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Douglas Island news., 1906-08-01

In cleaning up the wells and sluice boxes on the Allis-C Chalmers dredger, says a Dawson paper, a most perfect specimen of magnetic ore was found. Seldom is the natural product so mark ed in it's characteristics. Though worn to round pebble one inch by one-half by three-quarters, the specimen retain. ed so strong polarity the accompanying black sand was held to it and picked up like great black ropes. Touching any steel object, the strong magnetism was immediately imparted, but seem ingly without loosing any of it's own. Magnetic ore occurs iu extensive beds and is met with in granite, gpeiss, mica schist, clay slate, syentye, hornbIene and chlorite schist.
 The leader of the opposition in the Canadian House of Copmons, Hon. R. L. Borden, called attention to the com paritively small amount that has been collected in Yukon gold royalties since the discovery of the Klondike gold fields 10 years ago. The output of gold had been S114, 100000, aud if royalty had been paid on all this it would have yielded seven millions in revenue to the Dominion. The returns, however, showed actual collections of $2,250,000. A new source of wealth had been dis covered in the Yukon, greater perhaps than the original discovery. It has been found that the gravel of White Channel carries gold in paying quanti- ties and can be successfully mined by the cyanide process. The gold output of May creek up to June 10th this year is over S1,0OO,OO0, which is double that of last year of that date. High water has been a serious check to working, creek traffic having been almost entire Iy suspended for two weeks. The Yu- kon was the highest it has been since 1898. The high water mark was reached on June l5, but later began to recede.- Ottawa correspondent to the Chicago Mining World.
 One of the biggest stampedes ever witnessed in this end of Yukon terri tory has been on this week, the rush being to Hodnot and Gold Hill noun tains in the neighborhood of the head waters of the Watson river, forty miles from Whitehorse and about twenty miles from Robinson, the nearest point reached by the railroad. Jack Stager and another prospector who had been in the country, arrived at Carcross early in the week with phenomenatly rich ore which they asserted was taken from vein five feet in width. This ore shows, it is said, values amounting to s500O in gold per ton. It was shown to Col. J. H. Conrad and the stampede was on. The colonel started out every available man in the Carcross section, 26 having gone Wednesday to be fol- lowed by g others yesterday. A box car containing camp and prospectors outfits was left at Robinson siding yesterday from which place they will be packed by horses and men to the scene of the new strike. Half dozen pack horses have already been sent from Whitehorse to Robinson and the demand is not yet supplied. Telegrams received here yesterday from Col. Conrad assert that its by long odds the greatest and richest strike yet made in the Whitehorse Star.
Douglas Island news., 1906-08-01

Skagway has had a sensation in the apprehension of Mrs. Fred Welch, of Seattle, who ran away from her home and came to Alaska with soldier lover When her husband found her she went meekIy back to her little twenty months old baby.
 The Dawson News says: "Governor Hoggatt is man of medium height, of portly build, yet ready step. He is of middle age. slightly gray, but man in the full vigor of life. He talks with deliberation, but with easy and precise speech. His manner is most pleasing" :"
 Billy Johns Son, a sub chief of the Tesliu band of Taku Indians, wishes to announce to his friends and the world at large that, in consequence of the death of the dead chief of this band, he has assumed the name and office of the deceased and desires to be henceforth known as How'n-Kha, the head chief, with headquarters at Teslin lake.
 It has now been ascertained that the strike made by the Wild Goose Com pany on discovery on Dry creek is even more important than at first reported. The bedrock shows pay in some spots of $500 to thepan. It is declared by those who know something about the bedrock.that while there is not perhaps the extent of pay that is found on the Bessie it is very much richer
 More gold was received at the Seattle United States assay office during the fiscal year ending Jnue 30, 1906, than during any preceding fiscal year of tn e office, except 1901, the year when the Klondike was at its height, and the Canadian Northwest alone sent ST, ,000, 900 to that city. The total receipts in the fiscal year 1901 were 821, ,7o7, ,169.97. The corresponding figures of the year just closed were SIS, 39,0584l.
 Work in the Casadepaga re zion is showing signs of great activity, and the completion of the Council City & Solo mon River railway to that point will aid still further the growth of that re- zion. Several large outfits are about to start on extensive work this season. Indeed, news from every part of the Seward peninsula shows that capital is coming into the country. Tin pros poets in the Cape Prince of Wales region are especially bright.
 During the storm which visited the coast of Bering Sea on July 6, ' and 8, the breakwater which had been erected by the Nome Improvement Company last summer was completely washed away. The breakwater was part of the piers and wharf which Capt. E. w. Johnson aud assistants had commenc- ed to build It is situated at the mouth of Snake river, and later advices by the steamship Ohio are to the effect that the water worked it's way under and around the structure and that nothing now remains of it but a few piles. The piers and wharf when com pleted would have cost S2,50o,00o and S30,OO0 was spent on the work last sum- mer. The storm was the worst expert enced by the people of Nome since 1902. Three boats were swept ashore, but the crews were saved by the life- boat men, who rowod out to the rescue in the face of fierce winds and seas.
Douglas Island news., 1906-08-01

