The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 18, 1938, Page 5

POLLY AND HER ALL RIGHT ! ALL RIGHT ! T'LL TALK TO HIM WHEN HE COMES IN. MOOSE CLIM OVERELKS TO LEAD CIRCUIT Paps Bunch Drives in Ring- ing Up 9 to 6 Win . Over Purples earned for more Five markers they themselves, plus four donated to them by the Elks, en- abled the Moose baseballers to come through their nine-inning yesterday with a three-run margin | and take over first place in the Gastineau Channel League amn.l-‘ ings for the second half. ' Joe Snow’s third home run of the season opened the scoring the first inning and accounted for wo tallies that sent the Moose off with a lead which was never headec. Bob Kimball who started the game in the garden and finished on the mound for the Black Sox crossed the plate ahead of Snow, having reached second when Red Gray muffed his drive down the leit field line. Two walks handed out by hurler Foster, plus and ‘a passed ball on sub-catcher MacSpadden gave the winners an- other pair of runs in the second and a third was counted in the next sion when Snow led off with a single, moved to second when Mc- Namee walked, to third on a passed ball and home on Converse' hit. Elks’ Runs The Elks had put, over their first counter in the last of the second, Forsythe doubling, stealing third and spiking the plate on Bradley’s single. In the final half of the fourth inning they added a second run. Abramson opened with a sin- gle, went to third on MacSpadden’s hit and home on a wild heave byl McNamee. The fifth was the big inning, all around, the Moose salting the game away with four markers in' their half and the Elks keeping up the fight by adding three during their turn, ~ 1 Opening the inning for the Moose, Haglund singled and was sent (0 third by Kimball's double, when Snow came up with a single that pounded both runners across. Snow went on to second on the throw in to the plate and finished his trip around the paths on a pair of passed balls, McNamee, meanwhile, | followed Snow with a walk, after which he stole second and counted on Jack Schmitz' single. Center-gardener Russell, who hit| three times in three trips during the game, opened for the Elks and| got in the way of a pitch for a| free trip to first. McVey hit into a likely-appearing double-murder, out Converse juggled McNamee's | slightly wide throw and both run- ners were safe. Lawson then came up with a single that put Russel]‘ across and McVey tallied after the catch on Foster's fly to deep right, Lawson going on to third. Abram- son followed with another fly for| the second out, but Forsythe rapped | runs tussle in Elk his second double into the grand-| stand to score Lawson. More Runs Singles by Russell and Addle- man with two out in the sixth, were combined with a Moose error to| send Russell across with the final Elk run, Addleman being stranded when Lawson rolled out. With Addleman in the game from the seventh inning on and Mac-| Spadden back in his normal spot at! first base, the Elks settled down and gave the Moose no more op- portunities the rest of the game, while Kimball moved in from the outfield to relive the tiring Smith for the Moose and had a minimum of trouble from the Elks. A total of 23 safe blows was com- piled by the matters of the two teams in Sunday’s affair, and the| clean-up swatters of both squads proved their rights to the post by garnering three hits in five times up. Snow, batting fourth for the Moose, added two timely singles to his homer, while Forsythe figured in the Elks scoring with two doubles and a single. Bud Foster, though he went the whole route for the Purples, again found his fast one being tagged for far places by the bevy of Moose clouters, and, though the Elks were not able to get Johnny Smith’s left- side twisters for many extra bases, they were able to send them where the fielders were not, more fre- cVey’'s error | | Bradley, rf |2, McVey. