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Superintendent Samuel Murchison
arrived In Cordova on the steamer
Alameda last night, and will leave for
the front on Monday morning's train
to rush the construction of the rail
road from camp 149 to Kennecott.
A force of about 300 men will be
employed on this work and as there
are a number of wooden bridges to
build twenty-seven men were
brought in on the Alameda to be
added to the present force.
The steel Is now laid to mile 154
and the work is progressing at the
rate of about a mile a day. Bridge
Superintendent P. J. O’Brien is busy
decking the Kuskulana bridge, which
he will complete the first of next
week, after wnlch he will take his
bridge crew, which are housed in a
portable camp, and go on to the oth
er bridges. The workmen string
about a mile of ties ahead of the steel
each day, and by night the crew has
laid the steel, and the portable
camps are right on the job awaiting
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rest. The material for the short
track spur, which is to be construct
ed at mile 154, arrived and was
ready to put in on Friday. A num
ber of bridge carpenters and work
men have recently gone out to work,
and those who have been at the front
since the completion of the bridge
report great activity in the last
stretch of railroad construction.
Job work at the Leader office.
in SYSTEM TO OKI THE COIL
SITS WELL Hli IDEM
"What we people of Alaska want
more than anything else is the open
ing of the coal fields,” said J. M.
Lathrop, one of the owners of the
Cliff mine at Valdez, and owner of
a vast amount of other rich mining
property in that section, in a recent
interview.
“We are not particular as to the
nanner of their opening,” he contin
ued, "whether under the leasing sys
tem or under a law by which direct
acquisition of the land may be made.
This talk about the monopolization
of Alaska’s coal lands is the worst
1v addle I have ever heard.
"Those fields are so extensive that
no single corporation could acquire
control of them. The Matanuska
field, for instance, stretches from the
coast away across the country al
most to the head of the Copper riv
er, and there are thousands of acres
that have never been located.
"The fact that all Alaskan coal
lands have been withdrawn from,
entry has militated against the loca
tion of these lands.
"Transportation is the only draw
back with which we are confronted.
But so far as Valdez and other towns
along the coast in that locality are
concerned, we have little to fear from
monopolies, if the government would
open the Bering Lake field. If the
railroad companiies sought to wring
exoribtant charges from us we could
easily load our coal into barges and
convey it down Bering river and to
the different towns by water. This
talk of monopoly by the big inter
ests is largely ‘bunk’—political thun
der.
‘‘In fact, tne wnoie thing is a mat
ter of politics.
‘‘Delegate Wickersham's opposi
tion to the Nelson bill, I believe, al
though I have not read the bills, ex
cept in their condensed form as pub
lished in the Seattle newspapers, is
born of the fact that there is a quar
rel of long standing between them.
Senator Nelson for many years fought
Wickersham’s confirmation as a
judge of the district court of Alas
ka.
“Besides this he is violently opposed
to any measure that would give any
credit to Governor Walter E. Clark,
or to the attorney general, George
W. Wickersham. He recommended
that the matter be left in the hands
of Governor Clark for further inves
tigation and recommendation.
“Clark in my opinion, is a care
ful, capable, brainy, conservative
man—-absolutely on the square—and
who has he entire confidence of the
people of Alaska. He recommended
the leasing proposition, but Wicker
sham does not want either Nelson or
Clark to have the credit of settling
the difficulty. That’s all there is to
it.”
To whom it may concern: My
wife, Mrs. Ethel Dyer, of her own
free will, left my bed and board since
December 12, 1910. I will no long
er be responsible for any debts or
bills contracted by her since the
above date. 12-17-3t
ACCORDING TO AN OLD TREATY
NATIVES MAY VOTE IN ALASKA
Natives of Alaska who are mem
bers of the Greek church are Amer
ican citizens, according to the treaty
made in the transfer of Alaska to
the United States. They may vote
in elections in the territory of Alas
ka. Other natives, however, who
have become Americanized, but are
not members of the orthodox church,
may not exercise the franchise.
This statement was made by W.
A. Kelly, who was the first govern
ment teacher appointed by the Unit
ed States in Alaska and who since
that appointment has spent twenty
five years in the North in his capac
ity as a teacher and missionary.
The Pioneer Teacher.
Mr. Kelly went to Alaska in 1885
on the only steamboat then going
north from the Pacific coast. It was
steamer Idaho and sailed from Port
land once a month. During his stay
in Alaska he has made a deep study
of the natives and has converted the
Thinglet tongue into a written lan
guage.
He says that the granting of the
franchise to the Russian natives, or,
rather, to the natives who bow in re
ligious allegiance to the Greek pope,
was brought about by a clever bit
of diplomacy on the part of the Rus
sian officials who represented their
country in the drawing up of the
treaty with this government.
May Become a Power.
