DEPORTS FROM
TOLSTOI OF NEW
PM SEINE FOUND
(Iditarod Pioneer)
Information recently received from
the Tolstoi is to the effect that pay
has been found on a new creek. De
tails are lacking, but it said that three
holes were sunk, and that $2.50 was
taken from the bottom of one of them.
The creek is named Flat, which is a
tributary of Esperanto, the latter be
ing a tributary of Madison.
Whether this information was re-1
sponsible for the fact or not, the early |
part of the present week has develop- j
ed what to all appearances was anoth
er stampede to the new district.. Many
dog teams left on Tuesday and Wed
nesday, and there was considerable
speed apparent in preparations for
the trip. Some were of the opinion
that the mushers were on their way
to Beaver creek, in the Innoko, from 1
which most encouraging reports j
were received recently. However, it j
transpires that nearly all the travel-1
ers had business entirely independent:
of any stampede.
The fame of the Tolstoi is being i
raised abroad. Travelers from that
^f.tion are eagerly interviewed by
the coast newspapers. Besides the
glowing account attributed to Dave
Edwards of Ophir, which appears in
another column, the following from !
the Seward Gateway will be read |
with interest:
“Ira- Van Orsdal, one of the original!
discoverers of the Tolstoi camp, who j
is now in Seward, brings word of a j
recent discovery1' on one of the creeks
in that district which is enough to
cause anyone acquainted with Alaska
mining to believe that the chances
are good for one more great placer
camp in the territory when all hope
of such a possibility had about fled.
Mr. Van Orsdal arrived over the trail
a couple of days ago, and is waiting
to go out on the Alameda. He was
in the Tolstoi district a month ago,
and at that time got his information
direct about the new discovery. The
pay was found on Madison creek, ,
which is about seven or eight miles 1
from Boob creek, and the remarkable
fact about the discovery is that the
pay was found in the second tier
benches, and is located in a manner
that show the possibility that it is of
great extent. On elction day Mr. Van
Orsdal was on the spot, and Wilson,
the discoverer, panned some of the
dirt for him, and by a little panning
showed $8.
Boob is the original creek of the
district where Mr. Van Orsdal and
the others made the discovery. It has
f.ve claims and a fraction now on
which pay has been developed. The
difficulty of prospecting the country
is illustrated by the name of the |
creek the discoverers having given it
that name because apparently no one 1
but a boob would ever think it could
contain pay. The creeks run through
low mud divides that are almost gla
ciers and run through flats. These j
facts will show any old timer that the j
discovery of pay on the second tier j
benches promises extraordinary de
velopments. Van Orsdal also says
that numerous creeks in the district i
have prospects that could be made to I
pay if any means of transportation
were available. One of the paying
creeks in there now was crosscut some
years ago but it was abandoned. The j
discovery of pay now is one more il
lustration of the old lesson taught
Alaska prospectors—the lesson that
only a thorough prospecting can be
depended on to locate the paystreak.” j
In reference to the above interview,
it may be said that the substance is
substantially correct, with the excep
tion that the strike was made on the
first bench instead of the second, as
stated by Mr. Van Orsdal. The news
of the find was kept concealed for
obvious reasons. Mr. Van Orsdal was
in Iditarod before leaving for the out
side, and was careful not to mention
the fact that the find had been made
on the Madison creek bench.
(Iditarod Pioneer.)
Duncan McDonnell, familiarly
known all over this section as “Cin
nabar” McDonnell, was so fearfully
frozen during the recent cold spell on
the trail between Bear creek and
Ophir creek, on the lower Kuskokwim,
that his life is despaired of, and even
if he survives he will be practically
helpless.
This was the story brought to Flat
late last evening by Arthur Willis,
who came through by dog team from
Aniak, where McDonnell had been ta- j
ken, almost without stop, in order to
procure medical assistance' for the
stricken man, who was suffering ter
ribly. After hurried preparations, Dv.
Moore, accompanied by Duke E.
Stubbs, left for Aniak last night. Mr.
Willis brought word that Mr. McDon
nell was being cared for by Mrs.
Stubbs at Aniak and that everything
possible was being done for him under
the circumstances.
By a singular coincidence, Mr.
Stubbs had started for his home at
Aniak when he met the messenger on
the trail. He accompanied him back
to Flat and departed with the physi
cian at the earliest possible moment.
