ALASKA FORUM
(OFFICIAL PAPER)
THE FORUM PUBLISHING CO.
J. B. Wingate Editor and Manager.
VOLUME 3- No. 16.
SATURDAY,OCTOBER l8, I902.
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EDITORIAL.
Morb practical mining men with
first-class outfits of machinery have
landed at Rampart the past sixty
'■ days than have been in the camp
since it was struck in ’97. Mach
inery in the hands of men who
know how to use i;, will do ail that
can be expected of it. The same
plant in incompetent hands would
break a Vanderbilt. As the future
of this district will depend in a
large measure on the results of the
coming winter’s prospecting, and
as machinery must be called upon
for the profitabte working of some
of our best creeks, the claim own
ers, injustice to themselves and to
the camp, assure themselves that
the men operating the plant know
their business.
Machinery, to be run at a pro*
fit, must be kept in constant opera
tion, day and night. It was the
immense dnmps extracted and not
$800 pans that made the Klondike.
As a matter of fact the best paying
claims in the Dawson couutry were
low grade diggings.
The Forum has been requested
by a number of our local business
men to agitate the formation of a
volunteer fire company in Ram pa it
Unquestionably this should be at
tended to, and at once. The two
companies should give this project
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their strongest support, as should j
every business man and resident in !
the camp. The loss and stiff- ring j
that would follow the destruction
of Rampart by fire in mid-winter
is beyond calculation. By all means
*
I let us organize a fire department.!
President rooseveet is confin
ed to his bed, the result of a collis
ion of a trolley car with his carria
ge. The president was serionsly
injured and one of his attendants
instantly killed. The motorman
was endeavoring to race the presi
dential party for a bet of $5, and is
now under $25,000 bail.
Eight seloons in a. camp whose
population is estimated at 600! If
Rampart wTere incorporated $2,000
of license money from this source
alone would be in the city's strong
box.
Pete Shibley arrived from Daw
son yesterday. Pete brought down
a small thawer with him.
Frank Stanlej' and Win. Pasage
arrived from Dawson in a small
boat from Dawson last Monday.
Mr. Stanley was here last fall but
business compelled him to return to
Dawson, much against his wishes.
He will prospect some claims ^n j
which he is interested this winter.
He reports Andy Christopher and
\Yrm. Gordan on their way down
with two large machinery outfits.
ordan was foreman for Kirkpat
rick & Munroe for years and is a
through mining man. j
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