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Cordova, December 3
Returning from Port Wells at an
uary hour this morning, Dr, W; H.
Chase and Geo. Dooley brought news
of a new and rich strike of gafena
‘ .ore carrying high values in gold.
The. strike was made a day ot two
ago by a Montenegrin known only as
Mike, on his property on KtUtt rtve*
near Golden. The ledge ie reported
to be a large one. —
The doctor started a new creur of
fourmep at work on. the property-of
the Cordova Mining & Development
Co. Development work by the for:
mer crew left 700 tons of 'milling
ore of good values in sight and
ready to be stoped out. The old crew
also, Jn an open cut, exposed a vein
lib feet wide carrying good values.
COrdova. December 3
Among passengers sailing on the
f.teamer Mariposa from Valdes were
Delegate James Wlckersham enroute
to the national capital to take up
his official duties, and Judge F. M.
Brown of the U. S. district court,
who is going to California for a holi
day visit with relatives and friends.
Liquor dealers of the state ol
Washington have raised a fund
with which to fight ii^ the courts the
initiative prohibition law recently
adopted there.
University and school circles ol
Seattle are very much in an uproar
because of an order of the chief ol
police refusing a permit to continue
the bachelor Clujt dances. A special
investigator for the chief reported
he witnessed actions there more dis
graceful than occur at dances on the
Barbary Coast of San Francisco,
Club members have demanded a
hearing.
Cordova, Oecemner «
' Mushing from Koyukuk to Chitina
in 2*0 days of actual traveling time
with their dog team, F. J. McCloskey
ana Jos. Mathews, mine operators oi
the northern district, arrived in Cor
dova on the train from the interioi
this afternoon. This is considered
remarkably good time under existing
conditions, as the ground was bare
most of the distance until thes
reached the Copper River slope.
They beat the auto stage' from
Fairbanks to Chitina, not because
they traveled faster, but because the
auto broke down and was ten days
covering the distance. Their dogs
were left at Chitina and will be used
on tne return trip in March.
Messrs. McCFoskey and Mathews
are going outside on business. Thej
informed us that the output of the
Koyukuk district will opproximate
$250,000 this year. No hew-strikes
of importance had been made up tc
the time, they left, although good
pay had been uncovered on Wild
river.
I. H. Suphellen, with the Chitina
Cash Store, was a passenger on the
train from the interior this after
noon. He is out for a short vaca
tion and will go to Valdez and
Seward on the first boat.
Cordova, December 5
M. J. Morris, boilermaker at the
P railway shops, had his rebuilt motor
| ice-boat out for another trial on
Eyak lake Sunday. A lighter frame
than the one on which the aeroplane
motor -was first mounted enabled the
I skipper to ge,t considerable more
speed out of the craft than at the
first trial a week ago, from 30 to 35
miles an hour having been made on
the course from the lower end oi
the lake to the. island. A small
old-fashioned sailing ice-boat was
another attraction on the lake
yesterday, when at least half of tne
city’s population was out on skates
or watching the boats and skaters
Mr. and Mrs. F. K. Berch froir
Nelchina were among arrivals or
Sunday’s train from the interior
They are stopping at the Northern
Hotel and will go to Valdez on the
F first steamer. Mr. Berch informed
the Daily Alaskan that there had
not been any developments or dis
coveries in the Nelchina countrj
worthy of special mention. “You
A:an’t expect any real mining newt
from a country the principal pros
pects of which are mountain goats,
he said.
Cordova, December 8
The train from the interior made
a record trip today, arriving at
12:30, in five hours and 30 minutes
from Chitina, with Conductor Oscai
Larson manipulating the punch and
Engineer Courtney at the throttle.
Quick transfer of passengers and
mail to the Alameda was made.
