VOL. II, NO. *J1.
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The gra\« l in ti.- Ycni.oa «*.is rlct
Mow ami ic< --.op '. manner op*-.--',
gulches are u. <n giac ,actuations
hrings dow a Hoot Is t»f ice ami water.
Not untit the ice is permanently
thawed late in the spring tan any
work he done at sluicing. The miner'
- . , . • i.i whips i vvinir hun
;U «i. . f work incidental to
r i i\v«» cr< cUs run i" acly
a; t.-n uni., apart, and
. >. >..t McKinley. 1 he jfoul
,\, U s . almost directly smith
that 1 ‘ tK. about ’> i es f:\rr, its
'1 tU ~t locations are
u i ! s from its mouth ami
..I nervals for thirty-six
«, *; • cv . k ts about sixty tut es
. ) t crer \ tne d :>covei i '
11, : . the creek but » xt id a
i . ,u d alonr small branroes.
.ovel\ was on ! i. ■ .
v t . ,x .. ; f tin work was don
]. si../ summer. Later ot.er
,, u .•■•{».. .pooled amt many !m a
» ue of the richest fomn.
i i i. . r ereek. which was "> mimed
. . . yieldiusf Srl in ffold Were
i no si a i’t. 1 Lis civ. k is
with locations,
mi Scou's!k‘|o le!I 1. d «•
in iWember. The ther
, , I hen .‘I’ < e fives 1 »nnw
\ ttiUslied t v e.* t he snow
y to the Inlet, i hey t*i l
. 1 • j,.n hays v ;111 tools*,
w iieending to come to
. s ini may be expected almost
acres' t‘> , l.‘* ! .1! . * - '
• v district may easily be
t the way by water. Ti.e
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-nic Mr. < >: i»su:>. \ "‘.('rtlay.
• ,,t > *«»')• ci ny has b> en dune to
j;s; 't,.-- lien -ly every# high on tin
►tv yen. ra t \ mi shallow that tin gold
b lie ;t (!ii in 1 ( crudest pro
i.l ' *'t» !(!.»!•,
• anti plenty of grub.
•‘When I say plenty of grub • mean
with >ut quail ideal ion. I expect to
! re , n. h.ny into th. d.sti jet n.-xt
, . n • rwi'.h sackI’ui *»■' supplies ami ;
a* n n who tip ihu are not only
'
litsip may in un able to take advant aye
if tb 01-port unit i< s they find. A man ,
o o '; w : k mi.buy | -op■■"ty without
. • ■ I .. . ;, ; i. • -
; in ft if may yo in and make a good !
ideation un*i tlieu have to run outside
to yet a few meats. Before he can yet;
back some other fellow will yet in and j
(Continued on fourth page)
;,'en Wcrkirr; on Rock r.xcavai*
k\s frr Railroad Crate Often
Pick Ur Float
< *< • i>I>. • i • It i 1 s ... picked up i *
pcatedlv in the lock excavations i,;r
i I Tta aa ja in . .nn, s'nictMucs of ex*
c Mi 1,1 >. -* 1 . < <k i i iMiuk IV
v, 'v •• f; itri a i d i da f nv days a*? • a
- :a!I ciHUik of p .e •■!■- c ; ; cl* fe tne
11 • i . , ;i (;\.e • c a ■ i Idci* i're k
which u id,l he accounted a rare *p* c
-l'.i , "I'OS of copper float,
noted at IV. quel : intervals a loin/ the
\> in, are taken In ndcMi;; men a- fvt
i ; c • iliat the frr- : t ci op■> r belt
I, ell e.Niends mu tin : stt ’Is from ihe
so1 tthem end of i a i ii pet n-uk' stub
includes. ; i l i ; of 11 ii ci* W .lliam
s mid, m i ' Mi - also io the w.-stwaro.
•;11•, I 111 I t :es: Ol'CS ol < »•< k in ''t
ci'MMiv tk; n-its 1'iiiv vet he discovered
sisui u-to lh. - le'iud at tidewater on
th. eastern siiie of ihe ranue which
divides that esttron from tic* adjacent
arm el' I n<- sea.
