PALADIUM IS MINED
NEAR KETCHIKAN
Unknown throughout the country
probably is the fact that Ketchikan
ha sthe only paladium mine in the
United States, that its metal is far
more precious than platinum, that it
is a producing property and that is
future is brighter now than at any
time since discovt/ry.
Last week- there was shipped to
the Irvington Smelting Company
some eighteen tons of concentrates
from the Salt Chuck mine, estimated
to be worth approximately $20,000.
Pure paladium is quoted at $135 per
ounce, as compared with $20.67 for
gold, and is industriously sought by
the government and by the manufact
urers of instruments having very fine
electrical contacts. So far as Known
by the bureau of mines, the Salt
Chuck property is the only one in the
United States producing paladium.
Fred Chapman, manager of the
company, who is in direct charge of
}!he development work reports that
the ore found at he 200-foot level
which they have reached recently is
bcttee than any heretofore encount
ered. And he expects within a short
time, as soon as the new 1250-foot
tunnel Is completed, that a substan
tial body of high grade ore will be
encountered, between 200 and 300 feet
from the'ppex of the hill.
Tha Salt Chuck property was the
first looted' by Cy Goodro some eight
years ago. He sui ted sinking a glory
hole from the apex of the hill, which
is located off Carter bay and en
loountereif good ore. For several years
he worked under great difficulties,
taking; out but a little high grade ore
which he sent out to the smelters in
the natural state.
Later he sold his interests to the
present company, of which J. E. Chii
berg of Seattle is president. The new
company has done much more exten
sive development, but has had many
unforseeh setbacks, so tha the output
has not been as grea tas it might have
been under other circumstances.
All the ore taken out up to the
present time has been from the glory
hole and this has been run through
the mill .which has a capacity of 40
Lons per day. The concentrates will
assay per ton approximately four
juntos of.paladium, one half ounce of
jold, eight ounces of silver and forty
aer cent copper.
At the present time there are thirty
nen employed at he mine and Mr.
Chapman says that as many as pos
slble will be kept busy after the new
tunnel is completed and the mill put
in good running condition.
New Dredge For Yukon
A new mining company has secured
control of a long stretch of the best
gold-bearing placer claims on Highet
creek, in the Upper Stewart river dis
trict, and is preparing to place a
dredge on the properties immediately.
The steam-driven, five and a half
cubic foot bucket dredge which was
owned and operated on the Sewart
river by the old Stewart River Com
pany has been secured. It will be
transferred to Highet as soon as the
river opens.
The dredge was built in Scotland,
and is said to be a first class machine
in every respect. It has been lying
at he mouth of the McQuesten river
for some time.
Highet creek has beeiy one of the
best steady producing creeks in the
Yukon valley outside of the immed
iate vicinity of Dawson. Under the
individual process it has yielded
many hundreds of thousands of dol
lars. It is sait o be favorable in every
way for profitable redging. The creek
is a tributary of Minto creek, which
flows into the Mayo river, which in
turn flows into the Stewart river near
Mayo City.
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BRITISH WANT CONTROL
OF ALL IRISH PORTS
LONDON, May 8 (by Associated
Press).—The executive committee of
the navy league has adopted a resolu
tion calling attention to what it de
scribes as “the necessity of preserv
ing in imperial and allied interests,
both in peace and war, absolute con
trol over Irish ports, harbors and com
munications and for maintaining in
violate tjie ‘freedom of the seas’ in
the British sense of the term.”
A preamble to the resolution shows
that it was prompted by the fact that
the United States house of represen
tatives had adopted a resolution sug
gesting that the peace conference
give favorable consideration to Ire
land’s plea for self-government.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICC OF FORFEITURE
To L. T. Gray, heir and devisee or
Robert D. Gray, deceased, to all other
heirs of the said Robert D. Gray, de
ceased. to James Smith, executor of
the last will and testament of tne
said Robert D. Gray, deceased, to an
persons claiming liens upon or against
th3 interest of said estate, of said ad
ministrator, or of said heirs, in tne
mining claims hereinafter described,,
and to all whom it may In any manner
■concern:
You and each of you are hereby noti
fied that I have expended during the
year 1918 one hundred dollars' (8109)
in labor and Improvements upon and
for the benefit of eacn of those three
certain mineral oil mining claims, all
situated at the head of Mirror Slough,
In the Kayak recording precinct, ter
ritory of Alaska, and known as and
called:
The Brown Bear Association Min
eral Oil. Claim,
The Bald Eagle Association Min
eral Oil'Claim, and
The Gray Wolf Association Min
eral Oil Claim,
the location notices or certificates of
which may be found of record In Book
6, at pagss 148 and 149, of tbe records
of Mining Locations and Declaratory
Statements, In the office of the United
States commissioner and ex officio
recorder.ln and for the said Kayak
recording precinct, at Katalla, Alaska,
that is to eay, I have so expended in
such labor and Improvements upon
and for benefit of all of said
claims during the said year 1918 the
sum of three hundred dollars (9900),
in order to bold said claims under
the lavs of tho United States and
the Territory of Alaska relating to
the annual labor upon mining claims,
being the amount required to hold
said mining claims and each of them
i for tho period ending on tbe 81st day
%
of December, 1918.
And if within ninety days after the
publication of this notice, to wit,
within ninety days after the 8th day
of May, 1919, you fail or refuse to
contribute to me, the subscriber, one
of the owners in common of said min
ing claims and each of them, your
proportion of such expenditures,
which amounts to the sum of fifty
dollars ($50) for each of said claims,
or a total of one hundred fifty-dollars
($150) for all of said claims, your
interests in each claim for which you
so fail or refuse to contribute will
become the property of the said sub
scriber under the provisions of Sec.
2324 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States.
A. T. COTTON.
Residence and postoffice address,
Kalalla, Alaska.
First publication, Feb. 6, 1919. *
Last publication, May 8, 1919.
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