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For President—Charles Evans Hughes.
For Delegate to Congress—James Wickersham.
ANCHOR AUK, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 11)1(5.
SECOND PAYMENT NOW DUE.
All lot owners in Anchorage are advised that the second
payment on lots bid in at the first auction sale are due and pay
able at the V. S. land office at Juneau. Payments must be met
promptly, to avoid possible proceedings in forfeiture.
It will be informing to most persons who have bought lots
from the original owners, to know that the U. S. land office
does not recognize them 1n the premises. Not^ that there is
any question as to the title that passes from one to another,
but under the system in operation, the government looks pnly
to the original purchasers, having no official knowledge of
any transfers that may have been made subsequent to the auc
tion sale of lots. And herein, much confusion is liable to oc
cur and in many instances litigation must follow as the logical
result. This is the expressed opinion of one local attorney
who has devoted himself to a study of the entire lot situation.
As a hypothetical case, we will say that one of the orig
inal lot buyers sells his entire interest to another person, as
he has a perfect right to do, and quits the country for parts
unknown. The government records show him to be the owner
of the lot and naturally Uncle Sam looks to him for the an
nual payments that become due. Now, by reason of the trans
fer. the original bidder has lost all interest in thelotinquestion.
His equity lias passed to another, for a consideration, and h: j
presumes that his dealings with the government are ended,
so far as the lot in question is concerned. He doesn’t take the
trouble to tell anyone where he is going, as he figures that
the party to whom he sold will liquidate subsequent payments j
to the government, in conformity to the terms of the sale by
him to his purchaser.
Another likely case is where two partners bought a lot at
the auction, the title passing to one of them who happened to
attend the auction sale. The partners disagree, after a time,
and are not on -peaking terms. The title of the lot, so far as
the government is concerned, rests in the one who bid in the lot
at the auction. The other partner is unkown to the govern
ment. It looks to the bidder, and the bidder, in whom title
rests, so far as the government is concerned, is sore at his
partner, and will do nothing to aid him in the protection of
his right-. Of course, the courts will protect the partner, but
it means a law suit and this means additional expense for the
innocent partner.
These cases are not overdrawn. They will occur. Others
of like kind may be cited. The death of the original purchas
er would cause all kinds of trouble and difficulty.
It occurs to us that there should be some way to afford
more protection to the subsequent purchasers, in view of the
fact that the government, after selling lots to bidders, does not
prohibit the transfer of lots to subsequent purchasers. Instead
of looking to the original bidder, for payments as they be
come due, it occurs to us that the government, without much
trouble, could look to the present owners. But such a plan is
not feasible, if payment is to be made at the United States
land office at Juneau. The place of payment on these lots
should be at the point where the lots were sold. And those
charged with the responsibility of collecting these payments
should keep informed of the passing titles, as evidenced by
recordation of deeds in the recording office here. This would
lessen the complication and would give ample protection to
subsequent purchasers.
The government, in selling lots to private individuals,
has a duty to perform, a solemn obligation to fulfill. Tt can
not dismiss the matter by simply looking to the original bid
der. It must protect the rights of subsequent purchasers. To
invoke forfeiture proceedings because the original purchaser
does not make the payments, in the case where the original
purchaser has sold the lot to another innocent purchaser, does
not afford adequate protection to the rights of the second pur
chaser.
We must not lose sight of the fact that the people, com
ing here in large numbers, made the town lots valuable; that
without the people, and the present townsite of Anchorage
remaining in the public domain, the land would have remain
ed practically useless. Of course, government officials will
say that the building of the railway made this town what it is
today, but it is the peoples’ money that is constructing this
big enterprise. All through the whole scheme, the people are
the prime factors. And the wishes of the people should gov
ern the action of the public officials, who are in theory, if not
in practice, the servants of the people.
The message received by Postmaster Wood from Postof
fice Inspector Neil is taken to mean that Anchorage will re
ceive two mails each week from Seward, during the winter
season. The message simply states that a “satisfactory”
mail service has been arranged, and the twice-a-week service is
the only schedule that will be satisfactory.
Captain John Sundback, one of the sourdoughs of Alas
ka, is a candidate on the republican ticket for senator from the
Second division. Those who know this splendid type of sour
dough Alaskan are glad that he has been thus honored by his
party and they confidently look forward to his election.
