Douglas Island news., 1901-11-27
An investipation of far-reaching con

An lQVeSJlSaClOu Ol AdA Il S''NhAHS VI sequence, one that may lead to the lm- mediate development of the great cop per properties of Alaska on scale that will mean the employment of thousands of men, is now being made by men who are conversant with the different branches of the great smelling indus try, says the Northwestern Miner, Man ufacturer and Metallurgist, Among those who went to Ketchikan on the last trip of the steamer Farallon was MT. I. B. Hammond, the patentee ot the we'll known Hammond quartz mill, and president of the company of that name, which is putting up 3o-stamp mill on the. Sea Level mine of that section. Aside from the work of installing the machinery of that mine, it is known that Mir. Hammond is to use the 45- foot gasoline launch that he took with him to carefully explore the copper de- posits of that section with view to the establishment of a mammoth shelter where these ores are to be reduced by the aid of crude petroleum. While none of the principals of the affair are disposed to talk for publication at this time, it is known that Mir. Hammond had several conferences with T. J. Flynn, of San Francisco, the patentee of the "Perfect Petroleum Burner" at the Hotel Northern, Seattle, in regard to the matter. Both declare that it is feasible. The matter only awaits the development of oil in the state of Washington. If that is not realized it is the intention to bring it up from California in tank steamers, and dis tribute it along the Alaskan coast from Prince of Wales Island to Cape Nome, where it can be laid down, according to Mir. Flynn, at a figure that will make it equivalent to coal at S5 per ton. By converting the oil into gas before de- livery to the furnace, which is done under the Flynn system, a heat force is developed far in excess of that ot coke. Miners and property owners, and in fact everybody interested in the great empire of the North Pacific, will watch these experiments with interest.
 Frances H. Willard, native of Alas ka, and former resident of Douglas Island, has written an interesting let ter concerning Alaskan boys and girls in school, which is now issued in leaf let form by the literature department of the Women's Board of Home Mis- sions of the Presbyterian church. Fol lowing are extracts: "In no other place in Southeastern Alaska is there gath cred so large a number of native chil- dren as may be found in our training schools in Sitka. The Sitka Training School is a familiar name in the homes of many christian people in the United States. It costs about S100 to feed clothe, care for and educate an Alaskan child at our school. Many of the pu- pills here are orphans, or are those whose parents are not capable of talk ing care of them. The Indian Training School is more than its name implies, it is an orphanage and rescue home as we'll. During the days when witch
 craft was openly practiced by these people, time after time were children rescued by the school from the hands of their tormentors or would-be mur- derers. Child marriage, by contract, or by law of succession, as practiced by the Alaskans, presents as pitiful pie ture as our foreign missionaries find in India. Sometimes children are be- trothed in infancy, and marriages are contracted early which are a cause of much misery among these people. Not infrequently the young girls seek pro- lection and find it in our school"
 The Porcupine Nugget says that on 10th inst. Mir. Frank AltamoDt and partners came out from Quartz creek, Porcupine district, bringing with them s4OO0 in gold dust and nuggets. The gold is clean and of an excellent qual- ity, being worth s19 per ounce. They report the creek very long and wide and that the diggings are shallow, bed rock being reached at from three to five feet, and that the gravel pays from the top down. Upon their return after purchasing supplies at Porcupine, they sluiced in an improvised sluice for four days and took out S40oo. They would have worked longer but the weather became so cold that the water and gray