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CALENDAR
NOVEMBER
8 M T W T F 8
I 2 3
4 5 0-780 10
11 12 13 14 15 10 17
18 10 20 21 22 23 24
25 20 27 28 20 30
Moos's Phases.
I.ftnt quarter, 9th;
new moon, 15th;
tirst quarter, fitd;
full moon, 30th.
DECEMBER
■ 8 M T W T F R
1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
it lit 11 12 13 14 15
111 17 IS lit 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 20
30 31
Moon's Phaskr.
Hast uuurter, Rtli:
new moon, 15tli;
first quarter, 226;
full moon, 30th.
Wednesday, November 14, ItHki.
THE CHANDLAR TRAIL
The movement inaugurated ten days
ago looking to the shortening and bet
tering of the trail to Chandlar is dead.
There were so many opinions regarding
the matter that even the committee ap
pointed to advance the project could
not agree as to any of the essentials of
the proposition.
It was doubtless a surprise to many
to learn that a considerable number of
residents do not faver an unusual travel
through Kampart. It had not occurred
to the Valley News to look at the mat
ter in that light; but it freely acknowl
edges that those who so view it are enti
tled to their opinion and are not with
out a good show of reason to sustain
them. They simply contend that the
merchants had only the ordinary home
market in view when they ordered their
stocks, and that the average individual
w ill be lietteroff if a lot of goods remain
unsold than he will if the stocks are thor
oughly cleaned up. • That seems to the
Valley News to be a rattier nairow way
to look at it—but it's logical all right.
Then there are some who contend that
people could not be induced to come by
Rampart, no matter how many go to
Chandlar. This paper does not share
that opinion. K.veu under present con
ditions it believes pebple from the lower
Yukon and from the Tatiana valley
would do well to come this way if they
go to Chandlar at all—unless, indeed,
a trail should Is- made from Fairbanks
to the Yukon alsive llamlin, w hen that
would be the shorter route from the
Tatiana.
Some say there is not going to Is
much of a stain |*-de anyhow—and that
may la- so.
Iii (art, there arc about an many opin
ion* a* there arc (ample. No matter
a hat roorae one were t<> take he wiaihl
timl himself in a hii|*'lmi minority.
line man wa* liearil to nay that no
matter how favorable the re|*>rt» from
thamllar m> appreciable mimU r will <o
from Kairlmnk* \*kol ii|»>n what he
ImmiI such a roiM'Inoe>n, umrumwiMM "I
llte humor in Ma anawei la aanl
•Well, I’ll tell yiM, they've aot wli a
hell ol a <•»•! ramp over there they
know blamed well they ain’t a-goin’ to
find a better one.”
Aktkb today in order to get a view of
the sun it will be necessary to leave
the streets of Rampart. Kiglity days
from now its rim may Ik* seen above
the hill just at noon, and in .a hundred
it will be sending its rays athwart the
whitened landscape for several minutes
at a time. It will be nearly six months
before it gets to shining on every side of
the house again. The long period of
darkness is very depressing in some in
stances. The best way to keep the spir
its from drooping is to work enough but
not too much ; eat plenty of fresh meat—
rabbits will do; drink moderately, if at
all; and make up your mind you will
not be good till next summer. A han
kering after sin was put into man for
some purpose, and if not for curing the
blues, what? Fresh air is essential.
Sawing wood is fine exercise, and lias a
soothing effect on the mind—especially
when the other fellow saws it. Don't
sleep too much. Don’t go home as long
as any public place is open. Don't care
what people say. It wilf surprise you
bow soon the days will begin to lengthen
and the gloom to pass away.
It appears that Peary was always in
clined to the opinion that there is ex
tensive land at the pole, while as a body
the Koval (British) Geographical so
ciety considered it a sets Its 1 fact that
the pole is only a given point iii the
ocean. He has now probably solved
at least that much of the polar problem !
to his own satisfaction.
Stampedes are getting nearer; but there
is no real danger of any of us fellers
getting run over hv any of 'em just yet.
Gossip for Prospectors
Drospecttng in Egypt.—In Egypt
from the Sinai peninsula and the bor
ders of the Red Sea, where ancient
workings are known to exist, to the
Nile Valley and the heart of the Sudan
aompunies and individual pmsjsfctors
are looking for gold and other mineral
deposits. One company in the Nile
valley has taken out ♦ loO,000 in gold.
Great areas of the country have lieen
[mrtinned out in concessions. There are
few American prospectors in Sgypt.
Tin.—I>u ring there vv;i?* no act mi I
production of metallic tin in the 1’nited
State*, the only ore output being a very
amull 'piantity from Alaska placer*. The
moot active tin-mining work i* living
carried on around King'* Mountain and
l.incolnton, VC, and tlaflney, S. t\,
where machinery ha* been placed at
aeveral mine*. The attention l>eing (mid
to the tin pro*|*-ct* in what i* broadly
termed the Nome country, in Alaaka,
lend* t" the hope that the prialui'tion «l
the metal will l»a-onie large in that
■wet ion.
Natural Alloy* of Gold. —«odd i*
never fouml almolutely pure. *ilver al
way* arcoiupunving it, hut in no <|eri*
nite proportiona, »ay* the timing World
I'opper u*nnlly ■••cur* with the gold
*l*o. m*nv a**ay* of the richewt known
Chas. A. Traeger, |
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Rampart, Alaska
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gold showing small ix-rcentage "f eop
|H*r. A particularly rich gold J|»Tiram
from tin1 I ritis gave gold ItH.tUi percent.,
xilver 0.10 and eopjter O.SW in a nnndnil
l«trt*. The purest golil known ix from
Australia, where a xjieeiiiieu gave 90.01
per rent. gold. Some golil from Canada
gave hut H7 |x r rent, gold and ax high
ax Isf.Sl |ier rent, xilver.
Ants and Scorpions as Miners. -
On the Navajo reservation, in New
Mesiro, are collected many tine garnetx
locally known ax ruhiex) in a eurioiix
(axhion, from ant hills and xeorpion
holes, the inxecta an<l araehnidx in <|Uex
tion hringing them to the xurfaee of the
ground iiwnlentally to tlieir digging op
erations. Sometime* thr-* garnet* sell
tor a« mm It a» A*a> aptece, though tliey
rarely esreed A earats in weight
J. LINDLEY (iREEN,
Lawyer.
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A. B. NOTICE.
Regular meetings of the Arctic Brother
hood Lodge are held at their hall on the
second and fourth Fridays of each month at
8 o’clock p. m.
W. W. CROCKETT.
JULIUS RAHMSTORF. Arctic Chief
Arctic Recorder.
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