RICH GOLD ORE
IS UNCOVERED
IN KUSKOKWIM
Telegrams received by Gov. Thos.
Riggs’Jr., bring from McGrath on the
upper Kuskokwim river the story of
great discoveries of very rich gold
quartz on Nixon Fork. The quartz
runs as high as $2,000 a ton, and big
tonnage is said to be in sight for a
disjfcmce of more than a mile and a
quarter. It is said that millions of
dollars worth of this ore will be
shipped to the outside with the open
ing of navigation next June. Work
will progress all winter. Among
those in on the Kuskokwim quartz
discoveries are leading mining men
of the Alaskan interior, including
Aitken, Walsh, Whalen, Pearson^.Mes
palt, Kirkpatrick and others.
The telegrams from McGrath also
convey the news that the Aitken
dredge on Candle creek, also a tribu
tary of the Kuskokwim, produced
over $300,000 in placer gold last sea
son, working at only half capacity. It
is expected that it will take out half
a millon next season.
Telegram to Gov. Riggs
Gov. Riggs has just received the
following telegram from Dr. W. F.
Green, United States Commissioner
at McGrath.
“The Candle creek dredge produced
$300,000, working at half capacity.
“Aiken on Nixon Fork is down 65
feet with crosscut 25 feet. The gold
is increasing with depth. It is now'
running $2,000 to the ton. They will
ship 1,000 tons of high grade ore
next June. Steam hoists and com
pressors will be working December
15th.
“Whalen, one mile southwest from
Aitken, will ship 200 tons of the same
ore.
“Pearson, between the two, has
the same ore for the length of a full
claim and a half.
"Mespelt, located northeast of Ait
ken, is down 45 feet.
“Big tonnage is in sight now' for
a distance of a mile and a quarter.
The men who are developing the
Kuskokwim placer and quartz fields
are not “boomers.” They are all old
time miners w'ho have been success
ful in the Iditarod, Fairbanks and
other northern goldfields, and they
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are operating with their own money.
They have been Quietly but persistent
ly developing the r^feion, which is just
across th divide from the Iditarod
and northeast of that district, for
several years, spending many thou
sands annually of the output of their
producing properties in Iditarod in the
work. Aitken and Walsh are among
the richest men made by the Iditarod
goldfields. A1 Walsh has been the
'ending individual operator on Flat
>eek for years where he employes
from 50 to 75 miners on his placer
property. Tom Aitken with whom he
is associated with in the Kuskokwim
country, made a fortune on Cleary
creek, Fairbanks district, in associa
tion with Frank_ Manley, Henry RileJ
and others before he went into the
Iditarod, where he secured very rich
properties and sold them to the Yukon
Gold Company, usually referred to ns
“the Guggenheims.”
Those who have been following
the operations of these practical men
believe, in the light of the word re
ceived from McGrath by Gov. Riggs,
that one of the richest of Alaska’s
gold districts will be developed in
the region about McGrath on the Kus
kokwim.
Tom Aitken, Tom Kirkpatrick and
others who are interested in the Kus
kokwim country, have also made very
promising quartz discoveries near
the headwaters of the Kantishna,
which is across the divide from the
Kuskokwim developments. They took
a large quantity of supplies into the
Kantishna district from Fairbanks
late in the season, carrying them as
near their properties as river steam
ers could take them. They will be
hauled from the terminus to their
properties during the winter.
MINING DIRECTOR IS COMING
J. F. Crane, of Boston, one of the
officers of the North Midas Copper
Company, is a passenger for Cordova
on the Alaska to look after the inter
ests of his company, which are now in
litigation.
LAST NIGHT’S WINNER
In the pool tournament at The Club
last night John Rawson, who played
50 points to H. Potter’s 60, was de
feated in two out of three games.
The scores were 60 to 37, 32 to 52 and
60 to 42.
Mrs. Dunham’s home-made mince
meat at Finkelstein & Sapiro’s. 10-tf
Delicious mince pie at the City
Bakery. 18-tf
SI ORT STORIES
IBOUTALASKA
OCCURRENCES
John Hill Wall and Mrs. Leona
Leonard were married at Ketchikan
recently.
Seven cabins beijngirg to Elbert
II. Wood at Gilmore were soid by the
marshal of the Fourth Division re
cently, under foreclosure proceedings
The entire lot were bid in by the X.
C. Company for $100.
Th Fidalgo mine is a producer on
Prince William Sound which has
shipped ore steadily through the war
to the outside. The Latouche pro
perty of the Kennecott corporation, a
Guggeflheim concern, also shipped
copper ore steadily.
