The Alaska citizen., 1916-01-10
ANT|MONY 0RE SHIPPING RATE
 IS ANNOUNCED
AVN. co. TRAFFIC MANAGER MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT OF
 RATES FOR SEASON.

| or the AUIeIICdH- uhOn ANdN i5dtiOIi | Co. Las made announcement of the rates which will prevail during the coming navigation season in the mat ter of shipping antimony ore Outsida from Panama river points. His com munication in reference to the mat ter was received by MT. Fairborn on one of last weeks mails from the i Outside
 Quoted from the tariff sheets, the rates announced follow. They are approximately one dollar higher than last years development rate: 1 Anthony ore, sacked, owners risk of sitting, bill of lading weights to apply.
 Panama river points to Seattle or Tacoma, total shipments for one season of 100 to 25O tons, $15.O0 per ton.
 Same in shipments of 250 to 500 tons for one, season, $12.5O per ton.
 Rates to San Francisco or San Pedro will be $2 in excess of above | rates.
 On shipments under contract ex- | ceeding 500 tons, special rates will be made as follows:
 Five hundred to 1000 tons to Seattle, S11 per ton. Five hundred to 1000 tons to San Francisco, SIP per ton.
 Over 1000 tons to Seattle, $10 per ton.
 Over 1000 tons to San Francisco. $11 per ton
 Rates to San Pedro under special contract to oe furnished on applica- tion for not to exceed $2 in excess of the rate to San Francisco.
 It is expected that the antimGAy shipments during the coming sum- mer from Fairbanks and ether in terior points will be very heavy. The one of the interiors largest indus tries, when the fact is that it was started less than one year ago Is taken into consideration. In fact the history of the development ol antimony mining in the Panama Val ley Is considered but little short of marvellous.
 Nor is the interior of Alaska the only part of the territory from which antimony ore is being shipped. Nu merous miners at Nome have rec ognized it's saleable qualities, ow- ing to the big demand for it on the Outside, and therefore in many places on the coast antimony mines are being opened up.
 Prior to the time the war in Eu- rope started, China furnished the larger part of the worlds &ntimony supply. With the opening of the great European conflict, however, China was unprepared to handle the ore in such quantities as were demanded, and consequently the manufacturers and shelter men were compelled to turn to newer fields for the commodity.
 Si Scrafford, the dean of antimony miners in interior Alaska, quickly discovered that antimony was in de mand when he was in New York on a quartz deal. Knowing where he could secure large quantities of the ore, he dropped his gold deal and went to San Francisco, where he interested smelter man in his proposition. The result was tha; he shipped approximately $150,000 in antimony ore last summer, ol the season during which antimony mines in the interior were first de veloped.
 Mr Scrafford is due to reach Fairbanks soon from a trip to the Outside. Before leaving he stated that he would engage in the mining of antimony again during the con- ing summer, providing the price of the commodity stayed up. And that is foregone conclusion, as the end of the war in Europe seems as far away as ever.
 There will be several shippers of large quantities of antimony ore during the coming summer. Among them will be the Hargraves En- gineering Co.,, whose representatives are operating this winter in the Kantishna country, and Jack Leach & Co.,, of Ester creek.
 Apropos of the announcement made by. his company in regard to the shipping of antimony ore, MT. Fair born stated unofticially that, should it be seen that sufficient quantities of tungsten are to be mined in this vicinity, it is probable that a spe- cial rate will also be made for ship ments of tungsten ore. He is now collecting data on the subject to send to the officials of the company.