MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 242.
SEWARD, ALASKA WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1928
PRICE TEN GENTS
RICH GOLD ON BABCOCK & DOWNEY PROPERTY
WIDENS AS GOLD-PLASTERED ROCK FALLS
FROM HANGING WALL—PARTNERS HAVE'
TAKEN OUT 37 POUNDS OF GOLD IN THREE!
MONTHS WITH WORN OUT MILL AND HALL j
THE VALUES GOING OVER THE DUMP—SAID i
TO BE FORE-RUNNER OF ONE OF RICHEST i
HARD-ROCK CAMPS EVER FOUND IN ALASKA I
When a slab a foot thick fell from the hanging wall j
in the Babcock & Downed property at the head of Sur j
prise Bay in the Nuka Bay district there was a new sur
prise for the partners when they found that the rock j
was plastered.with gold. They thought they had. reached
country rock but now they know that their vein is at
least another foot wider, or giving them five feet of ore j
that runs bettor than $150 a ton. To prove it they brot
in a 12-pound brick of gold yesterday to add to their 25
ppiinrJ cleanup which Babcock brought in a month ago,
\ making a total of 37 pounds of gold which thev have re
t co,TflTO,q since the last, of June, with a «ry»all Ellis rotary j
min vUiich has now outlived its usefulness.
Out, of the 150 tons which they
have been able to handle from their
oviteron workings this season, thej
partners figure there remains at
Jea'-t another 37 pounds of gold to
be recovered from the tailings;
when they finish the installation i
of a new concentrating table and
m il which they hope to install be
the season closes.
Mr. and Mrs. Downey and Mr.
Babcock came in on the Rolph No.
1 in charge of Pete Sather last
id slit. It is the first time the Dow
neys have been out of the camp for
two years.
“We are planning to do moct of
our work on the tunnel this winter”
said the miners, “which will give us
backs of at least 125 feet on the
vein. We are undecided as vet
whether to put in a 10-stamp mill
or a Denver mill, but because of the
peculiar nature of the gold we
think it necessary to put in a con
centrator because the mercury
plates will not pick it up. We have
two or three outfits in mind as we
are now in communication with
Outside machinery houses but hope
to get the equipment on the ground
this fall if the elements do not stop
us. Anyway we are now convinced
that we have our stake in our grasp j
and will have things in shape by j
spring so that we can turn out a big
tonnage with assurance of recover
ing our values which in places are j
phenomiencal but which carry
with remarkable uniformity clear j
across the ledge.”
The owners of the Sonny Fox
group as it is called, above the head
of Surprise Bay will be in town for
a week and by that time expect to
have their machinery arrange
ments made. They will then return
to prosecute their tunnel work.
“I was in the Willow Creek dis
trict when she first opened up,”
said Babcock,” “and with a showing
rot one-tenth as good as ours there
were 5,000 people in there the fol
lowing season. There hasn’t been
a single mining man in the Nuka
Bay section this summer, except
those who were already trying to
cnen up their ground and there has
c Ty been one new prospector.”
A SUPERB COME-BACK
NEW YORK, Oct. 9, (/P)—Four
horsemen of Argentine, staging a j
superb come-back, rode full tilt
thru the Savage American Defense :
to score 10 to 7 victory in the sec- ;
end of the International Polo
matches. Each team has one vic
tory and a playoff will be required.
A great gob of fresh snow fell
on Marathon during the night.
RUTH WAS TARGET FOR
POP
BOTTLES; JEERS LATER
TURNED TO CHEERS
NEW YORK, Oct., 10, (YPj-Rni.h
got his second homer in yesterday’s
game, off Sherdel, in the seventh
after the pitcher tried to sneak
over a third strike and Babe pro
tested its being allowed. Al
ter that he was the target for pop
bottles from the bleachers.
This same crowd later turned I
from jeers to cheers when Ruth 1
laced out his third homer in the !
next inning.
Ruth also brought the game to
an end with a sparkling glove :
hand catch of Frisch’s foul in the ;
9th inning.
The Yankees in collecting five
home runs broke another work ;
series record for a single gam
while Gehrig’s clout, his fourth of
the series, tied one of Ruth’s re
cords.
