The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-02-21


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hnE1lags IN ta@ toRn II Vas ssssgst In tsS-.
bat was rsrzc1e1e5 and enlarged fso years
ago. TIE haI3lng. inesssltng furniture.
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has been one Of tAs prominent landmarks
q TIE town Tor many years x vii BE
Immediately rsn0sR
Cock fnief Steamers
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c0verisS on IRE Yukon. Geek sales "a pct
Tor those who wIzh 20 try tAas region
again sals seaSon. TIE Alsaks CONNER
cal Company has issued its schedule %
steamers 70 leave Sttka ara IgnraH Tor
Cook inl@t ard vessels % the P~cfac Coast
steamship Company wtn cornect with
than The steamer Dora - advertised 70
leave Sitks Tor Portage oav March = ard
A1rfl s. TIE steamer Bertha leaves Iu-
neaa for Cock inlet direct AnrN & April
- May T. May 3 ard ss1ai-reonthiy
thereafter during the scassr. Local o.
fees have had considerable inquiry regard
ing the transportation 20 Cook Inlet. ana
a nnmhar % men are kncwn 70 hS SIM
ply waiting for the FIRST opportunity 20
lssvs for ia goii se,iz.
TIE Douglas Miner. = weekly newsrs-
per. 4 doing much 20 ea1hu re promise
stay and become factor In the develop
ment OF Alaska. The Douglas Miner ap-
pears 70 Be doing this by paying especial
attention 20 news rather than TO a2linr
uD on exchange matter. II has ccrae cut
IN new cover on heavy paper. and typo
graphically Is thing % beauty" Il t.
published by the Gaxtineaux Printing
Company and during It's short sxissanos
has succeeded IN becoming ore Of the
nswsiest sheets IN Alaska Tae-s Is good.
up-to-aate matter on every page rom
cover 20 cover.
James Kemp was killed early in this
month BY the premature explosion or
blast IN the Webster mine re died IN
Juneau February s He was 81 years Of
age and leaves a mother in Lexington.
Kan. A great deal OF development work
IS being done on the Webster mines. in
the basin this winter. Crosscnts and
drifts are being run and the mine VII pa
placed In frst-class condition Scr the
coming season. There is already SUM-
oient ore blocked out 70 keep a mill run
ming many months.
A japanese cook employed BY some pros
pectors near Funter bay. while attempt
ing TO thaw out some giant powder, caSIs-
ed an explosion which blew the cabin IN
which he was working 20 pieces and car
ried away one OF the cooks heels.
The sumdum Chief Mining Company.
in which George W. and Charles W. Car
side, of this city. are heavy stockholders,
has purchased a tea~gtamp mill Of the lat
est and best make. which will De set up
on their property AT Sumduui. The ma
chlnery will arrive about March IS. and q
force OF men will be tmmediasely put to
work placing II The Suuldum Chief mine.
on which this mill VIII be erected. sdtotTas
the Bald Eagle. and Is on the same vein. A
large body OF very fine quartz has been
- go
TO the success OF the mine. The mill he
erected at the confluence Of Mineral Gulch
creek and Robins creek, about one-half
mile above the Bald Eagle mill anu about
TWO miles from the beach. wire tram
way one-half mile long viii connect the
mill with the ora bin at the nine. In max
ing the half mile from the ore bin 20 the
top of the Grizzlies the ore will drop l,l0o
feet The mill win be patterned, as near
IL as the conditions will admit. after the
Funter bay mill. The machinery viii all
ba OF the very best and most approved
make There Is an abundant supply or
water for furnishing power. The mil be
placed so as TO stand clear OF the course
of all snowslides. good wagon road has
already been made TO Quartz gulch about
8 mile and a half from the beach, and an
additional half mile OF road viii be imnne-
diately graded, connecting with the sum
dunn Chief mill site Il eoo-foot double
compartment shaft will be sunk on the
northeast end line OF the location TO be
gin with and levels established at each
100 feet
The Boston and Alaska Gold Mining
Company is making quite extensive inn
provelnents on its Funter bay property.
A boarding house. bunk house, blacksmith
shop, and two powder houses are being
erected on what IS known as the upper
group. for which Charles W. Garside re-
Gently made the survey FOR wire tram
way 400 feet long. It's upper terminal
having an altitude OF but 2l5 feet above
the Grizzlies al the mill.