SEWARD GATEWAY
V01 n NO j4 SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY,'NOVEMBER 18. 1905.
ALASKA CONVENTION
MEETS IN SEATTLE
lively Lights Over Nomination of Deleqate to Congress and
Question of Doledrs of Proxies Decided to Let Gover
norsnip Issue Alone as Matter of Policy.
Bv Cable to the Daily Gateway
Seattle. Nov. 1*» Tie opening ses
sion of the Alaska convent ion yesterday
afternoon was brief. Sant Archer of
Nome was elected icm|*orar\ chairman.
Albert Fit/ of Council was elected
temporary secretary. 1'he convention
then adjourned tin il today on account
of the turn-arrival of the delegates
iront Southeastern Alaska. They came
in early this morning on the ! >olphin.
The convention will meet again this
afternoon at o'clock and efleet a per
manent organizati in. There will be a
big tight over proxies. The wrangling
began yesterday. A majority of the
delegates art1 inclined to decide that
only delegates shall he allowed to vote.
They may permit delegates to hold
proxies. If this rule is adopted proxies
may have to Ik* wired down from the
’» rritory to delegates, in eases where
the proxies are new held by non-mem
bers.
Hill Let llradt Wont*
At a caucus last nido attended hy
■!; y t: ■ • 1 (• e : i * ( s it was decided not to
smeh the question of condemn in it the
unistrati< n of (low IJradv, in view
the fact that the national adminis
tration is now investigatin': him. It
is feared that a resolution hy the con
vention on the subject miirht be con
- u-: an insult t i the President,
am; mieht ortVnu some - tailors at the
national capital who are friends of
Ik ady. and cause tint -mutism to other
a:* isiiti s which Alaska wishes to have
passed by donjjress.
Kait 11 inks and the r* o oftheTanana
■ , , • » de*. •
v • a. astern Alaska to support t arl
M. .u ii i; si >n for t on or, If they a tv
- 1 it meat'' the defeat of Hide
a.at R\ an of Nome, as the l a tun.am!
Southeast rn Alaska combinol have a
majority of the delegates in the con
vention. The Tut-ana men held a
caucus last t _ht ami widen to favor
eh ce o one t.eictfatc tot quj’ivss
b Soutle-astem Alaska would airree to
- w ith them. h i: icalions 111 —
uorninj; are that the comoination wi..
Irving to $p:i! Opposition
A conf« fence "t Nona- men with
Southeast«'i*n A!a>ku delegates tiii*•
mommy after t.h • latter had caucused,
ivveal" the ftlct. that Not! hopes.: that
Southeastern Alaska v.iii |»:—■ it a
candid:.:*' of i*s uwi; for *..• . -C:< i
t.'onjfr«*ss, and that tie- X ‘h'..< w.l:
secuiv th> nomination > f lt\an as a re*
*u!t oi the three-oornemi dyht, ifev
solittit.tr the Southeast: ucl the Tanahtt.
A memorial to i >r.yt*es> aska y . hat
the national House uiii !»:t*>''d
E
By Cable to the Daily Gateway
Seattle. Nov. 11 The Arctic Brother
hood late y» s'erday elected the foliow
, ny office! s ot the order for the ensuiny
year:
C. B. Phillips of Council City, chief:
F. S. Brackem of Discovery, vice chief:
\Y. K. Kverett of Dawson, chaplain:
(i dfiev t'healandcr. recorder: J. C.
Brice of Skayway. keeper of nuyyets*.
tieory.* 11. Dooley of \ aide/. trail
yuide: trustees. I*. H. Watt of Nome.
F. II. t'h'sel of lltiints. ('. B. McCon
nell of Nome. K. K. Fleminy of Nome.
L. L. .lame* of Ch« na : cook. F M.
WiHKlruff of I'.ayle City : blazer. H. C.
Burkhart of Ketchikan: interprate. J.
Simmons of Sit ka.
Several constitutional amendments j
were adopted yesterday. After the
c-.ecti-n ot officers the com tuition ad
journed sine die.
; unanimously this afternoon. It "'ill
also favor the Nome proposal that
mining claims ho taxed *!!•> a year in
stead of heinir held for $1(10 assessment
l work, and that the uroceeds hi’ used
n r« ad construction. Indications are
j i hat the session will continue several
! day s.
Squabbling Oxer Proxies
Seattle. Nov. 17 The committee on
i credentials of the Alaska convention is
still in session this morniny hut xvill
make its report this afternoon, when
the real work of the convention will
hi yin. The permanent organization
will he completed this afternoon with
the temporary otllcers as permanent.
