LUMBER-GASOLINE
_COAL_
We now have a complete stock of Common-Dimension Shiplap and Rustic. In
side Finish of the best grade, clear and properly kiln dried.
Woco Panels, 3 ply, Sanded
1 and 2 sides-Sizes 18x60
and 18x72.
This is the class of material we have the reputation
of handling.
A COMPLETE LINE OF BUILDERS’ SUPPLIES,
SASH, DOORS, BUILDING PAPER, ETC.
Gasoline in Drums 45c. per gallon
Sales Agents Eska Creek Coal Co.
McNally & Maidand
Yard Foot G St. PHONE 41-R
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A fire in the general merchandise
establishment of Holt, at Nome, caus
ed a loss of about $5000.
!
Because of the abundance of fish j
in that vicinity Seldovia claims the
title of “The Gloucester of Cook In
^et.”
The Howell sawmill, near Nenana,
which was recently damaged by fire,
has been repaired and is again in op
eration.
All the wireless men in the employ
of the Marconi company at Juneau
have received orders to join the naval
reserve corps.
Under the leadership of Attorney
Blue, the citizens of Ketchikan are
organizing a military company for a ;
home guard.
Gordon C. Betties, for whom the
town of Betties, on the Koyukuk river
was named, has disposed of all his
holdings in that section and will de
vote his attention to his rich placer
holdings on Candle creek.
J. J. Daly of the Ketchikan Power
company, recently returned from the
states to that place and announced
that he and people on the outside as
sociated with him, would erect a large
pulp mill there in the near future.
Carl Selenius, while working on the
Kaymon claim near Nome, fell down
the shaft a distance of 50 feet and
lives to tell the tale. When he was
hauled out of the shaft and taken to
town for examination it was found
that he had suffered no greater injury
than a fractured rib and some slight
abrasions of cuticle where he had come
in contact with the sides of the shaft
in his descent.
Jim Nanson, a native son of Doug
las, asked a white man to purchase
him some whiskey. As such a request
constitutes a crime under the territor
ial laws, Jim will spend 200 days in
the federal jail at Juneau.
Because he threatened to shoot
Pete Itadovich and possibly several
others, Louis Tomasovich, of Doug
las, was taken into custody and will
probably get a long term in jail in
which to change his mind.
Joe Grassant, who entered the
Morningside Sanitarium, Portland,
Are., on February 8, 1904, from the
hospital for the insane at Salem, Ore.,
to which he had been committed from
Juneau, Alaska, died on March 25.
In the cargo of the steamer Italia,
submarined while en route from New
York to Havre some time ago, was
three carloads of clear Alaska spruce,
shipped by the Ketchikan Power Co.
to France for the manufacture of
aeroplane blades.
The bark Barractouta, in tow of the.
tug Kingfisher, arrived at Seward re
cently with a cargo consisting of over
a million feet of lumber, 275 tons of
rails, 2900 angle irons and 2400 kegs
of black powder for the Alaskan En
gineering Commission.
Scotty McRey of Port Chatham is j
reported to have bonded to outside
parties his chrome iron property at
that place, and is now engaged in
filling two thousand sacks with the
ore for shipment to the parties tak
ing the bond.
Some benighted citizen of Skagway
mistook the Presbyterian church
launch Lois for another boat and de- j
posited therein for transportation to
the Juneau Liquor Co. at Juneau, a
sack containing two empty demijons.
Three clergymen of the church later
brought the sack to the Alaskan of
fice where the parcel was left to bo |
called for by the owner.
Capt. Morgan, manager of the j
Alaska Sea Food company cannery I
near Cape Whitshed, which was re-1
eently destroyed by fire, has received
instructions to proceed with the erec
tion of a new cannery to replace the
one burned.
Nome is in the throes of a big bil
liard championship match in which
there are a number of contestants.
The natives of Susitna, men, women,
babies, dogs and bag and baggage,
are reported to have left on their an
nual hunt and are now on the trail of
tiie indispensible moose.
Reports from the Marshall district
state that pay has been located on
six claims on Disappointment creek,
which is richer than anything here
tofore located in that district.
Baldy, the famous leader of Scotty
Allen’s dog team, which turned up
missing recently when let out for ex
ercise has been found. He was picked
up at Tee Harbor by Andrew Peterson
and returned to his owner.
The residents of Douglas are mak
ing arrangements for the formation i
of a militia compaany at that place. C.
A. Bunch, formerly a lieutenant in
the national guard of Washington, is
heading the movement.
News received at Nome from Point
Hope says that eight polar bear have
been caught there this season, but
only 25 foxes and those old and poor
ly furred. Lynxes are unusually plen
tiful and are believed to be killing
the young foxes.
A man by the name of Simpson is
reported in Fairbanks to have discov
ered a hitherto unknown hot spring,
on Martin creek, a tributary of the
south form of the Chena river. The
spring is twenty miles nearer to Fair
banks than the old Big Chena hot1
springs. The discovery of the spring
was accidental, steam arising from
the water attracting Simpson to the
spot. Owing to the fact that it has
never been discovered before by the!
prospectors and trappers who fre
quent the country, the spring is be-1
lieved to have broken out lately.
