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VOLUME XU.
NOME, ALASKA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 19, 1018
2018.
FIRST OF FALL EXODUS BEGINS
VICTORIA TO ARRIVE
The steamer Victoria was today
fast at work at St Michael discharging
its cargo for that port and would be
finished by midnight and sail about
that hour direct for Nome, getting
here in time to make an early start
on the freight that is to be taken on
here. There is quite a lot of freight
to be shipped from Nome, but the
steamer will probably get away some
time tomorrow night. There is
quite a large passenger list, all first
class and intermediate being taken.
The following are on the list; Thos
Hess. Laura Christman, Rose Miller,
Geo Miller. James Key, W E Dischaze
E Evans & wife, Cora Evans G. Laiblin
an'd wife, Cora Eva is, Grant Laiblin
and wife, Enid Laiblin, Gladys Laib
lin, Mrs L Sauvain, Albert Miller,
Frede Brown, Tracy Brown, R. P.
Bonham, W E Dunbar, Dr J H Birk
land, Sister Mary Edith, Sister
F'lorine, Sister Bygc C. Ceo D Cam i
bell, Fred Meyer, J M Timmons, May
Replogle, Chas Replogle, Mrs Paul
Denkenkolb, August Adams, John
Anderson, Mrs M M’Dougal, Mrs C
H Forrest, Robert Samms and wife,
Mrd O S Weaver, J J and Mrs Katzer,
Ed and Mrs Roberts, Dick Weaver,
W H Sturtevant, E W and Mrs Lund
berg, Mrs Helen Senescu, Mrs Robin
son and child, Mrs Victor Anderson,
Victor A Julian, Earl Berg, Mrs F
Berg, Dr and Mrs Welch, W. F and
Mrs Code, Mike Thorsen, Mrs Chas
Madsen, Chas and Mrs Carlson, Ver
ner Carlson, A B and Mrs Williams,
Louis Levy, H J Gonzales, August
Roth. Lars and Mrs Gunderson, A1ec
Allan, J and Mrs Berger, W H and
Mrs Loerpabel, Governor and Mrs
Riggs, W J Baur, J T Sullivan, Mrs
Louis Harkness, Mrs S Doerr, Geo
Rivjards, Chas Raskin, H W Line. J
J O’Leary. J B Ritz( E Farr. Chas
and Mrs Ross, Fay Ross, Joy Ross,
Helen Ross, Fay Delezene, D^ and i
Mrs J D Arnold, Miss Arnold, John
Dean, Mrs Dorothy Dean, Miss B
Faulkner, Miss Annie Cahill, W P
Hubbard and Wife, Mrs Edith Davies,
Gus H Johnson, Mrs Sam Larson,
Harold Larson, Geo Larson, ilurton
Larson, Miss Annie Gumm, Eva
Gumm, Mrs M A Mogg, Chas Rankin,
J C Brown, R W Brown, Mrs Pas
teuris, Marie Raymond, Miss Lucille
Roberson, John Hearing, Vasilif Cas
igin, Carl Lindahl, Carl Smith Paul
Beyers, Axel Gunderson. Av'hony
Hynes, Sidney Thourp, J L Bibby, J
B Williams, Geo Oloff, Hank Gesiro,
Fred Olson, Chas Johnson, Pty. Con
nors, E F Dutaas, A1 Johnson. Louis
Dupont, John S Stevenson, Harry
Ryan, Thomas Radivich, Sam Drew.
Jim Corzoff, James Brayton. The
steamer also takes on 136« «.tssen
, k5- i
gers at St Michael. T '
RECEIVES CONTRACT
TO TEAR UP ROAD
*0. H. Shoemaker and Geo Watson
have received the contract from the
local agents for the owners of the
company to tear up the tracks on the
paystreak and Sunset creek branches
of the Seward Peninsula Railroad.
The work will be begun at once and
no time lost in taking up the rails
which will be brot to Nome for ship
ment.
While this step may be a forerun
ner of the complete dismantling of
the property of the Seward Peninsula
rail road which runs up to the Koug
arok, it is to be hoped not.
The permanent value of this i ail
road to the futher development of
this section of the country is self
evident and steps to acquire this
property on the part of the federal
or territorial governments would re
ceive the ready approval of all who
live in this and the Kougarok sec
tions, as well as those sections tribu-l
tary to the railroad.
