Late Telegraph News
SEATTLE, Jan. 27—Vice Presi
dent R. W. Baxter, of the Copper
River railway, will return the end of
the week from New York, where he
has been attending a meeting of the
Board of Directors.
PEKING, Jan. 27—The President
declares that China must maintain
order in Mongolia.
NEW YORK, Jan. 27—In a second
raid on Merrill’s, a fashionable gam
bling resort, a large number of well
known men and women were ar
rested.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 27—Special
Commissioner Johnson declares that
the coastwise vessels will derive the
greatest benefit from the Panama
canal and should pay tolls.
LONDON, Jan. 27—The Balkans
have served Turkey with their ulti
matum. The latter country is given
four days in which to accept the
terms of peace or resume war.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27—A
gang of laborers working in the
Sutrq forest struck a gold ledge
which runs $175 to the ton.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—The Sen
ate leaders have decided that there
will be no legislation at this session
affecting the Sherman act.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—The In
vestigating committee agree that a
money trust exists and that .1. Pier
pont Morgan as a banker is the man
who dominates this power, which is a
national menace.
NEW YORK, Jan. 27—Banker
Finley agrees to give Dr. Friedman a
$1,000,000 to come to America and
demonstrate his tuberculosis cure.
NAPA, Cal., Jan. 27—Hon. John
Jefferson DeHaven, U. S. district
judge, northern district of California,
since June 8, 1897, died here yester
day. He was born at St. Joseph,
Missouri, March 12, 1845, and en
tered upon public life at the age of
23, being elected District Attorney
of Humboldt county, and has held
office almost continuously since that
time.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—Senator
Lafollette vigorously endorses Con
gressman Jones’ bill which provides
that the title to Alaska coal claims
shall be settled by the courts, instead
of the Interior Department. Speaker
Clark has also promised his aid in
the passage of the bill at this ses
sion.
NEW YORK, Jan. 27—The Stock
exchange files a brief denying the
right of congressional regulation of
its business.
NOME, Jan. 27—John Johnson’s
team won the Solomon derby, cover
ing the sixty-five miles in six hours.
Mrs. Darling’s team came in fourth.
PARIS, Jan. 27—A terrific ex
plosion of dynamite occurred this
morning, resulting in a shake that
was felt in all parts of the city.
NEW YORK, Jan. 27—William
Randolph Hearst, in yesterday’s
American, states that William Jen
nings Bryan will surely be appointed
Secretary of State by President-elect
Wilson.
TRENTON, Jan. 24—President
elect Wilson has decided to visit the
Panama canal after the secial session
of Congress.
ALBANY, Jan. 24—The Senate
votes to submit a suffragette amend
ment to the voters.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24—Charles
Mooney, formerly editor of Hearst’s
magazine, testifies before the Investi
gating committee that he purchased
the letters of President Archboil, of
the Standard Oil Company, an.l de
clares he published them in the per
formance of a public duty.
EL PASO, Jan. 24—The Mexican
rebels shot across the border into the
American troops, which is likely to
result in serious trouble.
CONSTANTINOPLE. Jan. 24—Na
zim Pasha, former commander of the
arm, was shot and instantly killed
during a street demonstration.
CHEYENNE, Jan. 24—Theodore
Roosevelt has wired the members of
the state legislature to voted against
the re-election of United States Sen
ator Warren.
RICHMOND, Jan. 24—Rev. Horn,
accused of bigamy, testified in court
that his twin brother, and not he, was
the second groom.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24—Secre
tary Knox has declared that the Brit
ish protest against the Panama tolls
is premature.
CHICAGO, Jan. 24—Four insur
ance adjudgers have been indicted for
being connected with an arson ring.
CHICAGO, Jan. 24—Five alleged
wire tappers for pool room men were
inidcted by the grand jury.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24—The Na
tional Guard of ten states will parade
at the inauguration of President Wil
son.
NEW YORK, Jan,. 24—H. R.
