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SEWARD, ALASKA. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 21, 1913.
Today the sun sinks to the nadir of its year and tomorrow it will begin
to creep steadily towards its zenith. As the daily sun gets lower and lower j
it seems to draw our thoughts down as a magnet of the mind, and us the up
ward climb comes so soar the hopes and the ambitions, as with the boy who
ha* just come to a sense of life. Po wo realize fully how much the children
of external elements we really are?
WASHINGTON. Dec. 2-k—John Ballaine and Secretary Lane were in
conference today and discussed the question of an emergency appropriation
for the government railroad in Alaska ami the impossibility ot agreement has
resulted in the secretary threatening to resign from the cabinet. Mr. lJal
laine subsequently sent out word from the capitol to the crowd of waiting
correspondents that the emergency appropriation will be something between
a hundred thousand ami ten million. "I pledge my word of honor as an officer
ami a statesman to this,” said this brilliant publicist, "and when we get an
appropriation of the amount 1 mention don’t say l didn’t tell you so."
Fraternal organizations, commercial organizations and others are very
often brought to grief by the cupidity of men who use them just to make
money out of them. In many oixlers and societies of alt kimis will be tound
those who hungrily keep their eyes on the strong box all the time. They
are what might be called "fraternal vultures.”
Let us horn* anti pray that the etTort to secure an appropriation for an
additional assistant district attorney will succeed. It would be too bad to
have Mr. Spence overworked but it would be almost as bad to deprive the
Railroad Terminal ol what it is sure to need next summer.
That statehood vs. territorial government question is now causing quite
a lot of talk tut with all respect to those who indulge in the discussion it
may be said that only one man went into the question determinedly enough to
understand it and he is now in Morningside asylum.
A couple of old sayings: It is a dry wind that blows nobody good;
Drugstores, what sins are committed in thy name.
BROAD PASS
Notes from the U. S. Records by E. F. Cassel
(From The All-Alaska Review.)
The United States Geological Sur
vey has just issued bulletin bOS cov
ering the history, geography, geology,
and economic geology of the Broad
Pass country. The bulletin is too
long, and much of it too techincal, to
be published in full as a matter of in
terest to lay readers, but there is
much in it of particular interest to
everyone interested in the develop
ment of Alaska. It should be
especially noted in the following ex
tracts, that the references to trans
portation and the effect of the govern
•meat railroad are official and there
fore of special interest to everyone
associated with the great territory
immediately tributary to Seward.
The following extracts tell quite
clearly the history and the story of
Broad Pass:
“Broad Pass was discovered in 1S9S
by George H. Eldridgc and Robert
Muldrow, of the U. S. Geological Sur
vey, in the course of their explora
tory survey of the Susitna Valley.***
Some white prospectors had reached
the upper Susitna basin before 1S9S.
' Worthy of record is the journey
♦•♦of a party of prospectors, among
whom 'W. G. Jack was the leading
spirit. This party sledded up Susitna
River in the spring of 1897 to the
vicinity of Broad Pass.***
“The salient features of the Broad
Pass region were determined by the
Eldridge party, as was also the
feasibility of a railway route into the
interior by this wide gap. As a re
sult, a railway was planned through
this pass and surveys for it were
made in 1902.
“The increased interest in railway
routes from Pacific seaboard creat
ed a demand for further information
about this region, and plans for a sup
plementary survey were formulated
in 1912.*** This plan was successfully
carried out in 1913 by a geologic
party under tho leadership of b. H.
Moffitt and a topographic party under
leadership of J. W. Bagley.
“The results set forth in this report
bring much additional evidence of the
availability of Broad Pass as a rail-j
way route into the interior.*** Since
these surveys wero made prospectors
report the discovery of ore bodies in
the Broad Pass region, and, as has
been pointed out, this was to be ex-:
pected from the geologic survey.
“The official announcement of the
choice of Broad Puss us the route of
the proposed Government railroad is
made about the time this report is .
sent to press. This railroad is to run
from Seward to bairbanks. Broad
pass is about 310 miles from Seward
and about 150 miles from Fairbanks.