, Among passengers from the west
ward on the steamer Alameda, ar
riving this morning, were Captain
Chris Goodmanson of the power
boat Silver Wave, which reached
Sand Point in distress November 22
twelve days from Nome, and 11 oi
his * passengers and comnanions
Among the latter were Frank Aid
rich, senator-elect, and James F
*A. * • '* '**
Daley,. representative, on their
to Jdneau to attend the next ses
sion Of the legislature. The Bilver
Wave, badly bettered by heavy aeae
which caused her to lose her pro
peller anti, damaged her rudder, anu'
scarred by drifting ice from the'
Yukon- which she passed through in.
the 1 early' part of ’the storm which.
camd>a«ar sending her and her pas-.'
itehJftrC to the bottom, was left at
Hand Point ion repairs. Capt. Good
manson and. hjs companions came to
Heward on the Dora and there trans
ferred to the Alameda.
; r, itye;!'*r rdugh weather oc
curred In ljerlpg 8ea, but the real*
4 ironbles ;ot :the party didn't begin.
UntU after - they had entered the
PsaSftC-where the propeller was lost4
and a small sail was used to bffng
the little erkft to Sand Point, after
several’larger ones had been carried
away by, the. gale. Upon reaching
shore in a blinding snow storm, the
discovery was made that the rudder
was hanging by one boittonfy, that
bolt probably being responsible for
the men reaching shore alive.
During the height of the storm,
Captain Goodmanson was tied to
the wheel to prevent being washed
overboard by the great seas which
occasionally broke over the 4jttle,
eripnled "gasser” of 30 tons meas
urement.
Other members of the party no4
already mentioned were.: Andy An
derson and H. P. Chandler, dredge
operators; M. T. Moran, Grand
Bend, Kans.; A. D. Chandler, Bos
ton; Frank Smith, Tom Connelly,
Kougrok; Chas. Murphy, T. Cassady
and Guy Kirchen.
The hull of the steamer Dora was
io badly injured when she went on
be rocks near Kodiak on her trip
.o the westward that she was ma«
.ng a foot of water an hour when
ohe returned to Seward last Satur
day. She has been beached at that
place for repairs, according to re
ports brought here by passengers on
the Alameda.
A. E. Props, out from the Kusku
iina and Kotslna districts for the
winter, informed the Daily Alaskan
that German capitalists, among
whom is a count who spent a por
tion of the summer there, have as
sured property owners that they
will elect copper matting furnaces
in the near future with sufficient
capacity to handle custom work in
addition to the tonnage from their
awn properties. The more promi
i uent properties are 12 to 20 miles
from the Copper River & North
western Railway, Strelna being the
nearest station.
I1 orty men have been employed in
the two districts during the past
season, as follows: On the, Hubbard
* Elliott properties, 16; Nugget
Creek, 8; Copper Mountain, 6:
doing individual assessment work,
10.
SEATTLE, Dec. —The number
of jobless men has become so great
.n the Puget Sound cities as to
cause the municipal authorities to
consider various means of providing i
sufficient work to enable those witn
Lamilies, at least, to earn sufficient
to maintain them. The old "Hotel
de Gink” has been revived here, and
is affording shelter for several hun
dred single men who have an organ
.zation for their mutual bejieitt, part
of the expenses being paid by the
city and the men in return doing
add jobs for the city.
The manager of the city employ
ment office at Everett reported at
least 1,000 men out of employment
there because Of the closing down
of mills and camps with the pros
pect of the number being doubled
before spring. The municipality
there is providing work on streets
for men with families.
State Senator J. E. Campbell will
introduce a bill in the legislature
designed to relieve the* statewide
condition of jobless men by calling
for an appropriation of $250,000 to
be utilized with discretion and care
by a committee to be named by the
governor.
BARROW, England, Dec. 8.—The
British steamship Vedra, from Port
Arthur, Texas, with a cargo of
gasoline, is ashore near here and
burning. Thirty-four members of
her crew perished because the lire
spread so rapidly they could not
reach the boats and. Jumping over
board, they were drowned.
Spruce creek, in the Atlin district,
■has taken on a new lease of life
and looks more like old times than
aver before, as there are more me"
varking and more developmen'
ork being done this winter than
''or many years. Ground that ha*
been abandoned has been taken ur
"nd new ground, is being opened ur
-M along the creek.
