The Alaska daily empire., 1920-11-17
MINE INSPECTOR COMPLETES LONG
 INTERIOR VISIT
3. D. Stewart Back After h. spection of Mines from
 Fairbanks to Kuskokwim.

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 After having mushed something over 300 miles through the Interior of Alaska with pack on his back and travelled by every known convoy ance including steam boats, gas boats, Indian canoes and railroad trains, B. D. Stewart, Territorial Inspector of Mines is back in his of ,ise in this city.
 MT Stewart said today that he Interior rather quiet but that con siderable prospecting was going on md that several districts including the Tacotna. Kuskokwim and Kan. tishna looked very promising. He had nothing but praise for the work being done by the Alaska Road Com mission in several districts and said that it was doing much to open up country heretofore considered in accessible
 The whole of the Alaskan Interior, according to Mr. Stewart, will re ceive a great boost upon the compile ton of the Alaska Railroad remoy- ing tho terrible handicap of made quate transportation in part, giving he miners a chance to receive sup lies oyer the railroad and the con- meeting lines of the Government highways.
 Started In August
 Starting from Juneau on August i5 m his inspection trip, MT. Stewart went from here to Cordova, thence 70 Chitina in the upper Copper River Valley and from there to Fairbanks over the Richardson Highway by auto. He praised the work of the Road Commission and foreman Dan Jones'
 Upon his arrival at Fairbanks. he visited the various creeks near there including the dredges on Fairbanks Creek which are now closed down on account of a shortage of oil. While Tt Fairbanks he saw the landing of the Army Flyers upon their return from Nome and saw Capt. Street of hc Squadron make a landing on the river bar five miles from Ruby. He landed there at 4 in the afternoon, horped off at 4:30 and was at Fairbanks at 7:3O the same evening.
 Kept Going
 From Fairbanks MT Stewart made +rils 10 Nenana and into the Tolo vana districts Enroute down the Tanana river he stopped off at Hot Springs and went through the min ing district in that vicinity. From there he went to Panama where he took the steamer Herman for Holy Cross. There he secured an Indian gas boat and went from there toI Tnnoko and Iditarod. In the latter dis; rct he found mining activities confined to three dredges on Flat Creek, where the output will be pra ctically the same as last year The Yukon Cold Company. he said. has worked out it's ground on Fiat Creek and is dismantling it's dredges
 To Tacotna
 lie left Flat CreeK with horses and a pack train for Tacotna and on the way there visited Moore. Cares, and Yankee Creeks where theee is some mining of placer Src1nd Two dredges will be put n later on Yankee Creek and one on Cares It was expected that they wo, Id be installed early next Spring but owing to the early freeze-up it is nro able that it will be late next Fall or the following Spring before they are completed. He found that the Road Commission was doing good wor'i on the piece of road between Tac1tna and Ophir where four miles of q stretch of 8 miles has been completed.
 Into the kuskokWm
 From Tacotna he went to McGrath on the Kuskokwim and from Me Grafh to Candle Creek on the same river Tom Aitken's dredge there has had a good season From Can dle Creek he went to Nixon Landn" and from there to Nixon Forks where the Treadwell Company is developing a hard rock prospect.
 He found Livingstone Wefnccke sin charge of the work with Charles Homer and l.. Bullard assisting him. These are all former Treadwell men. A crew of twenty five is employed by the company, and bunk houses, assay offices. mine buildings and many others have been built. Three shafts have been sunk to an average depth of 100 feet each and drifting has been done from the bottom oi 4 each tunnel The tunnels are al \ hand work The compressor will be taken to the mine when the frs freeZe-up comes
 There are about 100 men in in whole district and all are actiT 'il engaged in prospecting.