CALE AND WASKEY
ELECTED DELEGATES
Nominees of Miners' Associations Carry Alaska
by Tremendous Majorities, Sweeping Nome
and Tanana Districts by One-sided
Vote-Murane Second and Demo
cratic Candidates in Rear.
Delegate election returns so far as received:
Short Tern, Lon* Term
Mi-bane Swixeeokd Waskey Mi bane Mellen t a|-i
no; 1053 305* 1351 988 -109
The nominees of the miners' associa- j
tions of Tanana and Nome. 1 houaas
('ale of Fairbanks for the long term
and Frank Waskey of Nome for the;
short term, were elected ;i' delegates
to congress in the first delegate elec-,
tion in the territory, held last
Tuesday.
Full returns are not yet in but their
majorities are very large. Figures
have been received from all towns on j
telegraph and cable lines and few
large places are yet to be heauu ft tun. i
The remote camps and ports will send |
in returns slowly but cannot affect the j
result, nor Is it likely that they "ill
decrease the majorities of the winning j
candidates.
The long lead of ( ale and W askey
was chiefly obtained in the Nome and
Tanana districts although they had,
pluralities outside. The Tanana gave
them more than VO per cent of its vote, i
the city of Fairbanks going as strongly
for them as the mining camps proper, j
Murane, Republican, ran close to them
in Nome city, but in the other pre
cincts of Seward peninsula his vote was
small. Swineford and Mellon. He mo
crats, were almost overlooked in the
big northern districts.
Southern Coast
Short Term
MV KANE SWISEFOKD WA'KEY
Sew an!. 120 <<
Camp 40.
Camp 47. 1* 2*
Camp 54. ■' N>
Total ...... 151
Seward cast 4 for Cale.
Valdez. 2* >2 11
Hope
Sunrise
Ore a 12s
Total 55 344
Hope. 1 for Cale.
Long Term
Mvuank Mellen Cale
Seward. 131
Camp 40.
Camp 40. I*
Camp 54.
Total. 103 103 '2
Valdez. 20« 37
Hope
Sunrise 13
Orca 12v
Total 570 206 100
Southeastern Alaska
Short Term
Ml'KANE SWlNtrOHU WA3KEY
Juneau and
Silver Bay... 90 175 141
BOAT BRINGS EXPLOSIV ES
Little Schooner Alice Arrives NV ith
Dynamite and Gasoline.
Schooner Alice arrived in port yes
terday morning with 1100 cases of
dynamite and 150 eases of gasoline.
She sailed from Seattle July 22. Lhe
dynamite was nearly all for the Alaska
Central, and the gasoline was fot tin
Kenai Lumber & Fuel Company.
The Alice was sent here by Kudd &
Christian of Seattle and is chartered
to go to the Kuskokwinj, from Seward
to take three mining men and their
five-ton outfit. The party is headed
by G. H. Kitenour. and others may go
along. ______
Find $998 Nugget in Kantishna
Fairbanks—The largest nugget ever
taken out in the Tanana was found in
Kantishna recently. It is valued at
$998. _
Twenty-one miles of the railroad
from Nome to Kougarok have been
built and the remainder will be com
pleted by October 15._
The first books were bound by Atta
in. king of Pergamus, in 198 B. C.
Treadwell and
Douglas. 09 130 31
Skajjway. 10 2.'k> 11
Haines. 1 09 3
Nevada Creek 20 ">
Total. 190 020 ISO
Long Term
Ml’KANE M ELLEN CALI
Juneau and
Silver Bay... *7 160 105
Treadwell and
Don ir las. "0 125 42
Ska^way. 10 3 239
Baines. 5 5s 27
Nevada Creek 1 35
Total. 171 301 471
Tanana
Short Term
Ml KANE SWINErORD WASKEY
12 828
Graehed. 2 98
Esther. 0 103
Vault. 30
Fox Gulch... 96
Dome. 1 221
Golden. 71
Cleary. 1 2 *»5
Fairbanks Cr. I 194
Chena. 28 3 94
Ft. Gibbon... 11 19 12
Rampart. 11 19 41
Total. 129 55 1913
Long Term
Mu kane Mellen Cali:
Fairbanks— 85 30 *32
Graehed. 1 98
Esther. 0 163
Vault. 30
Fox Gulch... 90
Dome. 1 223
Golden. 71
( Vary. I 13 <v>
Fairbanks Cr. 192
Chena. 11 2 94
Ft. Gibbon... 11 25 0
Rampart. 11 12 02
Total. 129 *8 1932
reward Peninsula
Short Term
MU KANE SWINEFORD WASKEY
Nome. 048 12 *03
Outside
Precincts.... 109 34 717
Total. *17 40 1520
Long Term
Mcrane Mellen Calk
Nome. 009 03 737
Outside
Precincts.... 203 235 0t»0
Total. 872 298 1397
CINNABAR MINE ON
THE KUSKOKWIM
One of the largest cinnabar mines in
the world is located on the Kuskokwim
river about 300 miles from its mouth.
