The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 28, 1936, Page 7

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1936. BARNEY GOOGLE AND SPARK PLUG SEN'TER KNOTTS T DECLAR--- WHAR ON AIRTH OI0 YE DRAP FRUM GEE WHIZ-- LOOMIT THIS-- 8(G BENNY, WHAT USTA BE TH' BOUNCER HERE,(S GONNA FIGHT A HILL-BILLY, WEASELPUSS SMITH , TOMORROW N{GHT-- THERE--THERE -- MY CHILD--- STOP CRACKING YOUR KNUCKLES AND EAT YOUR MR.GOOGLE TOLD ME WHERE TO F(ND You- NAUGHTY GIRL-- TO RUN OFF LIKE THI VOTE FOR CAPT. J. V. DAVIS FOR Territorial Representative With a record of 30 yem of cc- complishment, through hard work, in Alaska’s Fishing and Water Transportation Industries. I 0T KNOW T wUzZ S0 PLUMB WORE oUuT, SEN'TER-- MY HEART'S BRUK AN' T HAIN'T HONGRY- A vote for Capt. Davis is a vete for a'suecessful Alaskan, all of whose interests are in Alaska and whose UMM&S. wtmi. GIVE DANCE SATURDAY The annual May D _m)y Dance ‘at| Curreht “reports - show" thial Lnu,pracucn} S ae i e, B record for airplane freighting mlunm the Government ‘canbe :in- Alaska will be higher this year. Butfduged %o eyter into a Program, of i study of Canada’s gerial‘freight- | this kind, more private effort should Aviation Playing Important it. And whichever Role in Mining Development in Rugged North Country \frelght than the combined tonnage it is the more inaccessible regions Air Transportation Cutting chinery and Reaching sible—Planes Hauling —Incentive to Whole tion, eutunz the cost rying as much as 85 actual tests, hauling in Alaska holds per ‘cent by heavy ‘machinery the key to the development of the | gold resources of the Territory, ac- cording to those who have adopted this method of freighting. That this business, now in its in- fancy, developed, is evidenced tae Territorial offices. These rec- ords, and the testimony of officials operating mines where the ) prices for moving in machinery was | formerly “prohibitive,” hold out hope not only for more efficient | operation of proven mines, but also | some relief from the state of almosl complete stagnation into which prospecting has fallen in Alaska t 1torial 1- r of V[mu cited the ex- e of the Big Four Mine, Inc, aldez. Clarence Wm. Poy, man- ager of this mine, gave enthusiastic evidence of the successful use of airplanes both for freighting and prospecting, in a report to the Amer- ican Institute of Mining Engineers, of which he is a member. This re- port was published in “Mining and Metallurgy.” At the Big Four The Big Four mine has an alii- tude of 5,000 feet, and many tons of machinery had to be moved in, including a 16-ton mill, crusher, ta- bles, Diesel engine and diesel oil. coal and dynamite. “To use horses or other conven- tional methods wouid have been crbitant,” said Poy in his repor “It would have taken us at least one season of about four months of good weather, and at a cost seven times that of airplane {reighting I am judging this by past records of 20 to 35 cents per pound. “Looking at it from another view- point, we constructed an up-to-date | Lunkhouse, built and set up th“ mill, drove 250 feet of tunnel and | freightea up 18 tons of supplies in less time ‘than' it would have taken | to move the freight alone.” is certain to be extensively | from the records and figures now available in | mine | Co<t of Hauling Heavy Ma- Places Heretofore Inacces- More and More Each Year Industry piloted by R. C. Reeve of the Reeve of Valdez. The Diesel en- gine was taken apart, made into ipments, covered with mat- s, and dropped a piece at a time on parachutes. Diesel oil in | drums, carbide, food and dynamite | were also dropped with parachutes | to other mines, according to Poy. The only damage was Joss of 30 gal- lons out of a total of 520 gallons of diesel oil. The crates on the dyna- | mite collapsed, but only a few sticks of dynamite cracked, out of a half ton dropped. Value of Planes Referring to the use of airpianes | for prospecting, Poy said: “Two valuaple ore bodies were dis- covered four miles from Valdez by Mr. Reeve and myself on an aerial raisance flight, and other were spotted for future og teams and sleds transported for the pros- save time. At another time ; were taken to a new gold find on an island 200 miles out in the Pacific.” Mine Flying this field of aviation freight- hat ing has hardly been touched in Al- 4 aska is clearly indicated in the of- ficial reports to June 30 this year, which show that Reeve's own plane, with a freight capacity of 800 pounds ied ‘about one-seventh of all the fr t handled by the 73 planes nperating. Reeve's total tonnage hauled was 102, a figure surpassed only by one other company, the r Air Service of Anch which led 189 tons, but used seven ]lmm‘% to Reeves’' one. The Pollock ing Service of Fairbanks, op- ing two planes, reported consid- le freighting also, with a total 5 tons. The Mirow Air Service 'ur wam' with one/ plane, hauled ;..3 tons of freight in 10 months, and | the Northern Air Transport of Nome with six ships, handled