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Phone Adams 120 Shoe Shining
WM. SLEDGE, Prop.
It always pays to resole a pair of
shoes at least once. Mens soles $2.00
heel .75 Ladies soles $1.25 to $2.00
heel .50 to .65 cents.
SEWARD LEATHER WORKS
j PORT OF MISSING MEN
Edward Francis Moore was born in
! Alpene, Mich., Jan. 9, 1887. Ho en
listed with the Canadian Expedition
ary Forces in Toronto on Nov. 26, 1917
Any information as to his where
abouts should be communicated to his
i mother, Mrs. Margaret Moore, 6174
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Field Ave., Detroit, Mich.
“BOYS ON THEIR TOES”
The local fire department was call
ed out Saturday afternoon to quench
! a small chimney fire in Frye-Bruhn’s
| meat market. As is usually the case
the firemen had the blaze out before
'any damage occured. The firemen’s
| promptness and efficiency in combat
iting the .“red demon’’ was again com
mented upon.
See our window. Seward
Trading Co.
PIONEERS, MINERS SAY THE DAY
' OF INDIVIDUAL OPERATOR IS
NOW OVER
Pioneer placer miners declare the
day of the individual operator in Alas
ka Is over, and that the future depends
on large aggregations of capital com
petent to install the most modern hy
draulic and dredging plants -to enable
the lower-grade gravels remaining un
worked to be handled at a profit, re
ports the Engineering and Mining
Journal of last month. The airplane
services established at Anchorage and
Fairbanks are proving of great value
in enabling prospecting parties and
examining engineers to reach hitherto
inaccessible localises without loss of
time, and to take full advantage of the
short seasons. *
The Fairbanks Exploration Compa
ny has constructed camps at the town
of Chatanika, and at Fox on No. 21,
Goldstream, for accommodation of the
iron workers employed in putting to
gether the two dredging plants now
being assembled at Fairbanks. Three
trains a week are employed in moving
the plants from Seward to Chatanika,
where extra spurs have been laid to
handle the material. As the dredges
will be electrically operated, the pow
er plant at Garden Island, Fairbanks,
is equipped with three steam turbo
generators, two of 3,500 hp. each and
dhe of 500 hp. The boilers will be
fired with coal supplied under a 3
year contract from the Healy Creek
mine. Huge cranes have been install
ed for unloading the equipment from
the railway cars and moving as re
quired. Large air-compressors have
been put in at each camp to supply
the air required in riveting together
the sections of the plants. The dredge
buckets have a capacity of 10 cu. ft.
Each dredge will handle about 7,000
cu. yd. gravel per day, and the cost of
each installed will be between $750,
000 and $1,000,000. It is expected that
the plants will be in full operation by
August 1, enough ground having been
stripped and thawed to provide for a
full season’s' operation. A smaller
dredge with 6 cu. ft. buckets has been
ordered for operation at Gilmore, on
Supper Goldstream. The two dredges
now being delivered will operate on
Cleary and lower Goldstream respec-|
lively, and it is stated four more'
dredges will be installed on the com-;
pany’s properties, which include 50
square miles of placer ground on
Cleary, Goldstream, Gilmore and Es
ter creeks. The dredging plants will
be connected with the central power
station at Fairbanks by transmission
lines aggregating 100 miles in length.
The Davidson ditch, so named after
J. M. Davidson, who built it and the
Miocene ditch at Nome, extends from
Fairbanks to a point half a mile be-1
low the forks of McManus and Faith j
creeks, a distance of 75 miles. The j
ditch is 7 ft. deep and has an average I
width of 12 ft. From Fox Creek a
branch of the ditch, 4 miles in length,,
runs to Gilmore on upper Goldstream, |
and the other, 7 miles in length, pro- j
vides the water supply for lower Gold-;
stream operations. The company's to-1
tal investment in the enterprise i ses
timated at $15,000,000.
| Another important dredging under-1
j taking at Fairbanks is that of the
, Alaska-Whitworth Mines, Ltd., of Lon
don, with which are associated the
Tanana Valley Gold Dredging Com-;
pany, the Whitworth Mines Company, |
land the Engineer Creek Company.