It was located several years ago by
Duncan McDonald, formerly United
States commissioner for the Kusko
kwim district. This mountain of ore
was known of during the Russian oc
cupation, being about 30 miles distant
from the old Russian redoubt of Kol
makoff. The inaccessibility of the
property has hitherto prevented its
exploitation, but recently it has been
bonded by eastern capitalists for a big
figure. The Kuskokwim river cuts
the deposit, which looms up like a
mountain.
The ore body proper is gray cinna
bar, low grade in character, but this
i* permeated with stringers of red cin
nabar ore carrying rich values, w’hich
makes the whole proposition average
well in percentage of quicksilver.
It is reported that Bishop Innocent
of Sitka, head of the Russian church
in Alaska, is to be succeeded by Bish
op Anatoli.
SEWARD GOES
FOR NIURANE
Gives Majority of Total Vote For
Republican Nominee For
Both Terms.
TOWN RECORDS 239 BALLOTS
Precincts on Railroad Line Go
Strongly For Swineford and
Mellen. Democrats.
Murane carried Seward by a small
majority over all other candidates
combined. The smallness of the vote
for (.’ale and Waskey was the surprise
of the day as it was believed that the
miner candidates would poll a heavy
vote.
The total vote of Seward was 2.W.
Five of the “Australian” ballots pre
pared by the judges were thrown out
because improperly marked. Others
were counted according to the appar
ent intent of the voter, although
marked irregularly
Out on the railroad line conditions
were reversed, the Democratic nomi
nees getting nearly everything. This
was partly due to the fact that the
railroad indue nee was thrown for
Mellen and Swineford, being moved
thereto by a cable message from hx
Senator Turner in which tin* request
was made that a boost be given to the
Democratic nominees. It is probably
true also that a large majority of the
railroad laborers are Democrats.
The vote for t ale and Waskey in
the railroad camps was so trivial that
it scarcely rose above the dignity of
scattering, showing that few miners
are now at work on the line. At this
season they are mostly out in the
mining districts.
The total vote at Camp 40 was 18,
at 4'* it was 40 and at '4 it was V»4
MAKES ATTACK ON
SIBERIAN COMPANY
Russian Consul Issues Letter Charg
ing Rosene Enterprise With
Insolvency.
By Cnble to The Dally Gateway.
San Francisco, Aug. 13 The local
1 Ru?»ian consul. Count Kosakevisch, is
sued a letter today in which he states
i that John Ro»ene’s Northeast Siber
ian Company is insolvent. He says
! the company has been exceeding its
! authority in utilizing the concessions
1 granted by the Russian government by
i offering lays to prospectors in the
Tehukotsk district. Kosakevitch
! warns all interested persons that their
claims under the Northeast Siberian
1 Company will not be recognized by the
Russian government.
Gives Company’s Side
i Seattle. Aug. 13.—Count Constantin
de Podhorsky, formerly manager of
the Northeast Siberian Company and a
heavy stockholder, is in this city. He
says there is not a word of truth in the
story that at the request of the com
pany the Russian government sent a
mining engineer named Count Tul
chinsky to report ori the opera
tions of the company, the fact
being that Tulchinsky was sent by
the government on its own initiative
and that as soon as he arrived he ask
ed the company to give him a large
sum of money for a favorable report.
This was refused and he made a casual
inspection of a few stations but made
no examination of operations in detail.
He then returned to Russia and re
ported that the American company
was making millions and robbing the
natives on all sides.
Prospectors Get Nearly All
Count Podhorsky says all prospectors
sent in by the Northeast Siberian
Company were given 1)0 per cent of the
output from their discoveries and that
all worked under permits recognized
by the mining department of the Rus
sian government. He asserts that the
company has already spent $350,000 in
prospecting and has not yet received
more than a color in return.
At the company's request and ex
pense Russia is sending three resident
officials of the government in Siberia
to see thao the requirements of the
concessions to the company are carried
out. The company will pay all cost of
this inspection and the officials are now
on the way and the company is ship
ping in supplies for them and their
attendants.
EASIER WORK .
ON RAILROAD
Pro^rea* Will Be Faster After
Track is Laid Through
Tunnels to Mile 5t.
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MUCH GRADING ALREADY DONE
Construction Along Turnagain Arm
Not Difficult Except Occas
ional Rock Cuts.
Rapid progress can be made on rail
road construction after the track is ex
tended through the last tunnel at the
end of mile From o4 to 07 nearly
all the heavy work is done and beyond
that mile much of the most difficult
rock cutting is finished as far as Rain
bow creek on mile !»4. If freezing
weather comes late this fall and the
additional force of laborers can be se
cured at once it may be possible to
push the rail terminus around the
head of Turnagain Arm before winter
stops work in the Placer valley. This
i> the sticking point.
