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BRIEF ITEMS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE TERRITORY
EVENTS IN THE NORTH AS PORTRAYED IN THE
PRESS OF ALASKA
Dr. W. D’Arcy Chace, former
Hyderite, has been appointed
City Health Officer for the
town of Douglas.
There are now 93 old-timers
residing in the pioneer Home
in Sitka, according to an offic
ial report of the institution.
This is said to be the largest
number there at any one time.
The average number inmates
is said to be about 60 or 65.
The previous highest number
was 82.
For the first time in 18 years
caribou are roaming about,
wintering in the Tofty district,
according to recent arrivals in
Anchorage. The caribou are
said to be so thick through the
entire district that all one has
to do to get in a fresh supply
of meat is to open the door and
Shoot one down. With the ex
ception of ptarmigan, birds
are scarce.
been caught in the Kenai dis
trict this winter. The first big
shipment was sent out Janu
ary 6th, consigned to Seattle
dealers, and consisted of 450
mink, 150 lynx and some land
otter. There have been more
lynx in the district this year,
than for many winters past.
M. P. Galvin, an old-timer of
the westward district, and a
member of the Kodiak Igloo of
Pioneers, was seriously ill at
the Hotel Sexton for several
days recently, but recovered
sufficiently to leave on the Al
ameda for Seattle, where he
will enter the Virginia Mason
hospital. He is 65 years of age
and a pioneer of Nome and
Fairbanks.
The Ester Creek quartz belt,
Fairbanks district, is coming in
to the limelight. An engineer
is looking over the field and
will probably put a core drill
to work in the near future to
A large number of furs have determine the depth of the de
MAP OF
PORTLAND CANAL MINING DISTRICT
IIYDER, ALASKA
THE PORTLAND CANAL MINING DISTRICT
Presents Greater Opportunities for Legitimate Mining Investment than any Mining District
on the Continent. In ^additionto the great Premier, the most Spectacular Silver-Gold Mine
in Existence, with a record o.over Seven Millions in Dividends in Four Years, the Portland
Canal District contains Two Producing Mines; a-Half Dozen or More on the Very Thresh*
old of Production, and Numerous Partially Developed Properties Which Hold Forth Every
Prospect of Becoming Paying Mines.
The Mineralization is Proved: Only Capital and Intelligent Mining is Required to Make
the District the Greatest Mineral Producing Area on the Globe.
posit. The prospecting will be
done on claims which have
been optioned to ah English
company. Hard rock men are
very optimistic regarding the
outcome.
• Smallpox has developed late
ly among the residents of the
native village at Douglas, with
several cases reported in two
homes. Quarantine measures
were promptly taken and the
pupils of the government
school were vaccinated. '
i _
The first Glacier Monument
ever established by the Gov
ernment was accomplished
recently by Presidential proc
lamation, at the recommendat
ion of Secretary of Interior
Work, when 1,120 square
miles in Southeastern Alaska
were set aside as the Glacier
Bay National Monument.
Fox ranchers of the Kenai
Peninsula have a novel method
of preserving rabbit meat for
fox food. The meat of the rab
bits is first ground and then
dried on racks over the stove,
after which it is powdered and
put away for future use.
Another method of preserving
the rabbits fresh, adopted by
the ranchers, is to pack the
carcasses in five gallon oil cans
Ipour water over them and let
them freeze solid, after which
; the blocks of ice and rabbits
■are packed away in especially
j constructed ice houses until
| needed for food for the foxes.
After drifting _ at sea in a
disabled condition for 31 days,
the seining boat Hilda, belong
ing to the Hetta Packing Co.,
was found- stranded recently
on the west coast of Prince of
Wales Island with one of her
crew of three men missing and
the remaining two alive but in
a weakened condition as a re
sult of exposure and lack of
food.
The citizens of Petersburg
have subscribed more than
$30,000 for the ercetion of a
cold storage plant at that
place to facilitate its halibut
industry. Petersburg handled
a million pounds of halibut
last year without the aid of a
cold storage plant, the fish be
|ing shipped fresh. It is believ
ed that this record can be
doubled during the present
year.
! Mountains, glaciers, a river
and a volcano in Alaska are of
ficially named in an announce
ment by the Geographic.
Board. Brooks is the name of a
chain of mountains forming
the watershed between the
Yukon basin on the south and
the Arctic Ocean on the north
from Kotzebue Sound east*
ward to the international
boundary and is so named in
honor of the late Dr. Alfred
Hulse Brooks. A mountain on
the Alaska peninsula, four
miles south of Yugak volcano,
is named Denison, in honor of
Denison University. Yukan
rather than Yugak or Yugat,
is designated for the volcano
referred to, which is on the
coast of the peninsula, ten
miles noth west of Yugak bay.
