VALUE OF COPPER
The ore deposits of the Prince Wil
liam Sound region may be grouped
broadly into two classes — copper de
posits and gold bearing quartz lodes.
The mineral associations in both gold
and copper deposits are in general
the same, so that the copper mines
produce large amounts of gold or sil
ver, or both, and copper sulphide is
present in small amounts In many of
the gold quartz veins.
The known productive mines on
Prince William Sound in 1915 included
four copper mines and five gold mines.
A much larger quantity of copper ore
than of gold quartz was mined and
treated, and the total value of the me
tals produced from the copper ores
v. as about five times that obtained
from the gold quartz ores. The value
of the total mineral production of the
Prince William Sound region in 1915
was $1,340,000 as compared with $1 ,
200,000 in 1914.
The above information, as well as a
detailed description of the mines and
prospects visited, is contained in a
report entitled “Mining on Prince Wil
liam Sound, Alaska," by It. I,. Johnson,
recently issued by the United States
geological survey, department of the
interior, as Bulletin 042-11.
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SOLD BOOZE TO
A correspondent a? Columbus, Kan
sas, sends Ibis story to the Des Moines
Register and Leader:
Because he stepped through a par
tition door to deliver a quart of whis
ky to a customer, John Smith, who
runs a saloon one mile east of C,a
lena, was arrested by Sheriff Ralph
Martin, charged with selling liquor in
Kansas.
The building in which the saloon
is located is situated on the state
line, the east hall being in Missouri
and the west half in Kansas. The par
tition marks the state line. Smith
owns a distillery just back of the sa
loon, has been reaping a harvest by
making his own whisky and while
standing in Missouri sells the stuff in
Kansas.
The Cherokee county sheriff slip
ped into the Kansas side of the saloon
late Saturday night, unrctgtgnized. He
waited until he had seen Smith pass
through the partition door twice to
deliver drinks. The .sheriff then
called for a quart of corn whisky, and
while searching his pockets for the
change, managed to edge away from
the partition and into Kansas as far
as possible.
Smith delivered the quart to the
sheriff, and alter accepting the price
was surprised to find himself under
arrest.
The shcrifl had a search and seiz
ure warrant for the place, hut Smith
said it would lie of no use. "1 keep
all my stuff on the other side of the
partition," lie said, ‘‘and that's in
Missouri."
♦
While operating a steam scraper at
Fairbanks, Charles drill had his leg
broken when the chain parted permit
ting a large rock to strike him.
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The ittnenu city council has sign
ed a contract with the Alaska C.astl
ncati Mining Company for the instal
lation of a salt water fire fighting
Bystem.
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The governor s office lias been no
tified by the sanitarium at Morning
side that Michael Medigan, of Anchor
age, Catherin Hodikoff of Aleutian is
lands, II B Windle of Fairbanks and
Tony Marovich of Ruby have been dis
charged as cured.
HEMS GENERAL
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Clay Tallman, commissioner of the
general land office, has compiled all
of the land laws of Alaska, covering
every means by which title may be
secured to public lands In one pam
phlet.
It is said that the Alaska engineer
ing commission has imported 6,000,000
feet of lumber and timber from the
outside for construction work, and has
used 11,359,000 feet of native lumber
in the form of ties, timber and lumber.
Supt. Gdes, of the Alaska road com
mission, states that the wagon road
from Mile 29 to the fork on Six-mile
creek, over Moose pass, will be com
pleted before the season's work shuts
down.
J. R. McDonald left Seward for the
outside to secure a hydraulic plant
to be operated on the property of him
self and associates on Canyon creek.
The plant will be freighted in over the
snow.
W. A. Havner states that develop
ment work during the present season
on properties owned by himself and
associates in the lfroad Pass country,
warrants the Installation of milling fa
[ cilities.
While a work train loaded with 75
tons of powder was going out the line
on the government railroad, one of the
cars loaded with powder went off the
track at Mile Thirteen and a Half. The
speed with which the men in the ca
boose vacated the vicinity is said to
have exceeded all limits.
Five barrels marked "salt" and a
trunk, shipped by H. Peterson from
Seward to (loose Bay were seized by
the authorities on their arrival at An
chorage, and were found to be filled
with whisky. The stuff was consigned
to Peterson.
Owing to an accident to her propel
lor, the fishing boat San Jose was
backed on the beach at Puffin bay, on
the south end of Baranoff island.
When the tide came in she filled with
water over the bow and sank. An ef
fort will be made to raise her.
While on a trip to the Perseverance
mine recently the auto stage of H.
Smith, of Juneau, through the mistake
of one of the passengers who attempt
ed to put on the brake, backed off the
road, damaging the machine to the ex
tent of about $200.
Reginald Kerr has discovered a
quartz ledge at the lower end of Ke
nai lake averaging six feet in width
and showing an average value of $35
per ton in gold and copper.
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RELIEF
Almost simultaneously with Presl
dent Wilson's proclamation to the peo
ple of the United States appointing Oc
tober 21 and 22 as days on which con
tributions for the relief of the perse
cuted and starving Armenians are to
be received In churches and through
local communities all over the country
a diplomatic victory over the Turkish
government was won by the American
charge d'affaires In Constantinople.
The charge d'affaires has cabled to
Secretary Lansing, announcing that,
after months of negotiation, the porte
has agreed to allow American supplies
and food to pass through the Red
Cross and Red Crescent Societies In
lleirut to the stricken inhabitants of
Syria. The removal of this obstacle,
officials here believe, indicates that
Turkey is showing a disposition to co
operate with the United States in re
Moving the agony and suffering caused
among the Christian population by the
series of massacres and deportations
which began In April, 1915, and which,
at the lowest calculation, has resulted
in the deaths by starvation, pestilence
and the sword of more than three*
quarters of a million people.
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Ronan for Senator.
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