From the end of the long trestle
which will lower the track on the re
quired grade from the ridge of hills
which bounds Placer valley on the
west to the low, level land over which
the Placer river and other mountain
streams riot lawlessly the grade is yet
to be made. For about two miles a
first-class road-bed can be made by
throwing up the gravel along the
route. This was done Iasi fall but the
effect of summer floods was not taken
into account and nearly all the grade
has been swept away. By means of
dikes the roving streams will be di
verted and confined and the danger to
the road-bed from wild waters will be
reduced to a minimum.
Beyond this stretch of gravel land is
an expanse of several miles of swampy
tundra, partly covered with water ex
cept after a prolonged dry period. To
(Continued on page 2)
ASKS MORE AID FOR
ALASKA AGRICULTURE
Prof. Georgeson’s Report Urges
Continued Experiments With
Galloway Cattle.
By Cable to Tlie Daily Grtoway
Washington. 1). C’.. Aug. 13—The re
port of Prof. C. C. Georgeson. superin
tendent of Alaska agricultural experi
ment stations, was issued today. He
recommends an appropriation for five
stock experimental stations for the
raising of Galloway and Highland cat
tle. citing the favorable experience
with those already placed at Kenai
and Kodiak.
Prof. Georgeson also asks for en
couragement through government aj>
propriations for experiments with
raising apples and other hardy fruits
in the coast districts, and grain rais
ing in the Copper river and Susitna
river valleys. He urges an appropria
tion for an experiment station between
Fairbanks and Chena, stating that the
earth in that locality is warmed from
beneath and that the cultivation of
vegetables there has demonstrated
that it has great agricultural possi
bilities. __
GOLD FROM COOPER CREEK
Experimental Work Yields Fine Spec
imens of Coarse Gold Dust.
Eleven ounces of coarse gold and a
handful of small nuggets from the
property of the Cooper Creek Mining
& Milling Company were brought to
town this week by Manager Fred Bry
ant. The samples came from the new
bench strike which was made a short
time airo and were taken out simply
by pick and shovel work.
The company now has fourteen men
employed on a ditch to work the bench
with a hydraulic equipment which Mr.
Bryant expects to have in operation by
September 1. It will have a three
months’ run before the freeze-up this
year. __
Sends Dust from Lake Creek
J. E. O’Reilly sent to Frank Youngs
this week a bottle containing three
ounces of gold from a bar near the
mouth of Lake creek, as a sample of
what he is taking out.
The first bread was made by the
Greeks; the first windmills by the
Saracens.
LIKES OUTLOOK
FOR RAILROAD
Maj. Ballaine Returns From Trip
Along’ Line and Discusses
Prospects.
MINING INDUSTRY THRIVING
Crow Creek Hydraulic Property Will
Yield Heavily and Others
Make Good Showing.
Major John K. Ballaine returned Sun
day from a week’s trip looking over
the work on the railroad grade as far
as Campbell point, 105 miles nort h of
Seward. He also spent a day at the
(’row creek mines, where the clean-up
for this season is expected to reach
$100,000, and visited the mining dis
tricts back of Sunrise. He returned
over the Johnson creek trail, covering
more than 200 miles in (he week,
much of the distance on foot.
“The character of the railroad work
could scarcely be better,” said the
Major this morning, “but it has been
excessively expensive chiefly on ac
count of being scattered for sixty miles
beyond the head of the rails. The
work under Mr. Welch in the luture
will be kept closer to the end of the
track and he more concentrated. He
is an able railroad builder, of wide
experience. Most of his training lias
been in the west, where the problems
of railroad construction are radically
different from those of the more thick
ly populated states. Without presum
ing to speak for Mr. Welch, but pure
ly from my knowledge of him, I am
safe in saying that lie will follow the
motto of J. J. Hill and all other suc
cessful railroad builders in the west—
’Keep the rails abreast of the work. If
necessary, lay the rails first and build
the roadbed afterward, but shove the
rails to the front.’
"It costs but one-twentieth as much
to transport men and goods to the
front on a temporary track as it does
i to send them over specially built trails
j and wagon roads with a great caravan
I of pack horses and freight wagons.'
Major Ballaine was well pleased
with the mineral developments he
saw. The Kenai peninsula, he de
clares, promises to be one of the
richest quart/, mining districts in the
world, “and.” he added, “there are
placer beds now known in the Turn
again Arm country sufficient to justify
fifty hydraulic plants and dredges,
each on as big a scale as the two on
Crow creek.”’
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SENDS GOOD REPORT
FROM UPPER CREEKS
T. R. Wilson Writes That Aliners Are
Taking Out Gold on Cache and
Nugget Creeks.
