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CARRIES GOLD
AND PLATINI
MALCOLM S. MACKAY AND JOHN
P. HOLMAN RETURN FROM
INSPECTION TRIP.
RESULTS ARE ENCOURAGING
Government Sends Geologist to Make
Thorough Examination of Property
Which Is Being Prospected by Prof.
Herschel Parker.
Platinum occurs quite uniformally,
as well as placer gold, in the gravel
of the Kahlitna river, according to
Malcom S. Mackay, who is one of a
party of New York financiers holding
a controlling interest in a large area
of mining ground on the waterway.
Mr. Mackay, who is senior member of
the firm of Mackay and Company, No.
14 Wall Street, and John P. Holman,
who is associated with the Metropoli
tan Advertising company, at No. 6
Wall street, have just returned from a
two weeks’ visit to the property. It
consists of a stretch of claims twenty
miles in length and during the past)
summer it has been prospected with j
diamond drills under the direction of |
Professor Herschel Parker for the!
purpose of ascertaining its possibili
ties as a dredging proposition.
Obtained in Every Pan.
“Platinum and gold can be obtained
in almost every pan of gravel on our
claims on the Kahlitna river,” said Mr.
Mackay, “but we have not yet satisfied
ourselves as to feasibility of install
ing a fleet of di-edges to develop the
property. Weather conditions this past!
season were very unfavorable for!
prospecting work, and Professor Par
ker did not make the progress he had
planned. However, the results he
achieved are very encouraging and j
justify more extensive operations next!
season.”
Mr, Mackay, Mr. Holman and Pro
fessor Parker will leave for the states i
this week on the steamship Alameda, i
The finding of platinum on the Kah-!
litna river attracted the attention of j
the federal government. The metal,
which is very scarce, is in great de- j
mand in the manufacture of war mun- j
itions.
K. B. Mertie, of the geological sur- j
vey, was detailed by the authorities at!
Washnigton city to investigate the I
discovery of platinum, and he has just I
returned from a trip to the claims j
managed by Professor Parker. Mr.!
Mertie made a thorough examination
of the ground. The facts ascertained '
by him will be communicated at once
in a report to the government.
Heretofore, the world’s principal
supply of platinum came from the'
Russian side of the Ural mountains.
Between ten and twelve ounces of
platinum were discovered in Alaska j
last year.
war uses ol platinum include the
making of sulphuric acids and the
completion of contact points of the ig
nition system of airplanes, automo
biles and telephone and telegraphic in
struments.
Substitutes have been found for it
in making of sulphuric acids, but it is
almost indispensable for other uses.
So acute is the world’s shortage j
that it has advanced from $45 to $105 I
an ounce since the beginning of the j
war. The condition has become so;
critical in this country that a survey j
of the visible supply has been made,,
but the results have not been publish
ed.
Russian banks which made high
loans on the output of the Ural moun
tains miners are understood to hold
large quantities of platinum but the
chances of obtaining their supply is
regarded uncertain. Seven hundred
and fifty troy ounces constitue the
largest production of platinum in the
United States, while Russia before
the opening of the war produced as |
much as 300,000 ounces in a year.
A Comparison.
A Gex-man military critic said that
Robert E. Lee was America’s ablest
soldier. But when Lee’s army of in
vasion came up into Pennsylvania it
didn’t cut down a tree, trample a gar
den or steal a pig. Indeed, Lee was
so good a soldier that he said the
burning of Chambersburg was a mili
tary blunder for which he was not
responsible.
The officer in all America’s wars
who did the most burning, hacking
and robbing was Benedict Arnold af
ter he had turned traitor to his coun
try. But the chief effect of it was to
solidify the colonists into an effort to
win the revolution.—Girard in Phila
delphia Ledger.
John Ackerlund was found dead
under a cabin on the Thirteen acre
tract at Cordova recently. He ended
his life by shooting himself in the
head with a shotgun. He was about
GO years of age.
MARTIN II
YIELDS EVERY
HOUR HR JIM
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OUTPUT OF FAMOUS PROPERTY
WAS ERRONEOUSLY STATED
IN SUNDAY’S TIMES.
$75,000 CLEANUP EXPECTED
Sidney Anderson and Dan Vucetich, of
Bank of Anchorage, Leave for In
spection Tour of Willow Creek
District.
Inadvertently the account of the!
new strike at the Martin mine in the j
Willow creek district as it appeared
in Sunday’s Daily Times, credited the
net output of the mine at $100 daily.
It should have been more than than
$100 an hour.
The report was brought here by
Milo Kelly. He said the new strike
is one of the richest ever made in the
district. The yield of more than $100
an hour means better than $2400 a
day. There is enough ore in sight to
run both mills for several months at
least.
Put on Extra Force.
Mr. Martin is putting on an extra j
force of hard rock miners and expects
to clean up in the neighborhood of!
$75,000 by the first of November. He;
is opening up one of the three rich !
leads being worked by the Gold Cord.:
These veins run parallel through the
Independence and Martin properties j
and as they were found at the base of
the mountain they tend to confirm the
reports of various reliable mining en- j
gineers that the ore in the Willow
creek district has sufficient depth to,
warrant the prediction that the camp :
will be a second Cripple Creek.
