DIME CREEK ACTIVE CAMP
The discovery of jmy on the benches
combined with the development of ex
tensive open cut diggings on l>ime
creek will keep Haycock on the
list of producing camps for several
years, despite the working out of
many claims on the creek channel, ac
cording to Charles D. Jones, who re
turned from an extended visit in that
section a week ago. Present winter
activities are considerably circum
scribed as compared to earlier years.
Mr. Jones says, but there is still suf
ficient winter mining to provide em
ployment for everyone there. The
summer diggings have become an im
portant factor in the communal in
dustries and furnish employment for
• considerable number of men. Their
operation also changes the camp from
an exclusively winter producer, the
production continues practically all
the veal. .Mr Jones provides us with
the following list of I'M me activities.
No work is being done on No 7
this winter but the claim will be
worked next summer by the owners
John Olson and Scotty Black. Was,
not worked on account of the high
cost of labor. N- 0 is being worked
by Wallace Porter the owner. Twentx '
two men ate employed at present.
The ground is being handled in excel
lent manner anti it is expected that
forty Hmusand cars of dirt will be j
placed o-i the dump before cleanup]
time. Arthur Johnson is foreman in j
charge. Tom Huddv is cooking. This!
winter will practicall\ finish the tin- j
derground work on the claim.
\<> f! bench The on 1 > pay found on the I
right limit of Dim- > -'ek is here. Jens I
.••ml t’hris Madsen art- prospecting to |
develop the full extent of the pay
channel for operation next summer.
< *n the second tier of benches on the,
same limit William Sutton is pros- j
porting for quartz.
No 5. owned by George Leonard,
i: under lease to Jack Kills, t'hris
Knutson and Emil Olsen. They are|
prospecting at present. Work has so
far been considerably bothered by.
water. On No 4. owned by John Olsen,
nothing is being done this winter. No
.1. owned by Gwiler and (iloor. is not
a winter proposition. The claim is
being worked in the summer season
bv open cut methods and a steam
scraper. The owners are at present
hauling wood for their operation-!
next summer.
«»n No 2. owned by Jepson and
partners, no work is being done. No '
• »lsen Brothers, owners, is being used
for dumping ground for tin- bench
where they ground sluice anil open
iiit during the summer season.
This is the fartherest down that any
work is being done on the creek pro
per. From No 1 down the work is all
on the left limit benches. The first
camp is that of Gunderson and Burgh,
operated under lease by John Tice.
Fred Nelson and Axel Johnson. They
have five men employed. J<>e Bon
gard is engineer and Airs Bongard is
cooking. They have 14.000 seventy
pan cars of dirt in the dump. The
next claim is owned by Valentine an l
I'orter, who are working about three1
men. Mrs Parsons is looking after the
culinary department for them.
were prospecting: farther along on
this bench but did not find any value*
to justify operations. Sam Smith and
l*artners were prospecting on East
Fork but found no pay. Peter Ander
son is projecting on Spring creek, a
tributary of Sweepstakes creek. Jas.
Hoyle has four horses and is being
kept busy ha tiling wood for catnp. Wal
lace Porter has three head of stock
which he uses in hauling wood for his
own camps, Gwiler and Gloor also
have a team employed in their own
hauling. Jack I^eonard has gone to i
the Hot Springs to secure relief frarij
an attack of rheumatism, Charlie An
derson is also at the springs. Franki
McCoy is with them hiking care ofj
Grub is very scarce on the creek
owing to the early freezeup and the
loss of the lighterage barges at Gol
ovin last fall. Prices are high. Some
food supplies are being hauled to the
camp from Candle and Chinik. There
is practically no dog feed in the camp.
Ham is 65 cents per pound, bacon SO
ets, flour $13. potatoes $16 a crate,
(ream $11.50. There are no eggs, but
ter or sugar on the creek for aale.
The last sugar sold brought 25 cents
per pound. Plenty of reindeer meat,
which sells for 25 cents per pound.
