The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 31, 1940, Page 11

y 3 PROGRES AND DEVELOPMENT EDITION THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1940 i H ~y . . . g f 1, k Jast boats in October have just one thing lackin d that r-,,-»,,_,,-,,--,-—-—o-: Still a Common Sight in Parts of Alaska gors are coming ant & W praper Janding flds. : \ o Seward Peninsula and As placer camy Nome has | { H P B . States every month in the year, and | been unusually long lived { § the length of the mining sea 15 | dications point to many more ! i been considerably lengthened. Min- | years, Nome has a repi n_ for | ported by air to the remotest place sod thiol the ne ! 5 | | as are prospectors and dril The | sourdoughs tog anywhere, | § "RT" ! [ | 1 of dir transportation is and especi in th Ve ! 3 A“D ' antly becoming wper. T ppie memories are of : : o have about 15 planes based at Nome, Nome days. But then, this is | § 77777 £ | three at Deering. on Taylor, of most Alaska gold camps of ! i AL, | three at Kotzebue and two at Can- past, and c thriving towns and § By HOWARD LYNG enough. Detailed plans have been dle. Everybody is air minded. We | cities of the present § . TR il Geold brought Nome and the Sew- | g p6sted along these lines but as SRR ard Peninsula country into national| yet no definite pr m has been e e o prcminence many years ago. The|agopted, although local organiza- gold rush to her shores was one of | jjong and individuals from time to p the greatest stampedes in history.|time bring the question to the at- After the passage of 42 years gold | engion of the Legislature and the continues to be the foremost inter- | yhorities at Washington, D. C. est of this northwestern section | rhere seems to be no good reason of Al why a workable plan should not be It tated a number of Vears|yacked by the Federal and Terri- ago in the famed Brooks Geological | torial Governments, whereby a por- | & " e ren s o. Reports that Seward Peninsula was | tion of the youth of Alaska, and the largest continuously mineralized | perhaps some from the States, could : area the world. This still holds true. Fach succeeding mining sea- se employed in a constructive pro- gram designed for the discovering | o W,‘m R 1\‘::: ;l:lt:n:‘::,(L 73 “d‘f‘:"’”“f‘,ml‘,"“"‘,' ‘“'"I'",‘\ll' ;‘"‘1 The dog team remains more than a romantic legend in the Northern and Interior por- i l,”f.‘,t‘lu::‘hl(:;n\mm opomnp,\“mir;:(',;x‘;‘.m((:]‘(,,“!:mln G tions of Alaska. Although giving way somewhat to airplanes, dogs and sleds are \;p of new gold bearing ateas FEN T iy Mok still a standard feature of winter life in thé Terriory. and prozress of the Nome country. lof the Peninsula, the Arctic Circle | by Tolbert Scott and Sons, the othey go the modern means of mining placer gold. Higher efficiency of mechanized methods used in tesung and providing ground prior to the xpenditure of large sums of money required for actual operation ha: been of inestimable benefit. Mod- ern electric and diesel pontoon type dredges, dragline equipment, trac- tors, bulldozers, and allied machin- ery have all played a part in the intensified resumption of mining in the district. Portable drills that can | be cheaply transported about rough | country have given the individual prospector the opportunity of prov- ing his ground and obtaining the | fairest possible estimate as to its gold content, before turning his heldings over tc a company or cor- | poration for its exploitation. These | drill sheets enable the indi- | vidual miner to acquire the needed ‘Explarauon Co. operates two ldrge by Loyd Root and partners. Botr native people, during would have the past ‘ears, becom> a direct You Assure Your Family True Happiness in a HOME of your OWN! WHY PAY IT RENT? [ S AN EASY STEP “Quality Since 1887” N menthly payments through F. H. oW you can buy home improvements, or build a complete new home the way you would buy one organization, . . . and at one pn(e . .. with convenient . Financing. To date the placer gold taken | —yjith Nome as the central point gioqees as well as conducting each will be in operation this coming sea- | charge on the Territorial Govern- eallva re o running our from this section runs upwards of | for the Peninsula from which sup-|geocon severdl large hydraulic op- son | ment, and much more so on the Fed- 4 & : $150,000,000 with every indication | plies and machinery and other ne¢- g .tions. This company hires ap- Haycock Preducing { eral Government which looks after in \ir People rely on I # thal through the advent of modern |essities can be obtained, the sum-| jiovimately 200 men during the A¢ Haycock, one of the steadiest |their mental and physical welfare R : R machinery—drag lines, dredges, dies- mer months witness a constant hum mining season, and most of the year producing small mining camps in at all times ) j vith he range every budge el pumping units, etc, this relatively |of activity. At Nome proper the capes on drilling, cold water