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-SATURDAYj MAY 21, I904
The operations of the dredge
company on Big Minook creek will
be watched with considerable in
terest. Mr. John Stanley, the man-1
ager of the company, will be here:
next month with the complete1
dredging plant. Many claim that i
the dredging method is quicker and j
more profitable than the hydraulic,
on account of the frozen ground.
Whether this is true or not, it will
not be long before both will be in j
practical operation in this district I
—and results will tell the^ better
method. In either event Rampart
will profit, and it is the duty of;
every public-spirited resident in.
the district to throw no stumbling |
blocks in the wa}' of these enter
prises. ~ i
The action of the U. S. land,
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office in collecting a royalty of 25 ;
cents per cord on all wood cut on
government lands has not been un
expected. Special agent Witten
came down the Yukon last summer
and this was one of his principal i
investigations. While the law al
lows a settler to cut all the wood
required for his own domestic uses,
without charge, he must buy the
timber from the government if he
desires to sell it.
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The litigation the past week to
collect wages, originally earned,
“on bedrock,” should be a lesson
to the miners of the district. There
Is nothing like a contract between
t
parties—to avoid misunderstand
ing. In the absence of such it may
sometimes be exceedingly difficult
to prove a verbal agreement. As
a usual thing—to the credit ol. the
miners in this district—they keep
their agreements, either written or
oral, and it is laegely due to this
fact that the present laxit)' prevails
in regard to written contracts.
ABOUND AND ABOUT
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Capt. C. L. Peabody, formerly of
Skagway, has purchased the Yukon
river steamer Monarch, and will
operate that craft the next season
between Dawson and Fairbanks.
The Seattle Times of recent date
prints the following regarding John
Stanley, of this place, who is at the
head of a company which will work
on Big Minook:
“John Stanley, general manager
of the A. F. Schmitz Alaska Dredg
ing and Mining company, is in the
city superintending the work on
the new dredges to be placed on
the property of the company early
this summer. Mr. Stanley is great
ly pleased at the way in which the
work is going ou, and expects to
have one of the dredges completed
for shipment north by the first of
June.
“ ‘I anticipate that during the
first month we have our dredge at
work in the creek we will cleau up
between $25,000 and $30,000 by
working 24 hours a day,’ said Mr.
Stanley. ”
Emil Furstenau arrived from
Chenoa via Baker Creek last Sat
urday. Emil says Chenoa is going
to be the great city on the Tanaua.
John-Neussbaum will leave on
the Cudahy for Fairbanks. He will
take his outfit along and already
has numerous orders for papering
and painting on his arrival.
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ON OR ABOUT MAY 23
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Dissolution of Copartnership
The partnership heretofore existing between
A. H. Mayo and Joseph Cooper, under the firm
name and style of Mayo & Cooper, is this day
dissolved by~mutual consent. A. H. Mayo will
carry on the business and will pay all accounts
against said firm, and to whom all bills due are
to be paid. A- H. MAYO.
JOSEPH COOPER.
Rampart, May i, 1904.
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