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A MINING A
MU SHIP ORE
PRESIDENT OF COPPER PROP
ERTY NEAR CORDOVA SAYS
100 MEN TO KEEP WORKING
James J. Godfrey, president of the
Mother Lode Copper Mines company,
arrived in Cordova from McCarthy
recently to take a steamer en route
to New York, where he will spend
jthe winter. Mr. Godfrey has spent
the past couple of months on his
property in the interior, which will
soon be one of the big copper pro
ducers of Alaska, says the Cordova
Times.
A large power plant has been erect
ed at McCarthy and transmission
lines run to the mine, a distance of
fifteen miles, to furnish power for
the new mill, just completed.
An auto road has also been built,
and everything is now in readiness
for the transportation of ore from the
mine to the Copper river railway at
McCarthy. The new mill will turn
out fifty tons of high grade ore daily,
which averages about 60 per cent
copper. About 23,000 tons of ore
have been blocked out at the Mother
Lode mine, and auto trucks will at
once begin hauling it to the railroad,
from which point shipments will start
for the smelter about November 1. It
is estimated that 5,000 tons of this
rich ore will be sent to the states
during the coming winter.
During the past summer over 150
men have been employed at the mine
and on improvements, but as the lat
ter have been finished for this year,
the force will be reduced, although
100 men will be given employment at
the mine all winter.
Next year the company intends ex
pending $400,000 on a new concen
trating plant, which will have a ca
pacity of 5,000 tons daily, and in 1919
will be able to pay a dividend. By
that time the investment made in im
provements to the mine will about to
$1,500,000.
When President Godfrey was asked
in reference to the rumor that the
Kennecott Copper Corporation intend
ed to take over the Mother Lode
mine, he refused to discuss it.
GOLD BULLION HAS
FAMOUS WILLOW CREEK PRO
PERTY WILL BE OPERATED BY
ITS OWNERS NEXT SEASON.
The Gold Bulliion Mine, in the Wil
low creek district, has closed down
after a very successful season and for
the first time in several years will not
employ any men during the winter
months. The mine has been under
lease by a syndicate of Canadian capi
talists and has been managed by A. 1'.
Budd.
The Canadian syndicate, Mr. Budd
said, had surrendered its lease, al
though the mine has paid a handsome
dividend as the result of this season’s
operations.
The majority of stock in the com
pany owning the mine is held by
.Frank Bartholf, the Denver milionaire,
and the property will be operated next
season by the company, owning the
ground. The entire crew of men em
ployed at the Gold Bullion this season
accompanied Mr. Budd to Anchorage
and most of them will spend the win
ter here. Mr. 'Budd was host at an
elaborate dinner at the Frisco Cafe
last night and in the party were men
who have been employed for many
years at the Bullion mine, including
Harry Landers, transportation man
ager, William Morrison, amalgamator,
N. D. Boswell, mine foreman and Sam
Seek, S. M. McCullough, Ed. Erickson,
Ed. Egleson, Tom Ulch, W. G. Thomp
son, W. McKay and John Johnson.
STEAMSHIP SANTA ANA LEAVES
BETHEL ON SECOND AND
| FINAL VOYAGE OF SEASON.
A1 Walsh has just returned from the
Ivuskokvvim, where he spent a few
days says the Iditarod Pioneer. He
icports that the steamship Santa Ana
has left Bethel on her second and final
\oyage of the season. The wife and
daughters of Captain Langley of the
steamer Tana were outgoing passen
gers, as was also Mrs. Felder, wife of
the trader at Bethel,
i C. Felder has bought out the busi
ness of the Kuskokwim Commercial
company at Bethel.
At Akiak Karl Thiele is building
two big warehouses, and he is also
putting up a store building at the
mouth of Crooked. Fred Bishop, at
! Sleitmute, is building a two-story
house.
Material for Dredge Landed.
All of the material for the Candle
creek dredge has been landed at Me
, Grath.
Contrary to previous reports, which !
had it that gardens along the river I
had been destroyed by the high water, j
Mr. Walsh reports that late in August j
they were in better condition than i
; ever before known, and that more pro- j
duce was raised in that region than 1
in anv previous season.
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Jack Smeaton, the Donlin creek j
miner, has had an excelent season, and •
will be in Iditarod in a few da vs on his
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' way Outside, which he has not visited
for fifteen years. Harry Stevens and
Joe Konechny, also mining on Donlin >
: creek, are doing preparatory work for j
next season’s operations.
At the cinnabar properties, a few j
miles from Georgetown, Fuller, Will- j
i is & Millett are doing fairly well, and
have retorted considerable quicksilver.
Parks also had three men working.
Duke E. Stubbs of Kolmakoff is now
the proud owner of the fastest boat on
the Kuskokwim river, having recently
received a new Buffalo engine from
the Outside.
