Huge Quartz Property Near Seward
Along the Alaska Railroad May Soon be
Taken Over By British Capitalists
Predicted That if the English Concern Takes Over Prop
erty at Least Five Hundred Men Will Be on the
Company’s Payroll Soon
MINING MEN PRONOUNCE VEIN HUGE ONE
Estimates of Diamond Drilling Have Been Forwarded to
Europe—Property is in Splendid Location for
Big Operations—Fine Townsite
Of great importance to Seward was
the announcement last summer that
an influential group of English capital
ists were considering the purchase of
the quartz property at Mile 43 1-2 of
which John Howe, Sr., John Howe, Jr.,
and John Mackwitz, all well-known in
Seward, are the owners. News of
the possible entry into this field by
the same company interested in the
Fairbanks district, was brought to
Seward by P. J. Lynch, of the Seattle
firm of diamond drillers, Lynch Bros.
Conservative mining men who have
visited the property have pronounced
the vein of ore on the ground the
largest they have ever seen. It liter
ally splits the mountain in two. It is
believed to be the largest, at least, on
the Pacific coast, as far as local know
ledge is concerned. The lead is 150
feet wide with stoping ground run
ning up 2,000 feet. The vein has been
traced for a distance of 7,500 feet, with
an average width of 150 feet. It is
stated the milling property is similar
to the famous Treadwell mine, in the
Southeastern part of Alaska, and could
very easily, be opened as a quarrying
proposition.
The ground lays at a nice location
on the old Alaska Central railroad; a
siding is already in; ample water pow
er is available with a river running
thru the property, ideally located for
carrying away the tailings; a fine
townsite adjoins the ground, in fact,
as Mr. Lynch said, it is one of the
most natural mining projects, really
made to order, that he has ever visited.
The permanency of the vein is indi
cated by the three miles of black slate
with the vien matter lying directly
between, and to the South, graywack.
The ore, is highly mineralized, backed
with a blue clay wall. The analysis
show copper, silver and gold, but
mostly gold values, ranging from $2 to
$47 a ton. Innumerable analysis have
been taken from all portions of the
exposed rock and reveal there is a
plenty of $6 rock and ample high grade
ore. The owners have driven in two
short tunnels, one to a depth of six
feet and another 20 feet, and a cross
cut of thirty feet has been made. De
velopment work has proceeded with
regularity with Mr. Mackwitz now on .
the ground.
The prediction was made providing
the English concern takes over the
property, that within a period of two |
years, owing to the magnitude of op- ,
erations, which would be conducted, (
that close to five hundred men would
be employed by the company.
Each captain of a cutter in the
Bering Sea patrol is authorized to act
as United States Commissioner. An
other officer aboard the vessel is
also a deputy United States marshal.
Thus justice can be administered in
emergency cases. Such a floating
court comes in handy in the cannery
district of Bristol Bay.
The motorship Patterson, rates A1
seith the insurance companies, will
shortly be operated between Seattle ,
u'.d Seward, according to announce
nent made by Captain Walter Tinn. j
rhe vessel, a former U. S. revenue (
cutter, was purchased last summer
by the R. T. Johns & Co., Inc., of Se
attle.
Whaling Industry
Described
(Continued from Page 27)
whalebone or gill bones are sold as
curios and brings about $1.50 per
pound, one prong of 15 feet will weigh
about 20 pounds.
The Finback and Humpback are
about 50 to 60 feet long and easily
found as they seem to sleep on the
surface of the water. They contri
bute to the fertilizer and bone meal
The dissecting of a whale is an art
and not one stroke of the knives are
ever miscalculated. A flincing crew
of eight natives with their sharp flin
cing knives with slightly curved
blades from fourteen to eight inches
long and a handle about four feet re
sembling a grass scythe can prepare
a whale for the retorts in about four
hours. The fat or blubber lies just
under the skin and Is from two to
three feet thick beautifully white and
solid. Deep incisions are made thru
the fat from the head to the tail in
3trips of four feet and on these are
fastened the block and tackle and the
machinery pulls the blubber off and
hoists it into its own particular vat.
