THE
McCarthy weekly news
Entered as second class matter. i?eptem
ber 17th, 1918 at the Post Office, a
McCarthy. Alaska, under the Act o
March 3. 1879.
C. O. Marwood Editor
R. Marwood Circulation Manager
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Saturday, January 2, 1926
MAY RE-OPEN
BIG JUMBO
To make a preliminary ex
animation of the Big Jumbo
mines at Sulzer, in the Copper
Mountain district of Southeast
ern Alaska, C. P. Titus, a New
Yoik mining engineer, and B. C.
Ferguson, of Craig, who is Gov
ernor Sulzer’s representative,
have gone to the properties. Mr.
Titus will make only a short
visit at the mines and will then
return to New York City and
mak report to the company in
control as to his findings. Mr.
Ferguson will remain there some J
weens, and have charge of some
prospecting work that h is been
mapped out.
Much work will be necess
ary to place the mines on an
operating basis and it is to det
ermine if it is leasibl • to do
this development at this time
that Titus and Ferguson are
visiting the property.
The Big Jumbo mines were
at one time regarded as among
t ie big properties of of the (list
riot and there is reason to belie
ve that with tne employ me t of
a new system of operation, thc,\
may again come to the front.
FREE WILL LOSE FIGHT
ON ALASKA RAILROAD
VALDEZ MINER
Seattle, —Scott C. Bone, for
mer Governor of Alaska, arrived
here from Washington, D. C.
and in an interview expressed
the belief that the Alaska Rail
road would never be destroyed
and the roadbed turned into a
wagon trail, as Representative
Free of California has advoeat
ed. Instead the railroad will be
supported by the government
and ultimately placed upon a
paying basis.
Mr. Bone said: “Underly
ing the opposition to the rail
road is the antagonism of some
congressmen to public owner
ship, but the strength of this
group is not sufficient to carry
out Free's proposal.”
Mr. Bone was the guest of
President Coolidge at a luncheon
and said: “President Coolidge
has the sympathetic interest of
Alaska at heart. I am positive!
he* intends to support proper
development of the Territory.”
Mr. Bone said: “Slowly but
surely Americans are learning
that Alaska is not a vast land of
perpetual ice and snow but a
wondei ful empire whose area is
j suitable for farming and other
industries President Coolidge
| and many other party leaders
assured me of their support in
developing Alaska and Congress
man Free, 1 believe, will fail to
gain support for his measure to
tear up the Alaska Railroad.”
With his daughter Marguer
ite, a student of the University
of Washington, former Governor
Bone will leave for his home in
Atascadero, California.
H LSTORICAL KNOWLEDGE
Lady—I want to get a good
novel to read on the train —some
thing pathetic.
Clerk—How would "The
Last Days of Pompeii" do?
Lady — Pompeii? I never
heard of him. What did he die of?
Clerk—Some kind of an er
upti.on, i believe.
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