PROSPECTORS
ARE NEEDED,
SAYSBARRETT
"Alaska .deeds prospectors more
than anything else at this time,” said’
J. E. Barrett, McCarthy mining man
and pioneer Alaska prospector, who
arrived in Cordova this morning on
his return from a trip to the States.
"The great army of men who discov
ered and located the various placer
fields and quartz lodes which have
made Alaska what it is have retired
from the game,” he continued. “There
are very few men prospecting in
Alaska now. These hardy searchers
for mineral have either made their
stakes or have retired from that game
and entered other fields of activity.”
Mr. Barrett is an expert on Alaska
mining history. He arrived in Ju
neau in the winter of 1894-95, and
in the spring of 1895 packed his outfit
over the Chilkoot pass, built his boat
at Lake Lindemann and went down
the Yukon river to the Fortymile coun
try. He was at Circle City when the
Klondike was discovered, and went
there, where he located on Sulphur
He was one of the early stampeders
to Fairbanks, and for the last thir
teen years he has been operating in
the McCarthy region, where he has
copper properties. He has spent every
summer and most winters in Alaska
for the past twenty-four years. He is
said to be the first boy ever to go
down the Yukon river.
“What Alaska must have if she is
to uncover her minerals and begin an
other period of growth and develop
ment such as she experienced for
twenty years after the first Yukon
discoveries is some source to take the
place of the old mercantile companies,
which made it a rule of business to
‘grubstake’ any man who was willing
to prospect,” continued Mr. Barrett.
“The days when the Northern Com
mercial Company and the North Amer
ican Trading and Transportation
Company were ‘carrying’ hundreds of
prospectors who were scanning the
hills and sinking holes in the creek
beds and benches of an sections of
the country, and those companies and
their employes were ‘grubstaking’
other hundreds, were the days when
the foundations were laid for the de
velopment of Alaska.
“They did not require, either, that
the prospector should be an engineer
or expert. At one time I owed the
Fortymile branch of the Northern
Commercial Company, then under the
management of George W. Penning
ton, a member of the legislature, for
three years for grubstakes in pros
pecting. The company did not lose
anything, and I was able to make
some money.
“This ‘thirt^-days-cash’ system of
business that has taken the place of
the old methods might be all right
and proper, but there should be de
vised some other method of taking
its place. We must do something to
get the prospectors into the hills and
waste places of Alaska if we would
lay the foundation for another period
of advancement. We need new min
ing camps in Alaska and new mines
in the old ones, and we can not get
them without new discoveries and
new development.”
HONOR ROLL
OFALASKANS
IN LATE WAR
The following is a complete and of
ficial list of the soldiers of the First
battalion, Fourteenth infantry, re
recruited from Alaska, who were
killed in battle or died of disease in
the overseas service from October 5,
1918, to January 16, 1919:
A Company
Private Andrew J. Nave
Private Arthur P. Southwick
Private Vincent J. Dortero
Private Pina Ojakasga
B Company
Private Lome S. McDonald
Private Fred J. Weih
Private Timothy Rickman
Private Alec Zaboff
Private Michael Saroff
Sergeant Duff Pipkin
Sergeant Thomas Corcoran
Private Henry Tazioli
Corporal Michael E. Yeagher
Corporal James R. Tennant
Cook John E. Nye
Private James E. Gustafson
Private Nick Gustiff
Corporal Roy J. Esgate
Corporal Robert R. House
Private Harold R. Anderson
Private Lawrence Morency
Private Russell H. Lovelace
Private Roy L. Ketcham
Private Charles E. Deinert
Private John Miller
I
C Company
Walter King
Nels H. Johanson
Samuel Lukin
Ture Carlson
John Pierson
Harry Shelton
Harry Barnes
Alias Drange
Jesse Bullock
D Company
Private Robert E. Landstrup
Private Henry E. Geiger
Private Lee E. Pry
Private John Olson
Corporal Berton C. Ogden
Private Edward F. Becker.
Bugler Jesse Williams
Sergeant Victor Dervinski
Private Paul S. Deronne
Private Henry Weber
Private Rolfe Dahlberg
Private James E. Parazon
Corporal Fred Schultz
Private George Bembow
Private Charles A. Moore
Private John P. Olds
Private Wallace Frodsham
Private John Doubek
Private Driss Soskieff
Private George Goftes
Private Harry Maloff
Private William L. Holmes
Private Roy Thorstad
Private Manter J. Eames
Private Steve Green
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