It appears from the few details ob
tainable last night that McDonnell
was traveling from Bear creek during
the recent severely cold weather and j
was caught by the storm. What really j
happened 'was not learned, but he was j
lost for nine days, and when he fin-1
ally succeeded ih reaching a human
habitation, by crawling on his hands
and knees, he was in a most pitiful
condition. It was stated that his
tongue was frozen to his teeth and his
hands and feet also were frozen.
McDonnell is a well known resident
of the Kuskokwim district, where he
has resided for many years. He makes
his home at or near Bethel, and is in
terested in quartz properties near Kol
makoff, among which are some cinna
bar propositions, from which his so
briquit is obtained.
Under favorable conditions Dr.
Moore and Mr. Stubbs should reach
Aniak in three or four days.
FACTS AS TO OIL
OCCURRENCE EXPLAINED
l ne iouowing non-tecnmcai explan
ation of facts as to oil occurrence is
made by the geological survey:
“Oil occurs in porous rocks at vari
ous depths, generally the porous
rocks are sandstone and in a few
places limestone have furnished oil.
Porous beds, even when they are in
cluded in formations that may be oil
bearing, do not generally contain oil
in large aggregations or polls except
in places where they have been bent
into more or less definite folds, when
the oil if present is usually in the up
ward folds or anticlines and domes.
There is no way of certainly deter
mining that oil exists beneath the sur
face of the ground in large quantities
in any proven area by drilling. Films
of oil on water, oil seeps or springs,
gas amenations, asphaltic deposits,
and rocks saturated with oil or emit
ting the odor of petroleum are favora
ble indications of the presence of oil
or gas or both in rocks below or near
by. They do not prove, however, that
these substances exist in paying quan
tities or indicate the depth at which
they occur. Thin films of oil on the
surface of the water in bogs or
marshes may result from the decay
of organic matter at the surface; also
films of iron oxide^ which accumulate
in such places, may be mistaken for
oil, and such occurrences should be
carefully distinguished for actual oil
seeps.”
Phone 43-Y for car, day or night.
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and Transfer. 126
Lunches, sandwiches and coffee at
the North Pole Bakery. 429
Storm or no storm I eat at Camer
on’s Cafe. 354
Wood—Phone 40-11. 186
Latest War News at Peterson’s. 399
CONGRESSMEN
Mir TIKE THE
ALASKI TRIP
(Seattle P.-I.)
Two dozen and possibly more con- j
gressmen will visit Alaska next June I
on the excursion which will be part'
of the semi-centennial celebration of!
the purchase of Alaska, if resolutions J
introduced in both houses at the in
stance of E. C. Hughes, of the Alaska
bureau of the chamber of commerce,
are acted upon favorably.
Mr. Hughes returned from Wash
ington Tuesday, where, as a member;
of the law firm of Hughes, McMicken, j
Dovell & Ramsey, he appeared before j
the supreme court in cases appealed
under the federal employers’ liability
act and the workmen’s compensation
act of the state of Washington.
Cominittee Chairman Favor It.
“I met the chairman of the territor
ies committee of both houses and Del
egate Wickersham, of Alaska, at the
Willard,” said Mr. Hughes Wednes
day. “All favored the recognition by
congress of the semi-centennial and
the appointment of a commission to
look into affairs concerning the gov
ernment railroad and conditions in
general in Alaska, as suggested by
the Alaska bureau of the chamber of!
commerce. Before I left Washington
resolutions were introduced in both
the house and senate providing for a
commission of three members from i
the territories, public lands, appropri
ations and marine and fisheries corr.-j
mittees of both houses.
“The expense of such a commission ,
would be met from the $10,000,000 ■
appropriated for the Alaska govern-1
ment railroad for the coming year, j
Secretary of the Interior Lane expres
sed his hearty approval of the plan !
and said that he would recommend !
the resolution when it came before j
him. When I left Washington a week
ago it was reported that the resolu
tion might be amended when it came
to a vote to enlarge the proposed
commission by including members of
other committees.”
Thinks Lawson in Earnest.
Despite the instability apparent in
New York over international relations
Mr. Hughes found every indication of
business confidence and general pros
perity. In the capital he heard the
arguments in the Appam case before
the supreme court, and Thomas Law
son’s testimony in the “leak” investi
gation. Lawson impressed Mr.
