Makes a Clean-Up.
Fred. \V. Hart, who was in Val
dez representing the New York
Life insurance company, is missing
and it is claimed he has endozzlcd
$2,200 collected here.
The Seattle manager of the com
pany says :
“I lielicve Hart is an experienced
life insurance agent and a criminal
worker of great skill. He went to
Valdez, and in alout two weeks
did $.'10,000 worth of business, at
the same time impressing all with
his apparent honesty and ability.
He said he had s|ont several sum
mers in Valdez when he entered
our employ, and he showed us ref
erences from men of the l>est stand
ing there, but our agent there was!
not shown these recommendations.
Some trifling excuse was advanced, j
But the references were intended
for our benefit, and not for the
Valdez agent.
“That the whole plan was one
carefully executed from the login
ning I am Convinced.” continued
Mr. Hart. “ I believe the man we
now want so badly came to us one
of the lost insurance men in the
country, while he represented him
self as a novice. He was employed
on his excellent appearance and
business-like manners us well as
on his references. After lie reached
Valdez he made a record which has .
been but seldom dputled in the
history of insurance business. His
commissions reached several hun
dred dollars, but he was not satis
fied with these, and I am convinced
he intended to make the big clean
up at one stroke.”
Tlic Simla Ana arrived liere last |
Monday with 42 passengers. She i
left Seattle Fell. 2H, and had good
weather the entire trip. Mr. Jas.
Park is now steward on the lioat
in plaee of Mr. (’lose.
The following is the passenger I
list:
John M lleuilt. Sure. I’. S. A., Mrs. Hewitt,
Kdmiiml Smith un«t Wife. Miss Floy Smith.
ItniiMl«l Smith, AUretl It. lies, Mrs. Helen Sax
ton, J. A. Northway ami Wife, Mrs. K. Ray
mond, Miss LI xxle Hid. Mrs. Kd. Smith, Mrs.
Johanna Martin ami two children. Sift. .las. J.
Hacked, r. S. A . II. Ihielimail, J. II. hoiialnie.
Alvin Walter. Win. Kin*. A. K. Origshy, Pete
Nelson,f'has. Soiitar, T. Ilemano. t'lia*. <•. Huh
ImhI, L l>. Iluhhard. L. I.. Hales, M. M. Hehinner, .
r. S. Sinclair. J. It McNeil. <\ F. Hill. W. H.
Hart. Is»|fan Areliihald, Thos. Kuhanks, Thos.
M White, tieo. W. Hiiltoii. II. W. Patterson, .1.
T. Ilayes, O. Hiinensen. Simon Olsen, J. Wilson,
tieo. W. Puckett, O. tijurntara. T. Saihl, II.
Kato.
One Reason Por the Change.
One of the charges against Capt.
Johanson and one of the reasons
for which lie was relieved of com
mand of the Bertha is that of negli
gence contributing to the loss of
four lives, for which the Alaska
! Commercial company have just had
judgement tiled against them in the
jdistrict court at Juneau, for fo.lMNI
anti costs, which amounts iti all to
over $8,000. The facts in the ease
are as follows:
In the winter of 1900 the steamer
Bertha, commanded l\v Capt. Jo
hanson, undertook to tow
the schooner Dora B. from
Juneau to Lituya Imv. Off the
Southeastern Alaska coast and
when within a few miles of their
destination those aboard the Dorn
B. are said to have cut the tow
line. A storm was raging at the
time. The Bcrthn meanwhile pro
ceeded and a few hours later the
Dora B. went down. Four men
who were on hoard of her—Cannon,
Van Burden, Williams and Jansen
—were drowned.
The Lituya Bay Placer Gold
Mining company, which owned the
Dora B., had administrators ap
pointed for the four men whose
lives were lost and at once insti
tuted suit against the Bertha and
the Alaska Commercial company,
charging that the Bertha aitd her
officers were rcs|>oiisihle for the
disaster.
