OF ALL TRIBES
(Juneau Dispatch.)
Just a few weeks ago when the pro
hibition bill was up in the lowe? house
traveling of Alaskans and compared
Kenzie told the house committee that
the people of this territory can boast
of a higher average of intelligence
than the people of the states and to
prove his argument he told of the
travelling of Alaskan and compared
them in this respect with people in
Virginia who had never seen Wash
ington, D. C.
McKenzie is right. If wandering
about can make a man intelligent
there are several thousands of Alas
kans who ought to be able to give Sol
omon a hard fight for the heavyweight
championship of the world. If you
can ever find a man who has been a
resident of this territory for any num
,ber of years and who has not trav
elled some thousands of miles for ev
ery year’s residence you will have dis
covered a man who must be suffering
from locomotor ataxia.
The towns of the territory are pop
ulated entirely by people who have
been in other towns. If you take any
one town and analyze its residents you
will find a most interesting mix-up.
Juneau probably is less remarkable
for this than any other of the cities
as Juneau has a gerat number of old
residents who came here when there
-was nothing else in Alaska and who
found no good reason for changing
about, but the population of Juneau is
also made up of former residents of
other towns to an extent that would be
regarded as extraordinary in any oth
er land on earth. You can meet on the
streets here fellows you met on the
White Pass in 1898, men you met on
Pine creek, Atlin, men you met mush
ing to Long creek, Ruby, men who
went to St. Michael on the steamer,
men who owned the next claim to
yourself in Nome, men whom you
knew in Chena or Fairbanks, and men
you encountered in any of a half a
dozen other of the territory’s camps.
While we hear a lot about the great
“foreign” population of Anchorage
you will find that ninety per cent of
the property holders there are men
from other Alaskan towns, and from
all Alaskan towns. Seward, Valdez,
Cordova and the other coast cities are
very strongly represented but you will
also find there Koyukukers, Kobukers,
Iditaroders, Ramparters and all the
rest of them easily holding their own,
and everyone of them has travelled
about as many thousands of miles as
there are years to his age.
This knocking around certainly does
add to a man’s intelligence as a rule
even if the addition it brings to his
bank account is written in letters of
red. What is a thousand miles in a
country where many have tied a few
logs together and floated that distance
with the tide? And what a number
have, after all, floated with the tide
since those dear old days when the
first humane tide swept into the Alas
ka wilderness like a fabled host of Ar
gonauts of old. Sometimes, indeed,
the population looks like the flotsam
and jetsam on the ebb and flow from
camp to camp as the rumors of strikes
take the place of the moon, make
these tides eternal and solve the prob
lem of perpetual motion.
Read The Daily Times and be an
Anchorage booster.
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HEAD OFFICIAL
WIRES CANNOT
RECORD CLAIMS
(Fairbanks Citizen)
In view of the repent placer strike
at Chena and the uncertainty as to
whether claims could be filed there or
not, R. F. Washburn, of the local land
office, wired headquarters for instruc
tions in regard to this matter. Yes
terday he received the following tele
from from Commissioner Tallman, at
Washington:
“Yours fifth. Unless rights initated
prior date of withdrawal, mining op
erations prohibited.
The withdrawal referred to took
place in June, 1914, and the tract of
land is a part of the townsite reser
vation of the Alaska railroad. Under
this reservation there is no way pos
sible at present by which claims can
be located, or possessory rights se
cured. Local land office officials say
that any people working the ground
at Chena will be considered as tres
passers, and the cases handled that
way.
Local people who are interested in
the ground are taking up the matter
with Commissioner Riggs, of the Alas
kan Engineering commission, with a
view of asking him to recommend to
the department of the interior that the
land be released from reservation and
returned to the public domain for en
try or location. It is not known just
what action Mr. Riggs will take.
(Fairbanks Citizen)
In view of the present talk of war
and similar subjects, and the conse
quent lining up of people of differ
ent nationalities, several people in
town are completing their applications
for citizenship.
