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VOL. U. DOUGLAS CITF AND TRBADWBLL, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1912
NO. 50
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2: Alfred Benjamin Clothing for Hen; Wooltex 2
gf Clothing for Women, for sale here exclusively 3
5: NEW SUITS AND COATS ? An immense assort- 3
ment of the newest colors and styles in the famous ^
8*= Alfred Benjamin Suits and Overcoats just received.
E: Come in and select yours. Triced from $25.00 to
2^ $35.00. Other good Suits, $12.50 to $25.00, ^
ji WOOLTEX COATS? For Women, in all the i|
Si new cloths. For material, style and workmanship
Si these garments are unexcelled. Priced from $20.00 f2
SI to $37.50. Other good Coats from $15.00 to $25.00 IS
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E 'Phone 5 JUNEAU. ALASKA 3
LODGE DIRECTORY. ]
K. of P.
The North Star Lodaro, No. 2, j
K. of P., meets every
THURSDAY EVENING
at 8 o'clock In A. L. U. Halt
V. J. Ki'MIN, C. C.
CHAS. A. HOPP, K. of K.AS.
Vi<stting Kuichtx invited.
Gastineaux Lodge No. 124 j
F. & A. M.
Lod?re meets second and fourth
Tuesdays of each momc.
? JAMES DANIELS. W. M.
J. N. STOOD V, Secy.
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Alaska Lodjre No. i, I. 0. 0, F, j
Meets every Wednesday evening in Odd !
Fellows Hall
Visiting brothers always welcome.
MONTE BENSON. N. G.
MERL F. THOMAS. Rec. Sec'y.
Aurora Encampment No. i
meets at Odd Fellows' hall first and third
Thursdays at 8 p. m.
Brothers of the Royal Purple are cordially I
invited.
CHAS. STITES, C. P. |
HUGH McRAE. Scribe.
Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. ( {
meets at Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth
Thursdays.
Visitors are cordially invited.
MARIE WEISS, N. G.
GERTRUDE LAUGHUN. Secretary.
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Auk Tribe No. 7,
Imp. 0. R. i*l.
MEETS EVERY MONDAY
EVENING at 8 o'clock
at Odd Fellows' Hall
Yisitingr Brothers Invited. %
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CHAS. P. OSTERBERG, JR., Sachem
FRANCIS CORN WELL, C. of R.
Treadwel! Camp No. 14, A. B?
ARCTIC BROTHERS MEET EVERY TUES
DAY ut 8 p.m. at A. L. U. hall.
C. E. BENNETT. Arctic Chief.
R. McCOKMICK. Arctic Recorder
PRO FESSIONAL j
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Albert R. Sargeant, M. D.
GENERAL PRACTICE
Office? O'Connor Building1, Third Street
Office Hours? 9 a. m. to 12 m.; 1 p. m.
to 5 p.m.; 7. p. m. to 9 p. m.
Telephones? Office 5-2; Residence 5-2-2
Eyes Tested and Glasses Fitted
DR. C C. FIN LEY
DENTIST
Office ts' the O'Connor Building
Third Street Phone 5-2
Open Evenings.
Dr. De Piperno R. Hector
Regular Physician and Surgeon
American, French, Italian and Spanish
Authorized to practice in Alaska and Outside ;
Roentgen Rays and Medical Electricity
used when needed
OFFICE D STREET DOUGLAS, ALASKA j
Phone 3-8
Robert W. Jennings
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
LEWIS BUILDING
Juneau, ? - Ala.^kn
The Northland
The Latest News, from Reliable
Sources, Concerning the Great
North, Condensed.
Information for Everybody.
Jesus Arenas was found to be insane
at. Wrangell.
The Shakan salmon pack this year is
sixty-six thousand.
Three women iu the Kuskokwim were
allowed to vote at the delegate election.
The first mail on wheels left White
horse on Oct, 28 for down the river
poiuts.
Tobacco raised in the Tanana valley
was one of the exhibits at the Fair
banks fair.
Mis9 de Gauban da Mont represents
a French Syndicate in miniug ventures
near Nome.
Mariners are grateful for a "blinker1' j
light which uow sheds its guiding rays
from Sbakan island.
The Ketchikan Miner i9 in terrible
strait*; the cable is out of commission
and the wireless has raised tho rate9.
At Shakan a lad named "Bozo*
Brockman weut duck hunting and shot
the thumb entirely off his left band.
Indiaus discovered placer gold sixty
miles south of Lake Teslin, and bought
quantities of the yellow stuff to Atlin
to prove it.
The Nome Nugget proclaims the vir
tues of the Japan current and says that
the first ice showed up in Snake river
on October lo.
