Seattle, Jan. 27.—The steamer
Cottage City, while northbound in
command of Captain Jensen, encoun
tered a hurricane and snow squall
and was driven on a reef off Cape
Smudge at the entrance to Seymour
Narrows, where it is still fast.
Through the discipline maintained
by the officers it was possible to get
all of the passengers and crew off the
vessel in small boats, and after con
siderable difficulty they were all
safely landed on the beach, with the
exception of one boat load of twelve
persons, which is not accounted for,
and considerable alarm is felt for
their safety.
liATER—All of the Cottage City
passengers are safe and they report
that the steamer cannot withstand
the storm much longer, as it is break
ing amidships.
Seattle, Jan. 28.—All passengers
and the crew of the wrecked steamer
Cottage C'^y have been brought to
this city. The mail and baggage
have also been saved. The vessel
will likely be a total wreck.
Seattle, Jan. 27.—The Canadian
Pacific steamer Tees struck a rock
in Barclay Sound, but all the pas
sengers were taken off.
KUSKOKWIM PROMISES TO BE
ACTIVE STATION THIS SUMMER
“The Kuskokwtm country, across
the divide, will get the best prospect
ing that any section of Alaska has
ever had, within the next year, and
I believe it will make good.”
,This is the statement made by
A. J. Day, cashier of the Northern
Commercial Company, at Iditarod,
who recently returned from a trip
through that section.
Mr. Day says that there are sev
eral creeks which promise to become
good producers in the near future.
Among the promising creeks are
Snow, Donaln, Julian, Ruby and
Spruce, where some pay has been
located, while on a number of oth
ers many men are busy looking for
the paystreak, in some cases with en
couraging results.
Smeaton & Larson, on Snow gulch,
have been cross-cutting; they got
down nine feet, with a probable
depth to bedrock of 13 feet, when
water hindered the work. They
claim to have found prospects. Be
low Snow is Ruby also a tributary
of Donlan creek. On the Ruby As
sociation, in which are interested A.
B. Ferguson, E. Rusk and other Flat
creek men, pans as high as $1.25
were reported, and it was also stat
ed that 50-cent pans were common.
On the Othello Association Charles
Worden and associates are at work,
prospecting with a boiler, and are
making satisfactory progress.
Cabins are found on every creek
all the way down Crooked river,
but in many cases the owners are
absent, getting in their outfits.
On tne way back Mr. Day came
up the George, or Ukinilnok, river
to Julian creek. The Strandberg
Mining Company, which bought a
number of claims on the creek from
Anderson & Kieland, the discover
ers, are busy opening up ground a
mile below discovery, and Con Jun
kin, who is interested in the claims,
was feeling good over the prospects.
Good prospects are also reported on
Mystery, Kieland and Spruce creeks.
Michigan creek is well staked and
Dorothy creek is also staked from
head to mouth, but a number of
prospecting outfits were going in.
On Beaver creek thirty men are at
work, and, taking everything into
consideration, says Mr. Day, that
section look unusually good.
At Georgetown a strike was re
ported on some stream on the op
posite side of the Kuskokwim, and
men were coming in for outfits.
Georgetown has a fine townsite,
and there are 300 or more cabins
and a present population of about
200. The town has its streets and
avenues laid out with great regular
ity, and every man owns his own lot
and cabin. Sites have been reserv
ed for a court house, hospital, school
houses, etc., and the citizens of
Georgetown confidently believe that
they are going to have a large and
prosperous city.
The inbound stage, with a limit
load of mail, reached town before
noon yesterday, more than half a day
ahead of time. Tne last night out
the stage traveled nearly all night
which accounts for the early arrival.
—Fairbanks T mes.
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OUTPUT OF COAL LAST YEAR
GREATER THAN SINCE 1907
According to reports received by
the United States Geological Survey
from coal mine operators and others
familiar with the industry, the pro
duction of coal in the United States
during 1910 was between 475,000,
000 and 485,000,000 short tons, a
considerable increase from the out
put of 459,715,704 short tons in
1909 and approximately within 1 per
cent of the maximum previous rec
ord of 480,363,424 tons, produced
in 1907.
The most important factor influ
encing the coal mining industry in
1910 was the prolonged strike in
Illinois and the southewestern states.
This strike or suspension, which
started on April 1 pending an ad
justment of the wage scale, was not
finally settled until September 15,
and after that date much time was
lost in putting the mines into condi
tion for operation, so that the per
iod of idleness in the mines affected
was fully six months.. The settle
ment was a practical surrender of
the operators to the demands of the
miners, with an Increase of 5.55 per
cent in wages. A similar Increase
was granted in a number of other
states, either before the strike was
called or during the suspension or
subsequent to it. During the idle
ness many of the miners who were
on strike in Illinois obtained employ
ment in the mines of competitive
states and helped to increase the out
put of those states, which offset the
shortage in the states affected.
Notable increases in production
were made in the western counties
of Kentucky, in western Pennsylvan
ia, and in Ohio, Wiest Virginia, Ala
bama, Colorado, New Mexico and
Montana. The states whose produc
tion was reduced by the strike were
Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas
and Oklahoma. It was claimed by
the miners’ organization that on
June 1, 1910, 70,000 miners were
idle in Illinois, and 35,000 in tbe
southwest—that is, in Kansas, Mis
souri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Tex
as. About the middle of May the
operators of two important districts
in Illinois seceded from the Illinois
Coal Operators’ Association, which
was in contest with the miners’ un
ion, accepted the miners’ terms, and
went to work. Other mines which
were not represented in the associa
tion were also operated during the
strike, so that from 25 to 30 per
cent of the normal output of the
state was being produced at the time
the strike was ended, and this con
tinuous production was a potent fac
tor in bringing the operators to
terms of the miners.