Hughes, he said, as a man who loved
to stand in the limelight as a righter
of public wrongs, but who was in
deadly earnest in everything he said.
The cases in which Mr. Hughes ap
peared for the Stimson Mill company
and the Merrill & Ring Logging com
pany involved the application to log
ging railroads of the employer’s lia
bility act of congress and the consti
tutionality and applicability of the
workmen’s compensation act of the
state of Washington. They were ad
vanced on the docket and heard im
mediately after a case against the
state involving the constitutionality
of the workmen’s compensation act, in
which Attorney General Tanner ai -
peared for the state.
Fancy cakes to order at the North
Pole Bakery. 429
Central Barber Shop
Modern Equipment Throughout
New Sanitary Bathroom in
Connection.
417 4th Avenue.
Pioneer Sheet
Metal Works
YUKON STOVES
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HEATERS
Corner Fifth and C Sts.
Anchorage • - Alaska
150 per cent Advance in Mohawk Shares
ON MARCH FIRST
THE DIRECTORS OP THE MOHAWK COMPANY HAVE AUTHORIZED ME TO ADVANCE THE PRICE OF MOHAWK SHARES FROM 10 CENTS TO 25 CENTS A
SHARE ON MARCH 1st. ON ACCOUNT OF SHORT NOTICE, PARTIES LIVING IN THE STATES WILL BE ALLOWED 15 DAYS EXTRA AND ORDERS FOR STOCK
WILL BE FILLED IF MAILED ON OR BEFORE THE 15th OF MARCH.
THE MOHAWK TUNNEL WAS SAMPLED A SHORT TIME AGO BY MR. C. H. HOLMES, OF ANCHORAGE, A REPUTABLE MINING ENGINEER.
THE VEIN SHOWS A CONTINUOUS ORE SHOOT, FOR OVER 159 FT. IN LENGTH AND STILL RICH ORE IN THE BREAST OF THE TUNNEL AT A DEPTH
OF 500 FEET, AND THOUSANDS OF TONS IN SIGHT.
^y*x*rn ^ fiFst P^ace‘l the Mohawk Stock on the market in the mid- "
die of November, I had nothing to back me up, not even an assav,
! from the property. %
All 1 had on which to base my calculations was what gold pan
ning I had done myself on the surface croppings of the vein; until
November 25th, when John Aho, one of the miners, came down from
the mine, and brought some samples of ore, which were assayed.
Then a few days before Christmas two of the directors of the
company went up to the mine and brought down more samples of ore.
Now, in my opinion, I was fully satisfied with the samples brought
down by these gentlemen, but all of them were interested parties.
Dozens of people, here in Anchorage, told me that they would
buy some Mohawk stock, if they were sure that the assays were not
picked samples of the ore. So finally I persuadeif the company to send
a disinterested party to sample the mine and they selected Mr. Holmes
to go to Willow creek to sample the vein in the tunnel.
Mr. Holmes took 28 samples across the vein, every five feet apart,
beginning 23 feet in from portal of the tunnel. This part was tim
bered, so on that account he was unable to sample same.
Following- are Mr. Holmes’ assays, taken by number:
No. 1 ..$ 5.66
No. 2 .. 22.49
No. 3 . 50.17
No. 4 . 129.69
No. 5 .. 43.10
No. 6 . 20.46
No. 7 . 28.61
No. 8 . 8.76
No. 9 . 17.05
No. 10 . 3.33
No. 11 . 12.59
No. 12 . 6.05
No. 13 . 3.74
N... 14 . 8.10
No. 15 . 14.73
No. 10 . 25.06
No. 17 . 8.93
No. 18 . 10.11
No. 19 . -426.20
No. 20 . 19.25
No. 21 . 16.19
No. 22 ...». 21.85
No. 23 . 21.62
No. 24 . 26.45
No. 25 . 23.41
No. 26 . 22.57
No. 27 . 50.08
No. 28 . 31.15
Has Examined Mines in All Parts of the World.
Mr. C. H. Holmes, C. E. E. M., is a graduate of Frieburg. Ger
many, and also of Harvard and Yale. Was employed as mining en
gineer by De Beers & Rhodes Mining company, and also experted
properties for Buckingham, De Beers & Co., Syndicate, of London,
England, one of the largest mining syndicates in the world. During
that time he examined mines in South Africa, India, Russia, Peru,
Chile.
