COPPER RIVER VALLEY MINES
BEING EXTENSIVELY WORKED
Despite the shortage of labor anti
transportation, the high eost of ma
terials and supplies, prohibitive to the
mining of law grade deposits, mining
development in Alaska, during HUS,
showed material progress in the open
ing of many new properties and the
enlargement of plants and equipment,
-lays J. I,. McPherson in the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer of recent date.
Alaska made its first shipment of
platinum in November. One hundred
and thirty-three ounces of the metal,
valued tit ?1 .’.,577. arrived in the
states from widely separated locali
ties in the territory—six ounces front
Slato creek in the upper Copper riv
o region ! twenty-two ounces front
Dime creek, Seward peninsula, and
105 ounces front the Salt Chuck mine
in the Ketchikan district The first
two shipments were from a placer de
posit the third from a lode deposit.
Molybdenum will be added to
Alaska's exports next year, through
the opening of a large deposit at
Shakan, on the northern end ot
Prince of Wales island, by the Tread
well Gold Mining company, which has
installed a twenty-stamp mill and is
constructing a 4.000-foot tramway
from tho wharf to the mine. One
hundred thousand tons of ore are in
sight, and the company has erected
at Treadwell a Heroult electric fur
nace for making forro-molybdenum.
Kennecott Driving Tunnel.
The Kennecott Copper Corporation
started the driving of a tunnel to eon
nect the world-famous Bonanza tnlno
with the Mother Bode workings, and
the enlargement of the leaching plant
for the treatment of tailings, prepara
tory to handling the output of tile
Mother Bode over the Bonanza tram
way and through the mill and tailings
plant of the Kenneeott company. This
will greatly Increase the output from
this section. During the past year
the Kenneeott corporation has em
ployed about r>r>n men. and although
paying the highest wages in the his
tory of lode mining in Alaska, hits
operated short-handed, due to tin
shortage of labor.
Important discoveries of silver,
lead, gold and a large body of low
grade copper ore have been made dur
ing the year in the Chitina region.
The North Midas Copper company
has constructed a cyanide mill for the
treatment of its gold-hearing ore.
The Slate creek placer camp, also in
the Copper river district, has just
completed its most successful season
after operating for eighteen years as
a steady producer.
The Alaska Copper corporation has
developed its bornite deposit to a
depth of 300 feet on Nugget creek in
the Kuskulana valley. A fifty-ton ex
perimental mill has been constructed
this season and will be enlarged next
year. Ore will be transported by auto
trucks over a new auto road, twenty
miles in length, constructed by the
company from the mine to Strelna,
oil the Copper River & Northwestern
rail roa d
Completes Long Tramway.
Copper mines in the prince William
sound district have been seriously
handicapped by lack of transportation
f; eilitles, due to the governmental
order requiring steamship companies
to care, tirst, for fish products. The
longest tramway in Alaska. ~8.Jku
feet long, has been completed this
year by the (Iranby Consolidated com
pany from the Midas mine to tide
winter on Valdez hay. and equips this
mine for a much larger output.
The Alaska Ciastlneau mine at
Thane has undertaken no new devel
opment work this year <»n account of
the high cost of operation and the
shortage of labor, hut expects to re
sume operations a? capacity in the
near futre
President P W. Bradley announces
that the Alaska Juneau Cold Mining
company is preparing to operate
forty-five drills on this property next
year, which means a greatly increas
ed output.
The Willow creel di-trict in the
Kusitna valley has experienced the
most sucesful season o! its history;
the put is expected to exceed that
of last year by $l<m,no". The ores
of this district hn\* L .n found to
contain platinum. The mills of the old
Cold Bullion. Alaska Kt< • Co'. 1 M n
ing company and the Mable have op
orated continuously throughout the
year
Shiping Chrome Ore.
Regular shipment> of chromo ore
are being made from the property «»l
Whiteney & Lass at Port Chatham.
Operations of the ('ache creek
dredge were among the most import
ant in the Susitna district this year.
The Valdez Creek Mining company
completed the installation of one of
the largest hydraulic plants in Al
aska. preparatory t<> operations on a
large scale next sea-mu.
Free milling ore was mined at (he
I Chase property on Turnagain Arm.