REIDS IMS
FUEL ADMINISTRATOR GAR
FIELD URGES SETTLEMENT
IN ILLINOIS DISTRICT.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 19.—
Following a conference yesterday with !
President White, of the United Mine
Workers, regarding the Illinois coal
strike, Fuel Administrator Garfield
warned the coal operators and coal
miners that where strikes were in
progress or were impending the gov
ernment would take charge of coal
production if the strikes should con
tinue any considerable length of time.
Garfield appealed to the miners and
operators to consider the national em
ergency and to resume production.
Fred W. Upham, president of the
largest coal company in Chicago, an
nounced that unless the strike was set
tled in ten days business in Chicago
would be paralyzed. He said there
was less than ten days’ supply of coal
on hand none arriving.
Strikes are also impending in the
Ohio and Indiana coal fields.
Frank Lawson and Harry Williams
returned to Fairbanks recently after
a summer spent in the hills in the
headwaters of the Charlie river and
also in Goodpaster. They stated that
the country looked good to them and
that considerable staking was done
as several creeks showed signs of good
placer ground.
OPINION DIFFERS IN REGARD
TO STATUS OF LAIN GOVERNING
ASSESSMENT IRK ON CLAIMS
FORMER DELEGATE IN CONGRESS SAYS TERRITOR
1AL LEGISLATION IS STILL IN FORCE WHILE AT
TORNEY- GENERAL GEORGE B. GRIGSBY DE
CLARES IT HAS BEEN SUSPENDED.
There is a conflict of opinion as to the status of legisla
tion governing assessment work on mining claims in Alaska.
James Wickersham, former delegate in congress from this
territory, who is now contesting the seat in the house of rep
resentatives of Charles A. Sulzer, in a communication to the
Daily Times, declares that the law recently passed by con
cress purporting to do away with assesment work during flic
rears 1917 and 1918 merely suspended the federal requirements
:md that it does not stop the operation of the Alaska legis
lature’s law compelling assessment work on all mining claims
CONTENTION OF FORMER DELEGATE.
Mr. Wickersham’s contention is that while the federal as
sessment law has been suspended for this and next year, the
territorial assessment law is still in force.
George B. Grigsby, attorney-general for Alaska, who b
in Anchorage, when informed of Mr. Wickersham is opinion,
declared that he differed from it. The attorney-general said
that the congressional act doing away with assessment work
had the effect of suspending the territorial law requiring it.
The text of the law passed by congress and the opinions
of Mr. Wickersham and of Mr. Grigsby follow:
TEXT OF CONGRESSIONAL ACT.
“Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives oi
the United tSates of America in Congress assembled, That in
order that labor may be most effectively used in raising and
producing those things needed in the prosecution of the pres
ent war with Germany, that the provision of section twenty
three hundred and twenty-four of the Revised Statutes of thf
United States which requires on each mining claim located
and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than $10C
worth of labor to be performed or improvements to be made
during each year, be, and the same is hereby, suspended durim:
the years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen him
dred and eighteen:
“Provided, That every claimant of any such mining clam
in order to obtain the benefits of this resolution shall file oi
cause to be filed in the office where the location notice or certifi
MUST FILE INTENTION.
cate is recorded on or before December thirty-first, of each oi
the years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen linn
dred and eighteen, a notice of his desire to hold said mining
claim under this resolution: Provided further, That this res
ulution shall not apply to oil placer locations or claims.
“This resolution shall not be deemed to amend or repea
the public resolution entitled joint
resolution to relieve the owners of
mining claims who have been must
ered into the military or naval service
of the United States as officers or en
listed men from performing assess
ment work during the term of such
service, approved July seventeenth,
nineteen hundred and sixteen.
“Approved, October 5, 1917.”
Mr. Wickersham's opinion follows:
“The foregoing Act of Congress sus
pends ( or repeals) Section 2324 of the
United States Revenue Statute 1878,
requiring assessment work on mining
claims for the years 1917 and 1918,
but it does not suspend or repeal Sec
tion 3 of the Act of the Legislature of
Alaska of 1915, which requires such
assessment work to be done »n
Alaska.”
The statement of Mr. Grigsby is as
follows:
“The resolution of congress sus
pends the annual labor law in Alaska
as well as elsewhere. All that is neces
sary to hold a claim is to file notice of
application before January 1, 1918.”
WORK BEGINS AT
CHICKALOON MINE
TWENTY MEN START DEVELOP
MENT OPERATIONS ON
COAL PROPERTY.
Twenty men now are engaged in
actual development work on the
Chickaloon mine and work started to
day on permanent quarters for the
crew, according to Charlie Peters,
proprietor of the general store at
Chickaloon, who arrived in Anchor
age Wednesday.
“The steel now has been laid to
Mile 38,” said Peters, “and Saturday
for the first time the Sourdough Lim
ited turned on the wye at the end of
steel.