about 60 tons. Wien Airways, now combined | with Northern Air Transport, haul- ed 25 tons in two planes, and Mc- Gee Airways of Anchorage, now combined with Star Air Service, han- e | This transportation job was allidl(‘d 54 tons of freight in nine done by one plane, a Fairchild 80 ' months with eight ships. SO TERRITORIAL AMOR Polls open until 7 o’clock tonight I WOULD APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT! B N Candidate for Ticket ing indicates that Alaska is just| beginning—for with 372 planes | Canada last year hauled more| hnndled by the 7,000 planes in United States and Alaska. | According to Mr. Stewart, Alaska is lagging far behind the rest of the world in exploring and proving | new gold areas to replace the de-| posits which operating mines are now depleting. Something, accord- | ing to the Commissioner, will have ! to be done in this direction, and| whatever program is pushed mll have to adopt air transportation to] a large extent, as present. operations | prove it to be the most practical and economical method in many sections. In comparison with Alaska’s sicady annual production of only | $15,000,000 or $16,000,000 worth of gold, Mr. Stewart cited the example cof Russia, where the gold-mining| division of their present industrial program is organized on a scale to increase production from 25 to 50 per cent annually. { Soviet Pushing Mining Quoting figures from the En- gineering and Mining Journal, the Commissioner showed that the So- viet forced their 1835 gold produc- tion above $209,000,000, forty per | cent higher than their 1934 output. Their plans call for increasing this to $385,000,000 by 1939. Further comparison of Alaska's mining industry with the figures given on Russia indicate a rate of per-man production in this coun- | try that should justify expansion,| for the limited number of workers mployed in Alaska gold mining produced seven times as much gold | per man as did the Russians. 1 In their determination to force up gold production, Russia last year passed laws practically grubstaking prospectors, and giving special pri- | i viletes to all who would ' follow this work. During 1935 upwards of 100,- 000 men were thus engaged in pros- pecting, while 400,000 more were | working in placer, lode and hy- draulic mining. Mr. Stewart esti- mates there are less than 5,000 men working in gold mining in Alaska, and this number includes the pros- pectors—probably 500. Thus Alas- | ka's 5,000 gold miners produced an average of $3,000 worth of gold apiece, while Russia's army of a| half million men produced onl)‘ $418 worth each. Speaking of the depletion of ‘Al- | aska’s known gold deposits, Mr.| Stewart said: “Practically nothing is being done | to encourage prospecting today. A‘_ few years ago, right here in Ju-| neau, miners could get a grub-stake | to go out in the hills practically | any time. Not only would individu- | als knowing them advance them | money, but employers would ‘en- courage them by giving them Work | whenever they came back from the)rv prospecting and wanted to save up money to go out again. Need Private Enterprise { “Today, due no doubt to the un- employment situation, even experi enced miners have to spend months trying to get work, and the result is they are afraid to let go of jobs to go prospecting. Something cer- tainly will have to be done or Alaska is not going to kee up he- gold pro- duction. Governmental sub.idizing ur prospectors appears as the anly 'l'_l}unk You! ; !ston to operate in the Gulf of Ana- 1dyr, | ten, | ka. |nery interests in the Consolidated | the crab fishing season in Southeast be : put behind way it is done, aviation must figure importantly in all future plans, for that hold greatest possibilities, and these regions are reached most practically and economically by air, SOCIAL TIME IS ENJOYED; MRS. M'CORMICK HONORED The Ladies’ Auxiliary, F. O. E., held an important business session which included nomination of the | yearly officers to be elected later, at the regular meeting of the lodge |last night. A social time was enjoyed at the close of the meeting. A game was | played at the finish of which each member present was awarded a prize. Deliciofis ‘refreshments were then served and for the culminat- ing feature of the evening’s events, Mrs. Richard McCormick was pre- sented” with several dainty shower gifts. ->-e {JAPANESE PLANNING | CANNERY AT ANADYR, NEAR BERING STRAIT Oress repor. s.ale hat 2, Ltd, a diary operamn, floating canneriés, has applied for permis- near Bering Strait, where . it has been investigating salmon fish- ery possibilities and considers them promising. The government has sig- nified willingness to sanction the application on the understanding that only, one floater of about 20,- 000 cases capacity be stationed there and it is understood that such a vessel will be sent as a joint venture of Toiheiyo and the Kyodo Fishery {School graduate, and also a grad- Co. |uate of the University of Wash- The Japanese