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SHORT STORIES FROM THE ALASKA PRESS
The snow Is nearly gone off the
Richardson road, and autos are mak?
ing good time with passengers and
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Trappers along the Richardson road
state there was practically no fur at
all to speak of this year and that no
large catches were made by anyone,
not even the natives.
J While two mounted policemen
were moving a cook stove at White
horse a short time ago they took a
tumble and the stove landed on the
head of one of the men. It is said that
the man was uninjured but a perfect
ly good stove was almost ruined.
A campaign against the mosquito
pest has been launched at Whitehorse
and the town laid out in districts
under the supervision of different
persona. me suieme iui mu
destruction of all rubbish and the
• placing of crude oil in nearby
swamps.
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The Nenana Commercial Club has
furnished a fur room where trappers
and fur buyers can meet and arrange
for the sale of furs and furs can be
displayed. It is estimated that furs
valued at between $25,000 and $30,000
pas through Nenana in the course of
a year.
A Seward boy, whose father is an
eccentric artist living on an island
near that place, told a teacher in the
Seward school that he loved the Ger
man flag best of all. The boy has
never been sent to the public schools
and the teacher is seeking an explana
tion from the boy’s father as to his
education.
Dr. Smith, who has the mail con
tract formerly held by the steamer
Dora, is to purchase a vessel of 300
tons to replace the gas boat Eloise,
which was a failure on the run this
winter. The Seward Commercial club
is offering inducemnts to the doctor
to make the headquarters for his boat
there. i
News of a rich strike of placer gold
in the Teslin Lake country, which is
about 150 rrfiles from Whitehorse by
the winter trail, has reached that
place. It is claimed that the discover
ers panned 35 cent pans from their
claim. A number of people are stam
peding to the new' diggings. The dis
coverers were flooded out before
reaching bedrock.
Placer tin is proving an extremely
valuable by-product in the Hot
Springs district. Up until recently the
mining men of that district have
always considered placer tin as an
annoyance in the cleanups as it is for
eign to the gold they have been look
ing for and it has been cast aside.
This is being turned into a source
of revenue by John Boulton, who is
making arrangements to go into the
recovery of this valuable mineral on
a large scale. Last year with a small
crew of men he recovered about 30
tons of placer tin and this year he will
take out considerably more,
St. Patrick creek will be one of the
most active creeks in the interior this
season. Sherrard, Lilly & Co., who
have taken a lay on the Shagan frac
tion, are at the present time building
a large boiler house and have moved
two boilers to the property ready for
the opening of the season. They will
soon begin putting down a work shaft
and be ready to hoist pay dirt into the
boxes by the time the water runs.
The old Bock fraction on Sullivan
creek in the Hot Springs district
which was thought to have been
worked out some time ago is still to
be counted as among the i#oducers
of that camp. While it will probably
never produce such a store of golden
treasure as it did in the old days it j
is well worth working. Rollte and
Albrecht have a lay on the property
and will clean up $35,000 for their
season’s work.
Fraker and Nelson are opening up
on 7 above, Little Eldorado; Hersdale
and McDonald are getting ready on 3
above; Nelson and Keilas are tunnel
ing on 1 above; A1 Andresen & Co.
have a plant on 4 below and are ready
for sluicing. Next below is Hans Hess
& Co. and farther down the creek
Carlson & White are getting ready to
hoist and sluice. Teddy Rehn, who
employed a large crew last year will
work on ^ large scale the coming
season.
Advices from Fort Yukon state that
the peace and dignity of the little
village has been broken by one David
Henry, a native, who is accused of
learning the ways of his paleface
brother and friend to the extent of
forging one check for the sum of $15
upon a local concern. Henry was in
need of hiyu muck-a-muck and not
having the chickamin thought that
it was easy to raise it by presenting a
bit of wawa paper to the storekeeper.
He got ninety days for his accomplish
ments.
Juneau natives are beginning to
flock from the city to the different
canneries in southeastern Alaska to
get ready for the cannery season, and
they will return in the fall with all
kinds of money. Formerly the money
earned by the natives was mostly
used for one grand debauch, but of
late years they spend their money for
clothing and useful articles. Educa
tors who work among the natives
assert that they are making more
rapid strides toward a higher and
better civilization than any other race
of people, not even accepting the
whites themselves.
It is reported tha the pelt of the
gigantic wolf that was killed in the
Circle district will be taken to Fair
banks on the next mail stage. The
pel* measures 11 feet from tip to'tip
and the animal stood as high as a
man’s shoulders. The wolf was killed
ty a trapper named Michael de
Michel. He was running his trap line
with two dogs and a sled when he
noticed a pack of wol.cs attempting
to surround him. He unhitched his
dogs and sent them home and climbed
a tree which was surrounded by the
wolves in a short time. This was
playing right into the trapper's mitt,
and he killed three of them Including
the big fellow. Getting down from the
tree he skinned his kill and hiked for
home. The pelt of the large wolf
brought an excellent price.
The improvements at the mouth of
the Snakfe river to make a harbor
there for small boats will be made
this year. A telegram was received
at Seattle recently from the war de
partment stating that contracts
amounting to $105,000 had been let
for the work, which is to be com
menced not later than June 20. W.
J. Rowe, of Nome, received the con
tract for the dreding and Guiman &
Ames, of Selah, Wash., for the revet
ment.
