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The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1912-07-16
DEVELOPING INTERIOR GOLD AND COPPER MINES

already know Estery has of the complete hydraulic
plants in Alaska having lumber buildings sawmi electric
light and telephone system and having constructed several
miles of good roads
There also in that district the Brooks property which
is hydraulic plant being opened by Minneapolis people, Will
hams and Holmes the who financing that property
They have their pipe line laid and sucing Mr. Holmes
the present time in Cordova and greatly pleased with
the outlook.
''There also great many smaller operating
Young, Chtu Dan and other adjoining creeks in fact
all take out less moey They all to be happy
The Fagerberg Brothers working quartz lead lying
between shae and slate formations which has showed
of from $40 5000 per ton They have three tunnels
and think they will probably aggregate about 200 feet in ALL
he Fagerberg Brothers have made three trips this year
with their pack train to White River the Birthstone and
through the Birthstone Pass taking in supplies for prospect
They took Miss Dora Keen their first trip One pros
pector from there with poke containing several hun
dred dollars in gold.
''The route which Fagerberg used will be important
turning the supplies for the White River to the Copper River
Northwestern Railway. There is plenty of and good
horse feed and with the facilities afforded by the railroad
and from there with pack trains there bound to be
thorough and systematic prospecting and therefore,
rapid development.
Te formation throughout the Nizna country regular
and while placer gold will be taken out for years to it
excellent looking district for quartz prospecting and will
doubt in time become big producer In fact the showing
already made for the of work done is phenomenal 1t
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1912-07-16

(From The Cordova Daily Alaskan
Even the people living in Cordova have but dim idea OF
the mining work and development going tributary
to the Copper River Northwestern Railway. Through the
courtesy of Frank A. verson who recently made trip
the Nzna district and who is known reliable and expert
enced mining enabled to give detailed account
of many of the leading properties in that section which will
prove of interest Mr.. Iverson said:
''The first piece of property visited the Erickson
group Glacier Creek and they have about $50 feet of un
The formation there is decomposed nophyry shot full of
kidney copper sugs and nuggets In connection with that they
have defined lead which they figure they will tap in forty
feet more of tunnel they working
The next property at that owned by the United
Copper Exploration Company That's also copper PROPOSE
ton And they claim have blocked by tunnels 100000
TONS They have $50 feet if remember rightly of tunnels
and crosscuts.
The Range Brothers have about 20 feet of tunnel They
are located Dan Creek adjoining the latter property
''The Krum property Dan Greek is gold proposition,
which also visited He has 40 feet of tunnel which SO 40
feet will crosscut antmony dyke which show
to be about $500 per ton in gold They shipped last fall II sacks
which gave them smeter return of 1913 per ton They shipped
one sack of 81 pounds giving them return of $22.79
''Then also visited the Birch Brothers hydraulic plant
Dan Creek They about ready to turn the in their
pipe and about finished setting up their pipe when
there. This company has sawmil all lumber buildings;
about three quarters of pipe line laid dams all completed and
ready to go to work.
George Max Estery is working two plants and is
suicng His works Chttitu and Rex Creeks As you
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1912-07-16

certainly eye opener even hurried trip over the
district
Zone of the urgent needs of the country present
time roads, and dare say there important inter
es part of Alaska to be served than found the
en time in that section for the expenditure of money roads,
The road commission ought investigate the
dtions, and satisfied Major Richardson would then
the necessity for doing something.
'There is cable ferry Nzna about mile and
half below the mouth May Creek which is of great assist
ance. Al Bremner operates it. There also good roadhouse
at the mouth of May Creek owned by Carkens Cahcar
and want to say they know how treat their guests From
about five miles out of Mccarthy to the Nzna ferry the trail
bad but after gets the Nzna there good
trail dare say $500 per mile would make very good trail
the Nzna Save little work done by the road
commission at Mccarthy last all the trails has
been raised by the mining and operators
Already because of the mining activity in that section
number of building improvements being Mccarthy
and that place promises to be thriving time it is
the supply center for that entire country and will remain
until an extension of the railroad is made.
1t must be remembered that in addition to the properties
have enumerated have not attempted anything about
the big copper mines in the immediate district the railroad
including the Bonanza mne the Blackburn the Regal Mother
Lode Nkoa Green Group and Others all of which or
less work has been DONE and Of which, you know of
course, already shippers and proven mines.
''ln fact in article is impossible to give
comprehensive idea of the amount of work. the development
the richness of the district and the big output promised in the
future"
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1912-07-16