Bankers Visit District.
Sidney Anderson, vice president,
and Dan Vucetich, in charge of the
foreign department of the Bank of
Anchorage left yestei’day morning for
the Willow creek district where they
will spend the next few days in invest
igating conditions at the famous camp.
Mr. Anderson is heavily interested
in the several properties in the district
including the Independence and Wil
low Creek Development company’s
mines and will inspect these pi’operties
before returning to Anchorage.
Both Mr. Anderson and Mr. Vuce
tich are enthusiastic over the possi
bilities of the camp and prophesy a
great future for the district.
WITHDRAWS AUTO CONCESSION
LONDON, Oct. 2. — The prohibi
tion of the importation into British In
dia of automobiles, chassis, motor
cycles, parts, and accessories was
modified by the provision that licenses
would be granted for motorcycles and
parts actually paid for before Decem
ber 23, 1916. It is now announced that
this concession will be withdrawn ex
cept in the case of cars shipped be
fore August 1, 1917.
Judge Robert D. Grey, former re
ceiver of the oil fields and railroad
property at Katalla, and a member of
the first territorial legislature in 1912,
died at the home of his brother in
iTexas recently. Judge Grey had been
failing for some time before leaving
Valdez and went south in an effort to
regain his health.
WEB CUES
L. V. RAY ARRIVES FROM SEW
ARD TO LOOK AFTER DE
FENSE OF ACCUSED.
CLIENT SHOT BY OFFICER.
Some of Men Recently Charged with
Aiding and Abetting Liquor Traffic
May Also Retain Visiting Attorney
to Defend Them.
To investigate the circumstances
surrounding the shooting here on the
night of September 2 of Carl Lind by
United States Deputy Marshal J. J.
Sturgis is the mission of L. V. Ray, an
attorney of Seward. He arrived in
Anchorage today, having traveled
over the trail. He has been engaged
to defend Lind, who is under $5,000
bail to answer to the grand jury on
the charge of attempted highway
robbery.
The authorities contend that Lind
tried to rob Sturgis, not realizing he
was an officer and that the deputy
was compelled to use his pistol to de
fend himself.
Mr. Ray’s connection with the case
| is the result of a meeting of Lind’s
| friends last week in the Labor tem
I pie. The meeting subscribed some
funds and appointed committees to
! raise additional money for the de
i fense of Lind.
Several of the men arrested here
j recently on the charge of aiding and
' abetting the sale of liouor are also
consulting Mr. Ray with a view to
i retaining him to defend them.
WINTER PLANS.
Summer is on the wing. A few
months more and Yukon navigation
will close.
The man who intends to prospect or
trap this coming winter has no time
to lose. Now is the hour of prepar
ation. Those who must have grub
| stakes are busy hustling them. Only
i the slothful are warming chairs these
! days. It will be a long, cold winter,
and a good supply of grub and fuel
will be necessary for every cabin.
Some now in Dawson and vicinity
are planning to travel to the utter
most reaches of the big streams, to
put in the time prospecting. It is well.
1 The Yukon desires to see the minerals
of this land opened as speedily as pos
sbile. This great work is dependent ab
solutely on those fearless and sacri
ficing men who go into the wilderness
and forego all pleasures of keeping in
touch with the great, throbbing world.
The man with the pick, the shovel and
the pan will yet open vast wealth in
j this Territory. Maybe he will turn up
I something great somewhere within
the borders of this Territory this win
ter. The hope is evergreen, eternal.
With conditions as they are in many
parts of the world, the prospector,
even if his life is one of self-denial
and much roughing of the way, has a
happy existence compared to many
who suffer the consequences of the
war.
The wealth hidden in nature’s pock
ets continues the potent lure of the
sourdough. Now is the day to prepare.
Let all be ready well before the snow
flies.—Dawson News.
PRELATE ENDS
TRIP COVERING
ILL OFJLSSKI
HIGH PRICES OF FOOD AND
POWDER CAUSE DEPRESSION |
IN INTERIOR COUNTRY.
BISHOP JAMES H. CONDIT HERE
Famous Clergyman Will Visit Chicka
loon Coal Feilds Then Will Return
to His Headquarters in City of Ju
neau.
The Rev. James H. Condit, general
missionary for the Presbyterian
church in Alaska arrived here yester
day having completed the Alaskan cir
cuit. He has visited every mission in
the Territory with the exception of
Point Barrow.
The bishop reports that conditions
throughout the interior are rather de
pressed owing to the extremely high
price of food and powder.
The bishop said he was highly grat
ified with the excellent work accom
plished by Dr. J. L. McBride, pastor of
the Anchorage Presbyterian church
and that the substantial progress
made by Anchorage in the last year
was remarkable.
Bishop Condit accompanied by Dr.
McBride will leave tomorrow morning
for Chickaloon where they will visit j
; the coal fields, and if time will permit
| they will visit the coal camps at Eska !
l and Moose creeks.
The bishop will leave this week for
| his headquarters at Juneau and will
| be accompanied as far as Cordova by
i Dr. McBride, who goes on a mission
for the Presbyterian church.
