The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1915-01-12
Cordova, January 6

of $4,000 and she Us to be put on
the run to the westward, taking the
place of the Dora. AS the Santa
Anna is an oil burner, she will prob
ably make Cordova her home port.
This will mean a considerable in
crease in the business of this port,
as the crew will be paid off here and
passenger and freight transfers will
be made here
A party of Standard Oil people
came up on the Alameda and wee
landed at Grindell bay, on Prince
of Wales Island, about 40 miles
from Ketchikan, and not far from
the fishing station at Shakan. The
party consisted of A. E. Hammond,
A. G. Orr, B. H. Hodge, Marcus Ken
dali, ]. H. Crammond, G. V. Bigelow
and j. ]. Tomlinson. The last
named gentleman was the original
locator of townsite at that point
and it is the intention of the Stand
ard Oil Company, it is said, to take
over the townsite and to establish
large oil station there.
George Woodman, mine operator
from Shushanna, will be a passenger
for Seattle on the return trip OF the.
steamer Alameda. He is going out
to purchase a Keystone drill for
prospecting his property. No. above
on Skookum gulch, and hopes to re-
turn on the next trip of that vessel.
Mr.. Woodman has good reason to
believe his ground is rich as Charles
Range took out $4,000 from one of
the adjoining claims last summer
While coming out over Skolal
Pass last week, Mr.. Woodman saw
large numbers of mountain sheep.
He said that game in the Shushanna
country is far more plentiful than
last year.
The first private wireless system
established by the Alaska Steamship
Company on the Alameda proved
success on the trip up the coast. One
advantage over the old system is
that it is practically noiseless. The
system is to be installed on all OF
the company's vessels.
Cards have been received here
announcing the marriage OF MISS
Florence Hull and Mr.. Wesley Earl
Dunkle on Tuesday, December ~,
IIYD'
Mrs. Margaret Hull Badger, in ODER
lin. Ohio Miss Hull was formerly
employed as stenographer at the
Kennecott mines. Mr.. Dunkle is a
mining engineer in the employ OF
the Alaska Syndicate and is well
known in Cordova. Mr.. and Mrs
Dunk1e will be at home in Cordova
after January Is.
The latest report-from the Tolo-
vana district is that two holes sunk
ON Amy and Myrtle creeks failed TO
show pay. R. A. Jacobson, civil
engineer who had just returned TO
Fairbanks declared that no pay had
been struck in the district up 10
December 20.
"Some good prospects have been
found and | think that the prospect
ors of the Tolovana have better than
an even chance of developing a pay
streak" he said.
"Of my own knowledge, l know OF
but one outfit that reached bedrock.
That was on Olive creek, within
few hundred feet of the Tolovana
river, in the flats, and nothing was
found. The hole was sunk by Lon
Doggett and was but % feet deep"
Cordova, January
William Stewart, one of the oldest
pioneers of Alaska and the Yukon,
died at the Pioneers home in Sitka
last Sunday night. The immediate
cause of death was ulcer of the
stomach. He was about 6S years
of age, a native of Scotland and UNI
married. He had no relatives in
this country so far as is known.
William Stewart was one of the
real trail-blazers of the country, a
prospector and miner of the old
type In the early SOS he went TO
Juneau in the company of DICK
Harris and Joe Juneau. In 1885
he was rocking the bars of Stewart
river. which stream was named In
his honor. In 1886 he was at Forty
Mile and was one of the discoveries
on Franklin Gulch of that stream
He came out as far as Juneau
after several years in the interior,
but was again caught in the Klon-
dixie excitement and went to Daw-
son in 1897. Two years later he
was again following the stampede
to Nome, arriving there in the fall
sof '99. In 1912, by invitation OF