PAN AMERICAN ANNOUNCES
WINTER SCHEDULE
Beginning November 2 and for
the duration of the winter PAA
flights will depart Nome at 10:30
a.m. The present schedule of ar
rival at 9 a.m. on Sunday and
Wednesday will be retained. The
three hour layover period here has
proven very beneficial to business
people and visitors, but with the
advent of cold weather it must be
discontinued. Therefore, for the
information of all departure times
during the winter and commenc
ing Wednesday, November 2,
Flight 902 will remain only an
hour and a half before departing
at 10:30 a.m.
Most women have to diet: Some
to retain a girlish figure, others to
retain a boyish husband.
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Claims On Yukon
Not Exclusive
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SEATTLE t/Pl—An Alaska sour
dough expressed the belief Sat- '
urday that gold seekers can not
legally maintain exclusive claims
in the Fishwheel gold rush area j
on the Yukon River.
He cited a decision of the cir
cuit court of appeals in San Fran
cisco in support of his contention.
Clyde D. Glass, who is wintering
here after spending 27 years in
the north as a miner, referred to
a decision last October 5 by the
Ninth Circuit Court that Territori
al tidelands and the beds of navi
gable streams never have been
open to exclusive claims. It af
firmed an Alaska District Court
ruling.
The decision involved Fred Dent
in the Nome area.
Glass said he ran into the same
navigable stream difficulty on
claims of his own on the Niukluk
River.
“Supposin’ it should develop
into a strike,” he commented.
‘And supposin’ a lot of the boys
have staked out claims. Their
claims aren't worth the paper they
are written on. The big operators
will come in and get any big haul
there’s to be had.”
Glass said he learned the hard
way. He said that in 1932 he stak
ed out 16 claims on the Niukluk
and until 1941 worked them only
enough to maintain his claim
while he worked elsewdiere to
earn enough to buy dredging
equipment.
In 1941, he said, he leased his
claims to be worked by a dredg
ing company. They said he was to
receive royalties. He said the firm
successfully maintained later that
it didn’t have to pay royalties on
gold taken from a navigable
stream. He said he took the con
test to court and lost his appeal,
although the court compelled the
company to pay rolayties up to the
time of the decision.
“The same thing will happen to
these prospectors,” he predicted.
“If there’s a real strike, the little
guy’s going to get lost in the shuf
fle. The law makes a gold strike
‘No man’s land’.”
RUTH B, ROCK
General Agent
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For
OLYMPIC NATIONAL
LIFE INSURANCE CO.
Takes Pleasure
In Announcing the Appointment of
Ted Duffield
As Special Representative for the
Nome Area
— For —
LIFE INSURANCE, ACCIDENT and HEALTH,
HOSPITALIZATION, POLIO
Doesn't Faze
Fishwlieel’s 1949ers
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son, Seattle; Robert Barenz, Bill
ings, Mont.; E. J. Parker, Bridge
port, Conn.; Richard Pickins, Rich
mond, Calif.; and Benny Barbee.
Rocky Fordfi Colo.
Joe Netro and Paul Ben, pros
pectors, flew in from Old Crow, in
Yukon Territory, but are being
detained at Fort Yukon, north of
the strike, by legal technicalities
on Canadian prospecting rights on
American said.
It was Daum who prevailed
upon Gilbert Lord, Fort Yukon
roadhouse proprietor, to send in
samples to the University of Alas
ka for assay. Geology professor
Richard Ragle said he found one
of the nuggets was brass, and that i
some others appeared to have been *
carried in a pocket or poke for
some time.
Daum said that Clifton Carroll,
the young fisherman who reported
finding nuggets on the axle of his
fish wheel a coupe of weeks ago,
denied emphatically that any part
of his strike was brass.
“I had only gold in the glass
tube I turned over to Lord,” he
said. “I know nothing about any
brass.”
He said two original nuggets
had been tested by A1 Rowe, a
Fort Yukon mechanic. Rowe told
Daum that he had tested two nug
gets but said he did not know
about some of the smaller, untest
ed ones.
Meanwhile, some 150 gold seek
ers are stranded on the eight-mile
stretch of river bank, marooned
by heavy ground fog and a swirl
ing snowfall.
Old-timer Farrell, prospector
miner since 1900, said he refused
to give any credence to hoax ru
mors.
“There is a good possibility that
a few brass filings from river
boats could have been picked up
by the wheel,” he said, “but that
doesn’t mean the rest of the gold
is not genuine. 1 have seen enough
other good prdspects to convince
me that the time and effort spent
sinking a few holes here are well
spent.
“There have been plenty of col
ors panned, and other nuggets
found that I know were not salted.
My holes are going down. You
can’t tell anything until you hit
bedrock.”
Farrell said he and his partners
plan to fly a prospect boiler to the
site to speed up digging opera
tions. A prospect boiler is a port
able steam boiler which feeds live I
steam into a thawing point driven
into the frozen ground. It’s about
10 times faster than the wood-fire
method now bring used.
FAIRBANKS. <A>)—A portable
prospect drill that can be hauled
in an airplane, then reassembled,
is going out to Fishwheel next
week, Earl Remling said today.
Remling is a heavy equipment
operator who has a claim staked
two claims away from Discovery
at Alaska’s newest mining town.
He said he would re-asscmble
the 1,200-pound drill at Fishwheel
to determine for himself whether
the strike is worthwhile. He said
he had panned his property with
few colors so far.
The gasoline powered machine
is capable of drilling prospect*
holes must faster than by hand.
Dirt or gravel is taken from the
hole at various depths and panned
to determine its gold-bearing con
tent.
“I haven’t seen any particular
cause for optimism, but I want to
find out,” Remling said.
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