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(From Monday’s Cordova Alaskan.)
Charles Hawkins, who spent some
time in Shushanna has returned to
Cordova and will await news from
his partners who are still at the
diggings. Speaking of the trail
from McCarthy to Shushanna he de
clares it was in the finest possible
condition when he cave over, hav
ing traveled from the diggings in 41
hours actual travelling time. He
says there are plenty of knockers
against the trail and camp but that
neither is justified. The trail Is the
best he has ever seen in Alaska and
the camp is slowly developing and
is a promising district for pros
pectors.
He reports plenty of provisions in
the camp and states that prices
were still being held at 35 and 40
cents per pound for staples. Sev
eral new arrivals, who had become
discouraged by the reports had sold
their outfits at 35 cents per pound
but the stores were charging from
40 to 50 cents per pound. He
states that the White Pass people
are starting a town on Bonanza
creek, near James’ discovery. They
were erecting buildings and getting
ready for the reception of their
goods which were reported to be
within 30 miles of the diggings
when Mr. Hawkins left. It was re
ported that the goods stood the
Wlhite Pass 35 cents per pound with
the worst part of the road before
them.
As an indication of the feasibility
of the McCarthy route over all
others Mr. Hawkins states that min
ers on Hosfeld creek, a tributary of
the White on the Canadian side of
the line were coming to Shushanna
for their outfits. The miners on j
that creek have been unable to
reach bedrock on account of water I
but have been finding promising
prospects on rimrock and believe
that when they are able to opencut
the ground next summer they will
strike it rich.
Claim jumping has been promls- j
cuous ever since January 1, and j
has been responsible for tying up ,
much of the most promising j
ground in the district. Despite
adverse conditions under which
miners have been working during
the winter, pay has been located on
several creeks and he believes the
camp will produce considerable gold
next summer.
C. F. Boggs, who conducts the
Glacier roadhouse, 23 miles from
Shushanna diggings on the Me-,
Carthy-Shushanna trail has written I
an interesting letter to the Daily
Alaskan. He says that during the
past month the weather has been
exceptionally fine, only two days
being stormy. No fatalities oc
curred on the trail nor were any
horses lost.
The location of the Glacier road
house enables Mr. Boggs to keep
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count of the travellers to and from
the diggings. He reports that during
January 57 men and two women,
with 13 dog teams and 31 double
enders passed his place bound for
Shushanna. During the month
there were 62 men, two women,
seven dog teams, 43 double enders,
and eleven head of loose horses
came out. The mail and express
have traveled on time, making two
trips each way during the month.
George Williams, Yukon council
lor, who recently returned to Daw
son from Shushanna has the follow
ing to say in reference to conditions
in the new camp:
' Since so much water has been
struck by those sinking, a Keystone
or an Empire drill would be a great
thing for the camp. O’Brien,
Powell, Wilson and Johnson creeks
have been found to carry water to
( such an extent the prospectors were
defeated from getting to bedrock.
Some have very wide, fine valleys
and look enticing to the prospector.
Johnson has a high cut bank and
the gravel is said to be such as a
dredge could handle. The district
is said to be free of boulders. One
man is said to have struck water
sinking on Caribou pass.
“Few wood fires will be run this
winter, it seems, as there is no hay
and no horses in the camp for
freighting the wood from the tim
ber belt to the bare portions of the
camp.
“Many of the old-time Klondikers
are in the Shushanna. Some who
left here years ago down on their
luck, and went through the lower
camps, are there, hopeful as eve".
And a fine lot they are, all workers,
and with hearts big as an ox’s. All
greeted me warmly, always put up
the best meal they could, and would
have no cash.' Mountain sheep and
other game is plentiful.”
A telegram received by the Fair
banks News-Miner, from Tom Lewis,
the moving picture photographer
who is returning to Fairbanks, via
| Chitina, from a trip to Shushanna,
states that Jim Hagen and partners
found pay on Big Eldorado creek
and were taking out 30-cent pans.
They are also prospecting on Gold
Hill.
