LOCAL MINGS
ABOUT TOWN
(From Monday's Daily.)
Mr. and Mrs. George Hershey came
over from Knik thi smorning to
spend the Fourth in Anchorage.
The steamship Alameda is due in
Cordova tonight and will reach An
chorage early Wednesday morning.
E. H. Bartholf and Dorr Bartholt
were among the Knik bunch that
came over this morning to spend the
Fourth in Anchorage.
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Beach arrived
in Anchorage this morning on the
launch Swan from Knik, coming over
to celebrate the Fourth.
Roy Ketchum and E. J. Tomlin
son are among the Knik delegation
sent dowu to help pull off a success
ful celebration in Anchorage.
Scarcely a store or building in
Anchorage but what is decorated
with a profusion of flags and bunt
ing in respect to the Fourth of July.
The new Empress theatre is mark,
ed by a large white pennant with the
word Empress in red letters and at
tached to the flag pole on top of the
building.
Milo Kelly returned Saturday from
a trip to the Matanuska and Chica
loon coal fields, where he has been
for the past week in the interest of
himself and associates.
Miss Martin, a principal in one of
San Francisco's public schools, was
an arrival on the last boat and will
spend a couple of wee«ts in Anchor
age with her uncle, H. H. McCut
cheon.
All meniDer? oi me Aiicuurage
Chamber of Commerce are request
ed to meet at the chamber promptly
at 9 o’clock tomorrow morning to
make arrangements to participate in
the Fourth of luly parade.
John Anderson who is working for
“Billy” Martin in the Willow creek
district, is in the city in advance of
the big crowd that will come to help
Anchorage celebrate the Fourth of
July.
Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Cavny and
daughter came over from Knik yes
terday to take in the ball game and
will stay uniil the finish, even to the
fireman’s dance the night of the
Fourth.
Jack Wilson, who in one year has
reached the stage of proficiency as a
hard rock miner and is qualified to
be called a sourdough, is down from
the Martin mine to spend the Fourth
in Anchorage.
L. P. Bfyne had rather an excit
ing experience on his recent attempt
to reach Portage bay, as the launch
Sea Gull wag marooned for two days
and nights on account of rough wea
ther on the Arm.
Two excursion trains reached An
chorage last night from up the line,
bringing in at least 500 men who
have come in for the Fourth of July,
and incidentally to' receive their pay
from the commission.
Will Johnson and Hugh Godell ar
rived in Anchorage Saturday on hue
iness connected with a piling con
tract on the little Susitna they have
recently completed, and will remain
over for tomorrow’s festivities.
P. H. Ringstad, secretary of the
Alaska Labor Union, wants all union
men to meet at the Labor temple at
8:30 o’clock tomorrow morning for
the purpose of marching In the
Fourth of July parade which starts
from the corner of 4th avenue and K
street.
Dr. and Mrs. H. O. Sehaleben and
children arrived in Anchorage on
the steamer Alaska. Dr. Sehaleben
and family will remain in the city
over the fourth and leave Wednes
day for Knik where he is interested
in the Jap quartz mine in the Wil
low creek district.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bartholf came
in yesterday on the launch Swan
from Knik and will remain over the
Fourth. Mr. Bartholf says work is
going along nicely at the Mable, that
they are driving three 100-foot tun
nels at the present and the mill will
be in operation within ten days.
W. W. Butts, of the Butts ice
cream parlors, has been making some
decided improvements in his place
of business in the way of private
boxes and tables; he has also fixed
a back room for parties which will
be furnished with new furniture,
which is expected on the next boat.
me hotel register at tne Hotel
Parsons shows the following guests
for Sunday: Mr. and Mrs. H. Bax
ter, P. H. Strohm, Miss Alva Falk,
Miss Eversole, Mrs. Hill and child,
Mrs Ethel Forgy, Mrs. Helen Bell,
O. McKenzie, Miss Jones, Miss Pel
ton, P. H. Ogilvie, P. S. Crosby and
George Osborne.
Mrs. A. Christensen, accompanied
by her young daughter, arrived on
the steamer Alaska to join her hus
band,, A. Christensen, manager of the
land and industrial department for
the Alaskan Engineering commis
sion. Mr. and Mrs. Christensen and
daughter are stopping at the Cres
cent during their stay in the city.