government is said |ington; was recently awarded the | o have rejected the application of |Carnegie scholarship for a sum-| an independent concern, Arai Sho-|mer. course of study at the Uni-| for permission to operate a versity of Oregon, at Eugene, ac- floating crab cannery off Kamchat- | cording to word received here by ! This is taken as indication Mr. and Mrs. Savikko from their that the government intends to sup- |son. The latter with his wife and port the monopoly established by |jittie daughter are now at Ohitina, consolidation of floating crab can- where Mr. Savikko is teaching |school. - DOUGLAS BOY WIKS SCHOLARSHIP AWARD | Walter Savikko, Douglas High Floating Cannery Co. [ e | I RETURNING FROM SOUTH Herbert' 'Savikko, who has been spendidg the past three 'months SIZE LIMIT ON CRABS TAKEN lN TERRITORYuu New Castle, California, was an |arrival® from the South on the'| Alaska - fishery regulations for |Alaskay 1836 increase from 6% to 7 inches in T greatest breadth of shell the size of |[® @ Wis:e o =~ ® & 0 o 8 o crabs which may be taken legally|e® I AL THE ROTFLS n in Alaska. Only male crabs, of PRI I R R I ] course, may be retained. [ neau Moreover, there is a change in Frank Parrish, Seattle; J. W, Russell, Seattle; R. H. Chadwick, Alaska. South of the 57th parallel Seattle; S. Lachman, Seattle; H. the season is closed from May 15 to|J. Baker,:Seattle; H. R. Brown. July 31. North of that latitude 'the * Zynda closed season is from June 15 to Bi Oy Hayden, Annex Creck; H. August 1. Last year, which was the | Allard, City; D. W. Tate, City; John |first in which there had been '\}‘T Linkins, Washington, D. C.; Mr. | closed season on crabs in lhowiand Mrs. J. H. Elgan and family, waters, fishing was prohibitea | Logan, Utah. throughout Southeast Alaska from | May 15 to August 15. ! D ATTENTION ELKS Alaskan Geo. B. Phillips, Seward; C. D. ‘Thompson, Seattle; Joe Moore, Ju- neau; E. A. Torgerson, Juneau; [Sumley Sunde, City. Open House Wednesday evenlng[ - eee - |after regular meeting for Elks and | ATTENTION ELKS their families. Entertainment and' Open House Wednesday evening refreshments. Open House starts after:regtilar meeting for Elks and | about 10 o'clock. —adv. thelr families. Entertainment and e refréshinents. Open House starts. SPEND WHERE \'ou MAKE 1T! nbout y) oclock —adv. | the Moose Hall will be held Satur- day night, May 2, and is sponsored by the UM.W. & S. W. Local 203. | A free lunch will be served and| dancing will continue from 9:30 o'- clock, according to the committee in charge. NEW DODGE SEDAN PURCHASED BY RECK ‘The McCaul Motors has delivered to William J. Reck a new 1836 Dodge sedan. The new automobile is said to be one of the smartest models released by the motor car company and is a rich maroon in color. A VO'I‘E C ll. ,, M’SPADDEN Will Be Appreciated! REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE for TERRITORIAL AUDITOR on the REPUBLICAN TICKET! Primaries, April 28 hkonly ca/s' 7n the Jow- pr/u fi"e/a{r that offfer you ffic e gus-saving Y 4 A‘ufamafic o, Saves up h *fl in gas, ) to 50% in olll Minlmlln -engine wear! ® Gives you an entirely new kind of ride | The Nash Automatic Cruising Gear! Available to buyers of the lowest-priced cars for the first time, at slight extra cost, on Nash W and LaFayette! Cruising Gear acts as a lonnh gear.” lt comes into op- enfien ly at fhove Em revolnflon reduned about one- third, Every moving part runs more slowly. Wear on-the motor is reduced to a minimum. And what a difference it makes in.the nuleage you'get from gas and oil! It gives youadditional savings up to % in gasoline, up to 50% in mll The Nalh Mou:rl Company, 4 IAL 'ollllflfl — Any Nash 400" a mantly converted into a six-foot bed mtic miles per gallon on Cross- countty dtiv- ing. @ Ask for a Touring fedf./ work in the Legislature will be for the development and progress of Alaskal Polls open until 7 o’clock tonight ot J. P. ANDERSON CANDIDATE FOR TERRITORIAL HOUSE OF RERESENTATIVES FROM FIRST DIVISION Subject to the will of the Democratic Voters at the “ Primary—April 28 DON'T FAIL TO VOTE! Polls open until 7.P. M. VOTE FOR ERICK NESS Democratic Candidate for the TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE Thirty Years Residence in the Territory “ALL FOR ALASKA” PRIMARIES—TODAY KENNETH JUNGE Candidate Territorial House of Representatives DEMOCRATIC TICKET Candidate of Young People’s Democratic Club We think the Legislature can be improved upon with the infusion of young blood. JUNEAU CASH GR@CERY CASH GROCERS Corner Second and Seward Streets Free Delivery PHONE 58 1 1 GASOLINE SHOYEL and It 2 DUMP TRUCKS———————now | open for hire on any dirt, excavating and moving jobs in or about Juneau. GASTINEAU CONSTRUCTION CO. Phone 4503 ALASKA MEAT CO. FEATURING CARSTEN'S BABY BEEF—DIAMOND TC HAMS AND BACON—U. S. Government Inspected (e FOR INSURANCE See H. R. SHEPARD & SON Telephone 409 B. M, Behrends Bank Bldg. 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