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Washington, D. C., August 7, 1916. ^
The Times, Anchorage, Alaska:— ^
1 am departing for Alaska. I shall first visit, ^
en route, the First division, then go to Cordova, Val- ^
dez, Seward and Anchorage. I have seen Secretary ^
of the Interior Lane and he says he may not be able ^
to visit Alaska this year. ^
JAMES WICKERSHAM, ^
Delegate from Alaska. ^
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LOCAL JOTTINGS
ABOUT TOWN
(Prom Saturday’s Daily.)
Wm. Martin is down from the mine
today with the usual bullion.
Wm. Johnson who has a piling eon
tract, is in the city on a few days’
business trip.
The Misses Murphy and Miss Ben
nett are enjoying an outing in the
hills north of Knik.
Frank Cannon, the popular hotel
man, of Knik, is reported to be up
and around and promises to make An
chorage a visit in the near future.
Capt. a. Johnson, of the power boat
J. and J., left last night for Susitna
station with a capacity load of freight
and several passengers for Talkeetna
points.
The Happy Valley Coal company
received a barge of 100 tons of coal
this morning from the mine near Nil
chick and are unloading same from
the government dock.
The three lumber companies, the
Bird Creek, North Side and Anchor
age Supply have recently installed
telephone connections in their places '
of business.
Superintendent Jas. O’Reilly left '
for Matanuska Junction and railroad [
activities on this morning’s train but ‘
expects to return tonight to take in 1
the Elks’ picnic tomorrow. 1
The services of the Christian Sci
ence church will be held tomorrow '
morning at the Empress theatre in
place of the Byrne hall as formerly.
Services commence at 11 o’clock.
Postmaster Wood is in receipt of a (
telegram from Postoffice Inspector ’
Niell advising that the request of the
people of Anchorage in regard to two
mails a week during the winter 1
months will be granted. 1
Later reports from baseball head
quarters are that the City and Sham- J
rock game will be called for 1 o’clock 1
tomorrow afternoon, followed by a
game between the All-Anchorage se- 1
lection and a picked nine from the ]
other teams. '
The opening of the new pool, hall by ^
Chauncey F. Peterson and E. K. Pe
terson is deserving of more space than 1
The Daily Times is able to give it to- *
day but more will follow in Monday’s 1
issue. This pool hall will be open to -
the public possibly tonight but surely
tomorrow and promises to be a clas- 1
sy place. The popularity of the two 1
Peterson boys insures a liberal pat- i
ronage and their new place of busi- <
ness on the south side of 4th avenue
between C and D streets is a credit to •
me cuy. '
(From Monday’s Daily.) '•
Mayor J. G. Watts spent the day at ^
Matanuska Junction on business.
A1 Clamo is down from his Eska '
creek farm trading with the local 1
merchants.
Fred Kincaid, a rancher from the
Knik farming district, is in Anchor
age on business.
Mrs. Lee Foster and Mrs. Chas.
Spaulding came down from Knik Sat
urday and spent Sunday in the city
visiting friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Brown, Mr. and
Mrs. C. L. Hibbard and Wm. Martin
spent yesterday afternoon an<$ even
ing at the Whitney ranch.
The Happy Valley Coal company ]
has a splendid specimen of coal from \
the mines on exhibit -m front of the ■
Anchorage Chamber of Commerce.
A good crowd enjoyed the dance '
Saturday evening at the Union hall, ^
and in the opinion of the ladies pres- ;
ent the Leap Year dances are very
popular.
The revenue cutter Unalga reached
this port Saturday night, presumably 1
making this place in connection with
the recent confiscation of liquors at •
Point Campbell. 1
George Bolja, Jack Nelson and !
three more boys took the train this 1
morning for the Junction. They have
a clearing contract on the main line,
12 miles above the Junction.
The Tom Knudson ranch at Men- ;
denhall, one of the show spots for ;
tourists visiting the Juneau district, ■
is to be cut up into five-af re lots and 1
disposed of.
H. W. Nagley, mayor of Susitna
Station, who has been in Anchorage
several days on business, left last
evening on the power boat J. and J.
for the Station.
The first shipment of dried shrimps
ever sent from Alaska were shipped
from Petersburg recently. They are
destined for China. The shipment
consisted of 500 pounds.
Jack Chisholm, representing the
West Coast Grocery company, of Ta
coma, wil leave on the Admiral Evans
for a two weeks’ trip to Seward, Val
dez and Cordova in the interest of his
company.
Ralf Smith passed the night in
town and returned to Matanuska
Junction on the train this morning
with an outfit headed for Willow
creek to continue developing his
quartz property.