There i« to lie $50,000 appropri
ated hy congress for an Alaska
huilding at tlie St. Louis Fair, and
the citizens of Alaska are ex|>ccted
to furnish the exhibit. This ap
propriation is all right as far as it
goes, hut to do justice to Alaska
there should l>e an additional ap
propriation of $50,(XX) to assist in
gathering up a creditable exhibit.
The citizens of Alaska are willing
to do all in their |K>wer, hut the
expense of collecting material for
an exhibit, such as specimens from
the cop|K'r mines in the interior
and transporting them to the coast
and from there to St. Louis, is too
great to l>e liorne entirely by the
people. If congress will provide
the means for doing it, Alaska will
furnish an exhibit that will do
more to advertise this country than
all the literature that could la*
printed regarding its great re
sources.
Meals a la Carte Open All Night
“Wikidel’s”
Most Elegant Restaurant in the Northwest.
Cor. Keystone and McKinley Valdes, *««»*■■
Loomis
T ransportation
Company
Contracts Freight to aii Interior Points.
Freighting by sleighs begins Feb.
1st Freight consigned to them
must be in Valdez by Eebruary 25
First Pack Train leaves Valdez May
25 Best line of Saddle Horses
in the Northwest
Trading Posts at Tonsina and Nlzina Full Line
Miners and Prospectors Supplies.
SEATTLE MARKET
DEALERS IN
Meat and Poultry of all kinds
in large quantities.
F W SMALL, Prop
Cor McKinley and Keystone, Valdez
FdCiriC PACKINQ
fr H/1VW/1TI0N CO.
Carrying U. S. Mail and Express.
Str. Nome City J
Str. Excelsior |
t
Str. Santa Ana j
Sir. Shelikoir J
J
I
From Seattle For Valdez. Nth of ea« li
month. From Valdez for Seattle. 22lh
of eaeh month.
Front Seattle for Valdez, Cook Inlet and
way |M>rts, 211th of eaeh month. Front
Valdez for Seattle and way istris, Nth of
eaeh month.
Front Seattle for Valdez. Cook Inlet and
way (tons 25th of eaeh month. From
Valdez for Seattle and way |mrts, 12th of
eaeh month.
From Valdez to Cnalaska ami way jmrts
29th of eaeh month, commoting with Str.
Kxeelsior front Seattle. Arrives at Val
dez 22d of eaeh month, conneeting with
Str. Nome City for Seattle.
(*oni|mny riwm** right to change steamers or ilute of sailing
without notice.
Scuttle* Office (ilnlx- Itnildinir.
Sun Francisco Office HO California St.
Chicago Office—iiS Kiver Si.
New York Office—!)"» Hudson Si.
J. C. Martin,
Agent.
PHONE IS.
Mask) (oral (m
Three Sailings each Month from Seattle
Str. PORTLAND
Leaves Seattle for Valdez direct Keh. 1st. Leave*
Valdez for Seattle direel on oraliout Kelt. Sth, land
ing passengers in six days after leaving Valdez.
Str. BERTHA.
Sails front Seattle via. Juneau. 10th of each month.
Sails from Valdez via Juneau, 2oth of eaeh month.
DUE NOTICE WILL BE (JIVEN OF FUTURE SAILIN'!! DATES.
Passenger Service Unequalled.
For rapid delivery of Freight and for
Passenger Bates and Berths applv to
VALDfZ DOCK i VAKHKt (OltPAKT.
Sax Fbaxcisco Offic e, 310 Sansome St. FRANK J. KINUHoRN,
-Skatti.e Aciexcy, S4 Yesler Way. Secretary.
James Carrt.lI, Seattle Agent.
Subscribe for the [Prospector.
Mount Baker & Yale Mining Company
Eighty-Foot Big Free Gold Vein
This mine is han
dled by men that
are not plungers or
rainbow chasers
but careful, practi
cal business men,
whose business
methods are a land
mark, a mile post
and a beacon light
in the prosperity of
the great state of
Washington.
