The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 8, 1931, Page 2

e Smartest Winter Hats At Half Price model—your opportunity to finish the Winter sea- Starting Millinery ‘ hats. We've cut the price exactly in two on every I well. i son with a smart new hat and save 50 per cent as Colors— B. M. Behrend the event, new in Angora Berets Special, § Co., Inc. year Millinery Clearance order Tan, I’.rn\\‘:L Blue and White Juneau's Leading Department Stc LOWER PHICES CUT OUTPUT O ALASKA MINE Gold Increa; Loss: er Totals Alaska mines in 1930 ylel in wea.th the which 1929, according timates of ti Jogical Survey increased over 1929, but th $2,464,000 United States Geo- Gold | banks 1 sum of to p just issued. s, but Copper Result in Low- copper vroduction declined in Vi $3. 030,000. The total value of the mineral output of the Territory since 1880 is approximately $629,000,000. The figures for last year, which are preliminary estimates, are subject to revision later. Output in 1930 The by mineral is as follows: 1930 1929 Gold $ 8,394,000 $ 7,761,000 | Copper 4,100,000 7,130,000 Silver 158,000 252,000 Coal 609,000 528,000 Other minerals (lead, petrel- eum, marble, tin, platinum, ete.) 341,000 395,000 $13,602,000 $16,056,000 General Conditions industrial of “General similar to Alaska cral output. gold were so compared with 1929 ¢ two million dc was due to th low prices, thos2 States and of prac countries of the world g in 1930 and in the decreased valu The the mineral commodit hov an even greater the y all vailed ere of its pr abnormally low uue of the output in 1930 | “The value of the copper pro- uced from Alaska in 1930 is cs Silver Also ines ated to have beecn $4.100,000 of the produced in | marks a decrease in value of years ha than $3,000,000 from the cor frem the copper B ————————————— A L A alue in 1929. Nearly during 1929, the| b 181,750,000 of this decreasz may which complete re-!| than in 1929. This marks a note-| ibuted directly to the Ilo able, over threc-| worthy increase, not only over tbe| price of copper in 1930, er came from | reczding year but over any of the|than in 1929, The low prices not h2 reduct! I d ten year By far li'“fnl“,\' had its direct cffe the per or ! t amcunt of gold appears to|value of the output, bu alsc silver natural- ave come from the placer mines,|ected retard operation y hich yielded about per ce: t} ty produced also fell off pe sellin the tot gold, as against y an amount estimated as in ex- silver was only 385 cen cent from the lode mines. cess of 7,000,000 pounds. The aver-|an ounce, against 533 cents in the entire period that gold selling ce of copper during|1929. Owing to the greater output| 1z has been in progress in Al- * as computed by the Bu-|of gold from placers there was about $390,000,000 has beer Minss was 124 cents, ag|some increase in the output of sil- won, of which alms cents in 1920, In 1930 vc with the gold. The! thirds has come in years, practically al | quantit silver in p ind one-thi c came from {wo mines | ordin 1 r i ol oF ihd ar tt, in the Copper relatively i A River region, and from one mine|so low in price, that the attributable mainly to Prince Wil Sound in the output of gol o agaratinn: dtims. s alone, according |means an increase of cspecially those of the Fairban hed reports of »\m thousand doll in the | Exploration Company in the Fair- gical Sury I\m“n elded | the er I ed from lzm‘i distr of Central Alaska, mor (.!\"n $5200,000,000 in 2 source. All ¢ gold lode mines Heke tho lavas ToInin et sn oriticn ars that they have been active-|also yield some silver in addition S Shioh annriiiey SORE b developed to the other metals that they SR in bt ey ki h for new ore bodics and| ta are estimated to} came into full operation and its|j o Criensions Gf the known ore hs AR &) vher cenl five dredges were continuously P°0Ies bhas been continued at alifof the total amount of silver| mining throughout the open sea.|UNe Producing mines, but the gen-|produced during 1930 from Ala soh hrough practically the en- cral business depression the|ore. Nowhere in Ala: are ores tre - Territop Waathar rnml:nun.\‘]“‘" prices of all the base metals’ mined primarily for their silver that -aftact BRIBMAT . Kuch. Ak plen- or the failure to obtain encourag- |content. Silver-bearing lead ores| tiful water pply and length of | have caused the aban-|are known at several p‘!aca:. ;n‘ working season, were fa abla. T gl t of scveral new prospect-|the Territory, but the high' c‘:u;l | fact, throughout Central Alaska the ing projects that had been started | of transportation and smelting | B TR e e the preceding year. Among | them discourages devclopment or ing the middle and 1;.111 of these dis '1.