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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 558.
REWARD, ALASKA
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1930.
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AIRPLANES MAIL ROUTES,
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FOR GREAT DEVELOPMENT
CHAS. L. THOMPSON OF FAIRBANKS BELIEVES
NEW ERA TAKING FORM AND DECLARES
GOVERNMENT CAN NOW TAKE HAND IN
GAME BY SUPPORTING THE PLANE AS THE
PROSPECTOR’S BEST BET.
‘There are more prospectors in the hills this fall
than there have been for many years,” said Charles L.
Thompson of Fairbanks who just went thru Seward
on his way to the States.
“They are going in every direction from Fairbanks
and they are going farther because they go by air
plane and take their grubstakes with them. To my mind
it speaks wonders for the future of mining in the Ter
ritory.
“I am convinced that the fu
xure of Alaska depends more
upon the success of commercial
aviation than upon any other
agency and its incidental aid to
the prospector. I also know thru
mv connection with the aviation
game in Fairbanks for the past
- yvcrftF-'-years—that 4 ^ WffiTfifST ctarf
Eviation can only be made finan
e ialjy successful by the granting
of air mail contracts by the gov
ernment.
“The present companies are
spending thousands of do!’ trs to
tkmomtrTc their th.. : of
b big granted mail contracts.
Upon the decision of the gov
ernmet*.. in this ma ter. to a
: estent depends the imme
diate future growth a d opening
m of the Interior. Aviation is no
longer a luxury in Alaska, it is
a necessity.”
Mr. Thompson, who has been
one of the leading spirits of the
Interior for the past 25 years, in
business, mining, newspaper en
terprise and finally in aviation,
believes with the strong-hearted
conviction of every true Alaskan
that all these years of endeavor
to stimulate development of the
Territory are soon to bedr fruit.
He was one of a small company
■who organized the first aviation
company in Alaska. He is holder
of much potential placer acre
age in the Fairbanks fields as
well as “hard-rock” prospects.
After long application to busi
ness here, he intends wandering
around the States for a year,
partially on business but mostly
on pleasure. “I want to get a new
slant on the big things that I
know are coming up,” he said.
“I dislike to use again that old
refrain about the country not
having been scratched,” he con
tinued, “because it has been
scratched a lot. But it was like
the guy with one arm and no
fingers. There were plenty of
places he couldn’t reach. They
have new arms and new fingers
now. These new dredging experts,
after looking over what we did
with steam boilers and sluice
boxes in the old days, wonder
how we did it. They figure that
any ground just one-sixth as
good as we worked can now be
worked at a profit, and let me
tell you there is plenty of such
ground.
“There are propositions in the
air that may rival the importance
of the great Fairoanks Explora
tion Company project which is
certainly making good on the
-be si estimates of the engineers
who advised the great expendit
ure that started that company
going. North of Fairbanks on the
Yukon watershed in the Birch
Creek country plans are still for
mulating lor a great dredging
ins*.;:liation. There is another one
equally as big forming in anoth
* see ion out o, tile- immediate
Fairbanks area, but it is too early
to make any predictions regard
ing it, and my information is
ionfidential.
“In the Fairbanks area itself,
there have been some surprising
developments on Fairbanks creek.
They knew the gold was there
but it took the last man on the
, job to tell them how to find it
and they are finding plenty. All
! the smaller dredging companies
around Fairbanks are making
, good. There are a number more
I that will be starting. When your
, paper published that story about
I a ton of gold a week coming
i from the Fairbanks dredges dur
ing the past season you were
| not far off the mark.
| “Behind every placer camp
I there always looms the possibili
| ty of quartz,—the mother lode,
j Where dd it come from? From
what veins did those glaciers
rub that yellow stuff, and may
| not those veins still be there?
| In Fairbanks right now, that is
I a very lively question. We al
ready have some of those veins
and we are finding more of them
i all the time.
“Fairbanks as a placer camp
has already gone into history
and will shine for many years.
It is my conviction that she will
reach her greatest glory when
she becomes known as ‘Fair
banks, the great gold quartz
camp,’ because just as sure as
you are a foot high she will be
come a great hard-rock gold
producer. We already know we
have the goods. Its just a ques
tion of more development to
! find more of it.”
NO TflAGE OF LOST
FLIEOS FOONO FIOST
NEW SEARCH, PLANES
ALERT BAY, B. C., Nov., 24, (/P)
—The Canadian aviators Lieut.
Phinney and Flying Officer Dun
lop made a ilight yesterday near
Prince Rupert but found no trace
of Pilot Renehan.
Pilots W. J. Burrow and Harry
Blunt hopped off Sunday from
Smither’s for Telegraph Creek
to hunt for Burke. They were
accompanied by Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Lowe who expected to
proceed to Atlin.
The Mounted police are pre
paring to send a snow-shoe ex
pedition into the field.
Relief Pilot R. I. Van der Byl
and T. H. Cressy left Thutade
Lake November 12 but W. A.
Joerss. who flew the plane back
to Vancouver, could not take
off with the load so continued
on and sent Indians back to
■‘mush” out writh his comrades.
HIT SPEERS MEN
m pi.
\uJi
n lost aims
KECHTXAN, N v. 24. t/P -
Fresh mr: and machines moved
Into the No-th t > hunt for the
,x lost fliers.
