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The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05
WIDE INTEREST !. IN RED BLUFF
 BAY CHROMIUM
New York Concern Report ed Interested Tn Bar
 anof Island Property

Local owners oi chromium min- ing claims on Baranof Island are awaiting with interest the report on tests just completed on their property for New York interests Said to represent some of the largest chromium concerns in the country.
 The tests were made by P. Cortel- you, who came here from New York three weeks ago and left last week after spending ten days on the property, which is located on Red Bluff Bay. He was taken to the property by J. c. B. Hawks of Ju- neau, one of the owners.
 According to surveys of necessary resources that the United States would require to be entirely self sufficient in time of war, there are 36 needed minerals, and chromium up to the present is one of the three that are not produced in American territory in equate quantities. It is for this reason that great interest attaches to the pos sibility that Alaska mines might supply this deficiency.
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in any replacement equipment or supplies. A series of break-downs and delays for repairs consumed most of the season, and the new owners were so discouraged that they never tried to operate it again.
 One other dredge, brought in to Walkers Fork in 1909, operated successfully there for time, but was then moved to other property at Miller's Creek, in Yukon Ttiii- tory.
 Drag Line Shovel
 Aside from these operations, the Mining Bureau records show that until the Walkers Fork Mining Company started dredging in 1884, most of the gold output was from hand miners. In 1929 drag line shovel started operating, and this, used in conjunction with hydrau- licking, has also proven successful There is plenty of water available, and three giants are used in the hydraulic operation, the first being to free the gravel. the second to pipe it to where the shovel will handle it, and the third for wash ing.
 While the record of the Walkers Fork Mining Company have not been made public, reports from resi- dents of the district say that the operators admit their 1885 produc- ton was far beyond their most hopeful expectations" And this company's action in shipping in a second dredge to be working this year is evidence of the same kind.
 Concerning the values averaged in the district, MT. Stewart said the records show about 35 to 40 cents square foot of bed rock. "The dis trict is one of the most interesting in Alaska" he said, Forty Mile river flows on bed rock for much of the distance that it is mined, The result is that only at bends have any bars accumulated. For more than forty years miners have been working these bars with rockers and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05
GILL METERS
 BEGIN FISHING
 NEXT MONDAY
About 10 Boats Going Out from Juneau and Doug
 last Next Week

The gill net season on king sal mon will open May 10 in the Taku river section and about ten local boats will go from Juneau and Douglas to fish for the Libby, Me Neill and Libby cannery there. AS the tenth is next Sunday, most of the boats will start fishing Monday.
 A tug from the Libby company will tow over most of the boats, pro- bably Saturday, although others will go around under their own power.
 The fishermen will fish for kings until the end of next month and then change to smaller mesh nets for echoes and dog salmon. The fishermen will be paid by the pound for kings and by the fish for the smaller fish.
 According to some of the men, an average catch for the season will be 1000 or 5000 pounds of kings and from 2,00O to 5000 mixed echoes md dogs. High boat is expected to De around 5000 fish.
 Most of the gill net fishermen from this section are from Doug las. Among those from Douglas, who will fish in their own boats, are Jimmy Fox, Albert Jack, Thomas Bowman, Henry Stevens, LeFevre Weaver and Jake Marshall. Henry Stevens is the veteran of them all, laving fished there for 34 seasons. His son, George Stevens will also 'ish, using one of the company's boats.
 Victor Hodge of Haines and George Johns are also preparing their boats to join the fishing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05

pannings through all these years of high transportation costs offers encouraging prospects for the fu- ture if freighting costs can be brought down." In this line it is noted that the Walkers Fork Com pany is hopeful of bringing their freighting costs down to cents a pound or less by the use of trac- tors hauling in winter from Forty Mile, Yukon Territory.
 MT Stewart added that geologi- cal formati are favorable to lode mining in many places, and lowered transportation costs that would permit the erection of mill ing machinery might easily be the start of hard-rock mining in this region.
 Aviation Strides
 Commenting upon the strides that aviation is making in reducing transportation costs in Alaska, MT. Stewart called attention to the statement of Dr. Merty in his 1928 report on the Forty Mile District, in which the government geolo- gist said: An interesting possibil- ity for Chicken Creek and vicinity is the use of airplanes for commer- cial freighting from Fairbanks. The air distance is about POO miles, and even at present commercial rates for air freight it should be possible to deliver supplies at Chicken at rate as low or lower than the pres ent summer rate. The use of air planes for mail delivery in Forty Mile district, by providing regular business, should materially cheapen air freight rates"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05

