The daily Alaskan., 1916-02-23
MINES
 AND MINERS

The twenty-three productive gold lode mines in Alaska produced $6,- 100000 in 1915.
 The temperature at WhitehoBe for the month of January averaged 261A below zero.
 | A Spinsters' Matrimonial club has been organized at valdez with a large membership.
 Wreckage of the barge Kitty Davenport has drfted ashore at SeIdOvia but so far no pieces large enough to be of any value have been found.
 The Boring Sea Packing Com Ipany has purchased the little steam CT Rush, which was once a reYen- ue cutter serving on the Alaskan coast. The boat will be used as a cannery tender.
 Capt. A. w. Thomas of Ketchi- kan, the pioneer herring man of that section, recently added to his fishing fleet the purse seiner Acushla. The new boat is 50 feet Hong, 14 beam and powered with a 25<b. D. COrliss engine.
 Appeals have been sent to the postmaster of Alaska and Yukon ito try to locate Joe Lowry who has become heir to an estate left by his brother Andrew, who was re- gently killed by an explosion at Davenport, Wash. Lowry came north jn 1896 and was last heard from in 1910 when he was in the Caribou country, in B. c.
 The offices of the Bank of Se- ward, of which Brown & Hawkins are the principal stockhoIders, have organized the Bank of Anchorage and are completing arrangements fer establishing the new enterprise in the Cook Inlet town. Chas. Brown is president of the bank, Sydney Anderson vice-president and IF. s. Balderson cashier. The new i institution is capitalized for $25,- COG.
 At Nome, early In December c. IV. WaldbIOom, an antimony miner, became overcome by gas fumes from o fuse he had just lighted while he was being hoiSted from the bottom of Q 40-foot shaft, and fell back into the hole. kThe eX- plosion took place and, after the smoke had cleared away the part ner lowered himself to the bot tom of the shaft, expecting to find his partners body blown to atoms but the man was alive, although unconscious. The partner succeed ed iu hoisting the man to the sur face and then dragged him to the cabin, about one and one-half mile' distant from the shaft. He theE went for help, and it was fully twt days before the man was brOugh to the Nome hospital. WGldblOon suffered no broken bones, althoug one cf his legs was swollen badly.
 All Alaska and all of Alaska's 1 friends are encouraged over the prospect for a great season of de, gelopment of the northern terri tory during the year 1916, say. the Seattle P.-I. The emergency appropriation of $2,8OO,OOO for gov ernment railway construction wil bo available to begin active worl at the earliest possible moment il the spring, and will be sufficien for all needs until the general aP propriation in the sundry civil bill amounting to $8,37O,OOO becomes available on July next. This pro Yides for exerting every cOnstruc tive force and will result in build ing 15O miles of railroad this year in addition to the const VUctiOn o the Alaska Northern railI 'oGd ou of Seward, The total length o the railroad from Seward to Fair banks will be 412 miles. With thi years building program complet ed, there will remain but 15S mile to construct next year. There therefore every probability tha trains will be running from Sewar to Fairbanks in the fall of 191' By the coming fall the Matanusk coal fields will be connected wit coast by rails. Alaska coal vi be available for the navy and fc public use. This seasons buiEdin program will also include gradin aud construction from Fatrbanl south, toward Talkeetpa, and pro1 ises the early tapping of the N