While during the war period, the
high cost of material, etc, may press
somewhat heavily on the possible re
construction of the road, no one but
assents to the view that after the
war, a period of industrial and min
ing activity awaits this highly min
eralized section of Alaska. The road
should be acquired by (he government
and, as it is understood that the own
ers are willing to sell at a price that
is merely nominal, the good bargain
ought to be clinched while the clinch
ing is good.
MILES WATER SYSTEM
THAWS WELL
What is known as the Miles system
of thawing frozen ground, the idea
having it is stated originated with
J. H. Miles, general manager of the
Alaska Mines Corporation, has been
put to the test in the Candle section
and proved of inestimable value.
Those who have watched it in opera
tion say that it has come to stay and
will replace wholly the old system of
steam thawing frozen ground.
It is employed on the Pierce
dredge, owned by Pierce Johnson and
Sundquist, the two former having
bot out Sundquist this summer, on
Candle creek and had been an un
qualified success. They are thawing
ground and dredging the former froz
en dirt, the thawing being carried out
at less actual expense than five
cents a foot.
They have discarded the old meth
od of stripping for which they had
used a 50 horsepower gasoline en
gine and instead use the Miles system
wholly. The method they use is to
secure the water from a high line
ditch, but the pressure should not ex
ceed that secured from a twenty foot
fall. This is led with a two inch can
vas hose into an inch pipe, the latter
leading the water into the muck in
a hole previously picked thru the
grass and tundra. The pipe then au
tomically thaws and drops down ii
the muck and gravel the water beinf
somewhere around the temperaturi
of 5 2 degrees and giving up in iti
circulation from 15 to 22 heat units
The less pressure the slower the cir
culation and the more heat surrend
ered from the water. Iff this mannei
the water from the pipe thaws a hol(
12 feet deep and eight feet wide it
twenty hours.
This plan was experimented witl
by E. H. Dawson, the New York min
ing engineer who was experting th<
Immachuk ground this summer, ant
it was found to work with absolutt
success all the time.
It Is held in Candle that it wil
supercede the old system of stean
thawing all the time, a gasoline en
gine and pump being used down be
low to thaw the drifts. The pipe be
ing driven closer to the roof because
of the fact that gravity wilj pull th
water from the pipe downwards. Th
pump affords the necessary pressur
and the same water circulating agali
^ind again; the pipe system and wate
from the outside not being practica
ble because of the fact that it woul
fill the drift full. The heat is re
turned to the water already used ii
• the drifting for thawing by the use j
I of the exhaust from the gasoline en
; gine, which is inserted in the sump
11 and thus restores the latent heat
i which the thawing process has ab
stracted.
. GOVERNOR VISITS
PIONEER IGLOO
—
, Governor Riggs visited the Pion
eers of Alaska, Igloo No. 1 and gave
an interesting talk on his experiences
. thruout the sections of the territory
i which he has visited and his hopes
[ for the fuller and more extensive
. development of the resources of Al
aska.
I This was the regular meeting of the
[ organization held last evening and it
. was very well .attended. Governor
. Riggs is a member of the Pioneers
. of Alaska himself as well as of the
s Arctic Brotherhood, having himself
s mined in the Dawson country in ‘‘the
5 days of old the days of gold in the
> days of 99” to paraphrase the old
l ballad of the Californians,
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- PROVE THE PUDDING BY EATING
1 BUTTER EGGS PIG PORK PRE
- SERVES AT INDEPENDENT GROC
1 ERY.
FISH GALORE RUNNING
KOTZEBUE SECTION
Twenty thousand salmon trout is
not a very common sight even in wat
ers which are prolific in this tooth
some fisft, yet that was one of the
sights which Russ Downing saw while
sojourning up the Kobuk.
Fish never were so plentiful as
this year of grace, salmon and sal
mon trout running in simply super
abundant quantities and taxing the
resources of the cannery operated by
the Midnight Sun company to put up
for the consumption of the outside
public where the canned salmon trout
is growing in favor. This is worth |
ten dollars a case and the pack this
year will surpass all records.
The Kobuk, famous as a fish river,
is surpassing itself and Sam Magids
has put up four hundred barrels of
fish for shipment outside. This con
sists of salmon bellies and salmon
trout, salted for outside shipment.
The Cordova will clear the pakk of
the fisher folks up in the Kotzebue
section.
John Lichtenberg is shipping down
between fifty and sixty tons of dried
salmon for local consumption.
Remarkably enough while Kotze
bue Sound has been highly favored
with a record run of fish, the run at.
Teller was not so good, and Riley
and Whittard as well as Nygren and
Torkelson were somewhat disap
pointed in the run of fish. They are
however recouping themselves in the
abundant run of herring for which
they are ready and of which they are
prepared to put up a large quantity*
Keep Posted. Read the WORKFK.
