STATE MINING ACTIVITIES
Southwest—Goodnews Bay Min
ing Co. closed their dredge at Pla
tinum and New York-Alaska Gold
Dredging Corp. closed their op
eration at Nyac about the tenth
of November. The Flat miners
ceased mining a few weeks
earlier.
The Red Devil Mine closed
this fall when the summer’s ex
ploration program failed to devel
op more ore. Dorr Holloway, Mari
ano Jauncorena and Jack Neu
bauer, all of Red Devil, have taken
a lease on part of the facilities
and are in the process of cleaning
out some of the high grade stopes.
Southcentral — Fritz Klam
bach’s lease on the Fem Mine
was renewed by the company. He
has been drifting on a lead there
for several years.
Northcentral—The Little Squaw
Mining Company completed 880
feet of drifting plus additional
drilling and surface work on the
Mikado and Little Squaw veins
in the Chandalar.
Southeastern — John Brockway 1
reports that the Chicago Alaska
Company have shipped a cat and
will start exploring the Baker
Peak copper prospect on Chicha
gof Island next spring.
Requests for good Alaska carv
ing stone are still being received.
Any suitable rock such as soap
stone or gypsum is desirable and
anyone having a deposit of such
should contact the office of the
Division of Mines and Minerals.
A sample should be submitted so
that it can be examined. The de
posit should contain several hun
dred tons so that an industry
can be formed. The University of
Alaska was able to purchase sev
eral hundred pounds from Lloyd
Hill’s soapstone occurrence on
Grubstake Gulch in the Willow
Creek District north of Anchor
age. A source closer to southeast
ern is desirable.
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I to 10 million tons of coal annually
may be created if coal can be used
to lower the cost of sewage and
waste treatment processes. The
Department of Interior announced
a contract had been let between
the Office of Coal Research and
the Rand Development Corp. of
Cleveland for $164,000 for re
search into the properties of coal
as an absorbent, settling agent,
flocculent, and filter aid to de
termine if coal can be used for
treating sewage and industrial
waste.
The 69th Annual Convention of
the Northwest Mining Ajssocia
tion met on December 6th and
7th at the Davenport Hotel in
Spokane. There were three ses
sions in the afternoon: one en
titled Canadian, one Gold-Silver,
and one Finance and Taxation.
Saturday, December 7, sessions
were held during the morning on
Milling. Geology, Land and Min
ing Law. During the afternoon ses
sions were held on Mining and
Geology.
The list of speakers is impress
ive. It included top men of the
mining industry as well as from
the fields of banking, law, and
government. As Alaska’s regula
tions for mining on State-owned
; lands are probably the most at
tractive of any of the States, Joe
Williams, Director of the DM&M,
was invited to present a paper
entitled “Inducements to Encour
age Discovery and Production on
Alaska State Lands.”
I. N. Woodman reports he pur
chased a small Muskeg Tractor
for prospecting, and is quite
pleased with its ability to get into
the back country'. He took a trip
to his prospect at the head of
Turtle Creek the latter part of
August. Freight hauled on the
trip was the first by mechanical
means to reach the prospect. He
experienced no difficulty going
over rocky ground or through the
I swamps, and he is anxious to try
it this winter on the snow.
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toys range from bake-a-real-cake
packets to toy uranium hunting
outfits.
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Haines Cut-Off
Is Swingin’ Along
JUNEAU (iW — Winter mainten
ance of the Haines Cut-off, South
east Alaska’s only road link with
the Alaska Highway, is going bet
ter than expected, the State De
partment. of Highways said today.
Keith Weiss, administrative of
ficer for the Juneau Highway Dis
trict, said the biggest problem en
countered by maintenance crews
thus far has been hard-pack drifts,
caused by high winds.
Weiss said maintenance crews
have to break up these drifts with
tractor equipment before they can
use snow plows on them.
The State Highway Department
is maintaining a 46-mile stretch
of the route, within Canada,
which previously was not main
tained between Nov. 15 and April
15.
Under an agreement with the
Canadian government, Alaska will
be reimbursed for costs of main
taining the 46 miles starting at
the U.S. military pumping station
at Mile 48.
The cost of maintaining the 46
miles of roadway during the win
ter months has been estimated at
$127,000.
Only once since winter main
tenance started this year have
weather conditions forced closure
of the route, Weiss said.
The pass was closed for 18
hours on Nov. 25 when mainten
ance crews were unable to keep
up with a five-foot snowfall.
Weiss said that while no traffic
figures are available, maintenance
crews report that traffic seems
to be holding up very well in
view of the season.
Weiss said the Canadian customs
station at the Alaska-Canadian
border is now on a winter sched
ule, with office hours 8 ajn. to
5 p.m. Monday through Friday,
although the customs agent is on
call at other times.
The state has 11 men working
on the pass on a full time basis,
making their headquarters at the
Canadian summer maintenance
camp at Mile 75.
They have 18 pieces of equip
ment, including three rotary
plows, three crawl-type tractors
and two trucks with high-speed
plows.
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Bike Buyer's Guide
11- 75yrs.
A bike should be bought to fit—not to grow into. But back
in the 1880's there wasn’t much choice. Most bicycles weighed
about 100 pounds and cost about a dollar a pound. Today,
there are two-wheelers of ail 1
sizes, made to fit every purse.
More than a million bikes
will be given as Christmas pres
ents this year. If you’ll be one
of the buyers, check this simple
bike buying guide from the
Bicycle institute of America:
• 4-5 years old—16-inch wheel
• 6-7 years old—20-inch wheel
• 7-10 years old—24-inch wheel
• 11-75 years old—26-inch wheel
The R.I.A. points out that
sized-to-fit bikes are important
for safety as well as comfort.
The shorty on an over-sized
bike . . . the teen on his little
brother’s two-wheeler-are both
sure to have control problems.
How do you judge the correct
bike size? If the riders heel is
on the pedal when his leg is
straight, and the pedal is at its
lowest point, you’ve got the
right fit. If the seat can t be
adjusted to meet this require
ment, trv another size.
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the B.I.A. guide: you won’t
have to take Junior along to
pick out the right size bike . . .
you can keep the surprise for
Christmas morning!
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