Stellar is the name of a mount
ain, 1450 feet high, two miles
southwest of the volcano, in
honor of George Wilhelm Stel
lar, a naturalist.
A peculiar decline in the
price placed upon the fur seal
pelts from the Pribloff Islands
by the Department of Com
merce is noted in a recent re
port of the Collector of Cus
toms for Alaska. The figures
given in the report cover pelts
shipped by the government
from last year’s take and em
brace a total of 18.720 skins.
These have a declared value of
only $150,004, which is vir
tually $8 each. Three or four
years ago the average value
placed on the Pribloff pelts by
the department was $25 per
skin. Each year a smaller value
has been declared, that of this
year being the smallest on rec
ord.
Senator Forrest J. Hunt of
Ketchikan, was operated on in
a Seattle hospital March 9, and j
was unable to attend the open- i
ing of the Territorial Senate. '
He is reported progressing ■
nicely toward recovery.
The Ketchikan Commercial
Club is preparing to send a
bill to the Alaska Legislature,
now in session in Juneau, pro
viding for the creation of im
provement districts in incorpor
ated towns to make it pos
sible for a municipality to as
sess all properties benefitted
by public improvements. At
present only abutting proper
ties are liable to assessments.
A Geological Survey party
headed by Dr. Walter E. Smith
geologist, and G. Fitzgerald,
topographer engineer, is on
its way from Seward to map
the oil reserve lands between
Point Barrow and the Colville
and Chipp rivers on the Arctic
coast of Alaska. The party will
go from Ft. Gibbon to Kotze
bue Sound by dog team, after
ward working up the Nokatak
River to the unexplored south
western corner of the reserve,
of which 22,000 square miles
was previously mapped.
World consumption of copper
last year established a new
ENORMOUS DEMAND
FOR ALASKA FURS
We’re paying big prices for Alaska furs—demand strong.
We are the largest buyers of Alaska furs in this big
central market and we must have all kinds for quick sale.
Money sent same day shipment comes in—cash, draft or
money order, whichever you want. ACT NOW—if you
have one skin or a hundred. Ship to us at once.
Riiike Fur Co.
ST. LOUIS, MO.
Foufce Grading ALWAYS Makes Your Fur Chocks Bigger
record, surpassing the war
peak of 1918 by about 10 per
cent and about 25 per cent
greater than for the year 1923.
The price, of the metal ad
vanced from 12 to 15 cents.
Quotations of local mining
stocks in the Vancouver mark
et, which virtually regulates
the local price, showed very
slight fluctuations during the
past week despite a steady de
mand for most of the more
prominent listings. B. C. Silver,
Premier, L & L, Dunwell and
Independence held steady at
prices very similar to those
prevailing here. Indian Mines
continued the upward move
ment started some weeks ago
in response to reports of the ex
cellent results obtained by the
recent diamond drilling op
erations but no great change
in the price developed up to
March 9, the date of the last
report, although the upward
tendency of this stock in the
local market was more def
initely marked than any other.
This was doubtless due to the
many optimistic rumors in cir
culation here. These, however,
are based upon no more exact
information than was avail
able earlier, the management
having given out uothing rel
ative to the actual status of
things at the mine. According
to the reports B. C. Silver was
running strong with selling
prices ranging around 1.30 and
with marked indications of
further advances. Late London
advices report that this
is attracting much interest in
the London market. An inter
esting feature of the
statement is that there is per
sistent large scale buying of
Selukwe shares in that mark
et (the Selukwe has 50 per
cent of the B. C. Silver) which
is supposed to be on behalf
of the Premier interests.
! Following are the Vancouver
! quotations up to March 9th.
I
|B.C. Silver.1.20 1.35
Dunwell. 4.20 4.75
i Indian Mines .lO1/* .15
: Glacier .:.28 .35
Independence .22 V* .30
Premier. 2.35 2.50
Rufus.15 —
L & L.271/2 .30
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RELIEF AIRPLANES
PLANNED FOR NEW
COAST GUARD BOAT
! With a view to bringing
speedy relief to the inhabitants
of the more isolated sections of
the Territory in case of disease
outbreaks like that recently oc
curing at Nome, or other dire
emergencies, the Coast Guard
is considering plans to main
tain an aeroplane on board the
n«*v Coast Guard boat recently
authorized to replace the old
cutter Bear. The planes will
be fitted with pontoons, wheels
and skiis so it will be possible
to land them either on water,
land, snow or ice. They will
also be used for making sur
veys of ice conditions.