The Alaska daily empire., 1926-06-19
STEWART TELLS
or PROGRAM TO
Be CARRIED OUT
Washington Trip Smoothes
Out Obstacles to Effective
Cooperative Work.

AS the result OF mis- visit to Wash.
ington, the cooperative mining in.
vestigation and inspection program
between the Territory and the Fed.
eral Geological Survey has been
made practicable. it was announced
today by B. ID. Stewart. supervising
engineer of the Survey, who heads
the cooperative work in the Terri
tory Certain more or less technical
obstacles arose last year due to the
reorganization of the Bureau Of
Mines and the Geological Survey
and Mr.. Stewards trip to Washing
ton was for the purpose of discuss.
ing them
My trip was entirely successful
in this respect We have now stab
ilized arrangements for the cooperat-
i've program with the Territory SO
that it can be carried out in an ef.
lective manner" Mr. Stewart said
Have Good Force
BY means of this agreement one
of the largest field forces in the
history of the bureau will be employ.
ed this season. This force will in
cnde n. L. Wimmler. Convey Shep-
/, H. II. Townsend and Frank II
Holzheimer All of these except the
last named have been employed in
this field by the bureau in the past.
II HolZheimer. who has been con-
neeted here with the Alaska Juneau
Company for several years, has
been appointed as associate mining
engineer and will spend the season
in the interior.
Mr. Wimmler, who has made wide
Investigations in the placer mining
industry here, will continue these
this season and, in addition, will
study the commercial availability ts
other mineral resources in the areas
he will visit. These include The
Alaska Railroad belt from Kenai
Peninsula to Fairbanks the Fair
banks region, the lower Yukon and
Seward Peninsula.
HoIzheimer Goes Inside
Mr.. Holzheimer will join Mr..
Wimmler at Fairbanks, after doing
n,
him down river lie will be assigned
to the Iditarod district and cover
the krskokwim River districts from
McGrath to its mouth. He will
gather data on mineralized areas in
these sections. His work will en-
brace quicksilver deposits and dredg-
ing on Tuluksak River.
Mr. Shepard will continue the
program of making mineral investi-
cations in Southeastern Alaska,
Prince William Sound and the Cop
per River districts He also will be
, available for making an examination
anywhere else where interesting de
velopments are reported
Mr. Townsend will not take the
field for several weeks He will be
assigned to tie railroad belt for
mineral Investigations.
Map Mineral Resources
Commenting on this work Mr.
Stewart said. MY idea is TO carry
out the cooperative mineral invesii
cations work in such manner as
to do for Alaska's mineral resources,
in the collection of authentic infor
nation as to their nature, possible
extent and availability, what the
Forest Service las done for Alaskan
forests. In this manner we are con
fident that our program will be of
very material value in building up
the mining industry of the Terri
tory"
Mr.. Stewart, announced that R. s.
Stewart, at pte2ent chief clerk of the
Bureau OF Mines experiment station
at Seattle, has been assigned to the
Juneau office of the Geological Sui
vey as chief clerk. He will move
here with his family in the near
future.
1t is planned to broa len the scope
of the mine safety and rescue work
of the Bureau of Mines, under K. G.
Thornberg, Mr. Stewart said. He
made a special trip to Pittsburgh to
talk this over with Bureau of Mines
officials. Additional equipment will
be added to the Alaska branch. It
also is planned to institute course
of training for mine foremen. Shift
bosses and others in prevention of
accidents and safety methods. 1t is
hoped, he said that Mr.. Thornberg
can go back to Pittsburgh later this
year to take a course in this work
so as to be able to include it in
his work here. 1t is a new branch
of instruction in the bureau and is
proving to be very nonular with
mining companies and their en-
ployees, j. j. Delahide, former mine