PLACER STRIKE
ALBERT GREEK
C. M. JOHNSTON, L. HARRISON
AND C. NEWELL BRING POKE
CONTAINING 200 OUNCES.
NELCHINA DISTRICT REVIVED
Proximity of Government Railroad
Solves Transportation Problem and
Region Is Likely to Witness Stam
pede Next Season.
Reports of the discovery of rich
placer deposits in Albert creek in the
Nelchina district were brought to An
chorage last night by Charles M. John
ston, Lee Harrison and Cal Newell.
They have with them about 200 ounces
in dust that they took from the pro
perty this season.
The Nelchina field came into prom
inence several years ago. At that time
there was a small-sized stampede into
the country and considerable ground
was staked on Albert, Mazuma, Crook
ed and Caribou creeks. Many of the
claims were worked successfully not
withstanding the fact that the field
was virtually isolated then. Other
fields nearer to transportation lured
prospectors from the Nelchina district
with the exception of a few who have
been working on Albert creek since its
discovery.
Improved I ransportation.
With the advent of the government
railroad the prospector returned to
the Nelchina district and this summer
witnessed several of the old time min
ers panning the creeks of the district.
The scenes of activity this season
were for the most part on what is
known as “this side of the divide,” as
transportation was easier.
Alfred Creek, which is a tributary
to Caribou creek from the east, is
about thirteen miles above its mouth.
The government reports for 1913 give
an extensive resume of the Nelchina
district and devote several pages to
Alfred creek which was staked, during
the year 1913, the greater part of its
length. On only a few claims, however,
has more than technical assessment
work been done. Until this year only
a few thousand dollars in gold had
been taken from Alfred creek, the
scene of the latest placer strike of mo
ment in the vicinity of Anchorage.
Strike Made in June.
The strike was made in June of this
year and from the fact that the strike
was made on this side of the divide
makes it all the more important on ac
count of easy access to the govern
ment railroad at Chicakloon.
The matter or transportation facili
ties is solved by the proximity of the
railroad.
Mr. Johnston, who is called “Lucky”
Johnston, stated that he and his asso
ciates had staked five claims on both
sides of Alfred creek and that pay had
-been found on all of them.
The ground is shallow and will be
easily worked as there are compara
tively no large boulders to contend
with. There is an abundance of water.
There is also plenty of timber on the
claims.
The three men are naturally jubil
ant over their discovery and expect to
operate extensively next season. Mr.
Johnston will leave for his old home
in New York in the near future with
the intention of buying a modem hyd
raulic plant which will be installed on
the Alfred Creek property.
Claims Are Recorded.
The claims have ben recorded in the
local office and the assessment work
has been done. Mr. Johntson is prom
inently connected in the east and says
he will have no trouble in interesting
outside capital in the enterprise. He
has refused several flattering offers
from local operators.
He expects to return as soon as pos
sible with the hydraulic plant which
will be freighted to the property this
winter for installation early next
spring.
Anchorage will come into added
prominence as the result of the new
discovery and old timers predict a
stampede into the Alfred creek district
with the break-up the spring.
TO HAVE SITE
OF 55 ACHES
ORGANIZERS OF PROPOSED EX
POSITION CORPORATION RES
ERVE TRACT AT SALE.
MINIMUM PRICE FIXED AT $225
Sum of $1,205 Was Bid by Other Pur
chasers at Yesterday’s Auction of
Agricultural Property Adjoining
Anchorage.
As a site for annual expositions
here, a tract of ground, containing a
trifle less than fifty-five acres, was
reserved at the government auction
sale at the townsite office here yester
day by the organizers of the proposed
fair association. The ground is tech
nically described as lots 35, 36, 37, 40,
41 and 42 in the south addition to An
chorage. It is on Twelfth avenue be
tween N and G streets. The lowest
price at which the government will
sell the property is $225 and this sum j
will have to be paid for the ground by ’
the fair association when it is incor
porated.
Twelve hundred and five dollars was
the amount bid for acreage tracts by
citizens who made purchases at yester
day’s sale. The land disposed of by
the government is located in the east,
south and third additions to Anchor
age. The purchasers consist of Louis
Pearson, Axel Moline, Leopold David,
Charles E. Herron, Abner Boarer,
Marcus Smith, Martin J. Lopold, Al
bert Suomela, Herbert W. Ziebarth,
Archibald W. Johnston, Arthur E.;
Bailey, Thomas Gil'.eece, Charles C.
Benedict, James E. O’Reilly and Jerry
C. Murphy.
ANCHORAGE OUGHT
TO IMPROVE TRAIL
S. H. PERHAM SAYS BETTER
ROAD WOULD INSURE NEXANA
TRAVEL COMING THIS WAY.