TOT the benefit Ol persons Qe- sirous of acquiring larger land holdings in Southeast Alaska than are available under the s acre Homesite Law, the Regional For ester of the Tongass National For est has prepared list of the most suitable locations that have been eliminated from the Forest Re- serve and are open to homesteads.
 According to the Juneau Forest Service office of the Department of Agriculture, there are from 30 to 40 desirable locations, ranging in size from l-2 acres to full homesteads of 160 acres.
 All these tracts are now open under the U. S. homestead laws, and filings can be made either through the United States Com missioner at Juneau or direct to the Land Office at Anchorage. Ap- plicants must be American citizens or have declared their intention of becoming citizens, must establish residence within six months from time of application, and must con tinue residence at least seven months of each year for three years. To hold the property at least one sixteenth of the acreage taken must be under cultivation after two years, and one eight after three years, although the Land Office is authorized to waive this per formance upon satisfactory show ing of why such extensive cultiva- ton has not been done. At the time of first applying, filing fee must be paid. This varies accord ing to size of tract, but is less than Sl0 on 80 acres After three years residence, occupant may apply for patent upon payment of SIPS per acre.
 HomeSteS
 Homesites are available in tracts up to five acres in selected loca- tions, throughout most of the hab- itable parts of the Tongass Na-, tional Forest district. They inn pose no requirement. of cultiva- tion, but require that house suit ably to live in must be built and applicant must make it his per manent home for three years. Per init for occupancy of homesite is obtainable through the Regional Forester at Juneau. The charge is $500 per year After the required tenancy of three years the land may be eliminated from the Ma tional Forest, and the occupant may then file for patent through the Anchorage Land Office or through the U. s. Commissioner at Juneau.
 In discussing the practicability of commercial farming in Southeast Alaska, Wellman Holbrook of the Forest Service office said that transportation problems offer nan dicaps that are difficult to over come in most cases, and that up to the present agriculture in this country has proven successful chief ly in those instances where it is undertaken to serve home needs, or meet the demands of immed- fate communities.
 The fertility and the produc- tivity are beyond question: he said. There is room for argument about the practicability of growing gar den vegetables in Southeast Alas ka. Such things as cabbages, car rots, cauliflower, rutabagas green peas, lettuce, onions, potatoes and radishes, thrive as well as any where. Strawberries can be pro-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05

long toms. They are stil doing it today, and taking out good values" Creek Bottoms
 In addition to working these bars in the main river, good values are mined on benches and creek bot . toms in a number of tributaries. These branches include Walkers Fork and it's tributary, Wade Creek, Dennison Fork, Mosquito Fork Dome Creek, Franklin Creek, Chick en Creek and its tributaries, Stone house Creek and Myers Fork. Ingle Creek. four miles west of Chicken Creek, has shown the coarsest gold, the largest piece found being worth s60. The gold in the district aver ages about 85 per cent pure.
 The four towns in the district are Steel Creek, Jack Wade, Frank lin and Chicken Chicken has an aviation field, and is already reap ing advantages from this closer con- tact with Fairbanks. Lost Chicken Creek, on a bench opposite the town of Chicken, has been steadily mined since 1901. It averages highter than most of the placers in the district, going about sly00 per square foot of bed rock. Chicken is also the home of a proven coal mine, which according to the reports filed at the Mining Bureau, has been de- yeloped down a 35-foot shaft and opened into a room IA by 60 feet and 10 feet high, exposing p feet of coal Tests on the coal show it averages in heat units with the Healy River coal, and is entirely suitable to supply the needs of the district.
 Enlarged Operations
 In summarizing the future pos abilities of the Forty Mile district. MT. Stewart said that the long peri cd of successful operation by hand methods. and the relatively large area of proven placer ground offers evidence justifying enlarged me- chanical operations. And the abil- ! ity ofxxesidents to survive on their
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05
Desirable Homestead Tracts
 AraiIable in Southeast Alaska
 m Addition to Many Homesites

