The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 28, 1949, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT FISHWHEEL EPISODEMINE FUND "UNFORTUNATE' MINE COMMISSIONER SAYS Grave concern over the unjusti- fied excitement that is being man- ifested in Alaska as well as in the States as a result of recemt dra- n’tlcnlh expressed newspaper re- ports of the discovery of a very small amount of placer-gold on| the shore of an island in the Yu- kon River in the vicinity of Fort Yukon and over the growing pro- tions of the influx into that| rxwle locality at this time of year of inexperienced, poorly equipped and poorly advised gold- seekers is expressed by B. D. Stew- Commissioner ot aft, Territorial Mines in Juneau. Stewart declared the physical hazards of encountering the ex- trgme subzero temperatures which ame almost certain to obtain during the remainder of the season in the remote and unpopulated Fort Yu- kon region are very great and should not be risked by the stran- ger to the country. fThe futility of attempting to sink by hand prospect holes in the deep water-filled alluvium cent to the channel of a river the size of the Yukon was also stressed adja- | ACCOUNTING DEMANDED [Charges Made that Wel-]| fare Money Has Been Im- | properly “Dissipated” Oct 28—(A— employer trustee for the coal miners’ pension fund, told a federal court today that John L. Lewis and Senators Bridg- es (R-N.H his fellow trustees coperly “dissipated” the wel- fare money. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers, represents the miners on the board. Bridges is the “neutral” trustee of the funds built up by a royalty on coal. Van Horn's accusation was made in his answer to a suit for ac- counting of the fund filed by a miner, He said that his fellow board members refused to give him in- formation on how the multi-mil- WASHINGTON, Ezra Van Horn, REV. MORGAN IS NAMED PASTOR OF METHODIST CHURCH Particularly pleasing to members and friends of the Juneau Metho- dist Church was the announcement jby the Rev. P. Gordon Gould of ithe change from temporary to roaular status of the nppolnlmeht of the Rev. A. B. Morgan to the Juneau church. At the time of his appointment in August, local officers of the church were told that Mr. Mor~ gan’s stay might be only for a short period, because of other plans involving his service in the Meth- odist Church, according to Maurice Powers, who is chairman of the local church’s pastorai relations committee. Since August these plans have seen changed so that Mr. Morgan's appointment here may continue without interruption, at least through next summer’s Conference, which is the regular time for an- nual appointments and re-appoint- ments, according to the Rev. Gould. Mr. Gould’s announcement ,was made in the name of Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy, of whose Portland Area the Alaska Mission THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA 'POTTERY (LUB STUDY GROUP MEHS MONDAY The Pottery Club Study Group will meet Monday at 8 p.m. in their club rooms at the Recrea- tion Center. The project for Mon- day night will be the stacking of the kiln in preparation Zor firing and the various methods of glaz- ing. Mrs. Gen Harmon will be the instructor for the evening. This lesson will complete the fifth les- sion in the series being offered by the Pottery Club. Members wishing to attend this lesson are asked to take with them a piece of bisque ware for glazing. JOHN 'WALSH* g Conference is a part. Steel worker has switched to Calvert for “‘drinks that | taste far befter every time." #*of E. McKeesport, Penna. CALVERT RESERVE Blended Whiskey —86.8 Proof—65% Grain Neutral Spirits. Calvert Distillers Corp., New York City D e is by Stewart. |lion dollar fund was being dis- The discovery by the owner of a|bursed. figh-wheel of a nugget of gold the| The acts of dissipation, he told size of a pea imbedded in mud at-|the court, are the acts solely of tached to the wheel when it Was Lewis and Bridges. beéing dismantled for the winter| van Horn joined the original and the subsequent discovery oD plaintiff, ex-miner George Liven- the surface of & very small amount | cood of Pennsylvania, in asking the of additional grains or flakes of|U. S. district court to require an gold in the vicinity may be ac- cepted as authentic as reported by newspaper correspondents and ers, but the natural occurrence | 4 gold in the form of even small Don Lillie of the Yukon Equip- appreciable ment Company, a frequent visitor, t |is in Juneau again for a few days. He returned yesterday from a short side trip to Sitka. MARRIAGE LICENSE Francis E. Stout of Anchorage and Mary A. Lee of Hood Bay have applied for a marriage license in the office of the U. S. Commission- er here. accounting. B Dr. Reobert Simps(m OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined — Glasses Expertly Fitted SIMPSON BUILDING—Phone 266 for Appomtments didion. ettt Cn s SEPSIIUIC DON LILLIE HERE nuggebs or grains of sl at or very near the surface o astream channel that flows, as do the numerous channels of the Yu- kon at the locality in question, over| a bed of very deep alluvium, re- | qlires to be established and ex- plained before the discovery may | te reasonably accepted as a V&l indication that a gold deposit 01‘ any importance has teen found. ] In such a setting, placer-gold | even in small grains is to be found at or near bedrock beneath the overburden of muck, silt and gravel and not at the surface, Stewart| ncmted out. ' The vast flat-lying alluvial basin known as the Yukon flats, about | 7,500 square miles in area, near | the center of which the mushroom | CAmp that has been dubbed Fish- | wwheel is situated, is filled with| uvium in the form of vegetal| uck, silt and gravel to a depth | ab great as 237 feet as has been | Proven by a drill hole sunk at Fort ukon. The potential occurrence of m natural placer-gold deposit of nn\l (extent at or near the surface in ch a setting is regarded as fan- tastic by experienced placer mining | men, who regard the presence ot e small amount of gold that has| ‘been reported found adjacent to the river channel at Fishwhee and vicinity as a freak occurrence, | possibly best explained by the ac-| tion of floating ice in transport- ing the gold from some unidenti- fied source. United Food Co. YN YWYV CCTOIWY Now is the time to stockupon TRICK or TREAT Candies wmee-and SAVE! 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