violation of international law during
the late war. General Kruska is ac
cused of having been responsible for
the epidemic of typhus fever at Kaiser
camp which caused the death of 3,0W
French prisoners.
First Over Canadian Rockies
Calgary, Alta., Aug. 11.—Capt. K. C.
Huy on .Saturday made the first success
ful flight in an aeroplane across the
Canadian Rocky mountains from Van
couver to this city. He made the trip
in lti hours and 45 minutes.
■ Pointing at The Pioneer office.
Pete’s Bakery
And Coffee House
Front StM Flat
Regular Meals, Short Orders
Presh Bread, Pies and Cakes
Always on Hand
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