Williams, vice president of the Mil
waukee raidroad, with headquarters
at Seattle, comes here to take care
of the financial end of the company.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24—But six
of the jurors have been sworn in the
trial against Attorney Darrow and a
second venire has been issued sum
moning seventy-five more jurors.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24—A battle
ship test favors gyroscopic over a
magnetic compass.
McKINNEY, Tex., Jan. 24—D r the
collapse of an implement, building,
which went crashing into a depart
ment store, eight people were instant
ly killed and fifteen injured.
NEW YORK, Jan. 24—A general
strike of the waiters has been order- :
ed, which was followed by wild scenes
of dis order at various hotels, during
which bricks and other missies were'
thrown.
LONDON, Jan. 24—British, Italian
and other warships have been order
ed to Turkish waters as the Balkan
w’ar is soon to be resumed.
BELLINGHAM, Wash., Jan. 24—|
Bankers Furth, Andrews, Ankeny and
Kelleher, of Seattle, are on trial here
in connection with the failure of the
Laconner banks.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24—A public j
reception has been planned to take
the place of the inaugural bail, which
Woodrow Wilson says is too fatigu
ing.
VIENNA, Jan. 24—A fierce Atlan
tic rate war is expected and the steer
age passenger rate will likely be re
duced to $10.
NEW YORK, Jan. 23—Congress
man Sullivan has been adjudged in
competent.
NASHVILLE, Jan. 23—Chief Jus- '
tice Shields has been elected United
States Senator from Tennesssee, sue- ;
eeeding Robert L. Taylor.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23—A large ,
number of local brokers have been in
dicted for fraudulent transactions.
ST. PAUL, Jan. 23—The Progres- J
3ives of the Northwestern states will i
confer on Friday, at which time Sen
ator Beveridge will address them.
PORTLAND, Jan. 23—Judge Bean
has dismissed six of the indictments
secured by Attorney Francis J. Heney
in the famous Oregon land frauds.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23—The Sen
ate has been petitioned to close the I
saloons of this city on inauguration
day.
NEW YORK, Jan. 23—The Ameri
can Museum of Safety has awarded
Thomas Edison a medal for safe
guarding the Lefe storage battery.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23—The
chemistry department at Stignatius
University has discovered a serum
which cured many cases of cancer.
NAPLES, Jan. 23—Landslides
near the Vesuvisus crater have
threatened another eruption.
BOISE, Jan. 23— Before the Idaho
legislature Senator Borah attacked
Secretary of Interior Fisher for his
usurping powers in undertaking to
annul the coal land laws. His ar
raignment of Fisher was delivered
with much force and he wound up his
speech in declaring for the recall of
the present Secretary of the Interior.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 23 — The
Democrats will likely cut the tariff on
cotton deeply.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23—The Bio
logical Survey report shows a large
increase in furbearing farms.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 23—The
Turkish ministry resigns on account
of the protest in ceding Adrianople.
Their successors declare they will
hold Andrianople and the situation is
serious.
ALBANY, Jan. 23—The Court of
Appeals decides that loan sharks can
not extract more than two per cent a
month.
NEW YORK, Jan. 23—Attorney
Dudley Field Malone has been ap
pointed President-elect Wilson’s pri
vate secretary.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23—The Post
Office Department has unearthed a
gigantic postage stamp theft, which
amounted to $2,000,000 annually.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23—A sub
committee will visit at Palm Beach
next week and secure William Rocke
feller’s testimony on the money trust.
NEW YORK. Jan. 23—President
Corey has testified to the existence of
a steel rail pool.
BERLIN, Jan. 23—Dr. Friedman
announces that he will submit a tur
tle serum as a cure for tuberculosis,
having already made a number of
successful tests for the government.
NEW YORK, Jan. 23—The gar
ment workers are still out and in a
riot which occurred yesterday be
tween the police and strikers many
were injured.
SPOKANE, Jan. 23—The Canadian
Pacific railway has decided to make
extensions costing $4,500,000, the
contract for which work has been
awarded to Patrick Welch.
NEW; CASTLE, Eng., Jan. 23—
Today the launching of the largest
battleship afloat took place. It is the
Brazilian Riodejanero.
