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VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 221:
SEWARD ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Alaska Bureau of Nines
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Carrying on Important
1 Work for Prospectors
COOPERATIVE MINERAL INVESTIGATIONS OF
UTMOST IMPORTANCE TO MINE OWNERS—
CORPS OF SKILLED ENGINEERS COLLECTING
AUTHENTIC INFORMATION ON ALL MINERAL
RESOURCES IN TERRITORY
DETAILED MAPS SENT WEBS WITH BUREAU'S STAMP
Four Years Results Gratifying, Announces B. D. Stewart,
Head of Alaska Bureau’s Activities—Now in Moose
Pass, Hope and Sunrise District Making Personal Ex
aminations of Properties
The work of the cooperative mining investigation
and inspection program between the Territory and the
Federal Geological Survey, in the minds of many Alas
* ''leans, has not been quite clear, so a few days ago, while B.
D. Stewart, supervising engineer of the survey, who
heads the cooperative work in the Territory, was in Sew
ard, he was asked by The Gateway for detail information
on his department’s activities.
Commenting on this work, Mr . Stewart said “My
idea has been to carry out the cooperative mineral investi
gations work in such a mariner as to do for Alaska’s min
eral resources, in the collection of authentic information
as to their nature, possible extent and availability, what
the Forest Service has done for Alaskan forests. In
this manner we are confident that our program will be of
very material value in building up the mining industry of
\ the territorv.”
TRAPPED MINERS ARE
' ALIVE. STATE BELIEF
WORKERS; HEAR TAPS
BIGHT VERY DISTINCT RAPS ARE
HEARD BY RESCUERS BUT
NOTHING SINCE
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IRONWOOD, Mich., Sept. 29. (£>)—
Some of the 43 trapped miners are
alive and on the eighth level. Work
ers heard them tapping on a pipe and
answered. They then heard eight dis
tinct raps which was repeated several
times. An attempt to communicate
by the telegraphers code failed. The
telegrapher hammered “Okeh, ques
tion mark,” a hundred times on the
pipe but no answer was received. Of
ficials say one miner knows the code.
THOU DISTURBANCE
NOTED IN PORT RICO
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. {IP)—'The
weather bureau said “Indications
noint to a tropical disturbance in cen
tral and several hundred miles north
of Porto Rico. The intensity is un
known but it is likely moving north
west or west northwest.”
VENTURA, Calif., Sept. 29. {IP)—An
ifarthquake, described as fairly stiff,
-tfas felt here at 9:49 o’clock this
morning.
I Examining Prospects
In 1924 and 1925, Mr. Stewart said
his bureau examined 135 prospects
and obtained definite information on
20 to- 30 districts. The department
has taken and assayed from those pros
pects about 275 samples and have fur
nished the owners with the results of
the assays, as well as maps of the
properties, which in many cases have
assisted the owners to a very large
extent in determining errors in the
work under way. For four years Mr.
Stewart has had this cooperative
work, the child of his brain, under
way and actual results are now show
ing, he said. Eventually his depart
ment will have a fund of information
at hand which will be of the highest
value to the Territory, information
which may be considered a supple
ment to the Geological Survey, show
ing the economic development of the
mineral resources.
Cites Instances of Work
Mr. Stewart cited just one case
from the four* engineers he has had in
the field the greater portion of the
present season, that of Gowey She
pard who in 30 cases assisted owners
of prospects, 'riiese cases are quite
plain when explained by Mr. Stewart.
During the survey of the districts be
ing covered, and they are embracing
all of Alaska, the engineer inspects
a certain property and sends in his
report to the Juneau office. There
the assays are made and maps of the
prospect made. These maps, stamped
with the endorsement of the Bureau
of Mines seal, and on which is con
tained all information regarding that
certain prospect, are in turn sent to
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TOM THUMB, WITH CHS
40 TEK, PUSSES M
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29. (IP)—
Darius Abner Alden, 84, who was
known as Tom Thumb, a 42-inch mid
get and for 40 years a circus side
show attraction, died today. His wid
ow, of the same height, survives him.
WATERMELON RIPE TO THE RIND
So say the watermelon fans in the above photo who are shown feasting
on the famous fruit which has just made its bow in the National Capital.
Blacks and white alike could give a good account of themselves when it
came to a watermelon contest which they put on while bathing in one of
the Capital’s pools. It looks a little like the “blacks” will win out.
II. S. OFFICIAL SMS
CIVIL SUIT RECOVER
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. (^—As
sistant Attorney General Ira is prose
cuting a government civil suit against
Joseph F. Guffey of Pittsburgh and
other former alien property officials,
for the recovery of more than five and
one-half million dollars from the sale
of the Bosch Magneto company’s
properties during wartime.
