The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1915-02-09
OF GENERAL INFORMATION

| then his intention to take the train
Thursday for Chitina and to go from
there to the interior, to be gone for
several months. The Bishop sailed
| north from Seattle on January "a
and has made stops at Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau and other ports.
After his departure he received q
wire to the effect that his son had
been burned by an oil explosion at
Colby, Wash, where he was staying
with some friends. The boy was
taken to a Seattle hospital where
his burns were cared for and he is
rapidly recovering.
w. T. Soule and wife and N. P.
Sias were arrivals this morning and
are at the Windsor hotel. They
recently came through from Boston
and are enroute to Valdez Creek.
Mr.. Soule is the superintendent of
transportation of the Valdez Creek
Placer Mines, and brought up the
for the coming season. This freight
will go out on the train Monday
morning to Chitina, where the COM
pany's teams are waiting to make the
long haul to the property on Valdez
Greek. Mr.. Sias, who will also go
, to the interior on Monday with Mr..
and Mrs. Soule, is a brother of the
president Of the company, Geo. W
Sias, who is expected to come from
Boston later in the year.
This company has already ex-
pended over 100000 in develop
ment and equipment on the property
and will now send in a Keystone drill
and an Ingersoll-Rand air COM
pressor and drilling outfit. The air
compressor will have a capacity Of
80 cubic feet per minute, and will
operate an Ingersoll-Rand jack
hammer and 3 other drills, and will
be driven by a 58-horsepower Pelton
water wheel which goes with the out
fit. This rock drill outfit will be
invaluable in disposing of the bould-
ars, considerably increasing thereby
the efficiency of the hydraulic
equipment.
Mr.. Soule says that it is expected
to start hydraulicing in May and to
continue at least four months. The
seasons cleanup, which is expected
to be nearly 100000, will then he
made and hydraulicing again started.
The steamer Alameda arrived in
port this morning about $50 o'clock,
having sailed from Seattle on Mon
day night. She has since been dis
charging $50 tons of freight and is
due to leave for Valdez towards
evening. She had a number, of pas
sengers for Prince William Sound
ports as follows:
For Cordova-W. T. Soule and
wife, Mrs. B. Ewing. j. C. Wicker
sham, F. Ridenour, Dr. w. w. Coun-
Gil, B. F. Cordell, M. Finkelstein,
S. O. Freedman, M. F. Snow, w. r.
Pratt, V. j.. Dwyer and wife, Joe
Matthews, E. A. Allen and wife, NJ.
L. Stickney, n P. Sias, N. S. Smart,
R. c. Richardson, j. Dark, Henry
2oden. B. F. Thompson, Miss J.
Williams and - second class.
Toly
Porter, Miss Ashworth, Bishop Rowe,
Judge F. M. Brown, C. j. Atkinson,
C. w. DeHoff.
For Latouche-J. G. Floyd.
For Seward-M. Reilly, R. F.
Fletcher, c. M. Thorndyke, A. Carl
son and wife, w. Sullivan, A. M. Nc
Henry, E. B. Ellenbaugh and family,
G. P. Reilly, F. G. Ennis and wife,
M. C. Davis, w. f. Root, J. E. Riley,
Fl. WEIGH, w. Highland, j. Carter,
T. F. Gillies, l. Robertson, H. Molen,
Miss Molen, Miss NJ Cobb.
Former Tel ritorial Senator Henry
Roden was a passenger on the Ala
media. After leaving the Iditarod,
Attorney Roden spent some little
time in Juneau and is now looking
over Southwestern Alaska with a
view to locating in one of the rail-
road towns.
DR.. w. w. Council was a return
ing passenger on the steamer Ala
media. The DR.. had been in Seattle
with his family for the past six
weeks and returns in good health
and spirits after pleasant vacation.
Oscar Freedman returned from the
outside today and will leave on the
train Monday for Mccarthy. He
brings back about 40 tons of supplies
and will freight most of it into the
Chisana country.
Cordova, February 8
Rev. James Mcbride held services
yesterday afternoon at the Empress
Theater and had good sized audi