If a practical route may be found from that point, it is announced, the Copper & Northwestern railroad, the line projected by John Rosene, and which has hitherto been planned from Valdez, will fix it's ocean terminus at Catalla on Controller Bay. M. K. Rogers, representing eastern financiers interested in the road, has returned to Seattle from Catalla, where for six weeks he has been in the field with a force of twenty surveyors. As now proposed the line will extend from Catalla along the Catalla river to Cop per river, crossing the Copper river to the Copper fields.
 Four thousand and two hundred dol lars taken out in three days by two men with primitive methods, says Dawson dispatch, is the splendid result obtain ed oil a hillside claim on the right limit of Hunker Hill, opposite Dago creek, by Mcleod & Livingstone. Many others had prospected that side of the creek, but had never found the pay. They had stopped on reaching tale, which they believed was the bedrock.
 Mcleod & Livingstone went through the tale, and struck the original bed rock. They found gold so thick they could scoop it with their hands. The hole was literally lined with gold. The men were so overcome with joy at their great luck they nearly went mad.
 Four thousand miles over land and sea, to the land of the sub-Arctic, to marry the man of her hearts desire is the accomplishment of Miss Frackear, who has just reached Dawson from her old home in Chatham, N. B. The happy man is Joseph Welsh of Last Chance. Joseph came into the north years ago, seeking gold, and kept warm within his heart the memory of a charming maiden in his old home town. Not long ago he decided that the poke was fat enough for two, and sent the letter containing the tender invitation. The young lady was not long in getting ready,an when she started she let no grass grow under her feet. The trip from Chatham was made in the quick time of fifteen days. Dawson News.
 Jack Carr, the greatest of all mushers, is, with his wife, on his way to Seattle and the "outside" generally, It is the first time the two have been out of the country together for ten years and they say they expect to make much of it as they have enough money for ordinary satisfaction and some dollars to burn. Jack had mail contract last season between the Yukon and the Koyukuk, and while he was mushing, his wife was buying furs at their trading post at Fort Yukon. Jack did something of of this also in bis excursions up the Chandalar. They have sold out the post to one McElroy, formerly N. A. T.. agent at Circle City, and are taking out several thousand pelts on each of which they will collect a large margin of profit. Jack also made ten-strike during an excursion into the Tanana. immediately after the opening of the river this year. He secured a claim on Dome creek which he says, tersely, relieves him from any further necessi- ty of mushing or doing anything else save watching the other fellows work
Douglas Island news., 1906-08-01

Skagway has had a sensation in the apprehension of Mrs. Fred Welch, of Seattle, who ran away from her home and came to Alaska with a soldier lover When her husband found her she went meekly back to her little twenty-months old baby.
Douglas Island news., 1906-08-01