The members of the Anchorage
Chamber of. Commerce are requested
to meet tomorrow night for the pur
pose of nominating members and of
ficers of the executive committee for
the semi-annual election to be held
September 8, 1916.
Ike Evans, United States marshal
stationed at Seward, is in the city on
unofficial business, coming over on
the revenue cutter Unalga. Mr. Ev
ans and Colonel Revell sat side by
side in the grand stand yesterday
taking notes as to how the game
should be played.
Mr. Bennett, of the bureau of soils,
department of agriculture, and Mr.
Ringsted, of the U. S. forest service,
ns in their re
will be gone
leparted today, en jute to the Ke
lai riwr country, were they will
indertake investigat
pective lines. Thr
bout two weeks.
Alex Liska and Ja; es Lowery came
n this morning froi the new strike
« Theodore river md are stopping
it the Crist hotel, ’heodore river is
ocated between Levis and Beluga
ivers and Messrs. liska and Lowery
»ave eight claims staked, taking in
>art of the recent itriko.
Harry, commonly'known as Scotty,
Vatson was sentenced by Judge Leo
>old David this morning to serve four
nonths in the federsi jail for selling
ntoxicating liquors Scotty was
irought down from datanuska Land
ng by Deputy Mar hal Frank Hoff
nan yesterday and this is the first
iquor conviction front that place
The dearth of real hard rock miners
n the country is gc ting serious and
he mine operators of the Willow
treek district are cmtinually sending
o Anchorage for nore men. How
(ver, they claim thj. there are many
rrospectors in the Jills who will be
they come in
rip.
the
■■this
i cordial invita
team to come
tvailable later whe
rom their season’s
An invitation corimittee from
:ity boarded the culter Unalga
noming extending
ion to the baseball
ishore and be beatpn this afternoon
>y the All-Anchorage team at Recre
ition park. It seen- s that naval eti
juette demands a iformal invitation
ind to be really consistent the local
ilayers should allow them to win the
fame.
Robert J. Geis, Fairbanks pioneer
ind member of the city council, who
las also been in the liquor business
or several years, died there recently
rom pneumonia.
C. Birkhofer returned from Susitna
station yesterday and is registered at
he Crescent.
R. S. Clark and Geo. Fergsen, em
>loyes of the cannery at Goose bay,
ire registered at the Crescent.
The Bill’s club is planning on an in
ormal dance Friday night, to which
i few of their friends will be invited.
Weather permitting, the tennis
oumament scheduled for this after
loon on the Commission courts will
>e held, as reported in yesterday’s
Daily Times.
Admiral Nourse, the premier base
■unner of the All-Anchorage baseball
earn, will take advantage of his con
lections and leave for Seward on the
Vdmiral Evans tonight.
Ike Evans left on the revenue cut
er Unalga this morning for different
mints in the inlet, but says he will be
n Seward in time to take in the An
:horage-Seward baseball games.
The freighter Wellesley reached;
Anchorage last night with a capacity j
:argo of freight, consisting of a big |
ihipment of 1 umbel for the Alaskan
Engineering Comrrission and Mait
atid and McNally in addition to a
arge consignment of freight for local
nerchants.
Original Buyer
Must Attend to
All Payments
Indicating that the original lot!
mrchasers will be required-to see to j
he annual payments that become due,!
s the following letter, received by one
>f the property owners in town who
lad sold a divided one4ialf interest to
mother party:
Juneau, August 24, 1916.
Mir.
Anchorage, Alaska:
Jear Sir:
I am in receipt of your letter of I
fuly 7, in which you transmit money
>rder for., and state that
same is in payment of instalment on
he west one-half of lot., block j
.. townsite of Anchorage.
The records of this office show the
;itle of the lot as in your name, and
is the total payment on the lot
imounts to .
,'ou will be required to meet this pay
nent, in order to prevent forfeiture of
he lot, or to see that same is paid.
Very respectfully,
FRANK A. BOYLE,
Receiver U. S. Land Office.
ANDREWS TO SEEK
THE LOST ROCKER MINE
(Juneau Dispatch)
On board the Princess Sophia head
id for mining claims in which he is |
nterested on the Chitna river in the
Hopper river valley, is H. F. Andrews
>f Yonkers, N. Y., and the son of the
;x-congressman and present million
lire.
Mr. Andrews is a strapping college
graduate over six feet tall and has
made a trip annually to Alaska for
he past several years to property in
which he and his father are associated
in with George Max Esterly.
Mr. Andrews has already proved
that he can handle a No. 2 or direct a
?iant or boss the works with equal
Facility. Several years ago he was
spilled in the rapids of he Chitna in
company with several others and his
brother, the latter being drowned.