C. Maitland, of Ketchikan caught
an octupus recently which weighed
fifty pounds and measured 12 feet
from tip to tip. The monster was
placed on exhibition at the Index
Meat Market.
The H. L. Tedderson proprety on
Mission street in Ketchikan was sold
last week to F. C. McDonald, a tailor,
for $150 per front foot. Mr McDonald
said the reason he purchased the pro
perty was because it was impossible
to get a business site in any other
way.
The B. C. Silver Mines, Ltd., has
taken over the Lake and O’Leary
ground between the Premier and the
Bush and Mountain group and will
make a stock company of the propo
sition, the first shares going on the
market at 20 cents. Three high grade
veins of silver ore have been found
on the property.
The offices of the Grand Trunk
Pacific Steamship Company, at Ketch
ikan were closed recently for the
winter. The company will have a
fleet of freight steamers on the run
next year. The company withdrew its
boats for the reason that the greater
part of the freight and fish has been
shipped this year.
Mrs. Amelia DuHamel, mother of
Mrs. .1. E. Rivard of Ketchikan, died
at the home of her daughter Wed
nesday last. Mrs. DuHamel was
born in Hyacinthe, Quebec, 67 years
ago, and had resided in Ketchikan a
number of years. She is survived
by two sons and two daughters. The
youngest son was killed in France.
News has arrived by mail from
Nome that James Joseph Bogan was
married at that place on October TB.
'ast. The bride was Miss Nancy 1)
Maples of Seattle. Mr. Bogan will be
remembered as the "baby” member of
the last legislature. He was elected
from Nome and was only 24 years of
age when serving as a member of the
house.
An ordinance to prevent minors
under 18 years of age from frequent
ing or loitering in or about public
halls, lodges, clubs or public dance
halls conducted for profit, places of
ill repute, or any hall where profane
or indecent language is or may be
used has been passed by the city of
Ketchikan.
Russian paper money of half a
dozen or more brands was left in
Nome last month by sailors given
shore leave from Admiral Kolchak’s
gunboat, the Yakut, when it spent
several days there, taking on sup
plies. Bills brought by the sailors
carry the stamp of the old Russian
government, Kerensky government,
the Kolchak ’administration, the Bol
shevik! officials and several Russian
provincial governments. As the money
wa of doubtful value none of it pas
sed at face value at Nome.
At a recent meeting of the direc
tors of the Seward bank Dr. J. M.
Sloan was elected to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Isaac Evans,
and Miss J. L. McNally was elected
assistant cashier, Miss McNally is the
only lady assistant cashier in a bank
on the Pacific coast, and has been
with the bank about two years. Dr.
Sloan Is known all over the Terri
tory, and was formerly located at
Nome.
LAUNCH GOES TO KATALLA
The launch Rolfe left this morning
for Katalla, taking over several men
and supplies for the Chilkat Oil Com
pany.
PURCHASES TWO LOTS
A1 Lund today purchased lots 31
and 32, in block 10, from the estate
of the late Arthur B. Cooper.
ARE RETURNING HOME
William McFadden and Griff Ellis,
two railroad emploes, who have been
outside on a vacation, left Seattle to
day for Cordova.
Physical and Mental Condition of Our
Soldiers Was the Deciding Factor
By LIEUT. COL. T. L. HUSTON
iL
War as a general proposition is all that General Sherman said it was,
but like everything else in this world it has a better side. And the brighter
side in the recent world-wide conflict was the general boom in all forms of
athletics for which it was responsible and which in the years to come, par
ticularly in America and the nations allied with her, will insure a man
hood more fit physically and mentally to carry on with the world’s work
than ever before.
There is no question that the physical and mental condition of the
American troops wa6 the deciding factor in the war and that our boys
were able to throw into the balance the fighting power which broke the
deadlock, sent the Huns reeling back and ultimately brought about their
complete defeat. And the reason that the Americans, many of them but
hastily trained troops, were able to make such a splendid showing was
because of their athletic bringing up—their physical fitness, their ability
to think quickly and to act individually in emergencies. And these quali
ties they acquired on the ball lots, the gridiron and other fields where
brain, muscle and brawn were put to the test.
In a way, before wre went “over there’’ we realized what American
sports, particularly baseball, had done for the youth of the United States.
Today we appreciate fully that it supplied most of our fighters with the
physical asset which enabled them to do those things which caused the
German military machine to gasp in amazement from the outset. The
American army heads and the directors of Y. M. C. A. and other agencies
which operated for the welfare of the men in the camps here and abroad
thoroughly appreciated the value of outdoor games, boxing and general
athletic stunts, and from the moment the men began their military train
ing athletics was made a part of the regular routine.
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