RESURRECTION
ANTWERP DUE
TO AMERICA
ANTWERP, May 1 (Correspond
ence of the Associated Press)—Ant
• werp appears to be passing through a
process of resurrection, although the
tonnage handled since the port was
reopened more than three months
ago represents that which would ordi
narily come through this port in one
week during the days prior to the
war. Ships now come straggling in,
and along the seven-mile waterfront
the winch is heard creaking here and
there, and the vision in some of the
great sheds is obstructed by unpre
tentious stacks of bags of American
rice and rows of barrels of Chicago
pork, and there are foodstuffs, cloth
ing and manufactured articles, most
of which, however, is for immediate
use.
The American Commission of Re
lief in Belgium had seventeen steam
ship in port early in April and the
American base for supply the Amer
ican army of occupation in Germany
was unloading five others.
Shipping men are anxiously await
ing the opening of the American base
at Contich, about two miles outside of
Antwerp on the Malines road. Bar
racks are being erected at Contich for
the accommodation of 20,000 soldiers
at a time. This is expected to inject
a little more life into Antwerp port.
The grounds picked out for the Amer
ican base is a vast plain, dry and well
irrigated, and the doughboys will find
living and sanitary conditions there
much better than in other bases
which have achieved greater prestige.
The Americans have taken over
some of the piers where North Ger
man Lloyd steamships formerly
docked. The early Work was arduous,
as the piers were encumbered with
gravel imported from Holland by the
Germans, ostensibly to repair roads
but actually to build reinforced con
crete shelters, dugouts and trenches.
One hundred thousand cubic yards of
the gravel had to be removed before
the piers could be used. It is esti
mated the Germans had enough
gravel there to repair Belgian roads
for fifty years.
Fifteen thousand longshoremen and
stevedores are idle here and the only
solution shipping men find when
questioned as to how the situation
can be remedied may be summed up
in one word, “America.”
Stampede to Isabelle l>reek
A party of well known Fairbanks
mining men consisting of Mike Erceg,
Ole Fisher and Harry Williams stam
peded in an auto to Isabelle creek and
located some claims.
Isabelle, which heads up against
Birch hill and empties into the flats
back of Fairbanks, was located in 160
acre association claims by Fairbanks
men in the early days. Ben Estby,
pioneer drill man of Fairbanks, and
Mike Erceg, another well known drill
man, put down several holes on that
creek in the winter of ’07-’08, but as
the ground was wet and deep (it did
not take much water in deep ground
in those days to cause a prospector
to shun a creek) the development
of the creek was abandoned and it
has been open to location for many
years.
The creek was named after the
wife of E. T. Barnette, the founder
of Fairbanks. A great many oldtimers
believe that Mike Erceg, who was on
the machine with Estby ten years ago,
has been “holding something up his
sleeve”—but Mike only smiles and
looks wise.
The new locaters are all exper
ienced drill men and it is believed
that the ground was relocated with
the view of doing extensive prospect
ing and settle the question as to
whether a paystreak exists on the
creek. Evidently the success of the
Howell drill on Steel creek had much
to do with the staking of Isabelle, as
the wet ground has always kept Steel
from being developed. Isabelle heads
up against Engineer and for a con
siderable distance cuts exactly the
same formation as does the old pro
ducer.
Construction work in the Talkeetna
district of the government railroad
having been suspended for the pres
ent, H. F. Dose, engineer for the dis
trict, returned to Anchorage with
the greater part of his force. Mr. Dose
will be engaged for some time in
completin his records. No station men
ve now in the Talkeetna district. A
vt^y' small payroll force remains
ther to close the office books and to
1 clean \pp the various camps. This
force Vju finish in the near future.
Job pricing at Dally Times office.
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ARMY MULE RAPIDLY
REACHING' DISCARD
DALLAS, Tex., May 15 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Demobilization of the
army mule and horse is going for
ward rapidly, according to figures
on government sales just compiled by
C. A. Moser, livestock inspector of the
purchasing quartermaster.
The figures show that during the
war the government bought 115,000
head of horses and mules at a total
cost of $27,000,000 in the southern and
central purchasing zones. When hos
tilities ended the government owned
about 500,000 head of horses and
mules, 300,000 in the United States
and 200,000 in Prance, only 70,000 of
the latter number having been
shipped from this country.
Becatise of the big demand for
these animals on central west farms
the government has been hurrying dis
tribution, and when autcions now ad
vertised are completed 150,000 ani
mals will have been placed back on
farms since January 1.
Cavalry horses cost the government
an average of $165, artillery horses
$190, and mules $190, according to
these figures. At the sales cavalry
horses brought an average of $85, ar
tillery horses $150 and draft mules
$160. The sales have included many
worn out animals, some selling for as
little as $10. On the other hand, many
animals have brought fancy prices.
LATE ALASKA NEWS
Charles Ingersoll, proprietor of the
Revilla Hotel at Ketchikan, has gone
into the fishing business. He will op
erate a floating mild-curing plant on
the west coast of Prince of Wales.
A trapper arrived in Fairbanks re
cently with the pelts of seventeen
wolverines besides considerable other
fur. The catch of wolverine was un
usually large, as it is a hard animal
to trap.
The Fairbanks fire department re
sponded to 56 alarms during the past
fiscal year. Damage done to prop
erty during the year amounted to
$193,276.60. The department was out
on service for seventy-three hours.
Water , was turned on eleven times
and the chemicals sixteen times.
Leather is coming down, so is shoe
repairing with up-to-date machines at
Steve Oros. 14-6t
Best coffee in town at the City
Bakery. 2-6t
Tub and shower baths at the Holden
pool room barber shop. 9-tf
The Dally Times Job plant Is
well equipped for all classe of com
mercial printing.
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