VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 259.
SEWARD, ALASKA TUESDAY; OCTOBER 30, 1928.
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PRICE TEN CENTS
Fourteen Water Buckets
Full of Gold Every Two
Weeks Fairbanks Report
FLOOD OF PRECIOUS METAL FROM OLD FAIR
BANKS DIGGINGS REPORTED AS THREE
DREDGES EAT WAY INTO GRAVEL RECOV
ERING ALMOST A MILLION DOLLARS IN LESS
THAN THREE MONTHS OPERATION IN FIRST
OF GIGANTIC OPERATION WHICH PROMISES
ANOTHER HUNDRED AND FIFTF MILLION
FROM DEEP PLACERS.
Fourteen galvanized water buckets full of gold for
every two weeks cleanup since June from three dredges
of the Fairbanks Exploration company spells the reason
for over $800,000 recovery from old creeks of Fairbanks
this summer, according to information given the Gate
way recently.
It marks the first flood of gold to come back to the
company after an expenditure of $15,000,000 in getting
ready and the first installment of - $150,000,000 which
the company is almost sure to recover or as much again
as Fairbanks produced in the old days from sluice boxes.
This news is not from any official or employee of
the company but from an old time mining authority. The
company, as far as is known, has never divulged the
amounts of the cleanups.
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lnree ureuges nave ueuii wui^
ing the past summer, one at 21
Below Coldstream, one at Gil
more, and one on Chatanika and
the success attained thus far from
old paystreaks, tailings from old
dumps, and new paystreaks never
mined before, is said to indicate
the thoroughness of drilling oper
tions carried on by the company
lefoi they started to move in and
furnishes almost conclusive proof
that two more dredges will be in
stalled next year; and possibly
four. The original report had it
that 12 dredges would be erected
in the Fairbanks district.
THE FIRST DREDGE
started on Goldstream early in
June but all three were nursed
along until the machinery was
working smoothly. Had they been
able to work full capacity all sea
son it is estimated they would
have taken out nearer $2,000,000
than $1,000,000.
THE EARLY SEASON WORK
was held up by breaks in the great
ditch and will require another
season to get this in thorough
order as cold water thaws out
along the hillsides and great holes
formed, that must be plugged
with moss.
The first season is hailed
as a great victory for the compa
ny, it was said, and a fore run
ner of vast operations all over
Alaska.
LOOKS FOR JOB IN SEATTLE
AFTER ROWING HIS WAY
DOWN COAST*
SEATTLE, Oct. 30, (/P)—Fresh as
a daisy after an 880 mile row from
Juneau, Hugh, Clinton Smith, 35,
is tramping the streets here for a
.mb while his 21 foot dory bobs at
anchor.
Smith is a mill worker and was in
Juneau last August when stricken
with the idea of coming to Seattle
for the winter. The fare of $23
£eemed too steep so he filled a cou
ple of gasoline tins with frest wat°r,
bought a few pounds of bacon and
boxes of soda biscuits, and shoved
cff. He didn’t have a sextant ard
ever thought to bring along a map
”t had a. taroaulin and some blan
kets, a tin stove, a coffee pot and
an ax. so made out fine.
Occasionally, when the beach was
too far away and brisk wind or tide
aided progress the navigator ,iust
set up the stove on the water cans
fed it a few scraps of wood and
cooked a meal.
Last Friday, ire reported, a big
si,earner almost upset him near Bar
Point, No Point. Smith made
stops at Harbor Bay, Mone Carlo
Island, Ketchikan, Foggy Bay,
Prince Rupert, Kennedy Island and
other places to earn money to buy
£ applies and get information.
DIMS POLITICAL ARDOR
SOUTH BOSTON, Va. Oct. 29. (fP)
—Citizens here who pre caught
fighting over politics will be fined
S25 and costs, Mayor Wilborn has
proclaimed.
Holdup Man Takes
Long Chance In
Fairbanks Cafe
FAIRBANKS, Oct,, 30, —A lone
masked robber held up the Model
Cafe, the largest restaurant here,
early this morning. A gutte-nl
monosyble was the only sound be
made as he covered the restaurant
staff and a few men patrons while
one woman in the place was una
ware of the robber’s presence.
He took $90 from the register not
touching any of the silver. No at
tempt was made to open the safe.
WILL BE ABLE TO DETECT MIL
LIONS CELESTIAL BODIES
NEVER SEEN
PASADENA, Calif., Oct., 29, (IP)—
The largest telescope ever made,
twice as large and four times as
powerful as present instruments,
will be erected on an undesignat
ed California mountain.
It will have a 200 inch reflector
and the two outstanding aims of
its erection will be to detect mil
lions of celestrial bodies never be
fore seen and the other aim is
for a national organization of
scientists and business men to se
cure maximum results.
The new instrument announce
ment was made by the California
Institute of Technology to which
the International Board of Edu
cation has made an appropriation
to build the telescope laboratories
and shops for its operation.
After Long Spell
Farthest Norik
Silli § *hp<' si
CORDOVA. Oct.. 30, (IP)—Henry
Dreist physician and surgeon at
°oint Barrow, arrived at Cordova
after spending eight years in the
iarthest north mission in America.
