NEW MINING
CAMP IN NEVADA
GOOD. SAYS STONE
NUMBER OF ALASKANS WAITING
FOR HOLIDAYS TO END
GOING TO LEADFIELD
Bernard M. Stone, Alaskan news
paper man, who published the Sew
ard paper for some time, but of more
recent date, of Anchorage, and who
passed through Seward a few months
ago accompanied by Mrs. Stone, writes
the Gateway the following letter from
San Francisco:
“Well, here we are, a bunch of Al
askans, in San Francisco just waiting
until Christmas holidays are over and
then we start for the scene of the big
silver-lead strike in the new mining
camp of Leadfield, located in the Inyo
country, Nevada, on the eastern slope
of the Grapevine range of mountains
and twenty-two miles west of Beatty,
Nevada.
“All one hears now amongst the Al
askans in San Francisco is ‘Are you
going to the big silver-lead strike at
Leadfield?’ And they are going, be
lieve me. Joe Conroy, Gus Borgen
and myself leave here right after
Christmas. Scotty Allen has been on
the ground the past few weeks and is
in charge of the townsite property of
the Western Lead Mines Company.
Scotty is very enthusiastic over the
future outlook.
“The Nevada newspapers all speak
very highly of the immense bodies of
ore that have been uncovered in the
new camp across the line.
“Silver-lead ore in veins rangting
from 12 to 60 feet have been opened
at a number of points in the new min
ing district and a great silver-lead
camp is now in the making. In fact
mining engineers who have visited
the scene of the strike report that it
is one of the largest discoveries of
lead and silver that has been made
in the past fifty years.
“Following the original find, the
Western Lead Mines Company, a
close corporation, was organized by
iJolin Salsberry, who has been engag
| ed for a number of years in mining i
[and cattle raising in Southern Nevada,
Jake Berger, prominent Alaska miner
and W. E. Staunton of San Francisco.
This company was the first active
company to invade the district with
a comprehensive campaign of develop
ment, and has uncovered a tremen
dous body of ore. Eight veins car
rying great deposits of silver-lead ore
arer exposed on the claims the veins
varying from 12 to 60 feet in width
and carrying values of from $30 to
over $100 to the ton, in lead and sil
ver.”
“A compressor plant has been in
• stalled on the property of the West
t ern Lead Mines Company, and other
J machinery, including a mill, will very
| shortly be installed,
j A deal for control in the Western
Lead Mines Company was recently
consumated, C. J. Julian purchasing
the controlling interest.
“Several large companies besides
the Western Lead Mines Company are
already in the Leadfield district and
four miles of country has been open
ed up, uncovering ore going from $30
to $40 a ton. Frank Berry, brother
of Clarence Berry, recently purchased
tha property adjoining the Western
Lead Mines, and is a present working
on a large body of ore.
“Professor Bruce L. Clark, of the
University of California, who visited
the property of the Western Lead
Mines Company last November and
who is paying the district a second
visit, stated in a report that he had no
hesitancy in recommending the prop
erty for extensive development, and
that he had already seen enough ore
I to recommend the installation of a
mill on the company’s property. He
stated further that the future of the
j
field looked very bright to him. Chas.
D. Wilkison, mining engineer of Gold
field, says it is one of the few propo
sitions he has seen which he feels no
hesitation in recommending for de
velopment on a large scale; while I.
Judson Coe, consulting engineer, San
Francisco reports the formation right
for lead ores and states therfe is a
large quantity of ore in the outcrop
ping covering a wide area. The ore,
he says, is easily concentrated and
large masses of shipping ore can be
easily developed.
“Goldfield, Nevada, people who have
visited the camp and are in San Fran
cisco for the Christmas holidays, say
that the time is ripe for a booming
silver-lead district because of the high
price of both metals, and they say
that Leadfield is going to be the dis
trict. The official survey of the new
townsite has been completed, and
work on the road from Beatty to the
new camp is under way. It is stat
ed that town lots are selling on the
main business streets for $250 each,
and numerous sales have been record
ed.
“I will be on the ground myself
next week and after going over the
properties will write you more fully
reparding the latest silver-lead camp
and what is doing there.
If anything of interest to Alaskans
should drop across my path will send
you a few lines for your daily paper.
Would appreciate a copy occasionally
at the address at head of letter. Have
not seen a Gateway since leaving the
country. Will send you my new ad
dress from the new’ camp after I ar
rive there. It is just possible, from
the appearances of things at present,
that I will have a newspaper plant in
there very shortly, and if so will put
you on the exchange list.
“Hoping these few’ lines find you all
w’ell and happy and with season’s
greetings to you and yours and the
members of the Sew’ard Gateway staff,
w hich of course includes Harry Hoben,
Bernard M. Stone.”
POLITICIAN holding forth the exploitation of the salmon fisheries by the
wj cannerymen of Alaska may tell his constituency that these reprehensible
iCl gentry are taking some $35,000,000 annually from the resources of that
territory. With no definite ^formation to the contrary nothing is more
natural than that his audience should believe the statement.
