OF 6EKIHL H1II0I
Cordova, December 24
The prospect for favorable legis
lation for Alaska at the hands of the
present congress is causing news
papers and magazines of the east
ern states to pay more attention to
Alaska than ever before. Scarcely
a paper comes which does not con
tain an article serving to draw at
tention to the wonderful richness
of the mines of the territory. The
Wall Street Journal, New York, con
tains the following article on the
Mother Lode mine:
James C. Godfrey, president of the
Mother Lode Copper Mines Co. of
Alaska, has arrived in New York
from the mines at Kennecott,
Alaska. He reports the completion
of the company’s tramway which is
7,000 feet long and extends from
the Marvelous Claim on the top of
the mountain down to McCarthy
Creek. He says his company has
mined, sacked, and brought down to
the level of McCarthy Creek, 500
tons of ore which will run 65 pe?
cent copper and 18 ounces of silver
to the ton. He also says his com
pany has erected permanent quar
ters on the top of the mountain near
the outcorp and that mining opera
tions will be carried on through the
winter with 30 men employed, and
before the first of next April they
will probably have mined and
shipped about 1,000 tons of ore. He
says the ore now mined and piled
at McCarthy Creek will be shipped
from there to the smelter at Ta
coma, Wash., beginning about De
cember 15 or just as soon as the
ice on McCarthy Creek is sufficiently
solid to permit sledding.
Mr. Godfrey is in New York for
the purpose of discussing with his
associates plans for the development
of the property on a large scale next
year.
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Cordova, December 27
On her last voyage the Gjoa en
countered rough weather and suf
fered a loss of nearly $100 worth
of fishing gear. She had anchored
and was making a fine catch of hali
but when the wind came up sud
denly. The schooner was forced to
seen shelter leaving the gear behind.
D. O. Cowen is a new arrival from
the Chisana. He will leave on the
Northwestern for his home in Skag
way.
Dr. R. Morrow, E. M. Holmes, E.
B. Northrop, M. L. McAllister and
wife and Leonard Wood, were a
party of Minneapolis people who
registered at the Rainier-Grand.
They left on the train this morning
for the interior.
Mr. C. C. Hull, manager of the
Chitina Cash store is in town and
is stopping at the Rainier-Grand.
Frank L. Moses is stopping at
the Rainier-Grand. He came out
from Chisana a week ago and
stopped over at Chitina for a few
days.
Dr. Council was called to Valdez
this morning to perform an opera
tion for appendicitis on Len
Meenich, the blacksmith at the Cliff
mine. Mr. Meenich has only been
out of the hospital for a few weeks
after an attack of the same trouble.
The launch Pansy took Dr. Council
over to Valdez.
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The power schooner Polaris
struck an uncharted rock December
1 off Kayak island near Katalla
while scudding for shelter from a
75-mile-an-hour wind and probably
escaped from becoming a total
wreck through taking the brunt of
the shock on her heavy keel aq«l
sliding over the pinacle into deep
water.
Capt. Egill Erickson, skipper of
the Polaris, states that where the
vessel struck the United States
Coast and Geodetic chart showed
four or five fathoms of water and
his vessel was drawing only eleven
feet. It was a close shave, though
the six dories with which his vessel
is equipped could have been
launched with little difficulty. Bear
ings of the rock which thrust its
head up like a needle were taken.
He has made a report of the matter
to the hydrographic office.
After the Polaris left the shelter
of Kayak island she was assailed by
a 90-mile-an-hour wind but she
rode the seas like a duck. T.te
Polaris shipped about 40,000 pounds
of halibut in addition to the 20,000
pounds which she carried to Seattle.
A new recording district has been
created by order of Judge Brown
covering the district where the dis
coveries were made in the Nelchina
last fall. L. F. Shaw, who was
editor of the Seward Gateway has
been appointed commissioner of the
new district and has already gone
in to establish an office.
The new district as defined by
the order of the court is as follows:
It appearing to the court that a
necessity exists for the establish
ment of a new recording district,
to include a part of the Copper
Center recording precinct and the
ICnik recording precinct, in the
Third judicial division, Territory of
Alaska, covering the Nelchina river
and its tributaries.