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JULY 18, 1938. PALS LISTEN,YOU! I TOLD YOU NOT TO KID THAT GROUCHY OLD KEEPER WHEN 1 SENT YOU TO THE AQUARIUM FOR. A STORY. HONEST, T DIDN'T. WHQ SAID IT’S THE BASEBALL SEASON when there's this picture proof that footbals areund the corner? When Pacific coast football coaches met Babe Hollingbery (right), of Washington State and Lon Stiner of O and illegal use of arms and hands. Coach on the sidelines (left) is New Ideas Dep't . . . By GARDNER SOULE, Sports Editor, AP Feature Service THEIR SUGGESTIONS To substituté the football throw for the discus throw in track-and-field meets. A receiver must race down the field and catch the pass for it to count. To provide pole vaulters with a net in which to fall. With no worries about landing, he thinks, vaulters wouid put more effort into clearing the bar, THE THINKERS Paciric CoasT HicH ScHooL COACHES '} Ren Ocpen, TempLE TRACK CoACH MARQUETTE, MINNESOTA s TRACK TEAMS To speed up track meets. They ran oft their dual battle in 1 hour 18 minutes. To wear green chest protectors, thercby SearTLe CATCHERS giving the pitchers a better target. To wear a golden first-bascman’s glove, thereby giving the infieiders a better target. To use a yellow baseball, thereby ing the batters a belter target. Bog GissoN, OAxLAND, CAL. Freoeric H. RAHR, New YOrRK SCORE BY INNINGS PITGHES W|N quently than Joy. Team Moose Elks THE BOX SCORE R H PO > W Moose Blake, ¢ Haglund, cf Kimball, rf, p Snow, 1b McNamee, 3b Converse, 2b Grummett, 1f J. Schmitz, ss Smith, p *Martin, Hurler Allows Only Four Hits — Has Been on Shelf Since May 3 (By Associated Press) Dizzy Dean, pitching because he was ordered to do so after being on the shelf with a sore arm since May 3, pitched a four-hitter Sun- day to give the Cubs a victory over the Boston Bees. The Cubs also won the second game of the double contest. The Cincinnati Reds were beaten twice Sunday by the Brooklyn Dodgers. Pittsburgh lost the first game Sunday to New York and the sec- ond game, a tie, was called at the end of the ninth inning. The Yankees defeated the Tigers by a good score Sunday. —— e, — KNOCKS HOMER, BASES LOADED, SEATTLE WINS Stolen bases: Blake, Snow, Mc-‘AngelS Take SIX S"alght Games from Solons— Namee, Smith; Forsythe, MacSpad- den. Two-base hits: Kimball, Fos: Oakland Loses Out (By Associated Press) rf | ruphrowagnwoa | rrwoarBrra Totals 36 27 18 *—Hit for and replaced Smith in seventh inning; taking right field, Kimball going to pitcher. S AB R H PO A ol ormocorwnro Slocorocrownmm Lawson, 2b Foster, p Abramson, 1f Forsythe, ss MacSpad'n, c, Gray, 3b . 1b Russell, cf McVey, 1b *Addleman, c tHagerup, rf Bl rovwwawanaa |l cormvooorron | ocvowromwmm~ | |l omcororuwoe Totals 1 Hit for and replaced McVey in| sixth inning; going in at catcher,| MacSpadden going to first base. +—Hit for and replaced Bradley in eighth inning. £ I L} 5 THE SUMMAKIES ERRORS: Moose — McNamee, Converse, J. Schmitz 2; Elks—Gray ter, Forsythe 2. Home run: Snow Runs batted in: Blake, Snow 4, Converse, Schmitz, Lawson, Fos- ter, Forsythe, Bradley, Addleman.| Los Angeles made it six in a row First base on balls: Off Foster 5|over Sacramento, taking the first (Haglund 2, McNamee 2, Schmitz). game of the twin bill. Sacramento | Struck out: By Smith 5 (Abram- connected for 16 hits to take the{ son, MacSpadden, Gray 2, McVey), ! nightcap Sunday. by Kimball 1 (Hagerup); by Fos-| San Francisco dropped two more ter 6 (Kimball, Snow, Grummelt,' to San Diego yesterday. ll 2, Schmitz, Smith). Pitching re- Oakland lost two games Sunday| cords: Smith 6 runs 10 hits 27 ai to Portland. bat against in 6 innings, Kimball A ninth inning rally cost Seat- 0 runs 3 hits at bat against in 3|tle the first game of the double innings. Winning pitcher: Smith. header Sunday with Hollywood. Tn} Earned runs: Off Smith off Fos-!the second