Douglas Island news., 1903-09-30
Lincoln Rock Lighthouse.

six feet above extreme high tide. Near
 ly fifteen hundred yards of concrete
 were used in accomplishing the task
 This reef has for years been considered
 one of the most dangerous menacles to
 navigation in northern waters. It lies
 about two miles off the southwest
 coast of Etolin Island, is on the main
 steamship route and was summerged
 about ten feet at high tide. Perpetual
 storms and heavy surf have made the
 work of putting concrete in place,
 dangerous and almost impossible.
 Heavy seas have repeatedly carried away the wooden frames that were set
 in the reef to form the wet concrete
 into solid rock, and hundreds of tons
 of uniformed concrete have been wash
 ed into the sea. After year of loss by
 storm, and nothing accomplished after
 spending fortune, contractor Carkeek gave up in disgust and publicly an
 nounced that Lincoln Rock could not
 be conquered. Uncle Sam did not
 think so, and ordered Lighthouse In speetor Edward c. Worth to remedy
 the trouble. Mir. Worth decided that the only way to hold the concrete in place while forming, was to build the wooden concrete forms in sections, in
 stead of the full height, and thus ex-
 pose the least possible surface to the pressure of the sea. Carefully, section
 by section, the wooden forms have been placed: foot by foot the concrete has formed iuto solid rock and now the perpendicular walls stand about thirty feet high on every side, from their base on the sloping sides of the reef. The frame work of the lighthouse is finish ed and complete light signal and fog service will be installed before bed weather sets in.-Wrangell Sentinel
 J.H. Hill, who has been iu the Kayak district since early in February, and who returned from there q few days since, states that he and his associates took up 10000 acres of oil land. In speaking about the district. Mir. Hill, who is miner of 30 years experience, said: q look on an oil field as l do on ! a mining section. If in mining re- zion you see good float and strong out croppings they are regarded as good indications of mineral. On the other hand, in an oil field when you see strong seepages, shale sandstone, aud escap- ] ing gas it has the earmarks of a prom isiug oil field You find these condi- tions in existence in the Kayak field, and therefore everyone who goes into the country, who understands any thing about oil, is convinced that it is a splendid oil country. This impress sion is accentuated by the fact that an oil we'll which flowed number of bar reIs a day has been found. l explored the district for 9 miles one way by from F to 15 miles the other. l found one to five and sometimes more seep- ages on every section of land. In one place there was pond of half an acre that was pure oil which came from a seepage. Along the Chilcat river there are numerous seepages, some of which are 30 feet in length. The formation is regular and the country rock is an oil shale, sandstone and slate. The well drillers and experts in the district seem to think that there is just as good chance of striking oil near the sea shore as further back in the hills. There are some excellent indications of oil on the land of the Alaska Oil < Coal Co.,, on the holdings of the Alaska Oil Syndicate, and also on the land of the Octolee-Alaskan Oil Go. The land of the later company stretches for sev- eral miles along the shore east from Cape Suckliu. 1 noticed number of [ seepages on this land. The position of the several companies and indlvid- : uals owning oil land in the district is peculiarly advantageous for the reason that the oil is a very high grade and the means of transportation are close at hand in the tidewater which can never be monopolized." The latest advices flon Cold Bay are that the Costello we'll was down on August ? 75O feet, and that in the last ? feet the drill passed through oil sand. Mir. Costello is most hopeful of the out come. The Casey we'll was down over 800 feet, and the outlook is that oil will soon be found. Large areas are being -L-1-.i .. LII. IL. Call Pnr- nr,l Cnnl.