The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-02
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of a mungr,l complexion joined the wagon road crew that was building he wagon road for the railroad. They wrlr endured for a few days by the men Al last a youth. aided and a5,,ted by the rest of the crew. tied m can 10 one of the dogs. The dog departed abruptly There Was glce in the camp
 Later the same dos attached him self ro the grading camp Here he was much pettcd and well fed One of the teamsters even brought out mange cure. Before he got to camp with it. the teamster of the road crew inyeigled the dog on his wagon and carried fl away. The dog Is now contented and pros p,~au- member of the road camp. Strange are the pcryersities of men
 and likewise dogs.
 DECLINE OF A year ago last ORE PRICES spring Si Scrafford EXPLAINED. and other kindred
 spirits who follow mining and keep track of the prices or various ores. as quoted in the mining journals and magazines. made the discovery that there were other ores here which could be mined at profit The raise in the price of the pure metals wa undoubted Iy occa-ionrd by the great European war. one of these ores was anti mony.
 Mr. Scrauord, when he made the discovery, Was m New York city attempting to raise capital to go through with rhe quartz mining deal here. Hy immediately dropped the quartz deal. however, when he saw the quoted prices of antlmons
 realized that ii would stay high, for a time. ar least, for he knew where considerable an,imony could be found in the Fairbanks district I'm result was that last winter Fair bank. had the largest antimony mine in the world
 But the bottom has now dropped out of the antimony market. as well as the tungsten market tungsten having been another ore which rais- ed in value rapidly on account of the war In fact, tungsten, which formerly brought price of $1o5 per unit, is now quoted at $50 per unit while gnUmony which was former Iy as high as G5 cents per unit, is now ali F and one-half cents.
 But. as was stated few days ago by well known local metal Iurgjst there are enterprising min CTS in other parts of the world as well as in Alaska They, toe no ticed the phenomenal rise in the price of anUmony and tungsten af fer the European war had been go- ing on for a few months, and, like Mir Scrafford and other Fairbanks miners. knew of places which had made good showings of a7timony and tungsten.
 The result was that all of the mining men interested got busy at practically one and the same time. The first shipments did not flood the market, and therefore the price continued to stay up, but as soon as the Chinese ores began 10 be shipped the price dropped For China is a big antimony producing country. and the ore can be mined much cheaper there than anywhere else in the world.
 Which is the reason why there are between 75O and 1000 tons of antmony and tungsten ores from the Fairbanks district lying on the docks at Seattle at the present time. Whether or not the market prices of the ores will rise again remains to be seen But the Fairbanksans who own the ore are optimistic over the situation, being determined to hold their property until the price goes up again For at the present quotations the ore would not pay for it's mining and transportation, let alone profit to it's owners. CAN'T STAY A well known local AWAY FROM mining man and pro THE CAME moter came in from
 the Outside a few days ago. He makes a trip in eV- cry summer and spends each winter on the Outside. He has made enough out of the game" to enable him to do that, at any rate. He has, however, often declared his inten- tion to quit the mining, but where that is concerned he is gambler. For he couldn't stay away from it if he wanted to, according to his statement, and each spring on the Outside finds his feet beginning to itch for the feeling of Alaskan moss beneath them
 Last year this man came north as usual He had no more than reached here than he became inter ested in a mining deal in the Tolo-