Now, therefore, it is ordered that
the said district shall be known as
the Nelchina Recording Precinct,
and shall be described as follows:
Beginning at the southernmost
point of Tazlina Lake; running
thence in a southwesternly direction
to the source of the Nelchina river;
thence in a northwesterly direction
; and along the watershed dividing
the waters which flow easterly into
the Copper river from the waters
which flow westerly into the Matan
uska river, to the head of the
Oshetna river; thence northeasterly
along the divide separating the
waters which flow easterly into the
Oshetna river from the waters
which flow westerly into the Susitna
river; thence easterly along the
southerly bank of the Susitna river
to the Tyone river; thence easterly
along the southern bank of the
Tyone river to Lake Louise; thence
in a southeasterly direction in a
straight line to the point of begin
n;ng on Tazlina lake; and,
It is further ordered that the
boundaries of the said Copper Cen
ter Recording Precinct and the Kniic
Recording Precinct are hereby
changed to conform to this order.
The local firm of Kinney & Mae
Cormac, conducting the Cash Gro
cery with a branch at Chitina, has
been dissolved by mutual consent.
Mr. MacCormac will retire and the
business will be continued by Mr.
Kinney, the senior partner.
The firm has been in business
here for a number of years and by
paying close attention to business
are well and favorably known up
and down the coast as well as far
into the interior through their
branch house in Chitina.
It is understood that Mr. Mac
Cormac intends to leave for Cali
fornia at an early date. He has
made many friends during his long
residence in this part of Alaska and
all will wish him and his family
prosperity and happiness wherever
they locate.
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Mr. Deming Wheeler, the Indiana
I banker, and his driver Scotty Dal
] ton, left on the train this morning
j with their dog teams. They have
17 fine animals and expect to make
a trip covering about 4,500 miles
before arriving back in Cordova
sometime in the latter part of
April next.
From Chitina Mr. Wheeler plans
to go direct to Fairbanks. He will
| then retrace his steps back to Gul
kana where he will take the old
government trail across country to
; Eagle on the Yukon river. From
Eagle he will go down the Yukon
to Nulato, thence to Iditarod. From
Iditarod he will come to the coast
via the new Nelchina strike and out
via Copper Center and Chitina to
Cordova.
Mr. Wheeler is a wealthy banker
of Indiana and is making the long
winter trip for his own benefit and
to gain a knowledge of this terri
tory which is America’s last
frontier.
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DOUGLAS MAX SHOT BV
WOMAN' OF UNDERWORLD
Jim Carruth, of Douglas, is in the
hospital where physicians are trying
to locate a revolver bullet in his
breast. He was shot by a colored
woman named Cleo Williams. Car
ruth was trying to make collection
for a bill. The woman, who is under
$1,000 cash bail, claims to have
shot in self-defense after having
been struck over the arm. The
amount involved was 25 cents.
In an effort to curb the sale of
liquor to Indians Judge Fuller of
the Fourth .division has ruled that
retail liquor dealers must keep a
complete record of all sales where
the liquor is taken from the prem
ises. A record must be kept as fol
lows:
“(1) The date and hour of sale.
“(2) The person or persons to
whom sold.
"(3) The quantity of such
liquors sold and the particular
kind, mark or brand thereof.
“(4) The price received there
for.
“(5) The name or initial of the
person selling the same.
“Further ordered that the fore
going record shall be kept available
for inspection by all officers or dther
persons thereto authorized, at all
reasonable hours of the day or
night.
“Further ordered that said pro
visions as to keeping such record
be and the same are hereby made to
all persons now holding or who shall
hereafter secure licenses to sell in
toxicating liquors at retail in the
Fourth judicial division of Alaska,
upon the due service of a copy
hereof upon such licensees.”
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MINERS HAVE NARROW
ESCAPE FROM FIRE
The bunkhouse of the Kensington
Mining Company, near Juneau, was
recently destroyed by fire. The fire
started at 3 a. m. and had gained
such headway before any of the
men awakened that difficulty was
experienced in getting the miners
out of the tunnel where they were
in danger of being suffocated if the
other buildings caught fire. Thirty
five miners who were asleep when
the fire started lost their effects.
The mine is at an elevation of 2,400
feet above sea level.
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John Zug, in charge of the work
by the Alaska Road Commission in
the Tanana district, was an arrival
from the interior on yesterday’s
train. He is registered at the
Windsor and will leave on the next
steamer for the states where he will
spend the next few’ months.
Mr. Zug reports a pleasant trip
out from Fairbanks. He left Fair
banks on December 20th and experi
enced no very severe weather. The
work of the Road Commission in
his district has been entirely sus
pended for the winter, but Mr. Zug
expects to be back again about April
1. He states that government teams
are busy transporting the timbers
for the Nizina bridge from Mc
Carthy and that the work of con
struction will begin as soon as the
river is frozen over.
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■ ORGANIZING DOG TEAM
RACE FOR NEW YEARS
An effort is being made to get up
a dog team race at Fairbanks to
liven things up on New Years day.
