WHY WORK IS
BEING RUSHED
ON RAILROAD
(From Seward Gateway)
Now that an inspection of the gov
ernment railroad in Alaska is to be
made by members of the house terri
tories and appropriations committees,
work is being hurried pell-mell on the
Seward division. And the word for
the extra spurt came from the head
quarters of the Alaska engineering
commission at Anchorage, presum
ably, for all things relative to the Sew
ard division originate from the An
chorage office.
As a consequence of the forthcom
ing inspection, every man from the
Talkeetna division, every available
man from the Anchorage division, is
now out on the Seward division north
of Mile 47, according to unofficial ad
vices. The large number of men
rushed suddenly to the new front line
of defense comprise T. & T. men,
bridge builders, snowshed men, track- <
layers, tie layers, pick and shovel men,
etc. The sidings north of Mile 47 look
as if a circus train had been switched
north. There are the bunk cars, mess *
cars and the best of the rolling stock
from the Anchorage division. Hun- 1
dreds of men are working, not only ^
on the day shift, but the orders are to ■
work two shifts, night and day.
After five years’ waiting the rush
orders finally were issued and now
everything is feverish, because the
members of the house coming North
probably are going to make a real in
spection and not a “whitewashing” in
spection.
But what are the powers that be
going to say when the question is
asked, “Why the sudden excitement
and great rush? Who delayed the
game? For what purpose was con
struction work held up? Why was
the appropriation for the Seward di
vision always cut, when the Seward
division is the outlet of the great and
grand and gigantic enterprise of gov
ernment ownership?”
The average person would rather
be down on Fox island than in the
shoes of the Anchorage authorities,
because there are going to be some
questions asked that are going to be
hard to give a reasonable answer to
But hundreds of extra men are,
lowever, rushing work on the Seward
livision for a purpose, and that pur
pose is clear—to do something so that
;he house members may be able to
•ide from Seward to Anchorage after
ive years of construction work on a
•abroad which was at one time a rail
•oad and traffic was in operation.
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j’clock every day at the Cit^ Bakery.
It’s the flavor and the grain which
nake the bread at the City Bakery
amous.
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Reports received from the Koyukuk
indicate that the old-timers of the Arc
tic camp are not very much excited
over c^e “strikes” which were report
ed earlier in the year to have been
a r de in that district, and no one has
left the Koyukuk towns or old-time
creeks to ascertain whether or not the
stories are true.
Conditions at Betties are about as
they usually are during the summer
months, with probably a few more peo-1
pie in town than usual, because of the i
arrival of the first boat of the season
with fresh supplies. It was too early
in the season, when the Reliance vis
ited the Koyukuk, to form an estimate
of the summer’s output, but the opin
ion prevailed that the district would
produce about as much this year as
last.
One of the stories of the Koyukuk
discovery received at Fairbanks was
to the effect that good pay had been
found on the Betties river, with indi
cations that the paystreak was at least
twelve miles in length. A quantity of
gold dust, reported to have been
taken from the Betties ground by the
discoverer, was on display at Tanana
early in the summer.
The appearance of the ledge on the
divide between Moose and Friday
creeks, in the Kantishna district,
which is being opened up by the Ait
ken party, is improving with depth,
according to J. A. Haney, who arrived
in Fairbanks with a number of sam
ples for assay recently.
The shaft had reached a depth of
thirty-five feet when Haney left camp,
and the work is now proceeding as
rapidly as two shifts of miners of
three men each can rush it. More
than that number of men, Mr. Haney
said, can not be used with economy
at this time. The shaft is a small
one, merely to determine the values
and extent of the ledge, and will be
abandoned when the real develop
mnt work starts. Should the results
of the present work prove satisfac
tory, the ledge will be tapped with a
tunnel at a much lower level.
The work of moving supplies to the
camp from the river landing at Roose
velt is proceeding steadily with two
pack horses, and if it should be de
cided to work on a larger scale dur
ing the winter, a considerable quantity
of supplies will be landed at Rooseyelt
before the close of navigation.
Recent reports from Rampart go to
show that the camp is still taking out
money. On the upper end of Little
Manook creek, the oldest producer of
the camp, considerable winter work
was done on the ground owned by
John W. Duncan. The same ground
is now being worked by an open cut,
and from the size of the cut, this
ground should have a good clean-up
this summer.
The lower end of the same creek is
also worked by the same method, and
will probably produce some this sum
mer.
There are two hydraulic plants in
operation on Hunter creek. The up
per end of the creek is owned and
worked by Charles Swanson. A small
clean-up was made early this summer,
which amounted to about six thousand
dollars, or about two dollars to the
foot. It is expected that this ground
will clean up about twenty thousand
dollars before the freexe-up.
The lower end of this creek is
owned and worked by A. Ott, who is
also well satisfied with his work so
far this season.
Little Manook, Jr., and Slate creeks
are also being worked, but not to any
great extent, owing to the few people
located there.
M. P. Fleischman, who resided at
Rampart for twenty-two years, and
who was postmaster at the same place
for twenty-one years, has moved to
Fairbanks, where he intends to remain
indefinitely.
AUSTRALIANS GET MAIL
FROM LINER DESTROYED
BY GERMAN RAIDER
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SYDNEY, Australia, July 4 (by
mail).—A curious manifestation of
German psychology is seen in the re
cent delivery of the Australian liner
Matunga’s mails to the addresses. The
Matunga was captured and sunk by
the German raider Wolf off the coast
of New Guinea, in August, 1917. The
mails on her were taken to Germany.
After they had remained in German
hands over a year they were delivered
to the British authorities after the
armistice had been signed. In due
course they were sent to Sydney, ar
riving two years late.
VICTORY BOND SUBSCRIBERS
The third payment of 20 per cent
will be due on all Victory bond sub
scriptions on August 12, and must be
paid on or before that date.
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PICKED UP IN
ALL SECTIONS
The people of Chisana are appar
ently determined to get busy and do
some real prospecting, if a letter writ
ten by the United States commissioner
in that camp is to be taken as evi
dence of their intention. He would
like to get in touch with someone
who has a steam power Keystone drill
to sell, desiring to know the lowest
cash price, and also the amount of cas
ing, size, etc., and tools on hand.
The commissioner, Anthony McGet
tigan, says that the camp has never
been really prospected, and a few of
the citizens have decided to go at it
right. Full information may be had
from Secretary Guy B. Erwin of the
local Commercial Club.—Fairbanks
Citizen.
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