S. < >. Morford ofSeward is to be chair
man of t he steeriny committee. Other
committees are not yet named hut
Jud’_v Du Dost of Nome " ill probably
he chairman of the committee on
resolutions.
A compromise rest Union on the vot
ing of pro.xi s will he introduced this
afternoon which xvill provide that men
actually enyayed in mininy or other
permanent operations in the north may
sit in the convention and also hold
proxies. A liyht xvas precipitated late
yesterday afternoon by a resolution In
troduced by (iov. Sxvineford providing
that not e hut residents of Alaska he
ado veil to sit nod vote in the convent
ion.
The Nome crowd - t up a raiyhty
protest because nearly all the votes
from Sewanl peninsula are either dele
gates or men holdiny proxies xvhocome
outside for tin* w inter every y ear. This
x\euid shut nearly the whole Nome
tieleya’iion out of the convention.
lively fight fer Delegate
At noon today it appears that there
will he a lively tight over the nomina
t!i>: of a t N gate to * ongtvss. 1 his
•lioridii..-- i'.ad of Fairbanks charged
Nye, i kt . kt-r and Manley of the Tun
,i c it va on with intending to go j
.to tl . Hyan camp. H* demanded
tt.a: tiie/ .•%: of the Tatiana crowd pass
a resolution instructing them to de
proxies which they hold, to
rl M. 'titisnn, the Tanana candi
vs. This would practic
i. st i; • • I.- : >-...nation of Johnson.
< 11 or of t :i< convention this
i ortiing Co1. I in-s of Nome de
. Art d t tiie Ut' of his name by
•..i ■' • N’t tine delegation as an
r..! ,ii t tor governor to sne
< it. I;rady was unauthori/.ed. |
- : : - at'.:;, nt aould only be
for th purpose of misleading
.■iiis from < 1111• distriets. Col.
■ r ins said he was opposed to
i ■ fit ie ism of any f-deral olliceholder I
1 tin- convention.
A :.ASKA MAKES BIG GAINS
Oj:-.'>ms Receipts of District for
.. ,t Year Double Preceding one
It > Punished by the United
„ t - home for tiie district of
Ala ka >Im»w a tivim r.dotis gain in the
1. sir:t» »*t tin* district for the fiscal
■ erring June Jo over, that of the
yea' preceding.
Th- i"tai receipts from the respec
'1 vi- ~u: -oi k of Alaska for the year
:• >r «ii imports, tonnage tax. fines,
r-'iici.il lees mul other collections were
as follows:
Ketchikan.$ 0,991.17
Wraag-1. 1,193.21
Juneau. 25,281.27
Ska i way. 10,147.08
Eagle. 05.205.25
r’orty Mile. 4,177.21
St. Michael. 074.07
Non- . 8,791.42
Unuiaska. 2.424.42
Sami Point. 1,281.04
Kodiak. 281.03
Valdez. 748.70
Sitka. 4.981.14
$132,237.59
Total during fiscal year 1904. .$65,048.77
RAPID WORK ON
RAILROAD GRADE
—
large Oangs fngaged This Side of
Tunnels and Tracklaying Will
be Renewed Soon.
Track laving will be renewed within
a week on the Alaska Central at the j
point where it stopped two weeks ago I
on mile 44. A stretch of heavy rock '
work was incomplete there, hut the!
j obstruction has been almost removed.
Five miles more will be laid be fori
Christmas and then no more rails will j
go down until tlie tunnel on mile 40 is
bored.
The construction officials expect to
have the first tunnel finished by the
end of March. Rich »S: Harris plan to
complete the five tunnels which they !
have the contract to bore on mile 52 in j
April or May. Tracklaying then will
i go forward quickly t o the head of Turn
' again Arm. on mile 115.
The soft weather which has continued
I past the middle of November lias
facilitated grading, but it is delaying <
work on the tunnels because the heavy
machinery necessary to rock drilling
cannot be taken up until the snow lies
deep enough to permit the skidding of
heavy loads. Rich A Harris expected
to have their big steam compressor for
driving the drills taken up before the
end of last month, as the hills were
full of snow at the end of October last
year. I'util recently only enough
snow has fallen at the summit and be
yond to make slush, a> it lias melted in
a few hours each time it lias fallen.
