•'The Kantishna district is there.
It is going to be the big camp for
,ihe small man as well as the com
pany. The district has not been
scratched and there is plenty of
room for all who go there this year.
I am no boomer. I only speak the
facts. There are both placer and
quartz ready to be located. It is all
rich on both sides of the divide,
which seems itself to be a regular
fountain-head of gold and silver.”
Thus spoke Billy Taylor, Kantish
nr, cldtimer and mountain climber,
to a representative of a Seattle news
paper, on the occassion of his recent
trip to the states.
"The Kantishna district is about
100 miles square.” he explained. “The
trail is hit from Lignite, on the con
structed part of the Nenana division
of the government railroad. Across
forty miles of country where the
only railroad construction would be
the placing of the ties, the laying of
rails and a little ballasting, you
strike the beginning of the district.
From there to the Alaska range the
rich country abounds. Would you be- i
lieve it, that three men, since 1895,
have been taking their grubstakes out
from a patch of placer ground hardly
200 feet Square? Well, they have
and they are hanging on to their
claims on Glacier creek until they j
can get hydraulic machinery.
“Others have just been picking and ;
shoveling dirt into sluice boxes
since 1905 from even a smaller area
of ground and getting their grub- j
stakes. Men in that district have i
been living on the game for years
and taking out sufficient gold to take
to the nearest trading post and get
their supplies of other grub. They
have been waiting for the government
to do something, and now this dream
seems soon to be realized.
“The Mt. McKinley Gold Placer
Mining company has staked many of ;
the quartz claims, as well as having j
placer property. We have quartz j
property on Crevace creek to the !
headwaters and on Slate creek to El-!
dorado. We have 130 claims under :
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option on Caribou creek. All of the
quartz property has been worked suf
ficiently to determine its value. The
ledges run from 3 feet to 12 feet to
14 feet, high grade, principally galena
ore, containing both gold and silver.
The further one tunnels the better de
fined the ledge develops. I have one
tunnel 300 feet lonf and 150 feet un
der the surface in which the ore runs
from $10 to $20, and the ledge is ex
tending as I go in. We have six
claims on Eureka creek and one tun
nel 150 feet with crosscuts.
“On Moose creek a large hydraul
ic-king plant will undoubtedly be tak
en in this winter over the snow and
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placed in operation this coming sea
son.
“I am in Seattle to interest friends
in the district. I want financial
assistance to take out fortunes. I
have samples of ore with me that
will stand the third degree, running
in values from $30 to $150 a ton.
“While not especially shouting my
head off for the Kantishna, I will
say that it is going to be the big
camp in Alaska*, where the placer
miner and hard rock miner is going
to make a life-time stake.”
SOCIALIST PARTY MAY
BE DEBARRED FROM
NEW YORK ELECTIONS
ALBANY, N. Y., April 21 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Two bills designed to
bar the Socialist party, as it is now;
constituted, from the official election
ballot, have passed the assembly.
CAN NOW DOFF CAPS
INSTEAD OF SALUTING
WASHINGTON, April 21 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Under orders of Secre
tary of War Baker, the officers and
enlisted men of the army may raise
their caps instead of saluting when
greeting friends.
CHAMBER MEETS TOMORROW
A special meeting of the Cordova
Chamber of Commerce will be held
Wednesday evening at the Northland
Club. All members are urged to be
present. EDWARD F. MEDLEY,
Secretary.
LOCAL AND 1
Louis Dahl will leave for Latouche,
where he will be employed at the Nel
lie Juan cannery this summer.
An important meeting of the Cham
ber of Commerce will be held tonight
at the Northland Club, and a full at
tendance is desired.
Tom Jackson admitted his guilt in
violating the Alaska “bone-dry” law,
and Commissioner Noaks today sent
him up for thirty days.
No report has been received from
the steamship Northwestern since she
left Juneau, but she is expected in
port early tomorrow morning.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. R. Appleby ar
rived last night from Peak island,
where they are conducting a fox
ranch, to spend a few days with Cor
dova friends.
In the commissioner’s court today
John Rice pleaded guilty to violating
the national prohibition act. and
Judeg Noaks sentenced him to three
months in the federal jail.
The Admiral Evarfs is due west
bound Friday night, and she will be
the first boat calling at Anchorage
this season. She will also stop at
Seward, Seldovia, Kenai and Snug
Harbor with cannery crews and sup
plies.
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Rev. A. G. Shriver has resigned as
pastor of the local Presbyterian
church, to accept a call from Cle Elum,
Wash., where he will immediateely be
gin the erection of a new edifice and
devote part of his time to the new
Americanization movement launched
in the States. Rev. Shriver has spent
the past four years here, during which
time he built up the membership of
his church and also placed it on a
sound financial basis. He and his
family will leave Cordova about May
8, and they will take with them the
well-wishes of a large circle of j
friends.
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