In the United States he has examined properties in Montana, Ida
ho, California, Oregon, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada and Alaska.
In Colorado he was one of the first mining engineers to make a
report on Stratton’s Independence mine of Cripple Creek.
The mine was later sold to an English syndicate for $9,000,000.00.
He also reported on the Clark Copper Consolidated mine of Ari
zona.
Such is the record of the mining engineer who sampled the Mo
hawk tunnel, and says he believes that further explorations would
result in the discovery of important ore bodies.
These assays show beyond a question of doubt that we have the
making of one of the largest and richest mines in the WHlow creek
gold camp.
Just think of it, a continuous ore shoot, already exposed for over
159 feet, and rich ore still in the breast of the tunnel. And a depth
on the ore body of 500 ft. at the breast.
Mr. Holmes says the assays will average 90 per cent gold and
10 per cent silver, and no other metal in paying quantities.
He further says that the geological horizon for several miles in
any direction from the Mohawk mine is composed of granite rocks,
alternating with grandiorite, and quartz diorite, and that the vein
system cuts the formations at right angles, and the veins occur as
fissure veins there are frequent porphyry intrusions through the ore,
and often several inches of talc, and kaolinite selvage on either wall.
The evidence given, therefore, points conclusively to a true fissure
origin of veins.
The slick and well-defined wall of the vein evidence extensive
plane faulting.
The strike of the vein, as determined in the tunnel is N. 22 de
frees W. and the dip is 41 degrees W. The elevation of the mine is
,185 feet above sea level.
40-Ton Mill to Be Installed by July 1st.
The manager of the Mohawk Mining company has authorized me
to state to the public that the 40-ton Mohawk mill will be installed,
and in operation, by July 1, 1917, or not later than August 1, 1917.
A 40-ton mill should grind out a lot of gold bullion daily. The
first seveq. assays taken in the tunnel show an average of $44.00 per
ton, for a distance of 35 feet. This part of the vein I know is free
milling, as I panned some of the rock myself, given to me by Mr.
Holmes. In fact some of the richest ore panned over. $100' per ton.
With such rich, free-milling gold* ore, the possibility of the Mo
hawk, as a bullion producer may astonish the mining world.
Running the mill 24 hours per day, with ore milling $44.00 per
ton would be a gross daily output of $1,760 per day; that would nearly
equal the output of the Martin mill Best Run.
At any rate should the mill run successfully, in this grade of
ore, the Mohawk may produce over $50,000 per month.
I am now placing on the market 100,000 shares of Mohawk stock,
part of which will be offered for sale to the public at 10 cents per
share for a few days only. The price March 1st will be 25 cents a
share.
With all these assays taken by a reputable mining engineer, every
five feet on the ore shoot, proves conclusively that we have something
worth while to sell stock on.
Mohawk stock is cheaper today at 10 cents a share than it was a
month ago at 5 cents.
Over 57 feet more of ore has been opened up in the tunnel, and
the' assays taken are conclusive proof that we have rich ore in the
mine.
Anyone who has a $10.00 bill, may become a stockholder, and get
100 shares. Everybody has this chance now. In a few days the stock
will cost 25 cents.
$10.00 Buys . 100 Shares
$20.00 Buys . 200 Shares
$30.00 Buys . 300 Shares
$40.00 Buys . 400 Shares
$50.00 Buys . 500 Shares
$100.00 Buys . 1,000 Shares
$500.00 Buys . 5,000 Shares
$1,000 Buys . 10,000 Shares
Now is the time to get some of this stock. Don’t delay, but come
and see me, at my office in the Campbell building, at 4th and F street,
or if you cannot spare the time to visit me now, write pne a letter,
stating how many shares you wish to take, and enclose check, payable
to George Anderson, Fiscal Agent, or currency, to cover the amount
and I wul have the stock issued to you in your name, and forward
same to you, by return mail.
A blue-print showing how the vein was sampled by the engi
>eer, can be seen at my office.
•GEORGE ANDERSON, Fiscal Agent,
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Office Hours From 4th and F Street,
10 a. m. to 10 p. m. Campbell Building,
Anchorage, Alaska.