T!if i-"f,. Miniiation avn-nul ( ook in
|. ;* >iii!ii;ir tn that which includes
the copper n ice* a! ! .damar, Latnnehe
a; i and. ’1 he latter tWo
t i 1* * ; ■ - re tv»-. \ a *e oi miles in
a n;r . • o trt/ui tlie head of i urna*
a-a .\i■ i■1. with only a low ramp* of
mi * hr: wis u. That *> mdar copper
deposits *houId be found or l»«.*tIt sides
of tin divioo miirid easily U> the ease.
\\ : .'ll any deposits ol value exist
in . -tli >r 1 Id which have not been
;iiset■is a question which inv-stt
”'ai ion a .I i;o can sot ile.
Ti i a i In ad will .-ollow 11)0 shore
line of M urnapain Arm for loriv miles.
1 ;.\e. where a era t k flow in# into the
c*;a O', t'f'< e*;is a valn y between tin*
h.lA. roi (V hi nil's j. ; Ur t lie Arm. In
wi:l he c.ii".eu iiisi at-'Ve lii#h tide.
..tni i* a- i ' in •>. A i t .t* in tin*
le-wiu-x away of ro e; copper deposits
1:ke ui;>e of I/iiotiehe and Kllantar
- .ay :>.* tapped, periatps one. possibly
The test railroad buildin# into
I*. ('olor 6, edit bed to the
eii\ pa tl throe ah a tunnel. In boe
ou.s r el ness was eu>. a d i n* si!ve
si Cook Inlet
a . m nth of the Kahiltnn.
tl. rty-' veil ' :les. The
lie • miles from its mouth, which
w '«• i • them >i.\ty-*ive miles from
i ii i u i>e St>!t' 1 ua. The lirst
| Pacers i I. me creek are eight miles
f or its aionh; or seventy miles from
tin* mm : *• of the Sushetna. Location*
Li'V already been made thirty-six
• i i!«— !;,!•:her on Lake ereek. and the
K;,i i ; i.s : rilmtaries are also
!. cat* d ler num than a score of miles
t'r.ni. the first diggings.
At this time of year the only way to
r. ach the Sushetna valley from Sew
aru is by way <<l Knik. From Knik
station, whicii is tiitoen miles from
the iieadof Knik Arm, it is forty miles
to Sushetna station. During the win
t -r men go in from Seward over the
railroad either to the terminus and
from t hero to t im head of the Arm; or
lake the Johnson creek trail from
mih Jo to Sunrise, and from there
follow th * usual trail to Knik station.
m the winter nun going in can
travel over the let from the Inlet up
tin Sushetna and Ventna to. the
months of in< cr; okv. In the summer
they ear. make the journey on the
river iu bna.-.as large as a gasoline
lam h. 'Hie creeks are mountain tor
rents tilled with boulders, and boats
are useless. The trip up any of the
crooks from the Yentna river must he
made at any time of the year along
their bonks, and all the men who have
come out agree that worse climbing
cannot he found anywhere.
Rich & Harris Driving Five and
Railroad Connany One on
Placer River
Borin?' is now in prn'ross on each of
ti e live tttl■;.( Is ft-i* which Bit'll *.v j
; if.;.: the <•< l i wet 0*1 mile ~'2 of ’
ill" iv.ilmail. At present work is pro* j
i■ i•.■ . ii ■ at o. o olid of i aeli t ur I ho*
Cati-o the ei t it nee to the oilier end •
inis not- keen clean it up to tho T:»
’l hat v. ( • k s ;■« it ' • i ami in a oft
M o the drills will he poutin'; "' at
b o. h ends of all the tunnel*. B"l' eon
don a:.(I 40(1 nu-ri will ho employed
tire work.
< >n tin' Santa Ana, sailing front
s eat; a Jam ar* ■' , will come a new
| an<i , ff con pr» »*or lor tit i • ■ tt *■1 ‘
drids to.au the to; now in use. Both
will he t iupio\<d eoi’t aieotisly urn. I
the t nun ds :a- • complete. The
new compressor is of p'reat power ano
of the latest i! *vice. and when it is in
cornu i"ien pro" re" in tunnel drt\ iu a
will hr * pi ! led Oi y. oy the nuiuhor of
moil ami drills widen oan ho employed
on ( .o il of I ho ten lac«s.
one ni Mi ' .iv i mneis in *i ion .;
one. hii) f. t t. and ii is ee iin -1 <!
that it can he bore l hy uit’y I at laird.