.. Mr. Andrews has recently received
information about a “lost rocker
mine” some place tovards the Arctic
circle and he intends to investigate
the truth of the details given to him
in the near future.
It may be said in passing that there
is a “lost rocker miie” story also in
southeastern Alaska,Jand one which
is vouched for by sonfe of the old-tim
jrs.
1
(Frcm Saturday’s Daily.)
Deputy Marshal Jack McCormack
)f Nulato resigns.
Vohnson & Anderson are hoisting
>n 3 above, Long.
Victor Omez, formerly of the Hotel
Northern, at Fairbanks, dies outside.
Frederick Maul, of Juneau, and
Miss Florence Smith, of Seattle, mar
ried.
Hayes and Hughes prepare to ship
)re from War Eagle mine at .White
lorse.
Tom Bums is reported to have kill
sd a maddened moose with an axe at
rotantanalika.
Jack Leach and Dick Thorsen buy
13 below Cleary creek from Pete
Malone for $25,000.
Charles W. Ritchie, special agent
for the General Land office at Fair
banks, transferred to Portland.
Jones & Lundin are running tunnels
and otherwise preparing for summer
work on Birch creek, Ruby.
Graham & Erickson have completed
a new working shaft on the Novika
ket association, Long creek.
Ruth E. Anderson, of Keep Hills,
Alberta, writes inquiring for her
brother, Charles F. Anderson.
Word received at governor’s office
that Levi Dobbins, pioneer of Ketchi
kan, died in Momingside asylum.
Gidlund & Co. are placing wood on
the Courtney bench, Bear Pup, for
opencut work during the summer.
Jack McCormick and John Mony
han are going to take out dirt in
Spi’uce creek during the summer.
Heggstrom & Nelson have their
machinery in place and are sinking a
working shaft on Straight creek, Ru
by district.
Kells & Co., who will operate on the
Windy bench this summer, are put
ting several hundred cords of wood
on the ground.
Ditz, Sedch & Walker are putting
down a working shaft on the Mascot,
Bear Pup, and getting straightened
around for summer work.
Bob Henderson, discoverer of the
Klondize, proposes to Dominion par
liament a scheme for destroying ice
bergs on Atlantic ocean.
Mr. and Mrs. Clark Davis are
spending the summer in Katalla. Mr,
Davis is the vice-president and gen
eral manager of the Alaska Petrol
eum and Coal company, and came up
bringing a force of coal miners to de
velop the company’s property in the
Bering river fields.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ibeck, the only
inhabitants of Middleton island, are
over in their launch, for their semi
annual visit to the mainland. They
are enthusiastic young fox ranchers
who have taken up the island as a
homestead, and are making a success
of fox ranching in that romantic spot.
—Valdez Prospector.
Dan Callahan, recently sentenced tc
a term of imprisonment at McNeil’s
island from Fairbanks, writes that he
has been placed in charge of the poul
try yard of the institution, according
to the Citizen. He says that he is
well treated and seems to be making
the best of life as he finds it at the
pcxu Lciii/itii y.
Investigation by the marshal’s of
fice at Fairbanks reveals that tthe
skeleton of a man reported found re
cently near the Miller creek divide
by a prospector is nothing more than
the bones of a caribou.
It is reported that all the operators
on Cleary creek are working and are
taking out from good to fair pay.
(From Monday’s Daily.)
There are now 61 inmates of the
Fioneer’s Home at Sitka.
The Juneau city council has voted
to levy a 20-mill tax this year.
A University of Washington Alum
ni club has been formed by residents
of Skagway.
The Juneau Dispatch reports both
blueberries and salmonberrie’s ripe in
that section.
Cordova has started a movement
for the closing of all stores on Sun
day afternoon^.
The Moore lodge at Fairbanks held
a picnic at Chatanika recently which
was largely attended.
John Ronan and Bennett James
are operating an arastra at theii
claim near Moose Pass.
The Tanana Valley railroad has in
creased its rates on ore shipments $1
per ton from all points on the line.
City Clerk Pettit, of Juneau, has re
ceived word of the death of his fathei
at Rock Island, 111. He was 84 years
of age.
Ruby is short of meat and the peo
ple are blaming the A. Y. N. Co. foi
its indifference to getting shipments
through.
Considerable quantities of scheel
ite are being taken out of the tailings
heaps of the Pioneqr Mining company
at Nome.