Hoyt, although wild and shaky 1
at times, turned in his second vic
tory and his sixth, altogether,
thereby tying Chief Bender’s re- i
cord for the most triumphs in a !
classic.
A crowd of 37,331 paid $61,902 to
see the Rcdbirds.
Son Of Gen. Ohregon
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MEXICO CITY, Oct. 9, </P)— |
Humberto Obrcgon, eldest son of j
Cicneral Obregon, assassinated
I
President-elect, was wounded un- ;
der mysterious circumstances. Pol- 1
:ce said young Obregon’s revolver
ted from his pocket as he descend
ed f-’om an automobile and it was
discharged by impact.
MARINES, AIDED GENE IN HIS CAREER
Joining the United States Marine
fortunate for Gene Tunney, the G
who became world’s heavyweight
A. E. F. light heavyweight
led him on to the pugilistic
Marine associate that ho me
the other day in Italy, Miss
home pictured above is th
for his bride at ..a .U d
Landslide Buries
Shovel Workmen
GLENDORA, Calif., Oct., 10, (/P)—
Two men were killed in a land
slide which buried the site of the
big Dalton Dam, six miles from
here where excavating work was
being done. The men were oper
ating a steam shovel which was
buried with them. Search is being
made for other possible victims.
CONFIDENCE IN EACH OTHER
NECESSARY TO SUPPORT
PRINCIPLES JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, Oct., 10, (/P)—
Addressing the general conven
tion of the Episcopal church today
’resident Coolidge proclaimed re
ligion was necessary for the con
nuation of American government |
and maintenance of those liber
ties and privileges which are char
acteristic of American life.
The President said “We cannot
'nr" ’ -’vea t— o"ten that,
our right to be free to support our
principles of justice, our obliga- .
tions to each other in our domes
tic affairs and our duty to human- |
ity abroad; confidence in each
other is necesary to support our
social and economic relations and
finally, the fabric of our govern
ment itself.” All rests upon relig
:<n.
“If the bonds of our religious
:■ nvictions become loosened, guar
anties which have been erected for
Die protection of life and liberty
and all the vast body of rights that
iio between, are gone.”
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTIC S
AND IMPLEMENTS ARE
NOT ASIATIC
SEATTLE, Oct., 10, iJP)—Traces
of an old Eskimo civilization far
richer than that of today was
found this summer on islands near
the Alaska coast in Bering Sea.
Harry B. Collins, ethnologist and
! archaeologist for the Smithsonian
Institue, revealed these facts upon
i his return from the Arctic. An
| cient villages, more pretentious
j than today’s, settlements of long
, houses made from drifwood and
! whale bone, ivory carvings of ex
| quisite design and highly decora
| ted utensils and weapons, 'were
| uncovered by Collins on St. Law
rence and Sledge Islands.
Collins said “It probably was a
pre-Russian civilization I would
say from 300 to 300 years old.”
While affiliation of that early
Eskimo and his origin have not
been determined, he said there is
a close resemblance in carvings,
implements and physical charac
teristics of the frozen bodies and
of the skeltons, to Asiatics but
that does not prove they came from
Siberia as they may have migrated
from Alaska in the beginning.
“We actually found houses 16
feet below the habitations of this
generation and six feet below sea
level and buried in silt and the
sweepings, were bits of carving of
of bone or ivory. Some of the bo
ot bone or ivary. Some of the bod
ies of the ancient people were
rather well preserved in ice.”
| NEWSPAPERMAN GIVEN CHOICE
LEAVING FRANCE, COUGH
UP INFORMATION
PARIS, Oct., 10, (£»)—Pointcare
and Briand have been i*equested
to make an investigation in the
case of Harold Horan, correspon
dent for the New York American,
by a committee of Anglo-American
press association representatives.
Horan was arrested yesterday
for questioning as to how he had
obtained a memorandum of the
Franco-British Naval Pact. He was
given the choice, it is rumored, of
leaving France within eight days
or facing prison.
Horan said the memo was hand
ed him by Hearst with instruc
tions to cable it to the United