SULLIVAN
SIZED UP
A recent visit'to Sullivan creek
found things quiet in the business
line, and money scarce. How
ever, the dumps on the pay
ground are rising skyward.
Baker, Jepson, Winde & Fer
nando have the largest dump.
Fernell, Geizheiker & Rice are
running a close second, while
Farnham & £o. are hot on their
heels.
Lowe, Allum, Nevelle & Ahrens
have a fine-looking dump. These
boys have been handicapped
somewhat by a ridge of bedrock
which followed parallel with
their drift, and at times reaching
a height of feet. They are
now hoisting from a new shaft.
Baker & Co. are hoisting from
two shafts.
Tom Woodson, on the fraction,
is getting under way, as are also
Struthers & Adams.
The good-natured family, Eg
ler, Wallick & Nichols, are doing
things in a systematic way.
On Discovery (Pattersonereek)!
—which is said to be cut by the!
boundary line between Germany !
and Ireland — Snyder and the I
boys have out a fine dump.
Pearson & Sutherland, on the
hillside, are hoisting good pay. I
Kemper & Co., just below Sny
der, are getting things in shape
for a long siege of hoisting. They
have a fine plant and much do
ings is looked for when they get
under way.
At present the pay dirt on top
of ground—which includes all
dumps on the creek—will aggre
gate 50,000 buckets; each bucket
contains about four wheelbar
rows, and as near as could be
learned the pay in the best places
would clean up about $1.75 to the
square foot, and the rest about
$1.00.
All things considered, this is a
splendid showing. When the
writer was on the ground during
the holidays the boys for the
Archdeacon
Goes Afoot
Archdeacon Stuck arrived in
Hot Springs on Wednesday after- '
noon with a fine team of five hus
kies, but on Thursday morning
when he wished to continue his j
journey only one dog answered j <
roll-call, the others having taken
French leave in the gloaming. <
Mr. Stuck and his native dog
1‘ambasteur hunted high and low
for the runaways, but could lo
cate none of them. The search
was kept up until about 1 o’clock
in the afternoon, and the arch- 1
deacon started up river afoot ex
pecting to reach Tolovana by 9 <
o’clock. He will be in Fairbanks
in time to conduct services to
morrow. _
C. R. Corbusier, the mail route su
perintendent, made*a trip to the city
on last stage, and returned to Tanana
on Monday.
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most part had just got undei
way; and now the days are
such as will allow them to do
more and better work. The
dumps, taken as a whole, will
likely contain 100,000 buckets.
The boys on Cache and Harter
creeks are enthusiastic over their
find, but are not blowing any.
Ed Richards is getting in strong
in this neighborhood. Cache
bids lair to rival Sullivan.
Much staking and straighten
ing out of lines has been going
on between the finds on Cache
and the pay dumps on Cooney
and KiHarney.
Jim Drummond has one of the
finest buildings on Sullivan.
Jim McCue, the old-time Ram
part freighter, was found hiber
nating on Sullivan. He is at
present in the ice business.
There are rumors of trouble
over the Cache creek find.
Jack Spencer wTas found hold
ing down the lever on Baker &
Co.’s hoist.
Ramparters Visit
in Hot Springs
A party of Rampart residents,
consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Nich
ols, Mr. and Mrs. Strickland,
Mrs. Fleischman, Miss Marcie,
and Messrs. Young and Donald
son, are expected to arrive in
Hot Springs today or tomorrow
on a visit among their many old
friends, many of whom were
former residents of Rampart.
The party will remain for the big
dance and cake-walk on the 17th.
Joe Nellany is getting a set of fine
building logs from the woods to the
water’s edge in order that they may be
towed up the slough after the ice goes
out. Mr. Nellany will use the logs in
his new South Second avenue home.
Billy Burke, local manager of the
N. C. store, made a trip tu the creeks
this week.
