Valdez daily prospector., 1917-07-14
completed and win be in readiness to dig slime time in August.


 dig slime time in August.
 J. P. Walker, Assistant Supervisor of Surveys, with headquarters at Ju- neau, arrived at Anchorage recently and now has two double crews of sur veyors out dividing the farming lands tributary to the railroad into sections. One party is working between Rash witna and Talkeetna and the second party is working in the vicinity of kachemak Bay.
 The Bureau of Education will er- ect large log building at White Mountain, in the Nome District, this summer. which will be used as al school house. It will be the largest | log building on the Seward Peninsula and will have accommodation for eighty pupils.
 Maurice Barbee, working on Ger trude Creek, in the Tolovano fell 45 i feet down a shaft ana sustained in- juries which may prove fatal Barbee was working at the bottom of the shaft when he discovered the air was becoming bad. He signalled to be hoisted to the surface, and when he reached fresh air fell backward down the shaft. His skull was fractured and he sustained internal injuries.
 Under the direction of A. J. Sprag- us, who has been in charge of the ex- perimental hatchery at Thane, 60,000 young mountain trout which have been matched out at Thane, have been deposited in the upper dam at Salmon Creek, near Juneau. Recently 10000 were placed in the lower Annex creek lake and 6O,000 in ,ne upper lake. The 60,O0O fry remaining at the hatchery will probably go to lakes Dewey and Black near Skagway.
 A movement is on foot at Juneau to test the legality of the bill passed by the last legislature establishing fish hatcheries in the First Division. Through an oversight the bill was not delivered to nor signed by the Governor until after the adjournment of the legislature. In checking over the bills passed by the legislature and those signed by the Governor il was found that the hatcheries bill was missing and a search was made for it.
 The Fairbanks Commercial Club has received a wire from Delegate Charles A. Sulzer to the effect that he had appealed to the quartermast- CT General of the army and secured reversal of the order of the quarter masters department at San Francis co turning down the offer of the Ia mana Valley Agricultural Association to supply potatoes to the stations in interior Alaska, and stating that the potatoes for these stations would be purchased of the farmers of Alaska.
 The steamer Northland, which was sunk about year ago at Rake, in Southeastern Alaska, has been sue cessfully raised and is now on her way south for repairs. The Northland was raised and nearly free from wat CT when one of the wrecking crew passing through one the rooms with a lighted lantern caused an explosion and fire due to the crude oil which had accumulated throughout the in terior of, the hull, necessitating the flooding of the steamer again to ex- , tinguish the blaze.
 Frank c. Manley, one of the larg- est mine operators in Alaska, was a recent arrival in Juneau, on his way to Chicagoff Island to examine some ], copper properties in which he is in terested. Aside from his Alaska min- ing interests MT. Manley is also in- terested in oil properties in California and states that Clarence Barry, ano- ther well-known Alaska mining man, who is interested with him, is pull ing down a daily income of $1,50O from these oil properties. Charles Barrand, 45 years of age, and an old-timer in the Cache Creek section, is reported to be lost. He was operating a fish camp about six miles below McDougall, and was last seen