Word has been received at Juneau
of the birth to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
G. Shoup, of a ten-pound boy at San
Francisco.
The schooner Comet arrived in
Ketchikan recently with 147,000
pounds of halibut, the result of a 16
day trip.
An organization of boys and girls
of Douglas, known as the Loyal Tem
perance league, was recently effected
at that place.
Operators on Pedro creek in the
Fairbanks district, are busy with their
open-cut work, with weather condi
tions and water favorable.
The colored folks of the Gastineau
channel towns gave a picnic last week
at Taku. There are 56 negro resi
dents of Juneau alone.
Government Fur Warden William
P. Hemenway, statiohed at Tapgpa,
has been summoned to Washington,
D. C. on official business.
A telephone line, covering the dis
tance of 88 miles between Haines and
Porcupine is being erected by Col. W.
L. Stevenson and N. O. Hardy, of
Skagway.
The youngest employe of the Alas
kan Engineering Commission is Mel
ville Steil, of Nenana, who holds the
responsible position of water boy. He
is 11 years old.
"An electric pump with the capacity
of 1,200 gallons of water a minute, to
supply the stamps at the Ready Bul
lion mine at Douglas, has recently
been installed.
Residents of Seward tendered the
officers and men of the radio steamer
Saturn, a dance while the vessel was
there recently looking for a site for
a radio station.
Residents of Seward are protesting
against the high price charged for
coal in that city, the price being about
$4 per ton higher than that at Valdez
and Cordova.
Dr. E. S. Jonees and wife recently
left Juneau for a trip to Skagway in
two medium sized Peterboro canoes
strapped together and propelled by an
Evinrude motor.
The editor of the Ketchikan Pro
gressive-Miner claims to have receiv
ed a present of a quantity of home
grown strawberries July 12 from a
resident of that town.
Thomas Riggs, member- of the
Alaskan Engineering Commission in
charge of the work on the Fairbanks
end, recently cornered the axe market
there by purchasing every axe in the
town.
Nome reports tsate that the winter
dumps on Candle and Immachuk have
been cleaned up and the summer min
ing is now briskly under way. All of
the operators are said to have done
fairly well.
A report has reached -Fairbanks
that Mort O’Connor, a well-known old
timer of that country, has been sen
tenced to twenty years in a British
penitentiary for participating in the
recent Irish rebellion.
The Nome Chamber of Commerce
is patting itself on the back for the
aid it claims to have extended to the
Alaska Road Commission in getting
the appropriation of $500,000 for the
Alaakqa roads and trails.
Reports from various sections indi
cate that the Alaska salmon pack this
year will be a short one.
The territorial dental board is hold
ing examinations in Juneau for den
tists desiring to secure a license to
practice in the territory.
The Juneau land office has issued a
final certificate of patent to John Bar
rett for his homestead of 296 acres of
land near McCarthy.
Thomas P. Aitken, the well-known
Dawson and Alaska mining man, was
married recently at Vancouver to
Miss Emmel McHenry, of Dawson.
Officers of the U. S. Radio steamer
Saturn have selected a site at the
head of Resurrection bay for the pro
posed new radio station to be estab
lished at Seward.
(From Tuesday’s-Daily.)
Leslie Bennett, a well-known resi
dent of Fairbanks, died recently in
that city. He came from North Yaki
ma, and is survived by a wife and oth
er relatives in that place.
Sylva Frenzen, a 2-year-old girl of
Juneau, fell through the sidewalk on
Front street in that city recently, and
dropped 12 feet to the tide flats, but
was not seriously injured.
The governor was notified recently
of the death of Charles R. Coon, an
inmate of the Pioneer’s home at Sit
ka, on June 28th. His sister who lives
in Skagway was notified.
Reports from Council under date of
July 1, state that the Melsing creek
dredge commenced operations yester
1 day. The other dredges in that sec
tion are still hindered by frost.
Nick Barge with a drill, has uncov
ered rich pay on the Brower claim at
Nome, adjoining the famous Bessie
claim. The ground is difficult to work
on account of water.
The Border Line Transportation
company has let a contract for the
Vancouver Dredging and Salvage
company to raise the steamer North
land, which sank recently at the wharf
at ivaKe.
Judge Jennings has called a term of
the district court for the First divi
sion at Juneau, September ll, with
grand and petit juries, when the trial
of the Krause cases will be continued.
On her southbound trip the steam
er Mariposa picked up off Pt. John
son, Hinchinbrook island, a 15-foot
motor boat. It was found later tjiat
the craft belonged to “Poker Dick,”
of Cordova.
