NUKA BAY MINE ALL
THAT WAS CLAIMED
BY ITS PROMOTERS
W. H. Brockway, a Spokane min
ing engineer^ who was employed to
expert the property ol the Alaska
Hills Mines Corporation at Nuka Bay,
returned from the new camp and in
company with E. W. Barnett, presi
dent of the company, left for An
chorage. They will leave for the bay
again this week with Capt. Emswiler
taking a load of supplies.
According to Capt. Emswiler the
camp is showing unusual activit\, a
number of prospectors being on the
ground. A new bunk house is under
construction and mining operations
will start about June 1, the newly
purchased mill being ready for opera
tion in sixty days.
This property, which is undoubted
ly one of the best discovered in the
history of coast mining, will cause a
large camp to spring up at Nuka Bay.
As soon as the snow gets out of the
hills a large number of prospectors
will start to work in the district, the
outcroppings showing a continuation
of the vein for many miles. In fact
this mineralized vein extends north
to the Hope district, numerous prop
erties being located on it at different
points.
WILL DRIVE REINDEER
HERD TO BROAD PASS
Soon after the ice goes out of the
Yukon, it is the intention of George
Ashenfelter, who arrived in Anchor
age last fall from Council, to leave for
the Seward Peninsula country where
he has a herd of about 1000 reindeer.
He proposes to drive the entire herd
across the country to the Broad Pass
district where splendid grazing ground
is available. His herd at the present is
grazing with the Council herd and No.
4 and 5 Igloo herds. The crossing of
the Yukon will be made at Kaltshak.
Mr. Ashenfelter is under the im
pression that several other private
owned reindeer herds will make the
drive to the Broad Pass country at the
same time he makes his.
SELDOVIA GAS BOAT WILL
BE SALVAGED BY OWNERS
The gas boat Onyx which was sunk
on the rocks in Iliamna bay last fall,
will be floated, Ralph V Anderson of
Seldovia and a crew of men being
engaged in raising the craft.
land office notes
Prospecting permits for gas and oil
were issued to A. B. Howe, W. S. Nor
man and C. A. Collins of Tacoma, for
the Cold Bay and Chignik districts.
The land office is in receipt of four
pounds of artichoke plants to be tried
out in this district. The plants were
sent by M. D. Snodgrass of the experi
mental farm at Matanuska. Mr. Snod
grass also asked for a supply of home
stead applications saying he had sev
eral parties who were anxious to file
on homesteads in that district.
The initial step in the hunting lodge
and tourist resort venture at Lake
Kusilof, which is being undertaken by
two Anchorage men, was taken this
week when the gas boat Alert sailed
for Kusilof, with supplies and equip
ment. Two carpenters and several
helpers will erect a dozen log cabins
for a number of eastern tourists who
will visit the district this fall.
MRS. ANNA ASHTON
DISPOSES OF STOCK
The latter part of the week, Mrs.
Anna Ashton, who has been conduct
ing a ladies’ furnishings store in
Seward disposed of her stock to the
local firm of Banbury & Ogle who
will move into the new location soon.
Mrs. Ashton states that before leav
ing Seward she purchased two lots
here and expects to enter the local
business field at some future time.
The firm of Banbury and Ogle have
been in business in ladies' furnish
ings for a number of years, and feel
the need of expanding^ the new store
giving them ample room for their in
creased stock.
CHAMBER EXCURSION
WILL LEAVE IN JULY
The excursion to Bristol Bay by
ihe Sew aid Chamber of Commerce
Pill be held on the July trip of file
■Parr, a number of citizens ' living
idvantage o; the low r;v;e r." ?'()< of
ered by the company for ' ..c round
rip. About three weeks »1‘1 be re
juired to go from Sewaid to Dili.r g
uim and ueurn The many towns
ind villages on the route will give
lie «xcursionlsts a ir.eiiv time, and
t is expected considerable trade will
ae worked up.
NEWS OF WATERFRONT
The Standard Oil docks have been
quite busy this week, a large number
of vessels calling for oil.
The freighter Latouche arrived ir.
port Sunday morning and discharged
a cargo of gasoline and lubricating
oil for the Standard Oil Company.
The Alaska Standard is expected in
some time this week with a cargo for
the Standard Oil.