Dr. McBride will return to Anchor
age on the first boat sailing for the
north after his arrival in Cordova, and
| will try to get back in time for serv
! ices next Sunday.
GARDENS WORTH $2,000,000.
War Agricultural Movement in Den
ver Proves Successful.
DENVER; Colo., Oct. 2. — Den
ver’s war gai'dens will raise, on the
basis of prevailing prices, two mil
lion dollars’ worti of “garden truck,”
according to P. L. Clarke, head of the
department of grades and agriculture
of the Denver public schools, who had
a leading part in the movement. There
are in Denver thirty thousand gardens
averaging twenty-five feet by sixty
feet each and totaling sixty million
square feet of land. These gardens,
placed side by side would extend more
than half across the state of Colorado
from north to south.
Most of the produce is of the ex
pensive truck garden variety. Thou
sands of these gardens have proved
that potatoes can be grown in Denver.
To irrigate these plots the local wa
ter company furnished water free of
charge for one vacant lot for each
family and without extra charge on
premises having lawns.
—
Not an Economist.
“Are you practicing food economy?”
“I tried it out, but it didn’t work.”
“What was the trouble?”
“My husband simply refused to eat
| the cold fried egg that was left over
j from the day before.”—Detroit Free
Press.
TWELVE MEN ARE IN JAIL WHO
TRIED TO GO OUTSIDE ON
TRANSPORT CROOK.
THREE FROM TURNAGAIN ARM
Fift^-Three Laborers Have Been Ar
rested for Alleged Failure to Com
ly with Conscription Law — None
Are Americans.
This is the open season on slackers.
Twelve men accused of having failed
to obey the selective conscription law?
were arrested on the waterfront
Thursday afternoon just as they were
about to board a tugboat to take them
to the outgoing government transport
Crook, three were brought here last
night from Turnagain Arm and seven
are reported to have been arrested at
Matanuska. i
i At the landing float on the water
| front yesterday, thirteen men, who
i had worked on the government rail
| way and who had tickets for Seattle
; on the Crook, were taken into custody
j by Deputy Marshals Harry Cavan
l augh and John H. Robinson; but one
of the prisoners, Michael Karl, after
he had been escorted to the federal
! jail, talked so fast and convincingly
that he obtained his liberty in time to
get aboard the transport just before
she lifted anchor.
Proved He Registered.
He proved by records in the regis
trynon office that he had listed his
name. He explained he had lost his
card. A note to protect him from
further arrests in the states was given
him by Mayor J. G. Watts.
Of the other twelve laborers who
were prevented from sailing on the
Crook, seven claimed they had pa od
the conscription age of 31 years, four
contended they were less than 21
years old and one declared he had Pal
ed to register because he was Work
ing in a place remote from a registra
tion office. All the prisoners have
money. On them wheen searched at
jail, were found sums ranging from a
few dollars to $1,200. They gave their
names as Michael Caroff, James Sen
; as, G. Morini, Peter Noffol, Victor
| Baccki, S. Mpesbarkes, Michael Big
| off, H. Golson, Peter Sopoff, Nicholas
| Tohoff, Alexander Masoff, Frank Sar
ike. They are held pending a hearing
i before United States Commissioner
pold David.
The three alleged slackers from
Turnagain Arm, all railroad workers,
! were brought here by Deputy Marshal
N. E. Ohlsson. Their names are Mi
chael Donoff, Norman Rabray and B.
' Jackson.
Fifty-Three Arrests Here.
When the seven men who are re
ported to have been arrested at Mat
anuska by Deputy Marshal A. F. Hoff
man are brought here, there will be
fifty-two of this class of prisoners in
the fedral jail. Ten, who had been
bound over to the grand jury, were
| sent Wednesday on the steamship Ad
miral Farragut to Valdez; sixteen
others, who also have been held to the
grand jury, are at liberty on bail and
five, who were placed under arrest at
: various times, gave adequate explana
tions and were discharged by the auth
| orities, making a total of fifty-three
who have been taken into custody in
[ the Anchorage district for failure to
comply with the selective conscription
; law.
Nearly all the alleged offenders are
1 Russians, and among the others are
j Italians, Swedes and Austrians. No
I native-born Americans have been ar
| rested.
CUBAN GOVERNMENT
TO BUY CATHEDRAL
EDIFICE UNTIL SPANISH WAR IS
SAID TO HAVE CONTAINED
BONES OF COLUMBUS.
HAVANA, Sept. 26.—The proposed'
sale of the historic Columbus Cathe
dral here by the ecclesiastical authori
ties and fear that it would be destroy
ed have aroused such a storm of op
position that the edifice, which is 2lo
years old, probably will soon pass into
the ownership of the Cuban govern
ment as a permanent national monu
ment. ^
The Cathedral was completed by the
Jesuit fathers in 1704, and it is assert
ed that the bones of Christophre Co
lumbus were removed from Santo Do
mingo to its crypt in the following
year, though this is dispu' ed by Santo
Dominicans.
These bones which the Spaniards
claim are those of Columbus were re
moved from Cuba by Spanish officials
at the evacuation in 1900.