The Alaska daily empire., 1919-10-02
ALASKA NOTES

J. J. Emery and w D. Burden of New York city, big game hunters. re- turned to Seward recently with three sheep, and one moose. the head of which measured 6615 inches.
 s. A. Temple today started crew of men under the supervision of Thos. Dixon to work on his property at Knights Island. The mine is al ready in a fair state of development, having about 600 feet of tunnel run. with compressors, drills, buildings and considerable other machinery on the ground. The property is known as the Knights Island Copper Com pany, and is situated at Drier Bay. It is copper proposition Valdez Miner)
 Assays received from Seattle on the drill tests on the platinum depos- it's at Mile Eight show but little val ues, although pans taken from cer- tain spots on the surface show high values. The Seattle assay office ad vises the operators that the mineral must lie in pockets close to the sur face, and it is with this belief that Arthur SilverInan will start with others to sluice the ground in a few days w R. Willard, one of the original discoverers is still very op timistic over the proposition and will give the ground another trial before abandoning hope. - Valdez Miner.)
 John Powers of Eagle, having com pleted his summer road work, took lis road building outfit to Fourth of July Creek where he is building q 'wo-and-a- -half-mile ditch for J. M Taylor who is installing a hydraulic plant on that creek which he pro poses to operate next season.
 A Whitehorse duck hunter recently '1illed eight brant and brought them to town. He did not know the char lcter of game he had bagged until Whitehorse experts examined the kill.
 Allan Jeckell, son of Comptroller Jeckell of Yukon Territory, recently eff Dawson to enter the Canadian Naval Academy at Esquimalt, and Arther McCarter, son of Postmaster McCarter of Dawson left for Toronto
 o complete his medical course.
 Jake Le Brant, an old timer in the letchikan vicinity came in from Ka- ;aan on the Kasaan Fish Company's ,oat Princess. He stated that the
 imber wolves are destroying the leer on the Prince of Wales Island | n an alarming manner and that a band of about a hundred and fifty had been seen at Sgowl Arm. Jake llso said that now was the time to go after them, the bounty being if cen dollars per head (Ketchikan Times.)
 John Maitland, who is ranching at Communion Harbor, about two miles
 the Westward of Wards Cove sold in town yesterday about ton )f rutabagers, PetrOwski turnips, car -ots and parsnips He reports that he potatoes he raised are fine but hat he did not have sufficient to narket-(Ketchikan Times.)
 Louis Gutfeld, who lived in Skag- way from his early boyhood until l hxy ho h ern Pacific at San Francisco, is wis , iting his parents in Skagway
 D. H. Morgan and Jack Smith are leaving on the s. s. Senator for Se ablle. They are going below to in Iyest in thirty-tWo foot. Columbia lriver built boat, and are to return to ketchikan in, it. MT Morgan has been in and out of Alaska for the last twenty-nine years and is still coming back. which speaks we'll for this country. This is the first time Smith has been below in twelve -(Ketchikan Times.)
 A significant new work is starting this week on Dominion crock, one off the longest and most famous of the producers of the Klondike camp. The North West Corporation has plans complete and is beginning to as- semble crews this week for the dig-l ging of a dredge pit on the creek, and to get the pit in condition forI the assembling of dredge there next season, possibly before the spring thaw Arrangements were made several days ago by Manager F. P. Burrall for the opening of the old road at the upper end of Hunker creek for the hauling of the dredge material from this side of the divide to the Dominion side.- Dawson News.)
 Silver development continues ac- time at Keno Hill, near Mayo. Six ty claims have been staked. The