In the office of the clerk of court
yesterday two men took out their sec
ond papers. James McCracken, who
took out his first papers a number of
years ago, applied for his second ones
yesterday. Mr. McCracken is well
known throughout the district, and
has been in the country for 18 years.
He is a native of Canada.
Another application was filed by
Paul Lescure, of Nenana, who is also
an oldtimer of the country, and who
is a native of France.
According to the clerk’s offiee there
are a number of people in the district
who have secured their first papers
and who, if they wish to secure their
next papers at the coming term of
district court before it leaves for
down river, should make the necessary
application in the very near future.
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MAN SHOT DEAD
NEAR KETCHIKAN
KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 7.—
The halibut schooner Orient arrived in
port this morning, bringing the re
mains of John Olson, who met death
from a gunshot in the hands of Carl
Jacobson; both fishermen. The acci-:
dent occurred last Monday, Feb. 5.
It appears that John Olson, a mem- <
ber of the crew aboard the halibut
schooner Orient, went off the boat on j
Carnation island, presumably to get
deer. Later Carl Jacobson, another
member of the crew aboard the Yak
utat, decided to take a trip on the isl
and for the same purpose, and while
looking about for a deer, noticed
what he thought at the time was a
deer, and fired in that direction, kill
ing Olson instantly. He proceeded
to the spot and found the man just
about gasping his last. He notified
the rest of the crew and together
they took the remains of the unfor
tunate man and came onto Ketchikan,
arriving early this morning. The
body will be shipped to Seattle for
burial, where it is claimed he has rel
atives. No inquest will be held.—
Progressive-Miner.
The cost of mining is always inter
esting, particularly in regions at a
distance, and where unusual condi
tions prevail. The Canadian depart
ment of the interior has recently is
sued a publication describing the Yu
kon territory, in which is given the
cost of mining in the Yukon basin,
and from which the following is ab
stracted :
The cost of a complete pumping,
thawing and self-dumping equipment
for working ten shovels, designed es
pecially for the Yukon, to serve as
a light and simple machine to hoise
and convey dirt from a shaft or open
cut to the dump, or sluice-box, is
*3,205. The cost of sinking a shaft 8
by 8 feet to a depth of 30 feet by the
self-dumper is stated to be $9.16 per
foot. When a shaft of the same size
was carried to a depth of 55 feet,
hoisting with windlass, the cost was
$9.96 per foot. Tunneling by self
dumper, 6 by 6 feet, cost $6.44 per foot
The cost of thawing, hoisting, and
sluicing over 590 square feet of bed
rock where the gold-bearing gravel
removed was three feet deep was
$179.75, or 30c per square foot of bed
rock. The working cost of a self
flumping plant having a capacity for
handling the gravel on 600 square feet
of bed rock, three to four feet deep,
was $189.38 or 31c per square foot
of bed rock. Two men thaw and take
out six feet of dirt in a shift of ten
hours. One cord of wood will make
steam sufficient to thaw a shaft 30
feet deep. From the bottom of a shaft
two men will thaw and drive 3Vs feet
in a drift 6 by 4 feet, and hoist the
gravel with a windlass in one shift of
ten hours. The cost per foot is $2.50.
On Bonanza, Hunker, and Eldorado
creeks, in one season, 5,133,575 cubic
yards of gravel was dredged, produc
ing $3,343,667, at a cost of 29.53 cents,
per cubic yard. This included depre
ciation. Of the area dredged 68.4 per
cent was frozen and had to be thawed
by steam. The cost of drilling frozen
ground for testing the gravel ranges
from $1.73 to $2.36 per foot. The cost
of hydraulicking 3,241,642 cubic yards
of gravel, with a total of 538,905 twen
ty-four hour miner’s inches of water
that gave a duty of 6.02 cubic yards
per miner’s inch was 12.6 cents per
cubic yard. The total area of bed
rock cleaned was 126,057 square
yards.
