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GOLD MINERS TO
LEAVE FOR SCENES
NEW ALASKA STRIKES
Gold, the magic word that sent
thousands trekking over the trails
to the Klondike 35 years ago, is
the guiding star of a treasure
hunting expedition which is now
enroute to Alaska from Seattle in
the 60-foot motor vessel Valencia,
bound for Hagemeister Straits, in
the Bering Sea.
The expedition is headed by Tom
Neeley, who has spent 40 years in
the Northland; Capt. Louis Knaf
lich, veteran trader and prospector
of the Territory, and Charles D.
Davis, Seattle mining engineer.
Neeley, who discovered the rich
deposits February 13, 1926, return
ed to the Hagemeister Straits dis
trict last year with Captain Knaf
lich and the two Alaskans staked
and recorded a mile of claims in
the heart of the new gold country.
They interested Mr. Davis in
their discovery and he organized
the expedition. Samples of ore tak
en from the face of the cliff on the
property assayed from $20 to $700
a ton. Of 200 samples of quartz
brought out all contained gold in
paying quantities, it is said.
The Valencia is loaded with min
ing equipment, including a porta
ble compressor plant, pipe, hose,
hardware, sacks for 250 tons of ore,
dynamite, a portable assayer’s shop
and surveying instruments. The
vessel will carry the high grade ore
to Dutch Harbor where it will be
loaded by the SS Arthur J. Bald
win of the Arctic Transport Co.,
for Seattle discharge.
George McLeod, assayer of Gran
by, B. C.; C. A. McCusker, a mine
foreman of long experience; Ben
Nearly of Seattle, expert with drill
ing machines, and George Van Al
vensleben, engineer and graduate
of the University of Washington,
are members of the expedition.
Captain Knaflich commands the
Valencia. Mike Legaz is engineer
and J. H. White of Anacortes is
first officer.
The new gold strike is opposite
Hagemeister Island on the Alaska
mainland and between Bristol Bay
and the Kuskokwim. The nearest
settlement is at Goodnews Bay, 100
miles distant.
Hagemeister Straits are in the
northern part of Bristol Bay, Ber
ing Sea. They were named by the
Russians after Capt. Leonitus Vas
ilevich Hagemeister who made three
voyages to the Russian-American
colonies and around the world in
1806-07 as commander of the ship
Neva, in 1816-1819 as commander
of the Kutuzof and in 1828-1830 as
commander of the Krotkoi.
The Valencia is a wooden vessel
of 46 gross tons and a 31 net tons
register, 60 feet long, 16.8 feet beam
and 7.6 feet in depth, built in Gig
Harbor in 1927. She is owned by
Marco Legaz of Seattle.
LIKE HONOLULU?
Ensigns Curry and Webb, of the
USS Cutter Itasca, played a round
of golf over the local course Mon
day afternoon, with the local
sharp-shooters, the Balderston
brothers, and pronojunced that the
course reminded them of Honolulu,
where they played last; because it
is so different!
M. D. Williams, head of the Bur
eau of Public Roads in Alaska, left
Monday, accompanied by Resident
Engineer Ingram, for an inspection
of the Moose Pass system.
Two old friends renewed acquain
tance with the arrival in port of
the USS Itasca, Cindr. John F. Bay
lis and Joe Badger, nroprietor of
the Van Gilder hotel, last saw each
other in Nome 22 years ago.
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PLOT ROB ALASKAN
GOLD TRAIN 1 NOT
PROGRESS VERY FAR
“The best laid plans of mice and
men aft gang aglee.”
And thus it happened that what
j is said to have been a clumsy con
spiracy to hold up an Alaska Rail
road passenger train, lift a gold
shipment being dispatched by the
Fairbanks Exploration Company,
died aborning when a sinister
looking individual, entirely out of
harmony with qualities character
izing a sourdough, heard an offi
cer say:
“I don’t like your face.”
“I don’t like your face,” came
back.
“We just don’t like faces,” re
torted the arm of the law, “and
two faces like ours in the same
community might cause strife.”
Traveling southward on a recent
liner is the likeless and with him
went the first plot looking to in
troducing racketeering into Alaska.
Here is the plot and its undoing.
It is known that the Fairbanks
Exploration Company is a regular
shipper of gold bullion over the
railroad. No effort is made to
maintain secrecy because the gold
is cast into great ingots weighing
hundreds of pounds—too large, in
fact to be taken away by one
man. If lifted by one or more they
would not be able to carry it far,
and any attempt to return to their |
cache would be fatal, because there!
are no great highways crowded ]
with automobiles and opportunity
to become lost in traffic, or receive
aid in a getaway.
Thus something involving a
greater degree of skill and daring
must be employed if the racketeers
hoped to carry out their plans. To
supply this an airplane was to be
brought into action. This plane
would hop to Alaska via the usual
routes, but avoid landing fields. It
was to be an amphibian capable of
a wide cruising radius.
Under the plans, this plane'
would remain in obscurity until it
received a tipoff that several hun
dreds of pounds of gold bullion was
aboard the train- Then it was to;
take up its position on one of the
lakes nearby the railroad, there to
wait with engine going while the
remainder of the gang held up the
train, secured tthe bullion and sent
the train forward on its journey.!
Cutting of telephone and telegraph j
! wires would prevent report of the j
robbery until the train was far
away.
Once the bullion was loaded on |
the plane it would head for Siberia, j
Once there the racketeers had no;
fear of being extradited because!
there is no treaty to that effect'
with the Soviets.
So good, so far.
But one of the conspirators did
not reckon with the brand of hoot1■
chinoo to be found where lutfisk |
is manufactured. He evidently got |
a load of that made from the lye j
and other ingredients used to take |
the oil out of codfish. He became
loquacious, so much, in fact, that
he “spilled the beans.”
When given a hint that his face
did not harmonize with the sooth
ing beauties of the landscape, the
chief conspirator departed.
However, all representatives of
the law are on the qui vive in an
ticipation that something might
happen to gold shipmentts. All sus
picious characters are given the
hint to turn back southward, on
the assurance that a gang of miners
with no more law to guide them
than a 50-foot rope and a stout
I limb was something to be reckoned
with.
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