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IS THE REPORT.
(Fairbanks Citizen)
That it is altogether probable that
the Goodpaster country will some
day be a mining camp rivaling even
Fairbanks in her best days, is the ex
pressed opinion of a member of the
stampeders who went to that section
of the country a few days ago when a
report was received here to the effect
that good pay had been found on the
upper end of Michigan creek. The re
turned stampeders base their opin
ions on the prospects which have been
found on several creeks of the region
and upon the formation of the coun
try where all of the creeks head, kit
tle prospecting has been done there,
but even at that a number of good
prospects have been uncovered.
The three principal creeks of the
country are Michigan, Bear and
Granite, and prospectors are work
ing on all three. Near the head of
Bear creek three Finlanders are pros
pecting. They stated that they had
good prospects, but the Fairbanks
stampeders did not stop there to
pan.
Strand & Olson are prospecting on
Monte Carlo gulch, a tributary id'
Bear creek. They also have good
prospects. Monte Carlo comes into
Bear creek at discovery.
Chris Germundson is working alone
and with wood tires at the head of
Michigan creek on what is known as
No. 7 above. He has put several
holes to bedrock this winter, a depth
of 14 feet, and has found light pros
pects.
The three Johnson brothers are
prospecting on No. 5 above, at the
mouth of Grubstake creek. They
have fair prospects in very coarse!
gold. They secured a nugget weigh
ing eight dollars in one pan.
It was in the workings of Frank
Solly and Fred Jagner on No. 3 above
that the strike recently reported was
made. The Fairbanks stampeders
panned a number of pans here, man
aging to secure some gold in every
one. The gold is coarse and the
stampeders had no way of estimat
ing the pans, but they “experted”
the largest as weighing about seven
cents. The ground has been crosscut
for a distance of 25 feet, and pay is
known to exist up and down stream
for a distance of about 40 feet. The
stampeders estimate, from their pan
ning, that Solly and Jagner have
ground which will go about $1 to the
square foot of bedrock.
Where Solly and Jagner are pros
pecting, the valley of Michigan creek
is about 200 feet wide. It widens out
and becomes deeper further down the
creek. On No. 5 below, where
Charles Olson and K. I’. Cox have
been prospecting, the ground shows a
depth of from 60 to 80 feet. They
are now working on the limit oppo
site that where they have already
sunk three holes this winter and
found nothing. Their prospecting
operations are being conducted on !
what is known as the Hammer and
Seeley ground.
Solly creek is a promising looking
stream coming into Michigan creek at
No. 5 below, left limit. Seeley and
Hanson are prospecting at the head
of Solly and are reported to have un
covered good prospects.
According to the returned stampeel
ers, supplies can be landed at the
mouth of Michigan creek in the sum
mer time by poling boat. This makes
but little land transportation to any
point on that stream necessary. The
stampeders estimate that the dis
tance from Fairbanks to the head of
Michigan creek by trail is approxi
mately 142 miles. As far as McCarty
the trail is good; from there on it
becomes necessary for the traveler
to break his own trail most of the
time, although a trail has been cut
out from Clearwater roadhouse, 12
miles above McCarty. From Clear
water the trail leads 12 miles up tht
left limit of the Tanana, then crosses
the stream and goes three miles far^
ther up to the mouth of the Volkmar.
Doherty Coal Co.
Sorted and Screened
COAL
$8.00 PER TON
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From there it goes np the Volkmar a
distance of four miles and then ap
proximately as far again across the
Volkmar flats. The head of Bear
creek lies just over the divide which
is then encountered.
All of the stampeders who returned
to Fairbanks managed to secure
ground in a number of good places.
They report, however, that the coun
try is already widely staked. A num
ber of other stampeders going into!
the Goodpaster were met by those
who returned.
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ALASKA TIMBER SUITABLE
FOR USE AS MINE PROPS
The following forest service bulle
tin has been issued from Washington:
That mine timbers of white spruce,
Sitka spruce, white birch and western
hemlock grown on the Chugach na
tional forest resrve, Alaska, are fully
as good as Douglas fir from the Rocky
mountain region and are superior to
other Rocky mountain species for use
as mine timbers has been demonstrat-1
ed by the forest products laboratory
at Madison, W'is.
Tests made to determine the suita
bility of the Alaskan trees for mine
timbers showed that in bending
strength developed the four species
named are from 20 per cent to more
than 100 per cent stronger than lodge
pole pine, aplin fir, Knglemann spruce,
bristle cone pine and western yellow
pine from the Rocky mountain region.
All of these species are widely used
for mine timbers and were tested by
the laboratory.
Sitka spruce, white birch and west
ern hemlock from Alaska proved to
be considerably higher in average
strength than Rocky mountain Doug
las fir. White spruce averages near
ly as well.
Fred Carlquist, wTio !s a graduate
optician from San Francisco, is per
manently established with George Os
born, the C. St. Jeweler, and will ex
amine eyes free. 260
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Anchorage booster.
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