'I’lie tunnel camp of the railroad and
that of Rich Harris are ready for
the winter’s pregram and preliminary
work at the portals of the tunnels has
been pushed forward. AH ho ig' the
tir>t tunnel and the last are three
mil*-* apart as the road will run they
are very close together in an air line.
Between them the line will do some
artistic corkscrewing to obtain easy
grade* and to avoid huge gulches. In
the twisting it makes one complete
loop.
The addition of several hundred men
to the working force in the past few
weeks has given an impetus to grading
operations. Men are engaged upon
every mile between the end of the
track and the tunnels, chiefly upon
rock work. Beyond the tunnels grad
ing- camps are located all the way to
Turnagain Arm. The largest camp is
on mile ot). nine miles this side of the
Arm. Kvery steamer from Seatt le now
is bringing more men. a> the Sound
cities have a surplus of laborers.
The end of harvest and the closing
of part of the logging camps always
causes a drift of men to Sound cities
in the fall. 'Phis year their number is
augmented by the shutting down of
the shingle mills. It seems to he as
sured that the railroad company and
contractors will soon have hundreds of
additional men at work.
The employment of large numbers
of men will soon finish the rock work
between the end of the track and
Placer river, so that the men now em
ployed there and many others can be
sent on to the long stretch of rock
work beyond Turnagain Arm. 'Ijlie
railroad has ten miles there between
miles •»”) and 75, and following 1 it* the
thirty miles covered by the Welch con- j
tract. All along the north side of the
Arm men will he kept at work in large
numbers from this time forward.
EXCELSIOR IN AND OUT
Visits Seward on What is Said to
be Her Last Trip Here
Steamer Excelsior reached port
Sunday morning at !• o'clock and
sailed Seattleward again at N in tin*
evening. This is understood to be her
! last visit to Seward, for a time at least.
j The Santa Clara is to take her place on
the inside passage December 1. The
j new run of the Excelsior is not known.
Much regret was expressed that
Captain Jordan and the other officers
of the Excelsior will come no more to
Seward as they have made many friends
and are very popular here as the result
of their long continuance on the run.
The Excelsior brought fifty-two men
to work on the Alaska Central. As
usual a few degenerates were lost at
I Valdez.
TRACES COURSE
OF COPPER ZONE
Expert Says Greatest Belt in World
Extends Erom Port Dick to
Nabesna River.
From the southern end of Kenai
peninsula to t he Nahesna river st retches
a copper holt unequaled in the extent
and value of its deposits anywhere
else in the world.
This holt, or zone, begins at Port
Dick, includes Latoucho island, where
a marvelous deposit of copper has
already been developed, and adjoining
islands, dives under Prince William
sound, reappearing again at tidewater
at Kllnmar, then ranges away north
easterly until it strikes near the
Nahesna river a copper area which
Henry Bratnober recently declared to
eclipse every other copper deposit
known to exist.
The location and direction of this
copper zone have been carefully st tidied
by Henry B. Kaedick, a mining expert
who is superintending for British capi
talists development of a copper ledge
on the strike of the Beat son mine at
Latouehe. I le points out the peculiar
fact that the trend of this vast copper
belt is along the line of magnetic
variation in this part of Alaska. Mr.
Kaedick said in Seward a day or two
ago:
*• It is. of course, a mere coincidence
that this copper zone extends directly
along tlie line of magnetic variation,
but it is a remarkable one. If you lay
a compass upon a map of Alaska with
the pivot on l’ort Dick the needle will
lie exactly upon the course of this
copper belt.
•‘This extraordinary zone docs not
exceed twenty miles in width, anil its
side lines are almost as straight as if
it were laid otf 1»\ a surveyor. In that
I long rectangle lie copper deposits
* which would supply the world for an
! indefinite period if there were no other
mines in the earth, of that. I am satis
fied from my own invest igations and
j t he statements of others who have
been over the Held more exhaustively
than 1 have been.”
This great copper zone which Mr.
Kaeding describt s does not by any
means embrace all the copper known
to exist in Southern Alaska. Mr.
Kaeding himself denies that it is a
•• Mother Lode”, but he asserts that in
lateral extent and value of its de
posits it is unequaled elsewhere in the
world.
This monster vein, however, appar
ently has numerous “dips, spurs and
tingles,” or else the "Mother Lode
has a daughter or a sister to the west
ward. On the eastern watershed of
the Shushotna river valuable copper
deposits have been located the post
summer by gold hunters. A remark
ably rich strike was made a short time
ago on the Kashwhitney river, from
which specimens of almost pure copper
were brought to Seward.