*** It is therefore to be expected that
the Broad Pass region will now be
the scene of much prospecting, and
there is good hope that it may utfoi d
profitable mining development/**
“la the Broad Bass region travel
has been so slight***that no usable
trails have been established/** Tra\el
however, is not difficult for e» •• ei
horses or men where courses in the
higher ground can be used. The,
best going is generally abovo the
timber line, at elevations between -
M)i) and 3,500 feet.* "Grass for horses
is most plentiful and of tho best
quality. Firewood is less abundant
than in the valleys, but willows fi r
cook i.g and for tent poleSvCan usually
be found.***
“Broad Bliss offers one of the most
favorable railway routes from the
Pacific seaboard to the Tanana and
Yukon basins and has been ehosen
for the route of the Government rail
road from Seward to Fairbanks.***
“The geology of the Broad Pass re
gion may be outlined as follows: lhe
rocks consist chiefly of folded and
more or less metamorphosed sedi
ments intruded by large bodies of
granular igneous rocks and associat
ed with extensive lava flows. The
sediments include schist, 6late, shale,
sandstone, conglomerate, ami lime
stone, all of which show metamorph
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THE MINER S STORE
FRANK J. COTTER, Manager
Phone Adams 131 “Don't Forget the Parcel Post** Seward, Alaska
1 ism in some degree.*** They range
in age from Devonian to Eocene and
possibly later Tertiary.***
“The granite rocks intruded into the
sedimentary formations include
granite, quartz monozite, quartz
diorite, and olivine gabbro.*** The
igneous rocks range in age from
Jurassic or earlier to post-Eocene.***
This whole region has been profound
ly glaciated.***
“A belt of rocks consisting of lime
tone, slate, and a minor amount of
altered conglomerate is exposed along
Jack river.*** This belt is about five
miles wide in this vicinity and lies
parallel to D'e axis of the range, ex
tending almost directly east and
west.***
“The limestone appears in large ex
posures, locally forming whole ridges,
“***Recrystalization of the calcite
into marble has not occurred exten
sively, if at all.***
“Slates and conglomerates are as-;
sociated with the limestone, the con
glomerate being mashed and in places
schistose.***
“The Devonian rocks are intruded
by granular igneous masses, which
have probably caused the silicification
of the limestone.***
“Fossils were found in a limestone
bod on the east side of Jack River. The
fossils collected were identified by
Edward Kirk, who pronounces them
Devonian.*** Fossils were not found
in any of the other rocks mapped as
Devonian.***
“About six miles above the mouth
of Ravine creek an important flow of
amygdaloidal andesite lies within the
Cantwell formation.***
“Dikes are fairly abundant in the
sedimentary formations of the Broad
Pass region and in the main seem to
be connected with the granite in
trusives.*** On the whole the dike
rocks of the area studied are distinct
ly acidic, few reaching the basicity of
an andesite.***
“Geologic conditions within the
Broad Pass region are of a kind com
monly regarded as favorable to min
eralization/**
“No mining is earned on in Broad
Pass region. Parts of the region
have been prospected, chiefly for plac
er gold, in a hasty and imperfect way,
but the results of prospecting were
not encouraging, though gold, copper
and coal have been found/**
“Most of the conditions that would
affect prospecting and mining in the
Broad Pass region have already been
discussed under the head of ‘Geog
raphy.’*** Transportation is the most
important, and might easily be the
deciding factor in determining the
profitableness of a mining venture in
that region.*** Some of the miners
on Valdez Creek bring supplies from
Fairbanks, hauling them over the ice
of Nenana river. The winter route
from Cook Inlet, however, should be
fully as good, although the use of this
route would necessitate landing
freight at the head of Cook Inlet be
fore winter sets in.***
“Since the passage of the Alaska
railroad bill the different routes from
the coast to the Tanana and Yukon
Valleys have been surveyed and that
leading from Seward to Fairbanks***
has been chosen as the route for the
first railroad to be built in Alaska by
the Government.*** So that there is
reason for believing that the Broad
Pas3 region will soon be one of the
parts of interior Alaska most easily
reached.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
Over Bank of Seward
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