Sewar i Weekly Gateway
77, 7, 7 • SEWARD, ALASKA. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 21.~1»07._■*<>•
GET ASSAY OF
15.7 PER CENT
Prospectors Locate Rich Copper
Deposit Along Summit Above
Day’s Harbor.
DISCOVERY NEAR TIDE W ATER
Campion, Hanson and Alexander
f ind Remarkable Ledge of Ore
Twenty feet Wide.
Copper ore that assay 6 15." per cent
was found this week on the Day’s Har
bor side of the wedge of land between
that estuary and Resurrection bay.
The orecarae from a ledge twenty feet
wide, running along the summit, north
of the claims located by ‘‘Idaho Bill”
Lietzke. It is reached from Driftwood
bay. a recess of Day’s harbor.
The discoverers of the ledge are E.
R. Campion. Chris Hanson and Fred
Alexander. A feature of the find is
that the ledge has a conspicuous
red iron capping which had been no
ticed by several other prospectors
who had been exploring the western
slope of the ridge and have located
there. The red streak at the summit
is easily visible below but the ascent
is almost impassable from the Resur
rection bay side, so everybody on this
side passed it by.
The three men who located this ap
parently remarkable deposit are old
prospectors but were working on the
railroad bridges for Watson Snow
when the first copper discoveries along
the ridge were reported in the Gate
way. They sat up and took notice and
when Idaho Bill, an old acquaintance, j
made his string of locations from Cape
Resurrection they joined in the copper
stampede, taking a hunch to go around
to the other side.
Several tons of rich float were found
below the ledge and the locators in
tend to >hij) this to a smelter to get
returns. The property is easily ac
cessible from tide water.
BEGIN WORK ON
FAIRVIEW VEIN
Tunnel Will Be Run to Develop
Discovery Claim East of
fox Island.
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I.)*'velopment work has started
on tin1 Fairview group, the copper
property located recently east of box
island on the peninsula, and a tunnel
will he run on the ledge, boginning at
the discovery. William Redman, K. F.
Pitman and A. ( . Gould, three of the
owners, went down the hav Sunday
morning with provisions sufficient to
keep several men all fall and a forge
and tools and everything needed for
ordinary tunnel work.
The work will bo in charge of Red
man who is an experienced quartz
miner, and if development shows a body
of ore work will be pushed steadily j
all winter. The discovery is not high
enough for* snow to become deep in
midwinter, lying less than half a mile
from tide water, on a bench of the;
mountain, with a good place for a j
camp only ^H) feet lower down. A
small bay directly under it affords a
good landing-place and the climb to
the property is not difficult.
TORN TO PIECES
BY MALAMUTES
By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Nome, Sept. 19—Philip Goodwin,
aged 13, was torn to pieces last night
by a dozen of his father’s malamute
dogs on Center creek. The boy was
going there to meet his father.
CRUISER BUFFALO WILL
SELECT COALING STATION
SITE ON RESURRECTION BAY
The cruiser Buffalo came to Seward
yesterday to select a site and make a
survey for a government coaling sta
tion. which will be recommended to
the secretary of the navy for accept
ance. A reservation a mile and a half
square, or two and one-quarter square
miles will be made. The work of sur
veying the land, shore line and chart
ing adjacent waters will require ten
or twelve days.
Captain Charles F. Bond is com
mander of the Buffalo and entrusted
with the task of selecting the coaling
site. The most probable location in
cludes Lowell point and extends main
ly southward. This predilection in
favor of Lowell point and the west
shore of Resurrection bay is not con
clusive and a site on the east side of
the bay might be chosen. That is a
matter to be determined by the sur
vey under direction of Capt. Bond.
While the present design is only to
locate a coaling station the reservation
of so large a tract of land undoubtedly
indicates the possibility of the future
location of a navy yard on the site.
Capt. Bond tacitly admitted that such
might be the object of calling for so
much land.
The Buffalo is on special detail at the
present time and not attached to any
squadron. She is an auxiliary cruiser
of 6000 tons displacement. Her horse
power is 3600; speed 14.5 knots. She
carries two 2-inch rapid fire guns, two
6-millimeter Colts, six 6-pounders.
These figures are taken from the
World almanac. The Buffalo is one of
the two cruisers purchased from the
Brazilian republic just before the
Spanish war. She was the El Cid and
was then not quite completed.
SHOWS FINE SAMPLES
OF CHALCOPYRITE ORE
A chunk of chalcopyrite copper ore
weighing 10 pounds, from the Porcu
pine bay discovery oi S. E. Likes, dec
orates the mineral cabinet in the
Northern saloon. It undoubtedly runs
above ^0 per cent copper.