The mine is situated that in time will be easy mat
ter to build ramway which will send the down distance
of 25 feet to where the vestamp mill will be located There
plenty of timber and steam will be used this winter There
also considerable waterfall which will be utilized next
for power AS rapidly conditions permit and the
uses the stamp mill capacity will be increased 1t is beiev
ed the returns from the vesamp mill will be sufficient to pro-
vide all the money needed to develop the property although
course by the expenditure of considerable amount
economic improvements will have be dispensed with which
could be installed at the start.
81 am certainly pleased with the in which have
been treated said Mr. verson when seen at the
lobby by Alaskan reporter The railroad company the
business railroad employees and everyone did all in their
power to assist the work And say you that
within the bounds of open up this country he is
not telling the TRUTH and the fault generally lies with himself
found everyone concerned anxious assist and there
finer people the face of the earth than Aaskans they
satisfied is all right and is doing his best to make
good
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1912-07-16
SCOLA| PASS
RIVAL ROUTE

Mountain passes have long been
sought in all countries of the world,
and as arteries of commerce and
communication have played no small
part in it's upbuilding. And perhaps
nowhere in Uncle Sans domain has
the rought coast range mountains
been more closely scanned for outlets
from the great interior than here in
Alaska, where already the famous
White Pass route, and Thompson S
Pass of Abercrombie fame, are house
hold words.
Yet there is still another which
promises to figure prominently in the
development of this portion of the
territory and to outrival perhaps all
other interior routes. This is the
Scolai Pass, the connecting link be-
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1912-07-16
FIVE STAMP MILL FOR MILE 1872

Frank A. Iverson manager and stakeholder of the Bonan
Gold Mining Company which recently made strike its
property at Mile 1872 is in Cordova his way outside pur
chase ive-stamp mill for installation the property
The workmen five feet in the porphyry and have
not the lead which oucrops above distance of
1877 feet The tunnel in 306 feet The values have
been found in the pohy though gold values be found in
all the rock through which the tunnel is driven
Some time Mr. Iverson sent 80 sacks of from
the leads through which the tunnel for mill test to the
Tacoma smeter and the 5000 the in gold
and silver sample of u pounds from the present lead
worked by the Bonanza mine people and $500 the
ton
In order to strike the lead the operators getting
down to bedrock their finances it decided to strike off
from the main tunnel at right angles it judged the out
cropping lead ought to be encountered at about fourteen feet
The workmen however, went distance Of 80 feet the ledge
dipped than anticipated As it is crosscu
strike the lead again about feet He will then begin take
out The present tunnel will make good working tunnel
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1912-07-16

it would be well to Conserve" the
Alaska coal supply for future gen.
erations. Otherwise their lucrative
contracts would have been destroyed
George w. Perkins, the largest in
dividual stockholders in the United
States Steel Company, also became
an ardent conservationist, his con-
version to the idea following discov-
cry of the fact that the Alaskan coal
makes excellent coke, and that it is
the only available coking coal that
could be used to smelt advantageous
ly the iron ores of the Pacific sea-
board into steel. The opening of
the Alaskan coal fields would abso-
lutely have destroyed the steel trusts
Western markets.
These facts were pointed out in a
brief published in the Times and
sent to Washington a year ago when
an investigation was being held. The
investigation was dropped immedi-
ately and Clifford Pinchot and Secre-
tary of the Interior Walter l.. Fish
er went to Alaska to make another
investigation of the conditions.
Last winter the delegation from
the Seattle Chamber of Commerce,
headed by former Senator John l..
Wilson, brought all of the facts in
connection with the controversy be-
fore President William H. Taft, the
Senate committee on naval affairs
and the Senate committee on terri
tories. Before any action was taken
however, the department of state
Won LegerKe Meyer then discovered
that there was no naval fuel on the
Pacific coast for battleships, and that,
in the event of war being declared,
the foreign-bottom ships, which he
had then chartered, would become
subject to attack, because carrying
cargoes that would be considered as
contraband.
Senator Reed Smoot, of the naval
affairs committee, Immediately pre-
sented a bill for the leasing of Alas
ka coal lands and carrying provi-
sion that large coal mine be open
ed by the government and the coal
| ing station on Resurrection Bay
which is 1000 miles nearer the Phil
ippines than Mare Island yard, be
Immediately stocked with 100000
tons of Alaska coal. This bill is now
before the public lands committee.
The New York Times, Leslie's
Weekly and other eastern newspapers
drew attention to the fact that in the
event of war with an eastern power
the naval fleet on the Pacific ocean
would be left fuelless and helpless
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1912-07-16