duced in abundance, but are apt to be more watery than the import ed kind. The potatoes in most cases will not keep so well as those from the Outside, but are other wise of good quality.
 "Beets do not grow well. Toma- toes, cucumbers and corn cannot be grown successfully. Fruit trees such as apples have been tried in a number of cases and bear crops occasionally Hay and grain are hardly practical due to the diffi- culty in getting sufficient drying weather. AS a result of this un- certainty, stock raising is rather hazardous for tests have demon strated that where the winter feed- ing period exceeds 100 days, it is hardly profitable to raise cattle, and it is almost always necessary to supply feed for cattle in this re- zion during a considerably longer peTlOQ lIldIl SU udyo.
 Poultry grow well enough, but again one comes against the prob lem of buying feed from Outside, and the cost of this imported feed leaves slim chances for commercial success.
 Ddirying Successful
 "Dairying has, so far as our in- formation shows. been successful in practically all cases, although the dairymen are faced with the same problem of importing their feed for a considerable portion of the year.
 Tt would appear that under pres ent transportation and population conditions, the chances for success ful agricultural undertakings in Southeast Alaska are limited to those instances where the grower has either some arrangement in the community for his produce, or where the gardens are planted for home use, to reduce the cost of living for families who follow some other activity for a part of their income"
 Regarding the possibility that ad- ditional local markets might de- velop, MT. Holbrook said that the difficulty lies in changing buyers from their present habits. Can neries and stores operating in and near the various towns in South east Alaska are large consumers of the very kind of vegetables that can be grown near by. The buyers however, have been accustomed to regular delivery of such foods in definite quantities, and growers ex- perience difficulty in arranging to serve them with vegetables ad- mittedly equal or better, due to the fact that the buyers hesitate to stop their Seattle orders for fear of failure to deliver on the part of local growers, and the local grower on the other hand is hardly able to undertake truck gardening on a scale to supply such demands, with out first being assured of sales. Limited in Size
 The areas suitable for farming are for the most part of limited size, according to MT. Holbrook, and this precludes the possibility of large scale production that would warrant establishment of can nery for such products as peas. The smallness of these areas and their scattered locations lends them additional advantages. however, as homesteads or homesites for those who wish the land to product much of their own foods and intend to work at fishing or mining for ad- ditional income.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05

BUY AT HOME!
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05

had been spent on the Alaska -Si- beria cable at that time.
 Left to EsISimos
 Grantley Harbor was then aban- doned to the Eskimos for more than 20 years. After the gold strike al Nome in 1898, prospectors of course ranged for miles both above and be- low Nome. and a number of them were working in Grantley Harbor when, in 1900, Herman Ring made strike on Gold Run Creek, a Tri- butary of the Bluestone River. It proved to be bonanza, and a stam- pede from Nome followed at once. As the new town grew up, the name of Libbysville was discarded and the title of Teller adopted, in honor of Senator Teller of Colorado.
 Nuggets taken from Rings claim ran as high as $500, and Ring soon had a comfortable fortune. The whole surrounding country was staked and restaked. and for time intense excitement ruled, with many believing that Teller would surpass Nome as a permanent mining camp,
 By the fall of 1900 the population is estimated to have exceeded 1900. Dance halls, churches, stores and homes were built and crowded, and newspaper established.
 Many Lawsuits
 With the mad sta.ling of claims that was going on, fights of all kinds developed, and court litigation soon became one of the principal activi- ties of Teller. It is estimated that several hundred thousand dollars were spent in lawsuits over con- flicting claims.
 The miners were not doing so well, however, as few of the creeks outside of Gold Run showed any great values, and inside of a year most of the prospectors returned to Nome.
 Today Teller still has population of about 200 and is an important trading post for the Port Clarence District Quite number of the ori- ginal S ta mpe ders have stayed through the years and Teller con- tinues to this day with steady gold production in the Gold Run Coun- try. Senator Frawley of Nome re- gently organized mining company and installed dredge in this dis trict, and last year reported suc- cesSful season.
 Old Timers
 Among the old timers who went in to Teller about 1900 and are still there are the Tweet family, Charles Miller, Mrs Ethel Marks, Mrs Thomas Peterson, Henry Muller and Percy Blatchford. Tom Ashby, now of Juneau, mined on Gold Run in 1900 and 1901 and took out a fair sized poke for his trouble.
 oOiQ Abuil 10 dDOuI ~ hihCc AAOili the town of Teller, but back in the days of excitement it cost 20 cents a pound to haul freight that dis tance Thirty miles to the North west of Teller is Tin City, noted for it's production of placer tin. With large tin nuggets running about 75 per cent pure, tin mining has been carried on successfully in this dis trict for 30 years, records showing a production of $5O0,000 to date. as well as some gold. Dredges as well as sluice boxes are used in tin min- ing there, and due to the present good world demand for tin, several new outfits are prospecting in the district, hopeful of striking larger deposits than those now worked.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05
TELLER HISTORY C0L0RFUL PART
 OF ALASKA EPIC
Best Medium in World with No Advertisers Pub
 lished There Tn 1866