S. H. Perhan, secretary to Commis
sioner Thomas Riggs, jr., at Nenana
in company with W. G. Cameron an
engineer in the employ of the Alaskan;
Engineering Commission arrived in
Anchorage over the trail from Nenana
Wednesday night and departed for the
states yesterday on the U. S. A. T.
crook. Mr. Perhan reports that many
of the government employes will make
this trip this fall and aptly suggests
that the trail from Nenana to Anchor
age be given more consideration as a
well marked trail will unquestionably
bring considerable business to Anchor
age.
The route is about 100 miles nearer
to the sea coast than other routes and
there are splendid road house accom
modations. He says that the matter of
marking of the trail should be taken
up by the business men of Anchorage.
Newspapers of the interior have de
voted considerable time and space to
ward turning the travel through Fair
banks and other interior towns. In
the main these articles are untrue and
falsely state that the route from Ne
nana to Anchorage is fraught with
many trials and pit falls.
Mr. Perhan expects to return to An
chorage in the spring and says that
the majority of the government em
ployes especially will stay by the An
chorage route.
SINKS RAPIDLY.
“What is a sinking fund, Johnny?”
“Pa's bank account when the bills
begin to come in.”—Boston Transcripl
HAVES210.900
DREDGE 111 81!
MINING COMPANY ANNOUNCES
PLANS TO INSTALL ANOTHER
PIECE OF BIG MACHINERY.
BEING BUILT IN CALIFORNIA
Operations Will Begin Early Next
August and Plenty of Ground Is
Available for Working—Other News
From Alaska Papers.
That a thoroughly up-to-date mod
ern dredge will be installed on Fair
banks creek shortly after the first of
the year by the Fairbanks Gold Min
ing company, was the statement made
by G. A. Aarons, manager of the com
pany, according to the Fairbanks Citi
zen. Mr. Aarons was in Fairbanks for
the purpose of making arrangements
for the storing of fifty-six tons of fuel
oil brought in from the outside on one
of the last boats, and made the state
ment in regard to the installation of
the new dredging machine when asked
in regard to the exceptionally large
shipment of oil.
The new dredge will be an oil burn
er, and the oil is the first of a ship
ment of 700 tons of dredge material
that is to be brought in from the out
side. Other shipments are scheduled
to arrive in Fairbanks this fall, includ
ing approximately 350 tons of outside
lumber, of which the hull of the new
gold si. ' is t > be constructed.
The r lai: ,ler of the material, or
the t:.-edg machinery proper, will be
shipped north on one of the first boats
in the spring.
Will Cost $200,000.
The dredge is now being built by j
the Union Construction company of |
San Francisco and will cost approxI- j
mately $200,000 when installed.
The new dredge will be the second
to be operated by the company on
Fairbanks creek, the old one having
been in operation for the past four
years. It will be constructed and in
stalled on No. 1 below Fairbanks
creek, where a pit 200 feet long by 150
feet wide is now being dug for the re
ception of the hull of the gold ship.
Dimensions of Hull.
The hull of the dredge, when com
pleted, will be ninety feet long and
thirty-eight feet wide. The machin
ery will be of the latest improved
type, with four-cubic-foot buckets
closely connected. This means that
thei’e will be seventy-two buckets of
that size on the new dredge instead of i
the thirty-eight smaller ones that are
on the old rig now being used by the
company on the upper end of Fair
banks creek.
The dredge machinery will be driv
en by Deisel oil engines which are to
be procured from England, where they
are now being constructed.
Daily Oil Consumption.
It will be necessary to burn from
150 to 180 gallons of oil per day of
twenty-four hours to keep them turn
ing.
Mr. Aarons stated that he expects
to have the new dredge in operation
by the first of next August. It will
probably work upstream on Fairbanks
creek first, as far as No. 2 above, and
will then be turned around and start
ed down stream on the other side of
the claims. From there it will work
on down stream to No. 10 below, as
the company is now in possession of
all the creek down that far.
Work For Old Dredge.
There are six or seven years of
work ahead of the old dredge on the
upper end of the creek as well.
The installation of the new dredge
on the lower end of Fairbanks creek
will mean the end of individual placer
mining operations from No. 9 below to
the head of the creek. At the present
time there are but a few laymen work
ing on ground held by the company,
and their leases will expire shortly.
Recently in Nome the federal of
ficers raided an alleged gambling
den, protected by blind doors and
trap doors and arrested Sol Warren,
Sam Larsen, B. Hermandson, E. Jor
genson, Mark Bums and two others.