The steam shovel stationed at Ek
lutna river, has practically finished
the cut on the north ftank of the
river and will be moved to the south
side within a few days to finish up
the bank protection work that is be
ing done by the commission at this
place, and upon completion of this
work the shovel will be moved on the
line south of Anchorage.
The freighter Northland, under
charter by the Anchorage Supply
company, reached Anchorage early
this morning with 80,000 sawed
switch ties tor the commission and
500,000 feet of lumber for the
North Side Lumber company. Mr.
Dent, who is connected with the An
chorage Supply company, made the
trip with the Northland.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Thorpe, who
are successfully running the Mile 12
road house, north of Knik, came in
on the launch Swan this morning to
take in the opening of the new Em
press theatre and will remain in the
city over the Fourth.
Everything Is in readiness for the
big celebration tomorrow that
starts with the parade and the com
mittee askg everybody who expects
to participate in the parade to be on
hand promptly at 9 o’clock at the
corner of 4th avenue and K street.
Uncle Sam, appropriately costumed,
will lead, followed by the band and
the different organizations.
Commissioner Mears, and party
composed of Messrs. Warren, Chris
tensen, De Long and Fogelstrom, re
turned from a two days’ inspection
trip over the line Saturday after
noon. The party went to the end of
the steel, seven miies beyond the1
Junction and from there went on
horseback to King river, where the
last camp is being established in con
nection with the branch line into the
Chicaloon coal fields.
(From Wednesday s Daily.;
Paddy Hogan was among the
bunch that took in yesterday’s cele
bration.
Howard Wilmouth, Palmer’s chief
clerk In the Knik store, spent the
Fourth in Anchorage.
Mrs C. E. Richmond, pianiste at
the Empress theatre, is confined to
her home through a serious attack
of illness.
Peter Korth has been appointed in
charge of the hose cart stationed at
the west end of Anchorage, on J
street.
The employes of the Alaska Engi
neering commission have all receiv
ed their May pay and the commission
is busy today paying off the June
wages.
P. F. Cummings who has been in
the Hope country for several days on
business connected with the Herron
saw mill, returned to Anchorage yes
terday and is stopping at the White
House .
The Admiral Watson is due in
Anchorage tomorrow morning at 10
o’clock with 30 Anchorage passen
gers, 200 tons of commercial freight,
240 tons of coal for the commission,
and 18 head of horses.
The outgoing passengers on the
steamer Alameda that sailed for Se
attle at 11 o’clock this morning were
Mr. and Mrs. W J. ft. Thomas, Mrs.
H. B. Reid, B. Rosenstein, E. Paris,
G. J. Reese, J. C. Smith, J. M. Mc
Eachern, L. B. Collins, J. A. Moore
Tor Juneau, E. M. Huff for Seward,
and four steerage.
Scott Wooliver who has been
working his placer claims on Lewis
river, returned to Anchorage Mon
day to spend the Fourth in his home
town Mr. Wooliver was not partic
ularly enthusiastic over the pros
pects of the future of Lewis river
and says that he would not advise
his friends to make the trip with the
view of taking out big pay.
The steamer Alameda docked at
Anchorage at 6 o’clock this morning
and sailed for the outside at 10:30.
She carried a small cargo and the
following first-class passengers for
Anchorage:
Miss Ruth Bower, J- Bower and
wife, K. J. Fulton, Y. Kimura and
wife, M C. Dolliver, Mrs. F. C. Ko
bely, Loretta Kobely, F. Kobely,
Miss Marion Harmon, Miss Helen
Harmon, Miss Dagmar Newman, Mrs.
A. M. Thatcher, F. S. Johnstone, J.
Knox, A. V. Dunbar, J. Martell and
wife, J. Henrich, J. Chamberlain, G.
T. Fox, H. A. Lawrence, F. W. Engle,
R. Morris, H F. Wilson, E. R. Dor
ris, A. Shyman, J. Kebe, J. F. Wilder
and seven steerage.
(From Thursday’s Daily.)
The steamer Alameda brought 78
and the Admiral Watson 85 sacks of
mail for the Anchorage post office.
Miss Josephine Hertel left for Se
attle on the Alameda, where she will
enter a Catholic school for a three
year term.
T_I Dn.thrvli' nhnn r. fro
Isaacs returned to the Willow creek
mining district after spending the
Fourth in Anchorage.
Ed O’Brien who has charge of the
Frost interests in the Chicaloon coal
fields, is spending a few days in An
chorage and is stopping at the White
House.
