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VOL. 37. No. 251 NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, OCT. 21, 1936. Per Copy 15cts
Mining Operators Tell Of Success
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Nations Seek To Rescue Spanish Noncombatants
Roosevelt Says Not Allow Return Regimentation
ROOSEVELT OPP
IS TERMED RE
OF CITIZENS
(By The Associated Press)
PROVIDENCE, R. I., Oct. 21, —
President Roosevelt today opened
a two days’ New England cam
paign with the declaration “We
will not allow, again, the people
to be regimented by selfiish min
orities, into bankruptcies and
breadlines.”
“I have been told of regimenta
tion, and I am apposed to the kind
of regimentation under which
you have labored and suffered in
the days of false prosperity and
the days of depression.”
Asserting that peo’p/e "are even
more important than machines”,
he added “we believe the mater
ial resources of America should
serve the human resources of
America.”
Cordovado Co. Did
Fine This Season
Mining operations of the Cor
dovado Gold Mining Company at
or near Utica in the Inmachuk
River section at Deering, under
the Receivership with Jack De
vine at the head, appointed by
Judge J. H. S. M orison, reported
excellent work this season.
After experiencing numerous
breaks in their extensive ditch
system early in the spring, hy
draulicing went ahead steadily
with few, if any, shutdowns or
accidents.
Numerous men were employed
and activity continued up until
just a few days ago.
Grant Mining Co.
Hydraulic Works
The Grant Mining Company,
doing extensive hydraulicing in
the Kougarok section at Coffee
Creek, spent most of the season
in preparing their ground for ex
tensive working next summer, it
^ being necessary this year to move
in considerable modern machin
ery and set up their water system
and prepare their pits, by the re
moval of oveilburden muck whi
ch predominates in that section.
They look for active develop
ment next spring as soon as the
snow goes, and meanwhile ex
pect to drill much ground in their
area before the heavy snows halt
further activity.
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OSED WHAT
GIMENTATION
UNITED STATES
72 Persons Are
Missing Sinking
Dutch Steamer
(By The Associated Press)
SURABAYA, Java, Oct. 20, —
Seventy twt> persons are missing
after the Dutch steamer Van der ;
Wipck capsized off the northern j
Java coast
The 2633 ton ship, with 250
passengers aboard sent out a dis
tress signal reported she had a
heavy list.
Naval planes and ships raced
to her assistance, and seaplanes
managed to rescue 43 survivors,
landing them here.
212 including all the ship’s offl
cers were rescued. The missing
included two children, the wire
less operators, eight Europeans,
and sixty one natives. Survivors
were seen floating on chairs, tab!
es and in one of the vessel’s lift
boats,
New Dredge Hull
Constructed The
Council Section
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Fred Mebes, Henry Gumm and ;
Otto Steiner, owners and opera
tors of the North Star Dredging
Company, operating a dredge at
the junction of where Ophir Ck.
empties into the Neukluk River,
about a mile and half above the
town of Council, had a very suc
cessful season this year, accord
ing to Henry Gumm who arrived
by plane from the interior camp
a few days ago and who will
spend the winter in the States,
going out via plane shortly.
The North Star Dredging Com
pany shipped in this year over
60,000 feet of lumber for a new
hull which has been constructed
already and next spring the ma
chinery of the old dredge will be
transferred to the new hull at
the mouth of Ophir Creek. It
will then be floated down stream
in the spring two miles to the
mouth of Melsing creek, where
two miles of dredging operations
is laid out, thence the dredge will
proceed to Bear Creek where the
company owns another two miles
of gold bearing ground.
Special Power of Attorney forms
Death Strikes
Ranks Of Old
Timers Interior
fBy The Associated Press)
FAIRBANKS, Oct. 21, — Death
struck twice in the ranks of the
oldtimers when James Nichols,
aged 70, old-time resident of the
nearby mining town of Olnes,
died after a long illness.
Joseph Rotnaker died at Circle
where he and his wife operated
a roadhouse for the past eighteen
years. Nichols leaves no known
relatives. Romaker is survived
by his widow at Circle and an
adopted sun Joe Bassett at Seat
tle.
'MANY NATIONS TO
ATTEMPT PREVENT
USELESS KILLINGS
(By The Associated Press) 1
UNDATED. Oc.t 21, — Great
Britain, France and thirteen Lat
in American nations moved to
day in a diplomatic concert, to
save thousands of Spanish non
combatants from death, in be
sieged Madrid.
British officials ordered the
Navy to stand by for a mission
■ of mercy, to rescue hostages held
by both sides, whch are estimat-:
ed at eight thousand.
Madrid, alone, pressed both
sides for an exchange and eva
cuation of women prisoners par
ticularly.
Carlos Savedra Lamas, Argen
tine Foreign Minister, conferred
with Blum of France this morn
ing regarding the possibility of
rescuing those in danger by the
use of airplanes, while refugees
told of the spreading Spanish an
archy and violent reaction to the
Soviet representation that they
were determined to force a sup
ply of aid to the friendly Madrid
government. It was determined
that only an immediate dispatch
of munitions can save Madrid.