Extensive deposits of magnetic iron
I ore were discovered at Snug harbor.
In spite of the labor shortage, about
. , .noo.ooo in placer gold i predicted
i as the output from the Tolovana. in
j the Fairbanks district, this year. \t
hast thirty plants were in operation,
employing between L'fm and HOO meu.
Numerous gold strikes were reported
f’om various sections, including the
placer strikes at Takotna, Crooked
< reek. C.eorgo and Ilalitna rivers and
on lower i’atterson. about twenty-two
miles from Hot Springs. None ot
these has as yet been developed. A
m vv ijuartz lode lias also been locat
ed by Smith brothers at Faster creek.
Molybdenite lias been discovered
about luo miles from Fairbanks in the
I -* Ita country.
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WORLD S PRESS
CONGRESSTOBE
HELD AT SYDNEY
TOKIO. Jan. 11 (by Associated
I*ress». The next World’s Press Con
gress has been called to take place
at Sydney. New South Wales. Aus
tralia. on November 11. 1 !* 1 !♦. the first
anniversary of the signing of the ar
mistice which ended the hostilities in
the world war. The date was decided
by Dr Walter Williams of Missouri,
the president of the congress, now
in Tokio. and was agreed upon after
the receipt by him of a cablegram
from William A Holmaan. premier of
New South Wales.
The Press Congress of th* World,
which was organized in San Francisco
in 1 *.♦ 1. has journalist of forty-four
eounfri* in if membership Owing,
to the war. the IP] > • -ion arranged
for Sydr.e> wa po t poped until f !i • *
conrliiMon of the hostilities
Tin* s- ( retary i rea ui • • r »»f the con
gfe j A U Ford, tie pr- ddent of
the Dominion Pie <;. 111 # • r > at ()t
tawa. Canada l!aeh nation lias two
vice presidents
‘ In his cablegram to Dr Williams
Premier Holman said: “The victori
ous end of the war reminds me of tin
great services the press has rendered
in promoting and fostering that spleti
did international harmony of peoples
and of principles that alone made vic
tory possible. I look to the early
meeting of our congress as an occa
sion for completing this great work
by promoting better understanding
throughout tin* world.”
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CHARGES MADE
AGAINST SWEDEN
ARE SETTLED
LONDON. Jan. 11 (by Associated
Dress). Charges brought by the llrit
ish government that the former Swed
ish government, or Lieutenant Colonel
Wikland of the Swedish army, had al
lowed their tAllies to be used as con
signees for wool purchased with Ger
man money, have been dropped, and
several cases in the prize court, in
volving $2,500,000 in wool, seized by
the llritish navy, have been settled.
Sir John Simon appearing for the
claimants, protested against the gov
ernment’s allegations. He called at
tention to statements made in the
house of commons that Sweden was
sending raw wool to Germany to he
spun into yarn anad returned for use
of the Swedish army, and declared that
there was no foundation for the charge
that the Swedish government had been
guilty of a violation of neutrality.
The terms of settlement were not
given out Sir John Simon told the
court that it "will leave no soreness
on either side, and will express the
friendly feeling which has in the past
history of the two countries existed,
and which both the Swedish and llrit
ish governments desire to continue be
tween these two great, independent
states."
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ST. LOUIS, Jan. 11.—The plan to
“train at home” if the major leagues
adopt a 140-game schedule of 1919 is
being considered by officials of the
St. Louis National league club.
While Secretary Mason has prev
iously announced that the club would
return to San Antonio, Texas, the
statemnt was made when it was pre
sumed that the usual 154 games
would bo playod. Tho month of April
is warm, particularly in St. Ixmis.
while the climatic conditions in many
southern training camps havo not
boen entirely satisfactory.
TO DEAL WITH
VIOLATORS OF
QUARANTINE
A joint inerting .a th • National
| < 'ouin .! of 1 Jefen -i and the city e-min
*il was held at noon today to take
some action on the breaking of the
quarantine rules upon the part ol
some of the passengers on the. Ala
meda and townspeople who went to
the dock to meet the boat. It was
< barged that at least one or two ot
the arrivals came up which is in di
rect violation of the rules, but later
returned to the detention hospital;
i also several people* from Cordova met
I the boat and came in contac t with the
passengers, with a ease of influenza
| aboard the ship.