The <»ther four and lit-: tunnel which
tii. r.iIt uad ei »oi j» tii \ s boil ii” <m mile
•|;t \\;il in- 1'mished slid eer ier, so t hat
,i' so .n as t in- iony one is ready track
ean lie laid t In.. . t .cm and as far
beyond as the surface {Trade* may be
coin meted. it is expected that the
”i*.i . ■ will be n arly. it not. quite Itlt
isae.l to tie* lead of L"urna}fain Arm
in ii»” time fin* liinnels are bored. In
tiKit ca-e about seventeen miles of
tixtck ean be laid with a nisii from t be
winter terminus on mile 48, to mile tie,
which is tie- bead of the Ann.
A lilti” track slam every few days,
arid ib terminus is now about the
mi hi; • • ! i. ' • 15. 11« avy rock work
stiil remains to be done in several
ptaces oi. the next two miles and a luiif
and ii will lie another month before
life iails reach to tie* nearer end of
mil * 4*. wisf*re the t rack will end for
iin- winter. This will be a little more
than a mile trom the first tunnel.
The co. j s of engineers which is
rulinin'; tie- preliminary survey tin
be: usiieli.a V. bey under Kll” neet*
ihakely is •*i-»vit: r tart iter north and
v -!l pi*-* • :i y est •• •» - a the hew c'a:*■;>
a be . e S is'u-i 'fl s', -J
airs larjTi ,* i t t* If ..•> -,rta on i .
trier i men, a\ hordes and
In thi nuiu:. tvvnif of '■ u i.'' a.
Several maps th < > ini• ia riv
er. T ..t is ■-1 :ii lot an v,o,',!
inr “i ,1“.' and i lie stream i- so-called
iieeati.se a h aus in :i la ke. The prospee
inrs decided to call it Lake creek be
cause the Knyli-n word lakes less time
in j.i-onom lotion and writ icy and is
easier lo spell.
Simiship Harold Dollar Sails
Si earn ship Harold Dollar left Friday
mommy a. lo o'clock for Seattle, tak
ing twenty steerage passengers. She
will load ore at the Lutouche mine,and
will then sail outside. .1. •). McManus,
of the lvenai Lumber & Fuel Company,
sailed on heiv, intending to charter
another vessel to briny another large
cargo of lumber and coal for the lvenai
company, lie cannot yet the Dollar
again as she is already chartered by
another party.
Oregon Sails for Seattle
Steamship Oregon sailed for Seattle
at 1,:30 Sunday morning. She loaded
ore at Kllamar and sailed hv the out
side passage. Among her passengers
were C. 10. Brown, .1. M. Cummings
and Mrs. Cummings of this city: Abe
Spring. Samuel Spring and \l>e Stein
of Fairbanks. T. M. Lane went to
Kllamar.
Santa Clara Arrives
Steamer Santa Clara, Capt. Schage,
arrived in port at 4 p m Friday, with a
lai .re list of passt tigers and/ nearly 400
tons of freight. She left Seattle on the
night of January l, and brings three
days' mail. The Oregon brought mail
up to the morning of December 20.
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M)t Spring Comes Hewn 7; 1 '* ' v$ • d r.-.v- ?$ S,: > I
Seward to SecW7.tr? A 7? ?:;ir7 is C7 ,/j -
Says t?cve!?::?c. I of 1777 m ; 7771 V.7 *:?
Greatly Stir?: '7 i ')y -7(A irar'i
That the const reel ion of ti.. Ah; ! a
(Vniral railroad v.iii add ally *„
1: prosperity and ih 1 vein patent 'A to •
va.-.t ; 1\ iufj south of the Yi.l.on
r'vor as well as open up an em n-.\.
or;!,! ry r.ll the way to the so;.' f •
coast, is lie assertion of Aim Spin: m f
Fait hanks, one of the most noted ; • -i
iii tin: Tanntia, who came over to Sew
ard on the < hvmm simply to w" to •
tow n ■■ i’hi lie i-aill' ad.