The halibut boat Seymour of Seat
tle, arrived in port this morning and
took on gas and oil
A number of local boats called at
the Standard dock this week.
Among the boats calling at the
local dock for oil the latter part of the
week were the American, Capt Harry
Anderson, Ketchikan; Tatoosh, Seat
tle; the Donaldson, of Nome; Imperial
of Seattle; Volunteer, Capt. Hans Ar
vold, Seattle; Young America, Seat
tle; Arrow, Ketchikan, the power
schooner Eagle, the power schooner
Alaska; the Yukon, Ketchikan, and
the Lincoln, Capt. H .Fotland, Seat
tle.
PLANE DOES GOOD BUSINESS
The new Rodebaugh plane did a
land office business at the aviation
field in Fairbanks last week taking
up passengers at $10 per head. Those
.viro look the trip were Bernard Carr,
John Sagar, Levi Liudgen, Miss Dal
ton, Mrs. Forrest Victor Enstrom, F.
Conrad, Arthur Anderson, Arthur
Oliver. Earl C. Hunter -and two mem
aers of the college faculty.
NEW COACHES ORDERED
FOR ALASKA RAILROAD
Several new coaches have been
ordered for the Alsaka railroad and
will arrive on one of the next vessels
from the States. A new baggage car
and a new diner have been added to
the present equipment and when the
tourist season opens the railroad will
be equipped to handle all travel ex
peditiously.
tra
f
inest Train to the East
On June First the Great Northern Railway will offer
the traveling public a new creation in railway train
architecture, the masterpiece of Pullman construction
—an all-new train without precedent in equipment
and luxuriousness—the New Oriental Limited.
Seattle, Everett, Wenatchee and Spokane to
Chicago, without change. (Through sleepers
from Portland via S. P. &. S. Ry. to Spokane.)
Arrange now for a trip on the New Oriental Limited—the train
of trains—with two bathrooms, barber shop, manicurist, ladies'
maid, valet, ladies* lounge, and other unusual features.
For complete details call on or address:
J. W. YOUNG, General Agt., Passenger Department.
1403, Fourth Ave., Seattle.
C. W. MELDRUM, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt. Seattle.
Low' Round Trip Fares East from May 22 to September 15
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY
Route of the New Oriental Limited
DETAILS OF STRIKING
OF MARTIN’S PLANE
From R. Amundson, manager of the j
cannery at Port Moller was received a
full account o fthe striking of Major
Martin’s plane .
The plane hit a gentle rise and slid
one hundred feet before it stopped,
but was demolished. They spent the
night of the thirtieth and all day in
the lee side of the fuselage while the
storm raged trying to keep warm from
a fire made from material taken off
the plane but found it practically im
possible to sleep on account of the
cold. They afterward tried to reach
the Pacific ocean on the Second of
May, but the two had much trouble
with their feet. After wandering that
day they camped in a bunch of alders,
making a fire and sleeping in the
branches, but here the aviators secur
ed little rest.
On May third the two airmen re
turned to the plane, arriving about
four-thirty Sunday Snorning, when
they made a resolution never again
to return to the wrecked ship. Camp
ing that night in a canyon free of snow
they got some rest, but Tuesday night
in four feet of snow and bitter cold,
they spent the worst night of their
experience.
The next day they were overjoyed
to see salt water and find a trapper’s
cabin, where they ate some hot cakes
and salmon bellies. Here they killed
and ate ducks and rabbits, setting out
Saturday morning feeling compara
tively stronger and having little dif
ficulty in travelling the twenty miles
along the beach between the cabin and
the cannery. Some natives saw them
and brought them in a powerolory
from the spit where they were stag
gering when he pjcked them up; but
after a good supper the men soon re
gained their strength and appeared
little the worse for their experience.
NEW TRAIN SCHEDULE
WILL START SUNDAY
OVER ALASKA RY.
The new train schedule which was
to have started last Sunday, will be
inaugurated Sunday, May 25. This
schedule will allow passengers to stop
over a day in Seward, taking Mon
day’s train. The schedule provides
tor trains Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays trains going straight through
to Fairbanks, arriving at 10:15 the
following morning after leaving Sew
ard.