A piece of ore still larger and ecjual
ly rich is in a sack of nearly 100 pounds
which Mr. Likes brought up from his
last visit to Porcupine. The other
pieces are smaller but carry about the
same percentage of copper. All were
taken from the surface and show
weather stains.
The assay of this ore made previous
ly shows 22.8 per cent copper, or at 19
cents $86.64 in value. Besides this the
ore carried $2.41 in gold and $2.01 in
silver. The disclosed vein is ten feet
wide and the iron capping forty feet
wide.
PASSENGERS AND MAIL
FROM CUTTER THETIS
Seattle, Sept. 20 — Schooner Volante
arrived today with mail and passengers
she took from the revenue cutter
Thetis in Bering sea. The Thetis
broke her rudder near Seashore island,
where she arrived after taking sup
plies to the government schools at
Point Barrow. The cutter had a
stormy trip.
ANTI-ORIENTAL AGITATOR
CHARGED WITH INSANITY
Bellingham, Sept. 21 The man Fow
ler, who stirred up the anti-Oriental
riot" in this city and Vancouver, is
charged with insanity and will have
a hearing this afternoon.
TROY TO SUPERINTEND
SEATTLE ALASKA CLUB
Seattle, S. pt. 1" John \V. Troy,
until recently editor of the Skagway
Alaskan. wa> elected Saturday night
to be superintendent of the Alaska
club of this city and will have general
charge, succeeding William M. Shef
field, the secretary, whose position
will hereafter he merely honorary.
Shetlield is also secretary of the Alaska
Y u kon- Pac i tic ex| >osit ion.
TAIFU ENTIRE LOSS WITH
CARGO AND 100 PERSONS
Shanghai, Sept. 1!> - The Japanese
steamer Taifu. which caught fire at
rhin-Kiang yesterday, was totally con
sumed, with the cargo. At least
of the passengers and crew are mis
sing.
Ship Burns in River
London, Sept. 18 — A dispatch just
received this afternoon says the Jap
anese steamship Taifu Maru is burning
at Chin-Kiang. Many of the crew and
passengets are missing and it is esti
mated that 100 persons may be burned
alive.
Chin-Kiang is on the Yang-Tse-Kiang
river about fifty miles from its mouth.
It is a treaty port and accessible to
large sea-going vessels.
The Alaska Home railway has 500
men at work and eight miles of grade
finished.
ALASKA COAST
QUITS KATALLA
Steamers of That Company Will
no Longer Call at Guggen
heim Town.
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By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Seattle, Sept. 21- Alaska Coast Com
pany steamers will not call at Katalla
; hereafter. The order eliminating the
i new railroad town from the visiting
• list of Alaska Coast boats went into
; effect today.
NO CABLE LINE
INTO KATALLA
Wire W ill Not Be Laid Because of
Constant Disputes Between
Railroads.
3v Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Seattle, Sept. 19 — The cable ship
Burnside is instructed not to lay a
cable into Katalla on account of the
constant disputes and warfare between
the rival railroad companies there.
Troops were ordered there today to
preserve the peace.
Petitions for Katalla Cable
Seattle, Sept. 1*—The chamber of
commerce today adopted a petition
asking the war department to lay a
cable into Katalla.
ALASKA GAINS
BY NEW SURVEY!
By Cable to The Dally Gateway
Dawson, Y. T.. Sept. 19—Surveyors
completed work on the international
boundary line as far as Forty-Mile
river. The new survey gives to the
United States a strip 100 feet wider at
one end and 1<XX) feet wider at the
other than the Ogilvie survey.
TO CUT DOWN
COPPER OUTPUT
By Cable to Tbe Dolly Gateway.
New York, Sept. 19—The directors
of the Amalgamated Copper Company
voted today to curtail copper production
50 per cent. Many mines will be closed.
The object is undoubtedly to stiffen
the price of the metal, which has been
falling steadily since the big rise last
winter. __
Juneau reports a big strike in the
Julia group in Yankee basin.
BRING OUT GOLD POKES
FROM YENTNA DISTRICT
Eight miners came in from the Yent
na district Tuesday evening, by way
of Sunrise and the railroad. They
brought with them gold dust the
amount of which is variously stated at
from $5000 to $10,000. One of the Poor
Man’s creek miners, Larsen, is said to
have brought200 ounces, or over $3000.
He has some healthy nuggets, one of
which weighs $23. The gold is bronze
or dark brown, like that of Nugget
creek.
