HUGE VALUES
IN BLAGK SAND
Smelter Test of Nome Waste Mate
rial Gave Hundreds of Dollars
to the Ton.
Thousands of dollars, perhajat mill
ions, have been thrown on the waste
dumps of the mines in the vieinitv of
Nome during the past five or six years,
according to the Gold Digger In the
claims where there has been a large
amount of black sand mixed with the
gravel, the greater has been the amount
of money lost. For a long time it has
been known that this contained a per
centage of gold, but not until last fall
(1905) was it known that the so-called
waste material could be shipped to the
outside at an enormous profit.
While at the Portland fair, J. C. Drown
became very much interested in some
tests of the black sands of the Columbia
river that were being made by Dr. Wm.
T. Day. He discovered that these sands
contained a certain amount of gold and
a percentage of platinum. Mr. Drown
thought it possible that the black sands
from the Little Creek claim also con
tained considerable money, and shipped
several tons to the Selby smelter at San
Francisco for treatment. His surprise
was as pleasant as it was great when he
learned that be bad a credit of several
thousand dollars at the mill, as a result
of theshipment. The certificates showed
that the sand had returned as high as
$!)00 per ton in gold and silver, the low
est yield being $650 per ton. If there
was any platinum in the material ship
ped, the certificates from the smelter
failed to show it. Mr. Brown says that
he will have a test made of the sands for
the purpose of ascertaining whether or
not there is any platinum in the ma
terial.
During the past summer over fifty
tons of this black sand was hauled in
from the creeks and shipped to the
smelter, most of it being obtained from
the Cyrus Noble and Diamond b. claims,
in both of which Mr. Brow n is interested.
Johnson and Illgstrom, who are oper
ating on a Bourbon creek bench claim,
have also shipped a considerable amount
of the sand to the smelter. About six
tons of this material was hankd to Nome
from the creeks in one day in September.
In some of the black sand that has
been sacked ready for shipment the gold
is visible to the naked eye, and it is said
that there is a large amount concealed
in the magnetic ir«n. The presence of
the visible gold is aeeounted for in the
fact that tlie presence of the iron causes
a small amount of rust to eling to the
gold and this prevents the ipiicksilver
front absorbing it.
Dr. Carter to Remain
But Six Weeks More
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Uncle Sam’s
Strong Points
Presented to the Filopinos by a
Fellow Countryman.
[ Reprinted from the Sabi mil (Texas)
Sentinel, but the parentage not guaran
teed.]
An aspiring young Filopino, who
spent two years in Washington City
with his eyes and ears open, addressed
his countrymen in Manila on the Fourth
of July as follows:
Fellow Fillips and Sister Fillies: Your
Uncle Sam is great. When in knee
breeches he Hogged the British Lion.
As a youth he sailed under the frown
ing cliffs of Algiers and taught the |
haughty Sultan of Morocco to respect ;
the rights of Yankee Uoodle. He crossed i
the Siirra Madres and planted the stars
and stripes over the hall of the Monte
zuma*. He scaled the Rockies and
gave us California. Recently he spank-;
ed Spain out of Cuba, sent her fleet to i
join Mctiinty in our harbor and took us
under his wing. 11c is now cutting a
ditch to bring us nearer home. He savs
‘Hands i>ff America’ and they are off.
To tiie .lap and llus, ‘You cubs have
scrapped enough; come over to my
house and settle.” They came; they
settled. The emphatic set-down of his
bn'gun shakes the earth around. He
stalks abroad with a chip on his hat.
and the strenuous twitch of his goatee
signifies that he is itching to butt in at
any old time and place. His bunting
floats unmolested upon every sea and
serenely flutters in every port. He is
easily the champion heavyweight of the
world, lie feels his oats, and his |>ent
np strength and repressed vitality actu
ally hurt him. He must reach out in
all directions and grasp something, hit
somebody, kick the kids, break up the
cir< us, and rake in the gate money, lb'
wants and must have elbow risuu,
breathing space, cX|«insion, empire.
\h. Well, he has the story of the rise
ami fail of empires liefore him.