From this point the meatcutters
ake charge. This is a crew of fifteen
men who inspect the meat, and cut it
nto small portions for the different
manufacturing uses such as soap, per-:
:'ume, pomades and medicinal oils, j
It seems there is no limit to the
luman family in their mad search for j
uxuries and vanities, cosmetics and
»ther frailties, but when one views the
rery first base of these articles, a
jigantic symetrical beautiful animal
lauled up on the slip, with many har
poons sunk deeply into its torn, lac
erated and bruised body, we begin
o realize that we are the sole cause
)f all this unnecessary agony and suf
fering.
The male specie is often subdued by
>ne or two well-directed shots just
it the base of the head, but the fe
male with her mother instincts pre
lominating fights furiously with super
power in hopes of saving herself and
nborn progeny and often as many as
:ight harpoons, each with a bomb that
explodes three seconds after striking,
must be used before she is quieted
After a whale is killed a hole is
Sylvia’s
for
delicious
Ice Cream
made daily.
Fancy Candies in
Box and Bulk
Framed Pictures
Photographs
A Fine Line of
Alaskan Curios
SYLVIA'S
Sexton
Hotel
GEO. SEXTON, Prop.
Seward’s
Homey Hotel
Where
The
Oldtimers
Congregate.
CLEAN
COMFORTABLE
ROOMS
| bored into the body and compressed
air is pumped into the cavity and then
closed. A small red flag is fastened
on, and the whale* floats until the
whale boat has as many as it can
tow in, sometimes as often as four
giant whales are slowly brought to
the station the result of sometimes
one day’s work and many times four
days’ struggle with storms and heavy
seas.
The mother whale carries her be
loved babe close to her side, one of
her flukes clasping and almost auto
matically licks around its form, there
the intant whale takes its nourish
ment of rich, thick creamy milk, while
| the mother dashes and cavorts thru
the sea with all happiness and as she
j thinks secure • from all danger, but
; alas! she is struck by the cruel har
poon and after terrific struggling she
and her babe still so firmly clasp
ed that even in death does not relax
are brought to the surface and lashed
to the side of the whale boat.
The gunners of the whaleboat aver
that if they could by any means dis
tinguish between the species they
would never shoot a female whale,
and if we could be made to realize
the intense agony of the animals or
the excruciating torture of the steel
trap, we would shrink with horror at
the thought of enjoying the products
of one, or wearing the fur of our little
furry creatures of the wilderness.
The flesh of the blue whale is very ;
delicious meat and looks like pork
tenderloin. I can’t verify this state
ment as I have never tasted it, but
tourists call for whale steaks and
whale hamburger and are emphatic
in their praise. The whale tails are
cut into three inch slabs of about
three feet long and two feet wide.
These are treated to a solution for
three days and then dried and ship
ped to Japan and China where the
meat is considered a luxury and
brings about 40 cents a pound in
those countries.
There are many more interesting
things about a whaling station that I
shall write about before the next
mail boat and with the pictures and
a real first thrill of being on a whal
ing vessel and witness the operation
will be my next theme.
Uncle Sam Controls
700,000 Fur Seals
*
i
Approximately 700,000 animals con
stitute Uncle Sam’s great fur-seal
herd centering about the Pribilof
Islands in Bering Sea, a herd con
taining 90 per cent of the world’s
fur seals. Government sales of fur
skins during the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1924, totaled $582,823. In
1923 sealskins taken from the islands *
numbered 15,920. This trade passes
thru Seattle.
Value of Alaskan Furs
Shipped to the States
Furs shipped from Alaska since its
purchase are appraised at $99,800,000
and the value of last year’s output
W'as $3,000,000. A large part of the
fur trade goes thru Seattle.
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