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Seward gateway., 1905-09-09
ALASKA PLACER MINING
Government Engineer Investi-
 gates and Makes Report

Tho Oregon Mining Jownel says;
 Placer mining in Alaska is affected by conditions which are not combined in any other field familiar to Amcrican miners. Many an old placer miner or California has come to grief in the northern cline because he was unac- quainted with the peculiar conditions that exist there. During the last three year, the United States Geological Sur vey has received numerous requests for information regarding the cost of operating collaborating almvial depos- itS in Alaska, and the best means of working the claims in the various dis taicts To collect data for report which should embody such information, the Geological Survey sent C. w. Pur- irgtou, mining engineer of Denver, Colorado, to Alaska during the felt season of 1904.
 The main objects of this report have been to determine the most expeditions way of getting out the aUriferous ma terial--gravel sand or bed rock and the cost of so doing; the best methods of hydraulic mining; the cost of remov- ing overburden under each set of con- ditions and of handling the tailings; the capacity and cost of installing me- chanical methods: the cost capacity and adaptability of the methods ems
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GOina to Knik?

The shortest route to the placer and quartz fields on the Matanuska, Knik and Sushetna rivers is via Knik, You can outfit at Knik (two stores) Provis- ions, Hardware Camp outfits etc. Call on the Knik Cash Store. Quality of goods the best Prices right, you save more than the freight. Wesell at coast tpt
 prices.
Seward gateway., 1905-09-09

Aug. l5-H. N. Anderson, 20 acre quartz claim on Fall Creek near Sunrise,
 Aug. 2l Jas. Wilson, H. r, Vibrant. H, H. Hildreth, each 20 acre plac- CT claim, Fresno creek. Ang. 3O-J. W. Sumrall, H. Anderson and R. R. Abney, 7O4O acres placer ground, Kings Bay eight river.
 DEEDS Aug. l2 F. l.. Ballaine to M H. Parker lot 2l blk, f Seward, $500. Aug. l4-R. N. Gravert to c. F. Hew- it, one-fourth interest in Cliff claims, Nos l, ,, 3, 4, } and 6, ad- joining Seward.
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Schooner Brlnqlnq Explosives

The schooner Vo'ontC i, somewhere lu the high seas between Seattle and .cward with l5O tons Of powder and dynamite for the Alaska Central rail- road. She k nearly due here now but company officials take cognizance of !. uncertainty of a windjammer and .xpect her when she comes
Seward gateway., 1905-09-09
HAS BIC STEAM SCRAPER
Nome Man Working Device Which
 Scoops Up Three Yards

Br0wnoII'- steam >craper, which i, working ou the beach at the east end ut Nome. i- aa imrrovedme,nod deyi-. .J for working the gold bearing sand. Thi, scraper, which i, built without a bottom. never leave, the ground, but !, drawn along che bottom of the cut and mp on incline toa dump box. it is capable of handling three wards of dirt Nt every movement.
 The sluic, b0Ne, are 4S inches in width, and tho dump box about l2 feet by 6. A powerful gasoline pump is opp. .rated for the purpose of obtaining 8 good sluica head.
Seward gateway., 1905-09-09
MINING AND REAL ESTATE RECORDS
Re cord of Mining Loc aticnS, Transfer Etc, Recorded in the Office of U. 5.
 Commissioner
LOCATION NOTICES

Arg. 3-Chas. A. Tecklenburg, 20 acre quartz claim Sunny bay.-F'. C. Wulf, F. C. Thornton, Minnie E. Thornton, Chas. Carstou, each 20 acre quartz claim, Sudny bay. Aug. 5-W. w. McAlpine ct al., i25 coal claims, Anchor Point, Cook. Inlet.
 Aug. S-H, T. Hampstead, one coal claim, Anchor Point AHg. 14-Peter Jacobson, 20 acre quartz clam, mile IS adjoining Alaska Central Railway track.
Seward gateway., 1905-09-09

And now rha Japanese claim they wanted ro fight ~.m. more. Those who ..u. rla. rn.. r.ed the exercise might move over ml .o.u the Tarwr,. uo seem Go have begun where thc ..r- ..tr uI
Seward gateway., 1905-09-09

New Mexico is SD close 70 TpE5s it might be expected Co stir up rough house now mo then.
Seward gateway., 1905-09-09

Iu"-. Parker win draw twice the ".uma as counsel f1r Belmont, tro,- .E .ue that ho would have received if
Seward gateway., 1905-09-09

