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TOKIO, Jan. 6. (£>)—'Th destruc
tion of Yokohama by the 1923 earth
quake drove many foreigners from
that port. There were hut a few
hundred left after the caitastrophy.
The progress of construction work,
however, caused many to return, and
at the end of October it was esti
mated there were more than 3,500
foreigners living in Yokohama. This
is less than one-half of the number
who resided there at the time of
th eearthquake.
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SEWARD LODGE NO. 1425, L.O.O.M.
Meets every first
and third Tues
day eaoh month
at 8 p. m., at
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Hall. All visit
i n g members
^. welcome.
PETER N. ANDERSON, Dictator.
M. A. HORNER. Secretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
A Stated communications first
"Voy and third Wednesdays of each
/\r\ month; visiting brethren wel
come, H. V. Hoben, W. M.; Elwyn
Swetmann, Secretary.
-RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
—===_ Meets every Thursday at
8:00 p. m. in Odd Fellows’
Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
brothers welcome. Fred Martinides,
N. G.; Chas. Lechner, Secretary.
IGLOO NO. NINE, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA
Meets every Second and Fourth Fri
day nights in Odd Fellows Hall; F. B.
Moore, President; C. M. Brosius, Sec
retary.
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER
OF EASTERN STAR
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fourth Mondays of each
month in Odd Fellows’
Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
come; Dorothy Urbach,
Sweek, Secretary.
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I. O. O. F.
Meets the first and
third Mondays of
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W. M.; E. L.
ADVANCE REPORT
ALASKA MINING
ACTIVITY 1925
INCREASE IN THE TOTAL VALUE
OF THE OUTPUT OF MINER
ALS—COAL DECREASES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 6. (JP)—
The Department of the Interior an
nounces, through advance statements
prepared by the Geological Survey,
that mines in Alaska produced min
erals to the value of $17,850,000 in
1925, as against $17,457,333 in 1924.
The total value of the mineral out
put of Alaska since 1880 is nearly
$553,000,000. The figures for 1925,
which are estimates and subject to
revision, are taken from the Survey’s
annual report on the mineral resour
ces of Alaska, now in preparation.
The source of this mineral wealth is
approximately as follows:
Value of mineral output of Alaska
gold and coal, but these decreases j
are ibeleved to have been of only
temporary significance and do not at
all indicate a permanent decline. In
fact, throughout the Territory there
were unmistakable signs that many
of the operators were putting their
properties in a more efficient condi
tion and that people with capital
were seeking opportunity for invest
ment in large operations of stability
rather than in projects that would
be quickly worked out or in specula
tive mining ventures. The influence
of improved mining methods and lar
ger-scale operations have already
begun to yield results at some of
the mines, and further effects are to
be expected in 1926, though it may
still be several years before all the
projects now under way wall be sig
nificantly reflected by a notable in
crease of production.
There are still large areas in Al
aska that have not been adequately
prospected, and many promising pro
perties are now lying idle, because of'
lack of capital for the necessary
equipment. The shortage of enter
prsing prospectors is a serious draw
in 1924 and 1925.
Gold _:_-_ $6,285,724
Copper ___ 9,703,721
Silver _ 448,659
Coal __------- 559,980
Other minerals, (lead, petroleum, marbel, tin,
gypsum, platinum, etc) ____ 459,249
$ 6,150,000.
10,350,000
475.000
375.000
500.000
Total
$17,457,333
$17,850,000
General Conditions. I
On the whole, the condition of the
mineral industry of Alaska in 1925
showed improvement over the pre
ceding year. It is true that there
was a decrease in the production of
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iback that has resulted because wages
for comparable work are actually
lower in Alaska than in the States,
though expenses are higher. As a
result Alaska can not attract or hold
the class of prospectors it formerly
did. The need of capital grows more
pressing as more extensive equipment
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asked for relatively little developed
prospeots are materially abated.
Gold and Sifiver Lodes.
