r AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS HAVE ‘FIELD DAY’
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Amateur photographer* had a “field day'' at Mt. Vernon, home of George Washington, when President Roosevelt came down trom Washing
ton to met* Lord Tweedemulr, Governor General of Canada and recognized at one of the most able statesmen of the British Empire. Here
arc shown dower left) a few of the enthusiastic picture makers. The other photos glvs an Idea of their exciting afternoon, with possibilities
Of making such excellent close-ups of the President and Lord Tweedsmulr (upper left) and of ths President alone (right). (Associated Press
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Mining Men Turn
To Tractors For
Many Uses
j
REPLACE DOGS AND
HORSES AND AUGMENT
PLACER OPERATIONS—
150 NOW IN USE
One of the busiest and most
profitable seasons in the history
of Alaska will be experienced this
summer when mines operate at
top speed in a!!' sections and
many new properties will be op
ened, Troy Bockstruck. of Seat
tle, sales and service representa
tive of the Catterpillar Tractor
Corporation, said.
Mr. Bockstruck, while stopping
over in Anchorage on his tour
of Alaska mining camps, said 46
new Diesel powered Catterpillar
units are already on the way to
widely scattered points of the ter
ritory and many more will be
sent north this summer.
“Mines are getting new equip
ment to speed up their operations
and it will no doubt be a most
prosperous season,"said Mr Bock
strudk, upon his arrival in Nome
yesterday.
There are, already 150 Diesel
Catterpillars in Alaska and this
number will be doubled before
long as new uses for them are
being developed.
One of the latest uses for cater
pillars is in placer mines where1
bull dozers are pushing huge
quantities of gravel into sluice
boxes. Besides tractors, caterpil
lar diesel engines are used in pow
cring dredges, placer pumps and
a variety of other plants.
This winter a tractor was driv
I
en 460 miles over ice and snow
from Whitehorse to Jack Wade,
where it Will be used in a mining
project. While delivering the
huge machine, two men hooked a
40-ton load of freight on sleds|
behind the tractor and pulled it
over the rough terrain to the
mine property. The outfit moved
day and night with the men mak
ing their home in a tent on a sled
Caterpi lars have replaced dogs
on the mail and freight run from
Whitehorse to Dawson and White
horse to Mayo. Nine tractors are
used in regular runs over this
route. During this winter a new
line was opened from Careross to
Atlin, a tractor being used to
pull sleds of heavy freight over
frozen lakes, rivers and rough
terrain.
Among the new caterpillar units
on the way to Alaska are two
tractors for L. McGee, Anchorage
resident, who is developing pro
perty on the Koyukuk River near
Hughes, just below the Arctic
circle.
The roar of many caterpillars
will mark the development this
summer at Goodnews Bay. One
of the largest tractors made, 110
horsepower, is already on the
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way to the Goodnews Bay Min
ing Company for the half million
dollar platinum project there,
rhis machine weighs 20 tons with
bulldozer attachment. Several
shovels in the Goodnews district
are powered by caterpillar diesel
engines.
“More than 50 per cent of the
diesel powered tractors in the
world are Caterpillars,” Mr.Bock
struck said.
The tractor expert is travelling
extensively over Alaska, visiting
mines and other projects where
caterpillars are used. He is mak
ing his headquarters at the Nome
Hotel, over the Nome Motor Co.,
while in Nome.
In addition to the numerous
tractors and bulldozers already
operating in the Second division,
more are to be shipped to Nome
this summer.
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To Move Tractor
Mine By Plane
Heavy Machinery Is Being
Moved By Airplane to
Nearby Gold Mines.
Pilot Chet Brown was freight
ing from Colorado to Kashwitna
recently for W. E. Dunkle with
the tri-motored plane of the Star
Airways. Included in the freight
he will move by plane is a tractor
which will be dismantled, flown
to Kashwitna in several trips, &
re-assembled, states the Anchor
i
age Times in a recent issue.
Pilots Brown and Jack Elliot
returned yesterday in the tri
motored ship from Nyac. They
had been freighting for several
days between Bethel and Nyac
for the New York-Alaska Gold
Dredging Corporation.
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