Regular trains will leave Fairbanks
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at
6:00 p. m., coming straight thru to
Seward. A dining car service will
be operated between Seward and
Curry. From Curry on passengers
will eat breakfast at Nenana a stop
of one hour being made. Sleepers
will also be a part of the train equip
ment.
The new service will give Seward
three trains a week instead of two,
as at present.
VETO REVENUE BILL
BY THE PRESIDENT
NOW A POSSIBILITY
WASHINGTON, May 21.—Veto of
the revenue bill now pending in con
ference was forecast at the capital
here today in view of previous indi
cations by the President that enact
ment of the bonus bill passed yes
terday would necessitate the disap
proval of the measure by the Presi
dent.
MOVING PICTURE PROJECTOR AT
G. 0. P. HALL LONGEST WORLD
CLEVELAND, May 23—The mov
ing-picture projector of the Cleveland
which will probably be used when the
Republican national convention is held
here in June,, is believed by the man
agement of the hall to have the long
est projection of all projectors in the
country, perhaps in the world, 335 ft.
If this projector were to be installed
in an ordinary picture theatre a part
of one figure in a scene would cover
the whole screen. Lens, carbon hold
ers and lampjiousing were specially
made to carry the length of the hall.
The projection chamber is concealed
where the ceiling slopes into the rear
wall.
Spot lights which will be cast upon
the speakers are in the same chamber,
and therefore have a range considered
equally unusual, although no special
fixtures were necessary.
Pictures are cast on a rigid 2,000
pound sheet of ground glass and ce
ment on a wooden frame.
ALL MEN ARE EQUAL—NOT
PITTSBURGH, May 23.—Because
he was an alien Herman Gunter was
forced to kill his nine dogs last week.
Aliens are not allowed to own dogs
in this state, and despite his entreat
ies that his pets might be spared or
complaint of an envious neighbor they
were killed.
JOE ULMER TELLS OF
WINTER TRIP TO FAR
REGIONS OF KOBUK
Jos. Ulmer, who has been on a re
connaissance survey for the Alaska
Road Commission, arrived in Seward
Wednesday from a trip through the
district from Betties to the mouth of
the Kobuk river on Kotzebue Sound.
Mr. Ulmer came to Seward for the
purpose of securing a team of horses
and will return to Nenana from which
point he will leave f*r the Kusko
kwim with the team to take charge of
road work in the Tokotna district.
Mr. Ulmer stated that the recent
trip was one of the hardest he
had ever made, no roadhouses exist
ing in the district traveled, and the
party composed of Mr. Ulmer and an
Indian guide being compelled to
camp out in bitterly cold weather. At
Shangnuk Mr. Ulmer ran into weather
registering 70 degrees below zero and
was compelled to lay up ten days
with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ferguson,
before the weather moderated suffi
ciently to travel.
He returned to the railroad section
in time to attend the meeting of the
grand igloo of Pioneers, and later
mapped some country along the rail
road. The account of his trip as
given to the Gateway, follows:
With Tokotna as a base camp, the
road commission have quite an elab
orate road program mapped out for
this season, Joe said. Under the sup
ervision of Ross Kenney, of the road
commission, the roads in the Kusko
kwim district will be joined with one
another and a few new trails con
structed.
Ulmer left Wiseman in the Koyukuk
district March 10 and mushed into Ne
nana with dogs in sixteen days. The
going was pretty rough, he says, for
the trail was beginning to break up in
many places and in spots the snow
had completely disappeared .
At Kobuk Ulmer ran across a num
ber of oldtimers ,well known in Alas
ka. Among those were Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Llody, who are placer mining on
Dan Creek. Frank Ferguson is in
stalling a hydraulic plant on Califor
nia creek and will operate this sum
mer. Lots of work is under way on
Squirrel creek on the old diggings.
There appears to be more activity
in the Koyukuk than has been for
many years past. What the country
needs, says Joe, is more prospectors,
for it is a big mineralized belt extend
ing for a distance of 300 miles from
Squirrel river to the Chandlar.