Frank Irwin, who has recently
made a new strike in the Willow
creek district, is down from the hills
on business and is registered at the
White House.
Jack Willson, who has been In
Anchorage for the past few days
taking in the Fourth and on busi
ness, left this morning for Knik with
ten hard rock miners for the Billy
Martin mine in the Willow creek
district.
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Haller, who
dame in for the celebration and were
guests of the Crist House left this
morning for their farm in the Mata
nuska valley.
A force of men are busily engaged
in doing the excavation for the new
municipal telephone building on
4th avenue, between the federal jail
and the post office and the work on
this building will be pushed as rap
idly as possible.
: ' ; IM
Among the new arrivals In An
chorage and stopping at the Hotel
Parsons are Ouy Woodard, of Min
neapolis, E. E. Todd, Redding, Cat.,
C. J. Wall, Seattle; J. Pope, Honolu
lu; Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Schaeffer, W.
B. Sutherland, Loveland, Colo., R. F.
Acton, Anacortes, Wash., and O. H.
Tiffany, of Seattle.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Martel, of
Alberta, Canada, arrived in Anchor
age on the steamer Alameda an>J are
stopping at the Alaska hotel. Mr.
Martel says he has come to stay, but
will visit the new railroad towns
before deciding on a location
Secretary Koch informs The Dally
Times that he has received the ap
plications of 20 people who are de
sirous of making the Sunday excur.
sion trip over the line of the new
railroad. It will, however, be neces
sary to get 30 people before the
commission will run the train and
any one caring to make thiB inter
esting trip will please call on Mr.
Koch at the Chamber of Commerce.
Farmer Jewell, of Matanuska
fame, and called the potato king of
the valley, spent the Fourth in An
chorage and left today for his farm
in the valley. Mr. Jewell says the
city life is entirely too strenuous
and it is back to the farm for him,
and he offers a special invitation to
all trout fi8hemen to pay him a visit,
and he guarantees a good catch, as
the trout are biting well and are
numerous this spring.
E. P. Doris, wao sells the Majestic
range, recently arrived in the city,
and is stopping at the Crescent.
Albert Heckey won the boys’ 50
yard dash on July 4, and not Thoralf
Peterson, as erroneously reported.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Gold and child
arrived in Anchorage on the Admiral
Watson and will probably locate in
the city.
L. Wernstedt who is connected
with the forestry department, is
among the recent Anchorage arriv
als and is registered at the Crescent.
Mrs. H. T. Howard and Miss Kath
erine Howard returned to Knik to
day after spending several days in
Anchorage visiting their numerous
friends.
T. S. McDougal, from the Matanus
ka farming region, has been in the
city for several days on business con
nected with his farm in the Matanus.
ka valley.
Mrs. George D. Gear, of Honolulu,
Mrs. Mary Miller, Miss Carrie Miller
and Mrs. S- C. Beck, of Philadelphia
were Anchorage passengers on the
Admiral Watson and are guests of
the Crescent.
Ben Bernard, of the American
Dredge and Construction company,
of Seattle, was a passenger on the
Admiral Watson and is stopping at
the Crescent. Mr. Bernard will leave
tomorrow for Lewis river on busi
ness connected with his company,
which has property interests in that
section.
Seattle hardware companies are
well represented in Anchorage this
week and the local merchasts are
busy entertaining A1 Shyman, of
Schwabacher Hardware Co., and Jno.
Chamberlain, of the Whiton Hard
ware company. Messrs. Shyman and
Chamberlain are stopping at the
Crescent during their stay in the
city
Mrs. D. A. Quinn hag just received
the sad news of the death of her
brother-in-law, Wm. Aglick, at
Marysville, Washington. Mr. Aftlick
was one of the pioneers of Snohom
ish county, Washington, and did
much towards the upbuilding of
that section of the country.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Palmer, of
Knik, spent the day in Anchorage,
shopping and calling on friends.
A. J. Layman, of Oakland, Cal., E.
G. Fox, of Douglas, Ariz., R. Morris,
of Bremerton, Washington; Miss Al
ma Schworer and Miss Blanche L.
Egan, of Seattle and E. S. Edes, are
among the new arrivals stopping at
the Crist house.