Seventy years ago the first news paper in the northern part of the Western Hemisphere offered ltsell as "a better medium for advertisers than any paper published in the world"
 This modest statement was made upon the geographical showing that it was the only newspaper in the higher northern attitudes for a span of half the globe.
 The "home office" of this paper called The Esquimaux" was at Grantley Harbor, north of Nome and the site of the present town o1 Teller. The town then was called "Libbysville" and was established in 1866.
 Libbysville was named for Cap tain Dan Libby, who was in charge of the station established jointly by the United States Army and the Western Union Telegraph Company while constructing a route for an international cable that had been started at that time due to diffi- culties encountered trying to lay the first cable across the Atlantic
 Cable Laying Headquarters
 The Western UnIon Company had failed in two attempts to lay the Atlantic Cable, when they conceived the idea of an overland connection through British Columbia, Alaska, Siberia and then down to the Euro pean cities.
 With the assistance of the U. $. Army, a small fleet of vessels car ried workers and supplies to several points on the coast of Alaska and Siberia. The Alaska headquarters was called Libbysville, and the main station in Siberia known as Camp Libby, Plover Bay, Siberia.
 John J. Harrington, a San Fran cisco printer employed as laborer setting posts and hauling supplies on dog teams at Libbysville, start ed the paper in 1866, the year be- fore United States purchased AL aska from Russia. A copy of the first issue of The Esquimaux' is on file at the Territorial museum at Juneau. About twelve issues were put out, all in long-hand, the final one being published in Siberia. Later, when Harrington returned to San Francisco, he had the issues set up in type and reprinted there. The first issue contained this naive statement:
 Best Medium in World
 Our readers and the public gen. orally will at once perceive the benefits of extending to The Esquimaux their patronage. It is the only journal circulated in this territory, and none other is published north of Victoria, B. C., on this continent, or in China, in the Western Hemisphere, between the longitude 130 degrees east and l2O degrees west of Greenwich, nearly half the globe.
 Tt is the official organ for all matters connected with the Vest ern Union Telegraph, Russian Ex- tension, in the vast extent of coun- try to be traversed by this gigantic enterprise of the 18th century, and is therefore a better medium for advertisers than any paper pub liShed in the world"
 Needless to say 1t had no adver- tisers. The third attempt to lay the Atlantic cable succeeded, and a s te eamer from San Francisco brought news to the company's em- ployees in Alaska and Siberia to abandon any further work on the Russian extension and return to San Francisco More than $3,00O, ,00O
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gle copper treasure yet discovered on the face of the globe, was an in- clined ore body that ranged from 200 to 1000 feet in width, from 50 to 100 feet in thickness, and ex- tended downward for distance of over l700 feet. Millions of pounds of this ore, averaged consistently between 65 and 70 per cent pure copper. At the height of war pric- es, whole shiploads of ore were netting $50 per ton. !.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05
FACTS ABOUT ALASKA LIFE, HISTORY
KnO,u AIaska!

