The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-06-20

company also has extended It's
 activities this year to Galena Hill, where it has taken over the Elsa group of several claims from Brefalt & Tolmie and the Star group of 12 claims from Settle mier, Bermingham and Ransley
 on the same hill, under option Extensive development Is to be undertaken on the properties, il is understood, and work already is underway on 1000 feet Of drift
 ing on the Brefalt & Tolmie ground. Both these properties have been heavy shippers of high grade ore. ,s{1s
 To Use Airptane
 "The company has arranged to bring in an airpiane thls sum mer, in order that it may have means of rapid contact with va rious parts of the region and the coast. MT. Wernecke will have an aviator in charge of the ma chine, and in order to insure fur ther safety when flying has been taking some instructions at the Oakland flying field. MT. Wer necke is expected to come North within the next week or two. Several other large companies have interests in the new silver lead fields of the Yukon. The Consolidated company of Trail, British Columbia, will continue it's prospecting in the Beaver this season, and has just sent in its engineers. Toronto capital is TO- ported to have acquired an op- ton on Silver Hill properties of Jack Carpenter and associates, in the Beaver district, and other now movements of significance are re- | ported in the district"
 Visits in East
 During the winter MT. Settle . mier visited New York, Philadel
 phia and Washington, and re. I turned to the coast via Florida, ] New Orleans and Los Angeles
 and was in San Francisco. Reno Virginia City and other Nevada Il cities, and later in northern coast
 cities. He reports having met
 Sourdoughs in, every place visited
 Among the northerners in New
 York was Ben Volkman and Frank Neill, former Dawson saw,
 mill men, now conducting large
 lumber yard in Flushing, a sub
 urb of the big city. In Miami
 Florida, Eugene O. Stahl, news
 paper man of Juneau and Daw son in early days, now has a no
 tel, the Helene, one of the mod
 ern popular tourist hostelries o
 the famous southern resort. whicf
 cost him a half million dollars
 and for which he refused $750, ,000
 Mir. Stahl expects to visit Alaskt
 and Yukon this summer, acconi panied by Mrs. Stahl. Miami | ] described as one of the most pic ] turesque and attractive cities 0 l the continent, and now cominl back strong after the hard rub7i received from the cyclone ant the subsiding of the recent boom , he adds. Hl Il ''In Los Angeles, San Francisco | Seattle and Vancouver, B. .Ca, says Mir. Settlemier. fionrishinl Alaska Yukon organizations ar maintained. The Vancouver oi
 ganization was completed recen' [ ly with a membership of over 30 q charter members. It is locate on Granville Street opposite tn hotel Vancouver. In Los Angele P more than 400 northerners wer , met at one of the Sourdough K 5 unions. The Hotel Rosslyn q , that city maintains register an, : directory of all Yukoners an T Alaskans Of the city. In Sa 5 Francisco tho Sourdough club ! at Powell and Sltter Streets, i : charge of Archie L. Hawkes., wh F was noted in Kiondike rush day y as the engineer who installed tn r famous old chiIkoot tram. In & I attie the greatest activity pr, $ vails among the Northern organ s cations. and new movement j. the kind has been instituted D e Frederick < Nelson. with the e l. tablishment of an Alaska Yuku s Bureau and registry where MT e Dorothy .O'Keefe. formerly MT u Dolly ogburh. of Nenana, Tai h banks and Dawsofi. has char ,f and devotes her time entirely Is the aftentions' Of Sohrdoughs.
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