ALASKA FORUM
(OFFICIAL PAPER)
THE FORUM PUBLISHING CO. !
J.B. Wingate Editor and Manager.
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Alaska Forum, Rampart. Aka. _
SATURDAY, JULY 9, I904
The mass meeting of Thursday
night last was a strong protest on
the part of the working miners of
the district. If the many miners
who expressed themselves against
the reduction on golddust and the
spot-cash system stand up for their
sentiments good results will ensue
—in time. The companies may
have many things to contend
against, but to enforce the spot
cash system on men who for years
have always paid their bills—at
prices set by the companies—seems
somewhat unjust. The miners’
mass objection is simply this: that
his straight dealings with the com
panies during all these years, which
in all business communities in other
localities would give him an asset
to fall back upon—a good standing
and credit—is under the present
condition wiped out.
The small trader is now on an
equal footing with the commercial
companies. Heretofore no dealer
with small capital could compete
with the companies owing to their
inability to await the washup for
payment. If the miner must ‘ ‘rock”
to pay his way hereafter, the small
dealer stands the same chance to
secure his trade as the largest firm
in the camp.
The Forum will continue to ac
cept golddust at $16 per ounce.
Miners Protective Associa
tion. Join it.
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LOCAL JOTTINGS
Joe Cooper will open a saloon
near the N. C. Co. at Tanana just
as soon as his building is erected.
F. A. Drake lett for Tanana
Wednesday night. He will .work
on the projected improvements at
Ft. Gibbon.
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Pres Ireland is conducting The
Pioneer during the absence of Joe
Anicich at Tanana and Fairbanks.
The steamers Seattle No. 3, Her
man, Susie and Sarah are now on
their way from St. Michael.
The Douise passed down river
Wednesday last. It is stated that
her boilers were leaking badly from
the unequal heat of her oil fuel.
J. E. Huhn and H. L. Hedger
dropped down to Tanana in a small
boat Wednesday night. They are
on their way to Fairbanks.
Cy Noble has gone up the Tanana
to cut logs for the Tanana market.
Owing to the building epidemic at
that place there is a great demand
for house logs.
Morris Farrell has taken a con
tract from Stoel & McQuesten to
cut and raft the balance of the log
contract. Stoel & McQuesten will
bank the logs and land them at Ft.
Gibbon.
I*. A. Jones returned from Fair
banks on the Lavelle Young. Mr.
Jones will crosscut a claim on Hes
ter creek, near Chenoa, this fall.
He will not withdraw from this
district, as he has several valuable
claims on the Glen side.
E. T. Wood, one of the What
Cheer bar discoverers, sold his in
terest in the ground to E. Hopkins.
The price was $5,000 cash and
$3,000 on bedrock. Wood left on
the Eouise for the states He will
take in the St. Eouistairand spend
the winter at his home in Lubeck,
Me. lie will return to Rampart
next spring.
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MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.
WRITE F O R' Cl RCUlAflS
Capt. O. Humphrey, according
to a local resident, is authority for
the statement that the N. A. T. &
T. Co. lost $382,000 in Alaska last
year. Humphrey evidently be
lieved the transportation branch of
the concern caused the deficit, as
he stated the Isom consumed 2,000
tons of coal and 680 cords of wood
last season.
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