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Dresses, Skirts,
Smocks, Middies and
Neckwear
If further prestige could be given the Georgette Crepe
dress, with and without the Taffeta combinations, these new
arrivals would confer it, for they retain only the best of the
style tendencies that summer has inaugurated.
There’s a beautiful assortment of All-Taffeta, some hand
somely embroidered in self color or the new contrasting shades.
A fine lot of Wool Jersey, Serges, Tricotines and Twills
to select from.
Skirts of good style, made of Fancy Plaids and plain Tweed
materials, others of tub qualities, of fancy striped Gaberdines
and fine wale corduroy, gathered back styles, with wide belts,
trimmed with large pearl buttons.
Beautiful Middies and Smocks, some all white, others be
comingly trimmed with bright colors.
A wonderful assortment of new neckwear in Georgette
* Crepe, fine Organdies and Silks, reasonably priced.
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I About 100 to 150 men are said to
lx* In the Good News bay district this
summer
Tom Aitken, on Candle creek, forty
miles from Tokotna. is working a full
crew, operating a dredge.
Johnny Heaton and Harry Donnel
ley. on No I below discovery on Otter
creek, in the Iditarod. tire working
their dredge, and employ a force of
forty-five men.
The Guggenheim dredge, on Flat
creek, in the Idfttrod, is employing
about 100 men This is slightly in
excess of the labor employed by them
last year
John F. Coats, consulting engineer
of the Granby interests, has been se
lected by the directors of the Tjose
vig Kennecott company to make the |
independent examination and report
ion the property.
The Granby Consolidated Mining,
Smelting and Power Company has de
clared a dividend of $1174,002 for the
quarter ending June 1 This Is at the
rate of 2.5 per cent Payment was
made on August 1.
The production of copper by the j
Kennecott Copper Corporation In May j
, amount*-1 to M,102.000 pounds, of
which J,404,000 pounds were from
[ Alaska and ij.75M.ooo pounds were from,;
i South America. tl
Mining operations are very quiet In j
the Kuby district, the only operations
of particular note being those on
Sprui e creek. II is said that earlier
predictions for this creek were not ex
aggerated. and that It is good for two
or three years at its present output
The Venus mine, in the Conrad dis
trict. near Whitehorse, shipped TOO
sacks of concentrates on the Tutshi
to Carcross tor resliipnient from that
point for the smelter Outside. At that
time there were 8,3*10 sacks of con
centrates at the mill.
An encouraging strike of free gold
j mixed with galena and "blackjak' in
the tunnel at a distance of 20u feet
| was made at Windham bay, in South
j eastern Alaska, recently. The strike
® | is said to be very encouraging, and,
77. workmen are breaking out six feet of
i ore per day.
7! Two outfits are working on Boulder
•7 creek, in the tditarod. this summer.
•7 Considerable work has been done in
:7 this district, but many miners are
7: leaving on account of prohibitive
ft prices for supplies and transportation.
•7’ H Armstead, manager of the cop-'
V;1 per mine near Sunidum, reports a
7:1 splendid showing on the copper prop
ft erties in ttiat vicinity. A shaft 200 j
7: feet in depth has been sunk, with Uj
7: j drift of liio feet, a ledge of ore six
ft teen feet wide being encountered
?7j The Copper King mine, at White-1
ft horse. Y T.. recently shipped 800 tons
ft j of copper ore from its bunkers in
ft j Skagway The assay values have
7:1 been uniformly high on the product
ft of this mine, running from 40 to 60
ft: per cent.
\ (>. m osier, operating ai nypauw,
is in Juneau endeavoring to secure a
;/j crew to resume operations on thisj
j property The gypsum mined on thisj
| property Is the richest in the world,
£:, and a manufacturing plant has been
:/ j handling the raw product at Tacoma,
jjjiilt is the intention of the company to
j develop some of the water power In
;X j the vicinity of the mine.
:$ James VV. McDonald, who has spent
£j| forty-flve years In the mining game In
:';!the territory and various parts of the
United States, says that Alaska has
g: no peer In mineral deposits, and there
j Is as much chance for placer mining
In Alaska as there Is for quartz min
Jng When the war Is over, Mr. Mc
Donald says, there will be a rush for
ijif the mineral deposits of Jhls country
•ij: that will break ill records. '4" I ft
g Reports from the Owed New* bay
:£ diggings, which are said to be about;
jj: ninety miles from Bethel, are to the
r>j effect that Curly Smith and Joe Jean/
•:£ mining men from the Marshall dl»'
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trict, have made a deal with Butch
Smith and partners and are going to
work about four or live claims in this
£ district during the season. They are
iv reported to be on the ground, aver
ijij aging about $3 to $4 per foot. S
Recent arrivals from Nixon fork.
:$ about thirty-live miles from McC.rath, ij;
jj: on the Kuskokwlm, state that consld- i
/: erable prospecting has been done re
Sj cently in that part of the country and /
many of the miners have struck good
i-i- puy. It U said that about forty men ::j
are beaded for the Nixon fork coun
•i): try, but are unable to get there on ac
§i count of high water. Material and ;i:
supplies of all kinds are very hard
iji: to obtain, and thsi condition Is a bur £
to the development of the district.
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"Angels Ever Bright and Fair"—By Alma Gluck
“Little Mother of Mine"—By John McCormack
"Orpheus"—Ballet by Philadelphia Orchestra
“The Volunteers" (March) and "Liberty Forever" (March) — By Victor
Military Band
"The Rainbow Girl" (Medley Fox Trot) and "Oh. Lady! Lady!" (Medley
Fox Trot) — By Victor Military Band
War Ballad Medley (Fox Trot) and Eclipse Medley (One-Step) — By
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"Just Like Washington Crossed the Delaware, General Pershing Will
.• Cross the Rhine" and "I May Stay Away a Little Longer"—By Peer,
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"Your Lips Are No Man's Land but Mine—By Campbell-Burr. "Our
Country's In It Now”—By Orpheus Quartet
"There’s a Little Blue Star in the Window"—By Henry Burr. "Some ij:
Day They're Coming Home Again"—By Macdonough-Orpheus Quar
tet
“God Bring You Safely to Our Arms Again"—By Elsie Baker. “Bring
Back My Soldier Boy to Me"—By Olive Kline
“A Soldier’s Day" and "Parodies of the Camp"—By Geoffrey O’Hara
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