NEWTH UP FOR TRIAL
ON CRUELTY CHARGE
San Francisco, Sept. 20— Capt.
Newth, formerly master of the whal
ing ship Jeanette, appeared today for
arraignment on preliminary hearing
of the charge that he forced Sailor
Talbot to stay up in the rigging of the
ship several hours in Arctic weather.
Talbot’s sufferings were intense and
his health was broken by the expe
rience.
UNIONS START BOYCOTT
ON ASSOCIATED PRESS
Seattle, Sept. 21—Local labor unions
voted last night to boycott the local
offices of the telegraph companies as
unfair to organized labor. The Asso
ciated Press is included in the boycott,
which means that the purchase of the
Post-Intelligencer and Times is ta
booed.
GOV. FRANTZ GETS
BOMB IN HIS MAIL
Guthrie, Ok la.. Sept. 20 — Gov.
Frantz' mail this morning contained a
genuine bomb loaded with nitro-glycer
ine. showing a design to assassinate
the governor. Secret service men are
trying to locate the source of the
bomb.
NERVOUS STROKE LEAVES
CASSIE CHADWICK BLIND
Columbus, O., Sept. IT -Cassie Chad
wick suffered a nervous stroke last
night which left her totally blind.
Her health is gone and it is not be
lieved that she can serve out her ten
years tentence for swindling.
SAY LOSS OF $40,000,000
MADE H. H. ROGERS SICK
New York, Sept. 20 — It is said that
the breakdown of H. H. Rogers was
due to the lost of $40,000,000 in the
Virginia Tidewater Railroad, which
he was unable to carry because of other
liabilities forced upon him and Stand
ard Oil by the shrinkage in the stock
market. Worry over this big loss
caused his physical collapse.
Rogers Suffers From Apoplexy
Boston, Sept. 17— It is learned today
that H. H. Rogers, the Standard Oil
magnate, suffered a stroke of apoplexy
last July from which his face is
distorted and his speech affected. This
is the reason why he has not been at
the business of the company since that
time. _•_
Bering lake coal is now on sale in
Katalla.
TO FIGHT FOR
ALASKA TRADE
San Francisco Again Revives Pro
ject to Establish Regular
Steamer Lines.
ORGANIZED MOVEMENT ON FOOT
Transportation Companies of Cali
fornia City Agree to Aid Cam
paign for Business.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
San Francisco, Sept. 18—Merchants
of this city have declared war on Seat
tle jobbers to retain the $15,000,000 of
Alaska trade which they have held
but which has been slowly transfer
ring to Seattle. An active campaign
will be waged and a movement is al
ready on foot to establish steamer lines
from San Francisco to Nome and all
important Southeastern and Southern
and Alaska ports.
The local steamship companies have
agreed to aid in the movement to put
on regular boats to the north. Capt.
John Barieson is leader of the cam
paign.
GOOD LEDGE OF
CHIGNIK COPPER
Peter Iverson Reports Deposits
of Low Grade But Evi
dently Extensive.
Copper ore in unlimited quantities,
though of rather low grade, seems to
surround Prospect bay, near Chignik,
according to Peter Iverson, who was
sent there by a party of Seward men
to examine the Warner discovery,
which was reported in the summer.
The ore is a sulphide and is found al
most from the water's edge. Iverson
located several claims higher up than
the Warner locations, and reports
that the mineral ledge is apparently
300 feet wide, or at least the iron cap
ping is that wide He traced the
ledge nearly a mile.
Iverson also located a townsite, on a
Hat tract of land along Prospect bay.
It comprises only twenty acres and
[verson claims it is the only suitable
townsite on the bay. A short portage
separates Prospect bay from Castle
bay which is a long distance away by
(the irregular shore line. Prospect
! bay. is a magnificent harbor, but »o
little known that Capt. Moore of the
steamer Dora never saw it until he
went in on the last trip.
On the Warner property, close to
the water, is a natural dump of several
thousand tons of copper ore and
gangue, which has fallen from an al
most vertical face, leaving the ore
body exposed.
J. L. McPherson, an expert for the
Guggenheims, made an examination
of the Warner property last month.
STRIKE STILL
DRAGGING ON
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
New York, Sept. 20—President Small
of the telegraphers’ union issued a
statement this morning saying that
negotiations for a settlement of the
strike which have been pending seem
to be off.
It is understood that if a settlement
is not made by next week President
Roosevelt will appoint three men to
undertake to secure an agreement.
At Dawson a shaft sunk near the
school house revealed a rich deposit of
placer gold. One pan went $265.