A. Weinberg, father of Mrs. Benj.
Levine and connected with the mer
cantile store of Carrol & Co., arrived
in Anchorage on the Admiral Watson
and will make Anchorage his future
home. Mr. Weinberg left Seattle on
an earlier steamer but stopped off in
Seward for a week on business.
J. Bedford is registered at the
Crescent.
Colonel Harry Revell left unex
pectedly for Seward on the Admiral
Watson last night. The colonel was
called home on a telegram of a bus
iness nature and it must have been
urgent, as he left several important
business matters unfinished by his
hasty departure.
Mr. and Mrs, John Bower and
Miss Ruth Bower, of Orange, Cal.,
are stopping at the Crescent and
were passengers on the Admiral
Watson. Mr. and Mrs. Bower will
spend some time in Anchorage visit
ing their son, who is employed by
the commission.
Judge Leopold David is in receipt
of a wire from Judge F. M. Brown
advising him that there would be no
criminal Jury cases for the district
court in Anchorage. It is probable
that the criminal cases from Cordova
and the westward will all be tried in
Valdez, taking advantage of the one
calling of the petit and grand juries
at that time.
George Osborne is erecting a
building on C street, between Fourth
and Fifth avenues, which he will oc
cupy as a jewelry store.
W. H. Llndig, an old-timer bf Cor
dova, and well known to all Alas
kans, has returned to the copper city
after an absence of four years. He
says Alaska is good enough for him.
The Commission and Shamrock
teams play at Recreation Park to
morrow afternoon at 3 o’clock.
Chas. Skinner, an employe of the
Alaskan Engineering commission, is
stopping at the Crescent/
Robert Ashland sold his big Kelly.
Springfield truck to C. P. Pedersen,
of the Northern Transfer company,
for |2,600.
H. T. Wilson, representing the
mercantile agency of R. Q. Dunn &
Co., is a guest at the. Crescent and
will be in Anchorage for a week or
ten days getting a line on the bus
iness houses of the city.
J. P. Pleming has accepted the
agency for the Cache Knitting works,
of Logan, Utah, and is meeting with
good success in this line of hosiery,
underwear and knit goods as manu
factured by this Utah company.
Complimenting Miss ' Katherine
Fowler, a recent arrival in Anchor
age, coming here to spend the sum
mer, Mrs. Jeannette Swenson wa»v
hostess at an informal grafonola
dance last night, entertaining a num
ber of young people. The affair was
held in the new lumber ofiices of
the McNally-Maitland Lumber Co.,
in the new Alaska building.
CARGOOF IS
FOR ANCHORAGE
The Alaskan Engineering Com
mission announces that two govern
ment steamers, the United States
collier Nanshan and the United
States army transport Crook will be
in Seattle from San Francisco the
latter part of July and load material
for the federal railroad buiidUig in
the north. The cargoes of the two
vessels will be delivered at Anchor
The Nanshan and Crook are ex
pected in Seattle about July 25. The
collier will load a full cargo of steel
rails, approximately 2,500 tons, for
the government railroad. The army
transport will take general railway
supplies. The Crook is now overhaul
ing at San Francisco in preparation
for her voyage to Anchorage via
Seattle.
The Nanshan was formerly the
British steamer Nanshan, and was
built at the Grangemouth Dockyard
Company’s yards at Grangemouth,
Scotland, in 1896. She is a vessel
of 4,830 tons displacement.
The Crook was formerly the Brit
ish steamer Romania. She is a ves
sel of 4,126 gross and 2,703 net tons,
420 feet long, 47 feet beam and 26.5
feet depth of hold, built at Dumbar
ton, Scotland, in 1882.
CROW CREEK IS
GOLD PRODUCER
Dick B. Dawson, president of the
Alaska Crow Creek Mining compa
ny, arrived in Anchorage this morn
ing on the launch Pioneer, coming
direct from the company’s hydraulic
plant at the mouth of Crow creek.
The Crow Creek Mining company
is composed of Seattle business men
with Mr. Dawson as president and
manager and are supporting the
largest hydraulic plant in Alaska,
employing 42 laborers at the pres
ent. The company has 29 claims on
Crow creek, a tributary of Glacier,
which empties into Turnagin Arm
about 56 miles from Anchorage.
Being of a retiring, unassuming
and modest disposition it was rather
hard to draw Mr. Dawson out but he
did say that he company is now rea
lizing on the property after nine
years of dead work and he would
make the big clean-up in about two
weeks. He said the indications were
favorable for a very successful sea
son and judging from the weight of
the poke brought in this morning it
is perfectly safe to believe his story.