game, Levi McCormick, ter 5. Hit by pitched balls: Russe)l Seattle’s Indian rightfielder, by Smith; Schmitz by Foster. Passed | smashed out a homer with the balls: MacSpadden 5. Left on bases: | bases packed in the first inning and Moose 6; Elks 7. Time of game: 2 Seattle won. hours 20 minutes. Umpires: Shaw at | plate, Duckworth on bases. Scorer: GAMES SUNDAY Clark. | Pacific Coast League ) FOR CHICAGD By ~ [ CAN'T SEE WHY. HE WUZ TELLIN' ME HOW TH' COD FISH LAID FIFTY MILLION | EGGS AT ONCIT---- BOWL MATCHE NEARING CLOSE La te. :\v\]”"ner Chalnl)iol]' ships to Begin Next Monday With less than 20 matches to be played out of 214 scheduled match- es, the tournaments in tennis, ping pong, golf, and horseshoes are near- ing completion in Evergreen Bowl for the mid-summer championships It is expected that all eighteen of the champions will be known by Saturday of this week. Next Mon- day, play for the late-summer championships will start. New en- trants will be expected to register before Saturday noon. The cham- pions of the mid-summer and late- summer tournaments will meet to decide the final championships. MEN'S TENNIS—Only six match- es remain to be played in this group. Fred Ball vs. Bob Davlin, R. W. Neimi vs. R. H. Stevenson, and Wes Murray v: erwood Wirt. {The winner of the Ball-Davlin will play Lou Hudson in the semi- finals. The winner of the Neimi- Stevenson match will meet the win- ner of the Wirt-Murray match. The wanners of these matches will meet in the finals. WOMEN'S TENNIS—The winner of the Mary Jeanette Whittier- Mary Wildes match will meet Mrs Dave Turner for the right to play Jean Anderson- in the finals BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS Griff Nordling is to meet Irving {Lowell and the winner is to play the winner of the Tom Powers-Fred Sorri contest. The winner of this group will meet either Ray Paul or Alex ‘Miller in the finals. GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS {—Marian Dobson beat Jirdes Win- thers, 6-3, 6-0 in the finals. Miss Dobson defending her title from last year, and will defend it once |more this summer in the late-sum- {mer championships. BOYS' GRADE SCHOOL TEN- NIS—Won by Jimmy Terrell who beat John Lowell, 6-1, 6-3 in the finals. GIRLS' GRADE SCHOOL TEN- NIS—Marian Hussey will meet Col- leen Hellan this week for the cham- pionship. BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL HORSE- SHOES—The winner of the Irving Lowell-Tom Powers match will meet Griff Nordling for the right to play Raymond Paul for the champion- ship. GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL HORSE- SHOES—Dorothy Wilms is to meet Jirdes Winthers for the chance to play Idabelle Dobson in the cham- pionship round. Miss Dobson is de- fending champion. BOYS' GRADE SCHOOL HORSE- SHOES—Richard Rowe beat Elroy Hoffman, 21-20, 20-21, 21-6, 21-15 to win the mid-summer champion- ship. GIRLS’ GRADE SCHOOL HORSE- .645| SHOES—Marian Hussey will meet 627/ the winner of the Ruth Talmage- 597(Grace Berg match. Eileen Hellan 512 469 465 387 .299 at Seaftle to diwscuss the rules, regon State demonstrated legal Doug Fessenden of Montana. 5, 2, Sacramento nal League Boston 1, 0. Cincinati 3, 4. New York 2, 7; Pittsburgh 1, 17 Second game called at end on nintn inning because of Sunday curfew law. Philadelphi: Louis, rain. Ame n League Detroit New York 13. Boston 11, 14; St. Louis 5, 4. Chicago 12; Washington 3. Cleveland 7; Philadelphia 6. Gastineau Channel League Moose 9; Elks 6 St GAME Pacific Coast League land 0; Oakland 4. Hollywood 5. National League Philadelphia 2; St. Louis 1. New York 3; Pittsburgh 7. Boston 7; Chicago 8. Brooklyn 12; Cincinnati 5. merican League Clevel 9; Philadelphia 8. Detroit York 7. St. Louis 8; Boston 3. Chicago 2; Washington 3. STANDING OF CLUBS Pacific Coast League 1 Won Lost 6 46 63 48 59 51 57 53 5 56 53 56 51 60 40 72 | Los Angeles | Sacramento San Diego