After nearly two years the battle
for the opening of the Alaska coal
fields, says the Seattle Times, has
proven partially successful. At least
the lucrative graft of furnishing east
ern coal to the navy on the Pacific
ocean, so long enjoyed by the Poca-
hontas Sales Company, has been de-
stroyed. The Vancouver Board of
Trade last night received from Lieut..
Com. James l. knight, U. S. N, at
San Francisco, a request to submit
tenders for supplying the entire Pa
cific fleet with bituminous coal from
British Columbia. The request fol-
lowed tests of the Canadian coal
made on the United States cruiser
West Virginia, when a maximum of
steam was obtained from 20 per cent
less tonnage than was obtained from
West Virginia coal.
The Pocahontas Sales Company, of
which Judge Woodruff, an employe
of the Interior Department and a
Pinchot adherent, became secretary
and treasurer after being fired from
the department by Secretary R. A.
Dallinger, is said to have been large
ly responsible for the movement for
the conservation" of Alaska coal
that followed the test of that fuel
maze in 1908 on the battleship Ne
braska, when it was shown that the
Alaska coal gave a percentage OF
threatened Intervention in Mexico
and Secretary of the Navy George
2-2-10 higher average for all pur-
poses than the coal furnished by the
Pocahontas Sales Company. The
dismissal of Woodruff precipitated
the Infamous attacks made on Sec
rotary Ballmger in the Ballinger.
Pinchot controversy.
The Pocahontas Company, fol-
many years past, has furnished al
average of approximately s2,000,00(
worth of coal year to the govern
ment for the naval vessels and sta
lions on the Pacific coast, dragging
it around Cape Horn, in defiance o.
the United States federal statutes, IL
| foreign-bottom ships. rhe Pocahon
tas coal, delivered on the Pacific sea
board. owing to the long haul, cost,
nearly twice as much as better
grade of fuel would cost if brough
from the Alaska coal fields, and be
sides that. % per cent of America I
supply of thermal heat units, as con
/ tanned in it's coal measures, is burned
up-or wasted-in the process o
transportation. Still, the utlra-con
lservationists, backed by the owner
of these Eastern coal fields, though
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1912-07-16

There are about rs prospectors in
the district, all of whom have claims,
some of them being very promising.
This does not include the large
operators. Robert Wiley, who rep
resents New York capital, has nine
teen claims patented. Mr.. Knowles.
representing the N. A. T. & T. Co..
has twelve claims patented. These
are on the American side, while ON
the Canadian side the largest outfit
is controlled by a Mr.. Morgan. These
properties are said to be very valua-
BILE. Although the chief product OF
the district is copper, there have been
several gold bearing quartz claims
located with excellent showings.
A strong effort thas been made
to promote, and it is expected the
Canadian government will build
wagon road to Canyon City. While
the American portion of the district
| is looking for relief in this direction,
| it is believed both governments will
render aid in opening up the district.
The people of the White river coun-
try would like to have the Cordova
Chamber of Commerce and citizens
of Chitina, Mccarthy and other Cop
per river towns combine and aid
them in getting government assist
ance for pack trail and double-end-
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1912-07-16