The many prospectors and stam
peders who left Fairbanks last sum
mer for the Shushanna, but who
stopped along the Tanana river and
its tributaries to look for gold, are
meeting with some degree of suc
cess, if reports be true. Frank
Lamson says that he heard several
reports along the trail that a strike
had been made on the Big Greschel,
but he was unable to learn who
had made the discovery. Accord
ing to the musher, several of the
roadhouse men had informed him
that travelers from the upper river
had brought meager accounts of
someone finding good pay, but no
definite information could be ob
tained.
The most alluring and preposter
ous statements made in connection
with the Shushanna are contained
in “The Trust Company Magazine,”
issued by the Etna Trust & Invest
ment Company, Vancouver, B. C., a
corporation organized to exploit the
new diggings, and selling stock of
the Shushanna Mining & Trading
Company. So ridiculous are some
of the claims made for the new
country that they should not fool
anyone and the unsuspecting public
is very gullible indeed, if it swal
lows all the bait offered by this con
cern. Shushanna is proclaimed a
second Dawson, with millions and
millions in gold simply awaiting the
turn of a shovel. The company's j
promoters speak of taking in a
$500,000 stock of merchandise to
be sold within a year at profits of
from 200 to 500 per cent. Such a
tiling is out of the question entirely,
for although the Shushanna will
make a camp big enough to give a
creditable account of itself in time,
fgrtunes are not going to be made
in a fortnight nor $500,000 stocks
of goods disposed of for $2,500,000,
and those who do not want to be
fleeced will investigate further be
fore putting up cold cash for stock
certificates issued by those who so
recklessly handle the truth.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., *Feb. 16.—
Private Clarence L. George, of the
Army Signal Corps, who has been
serving a sentence in Fort Leaven
worth, Kan., has been pardoned by
President Wilson. George was con
victed of embezzlement while serv
ing in interior Alaska. While serv
ing his sentence he wrote to Presi
dent Wilson’s private secretary,
Tumulty, criticising his superior
officers. The letters never reached
Tumulty, but were opened by the
prison officials and sent to his com
manding officers who courtmartialed
him for breach of discipline and
sentenced him to serve one more
year. George has served four
months of the time and when the
circumstances were explained to
President Wilson he wrote on a
memorandum with pencil “par
doned with pay. W. W.”
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The number of unemployed men
in Juneau is getting to be a serious
matter. The chief of police states
that there are fully 500 idle men
who would gladly work but there is
nothing for them to do. Every boat
arriving brings more men and as
many of them have only just
enough to pay their fares, they are
unable to move to other camps. The
hotels are crowded and there is
not an empty room in the town.
To make conditions worse the
Alaska-Gastineau company was com
pelled to lay off a part of their
crew owing to lack of power t®
operate the compressors. When
the Solomon creek reservoir is com
pleted they will increase their
force by 300 men.
Captain Whorf, the owner of the
coal mines near Port Graham, who
is now in the states has been called
to Washington at request of govern
ment officials. It is believed in
Seattle that he will be requested to
bid on the coal necessary for the
government to use in constructing
a trunk line to the coal fields.
Whorf enjoys the unique distinc
tion of having the only regularlv
operated coal mine in Alaska. He
has greatly improved the shipping
facilities and is prepared to operate
on a large scale.
OF GENERAL INFORMATION
An executive order uas been is
sued from the White House which
nullifies the order of March 2$,
1911, withdrawing mineral and hot
springs in Alaska from entry and
restoring the 'land surrounding the
springs to the domain of the Na
tional Forestry department. The
new order will have the effect cf
making the lands subject to entry
under the homestead laws. Follow
ing is the order:
Under authority of the Act of
Congress entitled “An Act to auth
orize the president of the United
States to make withdrawals of pub
lic lands in certain cases,” approved
June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 847) as
amended by the Act of Congress of
August 24, 1912 (37 Stat., 497), it
Is hereby ordered that the Executive
Order dated March 28, 1911, with
drawing “all tracts of public lands
in the District of Alaska upon which
hot springs, or other springs, the
waters of which possess curative
medicinal properties, are located, to
the extent of 160 acres surrounding
each spring, in rectangular form
with side and end lines equidistant,
as near as may be, from such
spring or group of springs,” be re
voked so far as it applies to lands
within national forests.
