THAWING WITH COLD WATER
IN OLD KLONDIKE CREEKS
Dawson News, Aug. 15. On* of the
most important mining experiments
ever made in the North is being made
on Hunker. Gold Run anti Dominion
creeks. The Yukon Gold Company is I
making the experiments on its ground '
on Hunker and Gold Run, where it is ;
dredging. The North West Corporal ion i
is making experiments at Granville, on !
Dominion, and at No. 12 below lower ‘
discovery on Dominion.
The experiment is in thawing the
frozen gold-hearing gravels with cold
water, jo the process of preparing them
for dredging. Each company has been j
making the experitnentsseveral weeks, i
and it wdll be some time before they
reach definite conclusions. The tests |
Every Comfort for the Traveling Public
MEALS AT ALL HOURS
Adams
HOUSE
Formerly the McDonald, Iditarod
Dining Rooms and Baths
POOL ROOM IN CONNECTION
Free Reading Room — Lairg e and
Clean Stables for Horses and Dogs
If It’s Something Good to
Eat You’re Looking for
TRY THE
Arcade
CAFE
Golden & Poirier, Props.
Flat City’s Best Restaurant
Livery Saddle Horses
EXPRESS TO ALL PARTS OF DISTRICT
Crystal Springs taws;teelress
Delivered Daily to Your Door.
Dan Hartnett, Flat
The
Branch
GIGAR STORE
Klat City
FELIX PAUL
Riley & Reimer
PILOTS AND PROPRIETORS
All the Choice Summer
Refreshments Served
“So Nicely”
Travel in Comfort!
Ii'a F. Wood’s Powerful and Speedy Gas Launches
Nancy Bell and Prairie Bell
Connect with All Steamers Arriving a«d Leaving Dike
man Landing, Best Accommodations.
to date, however, are understood to
look promising of success. If proved all
that is hoped for them the saving in
the cost of thawing as compared to
the old steam thawing system it is
said may be great, and thus bring many
low grade gold-bearing properties into
profitable working reach.
The new thawing process is to drive
down the ordinary water or steam pipe
lo bedrock and force cold water through
it with hydraulic pressure or a steam
or elec'ricallv driven pump. Pipes of
three-eighths or three-quarters inch are
used, and have perforations at the ex
treme end, through which tne water
escapes, and percolates among the fro
zen gravels. The water is allowed to
rise back lo the surface from pressure,
and comes up outside the pipes. The
pipes drive much easier into the gravel
than the steam points, because of aid of
the jets of escaping water. The pipes
are driven with hammers and twisted
down. Pressure of ?.5 to 55 pounds to
the inch is exerted in the pipes by the
water. The pipes reach fully 40 feet
to bedrock at places, and the thawing
extends into the bedrock as well as the
gravel. The maximum thawing around
a pipe requires G to 16 days.
Thawing takes plaee for a radius of 8
lo 10 feet from each pipe, or 16 to 20 in
diameter to each spot. In mossy ground
where there is much muck shorter
pipes and more are used.
Temperature taken of water going
into tiie pipes and that coming out
shows that it comes out from 10 to 30
degrees colder than on going in—thus
meaning that many heat units are ex
tracted from it while in the ground.
The constant flow of water soon
amounts to a great deal of heat being
conveyed into the ground, and frost ex
tracted.
The foregoing figures are mostly
from experiments on Dominion, and it
is understood somewhat similar results
hnve Deen gotten on Hunker and Gold
Run. l'he Yukon Gold, it is under
stood, expects to dredge out some of the
ground thawed by the new process I
within a few davs.
-:
Threaten to Burn Zeppelins
Coblenz, Aug. 28.—Germans in charge
of 24 Zeppelins near Berlin have threat
ened to burn them rather than deliver
them to ilie Allies as required by the
peace terms, according to information
oniained by the American army author
ities here, it ivas learned today The
Zeppelins are of 25-tons capacity and
can fly from Berlin to San Francisco,
according to German soutces Several
of them were built to carry 40 persons.
Wrecked Off French Coast
Lorient. Francs, Aug. 30.—As a re
sult, of a storm al sea, wreckage of an
American merchant, steamer was
washed ashore here last, night. The
vessel's name is unknown.
More Revoluting in Budapest
London, Aug. 30.—An Amsterdam
dispatch states that a revolution broke
out in Budapest today. Armed rioters
began act ion by storming the postoffice,
during which a number of persons were
killed. ______________
Yankee Troops Coming Back
Vladivostok, Aug. 30.—The transport
Thomas sailed from this port today
with 540 American troops for San Fran
cisco. This is the flrst large detach
ment of American forces to sail for
home.
Discounting Canadian Money
Fairbanks, Aug. 30.—Becoming ef
fective yesterday, a discount of 10 per
cent, on Canadian silver money and 5
per cent, on Canadian currency is an
nounced.
Dr. Reinsch to Quit China
Washington. Aug. 30.—Dr. Paul S.
Reinsch, of Wisconsin, has resigned as
American minister to China.