Mr. Spring is promoter nod mam, ,
i ; he Tatiana 1'metric Comp ay.
arc*mnt of liis immense plant ree .
''i'W;A!i i; on ('leary creek, was r, .
I;, pu’.i: . d in the (late way. . if
now on l, s way to Seattle to puivlia
a <i: It mil eijif. nt for 11 •* pv i .
which is it! pit Ay extending its se
lie came over file trail to Yald t. am!
A; ridfd to n ine to Seward to e> tie*
t' v. n ra! Imr :Imo wait at Yah!
ti i Tai;:;ea am! .M.’ska in m,»nera! Im
said while here:
Tancrn Output Growing
••The 1 irl anks mininyr »1 ist
I»y that i> meant a I creeks wbldn i;
radius of twenty-live milts fro::: 11.• *
! town of Fairbanks, is today vorkit
fully treble the number of tidies o.
placer gravel than it did a year : . ■
Act: to that the various outlyhi ; ; «•
pious. such .as the several p.'<> ps «>i '
j or cks. classed generally as tie- 1
jtislma district: the two Deb .*:
Salcha: the (lood Pasture and tl
Ib.onitield regions: all of which out 1 \ inp
districts are, to some extent takii e'
out dttmns this season, audit >s a c
' serrative < stimate that the outp it lids
year will c xeeed -^lo, 000,1)00.
•',t hecame necessary a few week
ico for me to closely look in to t!>"
'future prospects of t he (list riet. in ord .
to in- able to kive a definite judgment ;
to my 'associates i n the Tamil.a iib-e-j
trie i'oinpany, as to whether \ • ' " 'd j
ji.st ' d to make any fur: h ■ < x-;
> j:«i 1 * arcs in tiie extension of our j
. i.-e ric lines s.» as to meet the *frov» hiy ;
: ■ Miami on us for current for po .
pi i. i compiled closely all >. a'a •
i 'ivc.iiaiiie, looked into conttit itm> ex-j
*■ - a ' and pro- >ec ive carefully, :. d
, i rri \ •1 at the cone I us! oft ( » it . ■
: ,' fn‘ d.p in o'.or the ic* enou
* wire and td ■ te isiou .nstt at :•«
• • \\ i• ion. I’aii'banks. Deeetr • s* -
; i f t \ i ■; a \ .1 t\'* * n .. . M 1 ‘.v »> .'l i .• 1 l .; il.
; iv ■ :• 1. ■! l*i in Jin (>!.’«• >11. I h: ’ ’
->:ir in v In iu".' bort.V but s;t.« 1
' i ;i,j u) t lor tlio l* at, l c >nc A >1
>o mi fur what all ti.A tab
-Amt S- a ;1 ami i '.ic Alaska < Vntral
\ it ’ ■, ai• v liior.Hi. 1 am tV- • -
.a,. : 1 am v, v r;‘!aVt i * a»no. I
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' , Ortii ’ ^‘>1 tO til* ::t t «•»
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i !ic]p ■! '*<> a volt wi'hvr a . : a * * I.: .
'in :i :i''r* *-l I!: at is i i.<:«• ■ :
r' a ; i“. !•'* a' \ i II I
' an I'litliU*-' ;-l a! out til-* l.. .1 ' i*i AA. ■
i >:i\v in i!;.
I W !•••!, ■> ' ml • ' : -ftturns my im A
t i day Is in the p
•!. ■ Iris! •> .v o ei h d toil
I ( you c i i.*t !, •!;> me ii< ’.’i !.> .» i in
!i: !M\ we will !i^ri:t it o t out
s''! i s. Alaska may v;»-!l -a. ■ •
:V' -,, • | f \ < • i * a unot h«*I; > 1 : »
H r. - • h yistation .at)<i appro; ,1 or
th.oi f ;• Cod’s sake, don't ' p on.*
« 1: ij; -s. | In* urafte-'S. h; *; ivi <S tin?:
a ho!.; i>n os to sap tho Ij'c . . f t;
and tna k** a hot! ed of • nil < ■ r r ; ;
po!;t ics out of on,* healthy te* iim*y
\n GM So *r2o ; ;!i
Vv. 1'.jii'in-/ lias h< eti in Alaska titso
the N ot.! o s',.,-.. 1**17. lie i.i *
tie* early sett!. c- in rah-bai ’■<■ * ’- 1 a>
lie'll mayor ami city at t '.**y .if t n*u
city. II • :s I't.yia'il in tin* ; : vo •*
law th>*i*e. h«*s;d,:s look in;; • in
a: its of the T: .ana Kh-.t'ct • party,
lie lore .ruin; to Dawson in D , !. w.i>
a t.ev.spa; el* in an and at 01 * '> m
art ccitiTcd v. i*i * ,• on the id ■
y • *l\ 11 • .s .1 e ‘: c n. * ; .