Figuring on the basis of an average case of salmon, that is, averaging all districts;
and all grades, and basing the figures on the cost records of several concerns, the»
following is the ratio of cost chargeable to the various items which enter into thei
cost of a case of salmon at the distribution point ready for the market:
Fish 27%, salt labels and lacquer 2%, cans 25%, box shooks 5%, cannery labor
25%, fuel and oil 2%, freight 7%, insurance 4%, taxes 3%. It will be noted that
the figures given include no charge for depreciation although the rate of depreciation
on Alaska canneries is extremely high.
In considering these figures the most striking fact is that but 27 % of the value of the
product is taken from Alaskan resources in the form of fish, A considerable portion
of the amount thus represented is returned to inhabitants of Alaska as wages, a
large sum is returned in taxes, a further sum is expended in the merchandising
institutions of the territory, wherever possible the 5% of the total cost chargeable
to boxes is expended for shooks made in Alaska’s mills, and when the season is over
a far greater total has been left in Alaska through the industry than has been taken
from her waters.
The approximately 40 cents average per case chargeable to transportation cost furn
ishes a revenue which makes better steamship service possible and the presence of,
the cannery brings transportation facilities to many an isolated point. The canneries
take from Alaska approximately one dollar and forty-five cents worth of fish in each
case of salmon packed—not only do they more than return this amount to Alaska,
but it should be further remembered that these fish are worth $1.45 only by virtue
of the presence of the cannery.
7b get a proper slant on the situation— Think
of Alaska without a canning industry.
The Canning Industry of Alaska
'Charles Jensen, supt. of the local
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.’s
plant, who is spending his annual
vacation with his family in West Se
attle, is expected to leave Seattle
'for Seward, January 9, according to
recent advices.
Wolf Simon, Anchorage clothier,
passed thru town Saturday on his
way to the States on a visit which
he expected would end in a couple of
months. He has closed his store for
tihe remainder of the winter, it is
stated.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ericksen, resi
dents at Jonesville for some months
past, arrived in Seward last Satur
day en route to the States where Mr.
Ericksen will undergo special treat
ment. Mr. Ericksen was formerly a
fireman in the service of the Alas
ka Railroad but of more recent date
he has been employed in a like capa
city by the Evan Jones Coal Company
at Jonesville. They anticipate re
turning north in a fetf months.«
The majority of members of Jimmy
Scimmi’s Moose Pass road crew
which has been in Seward over the
holidays left this morning for Anch
orage. Those who remained here
plan staying until the spring work
opens up.
TODAY'S WEATHER
Temperation, 38 above.
Cloudy, calm, rain.
A hen presented to Roibert Gilett
of Tenterden, Eng., on his 12th birth
day has laid 303 eggs in 303 days.
OSTOGENARIAN MAKES LIVING
AS INSTRUCTOR IN SWIMMING
TACOMA, Wn„ Jan. 4. T.
Richards, 80, has a reputation of be
ing able to teach swimming to any
one old enough to get in the water.
“Dad,” as he is knowrn, has been
swimming whenever he desired for
70 years. He is now instructor at
the municipal saltwater natatorium.
He makes a specialty of teaching
children. He says girls make the
best swimmers.
LONDON FINDS OTHER THAN
BEAUTY IN U. S. FILM STAR
LONDON, Jan. 4. (JP)—Audiences
were surprised to see in Betty Blythe
a motion picture actress, one who was
THE PALACE
John Mattich, Prop.
POOL, SOFT DRINKS AND
CIGARS
Furnished Rooms
Phone Main 55
CHRIS’ PLACE
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
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not only beautiful, but who could
sing well, tell stories and make
speeches. Miss Blythe’s personal ap
pearance here was a triumph.
Edith Day, Dorothy Dickson, Lu
cill Lavergne and Tallulah Bankhead,
are other American actresses whose
names are in the electric signs over
London theaters which are having
successful runs.
STREET MARKET FOR
STAGE FOLK SERVES
THEATERS OF WORLD
NEW YORK, Jan. 4. (/P)—With
the exception of the 3,000 stage folk
who during a season play New York
and actually are in touch with their
managers, 37,000 others who are sent
from here to many parts of the world,
depend more or less on the “corner
gangs,” as the police dub them.
Every casting agent, the percentage
man, maintains an .office— a place
where mail may be addressed and
where dead photographs mav be
stored to await the final cleaning out.
So when the police threatened to ar
rest loiterers on Boardway it affect
ed many “types” who wait at pres
cribed places for appointments.
Dr. J. A. Baughman
Physioian 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
SEWARD, ALASKA
SEE
Curtis R. Morford
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
Dr. A. R. Roberts
DENTIST
Dental and General
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
TELEPHONES
Bus. Adams 152 Res., Madison 58
Gas Launch
KENAI
FISHING AND HUNTING
PARTIES CARRIED DOWN
LAKE KENAI FOR THE
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TO MILE TWENTY
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MADE DAILY
HIGH GRADE
Candies
FRAMED PICTURES, CURIOS
AND PHOTOGRAPHS
SYLVIA'S
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