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Civil and Mining Engineers
U. S. Deputy mu Mineral
SURVEYORS
•Juneau, Alaska.
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BRIEF ITEMS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE TERRITORY
EVENTS IN THE NORTH AS PORTRAYED IN THE
PRESS OF ALASKA
A large halibut weighing
over 300 pounds was caught
recently in one of the salmon
traps of the Petersburg Pack
ing Company.
Hard rock mining irv the Hope
district, Turnagain Arm, was
given increased impetus re
cently by the bonding of four
claims by Pete Kapriovich. _
Machinery for developing the
properties is now enroute.
The run of red salmon in
the Cook Inlet district this
season has been one of the
best in years, according to D.
W. Branch, manager for Lib
by, McNeill & Libby.*
J. L. Waller, of Anchorage,
who was recently appointed
assistant U. S. Attorney at An
chorage, by U. S. Attorney
Sherman Duggan, to fill the
vacancy caused by the trans
fer of Julian Hurley to Fair
banks as U. S. Attorney there,
has entered upon the duties of
his office.
The town council of Wrang
ell has granted a 20-ye^r elec
ric light and power franchise
to the Wilson & Sylvester Mill
Company, subject to ratificat
ion or rejection by the voters
of the town at a special elect
ion called for the first Tuesday
in September.
At a special election held re
cently in Ketchikan to deter
mine whether or not the town
should be authorized to issue
$50,000 worth of bonds in ad
dition to the $100,000 already
authorized. Tne proposal car
ried by a vote of but 79 to 6, a
total of 84 votes being cast out
of more than 600 registered
voters.
Hutton, McNear & Daugher
ty, who recently purchased
2,500,000,000 feet of timber
in Southeastern Alaska, have
announced that they will con
struct a sawmill, to be started
i this fall. The mill will have a
capacity of 100,000 feet per
day. A paper pulp plant will
also be erected with a capacity
of 300 tons er day. The plants
will be operated by water pow
er to be developed on Cascade
Creek.
A 530-foot suspension bridge
crossing the Susitna River at
i Curry, has been completed.
The bridge opens a scenic
point, on top of a hill approx
imately 2,000 feet in height,
affording a clear and unob
structed view of Mount Me- j
Kinley. The long span was
made on the spot of selected
timber covered with decking,
1 suspended from two heavy i
cables reaching from shore to
shore.
Judge Reed * of the District
Court of the First Division,
has denied the petition of E. P.
Harris & Co. for an injunction
restraining the officials of the
Bureau of Fisheries from in
terfering with the fish traps of
the company. The action was
bi’ought to prevent the offic
ials enforcing the regulat
ions regarding the opening of
traps during the weekly closed
period.
Volcanoes along the western
coast of Alaska are quite act
ive, and both Shushaldin and
Pavlof are throwing off clouds
of smoke. Mt. Akutan was in
eruption in April. A party
from the Akutan whaling stat
ion climbed Akutan- last month
and found steam hissing from
many vents in the crater bed,
and the whole floor had a deep
hollow sound that caused the
party to remain in a safe place.
A cleanup from the Fern mine
in the Willow Creek district,
was recently brought to An
chorage and tipped the scales
at about 200 ounces.
Herman Nielson, well known
employee of the Alaska Rail
road, was instantly killed at
£eward recently while work
ing on the dock, his death re
sulting from being run over by
a railroad crane.
The Alaska Railroad haj ad
vised shippers that the last
boat will leave Nenana for
Tunana and lower Yukon riv
er points September 17. The
last White Pass boat will leave
! Nenana for the upper Yukon
I about Setember 20, the comp-!
I any has announced.
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The plant of the Skagway
Alaskan, one of the oldest
newspapers in Alaska, has,
been purchased by W. L. Paul,
of Ketchikan, who will move
the plant to Ketchikan, where
he already has a paper, The
Alaska Fisherman, but no pub
lishing plant.
The election recently held in
Anchorage on the question of
granting a city charter to the
Anchorage Light & Power Co.
resulted in a tie vote, 237 votes
being cast for ratification of
the proposed charter and an
equal number against. Under
the election 55 per cent of the
votes were required for rati
fication, and the proposed
franchise was defeated.
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HYDES NEWS NOTES
The electric light.plant of the
Hyder Water, Light and Pow
er Co. has been taken over by
the International Electric Co.,
of Stewart, which now supplies
both light and power to Hy
der from its hydro-electric
plant near Stewart.
Having ample power, the new
light purveyors are planning
to inaugurate 24 hour service
in the near future, thereby
making power and light avail
able at any time and enabling
the use of electricity for cook
ing and heating with electrical
appliances.. The company has
installed street lights at sever
al points, much to the gratifi
cation of the dwellers in the
Forest Reserve area, and will
install others later on, as de
mand appears. The company
lines are being extended to ev
ry part of town, providing a
light and power supply scarce
ly equaled by any town of sim
ilar size in Alaska. •
Edgar Provinse is preparing
to convert the second story of
his spacious building into mod
ern apartments and offices.
The plans include installation
of ten or a dozen rooms,
heated and with hot and cold
water, making them the most
up to date apartments in Hy
der.
A. F. Buddington, whose
v/ork in the Territory as a
field expert of the U. S. Geo
logical Survey has made him
Avell known in practically ev
ery part of Alaska, was a re
cent arrival in Hyder but re
mained here only long enough
to visit a very small portion of
the mineral area before leav
ing for Washington, D. C.
Mr. Buddington’s arrival in
duced a faint hope in the
minds of manjrthat a thorough
geological" reconnoiaance of the
district was about to be inaug
urated. It appears, however,
that he arrived here a little
late in the season and when
the weather was unusually in
clement, with the result that
Ilyder will see no government
al n report on the geology and
minerology of this section for
yet another year—maybe two
or three—despite the crying
need for an authoritatve work
on those subjects.