There was an unusually large at
tendance of tin* members of both
bodies at the meeting and file senti
; meiit was strongly in favor of tight
• •nirig up on the* regulations and the
guards instructed to sev that they
were rigidly enforced Any violations
will be* sevorel) dealt with It was
decided that hereafter the gate this
side* of th<» Castle Inn will la* kept
c losed and nobody allowed to go to
or from the dock, unless upon the
most urgent business, and then only
upon written consent of the medical
officers.
Thost who broke the quarantine
last night will come before the proper
authorities for trial; the doctors were
instructed to take* such steps as they
thought necessary in dealing with
the Cordovans who came in contact
with the passengers.
LIEUT. BURNEY GETS
HONORS FOR INVENTION
LONDON. Jan 11 (by Associated
Press. \ device which for more than
three years helped to protect British
vvarslyips from German mines lias
won for its invfmtor. Lieutenant
Charles D. Burney of the Britisli
navy, the order of Companion of St
Michael and St. George and a grant
of $150,000. The invention is said to
have saved the lives of hundreds of
sailors and prevented the loss of many
ships. It consists of u waterplane
shaped like a torpedo, having a pair
of large flat fins projecting on either
side. It is towed overside by a wire
rope in such a way that it runs from
the ship’s bows outward. The wire
rope is intended to pick up the moor
ing ropes of mines and slido them
along until they roach to the nose of
the device, whore a sharp saw is Ilxed
Inside a Y-shaped slot. The saw cuts
through the muring rope and allows
the mine to float free, whore It can
either be avoided or destroyed.
The invention 1s known in tho serv
ice as the "P. V." or ‘paravana ”
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Job printing at Dally Times office.
PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST
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Tin- Admiral Watson i- duo from
] ill. we-FW,l|d ’ S O eluek tOlllgllt.
Mr K. Johan-eii ami on were
j r"■‘nruing pass,me,us- on tie Mam.-da'
: mm a pleasanr Msit to 111. stale
Tie National Council of l». Urns.■
and . it> etuimdl will meet tomorrow
I ..iteriioon to take turtlier n tion on
tie duarantitie regulation--.
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111.- second steward on the Ala
meda was stricken with Influenza on
the trip north and was taken to the
Cordova general hospital this morn
ing
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A Special meeting of the Cordova
lire department will I... held tomor
row afternoon at .. o', nick and a lull
attendance of tie Mi-mbcr- i.- re
quested.
A .1 Hav drived from San Fran
risen on last night's heat to take
charge of the new aiixili: ry IHIW'et
plant being Installed by tie- Alaska*
[ lhtblic Ctilites
Dr \\ W. Council, assistant health
commissioner, today received a tele
i dram from Covernor Itigds at Wash
j hidton authori/.ing him to proceed
with the territorial quarantine at the
j ocean dock.
Our former townsman. Ivory St
! <’lair was instantly killed in m rock
sli(h* on the government railroad a;
Nenana on December ”7 He leaves
a wif«. and son and was a brother o
Mrs rioninger. of McCarthy.
Private Tisla, of the Signal Corps
v. ho was brought to the local hop pita
from out the trail with both of hisV'
feet frozen, had parts of both mem
hers amputated and left on the boa
this afternoon for Fort Listuiu '
F A Jones and Win t'avanau gi J
who joined the lank service at tiettys
luirg. I’cnii.. were a( New York read'
to sail for France when I lie news o'
the armistice was received, arrive'
home on last night's boat and an-,
now at tile detention hospital
The steamer Alameda arrived
shortly after midnight from Seattle
having developed one case of iutiu^
enza on the trip north, which is now in
the local hospital. The eighteen pas
sengers for Cordova are in the def
tentlon camp at the ocean dis k
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Joe Kelly has received a new ship
ment of Chesterfield underwear, suits
gent's furnishing goods and ladies
waists. He also has a fine assortment
of furs, which will be sold at reason
able prices.
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Now is tho time to have yout
clothes disinfected by having them
thoroughly renovated at Tcm Hub
bert's 9-iit
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Job printing at Daily Times office
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until next season, and also to make room for new goods,
the following prices will prevail (until stock is exhausted)
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These a e good, serviceable coal heaters of attractive design and J
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