(mund projects may | even search foxj them cxcept in the Beason, “and b & fow rm“)_‘;hv mentioned work on the copper|the more accessible parts of Alas- there were arther disastrous floods. | 0% o GIRKar el Liib- kA : utary of the Chitistone, whe: Ceal Shews Gain cond itions United other in reflected min- paid for her than as ore than tiie decrease e. - The perhaps ¢t in deterring extrmely satisfactory the year the bonded | | | | | | | | i and during indebtedness perty was paid up from 1l amounts t both of them most of the year pent in dev vk)_Emr:nl work. The finds reported ide re ¢ undergr the of ~ promising in the ‘Taku re; plored rather fully by both irface work, but | were not sufficiently ‘v:u ouraging to lead the larger {mines to continue extensive work, | though a of pros | d and spectors still in and there reason has to are region, believe that the thorough to t been lis no search | enough that t rant a st important all Winter with this r to clear out Creek d camps were ac- % construction op- > those of the Will where an ex and settlement were the year. This mine ve work late De- 193¢ ar it be small, but next | should add materially to the lode gold output from Alaska. Lode mining in the Fairbanks dis- appears to have been es 1y successful in 1930 and to :lded about 50 per cent ld than in 1929, Sev r lod 1d mines widely scat- | tered through the Territory vielded yme gold. The most productive | of these were the Sonny Fox mine in the M Bay disirict; th 2.50 xy Strike mine, on Palm | X, in the Hope district; the old Pearson & Strand mine, > Nixon Fork district of the n Valley. Copper Value Drops Most of the placer gold is now rn-{ua e et covered by dredging, and the more | 1P SBngoobi SRR Sorporatio primitive hand method fpleries claaineds o JprgeEORR - i0 months to carry on ex- mechanical devices | several ploratory work ;at the deposits that! o0 Knight Island, where an ex- mu(_llr;!cnmve drilling program has been m.m‘undrrmkm by the Solar Develop- | ment Co., and at the deposits on | Kasaan Peninsula, where the same company has, started opening up ome’ old workings of certain of the mines that were formerly pro- ductive but ¢ laid idle for many years. According to current reports of the three Alaska copper or have lar disappeared except in the more re mote about gold L districts. It 80 per cent that was r mined by di was about 71 appe the vered of in in 1929 the cent per 26 Dreages Operated “So far as rcported, 26 dredge were in operation d against 30 in 1929 that had becn mining in 1929 but were idle in 1930 were mainly | s that has been a large prod- | small ones, and several of the large ucer in the past, the Beatson mine | modern dredges that were credited | of the Kennecott Copper Corpora- as mining in 1929 were new boals tion, on Latouche Island, discon- .!*:,1' were built in 1929 and oper-|tinued operations on December 1, oted only a short time in that and the task of dismantling its vear but put in a full season In| surface plant has been started. 103C. The dredges that mined in| “Doubtless some of these enter- o “Snr of lode gold were also recovered by two of the lode | mines cn Chichagof Island, but| their production was small because 1 ¢ THE DAILY ALASKA SMPIRE, THURSDAY, JAN. 8, 1931. expedition; Alexander Siemel; V Providence, R. I.; Alexander Da: Samuel P. Hoops, Glens Falls, N. EXPEDITION SAILS TO EXPLORE BRAZIL JUNGLES Phioto Scientists and big game hunters who sailed from Hoboken, N. J., for Montevideo, Uruguay, whence they will start a year's trek up into Brazil's great jungle, the Matto ‘Grosso. < Newell, Florida; George Rawls, New York; John W. Newell, Florida; Capt. Valdimir Perfilieff, head of the Left to right: David M. incent M. Petrullo of the University of Pennsylvania; Arthur P. Rossi, vercn of Johns Hopkins university; William E. Green, Trenton, N. J., and . Y. but their es for copper prev ation at > is a severe sethack to the copper min- ing activities in the Territory. That there sre in Alaska copper opment is an xpensive and no n to become aear future. producers in the MO eposits which not now pro- . : A = lucing but h hold promise of \‘TH E“'MOM ENT under nor- ‘,fl1 % i b 5% certain, butl i 8 S 5 green and He rect is greere with a ya%u) “The production of coal from Alaska mines in 1930 is estimated to have been 116,000 tons, or some what more than 1920 and within a few thousand tons of the high record of all time that was es- tablished in 1928.As usual practi- cally all of the output came from the Matanuska and Healy