CHEERING NEWS
FROM THE KOYIIKUK
Wiseman, Deo. 1.—Camp looksj
good. Everybody working. The ‘
spring clean-up promises to ex
ceed that of last year very con- ;
siderably, and will be more evi
enly divided. .
On Nolan creek, from Discov
ery down, about three-fourths of;
the men in the camp are work-.
ing.
F. E. Becker, who has a 75 per j
cent, lay on Discovery claim at
present, is, perhaps, working in
the richest ground. One day
last week he picked up a canful
of nuggets weighing $2,000.
Becker was recently arrested
and charged with trespassing on
this claim. .T. R. McGovern, the
Fairbanks machinery man, acted
as prosecuting attorney, and A.
T. Whitehead, of Nome, defended
Becker. The trial was held be
fore Commissioner Howard and
was decided in Becker's favor,
but not before the attorneys
were restrained with consider
able difficulty from settling the j
case by Marquis of Queensbury ;
rules. Whitehead received $1,-1
000 for his services.
On 2 and 3 below on Nolan
both claims are working full
crews, and should clean up from
two to three times as much as
they did last year.
D. W. Sullivan, on 5-b. Nolan,
is working in very rich ground,
and will this winter take out a
homestake.
Frank Whalloy and partners,
working the Peterson ground on
the line between 6 and 7 below,
ABOUT THE MAILS
ARRIVALS
From Outside. Valdez. Fairbanks,
and Rampart-Hot Springs, every Tues
day.
From Nome, St. Michael and lower
Yukon, every Fridav.
From Dawson and Eagle, every other
week, Saturdays. .
From Cold foot, about the 12th of
each month.
DEPARTURES
To Outside, Valdez, Fairbanks and
Rampart-Hot Springs, every Saturday.
To Nome. St. Miciiael and lower
Yukon, every Wednesday.
To Cold font, the loth of each month.
Registered Mail and Money Op.
der Business will close every Frilav
at noon and not open before departure
f Outside mail.
Stoddard
Kav
THE
NORTHERN.
BEST. WINES
LIQUORS AND
CIGARS.
Pool Tables In Connection.
Stoddard Kay
CHAS. B. ALLEN,
Attorney at Law
Hampakt, Aka.
Le^al Papers Carefully Drawn'.
H. L. HEDRICK,
general
BLACKSMITH
AND MACHINE 8HOP
Horseshoeing 'Repairing
Near Cor. Campbell a we,-and 2nd St.
Rear'of Yukon Saloon.
BILLIARDS
AND POOL
Elegant New ^Tables
Gibbon Bor
Of IT or WET OOOBSS'*'-'
Nolan, are in good pay, and will
undoubtedly have a fine clean up
in the spring.
Vermont creek, a tributary of
Hammond river, is showing up
good this winter. On the ground
operated by the Shoup outfit $1,
nOO was rocked out in one day re
cently. They have been work
ing in very rich ground on this
claim for several weeks, and
there is yet no sign of it running
out. Ida Williams, who is now:
on the outside, is said to be one
of the owners of this claim.
On Wiseman creek, below the
mouth of Nolan, four outfits are
now working. Dr. Cleveland’s
outfit is the latest one to start
sinking. With him are H. M.
Golieen and Billie Burke. The
Tobin, Martin Josephson and
Daniel Webster crews are also
sinking on this creek. Tobin is
now down 110 feet, Webster is
down over a hundred, and Martin
Josephson is down about fifty
feet. This creek is about twenty
miles long, and the hopes of a
great camp on this part of the
Koyukuk are largely defending
upon it. As nearly all the gold
an Nolan creek is in slugs, or
else very coarse, it is thought
that Wiseman creek may have
caught the great body of fine
gold coming out of this tributary
as well as from the many other
ones. _
FINOS OF PITCH8LEKDE,
THE SOURCE OF RADIUM
The owners of the Uranium and
Radium mine at Grampound Road,
near St. Austell, Cornwall, England,
announce that their pitchblende lode
has been reached at a depth of forty
fat horns. The lode has forced its w ay
r through an extremely hard elvun
• course, every inch of which had to be
blasted—the elvan course being a mix
ture of porphpry and granite. Some
men of science doubted the existence
of the pitchblende below the 30-fathom
level: but it is now proved to be pres
ent in good strength at a further depth
of 72 feet. The British Metaliifeaous
Mines. Limited, believe that they will
be able to supply larger orders for
radium than that of 7J grammes, value
£30,000, they are now engaged upon
for the Radium Institute. The com
pany is erecting a concentrating plant,
so that the pitchblende will go for
radium treatment in a highly con
densed form.
o o o
Samples of pitchblende ore, forward
ed by President Victor C. Alderson of
of the Colorado School of Mines, have
been received at Cripple Creek and
Victor, Col., and placed on exhibition
for the benefit of prospectors. Many
who have seen the specimens declare
they can find similar rock, and Carl
Sextus, when shown the specimen in
Cripple Creek, produced similar look
ing specimens, taken, he declares, from
claims locates by him in.Teller county.
LOSES $123,750 WHEN
HA6ERMAK MINE FLOODS
(From the Denver News-Times.)-^
“This name of Hagerman always re
minds me of a little transaction which i
cost me just. $123,750, said a prominent
business man in discussing the death
of the Colorado Springs millionaire.
Hagerman made a large part of his
fortune, out of the Mtrilia Gibson, his
famous Aspen silver bonanza.
“In the early ’90’sl was employed on
a Denver newspaper and received a tip
that Mollie was a good buy. 1 secured
5,000 shares at.25 cents and soon after
.was jarred, into a semi-conscious state
by the announcement that the- property
bad been flooded.