INMACHUK MINING
SHORT
Mining in the Inmachuk has been
somewjhat seriously affected by the
dry weather and the season has been
an off one on that account. With
the exception of Hank Fries who em-i
ploys a gang of Russians any old
number of hours, the eight hour day
prevails thruout the section and is
greatly appreciated by the miners.
Geo Walker, Barney Landy, Dick
Butler, Tom Roust, with Geo Kilroy
in charge of drilling operations made
up a drilling and exploration party
under Chandler and Dawson, per
forming expert work on the Inma
chuk properties of the Fairhaven
Ditch Co, Mr Dawson being the min
ing engineer in charge and being
sent from New York for that purpose.
They certainly had a successful drill
ing operations, putting down 5000
feet in 55 days, eight hour days at
that.
Cordovado is operating with great
success on the Inmachuk and pros
pects show no slacking up in the
pay, two dollar pans being frequent
enuff. Cordovado runs one of the
best camps ever established in that
section, good accomodations for the
men, the eight hour day and with the
most satisfactory results all round.
He arrives in Nome for supplies.
About two years work is ahead on
this property.
Escholt, Borne and Escholt have
got two cuts stripped and ground
sluiced down to pay, but without
water they had to leave the aurifer
oifs lie there. The pay dirt is IiigU
grade.
H. L. Stull has hot a Keystone drill
and will prospect the lava for old
channels. Inasmuch as it is known
that these old channels are the main
feed of the present pay his prospects
are good. Eastern capital is back
ing him.
Other outfits are somewhat in th©
same position as the rest being handi
capped for the lack of water.
ARCTIC LEFT MANY
BEHIND IN KEEWALIK
The Arctic had a somewhat stormy
trip coming south to Nome from Kot
zebue and had to take shelter in Tel
ler after buffeting heavy gales all the
way from Shlshmaref to Teller. After
leaving the Grantly Harbor port, the
boat had to lie to in the lee of Sledge
Island for fourteen hours, twenty
four hours delay in Teller having
been experienced while the storm
raged.
Passengers coming down on the
Arctic, and those who were left be
hind even to a greater degree, com
plain of the government ruling which
prevents the boat taking more than
fifteen passengers. Under this ruling
15 passengers who were anxious to
get to Nome to take passage to the
outside were left behind and four
others at Deering also were passed
up.
At Teller it was impossible to take
down a native who wanted to go to
Nome for surgical aid for a crushed
hand. He had his hand crushed while
working in the construction of a
dredge for Joe Vint on Sunrise creek.
In consequence there is a big kata
basis of passengers from Candle com
ing over the trail, Leo Lowenherz
having charge of the commando that
is executing a drive across the tundra
on the Seward Peninsula metropolis.
Those who were turned back at
Keewalik because the Arctic could
not take them had walked all the
way from Candle and thereupon were
compelled to retrace their steps and
come on from there over the tundra.
One of these passengers has al
ready arrived in Nome, having per
formed the wonderful feat of trek
king across the tundra in six hours
after tue Arctic arrived here. Some
musl;, eh, what?
Subscribe <or -Sne Worker,
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SCHEME TO HELP OUT MINERS
IN GOLD INDUSTRY
SAN FRANCISCO,—The adoption
of an international coinage by the
allied nations that shall be legal ten
der in each nation of the Allies and
that shall be on a uniform basis of
the dollar unit was urged in a resolu
tion by William H. H. Hart, former
attorney-general of California, in the
Convention of mining and banking in
terests, together with federal officials,
that met at Reno, Nevada, for the
purpose of determining the various
pressing and fundamental questions
dealing with the mineral production,
coinage and international trade and
exchange.
This resolution as passed proposes
that the coin value ot fine gold per
ounce be fixed at the coin value of
$40 per ounce instead of $20.67 per
ounce, and that the coinage of silver
be put on the bdsis of twenty to one,
and that its coin value be fixed at $2
per ounce.
According to Dr Hart, two conflict
ing ideas were represented at the con
vention. The bankers seem to favor
produced in the United States, while
the mining operators oppose this and
favor increasing the coinage value
of fine gold to $40 an ounce.
The latter method, said Mr Hart,
would conform the coinage practically
to that of Japan, t>je Philippine Is
lands, Mexico and the Spanish Amerl*
can states, thereby saving the enor
mous amount of exchange which haw
been a detriment to the trade of the
United states as well as of England,