The Ketchikan miner., 1908-01-25

high grade of eeal and great thickness of beds are as Il rule accompanied by geologic structure unIavorah.e to mining \ Douglas woman ehid- ed her husband for drinking whisky in hot weather 10 keep him cool auo in cold weather 10 keep him warm Think how Inconsistent that is, she said. ito use the same remedy for two such extreme conditions v That is true. he assented, "aud there could not be two things more extreme than a hot. sunshiny day in July, and n cold, drzzly day in November" She admitted the truth of his statement. Well" he sad, triumphantly, II have seen you use the same umbrella as a remedy for these two extreme conditions.
 Discovery creek claim, Clearv, is without doubt the richest single 20 acre claim so far opened up in the Panama valley It's owner, Frank Man. ley, and the laymen, the five Aitken boys, Webster and Ballard, have al- ready divided up more than sl. GOO, GOO of proceeds from the ground. During the season just closed, it is claimed, the ground yielded $500 o00 and better without counting a considerable lump still standing. Though the cream of the pay has been taken out, no doubt, there is still a big part of the rich gravel body left: enough at least to furnish profitable working with big plants all of next season. An idea ot the value of the ground can be obtain ed from the fact that a quarter of q million was produced by one spot S0x4oo feet. One cleanup this summer for short run totaled $50, 0o0. Men who know the ground predict that when the last shovel of gravel from it is sluiced the claim wlll have yielded very close to S2, 000, 000.
 Bogus ten and twenty dollar bills are reported to he in circulation at Valdez. Introduced, probably in the uSllSt lHdb lHost duH hlht ot iiiohV. would pass in that late zone of ''fren- zied finance. y
 The Douglas News says it is re- ported that District Attorney Harlan is accused of discrimination in favor of the Guggenhiems-having refer cree to the Valdez shooting affair, presumably And yet it has been un- derstood down this way that the Val dez people accuse Gov Hogagtt of the same thing.
 The Mount Andrew mine, in the Ketchikan district, was closed down about the middle of the month. The eompany's finances are said to be in bad shape. Douglas News. Oh no, Mr. News. The Mt. Andrew, though idle is not in any financial difficulty. It was never in better shape for large production, and is expected to resume operations at an early date probably net later than March |.
 The Skagway Alaskan says that one Of the first cases to be tried by :, JudgeReid when he opens court at Fairbanks will be that of John Hayes and Phil Mcclure vs. the Alaska Pa ciic Express copmany. Hayes and Me- Guire have entered claims Tor the s50G0 reward offered by the company for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the criminals who stole the 500. GOO from the steamer Tanana in July. 19o6. The express company refl SC to acknowledge the cmir
 The Skagway Alaskan editor hides his light under bushel-or rather lhe mailing clerk of the con- ceru does it most tffectually for him. Tie copies of that paper sent to the Miner are almost invariably hermeti- cally sealed by having the'r pages pasted together so that their contents gre past finding cut. Coming thus they are more provocative ot cuss yoy1s than those of commeudation. ] T. r. MeDonald expects to keep bis coal operations going all winter. The mine is looking better all the time work progresses and the coal is ini- proving in quality. A barge load was brought cut from Chilkat this week and it found ready purchasers. The coal is of much superior quality to any local coal that has heretofore been on the local market. Mcdonald has 1000 sacks of coal at Chiikat and about 5000 mo.e at the mine. He expects to bring it to town by sled. -Katala Herald.
 Tine completed tax rolls for 1907 show the total valuation of the taxa ble property of Fairbanks to be S., I25, OCT. or about SI00. 000 greater than the valuation of the previous year.
 While work has been going on steadily all winter on several mining propreties in this vicinity, notably on the Valerie, Arctic Chief, War Eagle, 1 Empress of India and Josephene. the indications are that the present month will see work resumed on a nubmer of otbop YVbifahopca Ctap