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: Vol. 1, No. 24
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PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT KNIK, ALASKA.
March 27, 1915
The Broad Pass region is the Mecca that is drawing scores of
prospectors and mining men, and this season there promises to be one
of great activity. It will be interesting to know “Who’s Who’’ in the
newly-found mineral district, hence the publication of a list revealing
the names of the locators and their claims, as shown by the official
records. The list comprises all the claims fded for record up to Novem
ber i, 1914, the close of the prospecting season. If the Broad Bass
country turns out as good as the surface indications appear to suggest,
some of the locators whose names appear in the list will find themselves,
at no distant day, in affluent circumstances.
The Golden Zone group, Nos. 1, 2 and 3, was bonded last fall by
Tom Aiken, presumably in behalf of the Guggenheims. The same
parties, it is said, have options on the Golden Zone Extension group and
the Eldorado group. James Murray, a well known Alaska mining man,
has a short-time option 011 the Lenfors-Peterson groups, and the claims
of Meredith, McCallie, Horning and Sampson. Derrick Lane of Seward
has tied up a part of the Wolf-Tutt holdings.
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Name of Claims. Locatoks
Northern Light, Nos. 1-2-3. Frank Wells et al
Golden Zone, Nos. 1-2-3. Frank Wells et al
Lucrative, Nos. 1-2-3-4-5, Red Bird.;. F. M. Kelly et al
Long Creek, Nos. 1-2. Way Bowicer et al
Littie Lucy. P. C. O’Donnell et
Flat claim, Center Star and Coinstocx. Way Bowxer et al
Hector and Hector No. 1 . Charles Bowxer et
Center Star Nos. 1-2. W. H. Taulman et
Eldorado Nos. 1-2. W. H. Taulman et
Eldorado, Nos. 3X"3/^-3^-4. P. C. O’Donnell et al
Golden Zone Ex. Nos. 1-2, O’Donnell lode . Charles Bowicer et al
Center Star Fraction, Valley Lode . W. II. Taulman
Moonlight No. 1, Colorado Wonder No. 1 . J. H. McCallie
Moonlight No, 3, Colorado Wonder No. 2. W. S. Horning
Golden Zone Ex. No. 3, Bluff No. 1. Don S. Rae
Bluff No. 2, HomestaKe. P. C. O’Donnell
Gold Dollar. Don S. Rae
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North Star
Nos.
2-3. A. J. Sampson et al
Mabel, Copper King... A. D. McMillan et al
Riverside Lode. M. S. Morrison
PaystreaK, Nos. 1-2-3-4-5. William Springer et al
Golden Rule, Nos. 1-2-3. William Springer et al
Southern Cross, Cache . William Springer et al
Morning Star and Morning Star No. 1. C. P. Lenfors et al
Independent and Independent No. 1. C. P. Lenfors et al
Independent No. 2 . A. F. Stander
Hidden Treasure, Homestake, Gold Reward. C. P. Lenfors et al
Hill Top, Morning Glory, Lucky Strike. C P. Lenfors et al
Eldorado Nos. 1-2, Gold Star Nos.
1-2-'
. Al. Wolf, A. H.
Mammoth Lode Nos. 1-2-3-4. Al. Wolf, A. H.
Buffalo. Robt. Maddox
Hornet. C. Spillune
3ig Chief, Windfall. Geo. Perkins
Star and Home claims.... C. R. Booth
VTip Top claim. J. H. McCallie
^Bonnie Jean. W. S. Homing
snowflake an<f Snowflake No. 1. O. J. Sampson et al
5 Vrado Fraction and Moonlight. O. J. Sampson et al
!= \sion Nos. 1-2-3. C. E. Craig et al
» Ration No. 1. T. T. Coffey
- tfluff and Comet claims. A. L. Dohrman
£j \ar Lode. Thomas Meredith
\on and Woodrow Nos. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 .. C. E. Craig et al
£E Extension No. 4. J. J. Bugge
2 u. J. H. McLean
5 |* T.-riOS. 1-2, Laura Nos. 1-2. Al. Wolf, A. H
I BAN IS 2 . A!. Wolf, A. H
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The question is very often asked
in Knik: “What can the farmers
raise in the Susitna and Matanuska
valleys?” And in the same breath
the questioner, particular^ if he is
an old timer, will more than likely
add, “I know they can raise pota
toes, but that don’t amount to any
thing.”
Does the ordinary individual ever
stop to think what a great part of
the world’s food supply potatoes
maKe up?
Ofcourse, you know that the
people of Ireland all live on spuds
and the kaiser’s subjects get fat and
aggressive on cabbage; but that’s
just untrue history. Germany is
the greatest producing and consum
ing potato country in the world.
Ireland produces a measly 95 mil
lion bushels annually to Germany’s
i billion 850 million bushels, and
our own great United States pro
duces less than 421 million bushels.
Noted agricultural writers have for
years been warning the people of
the United States that we should
increase the production of spuds.
You should not think for a mo
Ijhent that potatoes, as many people
think, can be grown successfully
everywhere in the United States.
Potatoes, particularly for quality
and yield, are strictly a northern
grown crop, and while, like the
presence of gold, their growth is
widely diffused, only a very few
localities of the United States are
particularly adapted to their suc
cessful culture. Chief of these
are: Aroostook county, Maine;
Greely, Colorado; Prince town,
Minnesota; Yakima, Washington,
I and from now on, we hope to add
Knik, Alaska.
Perhaps you do not know, but it
is nevertheless true, that the United
States’ importation of spuds ex
ceeded our exportation more than
12.1-2 million bushels in the year
| 1912. Prince Edward Island,
where Secretary Lane originally
hails from, and Nova Scotia have
grown rich, perhaps in spots, in
j shipping spuds to the Unites States.
One rancher in the Matanuska
I valley last year produced 6.1-2 tons
of good spuds from a half acre of
unfertilized ground and with un
1 acclimated seeds. Do you realize
! that this,'is more than four times
! greater than the average yield of
j the best producing state in the
I union? We predict that at no dis
; taut day this immediate vicinity
; will be one of the greatest produc
; ing countries for this crop on earth.
We have the great markets of the
' Pacific to cater to, and with the
Lord’s help, and a bit from our
i good president and congress, we
will have transportation like other
white people, and then, like Sena
| tor Dolliver’s hog, our Alaska spud
I can show its superiority in all parts
! of the world.
We are not writing this article
because we believe that potatoes
is the only crop that can be grown
I here— not by a jug full—for statis
tics prove that all countries and
sections of countries that are pre
eminent in potato production, are
likewise well up in most other agri
| cultural productions, and this sec
tion will prove no exception to that
rule. Hut we wish to impress upon
our farmers that potatoes are really
one of the earth’s greatest crops.
A government agricultural experi
ment station would aid us in devel
oping a good seed potato, as well as
assist 11s in grain and stock experi
ments, which the average settler
cannot afford to undertake.
Apples, per box, $2. Brown &
Hawkins. “Quality First.”
Try some Silver Salmon bellies,
Mrs. Ben H. Gilmore announces
that she has opened a New Pro
cess Hand Laundry i11
Knik, and is prepared to do first-,
class work at reasonable prices, j
She will also do rough dry laundry.
Laundry on hill east of main street.
C. M. TkorndyKe, an assayer of
Ju. can. is at Reward, enroute to
the Broad Pass country.
W. E. DuiiKle, the mining engi
neer, departed Tuesday for the
Broad Pass country. JacK Cronin,
with his dog team, is taKing him.
Newt. Pilger’s Policy
To put good goods on his shelves
and then MOVE E’M. He don’t
“keep things;” he sells ’em.