Great activity ia expected in the
Bremner country this year. While
the Bermner and its branches were
thought favorably of far a number
of years there has been no work done
as yet on a large scale. Individual
prospectors have .been so successful
that there is little doubt of its fut
ure as a placer camp. Up to last sum
mer it was very expensive to do any
work, as prospectors had to pack
their supplies 360 -miles frem Val
dez and over the Thompson Pass, the
trails being very poor. It took the
men so long to get to the ground
that they had little time to do any
work before grub began to run short.
Now it is only about two days
from the railroad and a great influx
of prospectors is certain. Up to date,
despite the difficulties, there has
been over $30,000 taken out from
the high bars on Golconda Creek
alone, small amounts being taken
from several other branches.
Louis Dahl was an arrival in town
last week. He has been represent
ing the Little Bremner Mining Co.,
in which Sam Blum, George C. Haze
let, the Wain Brothers and Tom
Louis are interested. They are now
getting their outfit together and
Dahl, the Wain Brothers and a force
of men are going out on Thursday’s
Train. It is proposed to put in a hy
draulic plant on their ground. There
is little trouble from boulders and
they have an excellent water sup
ply. They have over 500 acres, only
35 miles from Bremner station,
which is Mile 78 on the railroad.
They boat their supplies up the
Bremner to within seven miles of the
claims and have a good trail to camp.
There is considerable open-cut
work done already, but it is not eco
nomical to go much further without
machinery. They have an Empire
drill on the ground and will pros
pect the property fully this summer.
They will also sink a shaft to bed
rock.
The Golconda Hydraulic Mining
Company did considerable prelimi
nary work last summer, got their
ditches in and laid a lot of 12-inch
riveted steel pipe. They have two
giants. ;■
Ed Sellars Is manager, while Chas.
Graber, A1 Doze and E. Bunnel are
among the officers. The company
is Incorporated for $25,000.
Their property is located on Gol
conda Creek, off the North Fork of
the Bremner. When their pipe line
was finished close to the end of last
season they took out $1,100 in a
little over one week. It is a very
coarse gold, several nuggets were
around $20, and ore taken off this
creek went $52.65.
Tom Valentine has done assess
ment work for several years on nis
property on South Fork of Brem
ner. He expects to do a lot of work
this year and to bring out some
money Harry Hapfill is also inter
ested on Big Bremner about Three
Mile Canyon. He has a large body
of gravel carrying fine gold from sur
face, and at bedrock has made $5 a
day rocking. Bedrock is very uneven
but in some places only eight or ten
feet down.
Johnny Varlderatein is another
old-timer who proves his faith in the
Bremner country by coming in every
year. He worked all last summer
and is now taking in his supplies for
this season. He has finished his
ditch and brought water to his claims
and expects to be in tne money this
summer.
Harry Hapfill has good-looking
ground on Fern Creek and has al
ready started to work this year. Dr.
Van Gunther of Valdez is interested
with him. They have already
taken out some coarse gold and are
confident of the future.
All the gravel bars on the ttrem
ner are good. Last year in twenty
days Dahl took |180 ground sluicing
at low water. He says any man can
make wages and up to |10 a day.
Tehay River also shows good indi
cations, as colors show In every pan.
It has never been prospected much
owing to difficulty of getting ia be
fore the railroad was constructed.
Every prospector who knows that
section talks of the Hunaglta Val
ley as the great hydraulic and dredg
ing ground of Alaska. This great
valley is forty miles long and from
1,000 feet to two miles wide. It is
all fire-washed gravel wltu no trou
ble from boulders. It is believed to
have been at one time the channel
of the Chitina River before some
volcanic upheaval changed the land
and turned the Chitina into the Cop
per River. Every pan of gravel shows
good colors.
When the surveyors were looking
for the best way to the Interior two
parties examined thip valley for a
possible route. They examined the
formation everywhere to get an idea
for their reports on the prospects of
the country. They reported over 70
trials and colors every time.
With gold la the gravel on the
surface, there certainly la a pay
streak yet to be discovered, and the
tiaaagU* offers one of the best
showings that any prospector could
wish to start with.
Two government survey parties
were in the Bremner and Hunaglta
districts last summer, one under
Moffitt, the other under Wither
spoon. Their reports are expected
next month and are sure to direct a
great deal of attention to that sec
tion.
At the present time the upper end
of the Bremner and all its branches
are free from Ice and in a good many
places the frost Is already out of tne
ground. Dahl says some places have
been free of frost since January 10,
and weather is about the same as we
have on we coast.