The Dawson News says: Governor
 Hoggatt is man of medium height, of portly build, yet ready step. He is of middle age, slightly gray, but man in the full vigor of life. He talks with deliberation, but with easy and precise speech. His manner is most pleasing" <"
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-02
NEW STOCKTON MINE.
Results Show What Hard Work Can
Accomplish in a Mine,

Visitors to the property at Stockton
OF tho New Stockton company-and they
are very numerous at this interesting
period Of the mines history-are unani-
nous in their expressions of surprise and
satisfaction over the excellent conditions
prevailing In this infrequently mentioned
property. The Katherine vein, which has
provided no small amount of shipping
ore from the very surface TO the depths
where the sulphides have entered. is ex-
hibitinS with depth proportions that lead
The visitor to the realization that this
vein would make a mine In Itself.
The change from the carhonates to
the sulphides in the New Stockton began
20 be marked at the 700-foot level. When
The vein was reached on the S00-foot
level clean breast of ore from six to
eight feet IN width was encountered, and
an upraise TO the I00-foot level exposed
the same character OF high grade ore for
he entire distance. In order TO learn
something more OF the extent OF this
great sulphide deposit, q drift was run
along its side for ninety three feet, ex-
posing for this whole distance about
ihe same character OF ore. winze from
the S50-foot level In the sulphides has
been started. and a crosscut is being
pushed 10 intersect IL on the l000-foot
level. thus practically blocking out an
other 150-foot stope Of even larger di-
nsnsions than the other.
Over 10 the west OF the shaft on the
'o0-foot level a fair-sized shoot chiefly
carbonates, was opened. and on The $50
foot level this ore has changed almost
entirely TO sulphides. The richer part
was found to be about four feet across
the face and thjrty-fve feet along the
strike OF the vein. This means $500 tons
~ ore averaging about 500 per car net
The most interesting Developments. how
ever. are yet to come, the management
pushing their work In several different
directions on the 1000-f foot level TO open
up several shoots of ore. Upon the at
tainment OF this object. the New Stock
ton will be in shape to present to the
"isitor one Of the most striking illustra-
tons OF whnt hard work done quietly and
against great odds can accomplish in a
mine.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-02
SALT LAKE A SMELLING CENTER
Largest Tonnage in History Being Sent
in by Many States.

People generally do not appreciate
the present Importance Of Utah, or Salt
Lake, properly speaking, as smelter
center" stated one OF the oldest smelter
men of this city Saturday. His eIper-
ience ranging over twenty-five years or
more has made him ono OF the best
judges Of smelter and mining affairs, and
continuing he stated that never before
in all his Utah experience have the var
ious companies received e greater tom
mage OF ore than nov being handled In
this valley
Salt Lake has taken the lead in smelt-
ing. and the great improvements under
way at Garfield Will only serve to empha-
size the citys greatness as an ore CEN
ter. At the present time the smelters OF
the Salt Lake valley are receiving ore
in generous quantities from mines In
Utah, Nevada, Idaho. Colorado. Califor-
mia, wyoming. Montana and Oregon, and
IL can be said without departing far from
the truth that the present campaign of
wholesale mining and shipping from these
various points has just started on its
course.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-02
UTAH APEX TRAMWAY
NOW BEING RUSHED
Action of Railroad Company in
Locating Spur Starts
Active Work.

General Manager Walter c. Orem OF
the Utah Apex company announced
Saturday afternoon that the question
long deferred regarding the exact To-
cation of the railroad spur at the Utah
Apex property had been determined
and the railroad company would begin
the construction Of this track without
delay. AS the Utah Apex company now
knows the location of this essential
accessory, there will he no further de.
lay in putting the tramway together.
Inc parts of this tram have been on
the ground for several weeks, and Mr..
Orem stated that it would be built as
fast as men and money can do it.
Some time ago in an Eastern inter
view, Frank l.. Pearse, the consulting
engineer for the Utah Apex company,
stated that upon the completion of the
tramway the Utah Apex company would
be enabled to send out 100 tons Of orc
each day, and MS this ore will net the
company tho sum of $40 per ton, the
earnings Of the organization should
soon be at least 800 per day. This,
however, is only temporary matter.
as the company is planning very large
campaign of development work for this
Bingham property. and it will only be
A question OF installing the vast I'M
provements now under process of for
nation to create out Of the Utah Apex
pronerties ono of the most successful
and remunerative of Bingham bo
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-02
Mining Notes

