Doherty Coal Co.
Hand-Picked
COAL
$8.00 PER TON
Comer 1st and C St.
TELEPHONE 46-K
CARL W. BOLTE j
Hardware, Glass Ware and |
China Ware 1
Flashlights of All Descriptions. |j
PRICES REASONABLE Fourth Avenue. j|
EDW. T. McNALLY .
WM. MAITLAND
M’Nally & Maitland
Lumber
Wood
We carry a complete stock of common dimension. Fin
ish that is CLEAR and properly kiln-dried.
SALES AGENTS
ESKA CREEK COAL CO.
COAL $8.00 PER TON
Yard and Office Foot of G St.
Phone 41R
IT’S A REAL PLEASURE
to view the new wall decorations on
view here exclusively. They are so
unconventional, so out of the common
and so unusually artistically attrac
tive. If you plan to repaper you
should by all means see these new
papers. To decide without doing so
is apt to result in regret later.
EVANS & FRANTZEN
THE HOUSE OF CLEAN
SPORT.
TheB.BC.Co.
MONARCH
WORLDS
BEST
ROBARTS’ BILLIARD
AND BOWLING
PARLORS.
P. 0. Opposite.
SERVICE BARBER
SHOP. ,
ROBARTS BUILDING
Shampooing and Face Massage
A Specialty.
CHOVIN SUPPLY
5th and C.
Carries Everything in Electri
cal Supplies and Fixtures
to make a happy Home
Agent for
FRISCO STANDARD
GAS ENGINES.
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Kitak Show Case Co.
Furniture, Cabinets.
Bank and Office Fixtures
Made To Order
Kiln Dried & Seasoned Lumber
Factory Opposite White House
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NOTICE.
The Auditorium of the Labor Tem
ple may be rented for social affaire
and entertainments, also club rooms
and offices on the upper floor. Call or
the secretary or phone for particu
lars. 612
BIG PRODUCTION
OF MINE
THAT IS FAMOUS
(Mining and Scientific Press.)
For many years the gold mines on
Douglas island, Alaska, commonly
known as the Alaska Treadwell group,
have been recognized as being among
the -mportant gold mines of the
world. The ore bodies are of huge
size and mining operations have been
conducted on a commensurate scale,
but by a method that has differed
somewhat from that adopted in the
exploitation of other large lodes. This
variation of mining method has been
the result of economic necessity rath
er than engineering^choice; the ore of
the Treadwell mines is of low-grade.
The official report issued July 31,
1916, gives the total amount of ore
crushed to date by all the companies
of the group as 26,464,047 tons; the
yield per ton, $2.37; the mining and
milling cost, $1.42 per ton, including
the operating cost of 95 cents per ton;
and the dividends declared 80.5 cents
per ton.
It is obvious that mines producing
ore of a tenor so low as that at Tread
well require high-class management,
and the adoption of methods of mining
and metallurgy that will reduce costs
to a minimum. The mines are situ
ated on Gastineau channel, which sep
arates Douglas island from the main
land of Alaska. The dip of the forma
tion and of the included ore-deposits is
northeast, and the lower workings of
the mines are vertically beneath this
body of salt water.
The rocks enclosing the ore bodies
or adjacent to them are greenstone,
slate, and soda-syenite. These rocks,
when large excavations are made in
them, generally stand fairly well with
out support. For many years the
greater part of the ore was mined in
large open pits called “gloryholes.”
Gradually, as the years passed, these
open-cuts became increasingly deeper,
shafts were sunk, and levels opened,
I far below the bottom of the surface
workings. Glory-hole is one of the
least expensive methods of winning
ore, particularly from large ore bodies^
and it was found to be well suited to
conditions on Douglas island during
the greater part of the year, but when
the open-cuts became too deep to make
this system safe or desirable, under
ground methods had to be adopted
that would still admit the removal of
a large tonnage of ore at the mini
mum cost. To follow the usual cus
tom of squareset timbering, as prac
tised at many western mines, was
prohibitive because of the cost, and the
shrinkage method followed by filling
with waste-rock from the surface was
not undertaken for a similar reason;
so, after trying various methods a
satisfactory system was evolved
whereby a large tonnage could be
mined safely and cheaply, and at the
same time permit the recovery of the
greater part of the ore. This system
can be outlined thus: the opening of
levels from the shafts, the removal of
the ore by overhand stoping, and the
leaving of pillars of ore, both vertical
and flat, to support the walls and the
back of each stope. The vertical pil
lars, reaching from wall to wall, were
left at intervals of 100 ft., measuring
from centre to centre. The flat, or
sheet-pillars, were horizontal or near
ly so. When a stope was being cut,
the miners stood on broken ore, only
enough being withdrawn at the level
below to keep the men within reach of
the back, which was arched to reduce
the tendency to cave. Ore was stoped
to a maximum width of 250 ft., and in
places was removed for a width of 160
ft. along a horizontal distance of 300
ft. The shape and size of a stope whs
controlled to a great extent by the val
ue of the ore—the mining stopped
when the ore no longer yielded a
profit.
The members of the Elk lodge, re
siding in Anchorage, are signing a pe
tition asking the grand lodge to grant
a charter and establish a lodge in this
city. The petition will be forwarded
within a few days.
isium
TAKES HER LIFE
WITH REVOLVER
News from Juneau tells of the
death, by her own hand, of Mrs. J. J.
Cavanna, wife of former Depty U. S.
Marshal J. J. Cavanna of the Nusha
gak region. Mr. and Mrs. Cavanna
formerly resided at Valdez and Sew
ard. The Juneau Dispatch has this
account of the sad tragedy:
“Mrs. J. J. Cavanna, nee Lydia
Swensen suicided last night at 7:30
o’clock in her bed room in a house on
Rowan Way, near Gastineau avenue,
with an automatic pistol firing one
bullet through the right temple. The
deed was committed in the presence
of her husband upon his returning
home from a brief trip down town.