Of the total production in 1910
the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania
contributed nearly 83,000,000 short
Some of the tin stone recently
shipped from Hot Springs has been
melted into bright, shining tin
bricks at Fairbanks for exhibition
purposes.
Every few weeks inquiries are re
ceived from points the world over
about the stream of tin of the Hot
Springs, showing the keen interest
that is taken in every possible source
of supply of this metal, which is ris
ing in price year by year.
Cassiterlte or stream tin is worth
¥300 per ton at the present time,
so it would pay the Hot Springs min
ers to save the ore and ship it.
As it is, many tons have been wast
ed, for in some places on Sullivan
creek and Tufty gulch there is so
much of the cassiterlte that it has
to be shoveled out of the boxes twice
a day.
tons and the bituminous mines be
tween 390,000,000 and 400,000,000
tons.
Washington is the only one of the
Pacific coast states in which coal min
ing is an industry of any importance.
The total production of California,
Alaska and Oregon in 1910 did not
amount to much more than 100,000
short tons. There was in Washing
ton, however, notwithstanding the
renewed and increased aggression of
fuel oil, a decided increase in the
production of coal at the commercial
mines. The "railroad mines,” or
those operated by the railroads or
subsidiary companies for the exclu
sive use of the railroad companies
themselves, showed about the same
production in 1910 as in 1909. Out
side of the railroad mines, however,
the production in some mines in
creased as much as 50 per cent. The
total production of the state was be
tween 4,500,000 and 5,000,000 tons,
as against 3,576,406 tons in 1909.
To what an extent the coal mining
industry of Washington will be af
fected by the increased use of fuel
oil on the railroad locomotives is a
problem. During 1910 the North
ern Pacific railway equipped thirty
oil-burning locomotives for yard and
switching purposes and for its fast
passenger service. The Chicago, Mil
waukee & Puget Sound and the Great
Northern railways have announced
their intention of using oil exclusive
ly throughout their mountain ser
vice.
The lack of coal production in Cal
ifornia is made up by the enormous
increase in the production of petro
leum, most of which is used fcyr fuel.
The production of petroleum in Cal
ifornia in 1910 aggregated between
60,000,000 and 70,000,000 barrels,
which, on the basis of 3 1-2 barrels
of oil for each ton of high-grade
coal, would be equal to a production
of nearly 20,000,000 tons of coal in
that state in 1910.
According to Chief Good-le-taw,
who possesses a powerful pair of
field glasses, Mt. Wrangell on Sun
day last was seen to smoke more
than at any time in the notice of the
natives for many, many moons. Chief
Good-le-taw says there are eight
distinct peaks to Mt. Wrangell, and
that all were smoking on the morn
ing mentioned. He stated emphat
ically that it was “halo” wind, but
hi yu smoke and that at noon of the
same day two distinct earthquake
shocks were felt, not severe but very
noticeable. No one around Chitina
was heard to mention feeling the
quake, but Good-le-taw says he and
his people always look out for such
things and that so much smoke in
the vicinity of old Mt. Wrangell
makes him feel like the Swede sta
tion man—“’fraid for scare.”
Arrangements have finally been
made for the delivery of the wireless
plants of the Alaska Wireless Tele
graph company, of which Falcon Jos
lin is the head, and G. L. Milligan,
the wireless expert, the general man
ager, to the Iditarod.
After much negotiation, the delays
being caused by the Berlin people,
they have ordered three of the Tele
funken plants for delivery in New
York on March 8. On their arrival
there they will be sent to San Fran
cisco and from ’Frisco they will be
shipped on an early boat to the Kus
kokwim, for one of the first steam
ers of the year will be to Bethel.
One of the $5,000 plants is for
Georgetown, one is for Iditarod City
and one is for Nulato.
The Alaska Wireless Company or
ganized last summer by Fairbanks
men, who speedily snapped up all
th** available stock, will work in con
junction with the government, for
the army does not care to build tele
graph lines or install wireless plants
where private capital can enter the
field.
With the cheap, but very efficient,
Telefunken plants of Germany,
which employ the quench spark sys
tem, the Alaska Wireless should be
a success from the start, for there
will be no time lost, whatsoever in
the installation, it being only a few
hours’ work to put one of the sets
in operating order.
Seattle, Jan. 28.—The steamer
Dora has arrived here safely to un
dergo her annual repairs, after a
very tempestuous voyage, having left
Seward on January 9.
Washington, Jan. 28.—Much op
position has developed to the reci
procity agreement between the Unit
ed States and Canada, but President
Taft is insistent that the treaty
stand.
“We have a better surface show
ing on the property of the Bluff Min
ing Company, adjoining that of the
Cliff and Seeley-Davis,” said Wil
liam M. Wilson today, “than was
titie of the Cliff mine.
“On the west line of the Bluff
property lies the Cliff, and it and
the Seeley-Davis are opened up and
have many tons of rich ore on their
dumps. As soon as the twelve-stamp
mill which has been ordered arrives
it is expected the Seeley-Davis will
rival the Cliff.
“The owners of the Bluff prop
erty have decided to open it up by
driving 100 feet of tunnel. The sur
face ore assays $30 per ton, while
that on the surface of the Clift as
sayed |1.40 per ton. In order to
raise the money with which to drive
the tunnel the owners decided to
place 30,000 shares on the market
at 10 cents per share. The balance
of the capital stock is pooled, mak
ing it impossible to secure any shares
after the present block is sold.
Seattle, Jan. 27.—Editor Fenwick,
of the Post-Intelligencer, has been
sued for criminally libeling the Bleth
en papers in connection with Banker
Welty of Bellingham.
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