GREATEST NEED
OF KANTISHNA
IS GOOD TRAILS
The Kantishna mining and record
ing district lies to the north side of
the Alaska Range and includes por
tions of the basins of the Nenana and
Kantishna rivers, the southern portion
of the Tanana lowlands and some of
the outlying mountain ridges, and lies
between meridians 149 deg. and 151
deg. 10 min. west longitude and par
allels 63 deg. 25 min and 64 deg. 15
min. north latitude. This district
comprises approximately 3,000 square
miles, a portion of which is included
in the Mt. McKinley national park.
In the year 1905 placer gold was
discovered on Eureka creek and sev
eral thousand stampeders rushed to
the new strike. It was unfortunate
that the majority of the gold-seekers
were of the ground-hog type, and,
after blanketing all the ground that
looked good, they stampeded out just
as fast as they stampeded in. There
were, however, about forty of the old
timers who stayed with the country
in order that they might prove or dis
prove the value of the ground. Al
though the remoteness of the Kan
tishna district from the established
lines of transportation has made
travel to it difficult and the transpor
tation of supplies expensive, these
same forty have stayed by the country
and are ready to prove to the world
that the Kantishna region is one of
the richest districts, both in placer
and quartz in Alaska.
Up to 1916 Fairbanks was the
source of supply and each season one
of the prospectors would make his
annual pilgrimage for the year’s out
fit. This would be freighted to Dia
mond by small boats, a distance of
350 miles; it was then placed in
caches until sledding time and hauled
with dogs to the various camps, the
total cost of freighting being about
10 cents per pound. When the town
of Nenana was established the dist
ance was shortened but the price of
freighting remained. With the com
pletion of the railroad to the Nenana
coal fields, the distance to the Kan
tishna country will be reduced tc
about 65 miles, and with the con
atruction of a wagon road will reduce
the cost of transportation to three
cents per pound or less.
In order that we,may become ac
quainted with the magnitude of this
district, conservative figures will
show just what may be expected il
proper transfortation facilities are
provided. At present there are about
700 placer claims or 14,000 acres oi
gold bearing gravels. These claims
are all producers and contain approxi
mately 160,000,000 cubic yards of gold
bearing gravel and should yield at
least 75 cents per cubic yard, making
a total of $120,000,000 which would
take sixteen No. 3 hydraulic giants
thirty years to work out. The above
figures do not include the thousands
of acres of unexplored ground in this
district, which will no doubt become
large producers if handled in a scien
tific manner.
Mr. Stephen R. Capps, of the United
States geological survey, say3, “with
better transportation that will be
made available by the completion of
the government railroad * * * mining
costa may be so reduced that placer
gravels heretofore unavailable may be
mined at a profit. Among the streams
that may become productive in the
future are Raines;, Spruce, Myrtle,
Crooke’d, Flume and a number of the
tributaries of the Bear Paw river.
Numerous coarse colors were found
on the benches of the Clearwater. On
all of these streams coarse gold has
been found in encouraging quantities.
By simple panning, with little prelim
inary excavation, members of the geo
logical survey parties found coarse
gold on at least three streams on
which no mining had been done.”
In regard to the lode deposits in
this district, there are no producers
at the present time, but much active
hard rock prospecting has been done
during the past few years, and at
present there are about 300 prospects
located, and while their remote situ
ation and difficulty of access has de
layed their development yet about
900 feet of tunnels have been flriven
on some of these claims and all work
so far done shows that the Kantishna
will be a large ore producer. These
veins vary in thickness from two to
twenty feet, and will, taking all in
all, average at least five feet thick.
If one quarter of the*lodes so far dis
covered would become producers they
should mine at least 2700 tons or 190
standard carloads of ore per day, and
yet the prospecting for quarts is in its
infancy. It is doubtful if there is any
other district in Alaska that can make
the showing that the Kantishna coun
try can make in quartz prospects, and
furthermore every prospect has the
earmarks of a real mine.
Capital is willing and ready to help
develop this region, their engineers
have made favorable reports on all
but one thing and that is the trans
portation. We must have roads. We
are ready for hydraulic machinery,
dredges and mining machinery of all
kinds, the only thing lacking is the
proper transportation facilities and a
preliminary survey will reveal the fact
that a road can be constructed very
cheaply to this district, as the wide
flat extending from Lignite to the
Alaska range is composed mostly of
gravel and the passes through the
Kantishna hills are low and of easy
grade.
AMERICANS ON GUARD
AT ROYAL PALACE
COBLENZ, Feb. 65.—An American
corporal’s guard has been sleeping
recently in the royal palace in Cob
lenz on the Rhine. When the Ameri
cans came to Coblenz they took over
all the larger government buildings
and the affairs of state were moved
to the mansion which is also known
as one of the former emperor’s sum
-mer palaces. Americans are not per
mitted to enter the palace under an
order of General Dickman. To en
force this rule* two khaki-clad sent
ries are on duty day and night at the
main entrance. The room used as
sleeping quarters by the Americans
was formerly occupied by German
soldiers doing guard duty.
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Ten pairs of live foxes have been
shipped from Prince Edward Island
to Japan, with a 'view to starting the
breeding industry in that country.
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CHOCOLATE WAS TREAT
FOR GERMAN CHILDREN
THIEIt, Prussia, Feb. 25.—A car
load of chocolate billed to the Ameri
can army of occupation was wrecked
near Thier recently and several Ger
man children of families living near
by ate such qantitles of the sweets
that doctors had to be called in to
treat them. Many of the children had
never tasted chocolate before, this
form of candy being among the lux
uries which Germany was virtually
unable to supply during the v/ar and,
before the American salvage crews
got to work, the youngsters consumed
their fill and then started homeward
with all they could carry.
CUBAN CANE*FIELDS
OFFER LOW WAGES
SAN JUAN, Fob. 25.—Efforts of
import Porto Rican laborers for work
in Cuban cane fields apparently have
failed. The Cubans offered $2 a day,
with no extra pay for overtime. The
Porto Rican employment service re
plied, demanding time and a half pay
for overtime, free transportation to
Cuba and return, free housing and no
discrimination as regards color.
The Cubans have replied, character
izing these terms as prohibitive.
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David F. Dunagan, teacher in
charge of the native school at Tyonic,
returned to Anchorage recently to re
ceive medical attention. Mr. Dunna
gan left Anchorage in December to
“mush” to Tyonic, accompanied by a
native. They ran into a heavy fog on
the Beluga flats and for a time were
lost. Mr. Dunagan’s feet and nose
were badjy frostbitten and he will be
confined to his home for several
weeks.
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