Hatly (Batnuau
MEMBER ASSOCIATED RMES9
VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 152.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Moose Pass Area
Offers Exceptional
Gold Opportunities
EARLY GOLD DAYS RECALLED—PROSPECTORS
IN HILLS AND VALLEYS—RICH LODE MINES
AND PLACER GRAVELS THRUOUT DISTRICT
—MANY DEALS P E N DIN G—RENEWED IN
TEREST MEANS MUCH TO SEWARD.
The prospector with his limited means has carried
on development work to such an extent that new capital
is now absolutely necessary to place properties on a pro
fitable productive basis.
Science has increased mining activities and profits
by providing modern mining equipment. Old mines are
being reopened and are producing profits.
At no time in recent years has there been such an
awakening of interest in gold mining as at present, part
icularly, among properties abandoned for years which
have yielded generously in earlier days when gold re
duction processes called for a much higher grade of ore
for profitable operations. ___
GREAT GOLD AREA
The Moose Pass mining district;
should be the center of this in-:
creased mining activity. There are
speat areas of mining territory that
have hardly been touched. This
year’s prospecting and mining op
erations are more extensive than
for the past decade. Modern min
ing equipment of large capacity i
will be required when these ore
J5dies are more extensively open
e dup for profitable production.
The enormous mineral-belt em
bracing the Moose Pass area is
one of the world’s greatest store
houses of precious metals.
The geological conditions, miner
alizations and character of the
ore are far above the ordinary run
of the average mineral zones, and
transportation problems, likewise,
are conducive to inexpensive op
eration. Twenty-nine miles north
of Seward, the Moose Pass rfiining
district is easily accessible from the
Alaska Railroad which operates on
regular year ’round schedule. Run
ning the entire length of this par
ticular mineral belt is a modern
gravel road maintained by the
Bureau of Public Roads, whcih is
Efficient mention, for this gov
ernment road building agency’s re
putation in constructing standard,
roads and maintaining same, is
unrivaled thruout the nation.
There is an abundance of timber
and water power.
LODE PROPERTIES
The Gilpatrick-H i e 1 o property
has enough ore blocked out of high
enough value to warrant the in
stallation of a modem mill or re
duction plant.
A new strike on the Elizabeth
^[aim * was made last week by
Frank Hielo, the pans showing
lots of free-milling gold- The vein
is 18-inches and it is conservative
ly estimated the ore wrill run $100
per ton.
j. There has been sufficient work
done on the McMillan property ex
pos in g sufficient ore to attract
new capital for further develop
ment.
Adjoining the Gilpatrick-H i e 1 o
property are other fine properties,
one of which is knowm as the Al
aska Oracle Corporation. It is es
timated $75,000 in ore is blocked
out in this property, the average
value being $52 per ton.
The Slater group of claims fol
low. Mr. Slater, now incapacitated,
previously worked the property
with an old arastra and recovered
$40 per ton free-milling across a
a four-foot vein.
The only producing lode mining
operation at the present time, is
that of R. B. Heaston and associ
ates at the Lucky Strike mine,
| better known as the Hershey mine,
situated at the head of Palmer
( Creek.
PLACER PROPERTIES
Extensive placer mining opera
tions are in full swing on Miller
Creek, Canyon Creek, Lynx Creek,
SLx Mile River, Resurrection Creek
and on all tributary creeks.
Last season Plowman and Tolson
hydraulicked $3,000 from the gold
gravel on Mills Creek and. accord
ing to indications, this season will
undoubtedly exceed last year’s for
the same ground is being worked.
Eight men are on the payroll. An
excellent cleanup is reported to
have been made on June 26.
Oscar Dahl is hydraulicking be
tween Mile 20 and 21, Canyon
Creek, and the nozzle is rapidly
cutting down the paystreak which
apparently underlies the highway.
Last week Dahl, who is working a
small crew, was within 40 feet of
] the road. However, the highway at
that time was not endangered. Mr.
Dahl said he was doing fairly
; well.
On Lynx Creek Roy Jacobs
and Chris A m o d t are working
steadily and it was said an engin
eer is en route from the States
with additional equipment. Stone
operated these claims in 1932.
