The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-22

cn option on the Wild Goose prop critics. including the steam heating plant at Nome. and will take over the property April 1st, next. and will operate it thereafter. ,..,4 r Charles Mcintosh. owner of the Lisborne coal properties. has announce ed that the English company whlcil l has ah option on his holdings, have made a payment of several thousand dollars pn the property and expect to begin operations next year Il will help the fuel situation if they sue ceed
 The high cos. of equipment, scare have caused a suspension of opera tiors b. the Sawtootn power plant inruguraed ly the late Andrew J. Store
 The c>nlp2 ny. oper3tilg an .inde- penaert s''~a" lead property on Inde pendcn'o Geek. rear Dcerirg' owned i by Saiorl err and Anderson of Sc attle. Washington maie no ship meats os ore this last summer. but il hos several hundred tons ready. for shipment. Tin Mining Plans The tin lode mines at Lost River have closed down. but it Is authoyi-, tatively stated, that they will erect one of the largest and most modernI mills in the West within the next l two years. The company owningl this property has already expended more than $10o,0OO George D. Schofield and T. Al Peterson who have been drilling for placer tin in the vicinity of Cape| York claim to have located excellens| pay on two miles of creek pros. rected. They expect to install al drcdge on the ground during the| coming season and to be shipping ore in 1922. ! It is thought there will be veryI little mining and prospecting in the vicinity of Nome during the coming | winter. Reindeer Industry
 Lomen and Company have shipped 1 257,544 pounds of reindeer meat to- the States this year. They now own 1 B, 5000 head of reindeer and have completed and in course of construc- ! tion cold storage plants at keewalia, Egavik, Teller, Golovan and Nome. Their combined capacity is 15,000 carcasses. The chief difficulty at the present time is to get cold storage transpbrtation to the States. They desire to ship to the States next year 5000 carcasses for the markets
 The Alaska Reindeer Packing Com pany, just organized with a capital of $2500, ,009 is another, company that ! is preparing to develop the reindeer Industry. This company has com pleted arrangements to secure 10000 head of reindeer. Their headquar- ters will be in the Kuskokwim coun. try.
 Dr. E. R. Nelson of the Biological Survey who visited Nome this. year, proposes to establish a station at ! Unalakleet for the scientific inyesu- gstion of the reindeer industry.
 l The people of Dime Creek and vicinity have petitioned for the esta5- lishment of a radio station there, i Fisheries Decline
 1 Owing to the failure of the herring fisheries at Golovin and Teller to sell their 1919 herring packs, less than 100000 pounds of fish were packed in those sections this year. The herring run started late this beginning September S7th after mos, Of the plants had closed. The Yukon River salmon pack was 10000 cases ligh,cy than Tn 1919. This was due to ,he fact that the cannery packed nothing but king salmon. and none of this variety was obtained after the middle of September.
 Siberian Trade
 Mir Reed says that the Siberian i trade this year was very fine when the conditions of that country, are considered. The export and import trade with Siberia amounted to $725,- 900, including nearly S3o0o00 worth Of American goods skipped there for consumption This trade was smaller than it would have been had it not been that for two years, on account Of ice conditions. vessels have not bcen able to get to the Kolyma re- sion where there is q production cf tens of thousands of fox skins each I year and market for several hund- red tons of American goods.
 Navigation. tn,proved The Snake River jetty has been i'm rroved and the damage done last year has been repaired. There will be considerable work to do next year and when 1t is completed 1t is believed that 1t will be SO that the jetty will be able to withstand such storm as that which damaged 1t without difficulty. The structure is somewhat different from the old jet ty. The piling is driven much deep CT. The revetment work along the channel has been lined with sack' filled with a cement mixture, which
 when sef will virtually form a rOci