The first snow of the winter fell at
Alatna January 1, and shortly after,
Ulmer ami a Kobuk guide went up the
Alatna for 40 miles then cut across on
an Indian trail to the Kobuk river,
crossing Lake Gotwals. In blazing this
trail, Ulmer had to work with a com
pass on account of the driving snow
which fell every day while he was in
that section. When he reached the Ko
buk he was forced to double back to
Alatna, 63 miles in order to replenish
the supply of dog feed and food sup
plies. At Kobuk it was 55 below and
when he reached Alatna it was 63 be
low .Going straight down the Kobuk
river to Shungnak village he ran into
still colder weather for here it regis
tered 71 degrees blow.
“It was so dam cold,” Joe said, “the
Indians told me after I arrived at the
village that they could hear the bells
on the dog team while I was over two
miles away on the trail.” Napoleon,
the native guide who accompanied Joe
froze his face.
Ulmer said that there were rive dog
teams behind him on this trail and
not one of the drivers reached the In
dian village with a dog for a wave of
distemper was rampant throughout
the district and dogs by the scores
died from the scourge. Two dogs in
Joe’s outfit died of distemper while on
that trip.
uiuier mtu tut; Aittu; gtuucut sui
vey party in charge of Dr. Smith at
Alatna. They were all in fine health
and anxious to reach their destination.
Upon .their departure from Alatna
they followed Ulmer’s trail, which he
had broken, for forty miles. From Al
atna Joe went to Betties then to Wise
man and then to Nolan. Here he met a
few miners all o fwhom are getting
along alright. Most of them have
been busy all winter taking out win
ter dumps.
On the Kobuk he met quite a num
ber of friends. C. R. Patterson pros
pected and trapped all last winter. H.
Brown is running a store there and
Fred Johnson is p inspecting in tl dis
trict. At Wisewan he met Pingle, Sam
Dow, John Wooll, Jack Holzer, Carl
Frank, Fred Swift, Ben Sirr, Jim Stev
ens and Joe Mathews. All of these
men are mining and prospecting on the
old placer grounds and doing fair. No
new ground is being worked anyplace.
The last winter was a poor winter
for trappers throughout the entire dis
trict and very few good catches are re
ported. No reason is given for the
scarcity 6f fur excepting that it just
happened to be one of the lean years.
A splendid specimen of green jade
was picked up in the Colville River
SHIP ALASKA FORS QUICK
We’re paying big prices for Alaska furs—
demand strong. We are the largest buyers
of Alaska furs in this big central market
and we must have all kinds for quick sale at
present high prices. Money sent same day
shipment comes in—cash, draft or money
order, whichever you want. ACT NOW—
if you have one skin or a hundred. Ship to
us at once.
ST. LOUIS, MO.
FOUKE GRADING MARES YOUR FUR CHECKS BIGGER
country and presented to the Alaska
Agricultural College and School of
Mines at Fairbanks, by Mr. Ulmer up
on his arrival there recently. He also
presented the Alaska Museum at Ju
neau with a unique dog harness made
from Caribou skin. One of the features
of this harness is that it has rope
sewed into it.
Since Ulmer departed last fall he
has traveled 1350 miles, of which over
700 miles was mushed on snow shoes.
DONALDSON LEAVES ON
LONG TRIP TO ARCTIC
Leaving Seward after taking on a
cargo of oil at the local dock of the
Standard Oil company, Captain Alex
ander Allen and wife, and four pas
sengers left on the gas schooner Don
aldson on his annual trading trip to
the Arctic. The Donaldson was pur
chased from the U. S. government a
year or so ago, but Capt. Allen, and
converted into a gas schooner. The
vessel was formerly a post launch
at Fort Liscum, where it was used
! to convey officers and men from the
I Post to Valdez. The Captain and
passengers will be among the first to
| enter the ice pack this year.
The Donaldson will be remembered
I as the craft that was chartered by
1 Noyes, the explorer, to rescue the
expedition left on Wrangell island,
about 200 miles north of Siberia. The
vessel also was chartered by Stef
fansson the explorer, and later oper
ated on the Nome to St. Michaels
run.
The Donaldson will return to Sew
; ard again next spring, Capt. Allen
PIONEER LIVES IN SEATTLE
Mrs. Ostrander, widow of Judge!
Ostrander of the law firm of Ostran- j
der and Donohoe, in Valdez and ;
Cordova, now makes her home in Se
attle. She owns a business block in
Cordova and has other interests in
the Territory.