VALDEZ, Jan. 23—Harry Hoben,
who has been on three seperate in
dictments at different trials for cut
ting wood on a reservation near Sew
ard, was found not guilty last night
after the third trial, indicating that
the forest regulations are not very
popular in Valdez.
LONDON, Jan. 23—The prediction
is freely made that Parliament will
deny any suffragette privileges.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23—In letters
to close personal friends in Washing
ton, William Jennings Bryan plainly
asserts that he does not intend to
permit his fight for raw materials to
go by default, and that he will again
insist on free raw wool. The informa
tion that Mr. Bryan will continue his
fight comes at a time when Chairman
Underwood, Speaker Clark and the
other leaders in the House were an
nouncing confidently that all would
be harmony in the special session and
that free wool, which would deprive
the treasury of so much needed reven
ue, was for the time being a dead
issue.
Mr. Underwood made a statement
to the effect that all the Tariff bills
would be ready before March 4, in
the expectation that President-elect
Wilson would issue his call for the
extra session to begin on March 15.
Both Underwood and Clark, expect
the extra session to be called for that
date. As a result of his interview
with Mr. Wilson, the Speaker of the
House says that the country need ex
pect no change in the policy of revi
sion“unhesitatingly downward,” but
there is nothing particularly sensa
tional in this, since Mr. Underwood,
who will dominate the extra session,
states frankly that the Underwood
bills, passed at the last session, will
be re-enacted.
RESUME OF ALASKA
MININGCONDITONS
Placer Mining
The returns from the Alaska placer
mines are far from being complete,
but the information at hand indicates
that the value of the output in 1912
was half a million dollars less than
that of the previous year. This de
crease in production is due to the
fact that the output from Fairbanks
and Innoko-Iditarod regions was con
siderably less in 1912 than in 1911.
On the other hand, a discovery of rich
placer ground was made in the Koy
ukuk district, and promising finds
were made in the Ruby district and
the Innoko-Iditarod region. More
over, the two years’ work brought ad
ditional proof of the adaptability of
the dredge for placer mining in dif
erent parts of the Territory.
No noteworthy changes took place
in the placer-mining districts along
Pacific seaboard, which are relatively
unimportant. A little mining was
done at Juneau and some larger op
erations were carried on in the Por
cupine district. Beach mining con
tinues to employ a score of men at
Yakataga and probably aB many more
in southwestern Alaska, notably on
Kodiak Island.
The season in the Nizina district
was succeeful except for the floods
which occurred In the latter part of
the summer and caused much damage
to the two large plants there install
ed. The plant on Chtititu Creek
was, however, put into working order
again before the close of the season.
Mining continued as in previous
years In the Chistochina district but
was considerably less in the Valdez
Creek district, chiefly because a large
number of claims were under bond to
a company which proposed to install
a large hydraulic plant.
Hydraulic operations were contin
ued on Kenai Peninsula and at Crow
Creek, as in previous years. A
dredge installed in 1911 was operat
ed on Kenai River for part of the
season in 1912. There was also
consierable prospecting in this part
of the field for dredging ground.
It is reported that the Yentna dis
trict had a very prosperous season.
Notable increase in production was
made on Dollar Creek, where some
high gravels were developed., A few
prospectors continue work in the
Mulchatna region, west of Lake
Clark, but no important discoveries
have been made in this field.
Yukon Basin.
The Fairbanks district continues
to lead in the production of placer
gold. The new discoveries in this
field were principally those on creeks
which have already yielded some
gold. The most important was on
Eve Creek. The work of the year
has also considerably increased the
area known to be underlain by work
able gravels in the Chatanika Flats,
near the mouths of Dome and Cleary
creeks. Additional gold-bearing
gravels are said to have been found
on Fairbanks Creek. The Fairbanks
Creek dredge was operated through
out much of the open season. The
gold produced at Fairbanks came
chiefly from Goldstream Creek, the
lower parts of Dome and Clery creeks,
and Ester, Eve, and Fairbanks creeks.
It is estimated that between 130 and
140 different plants were operated
and that from 900 to 1500 men were
employed. Summer operations.were
much in excess of those of the winter.