Seattle San Francisco Portland Hollywood Oakland National League Won Lost 28 30 35 35 38 43 44 50 Pt 622 620 557 545 472 456 405 306 Pittsburghy New York Chicago Cincinmati Boston Brooklyn St. Louis Philadelphia 22 American League Won Lost 49 217 47 28 6 31 42 40 38 43 33 38 29 46 .23 54 Pct New York Cleveland Boston Washington Detroit Chicago Philadelpthia St. Louis Nordling - Margaret Clark match The winners of these matches will meet in the finals. BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL GOLF— The winners of the Ray Paul-Alex Miller watch will play the winner of the Tom Powers-Griff Nordling match for the title. GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL GOLF— Marian Dobson vs. Jirdes Winthe: winner vs. Lanore Kaufmann, win. ner plays winner of Gordon Clithero- Cecelia Thibodean match to decide championship. BOYS' GRADE SCHOOL GOLF —Rodney Nordling is to play John Houk for the championship this week. GIRLS' GRADE SCHOOL GOLF —Marian Huseys, Marilyn Merritt, Ruth Talmage, Patsy Shaffer, Mar- garet Clark, Grace Berg, Collen Hellan and Dorothy Thibodeau still have matches to play. BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOL PING PONG — Raymond Paul defeated Hallie Rice, 20-10, 21-17, 21-10, in the finals. Gastineau Channel League (Second Half) Won Lost Moose Eoms i 3 2 Douglas. - Sty | 2 Elks 1 2 CHAMP SKATER DEAD IN EAST MILLBROOK, N. Y., July 18— Clarence R. Davison, 69, for more | than 20 years holder of the world’s record for skating 50 yards from a standing start, and an early part- ner of Samuel Insull in various| Chicago utilities, is dead at his| home here after a lengthy illness. | Pet. 600 500 | 333 | BOYS' GRADE SCHOOL PING SHAWNEE ON THE DELA-| GIRLS' GRADE SCHOOL PING fessional Golf Association champion- Margaret Clark - Eilcen Hellan - —— ! Hollywood 5, 4; Seattle 4, 8. Try the wmpire classitieds for| San Diego 7, 3; San Francisco 3, results. ll. DR 8 R | GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL PING |PONG—Winner of Cecilia Thibo- deau-Verna Mae Gruber match will PONG — Edward Wood defeated John Lowell, 21-18, 21-19, 21-16, in WARE, Pa. July 18—Paul Run- PONG—Colleen Hellan is to meet van, of White Plains, New York, the winner of the winners of the ship by shellacking erratic Sam matches to settle the championship. Snead, of White Sulphur Springs, ———o——— meet Marian Dobson in the finals GOLF CHAMP i |the finals. last Saturday won the National Pro- Betty Nordling-Grace Berg and W. Va, by {ware of 8 and 7. Todny"l News Today.—Emplre. CLIFF STERRETT | AN'ALLT SAD WUZ GHE'S PLENTY LUCKY SHE DOESN'T HAVE T' CACKLE AFTER EACH ONE OF 'EM! : and dust produced from the gold placers. In 1937 silver to the value of about $121,000 came from the gold-lode mines and about $42,000 from the placer mines. The total output of silver (495,000 ounces) thus had a value of $384.000. The quantity of from both the gold-lode mines and the placers showed a marked increase. The special price paid by the Govern ment in 1937 for silver that quali- fied under the law as being newly mined from domestic deposits was 77.57 cents an ounce. As it appear- BASEBALL DOUGLAS vs. ELKS ilver ,ed that all the silver from / Mineral Production Of Alaska in 1937 Shows Big Increase (Continued from Page One) ly heavy rate of 3 percent on the gross production in excess of $10,000 from gold and platinum mines. Factors The f actors included the much higher selling price of the metals other than gold and silver come come from Alaska mines — some of the increases amounting to 10 to 40 percent more | than the prices for the same com- modities in 1936; the general abund- ance of labor ailable and few in- terruptions caused by failure to settle questions of employment amic- ably; and the increased utilization of mechanical equipment, even at some of the smaller properties, which enabled the operators to handle much