The McCarthy
Weekly News
VOL: VII
McCarthy, alaska, Saturday May si, U24
No. XXVII
Tis Said That -
Billy Urliss arrived in town
yesterday from the Nizina where
he has been employed on the A.
R. C. force that is putting in the
bridge.
P. W. Holmes, who has been
in town for the past couple of
weeks since leaving the employ
the A.R.C. left for Nizina yester
day to go to work in the placer
mines for the remainder of che
summer. Next fall he intends to
return to the Bremner river sec
tion where he has claims located
on Golecenda creek. He will pur
chase a two year outfit.
Bill Berry reports the sale of
his span of mules to Harry Boy
den this week. It is understood
that Bill will leave with the last
mail to Chisana his contrct calls:
for within a few days.
About the finest team of black
or any other color horses that
ever arrived at McCarthy came
in this week.Charles Lubbe is
buying their hay. He will en
gage in general teaming as soon
as he finishes planting Trim’s
crops.
Miles ‘‘Scotty Atchinson arriv
ed in town this week from a pro
traded bear hunting trip. He
states that the river is on the!
rampage.
At a meeting of the baseball,
team this week, Vamiie Anderson
was unanimously elected captain
for the coining year.
A horse belonging to A. E,
Trim that he had rented to the
A. R. C. was drownded by fall
:ng from from the bridge. The
other horse in the team was
barely saved. Another mate is
on the way from Seattle.
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Westover Develops
High-grade Ore!
Andy Taylor, who was employ
ed this spring by Howard Foster j
to help with the assement work,
arrived in town this week with a
report that there is still plenty 1
of copper at the Westover mine,
regardless of the fact it isn’t pro
duoing at the present time.
The ore was struck only fifteen
feet from the surface, but as the
tunnel heads into quite a steep
wad and as the ore dips away
from the cliff, there is every rea
j
son to believe that a quite large!
amount of glance can be mined.
Foster will remain on the hill
for some time to come.
McCarthy Gets
Walloped
The first game of the baseball
season was played at Kennecott
this evening with the result that
McCarthy got it in the neck with
five runs against their three. As
often before, the game was on
:
ice and then a blowup brought
live runners across the plate!
for Kennecott.
Mount Logan Approachs
Defeat
Albert H. McCarthy, of Canada j
arrived in town today from Sea
trie for the purpose of investigate
lag the most feasible approach
to the ba>e of Mount Logan, pre,
paratory to shipping in supplies
and making the climb.
The present plan calls for a
choice of approach, then landing;
supplies at the base of the peak j
itself during the winter, and at,
last the actual ascent.
McCarthy will probably take :
the trail next week, and remain
about a month and a half.
Sulzcr Wants Road
Into White River
Through the courtesy of the
Jumbo Copper Mines Inc., we
have the privelage of priming
the following letter and attached
memorandum from ex-governor
Sulzer to Senator Wadsworth.
New Willard Hotel
Washington, D. C
May 9, 1924
Hon. James Wadsworth, Jr.,
United States Senate,
Washington, D.C.
My dear senator:
In tiling with
your committee the enclosed
memorandum, regarding the ap
propriation for road building in
Alaska permit me to say that,
in my judgement, and I speak
advisedly,the important thing the
government can do to open up
the mineral resources of Alaska
and help the Alaskan miners, is
to build good roads, that is,roads
over which ore and freight can
be hauled by tractors to and from
the mines.
At the present time there are
important quartz and placer min
ing districts in Alaska that are
almost inaccessable for lack of
transportation. This is especia*
y so regarding the rich gold and
lcopper mines in the White Kiv
er Mining District, sixty miles
north of the terminal of the Cop
per River and Northwestern Rail
road at McCarthy. A road built
from McCarthy, around Skolai
Pass, a distance of sixty miles,
would open up that wonderful
mining section of Alaska,and pro
duee immense mineral wealth.A
cheap tractor road built from Me
Carthy to these quartz and plac
er mines in the White River Dis
trict, would open up and develop
that wonderland, and produce
real wealth beyond the dreams
of the iinate mind.
Col, Steese is an excellent road
builder, but he cannot build
roads in Alaska without money,
and money invested by the gover
nment in good roads in Alaska
will back to the government min
eral wealth at the ratio of thou
sands to one.
Col. Steese should have at
least $1,600,000for Alaskan roads
for the next fiscal year, and 1
sincerely hope that you and your
colleauges will appropriate the
moneys necessary for this wor
thy and meritous purpose.
Believe me, my dear Senator,
with best wishes, Very sincerely
your friend,Wm. Sulzer.
The following memorandum
accompanied the foregoing let
ter to Senator Wadsworth.
TRANSPORTATION IN
ALASKA
Alaska’s vast area is divided in
to many mining precincts. Com
paratively few of these districts
are easy of access. Transportat
ion is the problem. Good roads
the solution.
The undersigned ha s spent
more than twenty years in min
ing in various parts of the North
land, and in most instances has
had to overcome that almost in
surmountable obstacle, namely,
excessive freight rates due to
lack of transportation.
During the past ten years my
efforts have been in the Chandalar
and White River Districts, and
the facts herein presented are
not exceptional cases but repre
sentative of the average mining
Districts, not served by rail or
water transportation. Officials
of the Geological Survey [Alaska
Division] will confirm my state
ments as true of interior costs
transportation.
Barring the camps that are
served by rail, or water, I con
tend that at least one third of all
gold taken from the ground in A
laska has been consumed by the
single item, excessive freight
costs due directly to the lack of
roads. In other words, roads en
abling the economical handling
of freight to and from the mines
will make possibie a saving equi
calent to one third the total out
put. To the uninitated this state -
ment may sound increditable,but
not to the men who have been
through the mill.
The Chandlar Mining District,
a quartz and placer camp, has
been worked continously since
! discovery. The gold produced
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