The Valdez-Fairbanks mail stafee
recently went through from Valdez to
Fairbanks in two days, seven hours,
and the drivers claim that they will
easily make it in less than two after
the roads dry out a bit.
Reports from the Tolstoi strike
state that no new finds have been re
ported for the past two months and
that many of the stampeders are be
coming discouraged. Prices in the
new camp are very high.
John Martinell, a newcomer in the
country, died recently at Tanana of
uremic poisoning. He was on his
way down the river when attacked
and was helped to Tanana where he
died shortly after arrival.
The Ruby Chamber of Commerce
has sent a protest to Washington
against the removal of the military
post from Fort Gibbon to Fairbanks,
for which a petition has recently beer,
circulated in Fairbanks.
The Pioneer Packing company,
which started the erection of a clam
cannery on Hawkins island, near Cor
dova, has abandoned the proposed site
and will construct the plant near the
steamship dock at Cordova.
Wicker sham’s
Homestead Bill
Is Now a Law
Delegate Wickersham’s homestead
bill, which has received favorable con
sideration at the hands of congress,
will prove of vast benefit to Alaska,
in that it will give settlers who have
exercised their homestead rights in
the states to again take up a piece of
land for settlement. Because of its
importance, the Li'.i iz herewith repro
duced in full:
An Act to ame 1 're United States
homestead law i . its application to
Alaska, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Unit
ed States of America in congress as
sembled, That every person who is
qualified under existing laws to make
homestead entry of the public lands
of the United States who has settled
upon or who shall hereafter settle up
on any of the public lands of the Unit
ed States situated in the District of
Alaska, whether surveyed or unsur
veyed, with the intention of claiming
the same under the homestead laws,
shall, subject to the provisions and
limitations of the Act approved March
third, nineteen hundred and three,
chapter one thousand and two, United
States Statutes at Large, page one
thousand and twenty-eight, be entitled
to enter one hundred and sixty acres
or a less quantity of unappropriated
public land in said District of Alaska,
and no more, and a former homestead
entry in any other State or Territory
shall not be a bar to a homestead en
try in Alaska: Provided,- That noth
ing herein contained shall be constru
ed to limit or curtail the area of any
homestead claim heretofore lawfully
initiated.
Sec. 2. That there shall be except
ed from homestead settlement and en
try under this Act the lands in An
nette and Pribilof Islands, the islands
leased or occupied for the propagation
of foxes, and such other lands as have
been or may be reserved or withdrawn
from settlement or entry.
Approved, July 8, 1916.
AITKEN SELLS SILVER MINE
TO MANLEY AND ASSOCIATES
(Dawson News)
One of the most important mining
deals made in the Yukon (or years
has just been closed, whereby Manley
Ives, Price & McGinn, well known
northern mining operators, have pur
chased the Silver King mining prop
erty in the Mayo district, in the upper
Stewart river valley, from Thomas
Aitken.* The purchase was arranged
recently after Messrs. Manley and
Ives came in from the coast over the
ice and went to Mayo, where they vis
ited ihe properties. They and Mr.
Aitke.i came down from Mayo on the
first water, and were here several
leys, awaiting the arrival of Mr.
3'eGinn. After conference with him
the deal was closed, and Mr. Manley
announced that he and his associates
are starting arrangements for the
opening and development of the prop
erty on a larger scale than ever.
Mr. Manley states that the compa
ny hopes to get a good road built
from the landing to the mine, so that
shipments can continue summer as
well as winter, and that the plan is to
put on heavy modem motor trucks or
tractors and to draw the ore to the
Stewart river at Mayo Landing as
fast as mined. He hopes to have 15
to 20 tons shipped daily this season
if the road can be put in suitable con
dition, and to deepen the shaft and
possibly open other shafts. Water is
to be pumped from the present shaft,
and the depth extended much more,
he says, and stopes started.
Mr. Ives will be on the ground in
charge of the work, and Mr. Manley,
after visiting the property on the trip
of the Nasutlin, will return to Daw
son, and then be joined by Mrs. Man
ley, who is coming from the outside,
after which he will go to Iditarod to
operate their extensive placers there
this summer with their dragline exca
vators. Mr. Aitken will go to Mayo
and expects to be back in a week or
so, after which he will leave for the
coast. He took out 1,700 tons of ore
this winter, which is understood to be
worth $150 to $200 a ton. Late ad
vices by wire state silver has jumped
to 75 cents an ounce, and this will
make a great increase in profits to
the owners of the Silver King.
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