The deceased is a native of Illinois,
being bom in a town near Chicago
and about two months ago came to
Juneau from Valdez to join her hus
band who runs the compressor at the
Alaska Juneau Gold Mining company,
he having left Valdez for Juneau
shortly before. The deceased is well
known in the city. The husband also,
is well known hereabouts and at Cor
dova. He is a member of the local
lodge of Elks.
Cavanna, when interviewed last
night, seemed heart broken. He said
in substance that during supper, a lit
tle before 7 o’clock he and his wife
were discussing financial matters;
that after eating he went down town
and very shortly thereafter returned
to his home; that upon approaching
the house he heard his wife walk from
one room over in to the bed room; he
entered, approached the bed chamber
and as he did his wife said, - “Don’t
come in here, I’ll shoot you,” and im
mediately raised the gun to her right
temple and fired. I hurried down
town and inquired after the coroner;
he came shortly thereafter.
Officer Dan Harrington said last
night that Cavanna came up to him
and asked for the coroner; the chief
of police was passing at the time; I
told him of the matter; he, Cavanna
and myself went up to the house and
found the woman lying on her back
in the bed; a bullet hole in the right
side of her head over the ear; there
was a pool of blood in the bed.
The chief of police said that he ac
companied them to the house and
found the woman lying as above de
scribed; that the automatic gun was
on the floor by the bed. There was
a note on the desk asking that her
mother be not notified.
Mr. Cavanna was at a loss to assign
any reason for his wife’s rash deed.
He said, “our talk over money mat
ters was not in the nature of a quar
rel—we were simply discussing some
misunderstandings concerning funds;
I cannot understand why she commit
ted the deed.”
The remains were taken to the C.
W. Young undertaking establishment.
Arrangements will be made for inter
ment, which will probably be in Ju
neau today. “I will likely have the
body buried in this city,” said Mr. Ca
vanna.
United States Commissioner John
B. Marshall appeared upon the scene
and made an investigation. An in
quest will be held today.
Wood and coal delivered to any
part of the city. Phone 48-Y. Uni
versal Taxi and Transfer. 125
Wedding, birthday and fine cs^kes to
order. North Pole Bakery. 567
WOOD « COAL
YUKON TRANSFER CO.
General Expressing.
F. A. ACKLES Phone 89-R
740 Fourth St.
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■UREKA HOUSE
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FRISCO CAFE
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
Everythin in Season and Service the Very Best.
Private Boxes for Large or Small Parties.
ONCE A PATRON ALWAYS A PATRON
One of the greatest placer deals
ever made in Alaska is now about to
be concluded for the Koyukuk country
with English capitalists by a man now
in Juneau. It will involve the instal
lation of mining machinery and pre
parations that will cost far up in the
hundreds of thousands.
The man who has negotiated the
deal is O. R. Williams who has been
mining for several years in that dis
trict. He is now here in Juneau and
on the Northwestern which arrived
Sunday evening he received the infor
mation that the money for the pur
chase of the ground involved will be
received here on March 6 or about
that date. The capitalists taking over
the properties will install a pipe line
26 miles in length at a cost of a quar
ter of a million or more and later will
probably take dredges to the district.
On the whole the investment is ex
pected to be not so far short of a mil
lion all told. The ground to be taken
over consists of six or seven hundred
acres in two lots and of nearly a mile
long of famous Hammond river from
which large sums have been taken out
since its discovery a few years ago.
Hammond river is deep and the pay
can only be taken out where it is
fgrozen. For a great extent it is
thawed ground and impossible to oper
ate on a small scale. The new com
pany intends to bring in pumps in ad
dition to other machiery and get right
down to business on one of the largest
scales ever attempted in Alaska.
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FOR SALE
CRESCENT
HOTEL
COR. FOURTH AND C.
ALSO 24 x 130 FEET
ADJOINING HOTEL.
SEE OWNERS
F. W. Redwood & Co.
Union Laundry
and Bath House
Fourth Are., Between H and I,
Anchorage
OCR WORK IS GUARANTEED
sanTtary
THE LARGEST AND CLEANEST
BATH TUBS IN ANCHORAGE
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Sanitary Markd
The only cold storage plant A con
nection with market in Anchorage.
Home-made Mausages. Knits. Veg
etables, Rutter and Eggs at whole
sale. Restaurants and oadhouses.
speciu' attention.
tth Ave.. Ret II and I its.
E. E. KURTZ & CO.
FREDERICK&NEL80N
SEATTLE
Invite you to send to them for
such items in FURNITURE and
DRY GOODS as cannot be readily
supplied by the merchants in your
own community
All such orders received by
FREDERICK & NELSON receive
the prompt, personal attention of
an expert shopper, f.nd Parcel Post
shipments are sent POSTAGE
PAID to any point in Alaska.
Inlet Soda Works
W. A. TAYLOR, Proprietor
Manufacturers of all kinds of
MINERAL WATERS, SODA
CIDER, SYRUPS. V
AGENTS FOR GRAPE JUICE
Anchorage - - Alaska
QUINN BOARDING
HOUSE.
Board by the Day or Week.
Corner 3rd and C St.
Hegg & Laurence
COMMERCIAL AND
PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Interior, Flashlight Work a
Specialty.
Kodak Developing and Printing
HARMONY THEATRE.
CARROL & CO.
Fourth St., near E
MEN’S OUTFITTERS
Complete stock of Clothing,
Shoes and furnishings.
Phone 43-Y for car, day or sight.
Wood and coal a specialty. UniveyA
Taxi and Transfer.
Fine Job Printing at Tlmoo offleo.