The most notable development at
any of the gold lode mines during
the year -was the enormous amount
of ore handled by the Alaska Juneau
'Co., in the Juneau district, in south
eastern Alaska, which during some
months exceeded a rate of 10,000 tons
a day. Work on the addition to this
company's mill has proceeded thru
out the year and is now more than
two-thirds finished. Increased pro
duction was also reported by the
three gold mines on Chichagof Is
land. In the Hyder district, several
of the mines or prospects made test
shipments ranging from 1 to 10 tons
or more the amounts of gold and sil
ver from which have been encourag
ing. In Kenai Peninsula and ad
jacent regions some gold has been
obtained from the lodes at Nuka Bay
and south of Hope. The mines in
the Willow Creek district have con
tinued to be productive, and the
greatest increase was made at the
Fern mine, on Archangel Creek. In
the Fairbanks region the Mohawk
mine, on Ester Dome, and the Crites
Feldman property, on a tributary of
Fairbanks Creek, yielded the great
est amount of gold, but interest in
prospecting for lodes in several oth
er places has been stimulated. A
small mill was completed ak the Wy
oming mine, on Bedrock Creek.
In addition to the silver-lead prop
erties in the Hyder and Kantishna
districts, silver lode prospects have
been reponted in the vicinity of
•Skagway, near the international boun
dary, and development work has con
tinued on the silver-lead vein east
of Wrangell. Considerable silver
is also recovered from the copper
ores—in fact, these ores still continue
>to be the largest source of silver
produced in the Territory.
Gold Placers.
There was a decided falling off in
the amount of gold recovered from
the Alaska placers during 1925. The
only camps where marked increases
were reported are the Yentna dis
trict; the Gincle, Tolovana, and Koy
ukuk districts, in the Yukon-Tanana
region; and the Fairhaven district,
in Seward Peninsula. Some of the
decrease is attributable to dry weath
er in the early part of the season
and floods in the fall. The decrease
in the Fairbanks and Nome distracts,
however, was in part due to tihe
fact that large companies wrhich had
recently acquired extensive tracts in
both there districts were busy with
preparatory work and were not ready
lo produce. This was especially true
in the Fairbanks district, where the
Fairbanks Exploration Company,
which had acquired large areas that
had been formerly worked by a num
ber of small operators, spent most of
the season in stripping a large part
of the valley of Coldstream Creek,
building ditches and test drilling
iRr*o so that s'JOasqi*:: ml'
ing could be based upon sound in
formation and thus conducted with
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the Nome district extensive experi
mentation in the thawing Of frozen
ground in advance of dredging tied
up two of the large dredges, so that
it was liate in the season before they
were operatin to capacity.
According to preliminary estimates
the 24 dredges in operation in Alas
ka in 1925 produced gold valued at
about $1,470,000, or about $100,000
less than in 1924. The largest de
crease was in the Yentna, Fairbanks,
and Gircle districts. The new dredge
of the Tanana Valley Gold Dredging
Co., on Fish Creek, in the Fairbanks
district, was not completed in time
to be in active operation during the
year.
Copper.
In 1925, as in other years, the out
put of copper was largely made by
the Kenmecott, Mother Lode, and
Green Butte mines, in the Copper
River region, and tihe Beatson mine,
on Latouche Island. The total pro
duction from these properties in 1925
was slightly larger than in 1924, but
most of the increase indicated in the
foregoing estimate is largely attri
butable to the higher price of cop
per. In southeastern Alaska, some
production of copper was reported
from the mine of the Alaska Palla
dium Co., on Kasaan Peninsula, Prince
of Wales Island, but the most valu
able product from this mine was pal
ladium, one of the group of platinum
metals. Prospecting for copper lodes
in the Copper River region, other
than in the vicinity of Kennecott,
and in the Prince William Sound re
gion, other than at Latouche, was
practically at a standstill, though in
both these regions copper mining
and prospecting had been active in
the past.
Coal.
The production of coal showed a
considerable decrease for the year.
The outlook, however, for an in
creased production in 1926, if suit
able markets are found, is exceed
ingly good. In the Matanuska field
the Evan Jones mine, the largest pro
ducer, was completely closed down
for three months to make necessary
changes and alterations, and after
it was reopened in August operations
were not at once resumed on as large
a scale as formerly. Furthermore,
one of the former .producers in the
Moose Creek field became involved
in certain legal difficulties, and as
a result its output was reduced.
Serious floods in September inter
rupted traffic on the Moose Creek
spur and delayed the co'mpletion of
an extension of the railroad to the
mines farther up the creek which had
ben well under way earlier in the
summer.
In the Healy River field much of
the open season was spent at the
Sun tram a mine in building a new tip
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