more material more cheaply and thus mine deposits that otherwise would have been unprofit- able. Weather conditions, which control certain phases of mining work, such as length of season and abundance of water supplies, appear to have been normal, though vary- ing in different parts of Alaska Thus, in western Alaska, rainfall and consequently water supplies | were deficient during the early part of the open season but were good later, whereas in the eastern part of the Territory the supplies were good during most of the mining season. All the foregoing facts point to the conclusion that eweellent as was the preduction of minerals from Alaska in 1937 it was at a rate that can be maintained or bettered in succeeding years. Both Lode, Placer The output of gold from Alaska comes from both lode (hard rock) and placer mines. In 1937 this out- put was distributed between these types of mines in the proportion of about 38 to 62--$7,718,000 from lodes and $12,655,000 from placers. The corresponding proportion for the entire period in which gold mining has been in progress in Alaska has been about 25 to 65. The producing gold lodes are widely ditributed (through the Territory, but nearly 77 percent of the output in 1937 came from lodes in Southeast Al- aska, where accessibility to deep- water routes of communication and other favorable conditions have per- |mitted the successful mining of | immense tonnages of low - grade gold ore. The other lode-gold pro- during districts of Alaska were the | Willow Creek district, the Cook In- let-Susitna region; the Fairbanks district and the Nabesna district, in the Yukon region; the area near Valdez and adjacent parts of the Prince William Sound region; the Kenai Peninsula district; and the Nixon Fork district, in the Kus-| kokwim region. In addition to these |areas prospecting for gold lodes was in progr at many other tracts | in the Territory, but at none of | them was any significant amount | of gold ore mined except such as will meet the winner of the Betty | |sula, and 2 in the Kuskokwim re- | {000. was taken out in the course of the exploratory work. Hundreds of Camps Hundreds of camps contributed to the output of placer gold, but | |those in the Yukon Basin mined | |the greatest amount, and those in| |seward Peninsula came next. Near- | ly 69 percent of the total placer production of the Territory wa: |mined by dredges of which 41 (ex-| |clusive of one platinum - mining | dredge in the Kuskokwim region) | were active during 1937—18 in the | Yukon Valley, 21 in Seward Penin-| | gion. Together these dredges px'o-i duced gold to the value of $8,743,- They are estimated to have handled about 16,684,000 cubic yards of gravel, and the gold recovere averaged about 524 cents a cubic yard. The longest season reported of any of the dredges in 1937 was 266 dys, for dredges of the Fair- banks Exploration Department of the United States Smelting, Refin- ing and Mining Co. near Fairbanks, and the longest season reported for dredging in Seward Peninsula in 1937 was 185 days. Two dredges that were mining in 1936 were idle in 1937, but four new dredges were in operation in 1937. Silver Production None of the Alaska ores are now | mined solely for their content of silver. As in the past, most of the silver recovered in 1937 was a minor constituent in the copper ores. The silver recovered from these copper ores amounted to 285,000 ounces, valued at $221,000. Some silver is obtained as a by-product from the lodes in which the principal valu- able metal is gold, and some silver is also recovered from the bullion | ern !there throughout the rest of the conformed (o those requirements the foregoing statistics are based on that price rather than on 45 cer an ounce, which was the current selling price of silver that did not so qualify. Copper Shows Increase The output of copper from Alaska mines in 1937 was 36,007,000 