Kohuk Mining
Showing Rapid
Improvements
Mining on tho Kobuk is taking
an upward trend reports James
Pendleton, who recently left Kia
na, a settlement on the river, 100
miles east of Kotzebue, where he
had been teaching school and Ls
now’ enroute to Kanakanak in the
Bristol Bay region, where he has
been transferred.
Kleary Placers Growing
Under the management of A. J.
Tourtellotte the Kleary Placers,
Inc., which was started in the
Kiana region last year, is exper
iencing rapid growth. Mr. Pen
dleton says: Joe Quillan and Theo
dore Westlake,, w’ell known od
timers of the region, are foremen
in the mining company.
Traders in the region are pro- 1
fiting by the small mining boom
which is going on in the Kobuk
district. Familiar traders who
still operate on the river are John
Mellin, Thomas Baldwin, and W. (
R. Blankenship. ,
The Kleary Placers operates
with a dragline and shovel. Two
caterpillars tractors are on the j
property. There is a large pump |
ing station and a fine new elec
trical plant.
Mr. Pendleton graduated from
the University of Alaska in 1934.
In his senior year he was editor
af the Farthest-North Collegian,
student publication of the Univer
;ity. Upon graduation, he re
ceived from the Commissioner of
Education an appointment as Ter
ritorial teacher.
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NOME AND SEWARD PENINSULA S
GOLD PRODUCTION
It Is learned on reliable authority that $2,571,021.90
dollars in gold bullion have been shipped from Nome
this season through express. Last year’s figures which
were obtained on the fifth of November, fifteen days
hence, was slightly more than $2,200,000. There are
still another couple of weeks and possibly a month for
dredges at Nome to continue digging and they should
swell the total for this year quite a considerable amount.
It is not possible to learn how much gold was ship
ped out through the United States Mails during the past
season, but with this manner of shipping, and gold tak
en out by individuals, the gold production of Nome and
Seward Peninsula should be more than $3,000,000.00
for the 1936 season of operations.
Greater activity, further development, and the op
ening up of former low grade properties, together with
the installing of modern machinery and dredges has
been responsible for the enjoyable increase in produc
tion this year.
With twenty odd dredges operating, sluicing, hydrau
licing, drag lines, scrapers and every known type of
mining being pushed in the Seward Peninsula district,
it cannot be said that this section is a low producer. In
reality it ranks second, and for many years, in placer
production for the Territory, all of which speaks well
for Nome and vicinity.
i ne mining operators tnemseives say tney nad un
usually favorable conditions this year to carry on min
ing, and were highly pleased at their results. They
have become so enthusiastic in their work of develop
ment, that they say “You will see even greater activity,
and more gold taken out again next season.”
Many of them hazard the guess that they will see
another rise in the price of gold, and then they say,
“Watch out,” see activity get into its stride.
Already plans for installation of new dredges thru
out the district are being made and one has been an
nounced. All of which comes directly back to Nome
again—its population, its business success, its spirit and
activity will all reflect the steady growth and develop
ment of our rich mineral areas.
Business men of Nome, with few exceptions, see
the hand writing on the wall, and are keeping abreast
with the mining interest and activity, and are stocked
with supplies to meet the new demands for mining pur
poses. The merchant who is not awake to the new
business being developed by mining is not only over
looking his trade, but is classed as the “watchful wait
ing” sort of business man.
Don Glass Plane
Arrived Seattle
From Anchorage
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Oct. 21, — Pilot
Don Glass arrived here Tuesday
with eight Anchorage passengers.
He said he would leave on his
return trip in three or four days.
The flight was made in an am
ph.bian, and inaugurated a reg
ular passenger service between
Seattle and Anchorage, with stops
at Cordova and Juneau.
The plane left Anchorage Sun
day and was in the air fifteen
hours and twenty minutes.
Trips are scheduled every ten
or twelve days, with connections
for Nome to be made at Anchor
age. Gordon McKenzie was co
pilot with Glass,
jack Hermann
Flew Fairbanks
From Seal tie
I
tliv The Associated Press)
FAIRBANKS, Oct. 21, — Com
pleting a flight from Seattle, Jack
Herman, Fairbanks and Nome
flier, arrived here late Tuesday.
Information was not divulged
whether he would fly on to Nome
or remain in the Fairbanks sec
tion.
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21, —
An indefinite extension of the
labor truce on the Pacific Coast
waterfront, appeared the immed
iate aim of its representatives in
conferences.
Results of the strike vote are
expected to be announced Sun
day.
Joseph Curran, leader of the
rank and file of seamen of the
East coast, arrived here last night
from New York. He said he
came with the assurance that
eastern and gulf coast seamen
will support Pacific unions in
whatever action is taken.
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