The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-09-24
HOT SPRINGS IS
 STILL WORKING
WATER SHORTAGE AFFECTS YEARS OUTPUT: PLANS BE
 ING MADE TO BUILD DAM

nor SPRINGS There has been q general shortage of water on all the creeks in this district this sumemr which has affected the gold output to a not inconsidcrable extent The water would have been ample for the mining as it has been conducted here. tofore when the pay was hoistcd and the water pumped but as by far the most of the mining in this precinct is now hydraulic and the operators de. pend on gravity water for their sup ply more rain is needed, particularly aS none of them have any provision for storing water Howell and Clcye- lad plan 10 build dams across some If the tributaries of Sullivan creek next year so as tO store the water when it is plentiful thus accumlating a reserve supply for use later in the season They have been able to op- crate only two of the four hydraulic nuzZlcs they installed last spring on the Abe Lincoln claim and will not have the cleanup they had expected this fall, but it will materialize next spring. They have a cut about 150 by l,000 feet long and J0 feet deep. It is about six to eight feet to bedrock from the bottom of the cut | under stand that this is the first attempt in the interior of Alaska to opencut ground as deep as this is, and there seems 10 be much diversity of opinion as 10 whether such operations can be made to pay. The pay is said to run about 90 cents to every square foot of bedrock and is very evenly distrib- uted over the entire diggings which j- an eight-claim association.
 Frank and Graham in the Eureka district have been working q crew of from eight to twelve men all season and would have employed double that number if they had been Obtainable. ll''l v tI v tlI''ll tl '''|-' IT '''li'''i ''4' fits mostly partners working in the Eureka country and the gold output from the section will probably be be tween fifty and sixty thousand dollars
 Many of the old tailings on sullivan creek are being re washed this season primarily for the placer tin they con tain, altho in most cases it is found that the gold recovered pays all eX upnses. thus leaving the tin rock net profit About 25 tons of this tin ore wa shipped Outside to d smelter on the last trip of the steamer Yukon.
 George DimniCh recently purchased the interest of James Curiman (Skag way Jim) in the Kelly X Anderson property on Boulder creek. He has dug a ditch there for proposed hy- draulic operations next season
 Frank X Graham recently received from the outside a small Cleveland tractor which they intend for use i'll rauling supplies to their property on Pioneer creek. It is a 12-horsepoWer of d caterpillar type and on it's initial trip pulled a wagon loaded with two ions from Hot Springs to Pioneer creek in about six hours. This is an average of four and One-half miles an hour and Mr. Frank who operated the machine is highly pleased with the showing made and believes that he will be able to increase the rate of 4nced to six miles an hour with two ton load. The machine weights 5000 pounds and is said to be very econom- ical in fuel and oil consumption,
 M. B. Summers, of the U. $. Weath- CT Bureau, left on the steamer Alaska recently after spending two weeks IF this vicinity collecting data on the weather for his department. He in stalled recording station here, which is in charge of the Hot Springs Tele- phone company.
 Joe Westlund married Jessie Jus tina native Woman-on July Is, the ceremony being performed by the u. s. Commissioner.
 MT. and Mrs. w. F. Stevens, who have been operating the local tele- phone system left on the last trip of the steamer Yukon for the Outside, selling their interest to Charles CaVa- naugh who is wellknown in this val ley, having been in the signal corps in Alaska at one time at Cinema for a number of years. He recently com pleted his 30-year term of service and was retired coming immediately to Hot Springs. He is having eXten- sive alterations and improvements