Some of the natives of the ortho
dox church voted in the last delegate
election. Several hundred did not,
although Mr. Kelly believes .these
will come gradually to understand
their privilege and he considers it
not impossible that they may be able
to exercise some influence in the
elections of the future. They are at
present, however, wholly separate
from American life by tradition, be
liefs and sympathy.
Mr. Kelly went to Alaska one year
after that territory came under civil
government and at the time when
the Treadwell company was prepar
ing to erect its first stamps.
EXPENDING $25,000 TO Slff
TIOALGO BAY ORE BY MAY 1
There is considerable activity in
mining operations on Fidalgo Bay.
The Fidalgo-Alaska Copper Company
will expend |25,000 before May 1st,
next, to have ore ready to ship by
that time.
It is building a wharf and bunk
ers and an aerial tram. Those in
control of the property are Chas.
Schlossen, T. J. Donohoe and John
Y. Ostrander. C. W. Harrington, of
Valdex, is the superintendent.
The company has already driven
1,000 feet of tunnels and have
enough ore in sight to make it a
shipper for the next five years. It is
a high-grade chalcopyrite copper ore
and will be shipped to the Tacoma
smelter. The harbor will accommo
date the largest boats afloat, and on
the surrounding hills are plenty of
timber for mining and building pur
poses.
On the GunBight group of claims
in the same vicinity, a 65-foot tunnel
has been driven, and the ledge has
been traced a distance of 1,000 feet.
C. S. Bratton and C. W. Harrington
are Interested in this group.
On the Cove Lodge Mine, a pros
pect, the ledge shows up eight feet
wide on the outcropping. The ore is
considered of a high grade, but
enough development work has not
been done to prove the worth of the
property.
Tom Blakeney has an excellent
prospect in the same section of what
is considered chalcopyrite copper ore.
M. H. Owens, of Fairbanks, was a
passenger in town last night and will
leave on one of the next boats for the
states.
BLOW AIMED AT
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Sacramento, Jan. 14.—Bills have
been Introduced in the state legis
lature to drive the Southern Pacific
railroad out of politics.
flriEK!200
New York, Jan. 14.—A fire broke
out in the Buffalo institution for the
deaf and the perfect fire drill of the
mutes saved two hundred children
from the flames.
Graphite nine at
Nome
Little has been said of late about
the Port Clarence graphite mines, but
they have been working ever since
last spring aud will be under oper
ation during the winter, getting out
ore ready for shipment to the states
in the spring after the arrival of the
first fleet.
When the people stop to con
sider that there will be ready for
shipment something like four hun
dred tons from one mine, they will
be able to grasp that this industry
is one that will be a large producer
of hard rock mining on Seward Pen
insula.
“We have a fine start,” said Joe
Nelson, in charge of the Pacific Coast
Graphite Company, operating near
Nome, “in taking out the graphite
ore and when I left the mine wre had
on hand ready for shipment 700 sacks
of the material just as it comes from
the mine. These sacks weigh about
225 pounds each and by spring we
expect to have at least four hundred
tons of the ore ready for shipment.
“There Is lots o? pure specimens
of graphite up there but the ore as
mined will run from fifty to sixty
per cent in the pure metal. The com
pany will treat the same either in a
refinery to be constructed at Everett
or Seattle. When I last heard from
the outside Seattle had offered to give
the company a bonus of $80,000 for
erecting the refining works for treat
ing this large deposit of graphite in
that city, and Everett had asked ad
ditional time to submit their propo
sition in writing, for they are anx
ious to have the plant installed in
their town, there being a large smelt
ing plant there now for the treat
ment of gold, silver and copper ores.
“In the mail that will arrive with
in the next few days, I expect to hear
that the contract for the erection of
a refining plant has been let and to
make ready to keep the same sup
plied with ore after the opening of
navigation.
“People may not know it, but of
the 25,000,000 pounds of graphite
used in the United States every year
only fifteen per cent of the amount
is produced at home, the majority
being imported by the graphite trust
from the South Sea Islands. The
electric furnaces at Niagara furnish
ing the trade with about one-half
of the graphite ore. or commercial
mineral.
“With four men the company will
take out sufficient ore to give the
mine a good test and we are taking
it as it runs without picking the best.
There is mountains of the ore up
there and it can only be worked to
advantage on a large scale, and we
will know next summer what the av
erage run of the ore in the mine
will produce.
“If the mines produce as we have
every reason to believe they will, this
will be one of the greatest industries
on Seward Peninsula and the men
who are putting up the money have
ample means to carry on the work
without any outside help. I expect to
return in a few days and will remain
at the mine until spring, when we
will commence shipping out the ore
for treatment.”
Chicago, Jan. 12.—Harry Frazee
has offered a purse of $50,000 for a
twenty round fight between Jack
Johnson and Al. Kauffman in Lon
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News has been received here of
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dez, in Chicago yesterday from heart
trouble. Deceased was familiarly
known in Alaska as “Farmer” Smith.
As he was president of the Seeley
Davis Mining Company, there has
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