Xo ptarmigan are being offered and
no rabbits can be had this winter. All
lines of hardware are completely gone.
There are 13% married couples on
the creek and fifty six unmarried men.
Twenty children are attending the
school hi ugh t by Miss Irene Bongard.
Dime has three stores, those of La -
Montagne. Ross and Swanson. The
roadhouse is run by Mrs Hanson. Mrs
| Wool rich has been running a coffcH
house, but is going to leave for Nome.
Wallace Porter owns the movie
h<»use. showing three times a week
admission six bits.
They have on an average about
two dances a month and card parties
The landing is about seven miles
from Haycock. The stores have their
warehouses there. John B. Boss Is
running a warehouse. Quite a number
of natives live at the landing.
Tillie LeN’oir is running a bath
'house and laundry.
j Nome and Council people make up
the majority of the popukition. with
som<- from Candle and a few from
other points Candle Is only two days
distant and there is quite a bit of
'travel l*etweon the two towns. Wages
|are $3,00 and eight hours. »
i Driftwood is getting scarce around i
Dime Creek and they have to go to
Peace river for their wood.
The shelter cabin at Cheruk was
found to have been left open by some
traveler who evidently had little re
gard for others who might follow him
and was partially fillet! with snow. It
was learned that some individual had
found a lot of barked poles intehdeJ
for building a dog stable at another
shelter cabin and had proceeded to
cut them up for firewood despite the
presence of an ample supply of cut
firewood, which the person was ap
parently to lazy or cussed to chop.
Trails were founds well staked all
the way through and the stakes in
good shape, save here and there where
they had been broken off by careless
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UNALAKLEET
NEWS NOTES
I'nalukleet Feb. 25th, 1920
violent ••tempest in a teapot” re
cently disturbed the serenity of l"na
lakleet. but. as usually happens in
such eases, came t<» nothing at all.
There were rumors in circulation U>
th« effect that another store was to
be erected in the near future. Some
of our esteemed citizens reasoned:
“One store is here: we can hardly keep
it going. How then is it i>ossihle to
keep two stores going? To do so will
keep us poor all the time." Others
argued: "If we have two stores*here,
both will want our trade and to get
it will reduce the price of calico, etc.]
and raise the price of furs. Thus we]
will benefit both ways." Finally our'
"city council” had .1 petition drawn tip
for a referendum vote as to whether
[house to house canvas was then mad.
bv our eminent counciimen and a pub
lic meeting was called. It was,there
found, however, that the matter ger
be.mi properly presented. The petition
was nullified b\ .tin- votes <f
our fallow citizens, its return demand
ed and tin y.nncil abolished.
Nome will be visited in tii« n«a
backer’s wim an- at present : eposin ■
will travel under tin- 1 ..f <>u
b< nevoient I'ncle Samii. . a- tiu-y lie
community . It seems t<• i! writer
that the establishment of a number o"
schools under the (i.iry system would
b» a good investment fo: <mr paternal
The recent heavy snows made sad
havoc on the portage trail It requir
ed the temporary employment <>f two
extra mail carriers and two trail
breakers to get the mail through on
time. The contractor. Oscar Hall, pu'
one of the extra carriers on the run
to st Michael and also handled the1
portage end of it in most efficient man
able bull dog. The animal,
keeping the cabin clear
spends most of its time in
hunting. When he makes
brings the prize to his mai
John has been supplied >
rabbits
i remark
long with
he woods 1
cl also several mink. The
dog does not touch anything in a
snare or trap, apparently preferring
to make his own kill.
l>r Hoot arrived from St Michael
a couple of days ago He is the vet
erinarian connected with the Bureau
of Education and is here to study the
diseases of the reindeer .their causes
and remedies and possible means of
prevention. There is a large field for
his talents.
