BANKER BOOSTS
BONUS ON GOLD
TO AID ALASKA
“If the efforts of those interested
?n reviving and stabilizing the gold
production of the United States to
secure a bonus on newly produced
gold amounting to at least $10 an
ounce are successful, Interior Alaska
will come back with a rush,” declared
R. C. Wood, president of the First
National Bank of Fairbanks.
"Interior mining operations are be
ing forced out of the game by the
greatly increased cost of operations,”
said Mr. Wood, “and the establish
ment of a bonus offers the only hope
for immediate relief. While there is
j^onsiderable work being done in all
the interior camps, the operations will
be even more curtailed than last year,
and unless there is a strike in as yet
undiscovered placer districts, produc
tion this season will will not equal
that of of last. A number of good
cleanups have been made already this
year and those operators who are able
to mine under present conditions will
take out considerable money.
KANTISHNA BOOM BIG
“The Kantishna district is looking
better every day,” according to 'Mr.
Wood. “The Aitkcn mine is being
steadily developed. Between 750 and
800 tons of silver ore, valued at at
least $250,000 and probably even more
* were hauled from the mines to the
Kantishna river over the winter trail
and is being shipped to the Outside
smelters for reduction. Much ore
mined last winter is still being held
at the mine because of inability to
haul it before the spring breakup and
on account of lack of summer trans
portation facilities. It had not been
intended to work the mine this sum
mer, but a new body of ore was en
countered early this spring which
shows up even richer than the ore
taken out during the winter, result
jp ir.g in the continuation of operations
all summer, although it will be impos
sible to make any shipments during
the summer and food and supplies
will have to be packed in to the mine.
Ten tons of the new ore taken out
showed an average value of $1,000
per ton,” said Mr. Wood.
PROSPECTORS ACTIVE
“Not in years has there been as
many prospectors in the hills as
there are today,” he said. “Many
of them are putting down holes in
the Kantishna creek valleys, while
others are prospecting for hard rock
propositions. In other sections in
the vicinity of Fairbanks oldtimers
are looking for the elusive pay
streak. and it would surprise no one
if a big strike were made before the
fall.”
The need for immediate road con
struction in the Kantishna is empha
sised by Mr. Wood. A 30-mile road,
he says, should be built from the
^Kantishna river to Moose creek, in
order that ore and supplies could be
transported to and from the mines act
ively operating. If the district is tc
be forced to await the construction oi
a road in from the railroad, it will be
given a serious setback which will
*ect the entire country, ac
.0 Mr. Wocd.
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ANCHORAGE INFESTED
BY HORDES RODENTS
Rats, the source of the bubonic
plague, are overrunning Anchorage
according to the late papers received
from there. The city is taking steps
'for a campaign to put the rodents ou'
of business. The Anchorage Times, ii
large typed two-column head, says
“rodents come via ship and railroad
from Seward.” Well, Brother Bedell
the rats have only become “Mears
mearized,” like mamy commission em
ployes.—Seward Gateway.
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FORMER ALASKAN IS
CALLED BY DEATH
According to information received
on the last mail, Mrs. Mary Andersen,
former well known business woman of
Dawson and Fairbanks, died recently
at Fort Worth, Texas. Her body was
taken to Seattle by her daughter, Mrs.
Emil Hurja, and laid at rest there,
with many Alaskans in attendance at
the funeral.
Some time ago, Mrs. Andersen suf
fered a stroke of paralysis, and it is
presumed that death resulted from
that cause.
Mrs. Anderson conducted a ladies’
goods store in Fairbanks for a number
of years, being in business at the cor
ner of Cushman and Fifth streets.
Prior to locating in Fairbanks she
was in business in Dawson, with a
store on Second avenue.
FORESTRY SCHOOL TRIES
TO GROW SQUARE TREES
CAMBRIDGE, Eng., Aug. 3 (by As
sociated Press).—The Cambridgeshire
Forestry Association school of for
estry believes that “there is no rea
son why trees cannot be made to grow
square and produce wood of better
quality and in greater quantity” if
the excessive wood production in cer
tain trees can be controlled. The as
sociation believes that this can be
done and if so “there will be no more
slabs, nor wavy planks.”
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PHONOGRAPH SPEEDS UP
WORKERS IN LAUNDRY
BATH, Eng., Aug 3 (by Associated
Press).—To stimulate quicker work
in a laundry here, the proprietor has
installed a phonograph which grinds
out popular songs and dances while
the girls scrub and iron. A marked
difference in the amount of work done
is said to be noticeable.
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TRIES TO BURN
SELF TO DEATH
Crazed Woman Rescued as She
Tries to Close Firebox
Door.
Bradford, Pa.—Seeking to kill her
self by roasting to death, Mrs, Jessie
Hunt crawled into a firebox at the
Kendall refinery. Prompt action of
Charles A. Barr, stationary fireman
on duty at the plant, thwarted Mrs.
Hunt’s attempt at self-destruction. She
is in a hospital, suffering from severe
burns.
Mrs. Hunt gained admittance to the
boiler room by an ingenious ruse. At
three o’clock in the morning she
knocked at the door of the room and
told Mr. Barr that she was looking for
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Mrs. Hunt Was Lying on the Blazing
Coals.
a man named Jackson, employed at
the refinery. She said “Jackson’s wife
was seriously ill, and wanted him to
return at once,” Barr went in search
of the man, and when he returned to
the boiler room the woman was not
in sight.
Detecting the odor of something
burning, the fireman examined his
boilers. He noticed a fire-box door
open and hastened to investigate.
Mrs. Hunt was lying on the blazing
coals, her head In the open doorway
and reaching with one hand to pull
the door closed after her.
Barr seized the woman and dragged
her from the firebox head-first. Most
of her clothing already was burned
and falling from her body. Barr
dragged the woman out of doors and
rolled her in the snow, extinguishing
the blaze. Then he turned in a call
for an ambulance.
Mrs. Hunt Is thirty-eight years old
and has three children. Her husband
died six years ago. She is said to
have been confined in a sanitarium.
SEEK LUSITANIA TREASURE
London, England.—Efforts to raise
some of the treasure from the ill
fated Lusitac ia will be made soon,
Engineers an divers who have been
prospecting a out the sunken liner be
lieve that the y can get at least thou
sands of pou nds’ worth of valuables,
but that it will be impossible to raise
the steamer o r much of the cargo, ow
ing to the gre at depth of the water in
which it is lj ing.
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