Dick Dawson, as he is familiarly
called by his associates, is one of
the pioneers of the Alaska placer
camps, and has been in the money on
several big strikes but 30 years of
the rugged life in Alaska, interspers
ed with the bitter and the sweet has
not changed his disposition and he
is ever the same quiet and unassum
ing gentleman known and respected
by his many friends.
Mr. Dawson leaves tonight on the
launch Swan to transact business in
Knik, in the interests of his compa
ny but will return to Anchorage for
a few days before leaving for Crow
creek.
Two thousand six hundred cases
of salmon arrived in Seattle a few
days ago from the Cordova cannery
of the Carlisle Packing company, the
first shipment of the season from
Alaska.
ALASKA.
If you want to know about the
new government thirty-five million
dollar railroad and working oppor
tunities, including station work,
send for the Weekly Times, An
chorage, Alaska. Yearly, ?3; six
mouths, 11.50; in advance.
Join the crowd and read the An
chorage Daily Times.
WHERE THE EAST
MEETS THE WEST
“For Bast is East and West is West,
And never the twain shall meet.”
—Kipling.
By William Philip Simms.
TORNEA, Russia, June 4.—(By
Mail.)—And Rudyard was all wrong.
Here, under the Arctic circle, where
May blossoms are still out of sight
under the snow and fishermen must
chop holes through the ice to fish,
East meets West and West meets
East every day of the week.
In the frontier town of Tornea,
the new gateway to Russia, there is
a railway station eating room, and
in that room daily not only does
East meet West and West meet East,
but they eat out of the same dish.
Since the closing of public traffic
across the Baltic and the Gulf of
Finland the only open door between
Western Europe and the great em
pire of the East is Tornea, on the
left bank of the wide and rapid Tor
niojoki. Population, 1,700.
There is one train daily in each
direction—east and west—one dip
ping down through Petrograd and
Moscow and on across Siberia to the
Far East, the other down through
Sweden, thence to the near and Far
West.
The Russian customs examina
tion—and passport formalities take
place here whether one be coming
or going, so the arrivals from the
East and the arrivals from the West
are at first kept apart. But once
formalities are complied with, West
and East mingle in the big dining
room which, at the same time, serves
as first and second class waiting
rooms.
uwu cl i iv tuMuma uuu imsspuii icg
ulations are tedious, because the
military take minute care of each in
dividual passenger’s papers, ever on
the watch for spies. So by the time
all these are attended to one is usu
ally pretty hungry. One is tempted
to whinney like the family horse
when, the halter off, he is allowed to
shake his head and make for the
feed trough.
In the middle of the waiting room
stands a table laden with steaming
food. Also clean plates, knives,
forks and spoons. In Baltimore
dairy lunch fashion East and West
help themselves out of the same
dishes, then retire to stand or sit,
face to face, eating their fill.
There are all kinds of food, Ori
ental and Occidental. Caviar sand
wiches, cold roast beef, strange little
hashed-meat balls resembling sau
sages the size of the end of one’s
thumb; there are pickled herrings,
sardines, head cheese, goulash, white
bread, black bread, French rolls,
Finnish and Swedish rye cakes, dry
and thin as a soda cracker and quite
palatable; coffee, tea. milk, water,
beer, wine—for wine, you know, can
be had in Finland, though nwt in
Russia proper. For dessert there are
cakes and pastry and something like
our mothers used to call “floating
island,” only the cream turns out to
be smear cheese and a disappoint
ment. Tarts, too, can be had, and
other sweets, strange and without
names.
When one has eaten all one wishes
he tells the Finnish lady at the
desk—by word or sign—what dam
age he has done to the center table
and pays. His word is never dis
puted. He is taken to be an honest
man regardless.
When West and East first accost
each other over the hash balls it is
perhaps noon. Neither the train for
the East nor the train for the West
leaves before around 5 p. m., and
walking about the town is discour
aged both by snow and officials. So
they sit around, visibly interested in
each other. An American mission
ary and his wife are in the throng,
returning from China, and he has
two Chinese women as nurses for his
children. He plays waiter and serves
all with food and drink—tea; he
won t trust tne water and rys edu
cation is against liquor. A Japanese
youth is munching an egg sandwich.