The object of Taylor and McLel-
lan's trip was to look up the best
route with a view of getting supplies
into the White river country more
reasonable than at present, and they
are anxious to enlist the people on
this side to help them out in secur-
ing an appropriation for the construc-
ton of a double-ender sleigh route
and the establishment of a mail de-
livery from the railway terminal to
the new town of Wiley, on the river
near the foot of Russell glacier, a
postoffice already having been grant
ed there.
The conditions in the White river
district at present, as outlined to
your correspondent by Taylor and
Mcclellan, are in substance as fol-
lows: 6
The White river empties into the
Yukon 50 miles above Dawson, and
the distance above the mouth of the
white river to Canyon City is 165
miles. The boundary line is ten miles
above Canyon City, and about 80
miles below the foot of Russell gla-
cier. From White Horse the distance
is ESQ miles, and supplies brought in
that way cost 80 cents per pound for
freight. Freight by polling boats up
the river Ga 2S-day trip is 80 cents
per pound.
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1912-07-16
J. Lindley Green to Resign.

]. Lindley Green, assistant United
States district attorney, with head
quarters at Seward, states that he
will retire next January to resume
the practice of law, and District At
torney Walker has promised to APP
point Judge o. A. Tucker, of Cordova
In his place.
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1912-07-16

tween the terminus of the Copper
River & Northwestern Railway at the
Kennecott mines and the headwaters
of the White river and the different
branches of the Tanana.
From Kennecott the distance to
White river at the foot of Russell
glacier is computed to be so miles,
via the Chettystone, and slightly more
via the Nizina route. The latter
route is reported to be more favor
able for railway building than the
other, while for packing and foot
travel the Chettystone is more de-
sirable, as the Scolai creek and up
per Nizina during the high water
season are more hazardous for foot
and horse travel.
A few days ago Harry Fagerberg.
who guided Miss Dora Keen, the
mountain climber, to White river by
the Nizina route, returned, accompa-
MED by Andrew M. Taylor and Jo-
seph Mcclellan, well known White
river miners. After a brief stay at
the terminal they returned to White
river via the Chettystone. Harry
Fagerberg accompanied them with a
small crew of men and built a pack
trail around Chettystone falls, a few
miles above the glacier, thus remov-
ing the wost obstacle on the trail.
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1912-07-16
NEW BALL PARK
FOR CH|T|NA

Chitina is going to have the best
baseball park in Alaska. No sooner
was the matter mentioned than ev-
erybody became interested. A good
level plat of ground half mile north
of town has been selected and good
progress is being made clearing it.
In another week trees. brush and
stumps will be gone. Two of Chit
mas leading women were out the
other day swinging axes in a most
enthusiastic manner. 1t is now pro-
posed to have a tract of forty acres
including the ball park set aside by
the government as park for the
town of Chitina. The ball grounds
will be finished in time for some
good games this summer.
The following letters remain un-
called for in the Chitina postoffice:
A. Berry, John Bergen, Tim Cronin,
John S. Dorwin, Fredric Fredricken,
H. Sutherland, Gust Swersten, Sven
son, Charles Ckoftland, Warren Tay-
lor, Louis Wick, Christ Void, R.
Wrarar.
The crew of men under Fred Wal
tiers have covered about three miles
of this end of the trail and are now
camped at the old site at the south
end of the third lake. The crew I'M
der Billy Cameron are working at
Tonsina and have covered about four
miles of the trail The work con-
sists largely of ditching and putting
in small bridges.
Since Miller and Chamberlain ar
rived in Chitina the streets and hill
sides have been so full of cows,
horses, sheep and calves that those
passing through here think. this is a
ranching country. 1t will be some
day.
Those registered at the Chitina
Hotel this week are: Sam Potts, P.
M. Fry, wife and child, B. C. Delzell,
Omer Patten o. Reeves, Will O..
Dryo, Charles David, J. NJ. Simpson,
o. L. Larson, H. M. Fagerberg, F. A.
Iverson, D. w. Waldron, E. H. Sher-
man, Mrs. Johnson, R. R. Stewart, ].
A. Carlson, R. c. Becker, J. M. John
son, Mike Maher, Ray LOOMS, l..
Thrift, j. w. Neagle, Mrs. Smith, E.
M. Holmes, Ray Camp, Dan Millen,
Mr.. and Mrs. Max Gigold, E. S. Pc
gram, w. A. Gates, B. F. Willard and
wife, Mrs. w. R. Willard, Mrs. B.
Carney, ]. Strenlark, Ned Book, S.
o. Freedman, L. L. Butler and wife,
Lewis A. Levensaler, L. P. Schuma-
cher, Roy A. Creek.
Miss Jessie Barrus spent few
days in Cordova this week.
R. R. Stewart was in Chitina and
Kennecott this week looking after
the business of the Arctic Lumber
Company.
Some development work is being
done on the asbestos property about
a mile north of town 1t is owned
by Dan Lee, Jim Fritter, Tom Clon-
niger and John Irwin. The work is
being done by John Johnson.
July has been quite cold so far.
Ask Johnnie Nelson about the
ball park.
Fred Walters, with thirty good
men under him, is making big
showing on the trail out of Chitina
Ben Richardson and D. Davis have
opened up new saloon in the build
ing that has replaced the old Log
Cabin Saloon.
F. NJ. Schaupp is making prepare.
lions for a big addition to his pres.
ent building c, c. Hull has given g
contract for building foundation or
his lot near the depot.
Charlie David, the we'll known
contractor, is back again.
The bridge crew now has every
thing in shape on the railroad ant
Will go to work on the reconstruction
of the big concentrator at Kennecott
-O-O-S
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1912-07-16

