The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-01-16
FROM ALASKA.
Items of Interest Clipped From all Al
askan Exchange.

askan Exchange.
The Juneau City Alaska News of De
cember 2Gth, has The following:
The steamer Utopia departed for Si;.
ka and the Sound on Friday, loading OF
machinery and two rock breakers from
the Bears Nest Mill, shipped by l. j
Hammond. Captain McGlcgor was rot
positive whether he would continue on
the route, and his decision vii be sent
here to shippers by the nest hoat. Al.
most all the produce was unloaded
here.
The Mexican mill has leen rn'nning
steadily and smoothly since The start on
Wednesday, December Goth, giving
splendid satisfaction to the munagc-
ment. The battery Of sixty stamps
crushes the 250 tons cc 'rc uer dav TO a
fine pulp, as 1t drops from the BIN into
the Challenge feeders and thence into
the batteries. The Cor!l,s compound
condenslng engine, rae e tie finest
turned out of Fraser * chalmers fac.
tory, has cylinders with diann.grrs 16,
26 inches, by ~ inch stroke, the piston
rod travelling 595 i ct i'm minute. The
fittings of the engine are brass, which
contrast prettlly with Tie burnisleo
steel and iron, bright as newly coined
dollar A. Mac6ay, the builder, has
charge of the MILL
At the crusher tower the Reedy anto-
matte elevator raises car evary nm
ute. 1t runs as smoot.,,Y AMI regularly
as the best 6onstrlc,ed ones in the
in number are IL marvel to grind up
ore. One crusher. having a apacity of
$50 tons to a day, keeps nne shoNt!er
very busy at his WORK. The peltcn
wheel. which furnishes the power for
the crushers, Is driven by water from
a quarter-inch nozI'e, the wheel making
Az revolutions In a minute. The FrLe
conceallators or tables are working up
to the top notch in the saving of Ful-
phurets
M. V. Sharp and Albert Peterson re-
turned lately in a sailing boat from the
noithern coast of Chichagoff Iland.
They left here November 22d, with the
Intention of meeting an Indian, who
had some time previously given the
latter several specimens Of rich gold
quartz, The cold weather prevented
further progress for about ten days
and with their boat fast in the ice in
one Of the sheltered inlets, they were
compelled to give up trying to reach
The place OF meeting. They put in all
Yacobi island and lad Il short conyersa-
tion with John Dix and his two COM
panions, but as their boat was mooredI
in unsafe anchorage. they were COM
PEELED to set sail again. They hadn't
time to inspect Dix's new fine. iiel
intends finding the Indian next spring,
ar d under his guid locate the ledge
from which the rich specimens Were
taken from the crcppiags.
Charles Johnson. who was millpg on
Bennett lake last season. returned here
from Berners Bay by the steamer Rust
Ter. He intends starting for the Yukon
river by March 1st, He with Albert
rribolet nd Fired Welsh, rydraulickedI
diGEings on Lake Bennett, but, getting
short OF supplies, We're compeiled tol
quit early. He intends to build a boat
on the lake. and transport his $50 feet
Of canvas hose and two noszles ~ and
. inches in diameter to Torty-mile peek
next summer and mine there. 1t viii
be the first hydraulicking done in that
secticn, lie u satisfied that II he finds
fairly pa, ing d'rt, chat he and his two
partners viii 40 well ne coming sum-
mer.