The Chitina leader., 1914-07-21
Cordova, July IA.

has not interfered with the con-
tinued development of the mine. The
destroyed building contained an air
compressor, gasoline engine and
112 cases of gasoline. The black
smith shop was also burned. The
long tunnel 500 feet below the sur
face is now in 900 feet and lacks
less than 200 feet of striking the
main ore body. The latest report
from the Kuskalana country is that
the H. & E. Company have struck 5
feet of bornite ore in the tunnel,
upon which they have drifted 40
feet.
Lawrence Bowman Clapp, the
architectural designer and water
color artist, left on the train this
morning for Miles glacier, where he
will take up camp with Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Schiller for the next few days.
He expects to get number of views
of the glaciers and will then return
to Cordova and paint surrounding
scenes.
Saturday night DR.. Council left
for Chitina, where he had been
summoned because of the serious
condition of DR.. Hamilton who had
been accidently shot in the foot
few days before while out hunting.
Blood poisoning had set in and when
the DR.. reached Chitina he did not
deem it advisable to perform on
operation. The patient continued ID
gradually get worse and died this
afternoon at 1880 O'Clock.
DR.. Hamilton came from Seattle
where he had a wife and brother, A
l.. Hamilton, a leading photographer
with studio in the Colman building.
The DR.. was a graduate of McGill
college, Toronto, where he took
course in medicine. He spent last
winter in Cordova and left about
the first of February to go to the
Chisana. After reaching Mccarthy
he changed his plans and later re-
turned to Chitina, where he had
since been residing.
A regular meeting OF the CordoVa
Chamber of Commerce was held last
night. at which a number of COM
munications were read and disposed
of. One matter of considerable i'm
portance was a communication from
Governor Strong, in which ne
urged cooperation in the effort TO
secure a creditable exhibit from
Alaska for the San Francisco expo
sition. The Chamber referred the
matter to the executive committee
to take steps to see that an exhibit
from the Copper River country was
assembled at Cordova so that 1t
could be shipped to San Francisco by
November 1t is particularly desired
in this connection that miners in
the interior should ship to the cham
Der specimens of the various ores
that are now being mined. This is
desired both for a local exhibit as
we'll as for the exposition.
A party of large stockholders in
the Alaska Copper Corporation, who
left a week ago to visit the proper
ties of the corporation in the Kus-
kalana country, returned last night.
They were: Baron Bulow Won
Ravens, of New York; NJ. P. Martin,
of Scranton, Pa; D. E. Drery and
Geo NJ Drery, of Catasauqua, Pa;
and Alfred B. lilies, of New York.
These men came down yesterday
from Strelna on speeder. They
left the mine in the morning, had
dinner at Strelna and left there at
o'clock, spending an hour each at
Chitina and Mile. III, and reaching
Cordova last night at II O'Clock.
They passed the Sewell family ct
Mile SO, where they are making
headquarters while painting the
glaciers, expecting to go on to Mug
get creek in about week.
The stockholders who examined
the Rarus and Nugget Creek mines
express themselves as being we'll
satisfied with the development and
showing made H. w. Dubois, the
mining expert from Philadelphia is
still on the property and will con-
tinue his investigation and examina-
ton for a few days longer, and likely
until the arrival Of Amber j.
Stewart, of New York, vice president
and treasurer and Frank P. Lauer,
of Reading, Pa, who is director,
and president of the Lauer Brewing
Co. These two men will sail from
Seattle on the steamer Northwestern
tomorrow night. Baron Won Ravens
and the Baroness will remain at
Cordova until after their arrival,
while the party from Pennsylvania
will sail on the Alameda Thursday
for Seattle. Mr.. and Mrs. lies will
go to Valdez on the first steamer.
Cordova, July Is.
A speeder that left Strelna this