NOTICE
I am closing my Jewelry store on Sep
tember 6, 1919; all accounts are due and
payable. Those having unsettled ac
counts, or watches and jewelry at my store
for repairs, will please call on or before
the above date.
Cris Atithonisen, Flat, Alaska
Miners & Merchants Bank
IDITAROD, ALASKA
Capital and Surplus, $75,000.00
CORRESPONDENTS: Scandinavian American 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
In the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Fourth Division.—Geo. W.
Albrecht, Plaintiff, vs. John F. Baird, ;
Jujira Wada and E. A. Mcllhenny, ;
Defendants.—No. 362 I.—Alias Sum-'
mons for Publication.
The President of the United Stales of 1
America, to tne above-named Defend- |
ants:
By virtue of an order for 'he publica
tion of t lie summons, made and entered
in the above entitled court and cause, at
Flat. Alaska, on the 13th day of August,
1919. which said order reads as follows:
Upon leaning and filing the affidavit of
Geo. W. Albrecht and it, satisfactorily
appearing to me the judge of the said
District Court for the Territory of
Alaska. Fourth Divis on, that the de
fendants and each of them after due dil
igence cannot be found within the Ter
ritory of Alaska: and that the, defend
ants Jujira Wada and E. A. Mcllhenny
are not residents of t|ie Territory of
Alaska; and it, appearing from the affi
davit aforesaid that a cause of action
exists in this action in favor of the
plaintiff herein and against the said de
fendants and each and all of them; and
that the said defendants John F. Baird.
Jujira Wada. and E. A. Mcllhenny. are
each and all necessary and proper par
ties defendant thereto; and it further
appearing that a summons has been
duly issued out of said court in this ac
tion. and that personal service of the
same cannot be made upon the said de
fendants or upon either of them, for the
reasons hereinbefore contained and by
said affidavit made to appear, and it
further appearing from said affidavit
that property of the defendants within
the Territory of Alaska has been seized
and is now held in attachment in this
action, and that the court, lias jurisdic
tion of the subject of this action; the
said property so seized being described
as follows, to wit:
Placer mining claims No. b Below
Discovery; San Diego Bench, first tier,
right limit, opposite creek claim No. 5
Below Discovery; Smitt Bench, first
tier, right limit,, opposite creek claim
No. b Below Discovery: and Creek Claim
No. 2 Above Discovery; all of the above
four claims being located on Bear
Creek, a tributary of Tulecsac river, in
the Kuskokwim Recording District.
Fourth Division, Territory of Alaska.
Also, the following personal properly:
One 5-inch gasoline drill situated on
claim No. 1 Above Discovery on Spruce
Creek, a tributary of Bear creek, afore
said; one Baggerly scraper and appur
tences, the same consisting of a boiler,
engine, pump, parts and extra parts,
and all machinery used in connection
with said scraper (the said parts and
fittings being packed in three boxes
and situated in close proximity to the
boiler and engine aforesaid), and all sit
uated on Discovery claim, oo Bear
creek, aforesaid. All of said above de
scribed property, both real and per
sonal, having been seized as the prop
erty of the defendant E A. Mcllhennr.
Now, therefore, on motion of Geo. W.
Albrecht, plaintiff and attorney, it is
ordered that the service of the sum
mons in this action be made upon the
defendants and upon each of them by
publication of said summons in the Idit
arod Pioneer, a newspaper published at
fditarod, Alaska, hereby designated as
the newspaper most likely to give no
tice to said defendants; that such pub
lication be made not less than once a
week for six weeks.
And it further appearing to me thaL
the residence and address of the de
fendant John F: Baird is unknown but
that there is a possibility that mail
might reach him if addressed to Port
age Bay, Alaska; and it also appearing
that the address of the defendant, E. A.
Mcllhenny is Avery Island, Louisiana;
it is ordered that a copy of the sum
mons and a copy of the complaint in
this action be forthwith deposited in the
in the post office at fditarod, Alaska,
postpaid and addressed to each of John
F. Bairn, Portage Bay, Alaska, and E.
A. Mcllhennv. Averv Island. Louisiana.
\ou are hereby required to appear iti
the District Court for the Territory of
Alaska, Fourth Division, within thirty
days after the completion of the six
weeks’ period of publication as pre
scribed by said order for publication:
and answer the complaint of the above
named plaintiff; and unless you so ap
pear and answer, the plaintiff will take
judgment against you and each of you
for the sum of two thousand and five
dollars ($2,005) with interest thereon
at the rate of eight per cent, per an
num from the lOlh day of April, 1913,
together with the costs and disburse
ments of this action; and will also
apply to the court for the relief de
manded in said complaint.
And upon judgment taken the prop
erty seized and held in attachment
herein will be levied upon and sold in
execution.
Witness, the Honorable Charles K.
Bunnell, Judge of said Court, this 13th
day of August, nineteen hundred and
nineteen. H. Claude Kelly,
[Seal] (,'lerk.
By Frank B. Hall, Deputy Clerk.
Bill Williams, who has been in the
vicinity of the Carlisle cannery, near
the south mouth of the Y ukon river,
returned here last week.