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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 576.
REWARD, ALASKA TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1980.
PRICE TEN CENTS
BELIEF m
UP IN THE 1
DEMO'S HESITATE
HOUSE LEADERS SOMEWHAT
UNCERTAIN AS TO G. O.
P. EFFORT
WASHINGTON, Dec., 16, (JF)—
Outwardly, the relief program is
as deeply enmeshed as ever in a
snarl of congressional conflict.
Senate conferees pledged to re
tort back before consenting to
eliminating amendments object
ional to the administration.
A conference has been agreed
on the $116,000,000 sum in the
House but leaders are somewhat
uncertain as to the Republican
effort to push it through. With
it a vote on the Senate provi
> ons it was turned back.
Only routine legislation was
? dvanced during the day. The
Senate passed the treasury and
post office billion dollar appro
priations.
In the House, Democrats gain
; 1 16 votes in an attempted push
ever the drought bill without.
■ "e amendments.
Bf^rah pleaded for action but
r> no avail; he reminded the
Deviate that while they talked
people were hungry,
Jones and W
he President on
rsolution which
xoected be
rief ended
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PHOENIX, Arizona, Dec., 15, -
The steady increase of prospec
tors who have taken to the hills
and mountains of Arizona in the
search of minerals this year is at
tributed to the unemployment in
their legitimate lines by George R
Uansett, mining engineer of the
Arizona Bureau of Mines at the
University of Arizona.
“Lack of jobs,” says Mr. Fansett.
has caused many men to begin
prospecting in highly mineralized
sections of the country. They
ieel that in this way they can
i?se their idle time to advantage ”
Many of the men now in the
Held, acording to the mining en
t gineer, are men who nave always
wanted to be able to go out as
prospectors.
The northwestern part of the
5<tate of Arizona is said to have a
good portion of these new pro
spectors To meet one of her "vst
important needs, mineral instruc
tion, the University of Arizona has
scheduled lectures on “Prospector’s
Mineralogy,’ to be given in var
ious town in the state.”
For some time Mr Fansett will
be in norhern Arizona conducting
the lecture programs and engag
ing in professional mi#eng work
for the Arizona Bureau
—Denver Mining Record
BELIEVES!
WASHINGTON, Dec., 16, </P)—
Senator Nye said he believed
that the Davis-Brown Republi
can ticket in the Pennsylvania
primary had more than $1,000,
000 spent on it. Nye said “That
isn’t the end.” We are not ready
as to unseating them.
SEATTLE VESSEL WILL
JOIN ALASKA SEARCH
EDA LOST UHI
SEATTLE, Dec., 16, (/?)—The
relief ship Dorothea, manned by
a volunteer crew, is enroute to
the North to join fishing boats in
the search for the lost aviator,
Renehan.
At the same time Pilot R. I.
Vanderbyl and his mechanic, T.
H. Cressy. trudged into Fort St.
James after a 170 mile hike from
Thudade Lake where they left W.
A. Joerss when the plane refus
i ed to lift the three men while
they were searching for Captain
Burke.
DOLGETXY, Wales, Dec., 16.
*T,i— Griz'ziod. minors "fresh from
'lie creeks" literal!y heaped tes
■ tirnony before Professor Henry
"Louis who is conduct in.’, an in
vestigation of abandoned Welsh
gold fields preparatory to sub
mitting a report to the govern
ment.
Should the report be favora
ble. Welsh gold mining, for al
most a generation abandoned,
will blossom again.
Heaped on a huge table before
him were gold ingots, gold bear
ling quartz, gold ore and panned
flake gold, all taken from the
| Welsh veins.
When the hearing ended the
’professor toured the abandoned
workings accompanied by ex
perts who estimated the amount
of capital necessary to revive the
industry.
The Stock Market
Juneau . $y4
Am. Can 108
Bancorporation . 25%
Cities .*. 1534
Cons. Gas . 81
Zellerbach . 4%
Durant . 1 %
Motors . 33%
Goldman . 614
Int. Tel . 22%
Kennecott . 22%
Lehigh . 5V4
Richfield . 514
Radio . 13
Stand, N. J. 49
Carbide . 5S
Union Oil, Cal., . 21%
Steel . 137%
EXTENSIVE MINERALIZATION
OVER WIDE AREA HAS
BEEN FOUND
There is a chance for big min
eral development to the Westward
in the opinion of Captain Bob Hall
of the sloop Picaroon, now in
port and soon to sail to a I ox is
land near Chignik as soon ac. her
'co-owner Lyman Destefney, of
Seattle, arrives on the SS. Yukon.
Captain Hall has spent six years
prospecting, mining, trapping and
fishing along the shores of Kodiak
and the Peninsula, and wdi pro
spect over a wide coa-o country
next summer. Gold has been taken
from Kodiak and the mii.i : rm
and there are wide indrc.-i o:u of
mineralizations of othu* mwrJs
which must inevitably be called
upon to disgorge their wealh when
• capital goes after them.
WHEN CAPITAL GOES
Bradford has had ten men work
ing on what is believed to be an
[extension of the famous Apollo
! 'min on Unga. which produced its
millions some years ago. and which
was closed down bv the equally'
famous fault which cut off the
vein like a choc knife. Me? *’
thousands or dr1' ,rs have been
snout trying to fihd where t b■'
other part.'of fckn vein went, folk,
they think they . re rein rhr ' K
track now. and i ctiy event hr.-"'
sufficient ihowli' 1"i of ore ■ to just
ify development.