My fellow|>inos, we are now a part
ami parcel of this great empire. There
is nothing ilke it Ulster the sun. 1'nele
Sum has the greatest aggregation of
gtss| things ami laid thinds, hot things
ami cold things, all sizes, shape* ami
colors ever ethiltitcd under one tent.
Yott ought all to go over ami see this
Is tv I of law ami license, magnificent
rburettes ami ft»rtv thousand -tilts,ns.
schools in low places ami high, Bibles ;
and bribery, gospel and guns, grace and
graft, homes and hunger, money and
misery, trusts and tramps, billionaires
and bums, vultures and vice, polygamy
in Utah and easy divorce elsewhere, so
a man may be off with the old wife and
on with the new one as profit, pleasure
or passion may move him. The polyga
mist is turned out of congress and the !
divorcee turned in. The land that
boasts of a Carrie Nation and a John
Alexander Dowie; where a good Bible
may la? had for fifteen cents and a bad
drink of whisky for five; where the err
ing girl becomes an outcast and her
desjHiiler a social lion; prayers on the
floors of congress and whisky in the
cellars; missionaries in the steamer’s
cabin and red liijuor in tbe hold; where
the jieople are taxed five thousand dol
lars to bury a millionaire statesman
and three dollars from the pauper’s
fund to bury one honest working man;
where to be virtuous is to be lonesome;
to be honest, a suicidal crank; where
they pay a hundred dollars for a bird
dog and fifty cents a dozen to a poor
woman for making shirts: where cash
talks, sin walks, justice sleeps, corrup
tion permeates the social and political
fabric and the devil laughs aglee.
My countrymen, I gathered this in
formation from the proceedings of the
congress and the courts, the exposures
in the departments of government and
from the newspajiers. I was told that |
in the dark corners piety and povertvl
prevail, but the tipper tens give the j
country its rep. Uncle Sam is grand in
greatness, glorious in goodness and in j
badness be is the limit.
Local and General Notes
If outaiile mail ha* arriveil at Ka^le
ainee the river eloaetl tin- fact in not
known here.
It ix announced that in future mail
each way ix exjHeted to at rive .Momluyx
ami depart Tuexilayx.
S. It. Iluilton went an apccinl earrier
with the hitf Imteh of ilelayed mail ilex
timil for Tanana river |»oint*.
Mex.-rx. I'alloii ami Mann havealmoat
tinixhed takini: up ami muting the
Kuby hydraulic pi|>e, preparatory to
moving it to Hunter.
Jaek Kadigan, atartinu out to make
tin- ronml* of tlie nrrk* thin week,
got attached to the wimUaxx on No. 10
l.itlle Mim»>k ami ut l.i-t account* wax
Mill holding on.
The rei»>rt that Mike lathowki would
eome 'lowrn from Korl Yukon waa me
kiiimW It will le aevit by letter*
printed rl»rwherv that lie wax i-x}•*■>*tiiijf
to return to thaiidlar
Jules Marion left Eagle for Fair
banks the first of the month on an in
spection tour as mail superintendent.
If he had intended to go toChandlar his
duties have evidently prevented it.
Within the past few days there has
been a perceptible rise of water in the
Yukon. There was less overflow than
usual at the time of freezeup this year,
which left the river trail pretty lumpy.
The present rise may better it some.
We heard a new recruit in the. Army
of the Lord telling his experience to a
minister the other day. He said :
“Doctor, I have become a regular at
tendant at Sunday school and enjoy it
very much. I am also very fond of base
ball and usually go to the game every
Sunday afternoon. However, though I
enjoy them both, I am satisfied the two
are diametrically opposed, because the
first song that greets niv ears at Sunday
school in the morning is ‘Stand up!
Stand up! for e.Isus's sake,’ and the
first thing I hear at the ball game in
the afternoon is, ‘Set down ! Set down!
for Christ’s sake!”’—Riley’s Rounder.
The
Miners Store
Just received a full and complete
line of
Men’s Furnishing
Goods.
SPECIALTIES:
Underwear,
Overshirts,
Socks
Also a complete line of
npA/iAninn Eggs, Potatoes
UlVuullGD, and Onions
Mike Engels
(Sourdough Mike)
FREIGHTING
and PACKING
To all the Creeks