thaw- | Alaska, especially at winter mining, | Fidliing Paesipes { f ing this responsibility and to give friend fe large sum fs only a drop in the jarge U. S. Smelting and Refining jio and other allied pursuits in ahout ten outfits are taking out| A Ppotential industry for this sec- bucket compared to the production | Company operates three mammoth i haring ground ahead for the |winer dumps. Wallace Porter’s |tion of Alaska is fishing. Herring vhich will justify the faith you hav 1 of the future. dredges. Preparations are now un- | q..qoes dredge has been working on Dime | Is being packed in a limited way at Great Revival | der way for the iristallation of two Council District Creck for years and still has ground | Golovin Bay, 80 miles east of Nome, P the period immediately fol- i more. These dredges are elect m ”"_‘m”““l section, five dredg- | enough left for 20 years. and large quantities of salmon are ’ ¢ RS Ytk B M B Rehre: ? lowing the last World Wi\{ until | cally driven and use 8 and 9 cub es are steadily operating, producing Over at Unsalic on Norton Bay ‘('nu,hl and dried each season by (hf» past nity-three years b. o€ the raise in the price of gold in 1933, oot buckets, digging to a depth of B¢ FEEE & GRSl Bn Vo ke Ungalic Syndicates dredge in- |Bskimos for food for ““:m'\f\}m.: BRI SAT T T e i pcld mining in the Nome country |from 65 to 120 feet. Drilling and M0 SWRE S L POCRL R bl alled two years ago has been very [and their faithful sled dogs. There was in the doldrums. Prospecting | cold water thawing are pursued u(’;ld‘w.r iscovered oa Ophir Créek, | successful. Frank Shaw’ who op- are five species of salinon f(:\ll\(! ,.“ batha A bR RHNE e Have halbed i ial became a lost art. Outside capital during most of the year and then m)m‘('_” ”'Nm, before the Nome |erates a dredge close by is rebuild- the waters off Nome Crabs are i was difficult to secure. The iIndus- during the mining season the peak ”/N(‘\'m\ was made. Council is ing his and looks forward to many caught each winter through the ice. mic development it has been a g re. Our ydge for try lay dormant. The season of 1934 of employment reaches approxi- | (ol P e TN e more seasons of profitable mining, | Halibut and cod banks are close by ; e : : B witne; the beginning of a great| mately 500 men The Sclomon River section, 30 miiles| Without question, the development [An _important indusuty awatus de- e is to bring you finer merchandise 1l can affo LS, Nomaant il g s Budies e, oo east of Nome, has long been o great |of tin mining at York and Tin City, | Velopment s help make the Territory of Alaska o better land hich t once again tock a firm grip on Mn-| operating and has operated for |,y cer. Leo Bros. are operating (@ few miles northwest of Nome, i FeHing s B ; i ing development and soon overeame | number of years a fair sized dredge | (0" regges along this river and [coming into its own. Modern gas ° o lite of b AN IR play and live the results of the period of repres-on Sunset Creek, 10 miles from contémplate adding a third one next [and diesel mechanical shovels of fally mining, as the ajrplane. Until sion, so much so that of late years Nome. Bellview Bros, after many | con 'H two and three yards capacity are |the plane’s advent, mining men who the Nome section’s annual pro-|yeare of dredging on Dry Creek im- "0 N o 10 paoo district, 35 miles |used in the digging of placer tin in | SPent the winters in the States came duction has increased to the point | mediately back of Nome, moved their | o= o 56, GG directly | those localities. Dump trucks carry | in to Nome on the fist boats. Min- where it is threatening the suprem- | equipment last summer to the Im- | o5 e oo™ oot dredge | the concentrates to the shore of | D% did not begin until Jll‘l\ In the acy the Fairbanks and Yukon |machuk River, 22 miles from Deer- “‘],““ it Brds. moved their | Bering Sea, where they are washed mll.. 0])(-le‘”1\\' g(’nq-r«’lvll,\ -)“:lkun;: Valley country g ing. They contemplate putting in .. d;-vdzo cross-country to Mon- |and consolidated for shipment to ceased prior to the departure of the T Neme and Seward Peninsula |a second dredge next season. Fif- ument Creek close by Nome, where |Singapore for smelting. It is to DO s 7 2 ) . ) ]~ o 0 ) ) ] ) )" area sy Has 37 dredges in oper-|feen miles from Nome s the Of-|pt U0 oot o¥ f00Citle” reut| Hopetl thab o SHMELLEr Will be DISORA | fbmbrem st aid s o ons il b o oo ] e S S s o o o s B S S0 S5 S5 1 S St oo ttion, which is more than one-half |borne dredge operated by Jim Pauss | ;' cepsons, The Casa de Pago re-:In the United States, prefergbly on | of the total number of dredges in | and partners, which is a steady pro- glon is & m‘u- big mineralized coun- 'the West Coast. It is a costly the Territory. There are hun-|ducer year after year. 