Ketchikan has organized camp of the Arctic Brotherhood, It is num- Der 20.
Seward gateway., 1905-09-09

S' Rockefeller hos hnrgnatod The Cleveland newspaper men. He must re figuring on a pres, bureau to offset Tom Lawson and Ida N Tarbol
Seward gateway., 1905-09-09

The golo strikes seem Co h. coming mi, way Co ma.. Alaska, ., fr~t bir rail- road. The new ones arc all close to
Seward gateway., 1905-09-09

Lot for rent or lease.-Mrs. stull.
Arizona silver belt., 1905-03-02

Neffs store stock and law office lib- rary were ruined, the Catholic church building fell, great stretches of the Coronado railroad were wrecked, Ro- mulo Chavez $ saloon crumbled down, and nearly all business places on the lower end of Chase street were food ed and their stocks considerably dam. aged. The railroad round house was flooded and the locomotives partly buried. Along the river, the pile driver and engine were lost, the daul sprung leak, the water mains were unearthed, Louis Georges empty house in Patterson'S Addition carried away and O. A. Risdon's house occu- pied by Charley Wright undermined and leveled, p feet of valuable ground in front of the company works caved, and a portion of the temporary rail. road bridge fioated off. Opposite Pat terson's Addition Juan Rascomb' s adobe home fell down.
Arizona silver belt., 1905-03-02
What Has Happened in the Terri. tory Since Our Last
 Issue.
ALL KINDS OF INFORMATION.
New Business Enterprises - uood Year for the Man With the Hoe, and the Owner of Live Stock Everybody VIII Have Money
FRoM TUCSON PosT

FROM TUCSON POST,
 Burt Alvord, the famous bandit and partner of Billy Stiles, who was sent up from Tombstone for period of two years for robbing the United States mails may be released from Yuma in a few months, if he gets all of the good time coming to him. All word has several territorial charges hanging over his head and he may be arrested as soon as he steps from the prison as the Arizona authorities are not anxious to again have the famous bandit at large.
 MT. c. NJ. Burkhalter returned Wednesday night from Fl Paso, hay ing accompanied the party of eastern physicians that far. These men who are looking for site for sanitarium for tuberculosis patients have practi- cally decided on Deming, although Alamagordo, Roswell. Albuquerque, Fl Paso and PecoS, Texas, are among the cities which they are visiting. Mir. Burkhalter says that there is ques- tion in his mind whether Tucson would care to have the fraternal colony of ten thousand consumptives which they expect eventually to es- tablish.
Arizona silver belt., 1905-03-02
FINAL COUNTY NEWS
 FROM ARIZONA BLADE

The marine fleet at Florence has been increased to five boats and there is now no delay in ferrying passengers and freight.
 The eastern gentlemen who landed here recently are out with their guns looking for the fellow who wrote them 1t did not raiu in Arizona.
 s. B. VanMeter, of Phoenix, is here assisting County Surveyor Clay Park CT in the work of surveying and pre- pairing estimates of the cost of repair ing the terri torial bridge across the Gila at this point.
 The Florence public school will be closed on March l7. lt could have been continued month longer but for the fact that the school house needed painting, work requiring an expenditure of about 500. Percy Rowan was down from tho railroad camp at Butte Wednesday dAl cfhy N bliG WI pl lSSORi III AbN hAi at the south end of the Butte tunnel is progressing rapidly. This fill was torn out by the recent floods, not by the current of the river, but by a flood that came down a side canyon. The work of repairing the Butte and RipSy wash bridges has not yet been commenced.
 Robt. Branaman, of Riverside, was a visitor at the county seat Tuesday and made social visit to the Blade sanctum. He says that while the late floods melted down the adobe walls of his dwelling house and barn they greatly improved his farming land by filling up all the low places thereon and leaving over the whole surface a deep deposit of rich silt. His irrigating ditch was not seriously damaged and he considers his farm worth more now than it was before the floods.
 Mir. Pattee, of the Mt. View ranch st,ted to the Blade Thursday that he dug hole on his ranch Wednesday tc depth of five feet and was still ir wet ground at the bottom of the hole. He also stated the water in his wei had risen about seven feet since the rains set in and has also risen in the railroad well at the Florence depot sufficiently to completely submerge the steam pump. Ia many of the wells about Florence the water has risen five or six feet. The country has not had such a thDeUuIh soaking since 1881, and the soaking" is still in pro gress.
Arizona silver belt., 1905-03-02
C0CHlSE COUNTY BUDGET
 CULlE0 FROM EXCHANGES