All of the territory described
above is good for hydraulic opera
tion from six to eight lhontns every
year.
The lVahn Brothers and Louie
Dahl started for the Bremner yester
day. They took a dog team and a
big outfit They intend to haul with
dog team from Bremner station to
open water on Bremner River, and
from there will line a boat to with
in seven miles of their claims.
Ed Rodee and James Brennan
were passengers on yesterday’s train.
They have taken a contract for an
other fifty feet of tunnel on the
property of the North Star Mining
Company at Mile 52. They are fol
lowing a vein which measured six
feet at the surface, and are driving
to strike under an outcropping that
is eighteen feet on the surface. The
tunnel is now in 160 feet.
Assays on their ore runs 62 cents
in gold and $46.50 in copper.
If they succeed in snowing up the
body of ore they expect this will be
an excellent proposition. The mouth
of the tunnel is about 300 feet from
the main line of the railroad, and is
at an elevation of 150 feet above the
snowr shed, which protects the track
from snowslides.
It is proposed later on to open up
a working tunnel level with the
snowshed so that mine cars could
dump their loads directly into the
railroad cars. It is hard to find a
proposition where a mine could be
worked more economically than this
one. It is being developed entirely
by local men and money.
McCarthy, Feb. zi, 10-12.
Mr. Howard Foster and wife have
returned from California and have
started housekeeping over on Dan
creek. Work has been steadily
progressing all winter on the West
over properties with excellent re
sults.
Herman DeWitt, of Haider etulch,
has returned from a trip to the out
side.
Yesterday Mr. Iverson, manager
of the Bonanzaz Gold Mines Co.,
made his first shipment from the
mine to the railway station. Mr. Iver
son expects to shortly make a trial
shipment to the Tacoma smelter and
is rushing the work.
Mr. A. Harmon was in town t&lay.
Mr. Harmon owns a bunch of prop
erty at Mile 157. On one claim the
ledge shows a width of seven feet,
he product of which is nickel and
cobalt, and the outlook Mr. Harmon
regards as very promising. A tram
1,000 feet long will connect with a
short spur from the main line.
Old-timers here are taking a live
ly interest in the reports from the
Canadian White River country of
rich coal fields. It is the opinion
here that the upper Chettystone de
posits are associated with tue new
discoveries. Reports of rich cbpper
finds in that neigborhood reached
here on several occasions this win
ter.
Geo. Mas Esterly’s big outfit for
his Chittatu property is expected to
».n:'ve here shortly.
A1 Brimmer and Boa Tibbs are
busy constructing a ferry on the Mi
zina at a point about half a mile
above the mouth of May Creek,
where tne railway boys are having
a large road house built. If Brimmer
succeeds in getting the ferry run
ning alright it will be a lucrative
business and the public will appre
ciate it.
Joe ijeShon -as erected a large
tent for restaurant and bunkhouse
purposes
William Wessling and Mr. Lea
were in town the otuer day. They
have been working on the property
adjoining the Mother Lode, which
has been promoted by Houghton,
Michigan, people who are said to
be closely allied to the Calumet &
rtecla Company. Messrs. Wessling
and Lea expect that their company
will drive a 2,000-foot tunnel that
will tap their lead at a great depth.
John Bloomquist is visiting friends
in Valdez.
The Johnson and Rabideaux build
ings are nearing completion.
The report that Mr. Gray will in
***** »£,electrlc tram from the end
Of the Hack to his Kennetcott Cop
P*p prjlerties is very encouraging
to MeCarthyites.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 29.—Con
gressman Sulzer's seal bill, which
provides for the killing and market
ing by the government of surplus
bachelor seals, passed the House a
few days ago after a somewhat bit
ter quarrel among the Democratic
members, some qf whom tried to
force a closed season for a period of
five years. Last year the govern
ment's profit from the sealing indus
try in Alaska amounted to $385,OOf*.
Former Senator John L. Wilson,
head of the Pacific coast delegation,
has since invented at least one thou
sand perfectly good reasons why
about 75 per cent of this money
should be turned into the Alaska
fund and expended in construction
of roads and trails. Senator Wilson,
the Alaska delegate, and others in
terested in Alaska, will endeavor to
have an amendment made to the
bill when it comes before the Senate
committee. The amendment will
provide that the profit derived from
the sealing industry be expended in
Alaska.
With a strong probability of the
present sesison of Congress being
continued till about the middle of
August, all of the solons assembled
here are playing politcs for all the
game Is worth. Many of them have
engaged extra clerks and the mails
are congested with copies of the
Congressional Record, resolutions,
committee debates and other govern
ment documents, which are being
mailed under the franking privilege
to their multitudinous constituents.