Clarence Kelly started in a motor
boat from Dawson on Oct. 15th for the
Iditarod, a distance of 1500 miles, in
an attempt to beat the ice.
A careless young lady of Whitehorse
riding behind a smart team by accident
discharged a 22 rifle into one of the
steeds. She is duly penitent.
Spruce Creek miners so the Atlin dis
trict deserted their claims to stampede !
to O'Donuell river, where rich discov- j
eries are reported on the high benches, j
Charley Burr has been held over at
Nome to await the action of the grand
jury. Burr is charged' with selling
liquor to natives ? a eort of a chestnut.
The district court has established a
new commissioner's precinct at Craig,
Alaska, on the west coast of Prince of
Wales island. The new commissioner
is Oriu Kitley.
The' statement that ore taken from '
the 70 foot level of the Engineer miue,
in the Atlin district, ruus from fifty to
one hundred thousand dollars a ton
will perhaps call for a little salt, but
that is the claim just the same.
E. R. Stivers, the customs man of St.
Michael who got a bone lodged in his
throat, is reported to be Improving, al
though still breathing through a tube
that was inserted when the swelling of
his throat closed the natural channel.
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Because the Leelanaw had to leave I
the Arctic before October 1 to keep her
insurance, Candle has been left without
a supply of coal and is uow faced by a
very serious condition.
A New York society claims to have !
spent So, 000 this year for the protection j
of Alaska birds and will go $2,500 better 1
next year. Au exchange suggests that
the money was spent for eggs.
Dr. Emil Krulish, superintendent of j
the United States public health and
marine hospital service, will recom- j
mend the establishment of a native ,
hospital at Nome, similar to the one at
Juneau.
An exchange tells the exciting story
of James Dougherty who came North i
two years ago for his health, lie then j
was in poor health and weighed a little !
over a hundred pounds. Now he weighs )
slightly less than three hundred and
is uncomfortably healthy.
Twelve people from Teller Who
drifted about lor some days oil the
helpless schooner Belinda, deserted her
and gladly accepted safety on the
launch Defiance, which took them to
Nome. At fire o'clock the next morn ;
iug the schooner drifted safely ashore.
It is reported that it only cost Krauc- i
zruoas, the Socialist candidate for ,
delegate, $125 for campaigu expenses. '
He begged the rest. Considering the I
close connection he has made for a ;
number of years with the gpvernmentj
pie counter, he might have paid it him j
self had he loved the dear "pepul" less.
The Wrangell Sentinel claims it is
not "nature faking" when it tells the
following: "Albert Flack and M. Kats
eumeyer, since their return Sunday j
from a deer hunt on Kuiu island, relate
the killing of a female deer that has
spike horns some six inches in length.
The horns are still in the velvet and are
peculiarly enlarged at the base.
The fishiest part of Alaska probably ;
is that place where California creek :
runs into Bonanza if you can believe it
at all, which, no doubt, you can, says
the Nome Nugget. So thick are the
fish that when Flanigan & Company j
were working there this fall the trout
came out of the nozzle one by one with j
a jerk and were pasted on the face of j
the cut.
October, 1912, will go down in his- j
fcory as the finest and moat pleasant I
ever known, says the Whitehorse Star.
During the month there was very little
cold ? zero uot touched by several de
grees, and not to exceed au inch of snow |
fell in the valleys during the entire j
month. Except for the mountain tops, |
the country is as yet as free from snow
as in the middle of summer.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany's freighter Meteor, Capt. William
Thompson, sailed from Sulzer for Se
attle recently, with a cargo of about
3,100 tons. Included in the shipments
are 1,590 barrels of whale oil loaded at
Whale bay, Baranof island; 600 tons of
marble and 250 tons of fertilizer from
Killisnoo, fifty tons of copper ore from
Sulzer and 42,000 cases of canned sal
mon from Rose inlet and other south
eastern Alaska ports.
The Alaska Northern Ry. Co., which ,
operates, more or less, 72 miles of rail
road out on Kenai peninsula, has failed
to pay its tax to the United States gov- !
eminent, until 821,000 is due. Officers
of the company claim they bought the
immunity granted the Alaska Central
Company, when they bought the road, j
Governmental officers think not. The
courts will decide the question.
Capt. M. J. McNeill, who ha9 been in ;
Teller since 1901, believes his town is
surely about to have a boom that will
cnake it prosperous. He thinks the j
graphite mine alone enough to make a
city there, and. the tin mines at Lost
river, the dredges which are certain to
be installed in great numbers, and
various other industries will bring to
life the section of which Teller is the
center.
