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ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1934.
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GENERAL ELECTION,
TO BE HELD TUESDAY
The biennial general elect
ion will be held throughout
Alaska next Tuesday in con
formity to the new election law
passed by the last Congress ad
vancing the date of such elec
tions from the first Tuesday
after the first Monday in No
vember to the second Tuesday
in September. The indicated
advance in date was necessitat
ed by the passage of the so
called “Lame Duck” Act, pro
viding for the convening of
Congress in January, two
months earlier than before the
latter law became effective.
The list of candidates this
year is the smallest in a long
period, owing principally to an
absence of Republican candi
dates for several important of
fices, including that of Dele
gate to. Congress, for which
'here is but one candidate, the
present Democratic incumbent,
Anthony J. Dimond.
The names of only 16 candi
dates appear on the official
ballots and include seven Dem
ocrats, five RepublicJU& and
four Independents. Ten of
these are seeking the office of
representative to the Territor
ial Legislature, leaving only 6
candidates for the offices of
Delegate to Congress, Territor
ial Treasurer and Divisional
Senator. Following is the full
list:
Delegate to Congress
Anthony J. Dimond, Dem.
Territorial Treasurer
Will H. Chase, Rep.
Oscar G. Olsten, Dem.
W. G. Smith, Ind.
Territorial Senator
Henrv Roden. Ind.
Allen Shattuck, Dem.
Territorial Representative*
Joe Baronovich, Dem.
Chris. Ellefson, Ind.
Frank H. Foster, Rep.
Joe Green, Dem.
Harry G. McCain, Rep.
W. M. McCall, Ind.
Louis F. Paul, Rep.
H. R. Sheipard, Rep.
A. P. Walker, Dem.
A. H. Zeigler, Dem.
The Chamber of Commerce
hall will be the local polling
place, as usual, and the plolls
will be open from 8 a. m. to 7
p. m. C. G. Skoning, B. B.
Smith and * Patrick Stapleton
have been designated as judg
es and clerks of election by U.
S. Commissioner Chas. F. Sand
ford.
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The Dunwell company has let
a contract 'to A. Bugnalli and
partners to mine 1000 tons af
ore from what is known as the
west vein on the Dunwell projp
erty, according to reports from
Stewart.
I Active R. R. Construction
1* Novr Under Way
Active coils Auction work on
the projected Extension of the
Canadian Northeastern Rail
way was inaugurated Thurs
day by the Consolidated Min
in? and Smelting Company
when the clearing of the right
of way for future grade extens
ions along the upper Bear Riv
er valley was started, ac
cording to reports received in
Stewart Operations are be
ing carried on from a camp on
American Creek, on which
construction wia also reported
well advanced.
ine projected construction,
which is expected to ultimately
provide Stewart and its close
neighbor, Hyder, with railway
communication with the more
easterly sections of Canada and
the United States, will extend
from the present head of steel
at the Red Cliff mine, 14 miles
north o!f Stewart, and thence
eastward over the Bear River
Pass to Port Grahame on the
Finlay River. How much of
it will be accomplished during
the present seaspnie undeter
mined. It is understood, how
ever, that the work will contin
ue as long as weather condit
ions will permit.
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Ketchikan Sea Plane
Bring* Passenger*
The Alaska Southern Air
w a y s 6-passenger seaplane
Priblof arrived Wednesday
morning from Ketchikan with
four passengers. The plane
was piloted by Bob Ellis, noted
Alaskan flyer, with Paul Brew
■ er as mecnameian. me irip
over required something over
an hour and a half, owing to
fog around the entrance to
Portland Canal. This became
so dense at one time that pil
ot Ellis decided to take no
chances lof an accident and set
the plane down for a half hour
or so.
The passengers included Mrs.
Henry Peterson, newly ap
pointed teacher otf the Hyder
public school; Territorial Rep
resentative F. J. “Joe” Barion
ovich.and A. R. Clark. Mrs.
Brewer, wife of Mechanician
Brewer, was also a round trip
passenger.
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School Day* Here Again
The fall term of the Hyder
public school opened Thursday
and the Hocal young hopefuls
are once more laboring with
the problems incident to the
assimilation of the three Rs
and other educational profund
ities.
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UNITED EMPIRE PLANS
MILL CONSTRUCTION
FOR NEXT SPRING
The United Empire Mining
Company will commence con
struction of a concentrating
mill lof 150 tons daily capacity
as soon as sufficient ere is
broken and blocked out to pro
vide feed for the plant for a
year.
This was the cheering news
received in Stewart this week
from the south, where manager
William Dann and consulting
engineer Frederick M. Kett
have been conferring with the
higher officials during recent
days.
The work of clearing a site
for the projected mill will star
immediately, with the ebjee
Having it ill 1 ticlUiliess lU
launch construction activities
early next spring, according t:
the information received.
Ore extracted during the in
terval will be stored at the
tram terminals, where it will
be immediately available.
Reports from the mine indi
cate there will be ample ore in
readiness by teh time con
struction work can be under
taken next spring. Drifting
is oontrnuing on the massive
ore zone encountered in the
main tunnel several weeks ago
The drift is said tlo show a full
face of ore, the width of which
has not been fully determined,
although it is known to be con
siderably wider than the drift.