Both the Democrats and Republicans
have a plethora of candidates for
Piesident. The streets and hotel
lobbies are crowded with dark
horses, but both parties are woefully
lacking in a white hope. Headquar
ters have been established here fo;
Roosevelt, Taft, LaFollette, Wood-'
row W.'son, Champ Clark, and any
number of other candidates. Nobody
knows exactly where Roosevelt now
figures on getting enough votes in
the Republican nominating conven •
tion to make him the standard bear
er of the party.
for vice-president. ‘
Gifford Pinchot looks very much
worried and appears to have aged
ten years in the last few months. It
is thought that he sees himself rid
ing to a certain fall. The former
chief forester is sitting on the horns
of a dilemma. For some time he
was a most ardent advocate of La
Follette. Then the Big Voice and
inventor of the short and ugly word
appeared in the offing, and Pinchot
went back to his first love. Pinchot,
when campaigning for LaFollette,
aid not know that Roosevelt was a
probable candidate, and now since
he has deserted LaFollette, the lat
ter’s supporters are bitterly de
nouncing the disciple of reformation
and the bachelor father of our chil
dren's children for having used their
principal as a “come on” in a confl
uence game.
There does not appear to be any
very great rush for the job of vice
president. A few of the Southern
Democrats have started an embryo
campaign for General Sherwood, the
father of the old soldiers’ pension
bill. The South is going to play a
pretty strong part in the next Dem
ocratic convention. Oscar Under
wood and Champ Clark are botu
making a strong fight for the nomi
nation. Clark’s defeat of Senator
Gore’s forces in Oklahoma, engineer
ed by Congressman Scott Ferris,
which resulted in Clark capturing
most of the delegates, somewhat star
tled the other candidates. Ferris is
a much stronger man than was gen
erally supposed, and it is not im
probable that he will succeed Gore in
the Senate.
Bishop P. T. Rowe, head of the
Episcopal • Diocese of Alaska, left
here recently for his favorite stamp
ing ground in the North. He will
go down the Yukon to the Koyukuk,
thence up the Koyukuk, across a di
vide and down the Colville River to
the Arctic Ocean. Before tne terri
torial committee, the Bishop com
plained bitterly—and justly—that
the only time the United States gov
ernment had done anything for the
Indians in the North was when they
brought a lot of alien savages from
British Columbia and established
them on a reservation at Metlakatla,
where they have since become quite
prosperous. The Bishop sought to
secure the establishment of reser
vations for the Indians of Alaska,
but I rather think that his efforts
were unattended with the success
which they merited. However, he
drew the attention of Congress very
strongly to the fact that the Indians
are being rapidly blotted off the map
by the white invader, and it is prob
able that an amelioration of their
pitiable condition will be the result.
George F. Somborg has been ap
pointed postmaster at Kokrlnes to
succeed W. P. Thrall, resigned.
J. J. UNDERY/OOP,
FUNERAL OF J. E. REED
AT LIVINGSTONE, MONT.
•In the issue of the Livingstone
Daily Enterprise of Feb. 10, is con
tained a lengthy account of the
funeral of our late townsman, John
E. Reed, as well as an earnest trib
ute to the worth of a man who was
highly regarded wherever he was
known. We take the following ex
cerpts from the article:
“John Earl Reed was born at Dun
das, Minn., Aug. 16, 1880, and met
his death in a railroad accident on
the Copper River & Northwestern
Railroad near Cordova, Alaska, Jan
uary 1, 1912. He received his educa
tion in the public schools of Dundas,
Minn., and came to Montana in 1889,
where he was in the employ of the
Northern Pacific railroad at different
point on the Montana division for
eight years.
“He was married to Esther Adelia
Briggs January 28, 1904, at Fergus
Falls, Minn. Two children were
born to this union, Vern Briggs,
aged 7 years, and Kenneth Earl,
aged 20 months.
“In 1907 Mr. Reed went with his
family to Skykomish, Wash., where
he remained for about three years,
and from there he went to Cordova,
where he worked in the capacity of
engineer for the Copper River &
Northwestern railroad until he met
his untimely death. He was in up
right, energetic man, a faithful son,
a loving brother, a kind husband ahd
father, and was beloved by all who
knew him. His relatives and friends
sustain a keen loss in his death. The
abundance of beautiful floral offer
ings mutely testify to the esteem in
which he was held.
“The funeral services were con
ducted in the Payne Memorial Chris
tian church of Bozeman, Elder J. C.