pounds. as contrasted with 39,267,000 pounds in 1936. However, the much higher average price for copper that pre- vailed in 1937 (about 3 2/3 cents a pound higher) made the total value of the lesser output in that year about $1,000,000 more than the total value of the output in 1936. The present high rate of output of cop- per from Alaska is apparently FIREMEN’S PARK TONIGHT bismuth, chromium, iron, molybde- num, nickel, tungsten, and zinc, and such nonmettalic minerals as asbes- tos, barite, clay, garnet, graphite, doomed to very drastic reduction ja limetsone, marble, mica, stone, soon. Alrsady’ the managements of{and swphur, have been found i the principal copper mines h“\.p"\lu\k.:\ Pr\\.&l.hl\' small quantities of announcsd in the shistal reports of |practically all these matertiils Wete fhuth sanibAriies: thiut the ' potentiar) Produced” in (the rGgcees HERE oire’ FaseIVRE. at thelr wmlnee Hre io | Sly D, term, Duf B0 far 48 AR hieasly Tekhaisbed ' thit iilis Tainas{ v Uic] Fecords of KB St will Brobiiily be tlossd bwns by tha | ocvey the jonly. ores that wers i, This situation. serious [Produced - in quantities worth . as a8 1t 16:to. this Alnskn: mideral fin- |C20Ch 8B R~ 8w Bulifod | SL A dnstty, b bt mitior aigrifitance to | Yo% B, AOUInERy, BUmEsUan L (S the companies, as their mines out- [uicksilver. cide the Territory have for many | The mining and shipment of con- Sears. TuralRRAA AT Bl of Tthe| mdstahle SEniimany Cote | SR copper they produced. The Al:\skn“m’""'"” in the anushnn district A northern foothills of the : , in the copper production in 1937 came A‘l ‘lil Hikves ket ofth 108 AT S8 from large mines near Kennecott, RS . in the Copper River region, together nificant new mineral developments » 4 . = of the year. The principal antimony with smaller mines from whose ores | p g i b 8 Gy mineral in the ore is the sulphide, copper is recovered as a by-product. 3 : e s stibnite. The mine is some 60 mil.; Among the districts whose lode : from the railroad, so that much of mines yield principally gold but v § 4 & the hauling of the ore is done du:- which furnish concentrates from i 3 ing the winter, when conditions for which some copper obtained | o8 I F i on are especially favol are the Nabesna district, of the LnSPOTtation af o ¢ reg E: b etchikan | © v " Yukon region, and the Ketehikan Ty, oniimony ore credited to 1037 district, of Southeast Alaska. 4 b was mined during the winter of Lead Production 1936-37. Limestone front quarries on The lead produced from Alaska pgq)) Island, in the Ketchikan dis- ores in 1937 amounted to 2,004.200 ' 1jct of Southeast Alaska, was ship- pounds, which at-the average sell- |peq to the States for use as a ing price for the year was worth copgtituent in the production of $120,400. Most of it was recovered cement, Some quicksilver ore was as a by-product in connection With | yined in the Kuskokwim region. the mining of gold ores in South- Ny petroleum was produced in Al- east Alaska. The quantity of lead |geka in 1937, though some new was about 112,000 pounds less than |gyjjling for oil was done on the in 1936, but the average price of | Ajaska Peninsula in the Iniskin- lead was slightly more than 6 cents chinitna district. The marble quar- a pound, or about 1.3 cents higher ,jas in Southeast Alaska, which than in that year, so that the total have long been consistent producers value of the lesser quantity of the|of stone that is much in demand output in 1937 was considerable oy the Pacific Coast for interior grenter, trim, were temporarily inactive in 1937. The foregoing mnotes are taken from a comprehensive report of the Geological Survey, entitled “Mineral industry of Alaska in 1937,” prepar- ed by Philip S. Smith, which will form one of the series of similar reports that the Geological Survey has issued to describe the progress of Alaska mining each year since 1904. Platinum The foregoing