GAS POCKET BLOWS TOOLS
OUT OF WELL AT KANATAK
A report was received in Anchor
age Saturday night that a gas pocket
had been struck by the drillers at
the Standard plant at Kanatak so
strong that the tools ivere blown out
of the well. It is hoped to strike oil
within the next 800 feet, and the
presence of gas is regarded as a good
indication.
OLD FASHIONED
WHIPPINGS UNPOPLAR
ST. PAUL May 23.—Modern parent
hood has no place for the once popu
lar "spare the rod and spoil the
child” member of the Mothers* Con
gress and Parent-Teacher Association
were told by Miss Alma Binzel of
New York. Whipping is not tolerated
in any school in the modern system.
Pilot A. M. Sampson made a trip
this week from Fairbanks to Brooks
carrying passengers and freight. The
trip was made in a few hours time.
SAYS EASY DIVORCE
IS LIKE FREE LOVE
NOT ANY DIFERENCE BETWEEN
FRIVOLOUS MARRIAGE AND
LACK OF IT, CHARGE
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 23—Con
tention that there is “no real differ
ence between divorce being granted
for the mere asking, as it is, practical
ly, today, and men and women living
together without marriage” was made
here by Rev. Dr. P. H. Murdick, pastor '
of King Avenue M. E. church.
“Every time an anarchist or some
writer, advocates free love, a terrible
hue and cry rises from all the decent
people of the land. Yet, in the tremen
dous growth of the divorce habit, is
not the nation rushing toward it as
fast as it would come by popular con
sent?” Rev. Dr. Murdick inquired.
“Many will say: ‘It is horrible that
two persons who have ceased to love
each other should be compelled to live
together. We know it. Our sympathy
goes out to the unhappy pair. But,
what about our nation ? What about
our homes? What about our little
children? Have they no rights?
What about religion ? Is marriage
no longer a sacred thing ? Has it fall
en to the level of a business transac
tion? If that is all, the home is
shattered and the national life is then
doomed, for the nation rests on homes,
not in individuals.
“Everybody knows that two-thirds
of the required causes for divorce such
as cruelty, desertion and non-support,
ai-e nothing but pretexes, often agreed
upon by both parties. It is so easy
that men and women are not stopping
to consider whether they are fit for
each other or not; whether they wish
to live together or not, but rush into
marriages as lightly as in Paris, two
members of the Latin quarter go and
live together for a time.
“There is a wave of loose thinking
abroad. Families should practice
Christain patience, forbearance and
forgiveness. Love has to be tempered
with religion, as do all other things,
to run smoothly, and divorces would^
be reduced almost half. It is a signifi
cant thing, if it is true, that few di
vorces ever come from homes engaged
in actice church connections or Chris
tian service.”
A IMNElRS of ice pool
NAMED AT FAIRBANKS
A considerable sum of money was
scattered around Fairbanks last week
ollowing the movement of the ice in
Jhena slough in front of town. O.
he several minute pools at the Horse
shoe Cigar Store Fred Slruthers won
£60; L. A. Johnson $60 and Charles
Lewis and Henry Schroder each
cashed in for $90.
H. B. Madland, the well known
commercial traveler^ won $100.
According to reports received in An
chorage, Jack Daugherty, former own
er of Daugherty’s store in Anchorage,
has just fallen heir to $100,000 thru
the death of his father .At last ac
counts Mr. Daugherty was reported on
nis way to his former home in Iowa.
ELLIS BALL CHILI MILL
THE MILL THAT TAKES THE PROSPECTOR OFF THE
LABOR MARKET
CHEAPER THAN AN ARASTRA AND MORE EFFICIENT
THAN A STAMP MILL
For Alaska Miners w& recommend our Type B
mill, ten to twenty tons daily capacity, or our
Independence Mill, five to seven tons, priced
at $485.00 with gaspline engine; without gas
engine the mill is $S0 less.
Come to Woodrow and see the Independence Mill in
operation. The first of these mills to come to Alaska.
HAGEN & HENRICSON, Alaska Agents
WRITE FOR INFORMATION TO
P. O. BOX 1105, SEWARD, ALASKA
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