A deal is pending on the big
Canyon Creek group of claims of
which L. V. Ray represents thfc
owners. Mr. Ray has been on
the ground for the past week dur
ing which time one of Alaska’s
most prominent of mining engin
eers and representative of large
capital, made an airplane flight
from the Interior to examine the
great gold-bearing acreage which
extends for miles and which is
ideal for dredging operations on
the valley floor and the hills by
hydraulicking. The bedrock in the
valley is 85 feet. This property,
with its ample water supply and
rich gravels, probably will dev
elop into one of the largest pla
cer camps in Alaska ranking third
•with Fairbanks and Nome opera
I tions.
Three men, Gates, Huff and;
Davies, have been ground sluicing
on the bank of Canyon Creek since
spring and have made good wages.
Tom Sobol, on Palmer Creek, has
excellent placer ground and is
working steadily.
On Resurrection Creek, C h a s.
; Shields and Chas- Mathison have
I tapped Palmer Creek and have
obtained 100 pounds pressure, am
i pie power. They began taking out
gold this week.
McAllvary, a recent arrival from;
Texas, is enthusiastic over a pro
spect on Resurrection Creek.
The Clark boys, Earl, Carl, Frank
^nd Len, lfave made two or three
cleanups this season which are
said to be better than last year’s
results and the owners are encour
aged greatly.
Tommy Allison, at Mile 25, clean
ed up a few days ago but says it
was not as good as had been an
ticipated. However, Allison and an
other miner worked the overburd
en but are now into the rocks |
where better pay may be antici
pated.
Bruin and Weaver are hydraulic -
ing on Donaldson Creek for the
second season, and while not ex
actly an Eldorado, the ground is
paying.
Webb is ground-sluicing on the
south side of Six-Mile River, ap
proximately Mile 31, and prospects
are reported good.
At Mile 29, Roy Smallwood is
contemplating the installation of
a dragline, prospects being so en
couraging. His partner is now in
the States purchasing equipment.
Mike Connelly, at Sunrise, is
preparing to work his rich placer
ground in a few weeks. Unfortun
ately, Connelly is tied up with an
alleged promoter of a couple of
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I UNITED STATES IS
! FIRM ITS INTENTION
I NOT TO STABILIZE
LONDON, June 30. —Prime Min
jnister J.Ramsay MacDonald, of
! Great Britain, president of the
World Economic Conference, sent
a hurried appeal to President
Roosevelt to help save the confer
ence from a complete breakdown.
His appeal of Thursday wrent thru
the American delegation and as
sistant Secretary of State Ray
mond Moley.
At Washington the administra
tion reiterated its determination
not to link the United States in
the foreign move to stabilize world
currencies, and laid preliminary
plans to isolate this country, if
necessary, under a policy of ag
ressive economic nationalism.
France has brought the Econ
omic Conference to a grave crisis
with the ultimatum that she would
propose the adjournment of all
sessions if a currency stabilization
agreement was not reached within
the week. Prof. Moley and Ram
say MacDonald were conferring re
garding the situation and it is
not known what the outcome of
! their conversation was to be.
PRESIDENT CONFERS
ABOARD THE AMBERJACK IT,
: June 30. — Clad in a torn sweat
j er, gray flannel trousers and grimy
| shoes. President Roosevelt fon
j ferred aboard his fog-shrouded va
cation yacht with carefully groom
! ed Norman H. Davis, United States
j ambassador at large, on the Eur
opean situation.
ASKS AIMEE TO RETURN
LOS ANGELES, June 30. —David
“Iron Man” Hutton asked his ev
angelist wife, Aimee, to return
home from Paris to end rumors
of a divorce. “Your word is law,”
he said she replied, “and I will
do what you wish.”
ALEUTIAN EN ROUTE
WITH FAIH LISTING
SEATTLE, June 30. —The S. S.
Aleutian of the A. S. S. Co., left
Seattle this morning with the fol
lowing passengers for Seward: An
nette Bernath, Mrs. Anne Ber
nath, Mrs. H. M. Tibbal, Mrs. W.
H. Pitkin, Miss Edith Pitkin, Mrs.
S. Messenger, Miss D. Messenger,
Mr. and Mirs. Ed Richter, Hazel
Garcelon, Mrs. G. F. Endicott, Mrs.
Fred Reed, Mr. and Mrs. George
K. Tallman, Mr. and Mrs. Gust
Trapson, Andrew Pappus, Pen
rose Markley, S. R. Capps
Miss Lloyd, Miss Brownbridge,
Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Price, Mrs.
Susan Taylor, Gladys Abel, S. M.
