By CARL BROW1M
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To say that the inclemency of the
weather could possibly keep a large
crowd away from a mid-week dance
across the channel would be a too far
fetched thought for even slight con
sideration, yet Julius Pluvius, wrath
fully expostulating, with violent brea
fully expostulating, with violent
breaths of saturated cyIonic effusions
failed to affect the attendance thereto
but rather seemed to benefit the oc
casion by such opposition. There were
over 35 people from Juneau there, many
coming on private launches, some hav
ing been able to nearly make the 8
o'clock trip and most all of them on
hand for the late ferry at 11:25. The
floor was in excellent condition and the
music was not to be beaten anywhere.
A fact that favorably impressed so
many of the visitors was the hospital
ity afforded them, hardly any one find
ing it necessary to sit out any dances
as partners were furnished bv the many
members of the club as well as the
floor manager.
Those present from the capital city
were the Misses Morgan, Ericson, Ad
die Laughlin, Luella Laughlin, Erpeld
ing, Lund, Koskey, Cole, Odou, Malone,
Henrietta Heid, Gertrude Heid, Taylor,
Bragg, Wharton and Mesdames Maines,
Pulver and Vincent. Messrs. Lynch,
Riddell, Martin, Johnson, Hilary Mc
Kanna, James McKanna, Craigbaum,
W. W. Casey, jr., Kougsbach, Benson,
Wilhelm, and Z nger.
Wednesday evening a party number
ing about sixteen of her lady friends,
paid a surprise visit upon Mrs. Oren
shaw at her home and indulged in card
palving and music after which an im
promptu lunch was served.
John Museth and bride returned on
one of the late steamers and are at
home in their residence on the corner
of Main and Second streets. John and
his wife did not follow out their ori
ginal intentions of sightseeing in Mex
ico for their honeymoon but decided
to visit Seattle and Portland where
Mrs. Museth has relatives. Juneau so
ciety welcomes this popular couple back
into their midst.
One of the events of greatest inter
est to the younger set of Juneau so
ciety is the return of George Kennedy,
known as '‘Mickey,” into the fold of
debutantes and dashing cavaliers where
he will assume, for a short time only,
his undisputed position and ranking.
George leaves for Cordova on the Ber
tha where he bus accepted a position
with Olayson, the clothier.
Mr. and Mrs. Case entertained at
bridge Saturday evening at their home
on Main street. The guests present
were Misses Case, Parr, Dr. and Mrs.
Mahone, Messrs. J. W. Kummel, of *tlie
Alaska Steamship company and Clar
ence A. King. A neat luncheon wTas
served by the hostess.
Another surprise party during the
week was that Saturday evening the
occasion being the birthday anniver
sary of Mrs. Charles McConaghey, the
wife of the skipper of the Fox. Mrs.
McConaghey was the recipient of many
presents from her improptu guests.
Mr. Simon Hellenthal and bride, nee
Miss Katherine Cunningham, the pop
ular teacher of last year in the fifth
and sixth grade room, returned from
their honeymoon in the states and are
settled here where Mr. Hellenthal has
his practice in the United States court.
Another popular couple added to the
list of Juneau society.
The next two immediate affairs of
society interest are the musicale by
Miss Kempthorne, assisted by local tal
ent at the Methodist church Monday
evening, and which from the advance
sale of tickets, promises to be the mus
ical event of the season, and on Thurs
day, Thanksgiving Evening at Elk’s
hall will be held the big mask ball.
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THE PROSPECTOR OF TODAY
The prospector of today in his best
type must be something of a student
as well as very much a woodsman and
mountaineer says a writer in one of the
national weeklies. The wider his
knowdedge in geology and in assaying
the better his chances of success. In
addition to this he must be a man of
sound judgment, not disposed to lose
his head or to waste time and money
locating worthless claims, which have
produced rather a few glittering spec^
imens than a large body of workable
ore.