The last mail from the Yentna dis
trict brought a letter from T. K. \\ il
son to a friend in Seward, lie says in
part:
“I have some good news for you in
regard to mining. Collins, Jones and
myself have eight claims on Cache
creek: we call them the Ohio group.
An embryonic city has sprung up,
which we call Ohio city. It has eight
or ten tents. We have beautiful wild
{lowers in our gardens and all kinds of
wild berries. Our party has a string
sluice boxes and cleans up an ounce to
the man per day of eight hours. Our
group prospects good all over. We
also have a claim each on a small
gulch we call Rambler, which shows
up'well. Dr. Herndon is working on
Nugget creek, about three miles from
here, and has good diggings. The
strike on Willow creek and Poor Man’s
gulch is not as good as first reported
hardly an ounce per day to the man.”
BRINGS SPECIMEN OF
ALMOST PURE GALENA
While prospecting for gold on
creeks of the upper Susitna Duke
Harris picked up a big chunk of al
most pure galena. No assay of the
specimen has been made, or at least
the result has not been divulged, but
the rock appears to carry a heavy
percentage of lead with enough silver
to be taken into account. Pure galena
is 86 per cent lead.
The locality where this galena dis
covery was made is not stated by the
finder but it is understood that he lo
cated claims and expects to develop
the property if a well-defined ledge
can be exposed. A sample of the ore
is at the Bank of Seward.
NUGGET PROVES
BONANZA CREEK
Roddy and Miller Make Clean-u >
in Short Time in Poor
Man’s Gulch.
BRING FLATTERING ACCOUNTS
Herndon and Morris Said by AH
Reports Fo Be Taking Out Oust
on Their Claims.
Nugget creek on the upper Kahiltn;/
is proving a bonanza creek. < onlirm:
tion of the accounts recently brouglr
|clown that Doc Herndon’s claim
turning out at least $1000 a month t<»
the man has come in from sever.a'
sources together with tiie statement
on the same authority that Billy Mor
ris, on the claim below Herndon is de
ing better. Last night Mike Roddy ar. '
John Miller came to Seward with the r
pockets full of money, which they re
ceived at Knik for the; dust the
brought down from Boor Man's creek
in the same vicinity.
Roddy and Miller left here early in
) the spring with nothing hut a stria:'
outfit. They located on Boor Man -
creek and worked until their 'Upplies
were exhausted, when they came dowt
to Knik, sold their dust to O. 0. Her
ning and came on to Seward for a
I short visit. They will return soon »
i their claims with a new outfit.
Report Corroborated
The correctness of the report regain
ing the diggings on Nugget creek i
settled bv various credible witnesses.
I'aul Buckley stated to Maj. Ballaim;
and others at Sunrise last week that
he had been nearly that far up on his
recent trip through the Yentna and
had been told by men for whose Credi
bility he could personally vouch that
they had seen the gold at Herndon's.
As already published the output of the
claim in June was $4,000. with five
men working part of t he time and
three the remainder.
All accounts agree that Morris, just
below Herndon, is doing still better.
He has one man working with him aji> >
the two are taking out almost as much
as three men on Herndon's property.
Morris’s wife and son are in Seward
and have received letters from him
stating conservatively that be is doing
well.
Everything Located
Charles Benjamin. Thomas Moore
and Elmer Carlson arrived at mile T‘>
last week from the upper Kahiltna and
told the same storv as other men re
garding the Herndon and Morris
claims. They came away because all
the creeks of the upper Kahiltna art
plastered with locations by power of
attorney and they could find no live
ground. Thep were intending to get
new outfits and go to another locality.
being well satisfied of the richness of
the whole region.
Complaint is general by men coming
out from the Yentna district that the
district wherever good pay lias been
found lias been staked for miles on
powers of attorney by men who are
doing nothing but gobble all tin
ground they can cover. Many of these
claims are believed to be rich. One
man has staked and recorded 200
claims for himself and others.
CHARTING THE COAST
Government Survey Steamer Patter
son Engaged in Important Work
The government survey steamer
Patterson arrived in Seward Saturday
evening and sailed again yesterday af
ternoon. She has been to the west
ward, engaged in the work of taking
soundings and charting the coast line
as far west as ChirigofT island. The
coast of Southwestern Alaska has
never been thoroughly charted and
navigators have experienced much
difficulty in safely navigating their
vessels as a result. The traffic to the
westward has increased very rapidly
in the past two years and will continue
to grow as the great mineral and fish
ing resources are developed. The
government has recognized the need of
a reliable survey of this coast and the
Patterson was detailed for the service.
The need of this work was exempli
fied in the case of the barkentine Fer
ris Thompson, which arrived in Seward
last winter, lumber laden. For three
days she beat back and forth outside
of Resurrection bay in doubt and un
certainty as to the entrance of the
harbor. With proper charts this de
lay would have been unnecessary.