Eight million, five hundred thousand ton- of free milling gold ore
estimated to lie above water level, or about thirty-three years’ supply
for 240-stamp battery treating 850 tons daily.
Estimated value of ore above water level at only per ton, oyer
125,000,000.
Cost of production estimated at 75 cents per ton.
To lie worked open as a quarry, no winding or pumping machinery
being required.
Timber for all purposes abundant on the spot.
Free water )>ower available, at a small expense for piping only,
with practically an unlimited supply all the year round for driving
machinery.
All necessary supplies easily obtainable at about Pacific Coast
prices plus carriage to Yale on the Canadian Pacific Hailway, within
five miles of the mine.
The climate is temperate and equable, enabling the mine to be
worked throughout the year, the altitude being only about 1,000 feet
above the level of the sea.
Estimated net revenue U]>on the completion of a forty stamp mill
with capacity of 200 tons daily, $36,(XX) per month.
Lowest conservative estimate of assays over $9 ]>er ton. (See page
9 of Prospectus on eightv-foot vein.)
One hundred tons put through little prospecting mill on the prop
erty gave between $4 and $5 |>er ton without saving any of the concen
trates, which gave assays of $6 and $7 per ton—making $10 or $12 a
ton in all.
This is a larger mine than the Treadwell of Alaska, whose rock
averages $2.12 per ton, paying a dividend of H per cent on $5,000,000
capitalization. The stock in the Treadwell which sold for 15 cents is
now worth $32 per share.
Estimated 18 jht cent dividends on $2.500,(XX) with only forty
stamp mill crushing 2<X) tons dailv. (United States Investor vol Xil,
No. 52).
The Mt. Baker & Yale claims are in the same mineral zone as
the Eureka mine, once owned by Alex. Barron, B. F. McCracken, E. L
Dodge und H. H. Soule, with its rare ealverite tellurium ami gold ore.
\Ve ask you to examine carefully the reports of the following well
known and authoritative cxj»erts who have examined the Mt. Baker Sr
Yale property:
R. B. Symington, Dalziel (». Smith, minister of mines of British
Columbia; Henry Stanislawsky: A. S. Lord, of Crass Valley, Calif;
Fred Raddeltinger, of San Francisco; C. |). Nelson, employ of Band
Mining Company, South Africa.
We refer you to the following newspapers and journals that, unso
licited, have written in glowing terms of this property:
United States Investor, Dec. 27, 1902, published in Boston, New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco; Chicago Western Min
ing World; The Mining and Engineering Review of San Francisco;
New York Commercial; The Seattle Daily Times; The Whatcom Daily
Reveille; Northwest Miner of Seattle; Chicago Trade Journal.
And we refer you and request you to write the following well
known men, as to our standing and their knowledge of our property:
Jesse Frye, U. S. District Attorney for Washington; Judge Hir
am E. Hadley of Washington Supreme Court; S. A. Calvert, state land
commissioner; Judge Jere Netterer of the Supreme court of Whatcom
county; J. J. Donovan, general manager and superintendent of the B.
B. A 6. C. railway; and any bank of Whatcom, Wash.
This wonderful group of mines is destined to eclipse anything on
the American continent. Ten millions tons of free milling ore above
water level that can be milled and mined from .r»0 to 7"> cents |)er ton.
An 80 instead of a 40-stamp mill is now in course of construction. This
property has “been worked in a small way for twelve years.
Special
Features
Regarding
The Largest
Free Gold
Mine in
I North
America.
' No enterprise of modern times
offers such inducement to the think
ing investor. A few hundred dol
lars now will yield n competency
for life. Big dividends will lie as
sured of ut least 17*2,000 per month
net profits us soon as the mill is in
operation.
See W. C. STULL,
*
Valdez Alaska
.. • •
We have 80,000 shares of non
assessable sleek which we will place
at 2'» cento per share until advanced
Home Office:
FISCHER BLOCK,
WHATCOM,
WASH.