Rev. Almquist leaves this morning;
for the Yukon via St Michael. Ho
will visit his mission at Mountain Vil
lage and inspect the reindeer herd at'
that place.
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if the claims of Alfred
H-venr-old Seattle lioy. ;
says recent Seat
> great is the scope
niu the disciird
all automobiles.
Italians and ste;u
H ublnwid’
comotive
hree hors
power without using up
tin magnetic lines of fore
round the earth, what is
buying gasoline or coal.
Kriefh described, young Hubbard's
machine, which he calls an atmos
ph-ric power generator, is a permanent
surround ei’
force present in the
For three
perfecting hi:
Hubbard.
ears the youth work.-t
machine. At the horn
. Mr and .Mrs Willi.-.n
Eastern Avenue, he ha
been at work for the past year ex
p« lamenting in his well-enuippe.
The hoy’s father is a union elec
tr. al expert, a member • »f I/ieal 77
Prominent local electrical expert*
restitate to express a decided opinion
on Hubbard’s invention, but were as
tounded by the demonstration which
the young inventor was able to give.
His working model lit an ordinary
incandescent lamp toa ruby glow,
yielding for a long time an uninter
rupted How of at least 80 volts. This
electrical power was apparently taken
from the air.
"For $2,500,*’ says the bov. ’T can
produce a machine which will yield
ln.OOn horse power, and for about $5‘)
one which could run an auto.
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You are cordially invited to attend
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PACKARD DECKER. Paster.
ITS MARVELOUS"
OSBORNE SITS
WELL KNOWN RANCHMAN AND
WIFE ARE WONDERFULLY
HELPED BY TANLAC
“WJe are just as careful about keep
ing some Tanlac at our house as we
are something to eat,” said E. G. Man
vllle Osborne, a well known and pros
perous ranchman who lives on It. F.
|D. No 4, Calgary, while in Liggett
jantt- Findlay’s drug store In Calgary a
"Feu- the pjist two or three years."
continued Mr. Osborne, .’both my wife
and myself have suffered a great deal
with stomach trouble and indigestion.
In fact, we had reached the point
where it was a bard matter to find
anything that either of us could eat
without suffering afterwards. Wo
could only eat the lightest kind of food,
and even that would often cause us to
suffer afterwards. We both went down
hill right along, and while we tried
many different kinds of medicine, we
didn't experience any relief at all from
“Finally we heard about Tanlac. and
read where so many people who suf
fered from indigestion and stomach
trouble had been greatly relieved by
taking it. so the first time I was in
town after that I l»ought some of it.
Well. sir. it is simply marvelous the
way it has helped us both. Why.
there isn't anything that we are afraid
to eat now. Both of us sit down three
times a day and eat hearty meals of
good substantial food and we are
never bothered the least bit with in
digestion or stomach trouble after
wards. I just don’t see how we could
run the ranch without Tanlac. for it
not only has overcome our trouble, but
it keeps us in fine condition all the
time. Roth of us are enjoying as good
[health as we ever did. and feel just
fine all the time. Tanlac is the most
(dependable medicine I have ever seen
land.I never lose an opportunity to re
commend it to others.
Tanlac is sold In Nome by Lomen |
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FOREST TIMBER SALES ARE
ON THE INCREASE
During the month of December the
local forest office executed eight tim
ber sale contracts, involving 83.1O0(
board feet of saw timber, 81.393 linear
fet of piling, and 30 cords of fuel.
The receipts from these transactions
aggregated $553.18. Four of the sales
were in the Cook inlet region and
four in Prince William sound, says an
exchange of the First Division.
Since the first of the fiscal year
(July 1) 7* sales have been executed,
covering a total of 3,365,140 board feei
of timber, valued at $5,760.95. Dur
ing the same period last year there
were but 44 sales consummated, cov
ering 2,469,220 feet of timber, with t
value of $3,599.74.
The steady development of the fish
ing industry m the Prince William
sound region is creating an increased
[demand for national forest timber.
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