U S. Navy p' ■ >s. piloted by
T ieut. C. F. Gr ■ r and Chief
like rician C'iauch' At mm In*.
md two other mm i: >m the
San Diego base, arrived here
‘.rom alert Bay a ,er a hard trip
and p or visibility.
They begin search at once for
Robin Renehan and companions
lost for nearly four weeks.
Planes piloted by W. J. Bar
rows and Harry Blunt, carrying
Edward Lowe. Jr., president of
the Pacific International Airways
; and Mrs. Lowe flew from Smither.
B. C„ and will go to Telegraph
Creek and Atlin to search for
Captain Burke and two com
i panions lost for six weeks.
BUSY FORMULATING
j
I
; LONDON, Nov., 24, (/P)—A se
vere gale swept the English Chan
nel and played havoc with shipp
ing. At least one vessel is known
to be in distress; the Greek SS
Triton which radioed an SOS
j call and flew distress signals
| three miles west of Portland.
Cruisers and government tugs
j went to the rescue of the Furi
I mus. At gale-swept Plymouth,
I incoming vessels reported tem
i petuous seas in the western
channel. High winds prevailed
over the southern coastal area.
Little hope is held that that
weather conditions will improve
for some days.
PLANES WING WAY
SEATTLE, Nov., 24, (AJ)—The
Navy’s amphibian planes left on
Saturday, with Greber in com
mand, flyng to Alert Bay where
they will contact the tug Swallow
which will be used as base. Eck
mann’s plane has been complete
ly overhauled.
LOS ANGELES, Nov., 24. HP)—
Sir Hubert Wilkins is here visit
ing. He said his submarine ex
pedition to the North Pole would
leave Spitzenbergen by July 1.
1931, for the purpose of estab
lishing meteorlogical station be
tween the North Pole and Alas
ka.
Such a station would extend
present knowledge of weather.
The former navy submarine 0-12
will be ready at New York Jan
uary 1 and will probably reach
i Boring: Sea September 1. going
out.
— -m .
COAST HOCKEY
[—SEATTLE. Nov.. 24. (?P)—Taco
ma 1, Seattle 0. Seattle was held
scoreless for the third success
ive game since the season opeend.
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F.OCKNE THE GREAT
EVANSTON. Nov.. 24. » P»—■
Notre Dame, heretofore unde
feated. or tied, won from the
lntherto unbeaten Northwestern
t7nm reity by the score of 14 to
0. F:; tv-one thousands specta
: tc' • attended.
WASHINGTON. Nov.. 24. {/re
construction of new federal
! buldings in Ketchikan, Anchor
age and Fairbanks is on the list
of recommendations by Governor
George A. Parks of Alaska in his
annual report made public here
i Saturday.
| Other recommendatons includ
i ed stationing a revenue cutter
| in Western Alaska to serve the
■ Prince William Sound area and
! the Alaska Peninsula district.
! Also, combining law enforce
! ment agencies under the depart
I ment of justice:
Stationing a squadron of Army
j airplanes in Interior Alaska.
DEFENDS GOLD
PARIS, Nov. 24. (/P)—George Ro
erts, American member of the
the League of Nations gold com
mittee defended the large gold ac
cumulations of France and the
United States pointing out that
| they were not the outcome of any
scheme of economic hegemony
I but are as a result of a general
disturbance of the world’s finan
cial equilibrium.
STILL T
FUSE FAILED TO BURN; SEC
OND ATTEMPT IN THREE
YEARS
SPOKANE, Nov., 24, </P>—
Starch for the author of the
second attempt to bomb the
Cowles Publishing Co. in three
years spread from Washington
into California and Oregon on
information that a steamer
trunk ihg timing appar
atus -c p to 200 sticks of
dynamite, might have been from
San Francisco, Portland or Seat
tle.
The trunk was delivered yes
terday to the Associated Press of
fice in the building. After six
hours Cleveland Williams, UP)
correspondent, with locksmith
experts, opened the trunk and
found the bomb which had been
set for 4 p. m. but rough hand
ling apparently' had jarred loose
the wires.
The b^mb was powerful enuf
to nave * wrecked both the
Spokesman Review and Chron
icle buildings. In July. 1927, a
bomb was placed in the doorway
of the Spokesman Review but
the fuse refused to burn.
PARIS. Nov., 24, l-P)—A heavy
rain forced the Seine, already
nearly out of it’s banks, up 19
inches seriously endangering a
large section of Paris and threat
ened to make the road from Par
is to Fountain Blain impassa
ble before the night.
Twelve families were homeless
at Savigny Surorge; the towns of
Perreuy. Nogent and Boissy St.
Leger were under water. The
Marne is completely flooded and
families have been driven from
homes.
Telephonic communication is
broken; navigation on the Seine
to Paris has stopped. The water
is so high that tugs are unable
to pass under bridges.
CHAS. MARKHAM DIES
LOUISVILLE, Ky„ Nov., 24, (JP)
—The death of Charles Mark
ham, chairman of the board of
the Illinois Central Railroad,
near Los Angeles, was announc
ed here today.
“UNTOUCHABLES" THROW IN
LONDON, Nov. 24. (/P) —Bjimrao
Ramji Ambedkar, representing
India’s “Untouchables” threw in
his lot with the rest of India in
declaring that the’ lowest caste
woult rather act under the rule of
Indian Princes than British. Be
gum Sah Nawaz, woman Indian
delegate, also spoke in behalf of
home rule
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