'In addition | fo'onq'bur for the lack of adequate |method to mine tin in northwestern ‘i y dreds of small operations scattered | to the dredges many small ODErators, |,y sportation facilities would have | Alaska, then be forced to ship the | ( J J | throughout the district utilizing | hydraulicking, using draglines and .\vvv‘ral dozen outfits mining and |ore for treatment all the way to '. 1 e ods in extracting thebulldosers, are working the creeks prospecting. Last season .Harry |Singapore, Malay Peninsula Straits i yellow metal, in addition to large and benches close by Nome. Langley was the only operator in | Settlement via Seattle '! numbers of able prospéctors who in Keugarok Promising this section, hydraulicking on Wil- Rare Tin Deposits | 8 i " . inereasing numbers infest the hills Probably one of the most prom- ) o Graek The development of this ind i' and streams of this great mining | jsing districts on the Peninsula since Tmmachuk- River particularly a progressive ’! en ou ul I o um Ia um er o a erla s o oo | who each year are re-| the inauguration of modern mining | Tpe Immachuk River is apparently | when it is tealized that in this sec- | {§ sper r new areas coming into |is the Kougarok District. Opera-|apoyt to prove the faith that many |tion are the only established tin l’ pr L GG ‘mr‘; ig lhlLs district include K;-nn‘m‘ have had in this section for many | deposits on the North American con- l' " 4 & polg_Frice and Castleton, operating a dredgeyeqrs, Fosgren dredge has been | tinent, and the United States has | § Y S M th hE fB 1 L b _B 11 M t l - One asks “To what is his growh 1 Taylor iojether with ' larke omg very wel for the pas i or | 1or sear been umportns o wne 141 OUDAVE MONEY 1 hrough Lconomy ol beiler Lumber elier Maierials and increase attributed?” The an- | hydraulic operation; Fox Bar Dredge | seven years, and with the addition | tin which is required in industr ] ks Xi“”!"l"m:)v"““]w :?.‘M’ in the operated by Graham Lammers; Sam | of the two Bellview dredges pro-| While not generally known, all " price of gold iile this area 1| Godfrey on Henry Creek; Grant|quction will be greatly increased this {of the wealth in the Nome country 3} El t C fl D 1 D l Th A L IYI p t t as yet scar scratched by syste- | Mining Co. on Coffee Creek; Whaley ?c‘rr:in: .s»nmn" Close by. on thel|is not sprlinkled in the earth in 'l lmlna lng OS Y e lvery e ays ese re "“reme m Or an 5 matic prospecting, there are many land Nelson on Noxapaga; Laurin |Ruguruk River, Carl Thiele, ex-Sec- [the form of gold, for we have ‘j sections which were large produc- Bros. on Macklin Creel tetary of Alaska and Wrangell can- | throughout this northwestern sec- ‘. ers in the bonanza days, mostly in | George Bodis; John Kan: neryman, has been drilling for the | tion of Alaska many tnousands of i the creeks. The benches, the tun-rice Kelliker; James past year. Next Spring will see the | domesticated reindeer. No one, ’,' dra ond the hillsides were not Woodbury Abbey and partners; Dan | installaticn of a hydraulic lift mod- !aware of the facts, disagrees with ' touched Kelly; Stanley Whistler; and many | elled after the celebrated one in- |the statement that the most con- !i A great many of these sections | cthers who carry on individual min- | vented by Pete Miscovich and used |structive action ever taken for the | remained dormant through the | ing operations on the many creeks | so successfully by him at Flat. | benefit of the native people was i. due in great measure to ex- and benches of this large mining| Up at Kiana, north and east of | making it possible for them to ac- .] t rates, lack of roa distriet. Kotzebue, quite a group of old tim- | quire reindeer. .. and consequent high| 1In the Teller section the Tweet ers in that section continue to suc-| As other means of obtaining food | § operation. Many of these | Bros. have been dredging stucc cessfully mine the rivers and bars.|and clothing have gradually grown " s belonged in the elaesiiiration | fully for a number of years. Close This same holds true for the sturdy | uncertain, perhaps through too much | § | i rade ground, and at the old by, in the Gold Run district, lhc‘b'md of old timbers who cling Lo] ducation and consequent apinz of " price of gold could Noe we we....o | Bartholamae Oil Co. of Los Angeles | | Shunguak and the Kobuk country. | the white man’s ways, the posses- !' at a profit | have been dredging for a number |We rather look to this section to|sion of herds of these animals has | New Equipment ;r)f years. Many individuals mine | preduce the next real stampede. made possible an ordered existence " Hand in hand with the increased | the many creeks and rivers in lhl§ Two new modern dredges were | for a great many of the people in- i‘ price of gold, as a contributing fac- | area. built last season 50 miles back of | ligenous to Northwestern Alaska. |y tor toward the steady development At Candle, on the northern rim | Nome in the Iron Creek section, onc | Withcut this resource, many of our i rew |40 | | | | | | anything else . . . from Protection! 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