MINES TO PAY
HEAVY TAXES
TO IERRITDRY
KENNECOTT CORPORATION TO
CONTRIBUTE $225,000 TO
TREASURY FOR 1917.
CHICHAGOFF ASSESSED $6,000.
Gold Properties on Gastineau Chan
nel Are in Development Stage and
Will Not Yield Any .Net Output
Revenue.
Alaska copper and gold mines will
pay during 1917 a larger tax to the
territory than in 1916. Although the
bulk of the tax money will not reach
the coffers of the territory until next
February, already small sums are
coming in as the placer camps are
closing.
The Kennecott corporation leads
the list and will pay approximately
a $225,000 tax. The Chichagoff com
pany comes second on the list with
about $6,000, although the Yukon
Gold, a Guggenheim corporation op
erating dredging ground at Iditarod,
will come within a small amount of
an equal sum.
The Pioneer Mining company, oper
ating dredges and hand placers at
Nome and the Ellamar company op
erating a copper mine, will be rivals
for third place with about $3,000
each. The Berry brothers, operating
a dredge at Forty-mile, will pay in
about $2,500.
The Alaska Mines corporation, op
erating at Fidalgo bay, and the
Goodrow Mining company, near
Ketchikan, will pay about $1,000
each.
The big gold mines on Gastineau
channel, although heavy producers
the year round, are in the develop
ment stage and all surplus is being
LAW DOING AWAY WITH ASSESSMENT
WORK APPLIES TO CORPORATIONS k
ASSOCIATED PRESS OBTAINS OPINION ON SUBJECT
FROM MAURICES LEEHY, SEATTLE LAWYER, WHO
IS FAMED FOR HIS KNOWLEDGE OF MINING LEG
ISLATION.
As some doubt was entertained here I
whether the law recently enacted by
congress doing away with assessment
work on mining claims for the years
1917 and 19J8 was applicable to cor
porations as well as persons, The
Daily Times sent a message to the
Associated Press asking for a definite
interpretation of the congressional
act. In reply, the Seattle bureau of
the Associated Press today forwarded
the following communication to the
Times:
charged to developing ground and
milling plants. They will not pay
any net output tax for 1917.
JAPAN PUTS BAN ON EXPORTS.
TOKIO, Oct. 22.—A governmental
decree prohibits exportation of pulp
for paper manufacture, printing pa
per, excepting coarse paper for news
paper printing, sulphate of ammonium
and fertilized manufactured from sul
phate of ammonium, super-phosphate
of lime, or nitrate of soda unless spec
ial permits are obtained. This is in
tended to control the abnormally high
prices of commodities in Japan.
LOAN MAY BE CHANGED.
PEKING, Oct. 22. — The French
minister is especially anxious to have
Belgium replace Germany as the fifth
member of the group which floated the
$50,000,000 Chinese reorganization
loan which is secured upon the salt
monopoly.
Sam Cunningham returned to
Nome from a several weeks’ stay in
the Kougarok section and reported
that the miners of the interior enjoy- j
ed an ample of supply this summer !
and mining was successful in all j
parts of the district.
“Maurice D. Leehy, of Seattle, an
attorney, who is an authority on min
ing law, says senate joint resolution
No. 78 approved October 5 this year,
applies to everybody, corporations as
well as persons. The United States
district attorney was asked regarding
the matter and he said he did not have
a copy of the resolution and referred
to Mr. Leehy. Mr. Leehy says the law
requires all those intending to hold
claims to file certificates stating their
intentions with the local recorders.”
RETURNS TO ALASKA.
Mike McDonald, now employed at
the Bonanza mine at Kennecott, Al
aska and formerly compresserman at
the Ready Bullion for the Treadwell
Company at Juneau, says he will nev
er visit the states again. He recently
went to Seattle, wThere met another
old Treadwellite, Joe Ryan, who was
running a jitney and making money
hand over fist. The business looked
good to Mike, and the second day after
reaching Seattle he, too, purchased a
car which he took to the country udule
he achieved the gentle art of running
it. His trip to the country cost him
just $200, of which amount $100 was
paid to a farmer whose cow he ran
over and killed, and $100 was paid for
having the car repaired after coming
in contact with the cow. The next day
Mike was given a free ride in a patrol
wagon for operating his car on a side
walk, so he decided to sell it, which
he did. From Seattle McDonald went*
to Arizona, w’here he met a
number of former Islanders and where
he went to work. But the Arizona cli
mate was not to his liking and he
came back to the Pacific coast and
took the first steamer for Alaska.
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