The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-30
Mining Family Of Anchorage
 Heading South
Four Strandberg Brothers Aboard Alaska After
 Good Season

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 Four members of mining family from Anchorage that should be known as the Strandberg Family Mining Co.,, Incorporated, are in Ju- neau this afternoon on the steamer Alaska.
 They are Harold, Bill, Ted, and Odin Strandberg, sons of Dave Strandberg, pioneer mining man. The Strandbergs have mining prop critics at Goodnews Bay. in platinum and ground at Candle Creek and Cripple Creek, in gold, near Me Grath.
 Dave Strandberg is boss supreme over the operations, and the sons are in charge of operations. Harold Strandberg, the oldest of the sons, yet still a young man, is Superin- tendent over the Candle Creek and Cripple Creek properties, operated by Ted and Odin. Bill is in charge of work at Goodnews Bay.
 Bill reports a successful season" !" at Goodnews Bay where the Strand- bergs have been operating drag line on platinum ground on Clara Creek since 1886
 Need Addition
 An interesting addition was made this summer to operations at Clara Creek in the form of small ball mill through which black sand and concentrates are run, increasing re- covery to a large degree. Not so many years ago, black sand used to be looked upon as waste" in which mineral values were unrecoverable. The ball mill and Willfelly table for concentrating the black sand and rifle box concentrates is a compar- atively recent innovation in mining and for the Standbergs has done fine work"
 The Clara Creek operations work ed from the 21st of June to the 29th of October, employing 20 men on the average.
 Build Road
 Fifteen days were spent following shutdown of operations, in building a Territorial road from Platinum to Squarrel Creek, approximately 13 miles long, which taps the valuable mining area drained by the Salmon River.
 Dragline and bulldozer moved 36O,OOO square feet of bedrock dirt during the season.
 At Candle Creek, Is miles below McGroth, where the Strandbergs installed dragline on gold property they acquired, another good sea- son" was experienced, superintend- ed by Harold Strandberg and op- erated by Ted Strandberg.
 The dragline was put in on the creek on the 17th of July and sluic- ing began on the 26th of August working up into early october, nov ing approximately 75,0O0 yards of dirt.
 New Camp
 A new camp was built with four new bunkhouses and an office building and a sending and receiv- ing radio set was installed.
 Thirty-five men were employed for the bulk of the season including a 12 man drill crew under Larry Doheny.
 The property at Cripple Creek also superintended by Harold Strandberg, was operated by the younger of the Strandberg brothers, Odin.
 This ground had been worked for several years by Dave Strandberg and formed the nucleus of the now extensive Strandberg operations. In 1883, a dragline, the first Strand berg large scale mining venture, was installed, and has produced faith Iully since.
 Cripple Creek is about 60 miles northwest of McGrath. During a season lasting from the 18th of June to the 18th of October, 425,000 square feet of bedrock dirt was moved. A radio station similar to the one at Candle Creek was also installed
 Back to School
 Now that the mining season is over until next Spring three of the Strandberg brothers, Bill, Ted and Odin, are going back to school at the University of Washington. They have divided their time for num- Der of years between mining and school, getting in quarter of study or two quarters every year. Harold graduated from the Univesity of Alaska some years ago.
 MT. and Mrs. Dave Strandberg will J he cou7irp through Juneau on one