Mr. Buddington visited sever
al properties and made a brief
.survey of some of the more im
portant mineral areas and ex
pressed himself as much im
pressed.
Questioned as to the prospect
for a general survey and re-1
port on the district by the Geo
logical Survey, Mr. Buddington
said he had anticipated mak
ing a more extensive examinat
ion but found himself compell
ed to return to Washington.
The power boat Carmen, en
route from Ketchikan with a
barge-load of crude oil for the
Riverside mine, weht afchore
on the mud flats opposite the
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Hyder Lumber Company saw
mill early last week and was
unable to get clear until Wed
nesday afternoon, owing to low
water. The vessel was not dam
aged by its contact with the
mud and departed for her
home port early Thursday
morning.
The grounding is said to
have been due to the crew mis
taking the saw mill for the
wharf in the early morning
fog.
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BAD INDIAN KILLED BY
NATIVE AT LAKE TETLIN
Dawson Luke, a bad Indian,
in other words a muy malo
hombre, was wiped out recent
ly at Lake Tetlin, in the Four
th Division. Luke had caused
a reign of terror for several
days, running amuck with a
highpower rifle. Little Old
John,or Lat Tetlin, as he is bet
ter known, removed the men
ace to the tribe by pumping
Luke full of lead as he was at
tempting to kill chief Luke.
Lat Tetlin was tried by the
tribe and acquitted, but the
chief felt that white man,s
law should rule so sent word
to Marshal Stevens at Fair
banks. The officials investigat
ed the shooting and recom
mended a medal for Tetlin.
Formal announcement of the
consolidation of two big comp
anies which are preparing to
take over large holdings in the
Fairbanks district, was made
recently by Norman C. Stines,
who has been directing the ac
tivities of the United States
Smelting, Refining and Mining
Exploration Compainy during
the last year. The companies
are the Hammon Company and
the one Stines represents. This
Is regarded in Fairbanks as in
dicating that the companies
have decided to remain in the
field and carry out a big devel
oment program, which will in
clude construction of a large
water supply ditch and the
working of large areas of plac
er ground by the most modern
methods and pn a. scale ot far
greater proportions than an>
hitherto attempted in interior
Alaska.
BIG CUT DOWN IN S. E.
ALASKA SALMON PACK
The 1924 salmon pack in
Southeastern Alaska will be in
the neighborhood of 700,000
cases, according to recent
statements by fisheries bureau
officials. Last years pack am
ounted to more than 3,000,000
cases—a record pack.
The reduction this year i3 due
to the closed season establish
ed in several areas in this dist
rict. A few of the canneries
have secured normal packs,
however, and two or three of
:hem have even exceeded the
packs of last year. But on the
vhole, the White bill has less
ened the pack very materially.
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FUNDS LEFT FOR WINTER
TRAIL WORK
The Premier Gold M'nins
Company has advised Post
master Oren F. Hill that the
company is holding a b'lance
of $30.22 left over from the
fund of $130 subscribed by the
local business interests and
others last spring to assist in
clearing the deep snow and
ice from the Salmon River
road.
The fund was r1 . ed in the
hands of Major Isorth, of the
B. C. Silver, who turned the
amount over to the Premier
Company. The latter expended
$99.78, mostly for nowder,
caps and fuse. The Company
in turn contributed supplies
amounting to $23.10 an'1 also
provided meals free of "har>?e
for all men employed at an
additional cost to the ^em"
any of $82.50, or a total of
$105.60.
At a conference of th^e who
contributed to the fund it was
decided to leave the remainder
of the fund in the hand-t of +ha
Company, to be devoted to '•‘m
iliar use during the cornin'*
winter or whenever required.
Orders have been i«''"'''’ v *
the game conservation board
of British Columbia for +he es
tablishment of game sa”’*”.or
ics on the Taku and SHVing
Fivers above the Alast"'-C',r
adian boundary. It is r 1 o *r
cheated that the board co^'eir
• lates the creation of a "losed
reason for marten a’l over
Northern British Columbia.
Tngwald Loe, a rancher of
Caspberry Island, near Kod
ak, lost five head of cattle r>
entlv as a result of de^r^dat
ons by bears. The remans of
the cattle were found ;n
voode,, partly devour" l. Th’i
• said to have been the first
Cme in seven years that bear3
have killed stock.
An S-nound baby «r>i "'-n re
orttlv born to Mr. a«d M— O,
G. Berry on the steamer Gen
eral Davis, between N’onna
end Hot Springs. A* ns doctor
vai on the boat, Mr\ Berry
•vas cared for by a I'-'^'oass
> njjjer. Mother and ch i1 were
i ist reported as doing famsus
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Word was recentlv received
' i Seattle of the death oc Wm.
Smith, veil-know
r of the Yukon and Tanana
ountries. Smith and a com
anion, Fred Weston, d’ed in
•he Imperial Valley. O-lforn
>V.. of sunstroke and th’rst on
July 27, while out prospecting.
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la the Commissioner’s C'-urt;
Territory of Alaska; D'viaion
Number One; Hyder Precinct.
In Probate.
In the matter of the elate of
Fred Dorey and Samuel L, Fry,
Co-partners, Deceased.
No. 12 Probate.
Notice to Creditors.
Notice is hereby given that
.".11 persons knowing th m sel
ves to be indebted to the Es
tate of Fred Dorey and Sam
uel L. Fry, Deceased, should
make settlement thereof at my
office on or before October the
5th, 1924.
Ernest Blue, Administrator.
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