The assays of the average ore. made
here, showed a good percentage of I
copper, and the locators say the vein
is wide and its strike apparently in
delinite. They also report that the
entire region carries copper indica
tions on the surface, and this statement
is borne out by other men who have
traversed the district.
In the great copper belt described
by Mr. Kaeding mineral traces exist
almost continuously. Naturally it is
only in streaks and spots that the
possibilities of a mine are found,
but in frequency and extent of de
posits valuable enough to be worked
Mr. Kaeding affirms that the belt is
one of the world's mineral phenomena.
Dora Will Bring Waiting Crowd
Steamer Dora is expected from the
westward any day. She will bring a
bunch of disgusted men from Seldovia.
who have been waiting there for a
bout for some time. Part of them
went down from the Inlet at least two
weeks ago and missed the Santa Clara
by a few hours. It is imagined that a
stenographic report of their conversa
tion would burn holes in the paper.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer gives
a front page head to the story that
Charles D. Lane is interested in the
bond on Falls creek mines. The Times
also gives it considerable space.
SCHOOL BOARD
GETS THE CASH.
Draft for $2500 Arrives anti Seward
Will Have Two Teachers and
Public Building.
A draft for from the treason
of the I’nited States came to !•’. (I. Hah.
treasurer of the Seward school hoar .
on the Kxcelsior. 'Phis is tie* town -
apportionment to maintain its schu
for the present year. The school boai
will be called together this week *■»
mature plans tor the disposition of tie
money.
It is probable that a schoolhouse 1
two rooms, to cost about >l"ito. will i
erected, and the remainder of tie* fur :
will be used to employ two compi-tt
teachers. It has been imjiossible h«-r -
tofore to form any definite school plar -
because it was not known how nine
money Seward would have until tl *
cable announced a few days a_*o th.
the comptroller of the currency ha
reversed the ruling of the auditor of
the interior department which won
have cut down Seward’s shit re to .
small figure. Last year the town i
ceived only ••sVm).
A letter from (iov. Hrady to
K. (iray, secretary of. the St-v.-n
school hoard, explains the effect of tl <
ruling as follows:
‘•1 have this day received a commute*
[cation from the secretary of the i
' terior in reply to mine of Septeinh*
l!'.» requesting his personal attention t >
the matter of tin* Alaska school funo
with a view of securing a rescission of
I the ruling of the auditor, and there ,s
enclosed a decision of the comptrolh t
of October 1.5 wherein the decision < r
!tho auditor is disapproved. and in
j which the comptroller holds that 11 ■
law limits the amount for buildiny be
j does not limit the amount for tl
wayes of teachers to any specified sin
or t he payment of t he w ayes of t cachet s
for any specified period hut that ti
terms of the provision only tix ti
minimum number of teachers and tl"
minimum time for which they are r>
quired to he provided.
'*1 have also received a communica
tion from the auditor of the interi"
department that under the above c<
cision the sum of tflioOO is due f i>
treasurer of the school hoard a
Seward, and that a draft for this sir
will he promptly issued payable from
the Alaska fund and forwarded to tie
treasurer."
LOCAL LIGUtfS
Of TEMPERATURE
A record of daily temperature !>::->
boon kept in Seward at the Ala*k
Central Kailway office for more than
year past. This record shows the ex
treme ranjfe of temperature for tin
year to have been 77 decrees. Th
highest was X'** decrees and the low***:
11 deire's above zero. The annexe
table has been prepared for the Cate
way by H. A. Clover, secretary t
Central Manager Poland, for the yea
ending October ill. l!H)i>.
'rites** observations were take 1 a'
noon of each day.
Slightly lower temperaturer than
th*)se tfiven in the table have ben
not***! at earlier hours of the day. Tl *■
lowest at any hour last winter was 7
decrees above zero in the early morn
in if.
M( )NTHT.V A VKK A*: K TEW! »KK ATl’K K.
1904 November.2'.*.:
December.27.'.*
1905 January.30
February.39. ti
March.43.1
April.505
May.54.0
June.04.:
July.00.4
August.oi.:
September.54.2
October. 47.2
Average for the year ending
October 31. 1905.47.0
Minimum month, December 1904...27.9
Minimum day, December 23, 1904..11.0
Maximum month, July 1905........00.4
Maximum day. June 23, 1905.88.0
Nome papers are still making a great
fuss about the tin* development of
that district. •