The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 21, 1934, Page 8

% POUNDS OF GOLD DUST IN ONE PAN FULL Mine Deck mlander with| Ordinary Piacer Outfit —Sluice Boxes George Comstock and M. E. Kel- who have 1y, prospecting partners, been setting up minin for sluicing the debris ed on the Islander wreck to save the gold du. returned to Juneau, and plan to Jeave in their gasboat, the Energy, tomorrow, for a prospecting trip. While on the Islander, the par!- ners cleaned the upper structure, ' sluiced the muck and shells of that portion of the wreck, and set up equipment for mining the en- gine room deck. The sluice used is jdentical with those in operation on placer claims. In the course of operations, Mr. Comstock says that he gathered up the biggest pan of gold in his ex-| perlen(-e 28 pounds avoirdupois. His cecond largest pan on the wreck | was $250. | Found in Lavatory \ The 28 pounds of gold were found in the corner of a lavatory room, where a stateroom had caved in from above. Gold was found all through the ship, and 600 tons of shells and glacier mud were moved from the after deck alone to get at it, ac- cordipg to Mr. Comstock. Mixed into the trash and gold dust wer several $10 and $20 gold pieces well as pieces of jewelry, which were found in the riffles of the sluice boxes. | Four items of nugget Jeweiry were recovered in this way, a wom garter buckle, two sleeve h r clasps and a ring, all made by welding nuggets together. May Be More From present indications, the in- ference is drawn that there may be a considerable quantity of gold re- maining on the engine and boiler room deck. Staterooms which col- lapsed are said to have caved to- ward the center of the ship, letting the gold, if any, slide down into the lower portions of the ship. It is expected that no difficulty | will be experienced in washing out | the gold which sifted down in this fashion, as the equipment is al- ready set in place, and members|recen of the salvaging crew have been |C trained in operating it. Crush Wood, Barnacles On the upper decks, the wooden planking had been honeycombed by teredoes, and the gold dust had \cngaged for conce; Professor Witte Here is Profcssor Edwin E. Witte, economist of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has been appointed director of President Roosevelt’s committee on eco- nomic and social security, which has been given the task of draw- ing up a broad program of social legislation for the next congress. and their shells washed to retrieve every slight particle of dust. According to Mr. Com:stock, the | washing of the muck and silt on the engine room deck awaits the coming of the low tide after Aug- ust 22, and should be completed by Sem.cmbcr ? 8 > oo CITY BAND TO PLAY AT FAIR The Juneau City Band has been at the South- east Alaska Fair which will be held for four days next month, opening September 12. A complete new program of lat- est jazzy fox trots, topical medle! and overtures with some oldtime favorites will be given each night by the local organization. NAVY SQUADKON IS OFF FROM SITKA FOR SOUTH The squadron of Navy seaplanes, 7 Juneau and then pro- to the Westward, moored a for several s, took off the old Ala from about 11 o'clock this forenoon bound for the south with the next stop at Prince Rupert. This is word brought to Juneau this after- penetrated into their workings to such an extent that the salvagers crumbled up the wood and washed | it through the sluice-boxes also. Even the barnacles were crushed O FINE EATING O FINE COOKERS ARGE SIZE O EXTRA L 35¢c Dozen GEORGE BROTHERS Telephones 92—95 S PSP S R. & W. FLOATING S for the bath and fine laundry At GARNICK’S, Phone 174 . OSCAR 6. OLSON Territorial Treasurer on the Democratic Ticket ACCOUNTANT, EX-FISHERMAN and PROSPECTOR ‘lio Roosevelf Candidate” i w ielt Gualificd noon by Gene Meyring, pilot of the seaplane Baranof, who returned during the late afternoon from Sitka. Five Fast Deliveries OAP, 4 bars DEER SEASON OPENS BUT NO Stalkers Remain at Home Until Later No hits, no runs, no errors—no- body even at bat. That's the rec- ord of Juneau’s first day of the 1934 deer-hunting season. So far as could be determined this morning, nobody shot a deer yesterday, when the season opened. Nobody even went hunting. Last year the woods were full of marksmen and near marksmen. This year everybody stayed at home with a lack of interest almost un- paralleled in the annals of the fol- lowers of Deerstalker. Two reasons are given for this laxity on the part of local hunts- men. In the first place Monday is a poor day for men to get out| in the woods, and in the second place, some of them are geLLmz tired of lugging deer down off the pinnacles. Many have determined not to go out until after Septem- ber 1, when the deer are in lower altitudes. Others are planning to go out this coming week-cnd PR S $100,000 ARE ADVANGED FOR - G0-OP SALMON Donna Lane?alf Loaded— Capacity 1,500,000 Pounds Plus Mild-Cure Up to last Friday night, over $100,000 had been paid out by the Alaska Trollers' Cooperative Mar- keting Assoclation as advance pay- ments for fish delivered, according to Henry Roden, attorney for the Association. Thursday night the Co-op had received over a million and a half pounds. At Ketchikan, there had been delivered at that time 629,867 pounds on which there had been advanced $42,914.85. The Co-op has an average of 38 men employed at the Ketchi- kan dock to handle the incoming fish. Up to last Thursday night 125 tierces of mild cure salmon had been put up by the Association at Ketchikan. At that time another 100 tierces were delivered at Ket- chikan from Sitka and Juneau. A carload of mildcure was expected to be shipped on one of the first steamers going south, Mr. Roden advises. The refrigerator ship Donna Lane, now stationed at Port Alex- ander can handle 1,500,000 pdunds of fish in addition to carrying a load of mildcure, he said. From reports received, over half of the ship’s capacity is taken up and there is no doubt expressed about the Co-op being able to load her to capacity. After that is done she will proceed south and distrib- ute her cargo. ° “At all recelving stations the cold storage facllities are taxed to ca- pacity to take care of the fish; the reports of good catches by the fishermen are confirmed and busi- nessmen throughout Southeast Al- aska are delighted with their im- proved trade and the hope that strikes among the trollers ase a thing of ‘the past,” Mr. Roden said today. Ll e se— ODD FELLOWS’ HALL IS TO BE SCENE OF DANCE WEDNESDAY Old country aances, rhinelanders and polkas will be combined with modern fox trots at a dance to be held at the Odd Fellows' Hall on Wednesday evening. Fred Lehto's musie will provide plenty of rhythm for everyone and a big turnout is looked for. Dancing is to begin at 8 o'clock and all who attend are urged to come early. Among the reasons for beginning at that hour is so that' the Alaska Juneau employees on By A0 | birthplace. night shift may have a couple of hours of dancing before going to work, according to the committee in charge of the affair. ‘The dance is open to the public and a small admission will be charged. Coffee will be served to everyone at 10 o'clock during an lnwrmisumn - REV. DAVID WAGGONEB'S FATHER DIES, NEBRASKA Dr. D. R. Waggoner, father of the Rev. David Waggoner of this; city, passed away at his home in Hastings, Nebraska, on August 7, according to word received by his son here. in aldition to the Rev. ‘Waggoner, five sons and one daugh- | ter survive. At the time of his death, Dr. from Shekley, Pennsylvania, Mh’hwm“m! ONE ON HUNT Not a Shot?e—ported—- T T AR A the fashions still look new. That’s opening presentations, we keep prices well down to high in fashion. earth, though the clothes are s You're going to wait a suit . . . couple of new dresses . . 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