BIG MINING DEM
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A mining deal is pending which
will mean the expenditure of Severn
addUional millions of dollars in the
near vicinity of Juneau, should it :>r
consummated. There is good rra
son to believe that it will go through
The deal in question will incit'd)
in one workable group all the hob
lngs of the Hallum group and all o'
the claims owned and controlled b
George Noble on Salmon creek,
gether with the mill sites and ibv
water rights of these groups, to be
turned over for a lump stun to the
United States Smelting, Refining *■
Mining Company. The latter cor
pany already has an option on the*
old Ebner property in Hast Chance
basin, which is being developed
opened up under the dlrec iot
Pownie P. Muir.
Robert A. Kinzie, formerly
the Treadwell interests, is said
now on his way to New York to i
the final report whlich will dec . b >*
deal one way or another.
Mr. Kinzie was in Juneau this I.
having returned from the outstdi
ter he had resigned his position i
the Treadwell, and it is then,
cording to the report in ",ining
cles, that he made the e aina
of the Hallum group of c.i ns i
the Noble properties in t: liter '
of the big mining company
Of course, no one other tan Him
self, possibly knows what - rep rt
will be. However, mining men if
experience claim that the m> t of t'
properties in question has be-m .
will bo merely a question 1 price
to be paid.
For nearly a year now tb< terest
ed parties have been busy tearing
up legal entanglements in ■ r that
a delivery could be made of enough
claims to warrant operations on a
large scale, since no compa” vould
care to buy lawsuits.
Should the deal go through ex
pected, in another Season be
carried forward operations 01 ex
tensive a scale as those with iave
marked the development < the
Alaska Gastineau Gold Minim om
pany the past and present year Vnd
with the first unit of the latt mi
pany to be shipping the first next
year, and other units to be ac id, to
gether with the extensive 1 irove
rnents being carried forward 'he
Treadwell people ou both s of
the channel, for increasing th >ut
put, the addition of a thlird c< iny
to the field will make June he
largest gold mining camp he
world.
It does not ~-<sd any prop! to
read Juneau's future in the li of
these industrial signs. Gob a
metal that will always maim
market value. As already es
ed by engineers who are not -s
ing. there are hundreds of niii mna
of dollars worth of ore in sight, id.
for every million that is taken ut
a good percentage of it will be p; id
for labor and supplies and help eti
rich commercial cnanneis.
Ily a consolidation of the Halluin,
Ebner and Noble properties, the pros
pective purchasing company will
have ample ground for building its
mills and other ore reduction plants
in addition to the boarding houses
and other mine buildings.
The only other question which re
mains to be settled, is the matter or
the water rights between the “Lit
le Treadwell" and the Ebner group,
for the use of the water in Last
Chance basin. The case has been
tried before Judge Jennings, and he
took the matter under advisement.
Ie is expected that his decision will
be forthcoming almost any time now.
Therefore the matter of a few days
or a few weeks will most likely see
the fulfillment of plans for the opera
tions of another big mining syndi
cate in and about Juneau.
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No Snow at Fairbanks
The Fairbanks papers are complain
ing at the lack of snow In that coun
try. The fall has been so light to
date that there is no sledding, which
condition is seriously delaying the
transportation of supplies to th.i win
ter diggings.
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Hj term of office is for the wnr. or
tljree years If the war should last
i;er than that.
M. PINCHON, France, in August
The wnr will be long and hard.
"ItlVY COUNCILLOR WITTING,
id of the German National Rank
!t is a long, long war. and Will be
ght to the bitter end. We still
ve three million men to put In.
:j;land or Germany must perish.
KX PRESIDENT FA1LLIERES,
ranee—The war Is only beginning.
Months nnd months will be required,
ranco has acquired constancy.
GENERA LOFFENRERG. Third
UiRtrlnn Army—It Is Impossible to
lell when%he war will end. Money
exhaustion may hasten the end.
WILLIAM E. COREY. American—
The Germans have food and ammuni
tion enough to last them a year and
half.
RUSSIAN OFFICIAL ARMY JOUR
NAL—The war cannot end In less
than a year. Austria will be crushed
by the beginning of winter. Rut
the war will be continued with in
creased fury.
PREMIER ASQUITH, in House of
Commons—The war will not last as
long as many people had originally
predicted.
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CANAL SLIDES DD
NOT CAUSE WORDY
The slide that blocked the Panama
canal recently did not come ns a sur
prise to those who know the condi
tions at Culebra Cut and the great
difficulty the engineers have exper
eneed in overcoming them.
The fact is. the probability of
slides of this nature were pointed out
so plainly by the engineers that the
government has made pledges so that
shipping and insurance circles may
not stand in dread of slides as report
ed by some sensational writers. As
cited by Joseph howalter in an arti
cle which appeared in the February
number of the National Geographical
Magazine:
‘‘There are two reasons why there
is not the slightest ground for that
dread, even 'if there should be for
the story_ In the first place the
canal is not going to be pronounced
a finished waterway until every yard
of debris that can come in has ar
rived and has been removed. In
the second place the United States
government has pledged its word,
through definite legislation to in
demniify any ship owner for delay or
damages caused by the canal or Its
operatives. And Uncle Sam makes
tiie process of recovery easy and
prompt in its action.”
The article also states that at the
time it was written these slides had
already retarded the completion of
the canal over two years and states
that "over 250 acres of ground lying
outside of the intended banks of the
canal, and containing over 30,000,000
cubic yards of material, have swept
with silent terrific force down in
the canal.”
i speaamg or uie amount or ma
tal this means the article contln
■‘It is enough to build a sort or
mse wall seven feet thick and
■u feet high reaching from New
| I i< to San Francisco. It Is more
j tn i ould be drawn by all the horses
i and i ules in the United States. It
i wo t mi a million and one-half big
Mci wood cars, enough to make a
jstriii,. 12,000 miles long.” During the
last year’s work on the cut forty-four
weeks were spent clearing slide ma
terial from the cut.
Tl are four classes of slides:
"The cost troublesome of therfe are
more . utterly speaking structural
b oak As the big ditch neared
Ural ’ ly the depth was so great
that tin- downward pressure from the
top of ii embankment, forced the
weak ro at the bottom to crumble,
and tin ,-ad to great fissures In
the grou hack some distance from
the edge f ilie embankment. Many
experimci in to prevent these slides
have proven futile, and the only
means of preventing these slides it
has Iteen decided, is to remove the
slidable material.
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