WHY GOOD LUCK CAME TO
UNITED VERDE EXTENSION
There is an old darky living in Lin
coln, Nebraska, who is in clover as a
result of the Bonanza copper find in
the United Verde Extension property
at Jerome, Arizona. And he is hav
ing a good laugh at the expense of the
wise white folks of the town, famous
as the home of the “silver” tongued
orator of the Platte. A stock sales
man from the Verde district was in
Lincoln a few years ago when that
section was not as prosperous as to
day. The salesman was selling stock
in the company which owned the Little
Daisy property at Jerome. It was a
rank prospect in those days and the
salesman was not meeting with much
luck in disposing of his certificates.
In fact he was up against it so hard
financially that he did not have
enough money for his hot cakes in the
morning. The old darkey had a res
taurant and he was about the only
person in town who would take the
salesman's stock in exchange for
board. He was laughed at when it was
learned that he was taking the Jerome
copper stock in lieu of money, but now
this colored gentleman is riding about
in his automobile, is sporting real dia
monds and is the “big noise” in col
ored society in Lincoln. He is report
ed to have sold his 2,000 shares of
United Verde Extension stock a cou
ple of months ago at better than $30
per share.—Ex.
For a Solo game come to Peterson’s.
Maps of Alaska for Sale. Roberts.
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ALASKA BOUGHT
AT CARD TABLE
Here is a fragment of Frederick W.
Seward’s story of his father’s purch
! ase of Alaska from Russia for the
| United States in 1867 as told in "Rem
| iniscences of a Wartime Statesman
and Diplomat:”
On the evening of Friday, March 29,
i Seward was playing whist in his par
1 lor with some of his family, when the
■ Russian minister was announced.
“I have a dispatch, Mr. Seward,
from my government my cable. The
emperor gives his consent to the ces
sion. Tomorrow if you like, I will
come to the department and we can
enter upon the treaty.”
Seward with a smile of satisfaction
pushed away the whist table, saying:
“Why wait until tomorrow, Mr.
Stoeckl ? Let us make the treaty to
night!”
j But your flepartment is closed,
i You have no clerks, and my secretar
i ies are scattered about the town.”
! “Never mind that,” responded Sew
; ard. “If you can muster your lega
; tion together before midnight you will
; find me waiting for you at the de
i partment which will be open and ready
‘ for business.”
In less than two hours afterward
light was streaming out of the win
do%i!*of the state department, and ap
parently business was going on as at
midday. By 4 o’clock Saturday morn
ing the treaty was signed, sealed and
ready for transmission by the presi
dent to the senate.
There was need of this haste in or
der to have it acted upon before the
end of the session, now near at hand.
PACIFIC NORTHWEST IS
DRUNK WITH PROSPERITY
The Pacific Northwest mining dis
tricts are drunk with prosperity, says
the Spokane Chronicle. Dividends!
paid during 1916 by the mines of the j
Couer d’Alene, Washington, and of
southeastern British Columbia total
$13,749,861, a gain of $3,500,000 over
the divdend record of 1915.
The rise in the price of zinc and
lead is responsible for the prosperity.
The Interstate-Callahan, a zinc pro
ducer, netted its stockholders $2,789,
000 during the year. Three years ago
it was heavily in debt and was not
paying running expenses. The Her
cules mine, one of the largest lead
producers of the world, yielded $3,
000,000 to its owners in 1916. The
mines of these districts have paid a
total of $78,339,355 in their history in
the form of dividends.
The prosperity of the mining dis
trict is reflected in the activity on the
Spokane stock market. During No
vember the Spokane stock exchange
handled $554,646.81 worth of busi
ness, representing the transfer of 3,
478,360 shares of stock. The year’s
business of the exchange has reached
$3,000,000 and represents the transfer
of more than 16,000,000 shares.
War News
Rumors and facts at Peterson’s. 444
Maps of Alaska for Sale. Robarts.
Zero is what you get at most places
but hot meals are served at Camer
on's Cafe. 364
F. Olrikat, the fur buyer, will be
back in Anchorage on or about the
16th. See Brown & Hawkins. 565
North Pole Bakery serves lunches
■ after the show. 567
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