The Alaska citizen., 1914-12-14


be but a little while until some big
company will bond one of the many
promising claims on the creeks and
start development work.
August Hess. the Fairbanks creek
miner. who was in town few
days ago. is of the opinion that
some OF the claims in his vicinity
Will pay for their own development
as soon as the mill being built by
Charley Heilig on Fairbanks creek
is completed and ready for operation.
There are several good prospects
on Fairbanks creek which will aver
age at least s25 a ton in gold, but
in the past II has cost the miners
s14 a ton to transport the ore to
mill and pay for the milling AS
soon as the Heilig mill is in opera
ton. Mr.. Hess says. it will be pos
sible to get the ore freighted and
miled for $3.50 ton. or only
little more than onethird of the
present cost This will make it pos
sible, he thinks. for many of the
best prospects to be put on paying
basis at once. and he and his asso-
cates are planning to commence
developing their claims as soon as
the mill is completed
p,,u T., !, a,,ar,- community, +bara
Empty are people who spend
Jail much of their time tell
ing how the whole world
is going TO the dogs. and declaring
t,at everybody is setting worse all
the time Sill il ia fact that there
arc nIacas where tho iails are nmnty
and neonle are hannv and prosperous
in snite of the fronbla agitators.
ono instance If his is brought
to LIGHT in an item published else
whore in this issue II tells of the
efforts being made in Skowhegan.
Ne nv tho bigh school girls of
that Mace 10 get the use of the local
iai1 for a Mace for nracticing basket
ball
According to the information that
has been received here il seems
that the iail At Skowheean is used
only as an ornament and that as
tho naon,a arc all law-abiding there
II hae Stood .mntv for some time.
rho girls headed a room for nractice
.nd iii unon tho novel idea Of get
,ine The iatl for that nurnose So
tha would ;s GOOD in some snots
.,ryoy
conor.ss Those fellows who are
Chained svmaking national laws in
rbs Times Washington must be il
norant Of their work
for they are presuming that the
is the third session Of the Sixty
third congress, but the Fairbanks
Times has declared that they are
all wrong
Under a date line of Washington,
D. c., Dec. T. the Times of this city
saws. on its first page in last Tues
DAVIS issue:
Crowded calendars confront both
houses of congress, and present in
dications are that the Sixty-fourth
session will be known as a billion
dollar congress"
Although it was not organized on
that date. the Sixty-third congress
really dates from March 4, 1913,
and is supposed to go out of eXis.
tence on March A. 1915. Two ses-
sions were held since organization
and another was started week ago
today. But according to the Times,
congress is now holding its Sixty
fourth session." and whether that
means that this is only the Sixty
fourth session of congress since
the United States came into exis-
lance. or if this is the Sixty-fourth
session of the Sixty-third congress,
is not made quite clear.
p.,o,+.r Often a man or woman
prnves We writing letters uncon-
/. e;n,I. eciouslv tells between the
limos something of them
so,ros that tho writer had no in
tartion ~ saving 1t sometimes.
h.nnons TOO in news items that we
1aarp son,a,binq of the writer by
h,e s,v,a or nv the subject matter
- bjs ortic,as
rhis uos hrouoht to mind few
d.rs 400 whan an item appeared
" 80 ,ri,,,as ~ ,bis citv telling of
~ hjrth of hahv 10 Mr. and Mrs
Co., Crawford Of Chehalis Wash.
~ Cr.wford of this citv nv the
..,o
=, s noda avident from the wav
49,. 49,, ~ tba Times was written
nc. nc. i,s antbnr is hachelor for
We wa" .oamod 70 have an idea that the
e;,,oa h;,,h encouragement semi ont
Nv NJ and Mrs Crawford was an