ALASKA FORUM
.THE FORUM PUBLISHING CO.
J.B. Wingate Editor and Manager.
VOLUME I. No. 33.
THURSDAY, MAY 9, I9OI.
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copies, 250.
Address all communications to the
Alaska Forum, Rampart, Aka.
EDITOK fAL.
If the residents, business men
and miners living and working in
this district wish to let the outside
world know what we have here,
they must do it with printers’ ink.
Advertising the camp is the only
way that it can be done. The
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Forum prides itself that, owing to ;
its efforts in this direction, Ram-!
part is known, and favorably
known, over a greater portion of
the states than ever before. The
manifold advantages and resources
of the camp have been set forth in a
series of interesting articles, con
sisting of facts; also the many dis
advantages the camp is laboring
under and the methods by which
they may be adjusted. Therefore
let every miner read the Forum
and send it to his friends. We
have made ready complete files
since our initial number, for mail
ing to the states on the first boats.
We reiterate, don’t hide your light
under a bushel; let the world know
v. hat machinery and capital can do
in this district,
The supposition, from the appeal
of the hysterical German emperor
to his arm}', is that the socialistic j
element in Germany is on the in
crease aud that the emperor does
not hold his throne by “divine !
right,’’ or in the hearts of his peo
ple, but by militarism solely.
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The camp has never before been
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business it is to maintain law and i
order aud to prevent the selling of
liquor to Indians. It is a glaring
fact that the number of drunken
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squaws on the street is on the in
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crease, and during the entire win-j
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ter there has not been a single ar
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rest in the camp of anyone who is
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responsible for tbit state of affairs.
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The quartermaster at Ft. Gib
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bon desires bids on 2000 cords of
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wood, to be delivered this summer. j
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Outside of himself and probably
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half a dozen others no one is famil
iar with the requirements necessary :
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to be complied with in bidding, or
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in furnishing the wood.
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The mail that arrived fromSkag- i
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way April 26, we are informed,;
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will be the last mail to reach Ram-!
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part over the ice.
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MINES AND MINERS.
Perry Bigelow paid the Forum
offics a visit Monday last and re
ports work going forward on 47 j
Big Minook very rapidly. Frank
Stevens, the owner of the claim, j
wdth Bigelow and Nick Nelson,
will endeavor to show the world
what can be done in summer in
this district by intelligent mining.
From the favored situation of the
ground the amount of "dead work’’
will be nominal. Just as soon as
the exact location of the pay and
the best method of getting it out at
as cheap on outlay as possible, all
the men that can be worked will be
put on. Mr. Bigelow’ is of the
opinion that there need be no idle
men in Rampart this summer.
Johnson and McLaren will do
considerable work on 34 Big Min
00k this summer, as will also Mc
Camilly on 33.
A Strike On Omega Creek.
Omega creek, lying b
Rhode Island and New York
is the scene of another rich
e tween
creeks,
strike.
Kominsky and O’Brien, on 9 above,
have found a pay streak which pai s
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five cents in the gravel three l’eet
above bedrock and twenty-five cents
on bedrock. The creek is about
four miles long and was staked
during the Eureka stampede in '99,
relocated this spring, and this is
the first work done on it. From
all indications Rhode Island and
Omega, and most probably New
Yoik, wili take their places as good
producers next winter.
Mr. Law, who has been trapping
on bear creek all winter, arrived in
camp Sunday morning.
Yukon Order Of Pioneers meets every
first Saturday in each month.
Miners Mutual Protective Association
meets every alternate Wednesday night.
The Masonic Association of Rampart
meets every 2nd. and 4th. Saturday.
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
Attorney at Law.
Otlice At Residence.
Rampart, Aka.