The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
ALASKA NOTES

| Frank H. Mobley, member of the British Columbia Parliament for the Atlin district, has recently purchased the holdings of the following Atlin companies: North Columbia Gold Mining Company, the Columbia Mines Company, the Pine Creek Power 1 Company and the O'Donnel Placers Company. He plans the development of the properties, and to that end will organize a company to take all of them over. Active mining will not be prosecuted until next year.
 Gold Commissioner George P. Mac. | kenzie, who just returned to Dawson | from trip to Mayo Landing, says | that he believes there will be a min ing camp in the Mayo district. He of silver in the district. He says that the new properties are quite | widely distributed, and that such would indicate a general field of ga i lena in that district.
 Cordova is organizing brass band l among the other good things planned l Tor the town, and the new organiZa- l tion will soon be discoursing sweet | music.'
 The great drawback in the Ram part district is the lack of roads. All the bridges have been washed away and there are nd funds on hand to rebuild them.
 Reports from Rampant state that mining on a number of creeks is still going on. Clinic, Nelson and | Thompson have a lay on No. above on Little Minook and are reported to | be doing well.
 Word was recently received of a l strike at Tacotna. There are three | gulches running into Hidden creek which pay better than wages. The | pay is said to run as high as 20 cents.
 The strike made in the Kusko l kwim section last Summer has come
 fully up to report. Strikes have al l 70 been made on Crooked river and l George river A strike has been made on the Holitna river. Bear creek is showing good pay.
 The Broad Pass country will be
 greatly benefited by the cOnstruc- ton of the Government railroad from
 Anchorage to the pass, according to
 the belief of c. w. Norton, a min
 ing man of that district, who has
 extensive placer holdings at Lucky
 Gulch, a tributary of the creek. Ac
 cording to MT. Norton the country
 has been held back by inadequate
 transportation facilities. Supplies
 brought into the district cost 25
 cents a pound.
 w. R. Hooking, mining operator , recently arrived from the States and
 will work in the Willow Creek dis trict where he has fine property } which he took over under three year lease. A number of Butte men accompanied him to the property.
 One hundred and sixty-five men started to work on the Valdez-Fair banks trail June 1, and will make that artery to the Interior one oi
 the best roads in the Territory by
 the end of the Summer.
 George B. Hall president of the Valdez Packing Company, and also
 operating the Western Alaska Fish
 cries Company at Valdez, and Miss
 Hazel Tresler of St. Paul, Minn., were
 united in marriage in Seattle, June
 first.
 One thousand barrels of salted salmon will represent the seasons pack of the R. R. Hunter Company
 which has established saltery al
 Moose Point on Cook Inlet. accord
 ing to R. R. Hunter, manager oi
 the company.
 Private Thomas w. Haines, Firs' Machine Gun Replacement Battalion
 American Expeditionary Forces, A
 P O. Box TOP. 10lst Co.,, U. s. NJ
 C.. France, is the way 1t reads now
 Tom Haines, Valdez boy and loca
 athlete and ball player is lover
 there" and is the first Valdez boy
 enlisted in the American Expedition l. ary forces to cross the pond. MT
 Haines writes that the climate is
 fine and that he is seeing the world
 and enjoying himself immensely.