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shovels, kitchenware, furniture, stoves, etc. We also
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THE NORTHERN BLOCK
First Street
Copper River
& Northwestern Ry.
FOUR TRAINS WEEKLY BETWEEN
CHITINA AND KENNECOTT
Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mon
days, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays
days, Thursdays and Fridays.
Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tues
days and Fridays.
Leave Kennecott for Chitina Mondays, Wednes
days, Thursdays and Saturdays.
The above schedule subject to change with
out notice.
Dining Car in Connection With all Regular
Passenger Trains Between Cordova and Chitina.
Freight received and delivered at Cordova
Wharf from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.* except Sundays.
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot
office, one hour before departure of trains.
CALEB CORSER, W. E. BROWN,
Superintendent. Agt. Cordova Wharf
R. K. BROWN, Jr., Ticket Agent.
ALASKA MINERAL
The annual report on the mineral
resources and mineral production of
Alaska in 1917 is now in preparation
under the direction of G. C. Martin, of
the Geological survey, department of
the interior. Some of the important
features of this report relating to min.
ing development during the year are
abstracted in the following statement.
Complete statistics of the mineral
production of Alaska can not be col
lected within less than three or four
months after the close of the year, but
meanwhile it is desirable to publish
the preliminary estimates here given,
which are believed to vary not over 5
per cent from the actual figures.
Mineral Production.
The value of the mineral production
of Alaska In 1917 is estimated at $41.
760.000, exceeding that of any previous
year except 1916, which was $48,632,
000. The decrease in 1917 was there
fore about $6,870,000. During 33 years
of mining Alaska has produced over
$391,000,000 worth of gold, silver, cop
per, and other minerals.
Alaska mines are believed to have
produced gold to the value of about
$15,450,000 in 1917, compared with $17,
240,000 in 1916. The total value of the
gold mined in the territory is now
about $293,500,000, of which $207,000,
000 has been work- from placers. In
1917 about 88,200,000 pounds of cop
per was produced in Alaska valued at
about $24,000,0000. The production in
1916 was 119,600,000 pounds, valued at
$29,480,000. The total copper produced
to date is 427,700,000 pounds, valued
at $88,400,000.
The value of Alaska’s lesser mineral
products in 1917 was about as follows:
Silver, $1,050,000; coal. $300,000; tin,
$160,000; lead, $160,000;» antimony,
$40,000; tungsten, chromium, petrole
um, marble, gypsum, graphite, platin
um, etc., $600,000. The year 1917
marks the first production of chromi
um in Alaska, and about 81 ounces of
platinum was saved in placer gold
mining at several widely separated
localities.
Gold Placer Mining.
The data in hand indicate that the
value of the placer gold output in 1917
was $9,850,000; in 1916 it was $11,
140.000. The decrease was due chiefly
to restriction of operations because of
the high cost of supplies and the
scarcity of labor. The placer ouput was
increased only in the Tolovana, Mar
shall. and Ruby districts and at the
new Tolstoi camp.
Gold Lode Mining.
About 33 gold-lode mines were oper
ated in 1917, compared with 29 in 1916.
The value of this lode-gold mined de
creased from $5,912,000 in 1916 to
about $5,250,000 in 1917. The decrease
was due chiefly to the disaster at the
Treadwell mine. Southeastern Alaska,
especially the Juneau district, is still
the only center of large quartz-mining
development in the territory. Next
in importance is the Willow creek lode
district. Gold-lode mining on Prince
William sound, Kenai peninsula, and
in the Fairbanks district is at a stand
still.
Copper Mining.
The copper production of Alaska in
1917 was about 88.200,000 pounds, val
ued at about $24,000,000. This is less
than the production in 1916, which was
119,600,000 pounds, valued at $29,484,
000, but is greater than the production
of any other year. The reduction in
output was due largely to labor trou
bles at the Kennecott-Bonanza mine.
During the year 17 copper mines were
operated, compared with 18 in 1916—
8 in the Ketchikan district, 6 in the
Prince William sound district, and 3
in the Chitina district. The enormous
output of the Kennecott-Bonanza mine,
in the Chitina district in 1917 as in
previous years, overshadowed that
from all others.
Tin Mining.
About 232 tons of stream tin was
produced in Alaska in 1917. Most of
this came from the York district,
where two tin dredges were operated.
Developments were also continued on
the Lost River lode-tin mine. The
rest of the concentrates were recover
ed incidentally to placer-gold mining,
chiefly in the Mot Springs district.
Antimony Mining.
The mining of antimony ore (stib
nlte) began in Alaska in 1915 and con
tinued on about the same scale
throughout the first half of 1916, when
a fall in the price of antimony put an
end to most of these operations Min
ing continued at two localities in the
Fairbanks district in 1917.
Tungsten Mining.
The Fairbanks district and Seward
Peninsula were the principal pro
ducers of tungsten in Alaska in 1917.
In the Fairbanks district two tung
sten mines are in course of develop
ment. At one of these mines one unit
of a 75-ton mill is in operation and late
in the summer was turning out sever
al hundred pounds of scheelite con
centrates daily. At the other mine a
similar mill was in course of construc
tion. Underground work was In pro
gress at both mines. The present in
dications give promise of a large in
crease in the production of tungsten
in the Fairbanks district. In Seward
Peninsula tungsten was produced prin
cipally by sluicing the residual setaee
lite-bearing lode material In Sophie
Gulch. Smaller quantities were re
covered the result of placer mining at
other localities. i
Mineral Fuels.
The production of petroleum from
the.only oil claim patented in Alaska,
in the Katalla district, was increased
somewhat in 1917. Drilling continued
on a small scale, but no new produc
tive wells were obtained.
About 61,000 tons of coal, valued at
$900,000, was mined in Alaska during
1917. The largest production was de
rived from the Eska creek mines in
the Matanuska field, which were tak
en over by the Alaskan Engineering
commission. Coal was mined also at
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the Doherty mine in the Matanuska
field, at the Bluff Point mine on Cook
Inlet, on Cache Creek, and near Can
dle. The most Important event of the
year in connection with coal mining
was the completion of the Matanuska
branch of the government railroad.
The high-grade coal on Chlcaloon .riv
er is now being opened by the Alas
kan Engineering commission, and
small shipments to Anchorage have
been reported. Work 'preparatory to
mining is being undertaken by priv
ate lessees on Moose creek.
The coal lands in the Nenana coal
fiinumu £o
fields have been subdivided and will
| he offered for leasing at an early date.
The government railroad is now being
built southward to this field from Ne
nana, on the Tanana river, and will
probably reach the field and make the
coal available for river shipment in
the summer of 1918. A private rail
road from Controller bay to a patented
coal claim in the eastern end of the
Bering river field is now under con
struction and is reported to be nearing
completion.
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NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the firm
of Gottschalk and Clonniger conduct
ing the Alaskan hotel at Cordova, Al
aska, and the Alaskan bar, McCarthy,
Alaska, has this day been dissolved
by mutual consent and all bills owing
the firm are payable to R. L. Gotts
chalk, who will also pay all outstand
ing indebtedness, as Art lonniger has
retired from the firm.
R. L. GOTTSCHALK,
AR TCLONNIGER
Cordova, Alaska, Jan. 1, 1918
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