The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1913-02-04
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son employed 500 men with a month
ly payroll of from $4,000 to $751;
900. The company put up 5000
cases of salmon, 1000 barrels of her
ring, 500 barrels of sailed salmon
and as many of mild-cured.
TEX" Alexander, of Ketchikan,
has become tired of explaining why
he is not Socialist to few individ-
uals, and so he has challenged Kazis
Krauezunas, Socialist candidate for
delegate to Congress, last year, to de-
bate on the subject of Socialism.
A postoffice has been opened at
Hadley, with X. Foss as postmaster.
Hadley will receive its mail from
Ketchikan.
A new sawmill at Hadley is about
completed, and Foss Bros. & Co. are
employing thirty men getting out logs.
According to the report of the
Commissioner of Lighthouses the to-
tai number of aids in Alaska includ-
ing lights, fog signals, buoys and day.
marks in commission at the close of
the fiscal year, was 265. There are
now 95 lights in Alaska, as compared
with 81 lights on June 80, 1910.
Oscar Weston escaped from the
United States offivials at Ketchikan,
while taking coal to the courthouse.
Then he stole boat from a preacher
at Saxman and headed for British
Columbia.
The Bank of Petersburg has been
opened at Petersburg with C. F. Hen
Erickson of the Scandinavian-Ameri-
can bank, of Portland, Oregon, as
president. @. o. Steberg, of the
State Bank, of Buckley, Wash, vice
president. K. L. Steberg is cashier
and manager of the new bank.
Emil Picott, of Montreal, was
found dead in bed in Prince Rupert
hotel the other day. Death was due
to heart disease. Picott was form
er Yukoner.
The people of Atlin are still dis
cussing the recent discovery of coarse
gold on Silver creek, near Teslin lake,
and several prospectors have gone in
for the purpose of investigating.
Our former townsman, BILLY"
Little, has bounded his Golden Eagle
claim, at Port Wells, for 10000, to
Ben Silyerman of Valdez, who is
driving 200 foot tunnel on the
ledge. The property is situated ad-
joining the store at Golden and is on
the waters edge, being surrounded
by ample timber for all purposes and
with water power within a short
distance.
The ledge is IL feet in width, sam
pie assays returning from S. to 5000
to the ton. A mill test of the mine
run" made at the Valdez mill gave re-
turns of $40 to the ton. Mr.. Silver
man estimates that by running in on
the vein for a distance of 200 he will
gain depth of 400 feet. Previous
to bonding the property Little had
stripped the vein for a distance of
100 feet; the vein being tracable on
the outcrop for 800 feet.
Judge Finnegan, j. H. Jeter. H.
H. Hildrteh, George Sexton, J. T.
Hamilton, c. NJ. Huff, W. H. Whit
tleey, ]. Wallace and Sid Anderson,
of Seward will be used by the govern
ment in an effort to make it's case
against Frost and others charged
with attempting to defraud the gov
eminent in the location of Matanuska
coal claims.
Yesterday telephone message
was received from Bremner to the
effect that John Van Iderstine, Harry
Hepple and Louis Dahl, three old
timers, who have been missing since
December l had finally turned up
and were none the worse for their
long and trying experience in the in
terror. They have been prospecting
in that section for many years and
about twelve months ago started out
to search the hills for mineral, ex-
|pecting to be gone until December l..
AS they had not been heard from by
January and feeling that the pro-
long stay had exhausted their grub
and possibly some misfortune befell
them friends in Cordova got busy.
They raised fund with which to
send a searching party out and the
expedition is just about ready to
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