Lets Lay to
His Partner
Ed Reynolds came in from Kil
larney creek last Thursday and
will remain here indefinitely, hav
ng let a lay to his partner, F. C.
Miller, on the ground jointly
i>wned by them on that creek.
Mr. Reynolds will haul the nec
^ssary lumber for sluiceboxes
md will assist in washing up the
winter dump. Mr. Miller has al
ready started to sink a new work
ing shaft.
Mr. Reynolds reports that on
Tuesday the Farrell boys reached
bedrock at 28 feet in a new hole
:>n the Million-Dollar bar, Killar
ue.y creek, and got pans running
from 10 to 23 cents—they best
they have yet uncovered. They
have started drifting, and feel so
much encouraged that it’s thought
that they cannot be persuaded to
breakaway even for the St. Pat
rick’s day dance.
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Hot Springs Mouth of Slough
No Food Variety
For Koyukukers
A traveler who had but re
cently left the Koyukuk district
informs The Post that the camp
this winter is very poorly sup
plied with sufficient foodstuffs
and the people will not enjoy
much of a variety in consequence.
There will be no suffering. The
N. C. octopus, who strong tenta
cle is the “whole cheese” in that
neck o’ woods, shipped very lit
tle into the camp last year.
Canned goods and several sta
ples are very short, and there is
very little clothing and less un
derwear for the people to be had.
The Koyukuk district is—and
has been for years- -conducted on
the most approved N. C. system
of operations when it gets the
dead immortal cinch on a com
munity. It is only a matter of a
few7 years until every settlement
in interior Alaska will be in the
Koyukuk’s fix unless the people
get extremely busy and relieves
that concern of its overworked
“lead pipe.”
Archdeacon Stuck
, Visiis Hot Springs
Archdeacon Stuck wTas a visitor
in Hot Springs last Wednesday,
and in the evening held services
in the lobby of the Hot Springs
hotel. As this was the first op
portunity our citizens have had
to hear a sermon this winter, the
reverend gentleman was greeted
by a large congregation wTho lis
tened attentively to his instruc
tive remarks.
The archdeacon has been trav
eling over the wilds of Alaska
almost continuously during the
winter. He visited the missions
of his church in the Koyukuk
country early in the winter, and
after spending the holidays at
Fort Yukon, has been working
between the last-named mission
and Gibbon.
Lilliputian Mother
and Her Tiny Babe
Philadelphia, March I.—Looking
more like pretty dolls than real, live
human beings, Mrs. Lawrence A. Ram
sey and Miss Elfie Martha Lamsey, the
smallest mother and the tiniest baby in
the world, are doing nicely at their
home in this city.
Mrs. Ramsey in vaudeville circles is
known as “Queen of the Lilliputians.”
She is 25 years old and weighs only 57
pounds. She lacks two inches of being
four feet tall. Baby Ramsey weighed
four pounds at her birth. The Caesa
rian operation was necessary to bring
her into the world. That mother and
daughter survived this most critical of
operations is still being marveled at by
the medical profession. Ten days after
the operation the midget mother was
able to sit up. Five days later she was
able to walk, and before another week
passed she left the hospital.
Mrs. Ramsey was Miss Weis before
her marriage to Ramsey a year ago.
He is also a midget. The team of Weis
and Ramsey is well known on the
vaudeville circuits.
A most enjoyable “stag” social was
held Monday night in the bachelor
quarters over the N. C. storeroom by
a bunch of mavericks. Billy Burke and
J. E. Baker were the hosts of the joy
ous occasion, with Harry Turnbull as
master of ceremonies, and the way the
evening passed with song and story
wasn’t slow. One of those appetizing
hurry-up lunches—with all the essen
tial irrigation trimmings—was served,
which proved itself all to the good.
The hour of midnight had arrived be
fore the “push” thought of breaking
away. _
Herman Tofty, after whom Tofty
gulch was named, who has been spend
ing the winter withrelatives at Water
town, S. D., is now on his way back to
Hot Springs. Mr. Tofty sailed from
Seattle about ten days ago.
