Iditarod pioneer., 1915-03-06
AN IMPROVED SCRAPER
 INVENTED AT FAIRBANKS
Fairbanks News Miner, Jan. 2O)

Over in the machine shops of the Samson Hardware Company, on Garden island, August and Alex Hanot are working out a new invention in scrapers that is command ing the closest attention of mechanics and mining operators in this community The invention of the two brothers gives every indication of becoming of great importance to the Northern mining industry as in fact to all kinds of mining where scrapng is an essential operation.
 This new scraper is labor, fuel and cable saver over the old slip style CT the later improved Bagley and it is believed will reduce the cost of operations in open cut work perhaps as much as third. It can be operated by one man, where two and three are now necessary, allowing the saved labor to be used elsewhere around the ground on other work. Instead of the cable wearing out in one season, it will last at least three, and the reducde friction is so great that the fuel economy under the boil CTS will be the greatest saving of all.
 Quite a large number of prominent creek operators have viewed the working model made by the Hanots and pronounced it entirely practicable while its mechanical features seem to be fully as well worked out. The Samson company IS giving the use of its shops without cost to the boys, one of whom formerly worked there, and doing everything in its power to encourage their success John Barrack head of the company, said last night that he believed the new scraper would work out as in tended, and would effect great saving over any of the types used at present He would not be surprised if 1t did half again as much work as either the old slip or the Bagley, or putting it another way, did fully as much work at half the cost,
 Commenting upon it also, Manager Bar rack said: "It will effect wonderful say ing on cable, fuel and material that enters into the cost of making scrapers. It will run on wheels, saving cable wear and tear by dragging over the ground, as the present scrapers do. I believe that it will be worked out successfully and we shall see it is op- eratlOn this spring.
 Working from movable gin pole this new scraper takes on it's load easily and rises immediately to its carriage on a cable running directly to the slulce boxes, where 1t dumps autom atically without the use of any additional apparatus or fixtures. Thus the loss of load by being hauled over the the ground to a dump. the wear and tear On cables and the power consumed in such a rough, wearing haul is done away with. After unloading at the sluice boxes the bucket-scraper returns quickly by force of gravity down the cable to the ground and is ready for another load. The whole op, eration is simple, easily regulated, free from wear and tear and quickly completed.
 It has not been worked out in a month, or in year, for the Hanots have been working on Pedro creek since 1905, and are thoroughly familiar with the problems presented in scraping. Both are mechanics, and third brother. Will now ia Semitic, is also a mechanic They are proceeding slowly with their invention and saying lit tie, nor will they do more until they have seen the scraper work in mining ground here It is people who are interested Tn its success that are doing the enthuslng, not the brothers, although they are, of course, confident of what they have accomplished. It means so much to open-cut men that they have been visiting the Samson shops in numbers lately, or until the model was removed.
 This model is now on its way by express to Seattle, from whence Will Hanot Will tor ward 1t at once to Washington to accom- pany the application for patent, as re- uuired by law It is certain to create favor able comment in the mining world; its value will be definite and substantial. In about two weeks the full-size scraper upon which the brothers are working will be com pleted, and just as soon as 1t can be set up on the creeks it will be demonstrated