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YOL#I THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1905 NO. 94
SELL CROW CR K
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PROPERTY
Boston Company Given $200,000 Option on famous Hydraulic
Claims Which Will be Taken up December 15—Arrange
ments for Transfer Made by Representative
Now in Seward.
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m Huston capital has taken an option
Ion the lifteen claims of the (Tow Min
■ ng Company on tho north side of
J’urnagain Arm, by the terms, of which
it must take tho property by Decem
ber 15.
That the company will takeover the
property is a certainty because a highly
favorable report has been made by
C. W. Purington, the noted mining
.•Xpert who wrote the government re
port on Alaska mining resources
which was published a few months ago.
and who is regarded as an authority
on the subject.
Mr. Purington is now in Seward. He
came in Tuesday night with several
members of the company and the nee
essarv documents to consummate the
deal are to be exchanged here. Mr.
Purington went up late in September
to see the property and made a care
ful investigation. He was clothed
with authority to make a bargain if his
judgment dictated the acquisition of
the property, and has done so. Further
than that no will make no admissions,
saving that it is not his function to do
any talking for his employers. The
main facts regarding the deal were ob
tained from the other side.
Value Widely Known
The Crow creek property is known
to he one of the richest hydraulic
mines in Alaska. It is a surprise to
Seward people that the present owners
have decided to sell, but as they are
old Alaska sourdoughs it is supposed
that a yearning to hunt new pastures
has seized them.
The property which the Crow creek
company has agreed to sell consists of
fifteen claims. Seven of these are along
the bed of Crow creek and seven are
bench claims paralleling them. The
fifteenth claim is at the junction of
( row creek with Glacier creek. In the ■
course of the work already done the
pay taken out has ranged from b cents
a vard to $b. ft varies greatly, hut
practically every yard carries colors
in paying* quantity. The mine has j
ample water supply and where the
company has been working the faco is
140 feet high and about the same
width. The miners simply turn a
stream from the Hume against this face
and wash it down. The Hume takes
water from the upper end of the creek j
at the upper end of the property.
Owners Come to Seward
Four members of tin* Crow crock
' company came over with Mr. Purington
| to Seward. They areT. Fenstermacher,
the secretary of the corporation, \Y. G.
Jack, G. \Y. Davies and Paul Buckley.
They give no reason for selling the
| property except that they have done
I well on it and are willing that some
body else should make something.
Work on the mine will proceed
steadily, regardless of the pending
transfer, but it is assumed that when j
the eastern syndicate takes it over ,
operations will be conducted on a vast
scale, as it is the policy of mining!
capitalists to work their property to j
the utmost. This company has mining
interests in many states.
The attention of the syndicate which ,
has purchased t he property was directed ;
to it last summer by one of their engin
eers, Mr. Radford, who was here in
June. lie recommended it to the com
pany as one of the most remarkable j
bonanzas lie had ever seen. Mr. Pur-!
ington was then sent up with authority
to buy it if his opinion coincided with
that of Mr. Radford.
HOTEL OPENS NEW ROOMS
Six finished in McNeiley Extension
in a Hurry
Six new rooms were finished up in a
hurrv yesterday on the new third floor
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of t he McNeiley hotel, in an effort to j
provide beds for as many as possible of j
the overplus of travelers who arrived
on the Dora and over the trail from
Sunrise Tuesday night.
Completion of the building has been ;
delayed several weeks bv lack of mat- i
i erial, but the plastering of the addition !
L is done and the management succeeded ;
in rustling enough finishing lumber, a
few pieces at a time from different
sources, to outfit six rooms. Seventeen
more rooms ai'e incomplete and will
remain so until lumber can be ob
tained.
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SEWARD STEAMERS
Bertha; sailed from Seattle 13th; due
in Seward 23rd.
Santa Ana: sailed from Seattle Kith:
due in Seward, 20th.
Santa Clara in drydock; sails from
Seattle, December 1st.
Portland, sailed from Seward, 9th.
Excelsior: sailed from Seward 12th.
Oregon; sailed from Seward 20th.
The body of William Kelly, a pros
pector, was found on the Quick river
on Seward peninsula, last month. He
had evidently become exhausted by
hardship and semi-starvation. It is
claimed that he had been deserted by
his partners.
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The stock of the Alaska Packers’
Association is steadily falling in value.
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WILL SEEK TO
SHOW CONGRESS
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Convention Proceedings to be
Sent to Members—Protest
Against Humphrey.
By Cable to Tlie Daily Gateway.
