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THE BOWEN BUILDING
According to the British Board
of Agriculture the number of hogs
in Germany now numbers about
5,000,0000, compared with 27,000,
000 before the war.
Nenana—The Gateway to McKinley
National Park.
FAIRBANKS MERCHANT
LEAVES FOR STATES
Theodore Johnson, a partner of
th now defunct firm of E. R.
i Peoples, Inc., which recently sold
out to the Northern Commercial Co.,
left for the States on the last
Brower stage to join his family'
who preceded him.
The Johnsons will not return
to the North again.
COAL STOVES
| Only a few left. Anderson Bros. &
i Nerland’s.
HYLAND’S CIGAR STORE
CIGARS POOL, TOBACCOS
Soft Drinks Candies Fresh Fruit
Warm Comfortable Rooms
Barber Sbop in Connection
Mike Hyland, Prop.
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Cigars — Tobaccos — Candies
Soft Drinks -- Poo/
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i satisfied that it was a vital neces
I
1 sity to the mining interests of this
great territory, and that it would
at all times have his whole-hearted
; support.
He then gave an interesting talk
regarding the American Mining Con
gress, the Alaska chapter of this
congress with headquarters at Fair
banks, and the objects of the con
i gress.
i The American Mining Congress,
he said, is a national organization
of mining men devoted to the up
: building of the mining industry.
It has branches in various parts of
the country and is supported en
tirely by the fees and dues of
members. It is striving to bring
about: First—Safety and efficiency
in mining operations; second—in
telligent conservation with a view
to the highest development of oui
mineral resources; third—the stimu
lation of investment in practical
mining operations by showing that
mining is a legitimate business
promising, when intelligently con
ducted- larger profits with less risk
than any other business. Fourth—
' Uniformity in state laws governing
mining operations carried on under
like conditions. Fifth—Such federal
| co-operation through research and
investigation as will furnish the
i basis for intelligent state legislation,
and will solve those problems of
economical production, treatment
and transportation which are assen
i tial to an inrease in mineral pro
duction. Sixth—The improvement
of economic conditions underlying
j the coal industry.
The Fairbanks Chapter of the
I American Mining Congress was or
ganized on April :lrd last year, and
I its first meeting after the organiz
| ing meeting, the question of a cen
tral power plant was discussed, but
lowing to the war the matter was
, postpor I. On November 15, four
days after the signing of the armis
I tice, a meeting was held and it was
announced that the power plant
i question would be up for discussion
I at the next meeting. On December
I 13th a committee was appointed to
; gather data regarding the mining
I industry in Interior Alaska, wdth
I special reference to the cost of oper
ations, in order that Congress may
be informed of the urgent need of
a power plant and an appropriation
of the necessary funds for the build
ing of the plant requested. Mr.
| Davis explained the interest the
Bureau of Mines had in the power
plant and told of his trip to Interior
Alaska in 1916 to look into the mat
ter of the utilization of the Nenana
coal for power and other purposes.
While on his way to Washington to
submit his report to the secretary of
the interior, he visited several big
plants in the States which used lig
nite largely and had ample oppor
tunity to make a study of its use
and the results obtained for pur
poses of comparison with the Alaska
product.
He thought the move inaugurated
for the establihment of the power
j plant will meet with ultimate suc
j cess, as there is an urgent need for
jthis power to make possible mining
operations on a large scale- and
I consequent increased production of
| the minerals that abound in the
| Northland. He urged co-operation
j with the American Mining Congress
as the best means towards attaining
the desired end.
In making a request on Congress
for a power plant, the fundamental
requirements must be shown, he
said, and these were: first a market
for the power; second, the source of
power; and third, cost. Mr. Davis
then very minutely went into the
three fundamental requirements un
der the separate heads, making it
very clear to his hearers that it
would be an easy matter to satisfy
Congress on these points.
| As regards a market, the com
j mittee appointed by the Alaska
chapter of the A. M. C. found up
to the present time, that there were
30 quartz mines which would con
sume 3000 horespower per year.
The committee has not finished their
inves.igai.ions ar regards the placer
mines, but Cleary creek was cited
as an example. After close investi
gation, the committee found that on
' this creek alone there were 90 mil
| lion cubic yards of low grade gold
bearing gravel which would yield at
, least 35 million dollars, and which
| will require 2500 H. P. a year for
twenty years to be worked out. Sev
eral other creeks in the district
containing low grade placer de
posits which could not be worked
owing to the high cost of everything
were being investigated by the com
mittee.
In addition, there were the Hot
Springs, Tolovana, Totatlanika, Kan
tishna and other districts contain
ing both quartz and placer mines all
within a radius of 100 miles of the
proposed power plant. The Ruby
and Iditarod districts were not be
yond the reach of the power plant;
not to mention the rich mining dis
tricts on the other side of the divide.
As regards the source of power,
the respective merits of water, steam
and gas were explained in detail.
Water as a source of power was not
considered satisfactory, owing to the
great difference in the volume of
th< flow in the summer and winter
seasons and the difficulties of cli
mate and ice, which often render
the cost of such a plant excessive.
Steam plants compete successfully
with water plants in Colorado and
Washington, but owing to the grade
of fuel available here, such a plant
might not be very successful, he
thought. This difficulty lay in the
fact that lignite contained nearly
30 per cent of moisture. A plant
generating power by means of in
ternal combustion engines using the
gas released by lignite in process
of treatment would, he thought, be
the most reliable, effective, econo
mical and satisfactory source.