;The comply is now ready to operate
the entire season on Fish Creek and
has acquired two and half miles of
dredging ground on Engineer Creek,
which it proposes to drill. If Results
jare satisfactory a dredge will be in
operation there by 1929. Two thou
sand tons of coal has been hauled to
;Fish Creek from Gilmore by tractors
j in preparation for the coming season’s
operations there.
The Pacific Coast Cement Company
is installing its dock and shipping
! plant, and opening quarries, at View
| Cove, Dali Island, with a view to sup
plying the limestone required in its
cement plants on Puget Sound. The
1 plant includes electric shovels and
conveyors, to provide the power for
.which a start will shortly be made on
a hydro-electric installation. It will
be the end of the year before the in
dustry is in complete operation. The
'Williams Mining Company has been
incorporated to develop and operate
the Charles Wiliams lode mining
group of 94 claims on Hawrk Inlet, near
: Juneau.
! A. Hifghes and J. W. Sansom have
driven over 1,100 ft? of tunnel in the
(search for a lost gold-quartz mine, be
lieved to have been buried by a land
| slide on the Yukon River, 30 miles
I above Circle. Treadwell interests are i
' stated to have taken up an area on
Coal Creek, a tributary of the YukOn
River west of the international bound
ary, with a view to testing it out. Re
presentatives of Michigan capital have
been investigating the dredging pros
pects of Birch Creek, a tributary of
the Yukon River, below the conflu
ence with Porcupine River.
The old Chickagoff Island gold mine
is being reopened by the Chichagoff
j Development Company, organized by
G. T. Jackson. J. L. Freeburn, who
Successfully operated it in former
(years, has returned as manager. A
tnew vein carrying high gold values
has been developed. The Merrill Min
ing Company has been obliged to shut
down its mine at Port Wells for the
winter owing to unusually cold weath
er, which froze the water supply.
The Elmes Gold Mining Company
intends to increase its mill at Fair
banks to ten stamps. Sufficient ore
has been blocked out to supply such
a mill for a year. The Marion-Twin
Gold Mining is adding another ten
stamp mill and two lOOhp. Diesel en
gines to its plant at the Gold Mint on
Little Susitna River. The company
has also arranged to operate its
Craigie properties during the coming
summer.
PHONOGRAPHS FOR RENT.
SCHALLERER’S ALASKA SHOP.
At the Frye packing plant we have learn
ed from Nature in our time-honored pro
cess of slow curing by wood fire and in
planning our distribution methods so that
these delightful FRYE’S “DELICIOUS”
BRAND HAMS come fresh from the
smokehouse to your table with the least
possible loss of time.
DOUBLE INSPECTION BY U. S.
GOVERNMENT AND FRYE EX
PERTS IS YOUR DOUBLE ASSUR
ANCE OF QUALITY.
Write to Frye & Co., Seattle, for
Frye’s “Meat Guide.” Send 3c to cov
er postage.
VOTE FOR
BARTLEY HOWARD
Candidate for Republican
Nomination as Delegate
to Congress
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PRIMARY ELECTION APRIL 24, 1928
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NOTICE OF PRIMARY ELECTION
TO BE HELD ON TUESDAY,
APRIL 24TH, 1928.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a
.PRIMARY ELECTION will be held
!
on Tuesday April 24th, 1928, in the
Town Hall, Seward, Alaska for the
purpose of nominating candidates of
the various political parties of Alaska,
for the following offices to wit:
A Qovernor of Alaska, An Attorney
General, A Delegate from Alaska to
Congress, One Territorial Senator,
Four Territorial Representatives, Two
Road Commissioners, and for the pur
pose of electing the following party
officials, to wit:
A Republican National Committee
man, A Democratic National Commit
teeman, Two Delegates to the Repub
lican National Convention, Two Al
ternates to the Republican National
Convention, Six Delegates to the Dem
ocratic National Convention, Six Al
ternates to the Democratic National
Convention.
The said election will be in the vot
ing precinct of the City of Seward,
Alaska, and at the polling place here
in specified._The said polling place
will be open between the hours of
8 o’clock a. m. and 7 o’clock p. m. of
said day.
Dated at Seward, Alaska, March 23
1928.
By order of Common Council.
(Signed) J. P. HANNON, Municipal
Clerk, City of Seward, Alaska, Third
Division, Territory of Alaska.