TRAINS TO RUN
FROM NENANA
TO FAIRBANKS
Steel Being Laid to Close Gap
Between Happy and Ne
nana, and Will Soon
Be Completed
The work of laying steel north
from the Tanana river on the Fair
banks branch line of the govern
ment railroad is progressing steadily
under the direction of Foreman T. K.
Blakey, says the Nenana News of
August 16. The gap between the
Nenana and Happy ends of steel is
lessening at the rate of more than
2.000 feet daily, which means that
trains will be running between Fair
and Nenana within ten w'eeks, if the
work continues at the present rate.
The Blakey track gang was
scheduled to reach Mile 425 at quit
ting time this afternoon, which rep
resents a stretch of 10 miles of
track north from Camp 415^* the
base of operations on the north side
of the river. The Blakey gang is
maintaining a daily average of steel
of 2,000 feet, and frequently that
distance is exceeded. The gang laid
2.300 feet on Thursday, which is
considered a splendid day’s work,
in view of the fact that the work
is being performed under difficulties
incident to the use of narrow-gauge
supply cars and the lack of track
laving equipment.
Track laying on the Happy end
is progressing less rapidly, owing to
the fact that there is no regular
gang employed at that work, and
to the further fact that the grading
operations have been delayed. There
are, however, about twelve miles of
rails from Happy- Junction south, in
eluding the five miles laid during the
Riggs regime to supply firewood to
Fairbanks.
There is a steam shovel operating
at Mile 449, about three miles be
yond the end of steel, on the Fair
banks end, and a force of about fifty
men engaged in getting the grade
ready for the rails, which are now
accumulating at that end rapidly.
The American ditcher, which was
used for a time during the early
part of the season to supply ma
terial for the grade on the Nenana
end of the Fairbanks line, has been
abandoned for the present, owing
to the greater need of rolling stock
for track-laying operations, and to
the fact that the operations of the
ditcher w'ere hindered by frost con
ditions. No attempt is being made
at surfacing, and it is considered
probable that none will be done this
season. By the time the ends of
steel are connected, the ground will
he frozen and the grade will be
sufficiently substantial for such traf
fic as may be required.
The distance between ends of steel
on the Fairbanks line is now approx
imately 26 miles.
INTERIOR MINING CAMP
REPORTED VERY QUIET
The Ruby district is very quiet this
season, according to Abe McKinnon,
who spent the greater part of the
summer in that locality, superintend
ing road repair w’ork for the Alaska
road commission. Mr. McKinnon
wras a returning passenger on the
steamer Yukon, en route to his home
in Fairbanks, recently.
There is very little mining going
on at present on Long creek or any
of the other streams in that locality
which have produced gold in past
seasons. The greatest activity loot
ed was on Long creek, but the wrork
being done wTas as nothing compared
with past seasons.
The Ruby district wras hard hit by
the Sophia disaster last fall, many
old-timers of that camp having gone
down on the steamer. Of those who
are left, few feel that they are war
ranted in working their claims, be
who will assist in the work to le
done. It is believed that the launch
will go as close to the Kuskokwim
ab possible, on the Yukon side,
from which point the party will
mush across country to the scene of
their labors.
The McKinnon launch was fitted
up at Fairbanks by Earl Slippern and
it has ample accommodations for
considerable freight and a num
ber of passenger?. There is an im
provised galley at the stern, behind
the engine.
It is not known here how long
the party will be away, or whether
or not Mr. McKinnon will accom
pany his hard-rock men to their des
tination.
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cause of the excessive cost of pro
visions and mining supplies. Little
of the ground remaining in the dis
trict will pay to work under present
conditions.
Shortly before Mr. McKinnon start
ed up river, he heard of the dicovery
of good pay on Poorman. Six-dollar
creek will be very much revived as
in one hole, and in another hole the
discoverers claimed to have uncov
ered three feet of forty-cent dirt.
Bill Sargent, an old-timer of the
Poorman district, is said to own six
claims close to the pay, and it is ex
pected that prospecting along the
creek will be very much revided as
a result of the discovery.
QUARTZPROPERTYON
KUSKOKWIM RIVER
TO BE DEVELOPED
The new McKinnon launch, which
reached Nenana several days ago
from Fairbanks, sailed for the lower
Yukon yesterday morning with Tom
McKinnon, George Nightengale, Lee
Lamprecht and George Gravdahl,
the destination of the party being
the upper Kuskokwim, where McKin
non is said to have acquired some
promising quartz properties, says the
Nenana News of August 15. None
of the party would disclose the loca
tion of the properties which they are
to investigate, beyond admitting that
they are headed for the Kuskokwim
which is a very large district.
The work, it is understood, is to
be done under the direction of
Nightengale, who came to Nenana
several days ago to engage the men