Where they all go
PORTLAND
CAFE J. Collier, Prop.
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Rooming house
Your patronage solicited. ' Open day and night
Mrs. Maud Pleming, Proprietress
Mrs. Helen McKay announces the opening of her new
store with a complete line of
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TERRITORIAL TATTLE
The molybdenite mine at Shaken haa
closed down for the winter.
J.F. Major has been appointed deputy
recorder of the Talkeetna recording
precinct.
M. A. Ellis, mining man of Cache
creek, accompanied by Mrs. Ellis and
sons, has gone out to the States.
John Gaslow, convicted of having
murdered "Dutch Marie," was senten
ced to life imprisonment.
Joe Morris has finished the season’s
work on his quartz claims located on
Iron creek in the Broad Pass district.
Sam D, Shkutof of Anchorage bas
gone outsiee in the interests of mining
property located in the Hope district
The only passenger vessel of the Al
aska Steamship company calling into
Skagway this winter will be the Jeff
erson.
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It is said that considerable mining
activity is on at present in the vicinity
of the Fortymile. At least two hund
red people are there engaged in mining.
The Farmers’ Bank at Fairbanks is
winding up its affairs and retiring from
business. The bank is not in financial
difficulties but is paying all accounts.
The first sonw of the season fell at
Ketchikan October 24 beating Hyder
by a week. It stayed on at neither
place.
C. A.Clark has been overhauling the
machinery at the Jumbo mine at Sulzer
some of which has not been run for
several years.
George Mitchell of Washington says
the three-day flight to Alaska across
Canada would be attempted this winter
If cold w -ather flying proves successful
a regular air route to Alaska will be
established.
Bob Hatcher, Willow creek operator,
is going to the States on mining busi
ness. Mr. Hatcher is one of the orig
inal locators in the quartz district and
at present developing promising prop
erty located on the east side of the
Little Susitna.
Joe Laubner, who spent the summer
looking after his mining interests in
the Willow creek quartz district, advis
es that the Mable, Talkeetna, War
Baby and Gold Bullion mill will operate
until the freeze-up and the camp gen
erally is showing signs of great pros
perity.
John Grant, hotel man at Wrangel,
reports that a man named Adams work
ing on the Pike placer mining property
in the Cassiar, made a good clean-up.
Another mining deal of interest was
the purchase of the Mitchell property
in tne same district by Sid Barrington.
Robert J. Sommers, former'y terri
torial mine inspector, is now surueyor
general and ex-officio secretary of the
territory. Benjamin D. Stewart, a
minitj engineer and former mayor of
Juneau is the new mine inspector.
Word has baeh seceived from Wm.
Quitsch, manager of the Free Gold
Mining Company’s property in Port
Wells statf~,v that he now has the
bunkers ft».. of ore and will start mill
ing in the near future. JMr.Quitsch says
the ore shows better values as thestop
ing is carried up.
Confident that mining activities now
in progress and contemplated in the
Kantishna country soon will attract a
considerable number of people to that
district, the oldtimers there have laid
out a townsite on Moose creek, at the
mouth of Eureka. The property is own
ed by the Quigleys, but is being hand
led by Commissioner C. Herbert Wil
son as agent.
Hundreds of thousands of caribou are
appearing this year in the caribou run
at Dawson. Everyone able to carry a
rifle is out hunting, getting in a large
part of the winter’s supply of meat.
All kinds of big game, moose, caribou,
bear and mountain sheep, have been
more plentiful this fall than in many
years.
Indictments have been returned in
the United States district court against
jeorge E. Snider of the Tjosevig Ken
neycutt Copper Company, with mines
»t McCarthy, and five Seattle promot
WINTER IS COMING
Get your wood now. Nelson and Foy have plenty on hand
and will trade it to you for cnrrency.
Pressing, Cleaning, Repairing
MISS LEATHA DAVIS
Johnston <2b Aagaard
General Contractors and Builders
ers, charging them, with maii frauds,
rhe indictments set forth that the men
bilked the public out of $400,000. Snider
voluntarily told the story and was im
mediately arrested. Through a New
fork brokerage firm, it is alleged, the
:ompanyJsold 560,000 shares of stock ■
it a dollar a share, and of the money
•eceived only one-fifth was used for de
velopment work. The rest went to the
promoters. All the defendents will be i
;ried in New York.
JAS. MOWATT
Contractor and Builder
HYDER, ALASKA
A run of king salmon is on in Wran
gell harbor. Hand trollers are cateh
ng from 10 tp 16 fish a day. A man
:atching 10 salmon will average $35
'or his day’s work.
HYDER, ALASKA
Gateway to the Great Salmon River Mineral Area
At the Door of the Famous Premier Mine
You Have to Come to Hyder to
Reach the Mines
FASTEST GROWING TOWN IN THE NORTH