BEACH COLD
For many year they have been
taking out beach sold along tfo
beaches near the mouth of Red
River at the south end of Kodiak.
There are thirty miles of black
beach sands, which the action of
the seas frequently washes into
gold pockets where men have taken
‘out thousands in a few feet of
ground. The great mass of the
stuff carrying gold is of such low
grade that it would only go a few
cents a yard and the conditions
(are such, with the sea rolling in
|constantly, that it seems impos
sible to handle the material on a
paying basis. A dredge would not
live in those waters, and any work
done on the beach is at once
"-ashed out by high tides. At th"J
iFred Henton and associates of Ko
| dick who went down there last
| Summer shipped south several
tons of black sand to the smelter
on the last trip down of the Vic
toria. The result of this shipment
has not been disclosed.
NATIVES MINE
Natives have been in the habit
3f going to the Red River beaches
for years and always succeeded in
getting out a few ounces. There
were five working there this Sum
mer. Over on Tagidak Island, of
the Trinities, opposite the mouth
3f the Red River there is another
^old-bearing beach which has pro
duced gold in small amounts for
many years. Captain Hall, who has
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MAKING CROOKS
HOQUIAM, Wash., Dec., 16, </P)
—Arrest from liquor raids in
Grays Harbor during the last two
weeks by federal agents total 97
persons.
1 MAIL ROUTE
TO ASIA DECIDED
OVER BERING SEA
ROUTE HAS BEEN FLOWN NU
MEROUS TIMES, ALASKA
TO RUSSIA
WASHINGTON, Dec., 16, (/P)—
A direct air mail and trade route
to China and Japan through
Alaska and Soviet Russia is the
next big objective of the post of
fice department, according to
information brought to Washing
ton by Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Glover after negotiations
over mails in Canada in connect
ion with such a route.
Glover said this plan is in
keeping with the trend in air
mail now and that regular trans
Atlantic service is definitely
planned
The proposed route will be up
the MacKenzie River, across Ber
ing Sea and into Soviet Russia.
This route has been flown num
erous times already. With the es
tablishment of this service the
"oute will be 11.000 miles from
Buenos Aires to the Arctic.
If Outside capital does not take
| hold of the proposition in a large
i way. it is possible that Westward
I interests may take up the devel
! opment of tourist traffic into the
Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes
on a small scale, according to
j Captain Bob Hall of Kanatak, who
1 is in the Port of Seward with the
! sloop Picaroon just up from Seat
| tie. Hall is one of the few who have
j taken pack trains into the valley
! from Katmai Bay. He says that
i although the valley has lost some
i of the roar and smoke which fol
lowed the great eruption in 1912,
it is still a land of fire and tur
moil and one of the wonders of the
world.
The way in by Katmai Harbor
is still the most feasible way to
reach the valley of smokes, in his
opinion. There should be proper
accommodation at the harbor, a
roadhouse at Martin creek about
half-way of the 25 miles to the
edge of valley and another sta
tion at the valley from which par
ties could be taken on various
trips. Until such time as capital or
the park service can put in an
' automobile road, pack horses wall
' have to be used. It is possible that
- owners of some of the larger boats
1 of the Westward may get together,
EMSWEIIEI'S FATE
ANOTHER MYSTERY
NO TRACE OF MISSING MARI
NER AFTER EXTENSIVE
WESTWARD SEARCH
The fate of Capt. Charles Ems
weiler, local and Westward mar
iner for many years, and who
has not been seen or heard of
since he departed from Kodiak
in his gas boat “Chase” Septem
ber 17, seems due to go down as
another of the unsolved myster
ies of the North.
U. S. Commissioner Curtis R
Morford, who instituted search
for the veteran Alaskan, today
received a telegram from Kodiak
to the effect Captain George
Hoag, of the Schooner Margaret,
who was commissioned to con
duct the search, had looked into
j all bays and inlets not hitherto
! searched along tire northern
| reaches of the Kodiak group and
1 had found no trace of Emsweil
er. Captain Hoag left Sewrard
j three weeks ago and. the message
’today was the first to have been
received sinpe his departure.
Captain Emsweiler had left
Kodiak with the intention of
coming to this port. After clear
ing from Kodiak he was swall
owed up in obscurity as com
"1 tely as though he had been
torn loose from the planet. So
far. as i has been possible to de
j termiiie. no' cme has seen or
heard of him since he left Ko
diak Harbor. Whether he has
(gone on his “last cruise” and to
a watery grave or may have
been blown far out of his course
and is still marooned on some
{lonely island or in a hidden in
let far from the haunts of man,
! cannot be known. The former
alternat ve seems the most pro
bable. The authorities feel that
i everything humanly possible to
: do has been done, and further
i search will doubt less be aban
| doned.
REDS CAPTURE
CHINESE METROPOLIS
SHANGHAI, Dec., 16, (JP)—
Dispatches reported that 7,000
communists had captured Kun
gan, midway between Thnigshih
and Shasi near the Huunan-Ku
peh border.
Government troops from Han
| kow were sent to oppose the
Reds.
President Chiangkia Shek or
dered suppression of news of the
government’s movement.
Japan’s exports of canned pink
salmon jumped to 400,000 cases
in 1929,
and provide the necessary equip
ment and accomodations, and then
1 arrange to take in special parties
from Seward or Kodiak.
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