table lists as a| single item the complex of metals known by the general term “plat- inum metals.” Several different met- | als make up this group, including platinum iridium, osmium, ruther- e H Pct. 700 ] 615 VAW R R RDRRRRND DO HEMprIpInrIT Y jum, and palladium. The total quantities of this composite material produced from Alaska mines in 1937 |was 8,131 ounces, valued at $397,- 600. By far the greater part of | ‘Ihe production came from placers | |in the Goodnews district and a | E A F lode mine in the Kasaan Peninsula of Southeast Alaska. The mining | of platinum metals in the Good-| news district showed a very great | BATTING GIVEN increase, which was in part broughl.‘ ’ about by the coming into produc- tion of the dredges that was built suFTBALL LEAG during 1937 and ran a few ‘weeks | ! late in the season to supplement prom— the normal production from the Taken from a list of 95 Class A dragline plants. Palladium is the |softball players who have competed principal metal of the platinum |in softball caompetition in Ever- group recovered from the lode mine green Bowl this summer, the fol- mentioned. |lowing batting averages have been Tin Ore l‘mmplled by taking only players The tin ore recorded came entire- | Who have faced the bat at least ten ly from placers, the most productive |times and hit at least .300. of which are in the extreme west-|Player Team AB part of Seward Peninsula.|Day These and other Alaska deposits in | Henning 1937 yielded more tin than during Odell any year since tin mining started |Davlin in the Territory in 1902. The tin |Whittier ore recovered in 1937 is estimated Alexander to have contained 372,400 pounds of | Iverson metallic tin, worth $202,300. The,FEFEUSC'“ tin mining industry in Alaska has Coke been increasing rapidly during the Wirt last few years but has mnot yet|Miller reached anywhere near the limit to |Terrell which it could probably be success- | Chickering fully expanded. E. Krause Coal Valued at $552,700 | Sperling Coal to the value of $552700 was| The Class A softball league produced in 1937 from Alaska [now composed of six teams: All- mines, principally in the Matanuska |stars, Miners, Rockets (Business- and Healy River fields. In quantity |men), Truckdrivers, Federals and the output of coal was 131,600 tons, | Halda. which, except for a production of| The Class B league is composed 136,600 tons in 1936, is the largest of three teams made up of boys amount of coal produced by Alaska |15 to 21. From the best players of mines in any year since coal mining |the three teams in this league is has been in progress in the Terri- | formulated the Allstars which com~ tory. No Alaska coak was exported, | pete in the Class A league. ? but 21,930 tons was imported from Due to a growing demand, a the States, chiefly from Washing-|Class C league of two teams with ton, and 9,626 tons from foreign boys nine to 14 is now being con- countries, chiefly British Columbia, sidered and the better players from so that the total consumption of |this group may qualify for competi~ coal in Alaska in 1937 amounted to tion in. Class B group, and even- about 163,156 tons. A serious ex- tualy work into Class A competi- plosion in the principal producing | Hon- bituminous coal mine in October | resulted in suspension of operations o No Oil, Dust Bowl year. To furnish coal for the Gov- ernment railroad during the time LAMAR, Col, July 18.—The dust this mine was closed the Alaska bowl has another disappointment. Railroad opened up its mine at An oil company drilling 70 miles Eska, which had been kept in a southeast of here in the hope a stand-by condition to meet emer- producer could be brought in on gencies. the barren lands of the “bowl” an- Other Minerals nounced it is abandoning its test Many other minerals, including at a depth of 5502 feet because such metalsas manganese, arsemc,lthere has been no showing of oil.