The Eagle Bar
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Transferee!
to Juneau
Charles W. Garfieid, who lias been
connected with the customs house at
Nome since 1904, reached Hot Springs
last Sunday on his way to Juneau, to
which port he has been transfered.
This is Mr. Garfield’s first visit to inte
rior Alaska and the Tanana, and jil
though he found the trip from Nome to
Tanana a very long and at times a very
hard one to travel enjoyed the journey
very much. He was particularly
pleased with the appearance of Hot
Springs and the activity displayed on
the creeks of the district, and ex
pressed surprise at the showing made
made in a few months. The Manley
hotel, farm and greenhouses proved i
eye-openers for the visitor, and he en- J
joyed himself every hour of his stay in
town. On Monday he resumed his
journey on the stage.
Mr. Garfield’s father, Hon. Lucihius
Garfield, was one of the most noted
public men of the Puget sound country j
in pioneer days, and was considered'the
best orator of -his time in the Pacific
Northwest. He represented the terri
tory of Washington in congress ’way
back in the late-60s.
Koyukuk Natives
Nearly Starving
The natives along the Koyukuk
river are reported by Miss Car
ter, who is in charge of the Epis
copalian mission at Allakaket, to
be on the verge of starvation this
winter, and their condition pitiful
in the extreme. The lack of food
is accounted for by the very low
stage of water prevailing in all
the Alaskan streams last summer
—thereby causing a very small I
run of fish, which is the staff of;
life on the native bill of fare, i
Many dogs have been killed;
rather than to starve them to
death:
Mr. Boulter, the assistant su
perintendent of education, has
been sent into the country to in
vestigate conditions and furnish
some means of relief.
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Bill Cheeseman, the widely-known
miner and prospector, Arrived in Hot
Springs last Monday. He has been
working below Tanana town during the
winter. _•
- Statements neatly printed—The ostP
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Frank Waskey
on Iron Creek
Frank Waskey arrived from Iron
creek a few days ago. His big under
taking there is progressing steadily,
and he expects to have the first section
of his tunnel finished by June 1. It is
about 1800 feet long and cost approxi
mately $100,000. This is by far the
largest undertaking of any individual
operator in the peninsula and repre
sents quite an initial outlay. Mr. Was
key has seven men steadily employed
in the big tunnel, and in addition is
building a flume 1000 feet long. Pros
pects are very bright, and ne>t sum
mer raining operations on a practically
extensive scale will be carried on.—
Nome Indus. Worker.
Moves Building
to Hot Springs
Frank B. Stanley has workmen
employed razing the log office
building he had erected last fall
at Bryan City, on the Tanana
river, and will have the same
hauled to town and re-erected
in the rear of the Stanley house,
to be used as an icehouse and
cold-storage room for his meats.
Matt to Leave Us
Matty Stewart, the popular barber
and recognized “master” of the social
cut-throat pastime of solo, will soon
shake the snows of Hot Springs from
his mucklucks and move his outfit to
Gibbon, where he will establish him
self in business.
Man is a little cuss and hasn’t long to
stay. He lies around and makes a fuss
and then he hikes away. Some men
imagine they are great and try to tear
up jack, but each one meets the same
old fate and trots the same old track.
Great Caesar’s dead and turned to clay
and so is Cicero. Alexander has gone
the way the rest of us must go. The
sages, poets, heroes, all the men of
worth, into the open grave must fall
and crumble back to earth. Then let’s
not join the mad affray to struggle like
the deuce, and agonize our lives away,
for really what’s the use? Let’s live
and love and sing the while, and work
some now and then, and give to every
one a smile that cheers the hearts of
men. And whether they are crowned
with flowers or chilled with winter
snows, with happiness let’s fill the
hours, ere we turn up our toes.—Walt
Mason.
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