There are two teams from Koyukuk
and two from Gibbon, as well as
several good local teams which
could be entered. The course sug
gested is from Fairbanks to Chat
anika and return.
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TOLOVANA WAS THE
COLDEST IN TANANA
Residents of Cordova are apt to
forget their good fortune in residing
on the coast where the thermometer
rarely registers as low as zero. Dur
ing the recent cold snap when it
dropped to 8 above zero in Cordova
it registered 60 degrees below at
Tolovana, oi at Hot Springs and 45
at Fairbanks. Fairbanks has only
five inches of snow and at Richard
son there is only three inches.
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FAIRBANKS DEMOCRATS
WANT NEXT CONVENTION
The Tanana Valley Democratic
Club lias hones that the next Demo
cratic convention for the territory
of Alaska will be held in Fairbanks
sometime next July. By resolution
i of the club a committee, consisting
j of E. W. Griffin, J. E. Clark and R.
; F. Roth, was appointed to do all
possible toward bringing the con
j vention to Fairbanks. It is stated
i that the Nome members of the ter
! ritorial committee are favorably
j disposed toward the interior coun
I try for the meeting place, and that
! Surveyor General Charles E. David
j son, chairman of the committee, is
I desirous of having the convention
at Fairbanks.
FRANK JOHNSON IS
MARSHALSHIP ASPIRANT
Frank Johnson, of Juneau, is
uspiring to fill the place occupied by
H. L. Faulkner, marshal of the
First division. Johnson is a friend
of Senator J. H. Lewis and it is
understood that the senator, who is
now in favor at Washington, is
working for the appointment of his
CORDOVA STUDENT IS
OFFICER OF THE CLUB
The Sourdough Club of the Uni
versity of Washington, which was
only recently formed now has a
membership of forty. They are all
students from Alaska. Calvin C.
Hazelet is vice-chief of the club, and
his brother Craig is also a member.
The requirements for member
ship are that a student must have
lived in interior AlasKa or the
Yukon from the time of the freeze
up to the time of the breakup, or
have lived in that part of the coast
region of Alaska or British Colum
bia lying north of 54 degrees, 20
minutes for a period of 12 con
secutive months.
I, the undersigned, will not be
responsible for any debt made by
anybody without my written order.
PETER FRANKS
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NOTICE
STAMPEDE BLOOD ALL
BEEN WORKED OUT
R. J. and J. M. Eli beck, who came
out from Chisana and have been
stopping at the Windsor, will be
passengers on the Northwestern en
route to their home in California.
The former was sheriff of Yukon for
years but says that never again will
a stampede lure him from his happy
home in the sunny south.
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FAIRBANKS MIXER
ACCIDENTLY SHOT
Charles E. Cole, of Dome Creek,
Fairbanks, recently shot himself
through the hand and walked to
Fairbanks for treatment. He was
I out shooting ptarmigan when he
i slipped causing the gun to be dis
charged. The bullet entered the
palm of his hand and lodged in the
wrist. The physician states that the
hand will be raved if blood poison
ing does not set in.
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FAIRBANKS OPERATOR
DROPS DEAD IN HOTEL
-
James Hein, operating on Gold
i stream, dropped dead of heart dis
| ease in the Third Avenue Hotel,
Fairbanks, on December 19. De
ceased was an old-timer in the
north and was well known. He was
a member of the Yukon Order of
Pioneers and was buried under the
| auspices of that order. His family
i reside in San Francisco.
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MR. MacCORMAC WILL
STAY WITH CORDOVA
—
James MaeCormac, who recently
| resigned from partnership in the
j Cash Grocery with O. M. Kinney,
| announces that he does not intend
j to leave Cordova. Jimmy has been
j here so long that no other place
j would seem like home. He says he
| wishes to thank his friends for their
i patronage in the past and he in
tends to stay right here among
them. He will take a rest until the
8th of January when he will be glad
to meet his friends at Reidy & Co.’s
store.
The Northwestern did not pick up
passengers at Katalla as was ex
pected on her last trip south. When
she arrived there for some reason
no launch came out to meet her
which was probably due to the stage
of the tide. After waiting around
for a couple of hours and seeing no
signs of life, the Northwestern pro
ceeded on her way south.
There were several persons in
Katalla who have been subpoenaed
as witnesses in the Munday coal
cases which were to have come up
for trial shortly in Seattle. The
| Northwestern was the last steamer
upon which tljev could go to make
connections. The trial has, how
ever, been postponed until the end
of January.
Deputy Marshal Briglitwell is en
deavoring to secure the services of
one of the halibut fishing schooners
to make the trip in order that the
witnesses may be brought to Cor
dova to take a steamer in time to
be in Seattle for the trial.
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