Poster of the S. D. A. church offici
ating, asisted by Rev. Parker, pastor
of the church in which the services
were held, and Elder L. A. Gibson. A
large company gathered at the
church to pay their last tribute of
respect, among whom were a num
ber of his associate engineers from
Livingston and Whitehall, who, pre
ceding the hearse, marched to the
cemetery. The pallbearers were fel
low engineers of the deceasd.”
FERRY
B. B. Tibbs and A1 Brimmer went
up to McCarthy recently and from
therethey will go to the Nizina Riv
er, where they will put in a ferry a
short distance above the old ford at
Porphyry Point. The river is fair
ly well confined at this point, making
it a practicable location for a ferry.
It is on the direct route from McCar
thy to Dan, Young and Chititu
Creeks, and the upper Nizina coun
try. The many people who have oc
casion to cross the Nizina during
the summer will be glad to know
that it will be relieved of some of the
discomfort and danger. If a briflge
is possible at his point, which is on
a direct route to the creeks, it would
be a much preferable location to the
one several miles down, to which a
trail was cut last fall in the hope
that the Alaska Road ComiiNssion
would put a bridge in there this sum
mer.
Apropos of the announcement that
James Galen, the veteran Alaskan, is
to construct a large tourist notel
here at McCarthy this season the
people on the frontier are simply de
lighted.
Nowhere along the line of this
great scenic railway (the Copper
River & Northwestern) will the tour
ist be more impressed than here near
the terminal. The Kennecott gla
cier rises mile after mile to the
foothills of Mt. Blackburn, whicn is
surrounded by the minor peaks and
stands out like a migmy sentinel
bidding defiance to even the impet
uous mountain climbers’ greatest ef
forts. This bit of scenery alone is
worth a visit to this “neck of the
woods,” while those interesteu in
mining will gaze with admiration on
perhaps the greatest copper mine in
the world, with its ever busy tram
way dropping as it would seem from
the very clouds.
Turning from this regal scene and
gazing across the beautiful timbered
valley of the Chitina, dotted with in
numerable lakes and streams, one
beholds the precipitous mountains
beyond the Chitina, many of which
are enshrouded with blankets of per
petual ice and snow.
Leaving the railway with its en
ergy and civili ing influences, the
tourist or miner sets his face toward
Sourdough Mountain and the swift
flowing Nizina. He is tuen skirting
a marvelous game country, bear,
mountain sheep, moose, birds, lynx
and all the common fur bearing ani
mats becoming plentiful. As you
pass up the Chettystone (one of the
largest tributaries of the Nizina.,, the
.game becomes more abundant and
once over Scolai Pass to the White
River with its pleasant valleys, roll
ing hills and steep mountains, he
finds himself in the heart of what is
known to be a veritable hunter’s
paradise.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—The
secretary of the interior recently de
cided law points affecting mineral
rights as follows:
“An applicant for patent must pro
ceed with diligence to complete his
patent proceedings, and where there
is no obstacle or barrier to prevent
completion of the patent proceedings
within the calendar year In which
the publication of notice was com
pleted, the entry ahould be oancelied.
Any reasons for apparent delay must
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KIND I
HELP
It is very gratifying to the editor
of the Daily Alaskan and the Chitina
Leader to know that his efforts to
bring about a cleaner and more sat
isfactory administration of justice
upon the part of United States offi
cers at Cnitina are appreciated by
the reputable element residing in the
Copper river country. From a num
ber of letters received March first we
take the following excerpts:
“Thanks for your fight on Healy
and Brown. All the fellows pleased
at the place."
“A number of the fellows and my
self feel very much pleased to see
the stand the Daily AlasKan and the
Chitina Leader are taking in regard
to M. R. Healy, and hope you will
keep the fight up.”
“I cannot speak too warmly in
praise of the stand the Alaskan has
taken. It has taken up a good fight
that has made it a greatly increased
number of sincere friends from one
end of the line to the other. The Salt
Lake Tribune makes a proud boast
that it ‘stands for Americans.’ In a
much larger, truer, better sense, the
Cordova Daily Alaskan could make
that its motto.”
“I having been a resident of Cniti
na for the past year, and having es
pecially noticed certain copies of
your paper, the Alaskan, relating to
the misrule of the U. S. commission
er and deputy marshal of this dis
trict, I wish to express my apprecia
tion of the stand you have taaen in
this matter. Hoping you will' keep
the good work up until tue proper
results are attained, I am, yours
truly.
“Your articles in the Alaskan con
cerning Healy are great in showing
this man in his true color. You are
doing the public a genuine service.