(Signed) WOODROW -WILSON.
The White House, Jan. 24, 1914.
The mines on Douglas Island
known locally as the Treadwell
mines, but listed in the Mining
Journal as the Alaska Treadwell,
Alaska Mexican and Alaska United,
paid big dividends during the year
1913.
The Alaska Treadwell, which is
capitalized at $5,000,000, paid divi
dends of $1,000,000 in 1913, mak
ing a total dividends of $13,785,000
to date.
The Alaska Mexican, capitalized
at $900,000, paid dividends of
$180,000 for the year, making a
total dividends of $3,273,381 paid
to date.
The Alaska United, which oper
ates the Ready Bullion and 700
mines, is forging ahead as a divi
dend payer as it is capitalized at
$901,000 and paid $414,460 divi
dends in 1913, and a total of
$1,576,750 to date.
In his annual report as president
of the Alaska Road Commission
Colonel W. P. Richardson makes the
following proposed distribution of
the $7,250,000 which he asks
Congress for expenditure of a wagon
road system in Alaska:
Maintenance of the pres
ent roads .$1,250,000
Completion of projects
already undertaken and
their maintenance... 1,4200,,000
Projects approved but
not begun. 2,780,000
Projects not yet impor
tant but which will
develop as other roads
are built . 1,800,000
Total .$7,250,000
Speaking of the proposed Alaska
railroad, Col. Richardson says It
will be useless unless wagon roads
are provided as feeders. He says:
“Our board specifically disavows
any intent to set forth views in
opposition or discouragement to
railroad construction in the terri
tory under proper limitations, but
after several years of careful obser
vation and study of the land trans
portation conditions and of the
natural inducements to develop and
to settlement which exist, is con
vincetj that no rapid or general de
velopment will follow the construc
tion of trunk lines or railroad un
less preceded or accompanied by the
construction of numerous wagon
roads and trails as feeders, i:nd
even then the development will be
slow.”
John L. Steele, who Is in Seattle
attending the hearing of the coal
cases there says he is still in the
field as available material for dele
gate to congress. Mr. Steel has
some valuable oil holdings in Okla
homa. He says the indications
there are no better than found
around Katalla, but the operators
have not had the Pinchot blight
applied to them.
0. ADRIAN NELSON
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
CHITINA ’ - - ALASKA
The circuit court of appeals in
San Francisco has affirmed the
judgment against the Copper River
& Northwestern railroad for $20,
000 in favor of Mrs. Esther A.
Reed, as administrator of the estate
of J. D. Reed, her husband, on ac
count of the killing of the latter in
an accident to the rotary snow plow
which fell through a burned bridge.
J. D. Reed was engineer on the
rotary.
The case was tried in Cordova
before Judge Peter D. Overfield but
the defendants took an appeal on
the grounds that the verdict was
exhorbitant. The judgment, $20,
000, was the largest ever secured in
a personal damage suit from an
Alaska jury.
A mining company, with a capi
talization of $100,000 has been
organized in Iditarod to operate on
Marvel creek in the Aniak district,
Kuskokwim. Approximately $65,000
worth of the stock has been sold to
Iditarod people, the stock being
placed on the market at par, $100
per share. The ground is reported
to be rich and extensive enough to
require years to work out.
SERIAL NO. 01641
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UXITED STATES LAXD OFFICE AT
JUNEAU, ALASKA.
In the Matter or the Application of
Frank J. Xolan for a Patent to the
Lynx, Big Horn, Lone Star and
Monarch Lodes, Mineral Survey Xo.
944, situated in the Forty Mile Min
ing District of Alaska.
Notlc* of Application for Patent.
XOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEX:
That in accordance with the laws of
the United States, and especially in
pursuance of the Act of Congress ap
proved May 10, 1872, Frank J. Xolan,
a citizen of the United States, whose
Post Office address is Xo. 817 Alaska
Building, Seattle, Washington, will
make application for a patent to 1500
feet along the Lynx Lode, 1500 feet
along the Big Horn Lode, 1500 feet
along the Lone Star Lode and 1500 feet
along the Monarch Lode, with surface
ground 300 feet or less in width on
each side of the center of said
lodes or veins of quartz or other
rock in place, bearing gold, coo
per and other valuable mineral, and in
cluded in said mining claim, which is
accurately described upon the Official
Plat of Mineral Survey Xo. 944 posted
on the claim, and by the Field Xotes of
such Official Survey on hie with the
Register of the Land Office at Juneau,
Alaska.