The Alaska Daily conducting continuous survey of the Territory Each Tuesday articles and statistical published of the following subjects:
 History Alaska communities and the men that building them.
 Conditions in mining districts
 Information fishing and trapping con- dtiOns
 Reports experimental and practical farming in Alaska.
 Aviation activities and future possibilities. You will to keep of these articles And you Outside who interested in Alaska before assembled by mail ing these issues subscribing for The Empire
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05
ORCHESTRA PRACTICE

Community orchestra members will hold their regular practice tonight in the grade school auditorium at 7;30 o'clock. All those participat- ing are requested to attend the practice which is preparatory to giving a concert. ...,-s. !.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05
STEAMSHIP MEN
 MAKE AUTO TRIP

A thousand-mil trip thu oug h eastern Washington, including vis- its to Spokane and Coulee Dam was made by Purser Bert Gillespie and Assistant Freight Clerk George Missouri Holferty of the steamer North Sea which sailed south from Juneau yesterday, the last time the steamer was in Seattle. The en- tire trip was made in less than three days, between voyages of the vessel, according to Purser Giles pie, who attributed the fast time maintained throughout the journey to the exceptional cattle-herding ability of Assistant Freight Clerk Holferty.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-07-11
SPECIAL SERIES
SERMONS PLANNED

Rev. Yancy T. Shehane, pastor
OF the First Baptist Church, is
preaching 4 special series of SER
mons to his congregations on Sun
day evenings.
These sermons are taken from
Old Testament history and char
acters and presented by the min
istar in story form.
For the past two Sunday eve
nings he has given the story of
Hannah and Mordecai, which was
very interesting to his congrega-
tons, it is stated.
This coming Sunday evening
his subject will be "The Awful
Story of Ahab and Jezebel."
Pastor Shehane is wei acquaint-
ed with Old Testament history
and has the unusual ability of
presenting it in story form with
words that are beautiful and
thoughts that are gripping, it is
shown.
The entire membership OF the
church is urged to attend this
series of services, and visitors
will receive a warm welcome,
states the pastor.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-07-11
CONCERT SUNDAY
AT PARK HERE
PROGRAM TO BE RENDERED
TOMORROW AFTERNOON BY
HOSPITALITY BAND

Another concert by the Key
West Hospitality Band will be
presented tomorrow afternoon in
Aquarium Park. The concert is
to start at 4:30 D. m. and will
continue for an hour and a half.
The program is being presented
by the Federal Music Project
which is a part of the Works
Progress Administration. George
Mills White is the local super
visor.
Alfred M. Barosso will conduct
the concert tomorrow. During the
past several weeks considerable
progress has been made by the or
ganizatiOn, and the program to-
morrow is expected to be varied
and wei executed.
Two weeks ago the Sunday aft.
ernoon concerts at Aquarium Park
were inaugurated and met at
once with popular success. Last
Sundays concert was not held be-
cause OF the many musical pro-
grams of one kind or another pre-
scented the preceding Saturday in
celebration OF the Fourth OF
July.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-07-11
OZARK BRINGS
HEAVY FREIGHT
SHIPMENT HERE
CLYDE-MALLORY SHIP SPENT
EIGHT HOURS IN PORT AFT
Err WHICH VESSEL SAILED
FOR NEW ORLEANS

Steamship Ozatk of the Clyde
Mallory Lines sailed S-3O o'ciork
last even ng for New Dream. aft
or being in port for eight hours.
having arrived at 1880 O'Clock
from Jacksonville and Miami.
An unusually large cons.gn-
ment of freight for Key West.
consisting principally of large
shipments Of dressed lumber. was
the cause Of the long stay Of the
ship 1T this port.
Another vessel Of the Inc. the
Agwidale. one Of the largest o.
the company fleet Of frtighterS
is due in tomorrow from New
York. en- route To Tampa.
Two vessels of the Standard
Fruit and Steamship company. the
Yoro and Granada. are due to ar
rive tomorrow The Yoro VIII
come from New York and the
Granada from Pm l3delphi2. They
will take on fuel oil at the P0r-
ter Dock company and sail for
FrOntera. Mexico.