The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-04
ALASKA NOTES

| On a recent trip the crew of the
! Princess Pat captured a large buck
near Deweyville After some diff
Guilty the deer was landed on deck
with no fight left in him but some
what frightened In less than an
hour after being put down the hold.
couple of small boys were playing
with it as if it were household
pet The animal was taken to Wran-
CELL where it will be one of the main
| tourist attractions this summer.
Work on the Petersburg Scow Bay
road has been started by the Alaska
Road Commission under the direction
| of John Lanterman as foreman. Il
is estimated that $4,000 will be
spent on the road this summer, a
crew of 80 to 35 men being employed
The cannery of the Mountain
| Point Packing Company, located six
miles below Petersburg on Wrangen
Narrows was totally destroyed by
fire on May 25. the blaze starting
from an unknown source while are
crew was at dinner The loss is es
timated at $4,000 half of which is
covered by insurance. 1t is not ex
! pected that the company will re,
/ build the cannery this season.
An epidemic OF petty thievery is
reported to have broken out at
Petersburg. Three small boats re
Gently disappeared from the slip in
front of town. No arrests have been
made.
Petersburg plans TO have general
Fourth of July celebration on Monday
July 5. The Petersburg Fire De
partment has charge of all arrange
ments
The Wrangell Weekly Sentinel on
June l, increased its subscription
price to $500 per year This ad-
vance, says it's editor, was made nee
essary on account of the exorbitant
price of paper.
One of the Japs in the crew be-
ing taken to the lower Yukon River
by the Carlisle Packing Company
for the summers work suddenly be.
came deranged and jumped over
board the steamer Canadian near
Hootalinqua and was drowned.
The mining season opened in full
blast at Dawson on May 26 The
Yukon Gold Company's big hydro
electric plant started up on that date
and its dredges Immediately began
digging. The Canadian Klondike
dredges also began work about the
same time. Many hydraulic plants
have started up4qand many winter
dumps are being rapidly cleaned up.
The Yukon Territorys gold yield
this season is expected to run well
up into the millions of dollars
Good pay is reported to have been
uncovered on Violet Creek in the
Big Salmon district by w. J. Gle
there, the dirt running from $3.50 to
$1140 to the pan on bedrock. Camp
bell and Berry in the same district
on Livingstone Creek have picked up
a lost paystreak and are taking out
a fine lot of gold dust according
to Whitehorse reports.
The miners in the Copper King
have run across a sixteen inch vein
of high grade molybdenite ore rum.
ing through the big body of high
grade copper ore in which they are
working We are informed that
molybdenite when refined is valued
at about 75c pound, while copper
brings less than a third of that fig
ure-( Whitehorse Starr
The mining season at Brooks,
Alaska. formally opened on May ID
with two operators on Livengood
Creek starting to shovel dirt into
the sluice boxes. Plenty of water
is reported on the upper creek. On
the lietrim, Frank Fontas has rugged
up a scraping plant to handle the
tail end of two dumps taken out
last summer from which a cleanup
of $4,000 is expected this spring
A keystone drill also has started
operations on Mike Hess Creek in an
endeavor to line up rich paystreak
uncovered during the past winter.
DR.. Hedger Mrs. Charles Beam
and H. X Carlisle were winners OF
the Pioneers ice pool at Fairbanks
The ice in the Cinema river went out
in front of Fairbanks on the after
noon OF May 49, the latest known In