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The Gold Fields-American Develop
ment. Company, a subsidiary of the
Consolidated Goldfields of South Af
k rica, one of the greatest of the
great mining companies long active
in mining in the southern part of
Africa, is the second big mining
concern that is seeking dredging
ground in the interior of Alaska. The
first is the Fairbanks Exploration
company, which is a merger of the
equities of the U. S. Smelting, Re
fining and Mining Company and the
Hamilton Consolidated Gold Fields
company.
The great English company now
in the field is represented by George j
S. Dwyer, a well known mining en
gineer, who is making his head
quarters in Fairbanks, having taken
the home recently vacated by Dr.
J. II. Romig.
When Mr. Dwyer entered the field
in the spring of this year, he ac
quired an option on a part of Fish
creek and explored it with drills.
It was found, however, that the hold
ings under option were not adequate
for the extensive operations planning
by the concern. So the options were
turned over to another English com
pany .that was not so ambitious as to
operations. As is well known to
those who have been following the
- mining activities in the Fairbanks
' district this season, the Fairbanks
Exploration Company has acquired,
through purchases in a few instances
and through options, in others, much
of the placer ground on the well
known producing creeks in the im
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mediate vicinity of Fairbanks. Hence,
there was no opportunity to acquire
a sufficient area of ground to mine
on a major scale.
The Gold Fields-American De
velopment Company is therefore
planning to explore placer ground,
which it has acquired, on the south
fork of the Chena river and on
tributaries running into that river.
These creeks include French, Alaska,
Wolf, Globe, Stewart and Beaver,
making in all a vast contiguous
holding. Next season this tract will
be drilled, according to recent ar
rivals in Seattle from Fairbanks.
The company now has a crew of
ten men employed in roadbuilding
on a road from the Salcha section
to their properties, and, with the
completion of this road supplies may
be transferred to the scene winter
or summer. The company is also
building comfortable cabins to house
the working force and new drills
are on the way from the Outside to
Fairbanks for exploration work to
be initiated. It is also stated that
this company has had scouts looking
over the Tolovana country.
Mr. Dwyer, in an interview in the
Fairbanks News-Miner, insists that
it must be broadcast that there is
no excuse, so far as his company is
concerned, for any stampede of
working men to the Fairbanks dis
trict. He stated that it is nothing
less than a crime to encourage work
ing men to come to the camp, when
there is nothing for them to do.
Prospecting work offers employment
to but comparatively few and for
that purpose there is enough in Fair
banks now. He says it annoys him
to see the working men coming
to the camp. Prospectors, he says,
in any number, have a chance in
Fairbanks, such as they have never
had for years, but a prospector
knows he lias to have the price of
an outfit, before he starts prospect
ing.
Adequate justification for the
building of the Alaska Railroad is
evidenced in the entry into interior
Alaska of the Fairbanks Exploration
company, the Gold Fields-American
Development Company and other
mining activities along the route.
Without transportation facilities such
as now provided, it would not have
been possible for the great compan
ies now there to enter the field. An
other helpful thing is the develop
ment of the coal fields, both *n the
Healy river region and in the Mata
nuska valley. If the exploration
work of these big companies stands
the rigid test that will be applied—
for the men doing the work know
their business—it is a safe prediction
that much more hidden gold will be
recovered than it took to build the
Alaska Railroad.
The Fairbanks Exploration Com
pany, under the direction of General
Manager Norman C. Stines, has com
pleted exploration work on Gold
stream creek and will soon be fin
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CONSTANTLY INCREASING
DEMANDS FOR GASOLINE
In a recent issue of the monthly
Standard oil bulletin, there are two
photographs of scenes in the Cold
Bay district. The first, a full page
picture, bears the following inscrip
tion: The quest for oil goes to the
far places of the world. Here sup
plies are being hauled to the com
pany’s wildcat well in Alaska 17
miles from the open beach which
serves as a port. The drilling in
Alaska has proved extraordinarily
difficult, and living conditions for
the men are severe.
A small half tone on another page
shows the transportation difficulties
in the region. The driver of * the
tractor is shown riding the hood of
his tractor in a snowstorm.
In a short paragraph the following
is noted with interested:
The tremendous development of
the automobile and the internal
combustion engine, and of the use
of oil for the creation of power, is
one of the most remarkable develop
ments in American history, but no
more remarkable than the accom
plishment of the oil industry in find
ing and maintaining a supply of
petroleum to meet the ever-increas
ing demand. At the moment there
appears to be more than enough oil
to meet the requirements of the
country; but the oil industry knows
that this is a passing condition, and
that sooner or later, unless new
fields are discovered, there will not
be sufficient oil to meet all demands.
It is the obligation of the oil indus
try to see to it that there will in the
future be no cessation in general in
dustry due to a lack of oil. Hence,
the constant search for new fields of
oil, not only in the United States,
but in every quarter of the world.
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