Eagle Mining Co. Transfer
Operations To Fairbanks
The Eagle Mining Company having
disposed of its interests on Glen, will
transfer future mining operations to
the Fairbanks district. Messrs. Bel
sea and Beardsley, who compose the
company, are now awaiting the arrival
of the Cudahy to proceed to the states
to secure the necessary machinery to
install on their holdings on Esther creek
in the Fairbanks district.
According to Mr. Belsea the Esther
paystreak requires special machinery
for wqfhing, it being composed of a
tenacious soapy clay which defies the
ordinary methods of sluicing. With
prolonged exposure to the air it will
harden. The particular machine to
wash this dirt, Belsea believes, is a
long, perforated steel cylinder, with a
large number of steel spikes projecting
from the inner side. The dirt will be
dumped into this cylinder, which will
revolve with a sluice head of water
pouring into it. This washing appara
tus will be brought in, in addition to a
large steam thawing and hoisting plant.
The Mystery of A Pair of Sox
“Mysterious” Yannert from Cold
Storage and Purgatory, was in town a
few days the past week. Yannert had
an exciting time this summer chasing
some desperate criminals with a rifile,
whom he believed stole his favorite
and only pair of red sox. The men
evaded capture, and several outfits he d
up by the enraged Yannert did not own
a sock. One man on his way from Ft.
Yukon had never heard of such an art
icle of apparel. »
The disgusted Yannert returned home
and penned a frantic appeal to the au
thorities for proper police protection,
insinuating that he would buy no more
sox until his request was granted: not
if he lived in Purgatory for life. It is
reported that the federal authorities
referred him to the ecclesiastical de
partment. A down-river floater stated
that the bereft Yannert discovered two
months later that he. had the missing
sox on.
Billy Mann came In this morning from
lower Hunter creek. He has enjoyed
a profitable summer’s work.
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President Schmitz of Rampart
Dredging Concern is Coming
A. F. Schmitz. president of the A.
F. Schmitz Alaska Mining & Dredging
Co., is expected to arrive shortly. Mr.
Schmitz’ company has secured a large
area of placer on lower Big Minook. A
large amount of preparatory stripping
will be done this fall with the plant
now being hauled out by J ohn Stanley,
who directs the company’s affairs at
this point.
Local News items
Joe Wiehl will work this winter on
10a Little Minook.
The Rampart potato farmers are be
ginning to dig their crops. * ' I
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Dreibelbis pass
ed through last Monday on the Hannah
bound for Fairbanks. I
Messrs. Donworth and Goslaw will
leave shortly on an extended prospect
ing trip to the head of Squaw creek. j
M. S. Gill is in camp after a profit
able summer’s run on 2a Glen. It is j
authoritively stated that the claim pro
duced $36,000 this season.
Louie Shequin, Walter Sundborg and
Henry Papin, who leave on the Sarah,
will all return over the ice, via Valdez,
early next spring,
It i3 estimated that $100,000 in dust
came in from across the divide during
the past week. Conservative estimates
place the season’s output at $li5,000.
The first snowstorm of the season
struck Rampart yescerday, and raged
all day. The present clear weather
presages a cold but pleasant spell.
Tom Antonsom and Billy Graham be
gan work on one of the * disputed Pio
neer claims for A. H. Lane, but were
ordered off by Max Neville, one of the
claimants.
Cap Williams and O. P. Goss have
left on a prospecting trip upnver. Cap
has announced.himself as a candidate
for the Rampart defunct marshalship.
Louis Seyler returned on the Hannah
after a short visit to the States. Dur
ing his absence he deserteyl the ranks
of single blessedness, marrying a Miss
Newhall. Mrs. Seyler proceeded to
Fairbanks for a shore visit.
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