FIRST CREW SET TO GET MINING WORK STARTED IN FAIRBANKS AREA
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Mining work starts in the
Fairbanks district tomorrow
when the first crew of the sea
son leaves to open up the min
ing camp at Cripple Creek in
the Ester district.
United States Smelting Re
fining and Mining Company,
which operates a dredge at
Cripple, is winding up its operations
in this district next year.
“YVe will send the crew out to
Chatanika about April 1.” said Jack
Boswell, manager of the Fairbanks
department of USSMR.
“At Cripple Creek the crew will
be bank steaming, cutting and re
moving the ice from the pond, and
doing repair work.
Actual Digging
“Actual digging will begin about
April 15 at Cripple and about May
1 at Chatanika,” said Boswell.
USSMR will employ about 100
men in this district when operations
are in full swing.
Bailey And Linck
In Washington On
School Business
Ralph C. Bailey, executive vice
president of the Alaska National
Bank of Fairbanks, and President
of the Fairbanks School Board, was
in Washington. DC., last week to
confer with government officials
on school matters.
While in Washington. Bailey
visited Senator E. L. “Bob” Bart
lett.
Visiting along with Bailey was
L. S. Linck of Alaska Architectural
and Engineering Company of Fair
banks.
w oik wm start in tne nogatza
River district, 200 miles northwest
of Fairbanks, about April 15, and at
Chicken in the Fortymile district
the latter part of April and dig
ging about May 15.
Many Men
“We will have 35 to 40 men at
Hogatza and about 20 men at Chick
en when we get rolling," addea Bos
well.
Young African Is
Seeking Pen Pals
The far corners of the globe are
no strangers to Jessen's Weekly, as
evinced again by a letter received
this past week from a 17-year-old
African lad who is seeking pen pals.
The young man, whose home and
address are. at 21 Saba Court via
Massey Street in Lagos, Nigeria,
West Africa, is interested in learn
ing about American history and
geography and his letter contained
a good deaL of current information
about his own homeland.
Any of Jessen’s readers with a
particularly adventurous bent might
therefore be interested and pleas
antly surprised in writing to Joe
Lalensko at the above address; he
would be pleased to receive by air
mail any letters which prospective
correspondents would care to send
him.
Famed Climber
To Visit Alaska
Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zea
land's conqueror of Mt. Everest, has
announced that he, his wife, Lady
Louise Hillary, and their three chil
dren, Peter, Sarah, and Belinda,
plan to take a long-dreamed of
camping trip through Alaska this
summer.
Boswell, who graduated from the
University of Alaska in mining in
1929. has been associated with the
F. E. Co. continuously since gradu
ation.
At the peak of operations in 1938
nine dredges were operating in the
Fairbanks district and between 1500
to 2000 men were employed.
BLM Attempting
To Find Holders
Of Mining Claims
Richard L. Quintus, District Man
ager. Bureau of Land Management,
has announced that the Bureau is
! eager to locate holders of mining
i claims in the Moose Creek drainage,
a. tributary of Goldstream Creek
about nine miles northwest of Fair
banks.
This search is part of the process
of defining the lands which may be
; transferred to the State of Alaska
1 under the provisions of the State
I hood Act.
Only vacant public domain may
be selected by the State. Lands oc
cupied under the mining laws must
be deleted from selections.
Quintus stated that the records
in the District Magistrate's office
show that over ninety placer min
ing claims were recorded for the
Moose Creek drainage between 1902
; and 1938. There are no recent re
cordings of annual proofs of labor
for any claims, and examination
! indicates that mining interest in the
area has been abandoned.
However. Quintus has asked that
1 anyone having an interest in any
mining claims in the Moose Creek
drainage contact the Bureau of
►Land Management. 516 Second
Avenue, Fairbanks.
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Operations of the F. E. Co. first
started in 1924, when Norman Stines
supervised obtaining options on
claims and started drilling opera
tions on Goldstream, Gilmore and
Chatanika.
FE Managers
Following Stines as managers of
the company were George Metcalf,
O. J. Eggleston, Downey Muir, Roy
B. Earling and at present, J. D. .
Crawford.
R. H. Ogburn was assistant gen
eral manager for many years and
C. E. (Cap Osborne was in charge
of mess operations, and was dubbed
jokingly as the “belly robber.” i
From 1924 until war started in
1942. the F. E. Co. was the main
stay foF employment in Fairbanks.
There is hardly an oldtimer living
in Fairbanks today who did not
work for the F. E. Co.
Loftus Assists
Ted Loftus. who also graduated
from the University of Alaska, is
now assistant manager in Fairbanks.
Both Boswell and Loftus were
basketball stars on the University
teams from 1925 to 1928. when they
were champions of Alaska for as
many years.
Others who spent many years
with the company were H. E. Hop
kins. in charge of dredging, and
Hiram (Hi) Segbers, “trouble shoot
er" in the power division of the
company.
GIRL SCOUTS TO VERMONT
Three Fairbanks Girl Scouts and
one from Nome will attend the Na
tional Girl Scout Roundup next
July at Button Bay State Park. Ver
mont.
According to Mrs. Norma Colvin,
Girl Scout Public Relations chair
man. Kay Lindberg. Jennifer Cook,
and Cheryl Groff of Fairbanks and
Pearl Johnson of Nome, will repres
ent the Farthest North District. The
girls were selected by the Scout
Point System which gives every
girl in the division an equal chance
to win, and encourages participa
tion in the scouting program during
the year.
Tallying the points on nine ac
complishments is done by a selec
tion committee headed by Mrs. Carl
Parker.
The girls will take mementoes
of Alaska with them known in
Scout language as “swaps." Items
will include fur pins which “Aunt
Elsie” Willock. talented Eskimo
craftswoman, is teaching the Girl
Scouts to make.
Located on the shores of Lake
Champlain, the Roundup site is one
of the historical landmarks of the
Revolutionary War days.
, With the Adirondack and Green
Mountains in the background, the
i camping area will be pitched on
level meadowland divided into six
sections of four camps each.
These conference trips are fi
nanced by monies raised by cam
paigns such as Operation Bowtie at
Christmas and the Girl Scout cookie
! sales. Program support comes from
the United Fund.
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