LIQUOR ENFORCEMENT
WANTS 111,100,001
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. (IF)—The
treasury has been asked for a $1,300,
000 prohibition appropriation for the
next fiscal year. Dry Czar Andrews
said this is no material increase over
the present. The Coast Guard and
Customs are the only departments
which have spent more for enforce
ment this year.
AMERICA ALMOST FADES
OUT OF COURT PICTURE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept 28. (/P).
—American entrance into the world
court almost faded out of the inter
national picture today following
President Coolidget’s disapproval of
the evasive manner in which the
powers have dealt with the senate
reservations.
ADMIRAL WATSON NORTHBOUND
SEATTLE, Sept. 29. (IF)—'The P. S.
S. Co. Admiral Watson sailed at 10
o’clock this morning for Alaska with
54 passengers.
BASEBALL RESULTS
AMERICAN—
The Washington-Philadelphia dou
bleheader was cancelled because of
rain and cold.
COAST—
Sacramento 13, Los Angeles 9.
Oakland 5, San Francisco 8.
Others called because of rain.
SEATTLE, Sept. 29. (£>)—'The World
Series starts October 2nd in New
York and continues there to October
3. The fifth, sixth and seventh
games will be played in St. Louis and
the concluding games in New York
on the ninth and tenth, if necessary.
SEME IMMIGRATION
• STATION IS ASSAILED
SEATTLE, Sept. 29. (^—Immigra
tion Weedin, declared the false bulk
of the charges of ill treatment in the
Detention station was made by four
Canadian youths in Vancouver. They
said they were confined in a poorly
ventilated room, 30 feet square with
40 others and given barely sufficient
food and that they were forced to
use bedding alive with vermin. They
escaped last Sunday, a week ago.
DEMPSEY HIS NO ALIBI,
LOST TO BETTER MIN
NEW YORK, Sept. 29. (^—Demp
sey said “I was sick after the fight
and not before. I don’t want any
sympathy and I have no alibi to make.
The wet ring was no handicap. The
only handicap I had was myself. I
lost to a better man, that’s all there
is to it.”
SUTHERLAND TALKS
AT CORDOVA; FAILS
ANSWER CHARGES
ACCORDED QUIET RESPECTFUL
HEARING; DEFENSE WEAK,
UNCONVINCING
(Special to The Gateway)
CORDOVA, Sept. 29.—Delegate Dan
Sutherland addressed a meeting at
the Empress theater last night and
was accorded a quiet and respectful
hearing. He made the same stereo
typed speech he delivered in Fair
banks, Anchorage and Seward and
: failed to answer directly the many
charges made against him, his defense
being weak and unconvincing. He
j devoted much of the speech to the
alleged fish trust and to reading of
the summerization of General But
ter's activities in Philadelphia. He
drew a round of laughter and but a
single burst of applause throughout
an hour and a half talk. Sutherland
leaves for Valdez Thursday and goe3
direct from there to Juneau.
ON NEW KODIAK ROAD,
REPORTS * L STOUT
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Among the recent arrivals in Sew
ard from the Westward was A. L.
Stout, wrho, during the past summer,
was connected with the Alaska Road
commission crew at Kodiak. Con
struction for the season has come to
a halt, Mr. Stout said, and two and
one-half miles of good road is now
completed. Indications point to the
completion of the project next year.
There are two roads out of the town
: of Kodiak, one of which is known as
Abbotts road and it is on this one
that the commission have been con
centrating their efforts for the past
few years.
Following along-the shore line rock
work has been encountered but this
season’s work saw the last of the rock
work for the summit has been reach
ed and from next spring on the work
iwill proceed with much more rapid
ity. J. R. Van Winkle, was the fore
man in charge. He and two other
members of the crew, James Bishop
and Jake Anderson, also arrived in
Seward with Mr. Stout.
FLIER IND LIMITED
CRUSH; NINE RILLED
BETHLEHEM, Pa., Sept. 28. (£>).—
Nine were reported killed and 35 in
jured when a Jersey central railroad
Scranton flyer plowed into a Lehigh
Valley raliroad Lehigh Limited at the
city cross-over all the killed and In
jured were in the third car of the
Limited which the Flyer locomotive
struck.
NO INTENTION REPLYING
BERLIN, Sept. 29. (jP)—Chancellor
Streesemann has no intention of
replying to Premier Poincare, the for
eign office said, “for Poincare has had
his say and the road which Briand
and Streesemann intend to travel is
clear.” .. *