The Alaska daily empire., 1920-02-07
ALASKA NOTES

Bernard M. Stone, who recently spent some time at Hyder investigat' i ing, recommends that people stay away from that camp until not ear 1 Her than the middle of March unless
 they are going there to secure ioca tions for business. He says the snow
 will prevent people from inspecting the mines, and there will be no op-
 portunity to prospect until later ID the season. In the meantime accom- modations are not adequate to care for any great number of people.
 Among the Alaskans at Wichita Falls, Tex, are Frank Manley, John L. McGinn, Henry Riley, Red" Nels Smith. James Milsap, William Leake and others.
 The next meeting of the Grand
 Igloo of Pioneers will be held at An | chorage, Alaska.
 John W. Frame, publisher of the monthly Pathfinder, the Pioneers magazine, leaves on the Alaska fol Valdez. At Valdez, MT. Frame will issue the next edition of the Path finder there in honor of the Pioneers at that place, then will come to Sew. ard and issue a Pathfinder here i'll honor of the members of the local igloo.-(Seward Gatewayo E@ w. A. c. Baldwin, one of the best known hotel men in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska arrived on the steamer Alaska this morning from Seattle. Mir. Baldwin will undoubted ly locate in Seward Mir. Baldwin has been in charge of hotels at Cordova Juneau and Chitna and is popular with the travelling public. If Mir Baldwin locates here, Mrs. Baldwin, now in Everett, Wash, will come north on one of the next steamers Seward Gateway
 The Mable Mining Company, oper ating in the Willow creek gold camp plans to install forty-ton per da, stamp mill this season.
 E. L. Dickey, the Prince William Sound copper miner, has bonded the Varrack property on Latouche island to the Ladysmith Shelter Company which purposes to do executive de velopment work on the property dur ing the summer. Among its plans is the erection of large reduction works.
 Tex Rickard, famous as pioneer of Nome and other Northern camps and later in the world of sport, has organized an oil company to operate in the Grays Harbor country O Washington.
 J. l.. McPherson of the Alaska Bu reau of the Seattle Chamber of Com i merce, who left Seattle with Gov Thomas Riggs, Jr., recently did so a the invitation of Secretary Of tn, Interior Lane. Secretary Lane hal requested him to prepare a report ol ] the Alaska railroad work and brinl the same down to date for subnlis :. sion to Congress.
 Word has been received by hi :, friends that Dr. s. Hall Young, pic 1 neer Presbyterian missionary il Alaska. and superintendent of Pres ], byterian Missions in the Territor, contemplates visiting Alaska durin the coming summer. He says he el poets to spend almost a year f Alaska, taking an expert photograph
 CT with him and visiting practicall
 every camp in the north. He expect
 to come north about June 1. strikn
 Southeastern Alaska, first and gofn
 doing the Yukon, taking motion pis
 lures all the way He wants to ge
 some animal pictures. among ther
 some new Arctic ocean and Berin
 Sea pictures. He says some ric hunters will finance the cxpcditfod and he has guaranteed to show ther
 some moose and other big game. Robert l.. Hatcher has organize | the Gold Mint Mining Company whic l win develop the Gold Mint group Q mining claims on Willow creek. H
 has raised $15.0D0 tor prospectin
 purposes. and win get ssn.Ooo nor to install small mill if the pro; poets warrant it. His wife, Mrs Col
 nclia Templeton Hatcher, who ha 1 been spending the winter in Deuoi i expects to join him at Wasilla late in the season.