Superintendent c. c. Griggs OF the Un-
Gle Sam Consolidated company is hack
after an Eastern vacation.
Charles Rich, one OF the pioneers OF
the Black Horse district, is In the city
on business connected with his proper
ties
Manager J. J. Trenam OF the New
Stockton company spent Saturday at the
mine in Stockton
General Manager l. Hanchett Of the
Boston Consolidated was called TO Den
yer Friday by the death of his sister.
General Manager NJ l.. Requs Of the
Nevada Consolidated company left Sat
urday for Ely.
Word has been received from william
II. Tibbals, the well-known mining bro
ker. who is spending several weeks In
the Yellowstone region.
The Utah-Karns Tunneiing company
has established handsome suite OF Of
hces in the Dooly block. fourth floor.
R. Belcher is president of the company
and W. K. Vigus secretary.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-02
FIRST CLEANUP DUE.
Holderman Filter Tank Company VIII
Make Final Tests Soon.

Within the present week the manage
ment OF the Holderman Filter Tank com
pany expects TO make their first clean
up at Mercur. II Will be recalled that
the Holderman company Is operating on
the taillngs Of the Consolidated Mercur
company, and they have had their plant
in successful operation for several weeks,
The company has raised the daily tom
mage handled to between eighty-hve and
100, but it Is hoped within short time
TO handle even more than 100 tons day,
The Hoderman company seems fair
upon the way to complete success with
their process OF squeezing out values
that have stumped the Consolidated Mer-
cur mill The saving effected by this
new process is stated TO be beyond 30
per cent and upon the first cleanup soon
TO be made the company expects TO wit
ness the perfection OF their plans. The
results OF complete success In this ven
ture are boundless, as there is open for
such an enterprise all over the West
opportunities that should make OF the
organization one of the most prominent
and successful in the Western mining
regions.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-02
RICH GREENWATER DISTRICT.
Donald B. Gillies Gives Opinion of New
Copper Center

Donald B. Gillies. The manager OF the
Greenwater and Death Valley Copper
company, upon his return from the mines
in California. stated In an interview as
follows;
Sixteen claims and FIVE fractions are
embraced IN the group" said Mr., Gillles.
The development work which will be
gin Immediately will consist OF three
shafts, one on the east end, one at the
center and one on the west end OF the
property. We have the strike OF the
vein system for a distance OF 1900 feet,
and there are az least five we'll defined
Lodges on our ground. all OF them having
most excellent surface showines.
The deepest workings are on The Cop
per Queen claim, consisting Of shaft,
now down seventy feet. The ahaft was
sunk on the vein and exposes tirst-class
ore for It's entire depth. The veins on
the different properties vary IN width
from 10 10 90 feet. On some of the un-
developed properties the surface show
ipge indicate a width of 200 feet.
The district very much resembles the
United Verde district at Jerome, Ari5..
the same country rock. and the same ore
prevailing. J. c. Pyle. the representa-
tive of Senator Clark. visited the district
this week and was very favorably i'm
pressed with the showing. The 'Borsy'
Smith railroad will run within twelve
miles of the new camp at Greenwater.
The nearest railroad point is Johnnie
Siding about fifty miles distant"
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-02
SALT LAKER owns
THE LAVENA GROUP
Charles Scheu Makes Purchase
in Famous Good Springs,
Nevada, District.
REGARDED AS ONE
OF BEST POSSESSIONS
Metallic Values at Shallow
Depth Showing Up in
Good PrOfusiOn.