Mr. Davis described a gas pro
ducer in which lignite coal is burned
and the gas released thereby is held
for other purposes. He also de
scribed a carbonizcr in which the
lignite is subjected to a certain tem
perature which releases the gas and
leaves a residue known as artificial
coal. The artificial coal is screened
into two qualities, known as over
size and undersize. The oversize can
be immediately sold for fuel and the
undersize briquetted and sold for
the same purpose.
The gas produced both by the
carbonizing process and by the pro
ducer is conveyed by means of a
pipe to a receptacle known as a
scrubber, where the impurities in the
gas are removed and from this
scrubbing the purified gas will be
led to the gas engines that will
generate the power. These impuri
ties consist of tars and oils and
ammonium sulphate, both valuable
by-products; and thus a source of
revenue is made available and the
amount derived from the sale of
the artificial coal and the other by
products may, to a considerable ex
tent, meet the cost of operation of
the power plant.
Regarding the fuel available for
power and other purposes in the
Lignite country, Mr. Davis stated
that a careful estimate made along
scientific lines showed that one
square mile of territory in the coal
fields contained fifty-five million
tons of lignite coal. Chemical tests
of the coal showed that one ton
of it contained 5000 cubic feet of
gas, 15 pounds of ammonium sul
phate, and 50 pounds of tars.
Assuming then that a combination
plant consisting of several gas pro
ducers and carbonizers is decided
on, the question of cost of installa
tion of the plant comes up.
Mr. Davis said that a fair esti
mate would place the cost of the
power plant at a million and a half
dollars; 300 miles of transmission
wires would cost another milllion
dollars, bringing the total cost of
the project up to two and one-half
million dollars. According to pres
ent methods, it costs from four to
five hundred dollars per horsepower
per year and, assuming that the cost
of power from the projected plant
would be twice the cost obtaining
in the States, or $75 to $100 per
H. P. year, it would mean that min
ing operations by means of the power
supplied will be reduced to a fifth
of what it costs today by the old
methods.
This estimate and comparison of
cost to the miner is made on a lib
eral scale, and Mr. Davis thought
that it might eventually be only
one-tenth of the cost by present
methods.
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As regards the source of capital’
he thought that it would not be a
very difficult matter to convince
Congress that an immediate need
for a power plant existed and that
such a plant would be a very potent
factor in the speedy development
of the mineral resources of the
North and thereby add to the na
tion’s wealth and the geenral pros
perity of this territory, and fed
eral aid demanded for its construc
tion. In showing Congress the
fundamental requirements for such
a plant it must be backed by facts
and data that will stand the severest
scrutiny and it must have the whole
hearted support and co-operation of
all the people. The question of en
listing private capital was not con
sidered.
The conclusions arrived at by Mr.
Davis as a result of the investiga
tions made so far, were that a power
plant is badly needed, and needed
soon; a market for the power in
ample quantity exists and no serious
difficulty is anticipated ins being able
to induce Congress to vote the nec
essary appropriation for the instal
lation of the plant. The remote
possibility of enlisting private capi
tal to build the plant in the event
of federal aid not being available
still remained.
Mr. Davis was very heartily ap
plauded on resuming his seat. The
chairman then called upon Mr. Geo.
Pennington, who delivered a brief
address and paid a high tribute
to Secretary Lane, who, he said, was
the best friend Alaska ever had.
Mr. Pennington was followed by
Mr. W. A. Ryan, who made it clear
that it would not be a very diffi
cult matter to interest Congress
in the power plant project and, he
thought, that the necessary appro
priation for its installation would
be forthcoming. He urged co-oper
ation, without which nothing could
be accomplished, and was quite in
accord with what Mr. Davis had said
regarding the American Mining Con
gress, through which body it was
proposed that Congress be approach
ed, in regard to the power plant
project.
The smoker was also in the nature
of a farewell to Messrs Ryan, Pen
nington and Laughlin, and all three
gentlemen were furnished with
credentials so that they may be able
on behalf of the Commercial club of
Nenana, to attend meetings of simi
lar bodies in the States, and in
other ways, do considerable mission
ary work for Alaska and boost for
the country, and in honor of these
gentlemen, the entire assemblage
rose and sang “For He’s a Jolly
Good Fellow."
A boxing contest, in character,
between Norman Russell and Sam
Ivey, was brought to an abrupt end
by the arrest of the principals, who
attempted to finish the fight with
razors. Little “Barney” Oldfield
was the arresting cop. This item
created a lot of amusement. Before
the boys were allowed to fight, their
gloves were examined and found to
contain heavy pieces of metal, which
were removed amid much merriment
and the fight was allowed to go on
A light lunch was then partaken
of, after which several more speech
es were delivered by Messrs S.
Howell, R. E. Burns, ffm. Taylor
Harry Capp, E. L. Laughlin and
Steve O’Neill, and all spoke in favor
of the power plant and the need of
transportation facilities to the min
ing region in the Kantishna. Mr.
O’Neill’s speech was partly of a
humorous nature and was received
with roars of laughter, the speaker
being heartily applauded at the con
clusion of his speech.
The singing of “Auld Lang Syne”
by the entire assemblage at about
4 a. m., brought to a termination •
a most successful smoker and every
body present felt that a considerable
amount of good had been accom
plished. *
This was the seeond “get to
gether” smoker given by the Nenana
Commercial club, and it is the in- »
tention of the club to give smokers
of this nature periodically.
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ALASKA
Men wanting employment can
obtain work at good wages at
Juneau, Kennecott and Latouche.
If you go out you will only
come back "Busted” in the spring
TAKE EMPLOYMENT FOR THE
WINTER.
Two hundred men wanted at
Juneau and vicinity; one hundred
and fifty at Latouche and
Kennecott.
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