DOUGLAS ISTERNATiOSAL AMERICAN.
 Ground was broken Thursday morn ing for the BPS, 5000 Y.M.C.A building. Andy Scott has the contract for the excavation.
 Eleven lots have been secured on Fifteenth street, between c and D streets, for the site of Douglas new school building, which is to cost Sl0,O0O.
 E A. Tovrea is feeding 1000 steers at Dou Luis on cotton seed hulls and meal shipped in from eastern Texas and Louisiana. The average weight of three-year-old range steer is about 700 pounds. After being fed from six ty to ninety days on cottOnseed hulls and meal the steer will be fat and weigh about 900 pounds. The steer on the range will cost about $20 and it will cost about the same amount to put him in condition for the market block. The meat is said to be equal to any to be had and is now used by Tovrea & Go. both at Bisbee and Douglas.
 Gus Heyman, the wellknown cigar man, who was pioneer on the com mercial .trails in Arizona, is in town, arriving yesterday from Clifton. He stites that the flood damage in Clifton during the winter has been unprece- dented. The main street in thu Chase creek part of Clifton now resembles a W .terleSs river bod. At plices saud and rocks have been deposited eight aud ten feet high.
 FROM THE PRospEcToR
 While drilling for artesa1 water near Naco the drill encountered some signs of copper deposits at Il depth of about 400 feet. The new discovery is creating much interest and may lead to some extensive exploration work.
 Grip, in acute form, is going the rounds of the city. Sufferers are att tackled with headaches and severe
Arizona silver belt., 1905-03-02

pains throughout the body, accom-. panied by annoying coughs. The form the disease is taking this year is the most severe that has prevailed in some years.
 FROM TIE MINER:
 The price of real estate in Lowell and Bakersvllle will jump about 10 per cent the first of March. This inform ation comes direct from persons con trolling the 1+0 odd lots now on the market. The demand for house lots by miners and others intending to build is increasing steadily and sales are recorded daily.
 Bisbee Oommanderv of Knights Templar ia now well under way to permanent organization. The dispen- sation has been received from the grand commandery, and arrangements are being made to obtain suitable quar- ters. The baby commandery of this jurisdiction will be launched un. der the most favorable circumstances The application for the charter was signed by thirty-five Knights emplar, and which will be the bership practically at the time of institution of the cOmmandery. The first officers will prob ibly be Dr. c. l.. Caven, emil nent commander, Frank s. Graf, gen eraliSsmio, and Captain James COwan, captain general.
 Sid Varney has accepted Young Yousoulf's challenge for a wrestling match to be held at the opera house, Monday, March l3, aud will post his forfeit uf $50 for side bet of $25O with the editor of the Bsbee Even ing Miner. YousoulI says that he will cover the money as soon as 10 iS put up aud has already commenced trAinin :. for the match, while nunb3r of eide bets are being put up on the bout. In the bout between these two at Naco recently, Varney won two out Of three falls. It ia claimed for YOusouf that he had not trained for the contest.
Arizona silver belt., 1905-03-02

Mir. Coleman this morning "and there were probably as many more on the return route. There is lake half way between the two towns that Is ordinarily dry, but in which there is now about foot of water, and this Is fully five miles long, so you per ceive that travelling Is not as pleasant as 1t might be.
 The Citizen was in receipt this morning of the latest map of Arizona issued from the Department of the In- terior at Washington. The map which is 3ixi0 Inches, cost but twelve cents and is the best as well as the most up tod ,te of is kind.
 Ben Daniels, superintendent of the territorial prison, who was in the city yesterday, was on his way e Wash | Ington where he Xiil b0 nne of the Rough Riders who will act IS part of the escort to the President when the inauguration ceremonies take place iu Jhc national capital.
 FROM TIE PosT:
 John r: Horcourt, the alleged dia- mond swindler, is o0t of jail. He WAS released on 5000 bond. D. J. Spires, who ran the roulette wheel at the SauJa RiCa aud his brother, NJ. c. Spires are hls sureties. HarcOurt bid adieu to Sheriff Pdcheco aud went to the Spires residence where his wife was waiting for him. She returned recently from trip tO Los Angeles. Harcourt has been in jiil here since Novem Der 2, and looks well. He has been living on the fat of the land dur. ing his confinement AS all of his meals were supplied from tn, outsde aud he was therefore not compelled to subsist on the ordinary prison fare. Harcourts s case will be submitted to the next grand jury whi;h m tets in April.
Arizona silver belt., 1905-03-02
ITEMS FROM PRESCOTT
 AND yAVAPAI COUNTY
FRoM THE COURIER

