The Cordova daily times., 1920-09-22
THE CORONA DAILY TIMES WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER D. 1920
ALASKA MAY HAVE BICP PULP
 MILL SHORTLY

SEATTLE, Sept. 22 Especial to the Daily Times ).-There is new sport at ing for new excitement are using fliv CTS and automobiles to hunt caribou. Thousands of these animals are re- ported to have crossed Fairbanks creek and people in town can look 'em over as they graze on the foothills. The quickest way is to hop into an automobile and go gunning for the an imals which furnish good sport when 1 they race with the motors.
 There will be $1,60O,0OO in gold pro- duced in the Panama Valley placer mining district this season, according to information gathered by commercial 1 companies and the total gold produc tion for interior Alaska for 1920 will be about S3,000,000 with the total for the Dawson district set at $1,5OO,0 ,000 There has been aDshortage of water for sluicing in the interior camps, some of which have had to suspend operations. The estimated production by camps for the season now closing is: Fairkans, $750,000: Tolovana, $750,000; Iditarod, $5OOOOO; Tacotna and Ophir, $50O,O0O; Hot Springs, s100,OOO; Ruby, $1OO,0OO; Koyukuk $75,OoO; Circle, $7O,oOO; Marshall, s5O,OOO; Fortymile, $5O,OOO; Rampant, $20,OO0 and Chandlar, $2,0O.
 Mines in the vicinity of Juneau are showing fair activity in spite of the shortage, an ailment affecting most all Alaska mining camps this year. The Alaska Endicott Mining Company in tend to push active development work on their property on Windham Bay Three thousand feet of tunnel has now been completed and a five-stamp mill is now wroking on the tailings brought Seattle for installation. There is con, siderable activity at the Crystal group at Snettisham, at the properties of the Chicagof Mining company on the Lis ianski group and the Admiralty Alas ka Gold Mining company in the Fun ter Bay section,
 Advices from Washington and in- quiries made locally indicate that whilesome progress has been made by the department of the interior toward the amalgamation of the Alaska Steamship company and the service maintained to Alaskan ports by the Pacific steamship company, no steps of a positive nature have been taken by either of the companies named to bring about such coalition.
 Thirty million dollars is the estima- ted value of Alaska's 1920 season pack of red and pink salmon, or an ag- gregate of 3,250,O0) c1ses. Red sal mon canned in Alaska this season will reach 1,750,000 cases, or a total of S1O,5O,O 1000. These estimates which are exclusive of the value of other salmon species and the vast halibut and herr ing fisheries of the North, were made by Maj. l.. B. Douglas, secretary of the Association of Pacific Fisheries, Seattle headquarters.
 At the end of last year Alaska's tot al proudcts since the territory was pur- chased had aggregated a value of about $94O,OOO,O0O
 Quotations on salmon run as fol lows Alaska reds, S325; kings, $3; echoes, $2.75 ;pinks, $50, and chums, $1.25. These prices are for one dozen tall cans and are slightly under the 1919 opening quotations, with the big gest drop in the chum or whitemeat salmon, which sold for $210 last year.
 Sourdoughs" who hit the trail in early days of Alaskan development, members of the Sourdough Republican Club of this city have adopted resol- utions strongly supporting the reelec- tion of United States Senator Wesley L. Jones, asserting that he has been staunch friend of Alaska and has at tained a position in the senate of very great value to the country and to the northwest The resolutions review | Senator Jones' work for Alaska on 1 several important measures for the territory.
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