LATE IT TEWS
Mr. A. Jiide, of the Alaska Road
Commission;-who.with'ldr.; jspencei,
Atama Cra-n:andr other*!- have -been
trying ta locate and<atsk*-a new mud
safe trail to ShushSnna, returned
this iVeek- Sad report that success
crowned^ their efforts:' They located
and staked-a- tra,i which istartsas the
old one'-did on the 'Nlziad glacier,
then , going up the North for if! and
the Roha and joins the etoftt Nisina
glacier- trail: again i just beyond the
crevasses and rouga 16*.?: The mew
trail is an easy; smooth' grade, lvOttb
feet lower imslevation and eliminates
crevasse* and; rough; ieu* All hands
hare are very mueh.'3>lea**d at the
result, as tbi* means, ae jar. Side
says, loading up In McCarthy, .going
through to. Shushanna without any
relaying or changing: of loads, sav
ing-several days’ time for the trip
and making it, safe:
^Thanksgiving , wan very quietly
celebrated here .with no Thanksgiv
ing service to attend, nor opera,
nor even a picture show. A few
informal dinners were given to the
bachelors and would-be bachelors.
The restaurants, with their Tanks
giving "dinner like mother used to
make,” were well patronized. A
jolly sleighing party from Kfennecott
came down during the afternoon.
Arrivals on Tuesday’s train in
cluded Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Sheridan,
who intend making their home in
McCarthy for the winter.
Guests of the Golden Hotel during
♦he nast week included Max Altman,
A. Hide. Seward; Jas. Huessy. S. H.
Woodfman, Jas. Clark, A. Halladay,
Sam Rogers, W. H. Carsten, Chisana.
Nearly 200 Slavonians Have left
Juneau since the war began to take
up arms ior their country.
Atlin, risen from the ashes of the
fire of May 23, which destroyed 30
buildings with a loss of $100,000,
today Iooks more prosperous than
ever, ^notwithstanding the severe
msses sustained the business men
have nearly all rebuilt.
A holdup iu Juneau last Wednes
day evening, when J. M. Uiovanetti,
groceryman, lost $150, has resulted
in an order from the police depart
ment for every person “without
visible means of support’’ to “hit
the grit.” Several members of the
pink cuff fraternity did not wait for
the order, but emigrated the next
day after the robberey.
Work at the Juaiin mine near
Juneau, owned principally by Bel
gian capitalists, is to be resumed
soon. More than a million dollars
was subscribed last summe.r and de
posited in a Belgian bank for addi
tional development and equipment,
when the war broke out, the bank
officials moved and with the money
are traveling somewhere ahead of
the German advance and the mine
superintendent was compelled to
cease operations because of lack oi
funds.
a world recora-smasnmg run was
made by the. Canadian Klond.vke
Company’s large gold dredge No. 3.
working in the Eonanza basin, half
a mile from Dawson, for the week of
168 hours ending October 27. The
yardage was the largest ever han
dled by any of the thre.e dredges the
company has operating there. Ma
terial handled totaled for the. week
110,045 cubic yards.* The dredge is
the largest in the world, and there
fore claims the world’s record.
There are one. or two dredges of
similar size in the western states.
Number 3 had exceptionally favor
able conditions under which to
make, the splendid record, says the
Dawson News. The depth dug w7as
30 to 35 feet, with seven feet of
face exposed, the ground and grave!
thawed and bedrock soft.
The Seward Gateway Teportfr tha*
the Houston Dredging & Hydraulic
Company has changed its name to
that of the Alaska Gold Dredging
Company and under the new name
will Inaugurate extensive operations
in the spring.
More than 40 sled loads of rfeight
started over the Valdez trail for
Fairbanks one day last week follow
ing a light fall of snow.
Robert Biel, a show man in Daw
son in the early days, is given credit
in the Mining Age of October 3 of
bringing to the attention of the
Morgan-Guggenheim syndicate to the
rich Bonanza copper properties at
the head of the Copper Rtaer.