“Material for the permanent quar
ters of the men was brought on the
first train, and Contractor C. M. Mur
phy, who will supervise the construc
tion of the buildings, was on the
ground to make preparations for be
ginning work immediately.
TOLSTOI REGION
ISREPORTEO
TO BE SPOTTED
J. TOTLAND TELLS OF NEW DIS
TRICT SITUATED BETWEEN
INNOKO AND IDITAROD.
J. Totland, who recently arrived ii
Nome from the Tolstoi district, whicl
is between the Innoko and the Iditaro*
reports it spotted, according to th
Nome Industrial Worker. For sever
al days he was in Marshall city am
reports McGrath cleaning up $68,000.
While at Marshall some miners ar
rived from Anvik and claimed to hav
made a platinum strike somewhere ii
that region. They had samples of th
metal with them and intended to as
certain its values and return.
Totland also had advices from ui
the Yukon, on Charles river, 140 mile
above Circle where pay has been foum
by miners on the benches, some lo\
grade pay and in one shaft a thirt
dollar nugget had been taken out.
$516,000 IS PAID
FOK ALASKA Ml
LOUIS C. DILLMAN SELLS WEST
OVER COPPER PROPERTY
TO CHITINA COMPANY.
SEATTLE, Oct. 25.—A Seattle min
ing man and capitalist, announced to
day the sale of the Westover group o
copper mines in southwestern Alask
to the Chitina Exploration companj
of Seattle, for $516,000. The sale i
the largest in years in northern coppe
properties and it is regarded as pre
saging much activity in Alaska coppe
districts.
William Loggman, a mining mai
from Hope, will be among the passen
gers on the Alameda for Seattle to
night.
PROSPECTORS LEAVE FOR TRI- i
BUTARY OF SALATNA 160 ]
MILES BELOW TAMARACK. }
Ruby’s favorable location as an out- ♦
fitting point for miners and prospect- j
ors is being taken advantage of quite j
freely this fall, and large numbers j
of men are preparing to put in a i
sti’enuous winter on the creeks of the ^
surrounding district, says the Record- •
Citizen of Ruby.
Recently a movement partaking of
the nature of a miniature stampede
was in progress when a considerable
number of men were engaged in se
curing outfits from Ruby merchants
with a view to a prospecting campaign ■
on Muncenite creek, a tributary of ^
i the Salatna, which empties into the
latter stream about 160 miles below
the mouth of Tamarack, opposite the
j mouth of Flint. The region can be
reached by launch. The party consists
of twelve or thirteen men, some of
whose outfits had been taken to their
destination by Bert LeQue in his
launch. Those comprising the party
are:
Jack Shropshire, Eddie Power,
James Ross, L. E. Torence, James Au
' gusta, Jack Monahan, Dave Anderson,
! and “Dude” Anderson. (
All but Shropshire and Torrence! (
| have departed for the new creek, and [ (
! the latter, with others, will follow 1 (
! after the freeze-up. [
Muncenite creek is a stream con- (
cerning which the United States geo- [
logical survey has made favorable re- (
; ports, the formation and general con- <
ditions being said to be exceedingly [
favorable. Ruby mining men and pros- S
pectors are said to place great faith -
in the reports of the survey, as it is
a well known fact that in not a single
instance have their reports on creeks
in the Ruby district been discounted.
KOBUKRIVER
MINERS REPORT
Minei’s on Dahl creek, in the Ko- :
■ buk river section, according to ad- j
| vices from there, have finished clean- |
: ing up their winter dumps.
Charles Weeks, Wolfe and Yukon
> Chaidie, the latter a native miner, are
i reported to have done fairly well, as 1
1 a result of their winter endeavors.
2 Other miners in the section also took
-! out a little better than fair wages.
i: Operations were conducted on
Lynx, Dahl and Shugnak creeks. Jim
- my Cross and Harry Brown, former
3 residents of Nome, prospected in the j
i vicinity of Ambler mountain, some j
? distance up the Kobuk. Apparently s
- no definite information has been re- j
ceived on Dahl creek concerning the j
) reported strike in the Walker lake re
3 gion. Letters from Kotzebue dated
1 August 22 contained no further news
» of the alleged strike. One of the writ
7 ers openly voices the belief that the
supposed strike is a fake and intend
ed to start a fake stampede to the
headwaters of the Kobuk. The writ
er says this unfavorable opinion is
* based upon the unusual size of the
1 merchandise shipments made by cer
tain parties in the Kobuk district
since the opening of navigation. He
admits, however, that he has no other
eason for his suspicions in this re
spect.
' MINTS BUSY ON SILVER.
1 WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 25.—
1 The demand for silver coins is so great
’ that every mint in the country has
' been placed on a twenty-four hour
1 basis to meet the demand. This was
never necessary before.
c
Gus Seiffert, manager of the St.
Louis Mining and Trading company at
i Hope, has closed down the property
- for the winter and, with his son, will
- take passage for Seattle on the Ala
meda.
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