River fields. The princival producing Matanuska Coal Company, mines were those of the Alaska Evan Jones Coal company in the Moose Creek district of the Mat- anuska field, and the Suntrana mine of the Healy River Coal cor- poration in the Healy River field “No notable new developments were reported to have taken place during the year in the Matanuska field, but in the Healy River ficld extreme high water and floods in (Continted on Page Three) development o is whose ores 1720 but not in 1930 were one in|prises will be revived when better carry principal! he base metals, | the Hot Springs district, two in|— 7 ——— so that their . utput cither the Innoko district of the Yukon| curtailed or aitogether ctopped. | region, one in the Tuluksak-Aniak | “Obviously this is a temporary'district of the Kuskckwim, and two| condition that will disappe in the Seward Peninsula region. ¥ time, and there is nothir Two dredges that had recently| F general condition of the been r ructed resumed mining mining industry to indicate manent decline. creased produc the Territory in 12 the serious depress. of the nation’s i: encouraging featore surance of general condi capital and productive ¢ ing ecducation mining really favorable prevail in Alaska, the constant provement in transportation faci. ties, the experience ga mining ventures, and the enterprises In fact, tt n in sc iu yment of people conditions of gold | heretofore, ed in past {hroughout two- | slightly lower than in 1929 more|spite of this the operations were| > Solomon and Nome regions | of Seward Peninsula in 1930, | “No new finds of placer ground| vielded any considerable| of gold were made during| , and inevitably each year | he known placer areas| 1 out. Prospecting for| are work new depc however, appears to| (have been somewhat more active than it h been in the recent| Not only are there more| pectors and miners in the earching for workable depos but persons with funds seem to owing interest in s the development of prospective mining properties. [ A. J. Leads Lodes | > bulk of the lode gold con-| 1 to come from the properties of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining | the Juneau region of | Work at this een carried | same scale as| average tenor | to have been In} Southes | place appears to on at essentially th, Jimmy Fahy, 10, now living wi maybe he will be a flier some day. of the ore seem: that air accidents took the lives of bath the | e Our Insurance (Creed ! “There can be no bargain sales for insurance. The law of averages has established that at least certain of the promises to pay must be met. The funds to meet these promises to pay must always be at hand. The risk to one company in a given promise to pay cannot differ sub- stantially from that of the other company. The rates for such risk cannot vary. They are based upon the same experience. They both accept the same probability. When you pay you receive nothing but a " promise and this promise can be redeemed only if the prices charged are scientifically correct.” By JAMES A BEHA, Former Superintendent of In- surance, State of New York. Associated Press Photo th an aunt in Los Angeles, thinks He's carrying on d2spite the fact his mother and father in 1930. | ALLEN SHATTUCK, Inc. i Established 1898 Telcphone 249 ”jOld Papers for sale at Empire Office| U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU { The Weather (By the U. S. Weather Bureaun) 3 Forecast for Suncau ana vicinity, beginning at 4 p. m., January 8: Rain and slightly warmer. tonight and FPriday; erly winds. moderate east-~ LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 4 pm. yest'y 29.71 36 5 S 6 Cldy 4 am. today 29.70 34 94 S 4 Rain-Snow Noon today 20.82 38 90 SE [ Rain CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS YESTERDAY TODAY Highest 4 p.m. Lowest 4a.m. 4a.m. Precip. 4a.m. Smitmn— temp. temp. | temp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. Weather Barrow ST 4T | 20 20 d 0 Clear Nome 10 10 14 18 0 Cldy Bethel 22 20 28 5 [ Clay Fort Yukon -12 | -12 -4 - 0 Cldy Tenana 4 2 6 - 0 Clear Fairbanks 16 14 18 % 0 Cldy agle 12 22 22 20 .10 Cldy St. Paul .. 26 12 16 i 0 Cldy Dutch Harbor ..... 36 34 32 34 —_— 52 Cldy Kodiak 40 38 36 36 18 .20 Pt. Cldy Cordova 48 36 | 32 34 8 1.02 Rain ‘L Juneau 36 36 33 34 4 .17 Rain-Snow Sitka by 32 —_ — 38 — Ketchikan 42 | 38 38 4 60 Cldy Prince Rupert 44 32 38 10 34 Rain Edmonton 18 | 4 4 ¥ 0 Clear Seattle 46 36 38 % 0 Pt. Cldy Portland . 4 34 34 » 0 Clear San Francisco . 52 48 44 46 8 27 Clear Spckane -8 34 26 28 ¢ 0 Cldy | Vancouver, B. 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