w i.i n he c ”> '* to this con:.! . _ . M«
njfe of G * e 'tiki not speak a ■ m >
iiut• ; ", .*. y. a. * ,* rco
t, e Ia n ; • a■_f* * > t hat he cr 1 \>. 1
for* met rep it- is newspapers.
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S ill hr. w i a fit \ *ct to. . , cu-nr
p it fe • ' !e y er - * •' ■. II e
r. is • C .he 1, 1 i*> into1 ■ -
ti . 1
1 n • pi , , the ' • ■»
Srr. a * r • id 1: ■ * . ' e
, . \ h jy i : ■■ ■ led t c • •
it; ope;*!!tio in Yownh. c.
2 k aeeoti pan hy ids -
a t ..! I v ' ■ .1
.' 11 , 0 • n . . W |V I •
lYjj/'isiVlL
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(’abl< tolls from Seward to Seattl'*
| wore reduced front .'it) to 2-** cents a
word, with a minimum of ten words a*,
j before, from January 1. This it I’orma
| tion was received last nijfht by Opcra
! tor Faust iti a letter from the Seattle
j office. The rate to Juneau. Skatrway
j and Sitka was reduced 1 cent, and is
now 24 cents to Juneau and Skajfway
land 111 cents to Sitka. The rate to
Valdez remains .”> cents and to Fair
banks 14 cents. Other changes have
been made I nit these are the ones
which affect Seward.
Rotary Snow How Soon Ready
The rotary snow plow is nearly set
, up and will go to the front early next
week. No snow has fallen since the
: cold snap began and the lack of its
services has been no hardship.
Mining Representative tlerc
.]. H. Briggs of Butte, who repre
sents Montana and Spokane mining
magnates, is here to see what he can
tlind for the capitalists hack of him.
Strikes on the Nome beach still eon
> tinur to hhoy up the interest in those
i diggings. The news of the latest is
brought out by the very last mails; $20
and $25 pans are reported as common.
The Douglas Island News cele
brated its eighth birthday a short
| time ago.
p :c 4 Pi r -C ■) . - * «• * ;* <i /■ r ,
a l~ / A i»u SLI' A * / v i •
RP-filKf ft ffift ^ - :
MOo t«t»L tLr d ia OS- W/ -\
; Si<. ;itmr Far. Il*»n v i 1 -• .■<<■■, \
in-- from Seattle under a charier »-..
llit* Alaska Cetntnercial Company. Si >
lakes the place of the !! it . . wh < <
should have -ailed the loth bn!, is not
yet halfway to Seattle on h« tv tori
from the las* trip ln-eaus* >: tie
stormy weather which ha- -et her
buck. The Mentha will s*ail a- do from
Seattle January 25, the phi -ailin-wlai
of tie* Portland.
The Farallon i> a well-known boat
and has been fora lonjf time tm :ise
Lynn canal run for the Alaska Steam
ship Company. Whether she v ii
make more than one trip to Sewan i
not yet known. 'Hu* news th.it -In
will sail to this port cauu today ii* ■
cable message to.!, .t. McManus, local
ajfent of the Alaska Commercial <oni
pauy.
The Anvil Hydraulic A- Draii . • i'o..
developing placer ground on Bourbon,
Hast Hourbon. Holyoke. .Saturday.
Latte and Wonder creeks, near Nome,
is draining the tundra by means of a
24-inch steel-banded circular pipe.
Dredgers are to be put in and the
ground worked from the water toward
Anvil mountain.
Lake Riwa is the only large sheet of
fresh water in Japan worthy of men
tion. It is thirty six miles long,
twelve miles wide, and its greatest
depth about 200 feet.