The big Siberian is tackling the her
ring and black bread. Swedes, Nor
wegians, Chinese, Roumanians, Mon
golians, Spaniards, Tartars, French,
Russians, Finns, Poles, Americans,
Armenians, Greeks, Italians, Portu
guese, men from the Indies, East and
West—all are there feeding about
the common table. There are all
sorts of clothes, all the tints and
shades; there are men wearing
skirts and women wearing pants;
some have white faces, some yellow,
others red, bron and black; some are
cultured, some are not; there are
pretty women and ugly, grown peo
ple and babies, civilians and soldiers,
all the extremes—the West and
East. But everybody answers the
call of the table; they come from
every corner of the world, mingle
here for a day, eat and drink to
gether.
A great Russian officer appears in
the door. He speaks a word. The
crowd begins to stir. The trains are
| leaving. East and "West go their
ways. In ten minutes the eating
room is empty of voyagers, and the
hired help begins to clean up the
sausage plates, to prepare more food
for the earth’s extremes tomorrow.
Under the head “Cordova Enjoy
ing Record Business,” the Seattle
Times of June 25 has the iollowing
to say regarding Cordova and south
western Alaska:
Business at Cordova is better than
at any other place in southwestern
Alaska, in the opinion of P. R. Van
Campen, former manager of the
Beatson copper mines at Latouche.
He attributes this prosperous condi
tion to the large amount of copper
ore being shipped from that port to
Puget sound smelters. With Mrs.
Van Campen, he is registered at the
Hotel Savoy is Seattle.
Van Campen lived in Alaska tive
years and recently resigned as mana.
ger of the Beatson mine, where 275
men are employed, to take as extend
ed vacation. Accompanied by Mrs.
Van Campen, who is a noted short
story writer, he took a long trip
through the Kenai peninsula and
surrounding country, in search of
places to hunt and fish.
“This is the latest winter we ever
had in Alaska,” said Mrs. Van Camp
en. “There was still snow on the
ground in southwestern Alaska when
we left. The first wild flowers we
saw were at Juneau. Contrary to
general expectations Seward, the pro
posed terminal of the federal rail
road, is dull.
“We don’t expect to go back to the
north for a year anyway,” said Mrs.
Van Campen. “We’re out for a va
cation and will make it a good long
one.” »
Wm. Martin, the Willow creek
mine operator, was down from the
mine yesterday with his semi
monthly cleanup, and as usual re
ports everything going on satisfac
torily at the mine and mill.
Mr. Martin returned to Knik last
night on the launch Swan, and wilj
leave for the Willow creek district
early Sunday morning. Among other
business that he attended to while
in Anchorage was a conference with
John Zug, the field representative of
the Alaska Reid Commission under
Col. W P. Richardson, with refer
ence to a wagon road from Mile 28
to a Point on the new government
railroad.
The Daily Times realizes the ne
cessity and importance of such a
wagon road and what it means to
the Willow creek operators and at
the same time the business men of
Anchorage, and will comment on the
matter more thoroughly in Monday’s
issue, and would suggest that the
Anchorage Chamber of Commerce
take immediate steps in this im
provement in behalf of the Willow
creek operator and prospector.
AIM COPPER
During the six months of the fiscal
year ending June 30 Alaska has ex
ported more copper ore to the states
than was shipped during the entire
year of 1915. Figures were compiled
at the local customs house today
showing the volume of export busi
ness from Alaska during the past six
months. The figures for the six
months almost reach the half-wTay
mark of the entire volume of busi
ness for last year, and the next six
months’ business will greatly exceed
the mark of last year.
Copper to the value of $17,443,
111 has already been shipped this
year, and the next six months will
value of the exports during the six
"months was $23,819,001. The value
of the salmon shipped during the
first six months is negligible, as the
large salmon shipments are made in
the fall. The same is true of the
gold and silver exports. The total
value of last years' exports wrere
$50,335,683. The total value of the
copper shipments for the entire year
of 1915 only reached a valuation of
$12,254,163.
The table follows for exports for
the past six months:
Copper ore, 87,748 tons..$17,443,111
Fish, fresh . 206,801
Fish, dried, smoked or
cured ... 59,776
Fish, salmon, canned. 637,009
Fish, salmon, all other.... 161,711
Fish, all other . 14,603
Furs . 369,979
Gypsum . 22,700
Marble . 3,774
Oils . 71,743
Lead . 37,851
All other merchandise .... 16,621
U. S. good's returned _ 408,733
Gold and silver . 4,364,589
Total, six months....$23,819,001
Total for last year was $50,335,
683 salmon, $17,892,377; gold,
$16,090,411, and copper, $12,354,
163.