The profession, has, perhaps, lost a
little of its original glamour of risk
and excitement. In the early days in
California, Idaho, Montana and British
Columbia, when men were hunting out
the rich placers all through the moun
tains, the prospector and the miner
were pretty much one. The country
needed fighting men in those days and
had them. The solitary adventurers or
the band of followers might need to
fight Indians and other mauderers. They
lived in part upon the wild game of
the country and in part upon supplies
packed in at incredible expense from
distant supply points. They took mil
lions and millions of dollars out of the
placers which they discovered all
through the mountains and they did
this without the exercise of much skill
or judgment. Their profession w. s in
its infancy and placer gold was its
main quest. Gold had been discovered
by accident in California, and in the
search for other gold fields each man
had almost as much education as his
neighbor. They hunted out the beds
of waterways and learned to sink to
bedrock for the heavy particles of
gold. They learned that the flats back
of an abrupt bend in a rockbound
stream, w^here the waters originally had
eddied, made a natural settling ground
for the precious metal. Later on they
learned to follow, by shaft or tunnel,
even into and under the heart of moun
tains themselves, those old streambeds
which had sometimes been filled up
with basaltic or other formation ages
earlier. They did not much care for «
quartz in those earlier days; and the ^
profession of prospecting, as well as 4
that of mining, was one made up of
loose education and good or bad luck 4
in its pursuit. Such methods have ^
been in part followed by men wrho have «
combed out the sub-Arctic country of «
the North, the rough mountains of
South America or the half desert waste 4
of Australia. It is they wTho have es- 4
tablished the maxim that gold is where 4
you find it. Certainly they have found ^
it in all sorts of impossible places and *
all sorts of geological formations. «
Those methods, however, were those ^
of adventuring and not those of busi- H
ness. The prospector of today would 4
not knowingly evade a good placer, nor 4
would he flee from a free gold proposi
tion in quartz; but his business is that <
of locating bodies of ore bearing prec- *
ious or semiprecious metals. When ftp «
has found his deposit he cannot wash ^
it out and carry it away in a buckskin. ^
bag. On the contrary, he must ar- ^
range to carry in the heaviest of min
ing machinery, often over remote and
expensive trails. He must know about
transportation as well as about geology
—must be part engineer and part pros
pector. It is his business to locate only
such properties as can be handled profit
ably under existing conditions. The
average man who buys mining stock
has not the slightest idea of what a
mine really is, but the true prospector
today must know the full meaning of
that term if he is to succeed in his own
business. %
Mining is wholly different from any
commercial business, which has fixed
overhead charges and a reasonable
turnover of the capital invested, with
computable expenses in advertising,
distributiorf, etc. Five per cent turned
over in a mercantile business, may be
reasonable profit. Twice that percent
age may be very bad business in a
mine. A million-dollar-a-year mine is
not a ten-million-dollar busine^ invest
ment. Every pound of ore taken out
cuts down the principal that much—
lessens the security that much. In ten
At P. H. Fox’s
Better see our line
of Overcoats, Fur
Caps & Mufflers.
We have a stock of
Winter Wear that
cannot be beaten.
ToJUNEAU
HOUSE
HOLDERS
THE DOUGLAS ISLAND CONCRETE WORKS
have made the blocks for nearly three hundred chim
ney during the summer just past and all of them are
giving perfect satisfaction. 8 inch Chimney Blocks
50c each. Telephone Douglas 4-3-6.
GOOD PLUMBING PAYS!
Take a look at my work in the new
Alaska Labor Union Hall.
J. MINKOVE
E. M. Peters
PLUMBING
STEAM FITTING, SHEET
METAL AND MACHINE
WORK. JOBBING AND
ALL KINDS OF REPAIR
ING DONE ON PHONO
GRAPHS, GAS ENGINES,
& SEWING MACHINES.
FRONT STREET
Neax Baseball Park
DOUGLAS CITY