GAME VIOLATORS
ARRESTED PAST
MONTH INTERIOR
OFFICIAL STATEMENT ISSUED
FRFOM JUNEAU OFFICE AL
ASKA GAME COMMISSION
The Executive Office of the Alaska
Game Commission has received re
ports of recent cases in the Fair
banks and Anchorage region.
George Mellich, an alien common
ly known around Fairbanks as “Bol
shevik George,” was apprehended by
Warden Frank Dufresne of Fairbanks,
accompanied by Deputy U. S. Marshal
James Hagen of Nenana. Mellich
was engaged in trapping without an
Alien Special License. It seems that
Mellich had full knowledge of the li
cense being required and had indicat
ed that he would not take out such
a license. After being found with a
fox in one of his traps and two rifles
in his possession, he was still given
an opportunity to escape prosecution
by taking out the Alien Special Li
cense. He refused to do this, a case
was filed against him at Nenana for
illegal trapping and he demanded a
jury trial. He was convipted, fined
$150, and sentenced to 60 days in jail.
The other case is reported by War
den A. H. Hardy, of Anchorage, wrho
states that S. F. Rhodes, a fur deal
er of Anchorage was found to have
purchased on or before December 14,
47 muskrat and 16 mink skins recent
ly caught, all of which were unprime
and taken before the season opened.
In addition he had failed to keep rec
ords of this transaction. A complaint
containing three counts was filed
against him at Anchorage. The first
count charged possession of unprime
muskrat pelts, second unprime mink
pelts, and third for failure to keep
records of the purchase. A plea of
not guilty was entered and the trial
set for December 21. No report has
as yet been received of the termina
tion of the case.
ADVANCE REPORT
ALASKA MINING
ACTIVITY 1925
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pie and arranging thenecessary yard
and tracks to permit the handling of
200 tons of coal a day. These im
provements will add greatly * to the
facility with which the coal can be
• handled and should improve the
i cleaning, sizing, and sorting otf the
product. The completion during the
year of a steel bridge across Nenana
River will afford a reliable connec
tion for the branch line that con
nects the mine with the main track
of the Alaska Railroad.
Interest in the Bering Raver coal
field was revived during the year, tout
no productive mining was in progress.
Applications for coal prosipacting per
mits were filed covering areas south
of Riley Creek, near the Alaska Rail
road, and a short distance north of
Tanana. A little coal mining was
carried on at the Chicago Creek mine
in Seward Peninsula, and a small
amount of coal was dug by natives
for local use from the coal beds ex
posed near Wainrwright, in northern
Alaska.
Petroleum.
All the petroleum produced in Al
aska continued to come from the
wells of the Chilkat Oil Co. This
compamy’s property is near Katalla,
where in addition to the oil wells it
operates a small refinery. The gas
oline and distillate produced by the
company are much in demand in the
local market, as they are said to be
of better grade than the usual com
imercial brands.
Exploration for petroleum continued
to be conducted actively at several
places in the Territory. On the Al
aska Peninsula drilling of the test
•well of the Standard Oil Co. of Cal
ifornia on the Pearl Creek Dome was
continued thruout the year and ac
cording' to the latest reports avail
able had been carried to the depth
of about 5,000 feet, without, however,
tapping a commercial supply of oil.
Drilling by the Associated Oil Co. in
a nearby area is reported to have
ibeen carried to a depth of abdijit 3,
200 feet. The Geological Survey,
in a .press bulletin prepared by W.
R. Smith, has stated that the Sal
mon Creek-Bear Creek anticline,
north of Jute Bay, and the Wide
Bay anticline are favorable struc
tural features to prospect and that
wells drilled on either of these anti
clines would 9taiJt at a geologic hor
izon estimated at not less than 4,
000 feet lower stratigraphically than
the beds forming the upper part of
itihe Pearl Creek dome.
Plans for the thorough testing of
the structure near the known petro
leum seepages on Johnson Creek, in
the Y.agataga region, have .been per
fected by th General Ptroleum Co. A
camp was established there, and the
necessary supplies and equipment
iwre safely brought to the property.
/Storms during the fall delayed get
ting drilling under way as early as
had been hoped, but according to
the latest information much of the
machinery had been set up and will
be operated thruout the winter.
Hope of finding petroleum near the
Chickaloon coal mine, in the upper
Matanuska Valley, led to a Star drill
being taken into that region. It
seems unfortunate, in view of the
many areas in Alaska where geologic
conditions appear to be more favor
THE SEWARD
Weekly Gateway
Will be published every Friday, the
first issue appearing in February
THE SEWARD WEEKLY GATEWAY WILL BE A NEW DEPARTURE m
tlie field of Alaska journalism, and will start off with a circulation of neai y
r>0Diec. it will contain the Associated Press News of the week, local news and Ter
ritorial News as well as news of the mining and fishing industries. The Seward
Weekly Gateway will have nearly exclusive entry to the vast district west of Sew
ard owing to geographic location, and will have a splendid staff of correspondents
in each camp Subscribers taking the Saturday Gateway will be transferred to the
Weekly Gateway as it will be more in line with what they expect m a weekly paper.