FRoM THE COURIER
 Howard Burmister, of the DO pular Prescott mercantile house of R. H. Burmister x Sons company has withdrawn from that firm pre- paratory to going into business at Ocean Park, California. PrescotpS loss is the gain af OJean Park. How ard BurmiSter is good business man and good citizen whl will prove d desirable acquisition to any communl- ty in which he may settle.
 Prescott is destined to be a great sanltarium center,an educational cen ter, and headquarters for minir E companies. In years past, this paper has made favorable comment on the proposed location of branch peniten- tiary here, but there has been such a change and conditions are shaping themselves for such bright future for this place, that the question arises as to whether penitentary here would be an unmixe1 blessing. A pen. itentiary town can never escape the unpleasant condition of being referred to as such.
 The branch railway being built west from point short distancs north of Wickenburg now has rails laid for a distance of IS miles. A telegraph line constructing party, which has placed line alorg l5 miles of this road, re- turned to Prescott yesterday and will proceed to place two-wire telegraph line from Prescott to connect with the line running west from the junction of the branch road with the S. F. P. & P. railroad.
 FROM THE HERALD:
 John Miller, from the White Cloud mining camp, has been committed 10 the insane asylum. He is an old d-time miner, well known in Yavapai county. Miller believes that he can hold per sonal communication with ghosts, and in the White Cloud cam3 frequently told acquaintances of messages that had been given him. At the time he was taken into custody Miller had saved considerable money, which he was to spend on an extensive pros- pecting trip into the Superstition mountains in the southern part of the territory.
Arizona silver belt., 1905-03-02
THE NEWS OF TUCSON
 AND OF PIMA COUNTY
FRoM TIE srAR:

FROM THE STAR:
 Col. Wm. Herring and his daughter Bertha are en route to Guaymas for d brief stay, the colonel having legal business to dispose of.
 Prof. John c. Cooper aud wife left this morning for Winona Lake, Indi- ana They have bean visiting their son, Wm. F. Cooper, for the past six weeks and return home greatly pleas ed with having made the visit.
 Homer Dubois dropped hundred dollar bill last night on Congress street, between the Cabinet corner and the Palace Prospe- tors were out with matches, lanterns aud other illu- minating devices, but their search for the lost treasure availed not.
 The Twin Buttes railway grade is completed for a distance of six miles. A grading camp is operating at the nine mile point, and another camp will be installed early next month. The rains have interfered with the work to greater extent than had been anticipated.
 A. Davis, a Denver electrician is here to install the National Telegra- phone company's instruments on the cabOoses of the Souther Pacific. The telegraphone is but two years old and Is now in use on the coast division of the Southern Pacific, the Carson & Colorado branch of that road, on a number of cabooses of the TucSon di' vision, the Colorado Midland, Denver X Rio Grande, and Rock Island.
 Martin Costello, of Los Angeles and Tombstone. arrived from the coast city yesterday. He is looking well after two mon ths' illness, which was so se- we're at one time that his life was threatened. Mr Costello holds mort gage in large amount on the Wind sor hotel, which he sold two years ago to A lien R, English, making good margin by the sale. He bought the Lohergan property Cabinet corner) a little oyer year ago for SIS, 900, eight thousand more than was declined two years previous.
 The TeOdoro Elias case was brought before board of iDqulstion last Oc tober and the governor held up the execution until March 20. If at that time the prisoner should have recov- cred his mind the hanging will pro ceed. The insanity of Elias has be- come more pronounced and there is no probability that he will ever become any better. The law requires that in cases of this kind the governor must be notified and take some action twen. ty days before the time of the expira ton of the period of reprieve. This has been complied with. The gover. nor will be heard from shortly.
 FROM THE CITIZEN;
 Mayor David s. Rose, of Milwaukee, accompanied by E. P. Hackett, one of the city officials of that burg, arrived here last night and registered at the Santa Rita.
 E. E. Eliinwood, formerly United States Attorney for this Territory and at present District Attorney of Yavapai county, and chairman of the Territorial democratic committee is at the Santa Rita.
 k. R. Coleman, the Arizona Eastern railroad contractor, who resides at Prescott when he is at home, arrived this morning from Phoenix, via the Casa Grande- Florence route. "When we came over, we met four rigs with four people in each one of them, "said
Arizona silver belt., 1905-03-02
WHAT HAS HAPPENED
 IN GRAHAM COUNTY
FROM THE BULLETIN.