Cavery, Mjr. and Mrs. J. W. Gran
er, George F. Sorenson Mrs. Brand
Hedwig Sorenson, C. M. Murphy,
J. E. Miller, Mrs. Carl Musser,
Harry Mentzer, Miss E. M. Burke,
L. F. Martin, May Chapman, Rev.
and Mrs. H. B. Chapman, and
baby, Mary Kenney, Lillian Gor
don, Martha Nickolai, and eight
steerage.
NAVAL POLICY OF
WASHINGTON, June 30. — A
new $75,000,000 program of battle
ship modernization under the pub
lic works construction program is
to be undertaken by the Navy
immediately, it was learned as Sec
retary of Navy Swanson promul
gated a militant and a greatly
strengthened policy for the Roose
velt administration.
The base would have docking
facilities, dry docks, a gun factory,
food warehouses, oil and fuel stor
age tanks, ammunition magazines,
machine shops, a marine barracks
and heavy artillery defense guns.
The four main shore bases are to
-be located at Mare Island, San
Francisco Bay, and Bremerton,
Wash., on the Pacific, and Narra
gansett Bay, Rhode Island, and
Hampton Roads, Virginia, on the
Atlantic.
MEXICO CITY, June 30. —Army
airplanes were ordered Thursday
to abandon as hopeless a search
for the Spanish aviators, Captain
Mariano Barberan and Lieut- Joa
quin Collar, who disappeared on a
flight from Havana to Mexico City.
Soldiers will continue to search
for the flyers, last seen heading
up the coast, and a pilot boat
has left Vera Cruz to search the
coast.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 30. —
The first completed unit of the,
$35,000,000 Golden Gate bridge was
formally turned over to the Bridge
and Highway Department Thurs
day.
SRUKET KIIOED
m ciukm in
II SIXTH HOUND
NEW YORK, June 30. — Primo
Camera Thursday night wrote the
climatic chapter in the book of his
life, “From Rags to Riches” when
he won the world’s heavyweight
boxing championship by knocking
out the defending champion, Jack
Sharkey, in the sixth round of a
scheduled 15-round bout.
! While 55,000 persons stood and
j roared their acclaim, Camera stood
| in the center of the ring and had
i his arm lifted aloft in triumph.
The end came with dramatic
I suddenness. As the bell sounded
| for the sixth round, Sharkey, who N
| had been waging a savage, wicked *
| battle, and who was leading on
| points, came bounding from his
| corner and moved to attack; he
| missed a swinging right and then
j moved in close to drive a left to
■ the stomach. The blow had mag
! ical effects on the giant rtalian.
; He dropped his lumbering move
! ments and with a snort of anger
! waged straight in on his man.
Suddenly Sharkey spun around
and faced the Italian. It was a
j fatal mistake, for as he turned
Camera released a right upper -
1 cut that drove past the champion’s
tired defense and cracked like a
j shot against his jaw. The force
1 of the blow spun Sharkey com
; pletely around. He wavered on his
| feet for a moment and then fell
: on his face. His only answer to
1 the plea of his backers to get up
was a convulsive thrashing of his
legs.
; Camera’s astounding, 1 if t i n g,
deadening right hand uppercut
that brought the hamlike fist of
the fearful force to hit Sharkey
1 under the chin came just after
two minutes and 28 seconds of
the second round had elapsed.
; Premier Benito Mussolini, of It
] aly, immediately after Camera
I had been crowned champion, wir
\ ed his personal congratulations.
Italian members of the diplomatic
corps at Washington jubilantly
hailed the victory of their country
man. When told by the press that
Italy had won her first heavy
weight world championship Mar
quis Diana, counsellor of the Em
bassy said, “We are delighted that
an Italian has become the champ
ion of the world. We wish him suc
cess.”
HOSPITAL NOTES
Sverre Anderson has been admit
ted to the Seward General Hos
uital for a few days medical care.
* * * *
Ed St. Clair, from Good News
Bay, is a patient in the Seward
hospital having entered last night
for medical .treatment.
* * * *
John Bloom was treated in the
hospital for bruises and a cut
sustained in a fall yesterday.
Three stitches were necessary to
close the ^ash in Mr. Bloom’s
head.
Capt. Pete Sather, of the Nuka,
Bay Transportation Company, an
nounces that he will leave for
Nuka Bay as soon as repairs to
the clutch on the M. S. Rolph’s>
engine have been completed.
Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Graff return
ed on the S. S. Yukon today from
a vacation in the States.
PANCE TONIGHT I. 0. 0. F. HALL