and the exploitation of this fact has
doubtless led to the call for bids Tor
supply of naval coal from the Brit
ish Columbia fields.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-21

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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-21
A Workman Digging In Cellar Evca-
walton Comes Near Going
Down Into Big
Hole.
QUICK ACTION SAVES HIM
Came Near Suffering the Fate Of
Coal Miners by Being Shut
In by Mother
Earth.

Workmen engaged in making an ex-
cavation for building out on Frank
lin street met with little accident
and fright which might have been
worse. 1t is on the site of an old house
which was torn down some time ago,
leaving the old cellar open but in a
different shape than that required for
the intended new building.
The workmen, nor the owners OF
the property knew anything of an old
we'll that was located there years ago
and all at once, as the dirt was being
dug into, the earth began to give way
under one of the diggers and he had
to scramble manfully to remain above
ground, which he finally did, more
scared than hurt.
On close examination 1t was dis
covered that 1t was an old we'll forty
feet deep into which the workman
was plunging and had he not been
! about as quick as thought other dig
gers might have found job in res
cuing him from deep hole in the
ground and covered with the dirt that
would have surely followed him in his
underground trip towards China.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-21
AN old CITIZEN
DIED LAST NIGHT
James Davis UtIey at His Home at
1910 johnson Street After
Two Weeks Of III
ness.
A CIVIL WAR VETERAN
Had Been a Continuous Resident Of
keokuk for Fifty Years-sur-
vlved by Wife and
Daughter.


At 1o:3o last night at his home, 1910
johnson street, occurred the death
OF James Davis Utley, q native OF
Mercer county, Kentucky, who had
been resident of Lee county and
Keokuk for fifty-five years, a lustrum
more than half century. About
six weeks ago he began to complain
of a complication of diseases which
grew worse until about two weeks ago
when he was confined to bis bed
where death came to his relief.
In about 1856 his parents moved
from Kentuck to Iowa, when the de-
ceased was eleven years old. settling
in this county on farm in the vicin1-
ty OF Sandusky.
He was veteran of the civil war,
enlisting in Company A, Nineteenth
Iowa infantry. After the war he re-
turned to Keokuk and followed the
vocation of a carpenter. He was we'll
known in Keokuk and had many
friends in the city and county. Aug
ust 3, 1887, he was married in Keokuk
to Miss Rosa Lohmar, who survives
him with one daughter, Miss Beulah
Utley.
Mr.. Utley was not a member OF any
church but attended with the Baptist