LOCAL TOPICS
Thanks, Brother.
Eric Lindegard left Thursday
on a visit to the .couth over the
holiday season.
Leonard R. Traversy arrived
Wednesday from Ketchikan to
spend Christmas with his un
cle, N. M. Traversy.
Rev. G. L. Harvey left Thurs
day for Vancouver .t'o visit with
his parents over the holidays.
Win. Dann, manager of the
United Empire mine, is report
ed back on the job after a
couple of week’s illness.
The Junior Orchestra will
give a public dance in Legion
Hall, Stewart, on New Year’s
eve.
Working on locally cut tim
ber, the Hyder lumber mill,
r.ow 'operated by Messrs. Roy
McLeod and R. L. Stewart, has
piled up an extensive stock of
new lumber in its yards since
the property changed hands
last month.
The Carolan motion picture
theatre opened in Stewart last
Saturday evening with a capac
ity attendance from Stewart,
Hyder and Premier.
The new show :shop is excell
ently equipped with the latest
type of prajecting and sound
reproduction apparatus and is
commodious and comfortable. I
“Even though it is December
16, all the flowers are not gone
from the gardens in Ketchi
kan,” says the Chronicle of that
date. Roses were reported still
in bloom in one garden and
flowers in various others. Con
trast that with repiorts from the
States!
To the reports appearing in
the Alaska press off orange
and lemon trees and other vari
eties of tropical and semi-trop
ical plants growing and bear
ing fruit in Alaska the Herald
will add that there is in the 'of
fice of this publication a thriv
ing tropical palm, the native
habitat of which is the sandy
deserts of northern Africa, and
three glistening-leaved cactus
plants, one of which displays
gorgeous reddish iblossoms.
One-ifourth of the oil pro
duction of the country comes
from Oklahoma. California
is second in output.
Los Angeles claims to be the
largest city in area in the
world, with 32 square miles in
its boundaries.
To manufacture the paper
consumed in the United States
14,000,000 cords of wood are
needed annually.
The number of Catholics in
Canada, according to the last
census, is 3,389,630 out of a to
tal church membership of 8,
389,630.
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Mojave Strike Attracts
World - Wide Interest
Late iniformation regarding
the great gold strike in the Mo
jave desert region of California
reveals details that will inter
est local miners, some of whom
have prospected in the region
in which it was made. Briefly
stated, the story of the great
discovery is as follows:
The mine, known as the Sil
ver Queen, was first located
in September, 1933, by George
Holmes,a college student inter
ested in mining, following his
discovery of gold-bearing float
on the slopes of a hill about 7
miles from the town of Mojave.
Aided by two friends, Min
nard and Dew, Holmes started
opencutting in the overlying
dirt along the hillisde above
where he had found the float
and by a lucky chance encount
ered the ledge at a depth of 6
feet. Holmes gave to each of
his companions a 20 per cent,
interest in the find. Minnard
later sold his interest for $500.
Shortly after, Dew also sold
his share for $1,000. The pur
chaser in both instances was
Cy. Townsend, former justice
of the peace at Mojave. They
thus tossed away fortunes of
$700,000 apiece, figured on
the basis of 40 per cent of the
$3,250,000 option taken during
the past summer by a South
African mining company.
Up to this time the news of
the rich find was kept virtually
a secret, although ore ship
ments were started last spring.
Values at the smelter ranged
a little better than $30 a ton.
Finally a syndicate offered
Holmes $10,000 for his 60 per
cent interest. The offer was re
fused. Succeeding offers of
$75,000, $250,000, $300,000
and $750,000 were also reject
ed. By this time news of the
rich ore had been carried far !
and wide and company repre
sentatives and engineers from
allover the world were hurry
ing to the scene. Among them
were several representatives
of the South African company,
who offered to option the prop
erty for the huge sum of $3,
250,000.
It is said that during the past
eight months the mine has
shipped 9200,000 worth of
gold to the smelter and is now
employing around 100 men.
The ledge is said to show 1,
000 feet of continuous ore run
ning $30 to 940 and over a ton.
The ore body is from 15 to 50
feet wide and has a known
depth of 350 feet and the bot
tom has not been reached. In
the opinion olf mining men it is
the greatest strike since Tono
pah.
About 160 great gambling -
casinos are licensed to operate
in France, despite the ruling *
that gambling is illegal in that *
country. *
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