This drift, extending in a south
westerly direction, will be con
tinued for ventilating purpose?
until it emerges on the surface.
Drifting will then be undertak
en on the northwesterly exten
sion of the vein. Contact of
the drift with the point of con
vergence of the two main ore
zones is expected to, bring in
a very large quantity of ore at
a depth of 225 feet.
In the event that these ore j
bodies go down tlo the drift lev-!
el as far north as indicated by
the surface exposures, a depth
of 1000 or more feet will be ob-1
tained.
Davidson Visits Anyox By Air
L. S. Davidson, manager of]
the Dunwell mine, made a visit i
to Anyox this week /on an East
man' flying boat piloted by J.
McConnachie, which came ov-;
er from Anyox Tuesday for
that purpose. Mrs. Davidson 1
and S. Barclay of the Dunwell
staff were also passengers on
the trip. The party returned
Wednesday afternoon on the
same plane.
Pitt To Direct Development
Of Famous Australian Lode
Bound for the remote Antip
odes, where he will take
charge of the development
and equipment of the famous
Big Bell low grade gold depos
| in the desert country of West
| ern Australia, Dale L. Pitt,
general manager of the Pre
mier Gold Mining Company,
operator cf the local Premier
mine, left this morning for
San Francisco, from which
point he will sail on Septem
ber 18 for Sidney, New Soudi
Wale?. From the latter point
Mr. Pitt will proceed by train
to Perth, capital of We tern
Australia, crossing enroute vir
tually the entire Australian
continent. On arrival at Perth
he will proceed by train to the
remote town 01 rue, situated
in the vast arid desert country
some 400 miles northeast of
Perth, where there is so little
water that he will be com
pelled to drill to obtain enough
to carry on his task of opening
up a mine and equipping it
with a 1,000-ton mill, if the re
j suits of his development oper
ations justify mill installation.
The property,- long known
to the mining world, has been
diamond drilled during the
past two years by the Premier
Gold company i n assoca
tfon with the American Smelt
ing and Refining Company un
der a long-term lease acquired
in 1932. These operations
have established a body of
gold-bearing ere some 1,200
feet in length, with a width of
100 feet and a depth of 500
feet. The values are said to
be quite low but the immense
tonnage available endows the
property with immense pro
duction possibilities.
Judging from the available
data it appears that Mr. Pit!
has been given something of a
monumental task, wherein re
mote location, transportation
inhibitions and numerous oth
er difficulties will combine tc
tax even the well demonstrat
ed abilities of Mr. Pitt as a
mine developer and organizing
executive, as displayed during
his long and remarkably effic
ient conduct of his company’?
local enterprises.
Mrs. Pitt, who accompanied
her husband south, will pa??
the coming winter in Hawaii
where their daughter, Mis?
Elizabeth, will attend the Uni
versity of Hawaii and Mastei
Robert Pitt will enroll in Pina
hon preparatory school.
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Frank Reichenback returned
this morning from a business
trip of several weeks in the
south.
GOOD PROGRESS ON
STAR GOLD GROUP
Discovery of several promis
ing new leads of ore and satis
factory progress in prospecting
activities on the Star Gold
Gold group on Marmot river
was reported this week by
George Mehlfeld, who with J.
K. Green, Eli Watland and L.
C. Crosby, of Seattle, is carry
ing on an extensive develop
ment program on the property
this summer.
Operations are being directed
principally to extending the
tunnel on the Sure Thing claim
and t.j running an upraise from
the tunnel to explore the up
ward extensions of the ore
zone and also to provide air for
the deeper workings. The
raise when completed will be
1 about 60 feet long and will
connct with a shaft sunk on the
same zone during the course of
earlier development activities.
Ore taken from this shaft
some years ago gave returns
running around $200 a ton in
gold, silver and other metals,
Mr. Mehlfeld said.
The tunnel is now in close to
400 feet and is in ore all the
way, as is also the raise, ac
cording tlo Mr. Mehlfeld.
Considerable surface devel
opment work has also been
done during the season but the
true extent of the surface
showings is still far from being
known, owing !io the unusually
large area of the group, which
is one of the largest in area in
the Portland Canal district.
Owing to delay in coopera
tion by the provincial road and
trail authorites transportation
to and from the property is
difficult and tends to retard
development to some extent,
iv±r. ivieniifiu saiu, annougn
the partners have built 2l/i
miles of trail themselves to fa
cilitate 'operations. The pres
ent operations are being car
ried on at an elevation of about
4,5000 feet.
Mr. Mehlfeld said that the
work done this season has re
vealed a very promising out
look for the property and he is
well satisfied with the results
30 far obtained.
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Bornite Sails With Ore Cargo
The Coastwise Steamship Co.
freighter Bornite sailed Mon
day for Tacoma with approxi
mately 25 tons of highgrade
ore from the Dunwell mine and
a similar amount of concen
trates from the Dunwell mill.
The vessel also carried a large
consignment of blister copper
from the Anyox smelter, taken
taken on before her arrival
here. The Dunwell shipment
goes to Tacoma and the copper
to New Jersey refineries.