Lieutenant Glenn E. Edgerton.
engineer officer for the Alaska Road
Commission, has been promoted to
the rank of captain.
Two tons of gold quartz from thr
Grant Lake property. In the Kena
district, crushed at the Ellsworth
mill, returned the owners ?247,99
(■on. The owners will continue oper
ating all winter.
More than half a ton of mall T
Tditarod, Susitna. Knik and oth7'*
noints in that section has accum
lnted at Seward since the new sec
vice was commenced. The amount to
_ u ou ouou Uip is limited to 47o
pounds.
Auto stages on the Chitina-Fair
banks road are doing a big business.
Municipal operation of the Roya
Theater at Vancouver is contem
plated.-■
'.* The Fairbanks colony at the
Washington state university numhera
ID young men, and women. ,
J Business man: of r Fairbanks have
started a movement to: build a good
Foad: to the new Toiovana- district.;
' Valdei has distributed; pointed
material enumerating-a. number of
reasons why * the: railroad should
start from that pine*.:
The Yukon Council at Its last
meeting appropriated the sum of
p$,000 for the construction" of e
new, territorial assay office at/White
horse., ... . . jr .
A two-foot ledge- ot copper ore
was found by Frank Waskey, former
Delegate to Congress, while excavat
ing for a. cabin on the bank of the
Yukon at Marshak
The Canadian government has re
duced the tolls on press messages
from Vancouver to Dawson to one
half cent per word. The cut has been
made in order that the Northern
residents may he enabled to secure
complete telegraphic accounts of the
European war.
Statistics compiled by the Depart
ment of Agriculture show that
among the products of the Tanana
valley last summer were 700 tons of
potatoes and 300 hogs. One hundred
and twenty-five tons of potatoes
were imported, the home product
selling for 6 cents and the imported
tubers for 7 cents a pound.
The Fairbanks Times quotes Geo.
Wheeler as saying rich pay had been
found on his claim on Livingood
creek, No. 3 below discovery. The
pay runs |3 to $4 a foot for 9 feet
above bedrock; but from there to
the surface, approximately 20 feet,
gold is found In sufficient quantities
to make it profitable working.
While carrying mail from Kaltag
to Holy Cross, James Atchison, the
sourdough trader and mail con
tractor of the lower Yukon- river,
was drowned early in November.
His dogs having returned to Anvik
with their harness chewed and with
out the sled, an investigation was
made and the body of Atchison was
found near where the sled had
broken through the ice as he was
making a cutoff on the river. Ap
pearances indicated that he hung to
the handles of the sled and was
dragged some distance. The body
was found in eight feet of water a
short distance, below the open hole
J. W. Dawson, a passenger from
Seward for Seattle on the Alariposa,
will return in March with a force of
25 men and sawmill machinery for
the plant which he is to erect on the
Dawpon-Nutter property on Crow
Creek.
Tne sawmill at Ketchikan will be
shut down for three months in order
that improvements may be made to
the plant. The past season has be.en
the most prosperous in the history
of the enterprise.
Over in the Koyukuk country they
have changed their day of recreation
from Sunday to Wednesday, accord
ing to reports received from there,
says the Fairbanks Citizen. The rea
son for this change is that the en
forcement of the Sunday closing law
for saloons has prevented the min
ers from being able to go to town
and cash their dust on Sunday, so
another day for visitng town has
been chosen. Before the saloons
were closed on Sunday the miners of
the Koyukuk bad the habit of tak
ing their dust to town on that day
and cashing it. The only places
where the dust can be cashed there
are the saloons. There is no coin In
circulation in the Koyukuk country
and thus gold dust is the medium of
exchange.
The most extraordinary sled team
on record is now being trained at
Seward, says the Gate,way. It is
nothing less than a team of hears
which Joe MorrlB is busy preparing
to take the place of dogs. One of
the bears gives every indication of
being easily turned into a first class
malamute, but the other seems to
require more coaxing. The hears
have been hitched up several times
and are learing rapidly.
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