FROM THE BULLETIN.
 It is reported at the court house that Cyclone Bill has established a marriage bureau for the county priS oners aud is now known by his late room mates as Clpid Cyclone.
 Miss Zella Dysart, sister of Fred Dy. sart, is expected to arrive from the east soon. She will assist MT. Dysart with the growing business of his ab stract office. Several years ago Mss Dysart taught ia our public schools.
 I. E. Solomon, Ph. Freudenthsl, b. w. Wiekersham and Cashier Chas. F. Solomon left Wednesday morning by stage for Clifton, where the annual meeting of the directors of the Gils Valley Bank & Trust company was held yesterday.
 Sheriff Parks new steam we'll drill. ing outfit was started the first of the week, under the supervision of Ira Harper. Some diff 3ulty has been ex perienced in getting the new machin' cry to work satisfactorily, and bat little progress has bsen made so far with the we'll. The cost of the outfit is about $3,500 The successful oper- ation of Mir. Parks enterprise will mean much for tue cattle industry of this part of the country, for it will make it possible to graze off hundreds of thousands of acres of good cattle range, now of no value to stockmen because of the lack of stock water, FRoN THE GUARDIAN.
 Joe Mckinney, who has been foi some time a trusted official at the Yuma territorial prison, spent few days in Stafford last week. He has lately been appointed on the ranger force, with headquarters at Tucson,
 The old folks annual reunion hsld at Layton Wednesday was quite an elaborate affair. A lengthy program was carried out and everybody in town, young and old, seemed to have been present during the exercises. An old,fashioned dinner was served, of which all partOOk heartily and left happy.
 FROM THE CLIFTON HERALD.
 The Arizona Copper company is making arrangements to clean out Chase creek five feet from top of the walls. The channel was badly clogged with stone and gravel during the last two floods.
 After taking out one of the three ore cars that fell into the river during the flood of January 10, it was found that it would cost more than they were worth, so the other two will be left in the stream. Jack Evans took 8 car out for $l25, and neither he nor the company made any money by it.
 Frank Springer, the barber, had a narrow escape from drowning. He, with about 100 other residents, was down at the railroad bridge Friday night, watching developments. In the uncertain lighl of his lantern he stepped of the bridge approach into the river. Mir. Springer went up to his chin in the water, but grasping a pile climbed out.
 Another page was added to the flood history of Clifton Friday, making quite book. Along the creek Judge
The Adair County news., 1905-06-21

Mistakes are often times made
in the feeding of poultry in the
summer. If the hens are in good
condition for laying they will fare
much better if compelled to come
off the roost in the morning and
scratch for their breakfast than
if they are permitted to walk up
to a feed trough and fill their
crops. The morning feed of grain
and seeds may be scattered in
the litter after they are on the
roost at night, so they can begin
as early in the morning as they
desire. Before going to roost at
night they may be given allsthey
can eat, and will digest all the
crop will hold before morning.
The Adair County news., 1905-06-21

ALSO SPECIAL HOMESEEKERS'
RATES TO THE WEST AND SOUTH
WEST ON CERTAIN DATES.
The Adair County news., 1905-06-21
n Jews Wit.

Speaking of Jews the Literary
Digest tells a good story about
the great Jewish fnancier, Baron
de Hirsch and a German prince
who made no secret of his veno-
nous hatred of the Hebrew race
The prince was talking at a din
ner where the two were guests,
of a tour he had made through
Turkey.
There are two Turkish GUS
TOMS" he said, that impressed
me favorably; oil Jews and all
dogs that are caught are immedi-
ately killed."
The silence of awful consterna-
ton ensued, at the table, upon
this speech, but was quickly
broken by the Jewish fnancier,
who remarked earnestly. "How
fortunate it is that you and l
don't live thereY'
The Adair County news., 1905-06-21
Prayed For All.

Representative Smith, of Mich
igan. fathers this yarn:
"Out in the country in a Sec
ton of my district there was a
funeral not many moons ago.
The deceased was a lady about
seventy-three; she left behind her
a mother over ninety and an only
son turned fifty years of age.
Being generally respected, the
attendance was large. The pray
ers, or rather the services, in the
house were conducted by the
Presbyterian minister who no
doubt did his best. After pray
ing for everybody in and out, of
congregation, he begged Heaven
to have pity on the orphan. The
mother of the deceased was not
forgotten, for blessing was ask
ed for her, who though older than
her daughter had yet survived
her.
The Adair County news., 1905-06-21

TICKETS ON SALE DAILY UPTO
AND INCLUDING MAY IS, 1905.