We believe this new venture will prove sueessful inasmuch as it will offer an a v
tising medium for outside advertisers to reach the westward public.
While The Seward Weekly Gateway will be published in Seward, ^ ^tme at
least, it will be distinctively an Alaskanpublication by Alaskans for Alaskans. Ad
vertising rates will be 50 cents per inch per issue or $-.00 per month.
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Only $3.00 the Year
aible for the discovery af petroleum,
that drilling for oil in tihe nipper Mat
anuska Valley is attempted at this
time.
Examination of Naval Petroleum
Reserve No. 4, in northern Alaska,
was continued by W. R. Smith, who
(was a member of the Geological Sur
vey party that went overland during
the winter and spent all of the sum
mer in field work in this area. The
area traversed was mainly the high
landsof the Brooks Range and the
plateau and lowlands of Colville Riv
er, to t>he north. Although no new
seepages or other definite indica
tions of petroleum were found in the
area, Mr. Smith noted many places
north of the Colville where excellent
Structural condition would aJford
good collecting places for oil if iit oc
curs in the adjacent rocks.
Other Minerals.
Alaska during 1925 produced lead,
marble, gypsum, tin, platinum, quick
silver, and garnet. Lead showed a
considerable increase in quantity and,
owing to the higher price per unit, a
more propohtoinal increase in value
over the output in 1924. Most of the
lead was received in the treatment
of ores whose principal value was
tlhedr gold or silver content. The
lead-bearing gold ores came almost
entirely from the Alaska Juneau mine,
in southeastern Alaska, and the lead
ibearing silver ores came principal
ly from the Hyder district, in south
eastern Alasska, and the Kantishna
district, north of Mount McKinley.
The output of marble came entirely
from the quarries of the Vermont
Marble Co., at Tokeen, on Prince of
Wales Island, southeastern LAaska.
All the gypsum was produced by the
Standard Gypsum Co., located at
Gypsum, southwest of Juneau, on the
east coast of Chichagof Island. The
tin ore, or cassiterite, was derived
from placers near York, in Seiward
Peninsula, and from the Hot Springs
district, in the Yukon-Tanana re
gion. Some of the platinum metals
were won from placers in the vicin
ity of Dime Creek, Seward Peninsula,
but the larger part was palladium,
recovered from a copper lode on Ka
saan Peninsula, southeastern Alas
ka. A*little quicksilver was produc
ed from lodes in the Kuskokwim .ba
sin, some distance northwest of
Georgetown. A prospecting party
(with a considerable outfit went into
this same general region during 1925
to continue the examination of the
quicksilver lodes. To judge from the
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John Mattich, Prop.
POOL, SOFT DRINKS AND
CIGARS
Furnished Rooms
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CHRIS’ PUCE
Cigars and Tobaccos
Soft Drinks and Candies
CARD TABLES
Phone * Madison 54
CHRIST LARSEN, Prop.
Next Door to Liberty Theatre
F. B. MOORE
Gore Bldg. Adams 145
WALL PAPER PAPER-HANG
ING, and PAINTING
TINTING
OGLE’S GARAGE
i
GASOLINE AND
WARM STORAGE
EXPERT MECHANICS
Phone Mad. 66.
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specimens sent out, deposits of rich
quicksilver ore have been found and
according to reiports will be develop
ed as Rapidly as circumstances per
unit. The sdhisfes in the vicinity of
Wrangell were the source of the
small output of garnet that was re
ported from southeastern Alaska.
Smokers’ sets and fine merschaum
pipes with genuine amber stems—
?8 and up—Alaska Shop. tf.
Fresh Haas and Johnson’s fine
boxed chocolates—Alaska Shop. _tf.
Hand tinted pictures wrapped se
curely for mailing—Alaska Shop. tf.
ONLY A FEW HIGHBROWS IN •
LONDON, PLAY SUGGESTS
LONDON, Jan. 5. (A>)—Highbrows
are not numerous in London, judging
from the revival of John Drinkwa
ter’s “Abraham Lincoln” at matinee
performances. A number of theatri
cal managers of long experience made
known that there are only about 6,600
iticket-buyers in the British capital
for a play of this character..
The Watson will sail about 9 p. m.
Dr. J. A, Baughman
Physiolan and Surgeon
CHRONIC DISEASES A SPECIALTY
Phone Madison 90. Seward, Alaska
W. D. Coppernoll
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT
LAW
Will Practice in All Courts of the
Territory
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FOR FIRE INSURANCE
Dr. A. R. Roberts
DENTIST
Dental and Genera!
X-RAY WORK
New Tecklenberg Bldg.
Phone Mad. 108 - - - Seward* Alaska
Aaron E. Rucker
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office In Benson Building
PHONE MADISON 114
Hugh Dougherty
REAL ESTATE AND FIRE
INSURANCE
AGENT FOR
Equitable Life Assurance
Society
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MADE DAILY
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SYLVIA’S
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