“1 filed away the stock and charged
the investment to profit and loss. One
day abdut a year'later I was introduced
to a smooth individual who professed
to be a ‘tenderfoot.’ Hie plied me with
questions concerning mines and mining
stocks.
. ‘“Do you know, where I could buy
ferine real good .stick?’ he asked."
“ ‘Sure,! I responded. -‘I have a trunk
filled with the nicest looking certifi
cates you ever clapped an eye on.
Splendid samples of the engraver’s art.’
“ ‘Would you sell sqfgeV" he.qneried,
ehiidKke -and Blanch'
“Would I sell some? Well, you
should have seen me burning up the
road toward my home. I returned with
an armful of certificates in the Nellie
Burke, the Mary Jane, the Lallapa
loosa and a few other near-bonanzas,
including the Mollie Gibson.
“The ‘tenderfoot’ toyed with these
evidences of wealth, and finally de
clared that he fancied the Mollie Gib
son paper, but that he would take a
few shares of the others just so he
might have the right kind of an assort
ment.
“f felt almost ashamed to take the
money, but when I talked the matter
over with my wife we agreed that
business was business.
“A few weeks later the state was
electrified by the announcement that
the Moliie had been unwatered and
that a great body of silver ore had
been uncovered. Soon after that 1
wandered onto the floor of the Denvei
exchange and saw brokers selling Mol
lie for $25 a share.
“That ‘tenderfoot’ was a mining
shark who had a tip from the inside,
and he had traveled over the country
for weeks gathering in stray blocks of
the stock.-’ ■ _
CANADIAN INDUSTRIES
The Canadian Western Railway
Company has located and will con
struct a line from Calgary to Montana,
which will give Alberta direct connec
tion with the States by way of Butte,
and aid the province materially in
handling immigration, as well as tap
ping a new coal country.
It seems likely that Nelson, instesd
of Fort Churchill, will be decided upon
as the terminus of the Hudson Bay
railroad, to be built frcui Winnipeg.
New Westminster, B. C., twenty
miles from the mouth of the Frazer
river and nine miles from Vancouver,
; the Canadian Pacific terminus, is to be
i the terminus of the Canadian Northern
railroad.
The machinery for the Northern
Light. Power and Coai company, of
| Dawson, recently arrived at Vancou
' ver. constituted a notable shipment.
■ It was btought from England by the
j steamers Magiciau and Musician, cf
j the Harrison line, and William Ciiffe,
cf the Leylar.d line, and was traps
I shipped and carried across the Mexican
j isthmus by the Tehuantapec railroad
i to Saiina Cruz. The shipment includes
| two 13-ton pieces and ten 10-ton pieces.
In the past the bulk of the steel used
| iu construction work in Canada has
; been of local origin cr supplied by the
I United States, but the preferential
I tariff in this case enabled a British
; Grin to outbid corupetitots, including
' both United States and Canadian firms.
| The total output of the Atlin (B. C.)
! placers to date have exceeded $4,500,
1 000.
The Grand Trunk Pacific will cot be
completed before 1011. A scarcity ot
laborers has been complained of, but
there lias been no arrangement made
to employ Chinamen.
Mathuselah Not So Old
“Methuselah loses liis famous record
for his 900 reputed years are whittled
down to 78." Thus says the Jewish
World, in a discussion of the Jewish
characteristics.
It is surmised, the Jewish World
says, that in the earliest times, the
month, the period of a moon cycle, was
called a year. Thus Adam’s 930 years
of life, calculating a tear at £91 days
works out to 751 years.
After the month year there came a
•five-month year, the limit of five being
j derived from the fingers on one hand,
it being remembered that primitive
people always used the fingers for
counting purposes. Then came the
twelve-month year.
Excuse for this rearrangement is
found in the Psalmist’s limit of life to
three score and ten years, and it is
maintained that between the years of
Noah and David no such extraordinary
change could have taken place as to
reduce the life of man by ll-12ths.
On the fivg-mdnth year f&sisr Abra
ham's 175 years’work out at 72, and
Isaac’s 180 at 74. *
- Special Sunday Dinner at the Ken
tucky restaurant from 6 to 8 p.na.—
Mrs. M. E. Cooper, proprietor.
ST. JAMES’ CHAPEL
First Sunday in each month, Holy
Communion II a. m. Other Sundays,
Evening Prayer. 7:30 p. m.
\ Winthrop Peabody,
-•C Priest-in Charge.
Estate of George W. Powell,
•• DECEASED.' 7
Notice is hereby, given by the under
signed, A. B. Culp, administrator of the
estate of George W. Powell, deceased, to
the creditors of and all persons having
claims against said deceased to exhibit
-them, with the', necessary vouchers',
within six modtbs after the first publi
cation of this notice, tbsaid admldistra
tor at'bis residence in the town of Tan
ana; territory of Alaska, the same being
the place for the transaction of the
business of said estate in Fort Gibbon
precinct, Alaska.'
. A'B. .CTTLP, ‘Administrator.
‘ Dated this 13th day of December, 1909.
Date of first publication, December
16,1909.
There’ll Be
Musters
Galore
On the trails this winter looking tor good places to stop—
more than ever before known in the history of Interior
Alaska—and the roadhouse and hotel keepers who introduce
their places of business and their accommodations to the
man along the route is the fellow who’ll get the trade. The
Tanana Leader makes a specialty of printing large and small
i
On Heavy Muslin, designed especially for out-of-door adver- f
tising—they will endure for years, and will 'withstand the
rigors of the Northland element-1.
Send in your order at once for the "business
promoters" and be prepared to do business when
winter travel starts in
THE LEADER
Tanana, Alaska
On One nf the Last Steamers We Received Our Yearly
Supply of Paper for
Commercial Job Printing
OF MANY KINDS