The departure of Charles II. scheu
on Saturday evening for the Good
Springs mining district to inspect his
numerous interests followed close upon
the acquisition by him of the Lavena
group OF claims, richly blessed part
Of that heavily mineralized region, orig
inally located by Harvey Hardy. Mr..
Scheu purchased the controlling inter
est in these properties outright, Mr.
Harvey still retaining an interest in
the company, Harvey Hardy, Jr,, is
experimenting the vigorous campaign
Of development work, which now is on
in earnest.
There are few if any in the Good
Springs district with such extensive In
terests as Mr.. Scheu, his faith In that
region being backed by most liberal ex"
penditures of money TO acquire proper
ties and TO develop them when once in
his possession. Before his departure
Saturday, Mr.. Scheu stated that he re-
garded the Lavena group as one of his
banner Good Springs possessions, The
properties are located within two miles
of the town of Good Springs, and a
large force Of men are at work explor-
ing the mineral resources OF the
ground.
Across the group for a great distance
y
lime which is twenty-four feet wide on
the surface. While some values were
secured at grass roots, nothing was un-
covered that can compare with the de-
yelopments with shallow depth. A shaft
has been driven for distance of not
over fifty feet, yet ore has been en-
countered in this working which assays
] per cent copper, twenty~one ounces
silver and from 50 to sol gold. As
could be expected naturally with Good
Springs ore bodies. there are places
upon the group where lead ore has
been turned up, the ore running from II
10 IA per cent IN this metal.
The enormous extent of this great
ledge, the character of ore encountered
mt such shallow depths, and the gen.
eral charac teristics of the district, all
have contributed to arouse the instinct
of enthusiasm in the Lavena group own
crs, and they are confident that they
will develop one of the banner pro-
ducers of the State Of Nevada.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-02
WEEK ON CHANGE.
Present Business Makes That of Last
Year Seem Abortiye,

Saturday was one of the most interest
Ing sessions OF the local exchange for the
closing week. a total of 1890 shares
were sold during the morning session.
these having market value Of s15.SS5.25.
For the week that has just ended a total
OF 2S7,O04 shares were exchanged. these
being worth the sum OF S178,23342. Dur
ing the same period OF last year a total
Of 74,840 shares were sold, having a mar
ket value of S23,751.13.
On Saturday the stock OF the New York
company held tho attention OF the local
talent for n greater portion of the time.
Many thousand shares of the stock sold
for prices ranging from "a to 35 cents.
there being great amount OF short
Ing indulged in. Lower Mammoth again
presented the same old enigma. selling
for from Sc cents TO 62 cents. although
the condition OF the mine is reported bet
ter than ever. Carsa was literally han
died al 2T1s cents, and Beck Tunnel came
In for Its share OF good times. Colorado
Mining stock jumped into the sale list
at so cents a share. The quotations for
the day and week closed as follows:
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-02
WORK OF RESCU|NG
COAL MINE CONTINUES
Manager Gridley Returns From
Rock Springs Mine Which
Was Damaged.

General Manager Gridley of the Cen
tral Coal and Coke company, who left
this city Immediately upon receiving
word of the great disaster TO mine NO.
2 of the company at Rock Spriro. Wyo.,
two weeks ago, has just returned from
the scene. and reports that very good
progress is being made in remedying
the damage done by the cloudburst of
Sunday, two weeks ago. Mr.. Grldley
enough, but the ruin wrought could
have been much, worse, and had the
floods come on any other day than Sun
day, at least fifty men would have
been killed.
Manager Gridley is of the opinion
that within the next ten days the work
of rescuing the mine from ruin will
have been accomplished, the manage
ment thinking within this time to have
cleared the mine from NIL water Per
haps the greatest damage was done by
banked up in the workings Of the mine,
burying all the underground machinery.
The present rescue work Is most severe
in character. yet very good progress
has been made in spite Of the difficult
ties that have been encountered.
Mine No ., states Mr.. Gridley, has
been in operation for the past twenty
years, and within this property there
are over twenty-one miles of workings,
1t is interesting to note that great dam
age was being done on the fateful
Rock Springs, but upon the water
breaking into the mine all water in the
city subsidized. So Mr.. Gridley thinks
that the damage to the mine saved the
business section of the city from n
great financial loss,