ESKA COAL MINES NOW
EMPLOY FORTY-FOUR MEN
ANCHORAGE, April 19 (Special to
Daily Times).—Three thousand, six
hundred and ninety tons of coal were
produced and an average of ninety
men was employed in the past month
at the coal mine operated by the
Alaskan Engineering Comission at
Eska. The output and force will not
be so large in the summer months as
they were in the winter.
Work at the commision’s coal mine
at Chickaloon continue to be of a
prospecting character, and the small
production is merely incidental to
prospecting work. Forty-four men in
the past month were on the payroll
of the Chickaloon mine.
WARM SPRINGS UNDERLIE
RIVER TO WESTWARD
ANCHORAGE, April 19 (Special to
Daily Times). — Do warm springs
underlie a part of the Susitna fiver?
The question is answered in the af
firmative by government railroad en
gineers who are making soundings for
a bridge across the stream 151 miles
north of Anchorage.
Near the site of the proposed
bridge, a rift about 1000 feet long and
25 feet wide occurs in the ice of the
river early in the spring every y&kf.
This open stretch of water after it
makes its appearance in the spring
does not close until the freezing
weather of the following winter.
The rift in the upper reaches of the
Susitna precedes by nearly two
months the movemnt of ice from the
lower stretches of the stream.
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See Will Clayson tor Evenrude out
boards. 4-tf
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Fresh shipment of Brookfield saus
age arrived on this boat. Blum,
O’Neill Co.
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Tub and shower baths at the Holden
pool room barber shop. 9-tf
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MUCH ACTIVITY
IN MINING AT
FAIRBANKS
FAIRBANKS, April 17.—The com
ing summer will witness considerable
open-cut mining an upper Goldstream
and Pedro, judging from the large
piles of cordwood which have been
placed on the claims of these creeks
and also other preparations which
have been made. It is believed that
(he production of the yellow metal
this year will equal that of last year.
Harry Atwood, it is reported, will
work his claim on as large a scale
this year as last. Sleeker & Collins,
cm 10, will also be up to their last
year’s work. Leo Rogge, on 9, will
operate with as large a crew as last
summer, while above Rogge Henry !
Wagner, who uses several large boil
ers in his scraping operations and
consumes about 1,000 cords of wood
during the short season, will work
the usual crew there.
Charles Gius will also work his big
cpen-cut on Gilmore creek. Several
outfits are at present sniping out
small dumps along old Pedro. There
is one luck miner on that creek—
Charles Krisha. While he was drift
ing on the old Deruchia claim, at the
mouth of a small draw which comes
in there on the right limit, he ran
onto some rich pay. Several different J
men had staked a claim at the mouth
of the draw and prospected it since
the late Felix Pedro made the dis
covery on that creek which put Fair
banks on the map as a mining camp.
The claim had been abandoned
several years until the lucky Charles
re-located it. On examining the
records he discovered that the claim
never had been put on record—the
several prospectors who had located
the ground, not having found any sign
of pay, did not think enough of it to
record it. Mr. Krisha dug deeper than
the former prospectors, going nine
feet into bedrock and finding very
good pay and drifting beneath the old
prospect tunnels where nothing had
been found. Krisha has four men em
ployed blocking out his ground and
will put on a large force of men the
coming season.
At present on Goldstream there are
several winter dumps. On Ford’s
claim, No. 4, Jack Livingston, Paddy
Morgan, Bill Williams and Tom Ward
have been working all winter taking
out a good sized dump. Bob Staples
is taking out a small windlass dump
on 2. Andy Nyland and Joe Contra
are working on 8. Matt Larson has
been working on his own ground and
has taken out a windlass dump,
single-handed. Farther down Martin
& Verdin also have out a dump, while
still lower down Thomas & Co. also
have large dumps out ready for
sluicing.
Down on the Diebold claim, 22,
there's a dump which reminds one of
the early days and at the mouth of
Engineer creek, where Val Diebold
and several partners have been min
ing all winter. Gus Peterson is mak
ing preparations for working several
men the coming season. Joe Murphy
is prospecting on 27 again this winter.
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WEEKLY TRIPS BETWEEN
Chitina and Fairbanks
Carrying Passengers and Freight from
Either End
Fred Nicholls and Ed Bartlett have joined forces and are now prepared
to give a Regular Service to and from the Interior
ARE YOU GOING OUT THIS FALL?
Visit San Francisco and Stop with ,
Mark C. Thompson'
at his new hotel in the heart of the city between
Powell and Mason Streets.
The Dale-Tallac Hotel
140 ELLIS STREET
Special Rates and Headquarters for Alaskans.
TRAPPERS ATTENTION TRADERS
SHIP TO
GEORGE R. GOSHAW, Inc.
DEALER IN
RAW FURS
Seattle— New York—
Alaska Building 127 W. 27th Street
We do business direct with you and solicit all Raw Purs. Your ship
ments are handled by expert graders and New York market prices are
paid on correct grading the day received. If desired, your shipments will
be kept separate in order that our prices may be approved by you. Pro
viding that our valuation does not prove satisfactory, the furs will be
returned to you, transportation charges prepaid. Ship by insured parcel
post or express. Ship in a dry condition. Always inclose an itemized
list of contents, with name and address. Also attach duplicate list to
the outside of bundle. Special instructions, if any, must accompany ship
ments. Payments are made by check on the Seattle National Bank, or
in any other manner desired. Ship now.
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