The fellows in Kennecott warmly ap
preciate the Alaskan's siding with ns
in our figut. Keep it up, old man.”
“Send me to McCarthy Creek two
or three of each issue of the Chitina
Leader which contains the expose of
that alien judge, who tries to czar it
over this district."
Chief Good-la-taw received an en
voy forwarded by Doc Billum from
tne White River Indians of Mentas
ta. Trouble is imminent between
the White River Indians and the
Copper Riven Indians. It appears
that an old, venerated Indian of the
Copper River Indians. It appears
fashioned after the Minnehaha
model, who was given in marriage
to a White' River Indian. The ungal
lant husband killed his wife and the
enraged father, bent on retribution,
has stirred up what may develop into
a tribal war.
Reliable information as to partic
ulars will be given later.
“The jurisdiction of the land de- 1
partment in all matters involving the 3
disposition of the public domain is 3
plenary and exclusive, except where 3
specific legislation has made the ad- 3
judication of local tribunals auxll- 3
iary to the proceeds before the land i
department, connected with acquisi- <
tion of title. When one applies for 3
a patent under a non-mineral appH- 3
cation, the land department must de- 3
termine the land to be non-mineral 3
before a patent can issue; and when 3
an applicant applies for. patent for <
mineral land, the land department <
must determine that suca land is j
mineral before patent can issue to 3
such applicant.” 3
I
Thre are a large number of cases
to be tried at Fairbanks, or else
where, in connection with the recent
bank troubles in the interior town.
As a result many people will come
from the outside and will necessari
ly be in Cordova more or less. There
are both criminal and civil cases to
be tried. One of the latter is against
a Seattle bank. Recently F. G. Noyes,
as receiver of the Washington-Alas
ka Bank, of Fairbanks, commenced
suit, on the order of the federal court
of Alaska, against the Scandinavian
American Bank, of Seattle, for $18,
333.50, alleged to be due the Alaska
concern as a balance between tne two
correspondent banks. The balance
is stated to have existed since June,
1909. The complaint states that the
Fairbanks Banking Company origi
nally had the charge on its Dooks and
that the Washington-Alaska bank
succeeded to the Fairbanks concern
in July, 1910.
/
SEATTLE, Feb. 28.—On and af
ter March l9t, commencing with the
sailing of the steamer Northwestern
from Seattle on that date, all vessels
of the Alaska Steamship Company in
the Prince William Sound service
will be operated via the inside pas
sage, with additional stops at Ju
neau and Ketchikan. This arrange
ment was made last summer and it
proved very popular, the move being
ranged at the request of many resi
dents of that district who preferred
tne inside to the outsiue route, dur
ing the spring, summer and early
fall seasons, and the result proved
so satisfactory that the company has
adopted the plan early this year.
It will give Prince William Sound
ports direct communication wifh Ju
neau, the capital, and more impor
tant than all will mean a large num
ber of tourists making the round
trip to Seward with stops at Cordova,
Valdez, Latouche, Ellamar, etc. In
connection with the inside passage
tourist trip which has for so long
been exploited this year a special
feature in all advertising will be th£
round trip to i-rince William Sound.
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF
PARTNERSHIP
Notice Is hereby given that I have
sold my interest in the Log Cabin
Saloon and Overland Hotel, to Hen
ry Stafsholt. All bills owing or
claims collectable will be settled by
Leach, Hyland and Stafsholt.
W. GRIFFITH.
Chltina, Feb. 23, 1912.
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that I, the
undersigned, have sold my interest
in the Gage-Burns Saloon to J. L.
Gage. He assumes all liabilities,
will pay all claims and collect all
bills.
TOM BURNS.
Chitina, Feb. 26, 1912.
Horse Shoeing
and Repairing
JO. PEARSON
At Chamberlain’s’ feed A
sale stable.
ffc 'ASHINGTON, Feb. 28—The fed
eral bureau of labor has been direct
ed to begin an immediate investiga
tion of the labor troubles at Law
rence, Mass., and the consequent
disturbances and violations of the
law.
Wlhere you are always treated
right—Fairbanks Saloon.
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby iven that the
partnership heretofore existing be
tween Dan McMillen and Swan Elm
green at Copper Mountain, is this
day dissolved and tnat Lucy Grimm
has taken the interest of Swan Elm
green. All debts of the former part
nership and ail accounts due them
are assumed by the new partnership.
' SWAN ELMGREEN.
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& Coffee House
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If you are interested in any contest
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registered land lawyers, 902 F Street
N. W. (opposite Gen’l Land Office),
Washington, D. C. Free information
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