Construction Being i'uslied-in
a Year from This Fail
130 Miles Will Be
Done.
Over thirty miles of the Alaska
Central railroad are in operation,
200 miles are already located, and a
small army of men are strung out
over the right of way for more than
sixty miles from Seward, its coast
terminus. Ever since last spring, j
says the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, I
men and material have been rushed j
from Seattle to Seward and from
that point distributed along the
line of work. Engines and con
struction cars and tons of rails and
other things necessary to the pro
gression of a great railroad enter
prise have been forwarded to the
front on nearly every steamer leav
ing Seattle for Seward during the
past nine mouths, and while the
general public has been attracted to
the fact in only a spasmodic man
ner, the building of what means
great things for both Ala%ka and
for Seattle has been going along
with irresistible force.
Within a year from this fall, if
Resent plans are realized, the road
will be in a position to handle men
and material to and from the head
of Knik arm, a distance of nearly
150 miles from the coast. This will
mean that the road is in operation
within 300 miles of Fairbanks, with
a good wagon road extending from
the furthermost reach of the road to
th%'Taoana mining city.
It was January of this year that
the present owners assumed control
of the Alaska Central, and since
that time more than a million dol
lars has been expended in actual
construction, to say nothing of the
additional amount invested in se
curing the interests of the original
company and the costs of organiza
tion.
The entire cost of the road, to- i
gether with branch lines which will t
be both to reach into the mining j
regions contiguous to the main line,
will, it ia estimated, reach the sum.
of $35,000,000; but, in spite of thej
magnitude of this sum, the men in- I
tcreated in the enterprise have such .
confidence in the ultimate future of j
the country and so great a realua j
tion of the prtaect demand of a road
through the country iii question,
that they are willing to devote their
time, energy and financial resources
to ha accomplishment.
1 hsring the present year the com
pany has had eight survey partita
m the field noshing on the diflbrent
problem a of hrstton through the
c xkst mountain section. Th; line
has lecn located within aoo miles
of the forks of the Shnshitna, ami
besides the actual location prelim
inary parties have run branches to
the coal and copper deposits of
Matanuska valley, the Talkeetna
mountains and the Kauia peninsula.
1 Surveys prevMMMiy made aud the
additional surveys made this seasou
j show the distance from Seward to
| the head of navigation on the
I Tanina to be 457 miles. The Mat
| anuska branch to the coal fields will
be thirty miles loug, aud it is possi
ble that it may be extended to the
copper deposits of the Copper River
valley, which would require some
200 miles additional road.
In addition to the mair^ line con
struction just mentioned, branches
of from ten to twenty-five miles wiil
be constructed to give access to
some of the more important copper
and gold regions olready located in
the Mount McKinley, Cantwell and
upper Shnshitna districts. The line
will pass close to the Bonttifield
mining district and will be not more
than thirty miles from the new
Kantishda diggings.
Natives Protest
Against Oil
On the Water
John Minook returned from a
prospecting trip to Morelock creek
last Saturday. He had no news of
importance to give out from tbmt
country.
Minook asks the Yukon Valley
News to again make public bis
protest against the destruction ofj
fish in the Yukon river by oil from
oilburning steamers. He was a
distance below Tanana recently,
and says he saw hundreds of young
salmon, besides numerous grown
silver and dog salmor, which bad
been destroyed by the oil which
fairly covers the surface of the
water and drifts into the eddies
where the salmon cougregate.
Minook says the mischief is not
so extensive above the mouth of
the Tanana. Within ten years, in
bis opinion, no more salmon will
come up the Yukon if steamers
continue their present methods of
allowing the oil to waste into the
river. He says oil worths good*
sired fortune has leaked into the
: river, and and be can not see why
boats would not find it profitable to
provide means for stopping the is#
i Indians protested to the officers
.at Fort Gibbon, but were told that
they bed no power to act regarding
* tbe matter
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Seventymile Concern
To Work Its Property
Hkagway Alatkan, Aug. 1H.
The big Seventymile hydraulic
company, the internal affairs of I
which have received so much noto I
riety on two continents, will l>e I
producing gold this year according]
to reports from the Yukon valley, j
The affairs of the company are in I
charge of Jack Hale, a New York !
mining engineer of proved capacity
and a Klondike experience, and he
has* great confidence that it will
prove all that its original owners
claimed for it.
This Company, the pro perry of
which extends for miles up and
down Seventymile river, is the one
that caused the rupture between
H. G. Torrence, the promoter, and
William hiubugh, the mining ex
pert The details of the row, which
at times threatened bloodshed, are
generally known throughout the
north. Torrence took the property
to London. A company was or*
ganixed and FUabugh sent out to
expert the ground. His report wax
colored in roaeate hues. It was so
extravagant that it aroused suspi
cion, Afterward, Fitthugh accused
Torrence of having salted the prop
erty. He was supported in bis con
tentions by affidavits secured on the
ground.
There were stormy scenes among
the stockholders in London who
bad put up the money for the ex
amination. It waa agreed that one
more test would be applied to tbf
property. Jack H^ie waa sent out
to examine it. He made one visit
and that lead to a
second to* third. The result has
been the installation of machinery
for the purpose of working the
way,
chant, says the
of the beat in alt the i
In ( nnrt, >'»rt]r-Mll«
I'rcdmi, Third Dhlulnn TurrtUr) «f
Alnah*.
Before I- H Hrndv> C'ommlaaiunrr mid <■« offii >o
Charier tf Ulacn. Adiniiiiattator l
<>f the I'atatr of j«me* Catr.!
•Itveaacd Plaintiff, yHl' M SIONS
b. M tiraff. Defendant.
The f'rrauUwt t>( the Vetted btate*.
Defewdiiutt. tStWUtTibef'
Von are hereby fctMdtntt in h<- an
the Comm naumri'» Court. forty-Mile 1'ret Hut
Third IHvMlna nt (*« Tmthav (?f AlMkt, to
«m*ft IbeeoHiptatrrt of plaintiff within twenty
■ia*« after the publication of Oil* «ummou«.
IWM artion M brouaht to obtain a jodainent
Hi favor nf the plaintiff uud a£afti*t the deSrmi
ant for the tun of two hundred and fifty <f tyonui
dollar* money had and ree*i»*d from «aUl
plaintiff aa adminlatralof of aaid t*talc,an<i (or
the roata of raid action, and »och ©thee and
furl tret relief at ulll nunc tufty appear haw the
complaint on Mr
Wirnaaa my hand and the aeat of MUI mutt
thtu Rrat day «( Aunuai. to the rear of ew l.tttd
one Utonaand nine hundred and ff»r
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tnu of brat yublMittei) nf «ht» Awatmun* thta
end day of Auaudf, lyay.
Leaves for Glen Every
Five Days.
Freighting and Packing
To find From All
tile Crcekn,
Good Teams. Good Service
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