In the Circle district the placer
gold was taken chiefly from the
mines of Mastodon, Deadwood, Eagle,
Mammoth, Smith, and Independence
creeks. It is estimated that about
27 mines were worked during the
winter and 32 in the summer of 1912,
employing from 60 to 100 men in the
winter and from 145 to 175 in the
summer. A dredge installed on Mas
todon Creek was operated during the
summer of 1912. Hydraulic plants
were operated on Mammoth, Masto
don, and Eagle creeks.
The Fortymile district had a suc
cessful season. Three dredges were
operated in the winter of 1912 and
about 50 during the summer. Many
of these were, however, only small
plants.
It is reported that the Koyukuk
district had a very successful season
in 1912, but details are lacking at
this writing. A large amount of gold
is said to have been taken from the
newly discovered deep placers of
Hammond Creek, and this production
may have been sufficient to more than
double the output of the district,
compared with previous years.
Though the current reports from
the Ruby Creek district have been
rather discouraging, yet it seems cer
tain that this district will become a
gold producer of some importance.
In 1912 operations were practically
confined to six creeks, all lying with
in a small area about 25 miles south
of the town of Ruby, on the Yukon.
The creeks on which productive min
ing has been carried on are Long
Creek, Upper Long Creek, Bear Pup,
Midnight Creek, Glenn Gulch, and
Trail Creek. About 150 men were
employed in this district on 30 claims,
and the value of the gold prouction
was probably in excess of JibO.Oe
About 24 claims, located on five
creeks and employing 140 men, were
worked in the Innoko district dur
ing 1912. No new discoveries were
made. In the Iditarod district Otter
and Flat creeks continue to be the
most important producers of placer
gold. Work was also done on Chick
en, Willow, and Happy creeks, and a
little mining was carried on about
Moose Creek, located about 30 miles
farther east. A dredge was installed
on the upper part of Flat Creek dur
ing the winter of 1912 and was op
erated for the latter part of the open
season. It is estimated that 34
mines were operated in the Iditarod
district in 1912. These were distri
buted on six creeks and employed
about 650 men. Of these plants,
one is a dredge, eighteen are equip
ped with steam machinery, and the
rest are operated by manual methods.
During the summer of 1912 gold
was discovered on Fox Gulch, a tri
butary of Cripple Creek, 30 miles
northest of Ophir, which created
considerable local excitement. About
a hundred men are said to bn pros
pecting in this field. It is reported
also that some workable placers were
lound on Mud river, a northwesterly
tributary of the Innoko.
Prospecting continued in the Aniuk
River basin, where gold was found
in 1911. A small amount of pro
ductive mining was done in this re
gion in 1912. Nothing of importance
has developed in the Goodnews Bay
region, where several claims, how
ever, were operated in 1912.
Gold Dredging on Seward Peninsula
There was no abatement in dredge
installation on Seward Peninsula in
1912. It is reported that during the
year 39 dredges were completed or
in process of erection. The dredge
season began in May, but most of the
machines were not operated until the
first steamers brought in the dredge
crews, about June 15. Information
at hand indicates that by August
some 30 dredges were in operation
and that a number of others w'ere
started before the close of the sea
son. Dredging continued until
about the middle of October. It is a
significant fact that these dredges
are widely distributed over the penin
sula, some being operated or under
construction in every district which
has yielded placer gold. This brings
the final proof that profitable dredg
ing ground is by no means confined
to the vicinity of Nome, to the Solo
mon River Valley, or to the vicinity
of Council, as at first believed. The
limitaions on profitable dredging
seem to be controlled rather by the
cost of transportation and especially
of fuel than by the physical condition
of the gold-bearing gravels. An
ther significant item is that, in spite
of the drought of the early part of
! the summer and the fact that the
value of the winter clean-up was
only $400,000, the production of gold
for the season was nearly the same
as that of the previous year. This
indicates that a large part of the gold
production came from dredging op
erations which were not seriously
hampered by small water supply.
It is fair to assume, therefore, that
the production of placer gold from
the peninsula has passed its mini
mum for many years to come.
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