United States Location Monument Xo.
8 to which this survey is tied is situ
ated in Latitude 61 deg. 47 min. X.,
Longitude 142 deg. 25 min. W. This
survey is located on the south side of
the Middle Fork of White River and
about 3 miles above its junction with
that river.
The lode locations are contiguous and
constitute a single tract of ground de
scribed as beginning at Corner No. 1
of the Lynx Lode, which is identical
with Corner No. 1 of the Big Horn
Lode, from which point United States
Location Monument No. 8 hears North
17 deg. 50 min. East 2029 feet distant,
and running thence from said Corner
No. 1 South 53 deg. 37 min. East 1500
feet along the Northerly line of the
Lynx Lode to Corner No. 2 thereof:
thence South 43 deg. 25 min. West 600
feet to Corner No. 3 thereof; thence
North 53 deg. 37 min. West 1500 feet
to Corner No. 4 of the Lynx Lode,
which is identical with Corner No. 4
of the Big Horn Lode, and on the same
course 1500 feet to Corner No. 3 of the
Big Horn Lode, which is identical with
Corner No. 4 of the Lone Star Lode;
thence North 57 deg. 52 min. West 1500
feet to Corner No. 3 of the Lone Star
Lode, which is identical with Corner
No. 4 of the Monarch Lode, and on the
same course 1500 feet to Corner No. 3
of the Monarch Lode; thence North 43
deg. 25 min. East 600 feet to Corner No.
2 of the Monarch Lode; thence South
57 deg. 52 min. East 1500 feet to Cor
ner No. 1 of the Monarch Lode, which
is identical with Corner No. 3 of the
Lone Star Lode, from which point U. S.
L. M. No. 8 bears North 85 deg. 30 min.
East 3108.6 feet distant; thence from
said Corner No. 2 of the Lone Star Lode
South 57 deg. 52 min. East 1500 feet
to Corner No. 1 of the Lone Star Lode,
which is identical with Corner No. 2
of the Big Horn Lode, from which
point U. S. L. M. No. 8 bears North
60 deg. 20 min. East 2104.8 feet distant;
thence front said Corner Not 2' of the
Big Horn Lode' South 53 deg. 37 min.
East 1500 feet to Corner No. 1 of the
Big Horn Lode, which is identical with
Corner No. 1 of the Lynx Lode, and is
the point of beginning first herein
described.
There are no adjoining lode or min
eral claims officially surveyed.
The variation at all corners is 31 deg.
30 min. East.
The area of each location is as fol
lows:
Lynx Lode .20.506 Acres
Big Horn Lode .20.506 Acres
Lone Star Lode.20.262 Acres
Monarch Lode .20.262 Acres
Total acreage Mineral
Survey No. 944.81.536 Acr s
This notice is issued from the United
States Land Office at Juneau, Alaska,
this 27th day of January, A. D. 1914,
for posting in said Land Office and for
publication for not less than sixty days
in the Chitina Leader, a newspaper of
general circulation, published nearest to
said claims, and hereby designated for
that purpose.
C. B. WALKER,
Register.
MAURICE I). LEEHEY,
Attorney for Claimant,
817 Alaska Building,
Seattle, Washington.
First publication February 17, 1914.
Last publication, April 21, 1914.
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Shushana Stage & Express Co
Makes Regular Trips from McCarthy to Shushun'ua Every Four
Days Carrying Passengers and Freight
PARCEL POST directed to McCarthy, in care of our company
will he delivered to addressee in new diggings at 50 cents per pound.
Charges can either he sent to us or will be collected upon delivery,
M e guarantee delivery of Passengers, Express and Parcel Post
from McCarthy to Sliushanna in Four Days. We also route freight
at regular freight rates.
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