Seattle, Nov. ill! The full official ac
count of the proceedings of the Alaska
convention is being prepared, and
copies will be sent- to the President, to
all members of both houses of Congress,
and to leading newspapers all over the
country,
A fight Juts been started against the
seating of Capt. Omar J. Humphrey,
who was named as a delegate to Con
gress from the Third judicial district,
as a representative of Tanana, because
lie is not entitled to vote in the dis
trict. A protest will forwarded to the
national House, objecting to his ad
mission on that ground,
Capt. Humphrey is a prominent
steamship man of Seattle. Ho repre
sents the Alaska Commercial Company
there. He is understood to lpive large
interests in tiie Tanana, hut is a resi
dent of Seattle.
ENLIGHTENS THE EAST
Man Interested in Alaska Gives
Springfield Republican a Pointer
Merelv to show the wise men of the
east that they can still learn, A. M.
Bridgman of Stoughton, Massachusetts,
w rites a letter to the Springfield Re
publican to inform its readers that the
statement previbusly published in that
paper naming Valdez as the sea term
inus of the Alaska Central was a poor
guess. Mr. Bridgman is a director of
tin' Klondike A Boston Minning Com
pany, which is operating a valuable
livdraulic mine on Willow creek, north
of Knik Arm. In his letter he says:
“A serious error appears in your very
interesting and instructive correspond
ence on Alaska in The Sunday Re
publican of October 14. It is there
stated that the Alaska Central railroad
is being built from Valdez inland to
the Tanana region. The Alaska Cen
tral railroad, is building from the newr
citv of Seward, named in honor of our
secretary of state, who negotiated the
purchase' of Alaska, where there is one
of the finest harbors in the w orld, quite
in contrast with that at Valdez. This
railroad is already constructed some
forty miles from Seward; it is expected
that 105 miles wTill be running by May
1, 1906, and will be completed as far as
Knik next summer, a distance of 148
miles. During the past season there
have been upward of 2000 men employed
on this road. The road is to ,extend
about 400 miles in a northwest direct ion
from Sew ard, to the town of Atwood in
the Tanana valley, and the route is
said to be very practicable, and through
a country rich in agricultural, timber
and mineral resources. Although this
town of Seward is scarcely two years
old, the railroad has built fine terminal
facilities, the town is lighted by elect
ricity, it has a bank, an assay office, a
modern hotel, and a daily newspaper.”
WITTE STRICKEN
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Russian Statesman Believed to be
in State of Physical
Collapse.
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
St. Petersburg, Nov. Z>—Count;
Witto is in a state of physical collapse.
This morning he fell forward in his
chair while reading a petition from
workingmen, it was found that his
right arm and shoulder were partially
paralyzed.
Russian socialists are much offended
because the Zemstvos congress passed
a series of resolutions promising sup
port to the government if it would
grant universal suffrage. The social
ists side with the revolutionary party,
which demands a republic.
WOMAN MAKES HARD TRIP
Mrs. C. W. Purington Accomplishes
Remarkable Mashing Feat
Mrs. C. W. Purington made this
week what looks like almost a record
“much “ for a woman, on the trail i'ootn
Sunrise to the railroad at Johnson
creek. She is the wife of the mining
engineer who is here to inspect the
Crow Creek Mining Company's prop
erty and to purchase it for Boston
capitalists.
Mrs. Purington accompanied her
husband all the way and thereby
achieved the opportunity to make suc
cessfully a trip which was a severe
task for the Alaska sourdoughs who
were along. The party occupied three
days and nights in covering the dis
tance of thirty-five miles.
On tlu> summit for a long distance
the snow was four feet deep, and so
wet and mushy that the travelers con
stantly slipped. One night they spent
on a mountain side with nothing but a
11 v over them to avert the falling snow.
The men from t ho Crow creek mine
spent most of the night cutting wood
to keep up a camp lire. Mrs. Puring
ton came through without damage and
as happy as anybody, to the astonish
ment and admiration of her sourdough
companions.
Steamer Bertha has not yet been
reported from Valdez. She is now
ten days out from Seattle and is hourly
expected.
The barometer needle has twisted
around to 150.5, which signifies fair
weather. This in no guaranty to
quality.
J. P. Schalk, an Inlet miner who
spent last winter in Seward, is in town
for a few days.
Thieves rocked out $1500 in one night
from the dump of Murison and Mc
Laughlin at Nome.
“Nome Social Life” is the title of
a magazine that will be published in
Nome about December 1. It will con
tain a complete roster of every
fraternal, social and professional or
ganization in Nome,