Due to the scarcity of wood at
the mission all parts of a new
building will be cut and numbered
'n Seattle. The building will re
place a residence lost in fire a2;d
will be erected by the doctor him
self when he returns in June.
Great Airship
Wings Over Sea
BERLIN, Oct., 30, VP) Dodging
storm areas but aided by strong tail
winds the Graf Zeppelin is swing
ing over mid-Atlantic somewhere
along the northern steamship
routes. Officials of the Zeppelin
works at Friedrichshaien estimated
the ship will not arrive before
Thursday morning.
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St. Paul Bride
1 ST. PAUL, Oct., 30. (JP)—Miss
Laura Volstead, whose father is au
thor of the Prohibition Act, will be
married tonight to Carl Lomen of
Nome. Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt,
assistant attorney general, will be
bridesmaid. She was a college class
mate of Miss Volstead.
Following the ceremony Mr. and
Mrs. Lomen leave for Washington.
They will make their home in New
York City.
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CLEAR TO VOTE
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VETERAN WASHINGTON AUD
ITOR CANNOT VOTE FOR
GOV. HARTLEY
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| OLYMPIA, Oct., 29, (A5)—With a
plea “To join me in marking our
ballots on election day for Scott
Bullitt for Governor of the State
of Washington" Auditor Clausen,
veteran Republican official and
: candidate for re-election, denoun
| ced Governor Harwey in a state
ment addressed to “Friends and
| supporters and other voters in the
j State.”
The statement followed confer
I ences with Secretary of State
Hinkle, State Land Commissioner
Savidge, and other Republican
: officials whom the Governor de
; nounced in the primary election,
i Savidge said the statement W’as
Clausen’s personal expression and
that other officers will probably
make none.
Clausen said “My act in the mat
1 ter is not a desertation from the
! Republican party in any true
: sense of the term. I have been a
Republican and voted as such for
50 years. Somehow, occasions have
never arisen causing me to ab
| stain from voting straight but
| this time I am going to vote a
| straight Republican ticket with
! the exception of the Governor. I
! cannot bring myself to, vote for
j him.”
COOLIDGE, HOOVER AND MELLON CONFER
The Presidential Nominee, Herbert Hoover, and
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon are shown above on
the front porch of the White House following a recent
conference. The man peeking around the corner is be
lieved to be either a prohibition agent or one of the so
called “Gentlemen of the Press.”
U. S. INSPECTOR DECLARES
CITY HAS NATURAL FIELD
SHOULD BE PREPARED
“It would require very little
money and little work to prepare
a natural landing field for Seward
at the head of Resurrection Bay,”
was the verdict of H. F. Rough, dis
trict supervisor of the Aeronautic
Branch of the U. S. Department of
Commerce, who was in town over
Sunday and who left yesterday
for the Interior to look over the
equipment of the Air Transporta
tion Companies of Anchorage, Fair
banks and Nome. While here he
was taken out to the field near the
signal corps radio station in com
pany with Charles L. Thompson of
the Bennett- Rodebaugh Air Trans
port Co., of Fairbanks, Lynn Smith.
TJ. S. Marshal at Fairbanks, Nick
Johnson of Unga and representa
tives of the Seward Gateway.
“It would seem to me very desira
ble that Seward get busy on this
proposition,” said Mr. Rough o.
aviation is making such wonderful
svridfy ' - * i;\ska a nr w1* ?nwould
a°em that the city should be in po
sition to receive ships flying out
from the Interior or perhaps com
ing up along the coast from Seat
tle.”
He was backed in this statement
by Mr. Thompson who has been
one of the most active proponents
of flying in the Interior and who
brought with him a fine, specially
built ship from California to go on
the routes out of Fairbanks.
“The coast flight is a dangerous
cne and it may be some years be
fore there is a regular service aloi g
the Inside Passage although it does
not seem at all improbable that sea
planes could make the trip safely
in spite of adverse winds and fogs.
However, I expect to see a regular
service between Nome. Fairbanks,
Edmonton, Canada and St. Paul
before the coast route is establish
ed. In the meantime it would seem
to nm that a seaplane would pay
nere in Seward for flights in this
vicinity or perhaps to the West.
“In order to encourage Seward
ites to get into the game, fix up
their field and get a ship here, I
would suggest that your Chamber
and »paper take up the proposi
tion of applying for Seward for a
membership in the National Aero
nautic Association as we have done
in Fa;rbanks and as they will do in
\nchorage. It oiily requires 25
members at S5 each, and the pilots
registered under the charter are
privileged as licensed flyers a, y
where in the world. Just the far t
of be'ng a member of the associa
'ion /ould quicken public interest
in tl:r flying game, and it would
■ ‘ long before Seward would i e
in, lined as a regular port of call
for airships.’
Tho not a certainty it is pos
sible that Rough will fly from Fair
banks to Nome. “It is my duty to
inspect ships for fitness for com
mercial flying,” said Rough, “and I
was especially detailed on this”trip
from my Detroit headquarters as
Alaska has not yet been designated
as part of any of the 11 districts
under the Aeronautic’s branch.”
Mr. Rough expects to be in the In
ferior about two wreeks.