The low water on the Yukon river
this season and the trouble steamers
have had from the many bars and shal
lows has resulted in mauy suggestions
that the Yukon should be supplied with
a river dredge. Steamboat men say
that a suitable dredge could clear not)
only the Yukon so that boats could
carry much more cargo, but that the !
Stewart river could be given the same
benefits with the same dredge, and that
possibly navigatiou on the White and 1
other streams cotfld be made much
easier.
An Interesting Problem
The Boston News Bureau says: The
100 per cent premium put ou Alaska
Gold Mioes so soon after the subscrip- ,
tion and allotment by Hayden, Stone j
& Co. is causing profound interest j
throughout the mining world* The !
market seems to be well established i
around S10 aud is perfectly open and
free and the people who are turning in
the original bouds on the property are
taking payment therefor in stock at 810
per share. This price is not really 100
percent per premium. It is only 50
per cent premium because the subscrip- 1
tion price is $10 and the first payment
85.
The circular of Hayden, Stone & Co. !
is remarkable in its indeflniteness, al
though the apparent effort of the flnan- ;
cial statement was to be most definite.
Simply stated, the fact is that when the
bonds of the present operating com
pany are taken up, the company stands j
with 750,000 shares issued for $10 per
share cash, or $7,500,000. Of this $3,000,
000 is paid for the property and $4,500,- j
000 goes into the treasury for equip
ment and development of the property.
This is the real secret of fhe enter
prise. The weakness of most mining
promotions is that more is paid for the
claims or the alleged mine than is raised
to really make the mine. In this case
Hayden, Stone & Co. insisted that the
purchase price should be rock bottom
with no profits or commissions to the
promoters except that the bankers
should receive banker's commission on
the subscriptions. The promoters in
the enterprise have got to look for
their profits on the same basis as the
subscribers, the only difference being
that they had priority in allotment of :
stock at the same cost as other sub |
8oriberp, $10 per share, one half down;
Another remarkable thing about tijd
promotion is the mode9ty of the clai'n
as to the richness of the ore. While the
Alaska Treadwell, across thoGastineau
channel, with the largest gold miuing
equipment iu the world, ia reporting an
expense of $1.52 per ton as its total
cost of mining, milling, treatment and
all overhead charges, tho Alaska Gold
Mines makes a claim of only $1.50 per
ton recovery. The Alaska Treadwell
made a recovery last year of 82.35 per
ton from ore as9ayiug $3.07.
The Alaska Treadwell, however, ia
raising ore from under an arm of the
Pacific oceau and from a vertical depth
of more than 1000 feet; In fact, the
mine is now opened under the ocean to
a vertisal depth exceeding 1400 feet.
On the other hand the Alaska Gold
Mines Co. is largely an overhead sto
ping and caving proposition iu which
the mining saving may be 40 cents to
50 cents per ton. The operations will
be on a very large scale. The value of
the ore has been put at a minimum, ac
cording to other Alaaka people, who be
lieve there will be much ore running
$2 and above in theae claims.
If, therefore, there ia auy deficiency
in the estimated cost of treating this
ore it may be somewhat made up by in
creased value iu the ore. Mining peo
ple iu Alaska in no way identified with
this property believe that both esti
mates, the value of the ore and the
coat of the treatment, are unduly low4
Aa the Alaska Treadwell treats 5000
tons a day under 1000 atamps, gold min
ing people believe that, even with the
miue overhead inatead of underneath*
it will bo very difficult to cut the Alas
ka Treadwell'a costa of handling a ton
of rock in half, or to greatly increase
the efficiency that has been reached in
the Alaska Treadwell after 30 years'
work.
However* as the German banker once
said: "Every thiug can be improved.'1
The people who manage the Alaska Gold
Mines have made the greatest record of
low operatiug costs ever seen iu the
copper field and have demonstrated,
through some years of opposition and
criticism, that they were right in their
predictions of low costs in handliug
rock on a large scale in the Utah Cop
per miue. Iu fact, backed by the Utah
Copper mine record tbeir estimates of
cost are entitled to as much weight as
is the record of the Alaska Tread welL
A few years hence the mining world
will be on the qui vive to see how close
the Alaska Gold Mines Co. comes to an
operating cost of 75 cents per ton. Con
sidering that Alaska has geologically a
very much larger gold bearing area than
was ever uncovered in South Africa,
the eyes of the whole world will in due
time be turned to the Alaska Gold
Mines Co. and the Juneau gold belt.
The successful flotation and the
handsome premium placed upon Alas
ka Gold Mines shares is bound to be
much more far reaching than State
Street or Wall street. If the success
of Utah is duplicated in Alaska Gold
Mines the gold mining interests of the
world will be more affected than have
been the copper mining interests by the
phenomenal record shown iu the Utah
porphyries by the same management.