BEFORE END MONTH
Seward may receive its first 1,000
tons of coal from the Matanuska coal
fields this Bummer. This was inti
mated thiB noon by Lieut. Frederick
Mears of the Alaskan Engineering
commission who is in Seward this
afternoon en route to Anchorage aft
er a trip to Fort Liscum where he
took the necessary examination for
promotion to a captaincy. Lieut.
Mears was recently recommended for
promotion.
In speaking of the railroad work
the commissioner said that although
things are more or less at a stand
still pending the passing by congress
of the bill providing for this year’s
work, still everything is in readiness
for big construction work this sea
son.
Lieut. Mears is quite proud of his
barge system at Anchorage, saying
he is now able to handle freight
there faster than it can be unloaded
from steamers at any point in Alas
ka. The reason for this is that the
commission has sufficient barges this
year to keep them on both sides of
the vessels at anchor all the time, so
that freight can be handled from ail
hatches at once. A contrast to this
is the fact that it took the Mariposa
20 hours to discharge 200 tons of
freight at Latouche this trip. Fifty
five to 60 tons an hour is the rate at
Anehorage.
Lieut. Mears was complimentary
of the energy of the men who are al
ready mining coal in the Matanuska
fields and says that the commission
will soon be in reach of the new
mines which produce coal landed by
sieu ai uie ngni oi way mis wimer
Cor $6 per ton. In speaking of this
mine Lieut. Mears said:
“I want to see these miners get a
long lease or title to this ground if
possible, for they have shown the
right spirit. ' They made a discovery
off the known field and lost no time
in developing it."
The commissioner is considering »
proposition to put a lead or Mata
nuska coal on the barge Lawrence,
which will make several trips here
during the summer for the material
diverted last winter. The mine from
which this coal comes was first be
lieved to be a lignite property, but
is now known to contain a fine bitu
minous coal.—Seward Post.
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ELLAMAR KILLED
Oscar Johnson, shift boss at the
Ellamar mine, was killed while
working in the shaft of the mine.
Johnson was alone at the time of
the accident, and the exact time and
manner of his death is unknown.
Prom the incidents surrounding hie
death, it is surmised that something
was not just right in the shaft or
that Johnspn so believed. The shaft
is a three-compartment one, in two
af which hoisting cages are operated,
and the third is a man shaft with
ladders and frequent landing stages.
Some time during the night, before
midnight, Johnson had evidently
taken a wrench and other tools to
make some repairs at the 100-foot
level. On the platform where he
was working was a piece of timber,
which in some way he must have
shoved aside in such a manner that
the end projected over into the cage
department, and a descending cage
3truck the timber in such a manner
as to bring the other end in violent
contact with Johnson’s head, crush
ing his skull. Some time later an
employe of the mine saw a light, on
the platform and went to investi
gate. He found Johnson lying on
the platform, still alive, and gave
Ihe alarm The man was broueht
bo the surface and given medical at
tention, but he died in a short time.
Johnson was 27 years of age and
unmarried. His only known relative
is a brother at Butte, Mont. The
deceased was a member of the West
ern Federation of Miners, and the
interment will be held under the
auspices of that organization,
T. D. Corlew who has just returned
from the Willow creek section and
says that this district is the coming
Cripple creek district of Alaska.
Mr. Corlew has been on an inspec
tion trip in the Willow creek district
and has closed a deal with B. S. Bar
tholf and partners for the Mabel ex
tension known as the Lucky Three
and the group of claims known as
the Ptarmigan claims.
In speaking of his trip Mr. Corlew
said: "I have never had much con
fidence in Alaska as a free milling
quartz country on account of the
glacier action, which has ground
down most of the country, therefore
making a placer production. Howev
er, I must admit after a careful study
of formations in the Willow creek
district I am satisfied of my error
and find that the glacial action has
not disturbed the true fiBSure Quarts
veins. I found that each property In
this district has the same character
of quartz and carries similar values.
The developed properties show a
higher grade of ore as you go down
and if this continues to a great
enough depth it will be a tremen
dously rich district for many years/*