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Prospectors
F armers
Trappers
T our ists
The Nenana district offers oppor
tunities for prospecting, farming, and
trapping that are unequaled in any
other section of Alaska.
Gold placers of known value, close
to Nenana, are producing annually sub
stantial amounts, and there are scores
v of streams within the district on which
little or no prospecting has been done.
These streams, until a short time ago
almost inaccessible, are now easily
reached by means of the new Govern
ment Railroad, and undoubtedly soon
will be the scene of much mining ac
tivity.
Farming in the Nenana district has
the advantage of a growing season fully
ten days longer than that of any other
section of Interior Alaska. There is
much desirable land in the district open
to homesteaders, and marketing possi
bilities are being expanded steadily.
Fur-bearing animals of the Nenana
and adjacent districts are noted for the
fine quality of their fur, and trappers
annually bring large numbers of pelts
to Nenana and receive for them higher
prices than are obtained for the average
furs of other districts.
Game of all kinds abounds in the
Nenana district, there are scores of
trout streams easy of access, and the
scenic wonders of the district are un
surpassed. The district is the natural
gateway to Mt. McKinley National
Park, and close to Nenana may be
viewed the largest coal ledges in the
world.
Detailed information regarding the
resources and possibilities of the Ne
nana district may be obtained from the
Nenana
C omme r cial
Club
SALMON PLANIED
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IN BARREN LAKES ,
10 SAVE SUPPLY
The boat Tillicum, in command
of Captain A. C. Hanson, left Ju
neau recently for Warm Springs
bay with 300,000 young Cohoe sal
man, which are to be planted un-j
der the direction of A. J. Sprague,1
territorial superintendent of hatch- j
eries, and his assistants in Warm :
Springs lake. ji
The fry are from an inch to an I
inch and a half in length and are
just at the stage where they have
almost completed the absorbing of
their food sacs.
Eight hundred thousand eyed co
hoe and dog salmon eggs were plant
ed in the same lake- by Superin
tendent Sprague in December and ,
January. These eggs, planted in
the sand and gravel of the lake,
hatched out in four days after .
planting. The young fry were pro
tected from' the gulls and other
birds by the ice that formed on the
lake shortly after they were hatched.
People who have visited the lake,
which heretofore was barren one,
say that the fry are healthy and
active and that there is no indica
tion that there is any mineralization
of the waters of the lake that has
hurt them.
Superintendent Sprague made the
following statement to a representa
tive of the Alaska (Juneau) Daily
Empire: “There is room in Warm
Springs lake for forty or fifty mill
ion young salmon up until the time
they are ready to go to sea. When
they are ready to leave they will
drop oVer the falls there. As this
lake is a barren one with a falls
protecting it, no enemies can get at
them from the sea. By the time
they are ready to return to the lake
to spawn we hope to have a fish
ladder built so that they can return
to the place of their birth. By this
I we can cheek the age of the salmon
jand find out considerable about the
habits of the fish.
| “There are thirty or forty barren
, lakes in Alaska," continued Mr.
■ Sprague, “in which we hope to plant
salmon. These lakes contain mill
; ions of acres of water on which we
are pinning the future hopes of
Alaska salmon. As there are r.o
| natural enemies in the waters of the
lakes, we will expect a higher rate
■of fish to live to go to sea.
j “It is my opinion that hatchery
salmon reared in ponds become bar
jren and do not reproduce. To get
I away from this, we will plant the
'eyed eggs in these lakes, and as
, they go out to sea they will return
jin some years to increase the sal
mon supply of Alaska.”
I At the present time, in the terri
torial hatchery in the Arctic Broth
jerhood building there are five mill
ion young cohoes and humpies. They
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BOOSTERS TELL
FUTURE BRIGHT
T. B. Waller of Seattle, who
pent some time in Hyder during
he past winter, recently sent the
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'ollowing letter to a Seattle paper
vhich has been particularly un
Tiendlv to the camp, says a recent
ssue of the Hyder Alaska Miner: t
“Having had years of experience
n the North in mining camps,
catching towns like Ketchikan and
(uneau grow from a cluster of
>iles driven in the tideflats to thriv
ng little cities, I believe 1 am
lualitied to give the public and my
Tiends information which can be
aken as authentic.
"In the eight days I was in Hyder
[ gave the little city the once over
pretty thoroughly, and to say I
think it will make a camp is putting
t mild. I want my old Northern
friends to know that I think it is
roing to be one of the big ones of
the country.
“It is very easy for one to throw
cold water on a new mining town.
So I am taking this opportunity to
lay before my friends the truth as I
see it. Hyder today is one of those
piie clusters which has been the
starting point of every camp on salt
water in Alaska. Rome was not
built in a day, and it will take
Hyder some time to grow as large
as Butte. However, it has the ore
behind it, plenty of water to op
erate the mines, a natural grade to
salt water of not over two and
one-half percent, a harbor that is
landlocked and second to none in
Alaska, and plenty of level land on
which to build a townsite. There
is no question as to the ore bodies
on the Salmon river. Mining men
have seen the reports of the several
high grade experts on this location.
One of the best mining men in the
country said Hyder some day will
be the largest producing camp on
the North American continent, and
I believe he is right.
"You need not be afraid to go to
Hyder, as there is plenty to eat and
good water to drink; also all the
lumber to build with you might
want. The sawmills are running,
the ships anchor in the harbor and
freight and passengers are lightered
ashore. You can actually eat in ,
Hyder today cheaper and better ;
than you can in Seattle. Of course,
you arc deprived of the private
bath, but a creek is usually good
enough for the sourdough. Take it
from me, many men will be glad to
live in Hyder in ninety days from
now, and if they come I will meet
them at the new dock and welcome
them.”
Gus Seiffert, formerly of Nome,
who is interested in the Red Top
group in the Portland Canal dis
trict, five miles from the end of
steel and 20 miles from Stewart,
stated during a recent visit in Ju
neau that it is not only a great
camp, but the greatest the world
has ever known, says the Alaska
Daily Capital.
He says his company will begin
to drive a 600-foot tunnel just as
soon as the snow will permit opera
tions. He is advised there is from
six to seven feet of snow on the
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level and it is much deeper, of j
course, in the hills.
“I do not believe,” said Mr. Seif
fert, “that the world, in its minim; j
history, has ever known such im
mense bodies of ore carrying such
large values as already have been
exposed in the Hyder or Portland
Canal district. And you must re
member that there are great stretch-i
es of mountains that have never
been explored or prospected, and it ;
is doubtful if any white men have
been over parts of the country.
“There is absolutely no question
about the future of that camp.
Enough pay ore already is in sight j
to guarantee that fact.”
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GEORGE BEBAN, in “THE MAR
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| NOTICE OF CKAN6E OF RECORDING PRECINCTS |
! According to a recently issued Court Order by |
| Judge Chas. E. Bunnell, the Nenana Mining and Re- |
| cording District has been enlarged to take in the Bon- f
| nifield and Totatlanika Districts. |
| Miners and Prospectors of these districts will be f
| enabled by this change to do their recording and |
5 transact other business at Nenana, which is within |
| easy reach of their mining activities. |
J NENANA COMMERCIAL CLUB. 1
| J. R. Bowen, President. R. J. Diven, Secretary. |
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