The Alaska citizen., June 25, 1910, Image 3

About The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917

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! A1S213 A M\Ji. A I, A K A.
Many Improvements Cue to
the Democrats
Upper Chamber Win Not Allow Measure
to go Through Unless It Is Absolutely
Acceptable to Senator Aldrich, Which
It Is Not at Present.
WASH ; NOTCH, June i. (Spe
cial Corn-- pondence. (— Representa
tive government almost but not
quite-—prevails in t lie national
house of representatives.
Although still objectionable us
passed by the house, the railr( ad
regulation bill was discussed,
amended and improved. And it
was all done in the open.
The entire membership ot the
house, kir a change, was permitted
to vote on the question of rejecting
undesirable sections. The improve
ment of the bill by amendment was
also allowed.
Heretofore these privileges have
to all practical ends been enjoyed
almost exclusively by the- repre
sentaCves of the tariff trusts, the
railroads, Wall street and other ,
{' rnrs of special privilege which
dominate the Republican party
through either the control of local
politics or colossal campaign con
tributions.
Had the Cannon machine been
working smoothly, the railroad bill
would h ive been prepared by com
mittee in the exact form it would
have become a law. That is, a few
nren would have done the legislat
ing instead of the entire member
ship of the house. Had Cannon
ism prevailed, the railroad bill
would have been reported from :
committee under a rule prohibiting ■
the membership of the house from |
voting lor or against amendment. ]
J >;ui features of tbe Dill could not,
have been eliminated. The entire J
measure, jokers and all, would j
have been forced down the throat ol
the house jus) as submitted by
“Uncle Joe’s" committee on inter
state and foreign commerce, which
is generously packed with men
friendly to the railroads.
The improvement of the railroad
bill in the bouse through a coali- '
tion of the- Democrats and Pro
gressives is a cause for rejoicing.
But it does not mean that the peo- J
pie have really wrested control o' ;
the national law-making machinery ;
trom the special privilege ring. P'or
this reason:
1 he house is only the lower
branch of congress. The railroad
bill will not become a law as passed
by the house The senate is the
dominating branch of congress, and (
it is still controlled absolutely by
the greedy corporate interests. The ;
senate will pass a bill containing j
some o( the very leatures stricken j
from the measure in the house as \
being against the welfare of the |
people. Both the senate and house |
bills will then be sent to a confer-!
ence committee composed of either
three or five members of each
branch of congress. As the major
ity of the conference will be “regu- j
lar” Republicans, specially selected
by Aldrich and Cannon, it goes
without saying that much of the
work accomplished by the house
Democrats and Progressives will be
reversed.
The finale of the railroad bill
promises to be the tariff fiasco all
over again.
Representative government will
have given special ; rivilege a tight
race; but in the finish Aldrichism
and Ca,monism will win by a nose!
1 Ait wh\ should such a result be
considered strange? For what pur
pose do the railroads make >;6o,
000 contributions to the Republican
campaign fund it it is not to con
trol the Republican party's legisla
tion5 C. 11. Tavi r m:k.
W3QDCH0PPER SHOWS UP WELL
John Boyle and John Holinston,
prominent operators of the Wood
chopper creek district, are in the
city. They also have interests on
Coal creek, the promising new
stnam near Wondchopper. They
report that rich pav has been struck
on the upper end of Coal by Rat
ter-on. He has located the pay a
width of 130 feet.
SI.n in, Heaton and others who
worked 011 Coal creek during the
winter, have good cleanups this
spring. Hoyle and Holinston put
in most ot their time this winter on
their old property on Mineral, v, here
they cleaned up good returns.
1 law son News.
ITEMS JIM
The Yukon council has passed a
bill to raise the license lee for ho
tels in South Dawson, f ormerly
the lee was S2°o, in ltituie it will
be S700 a year.
llarold Malstrom has ariHed at
Dawson. It will be remembered
that Mr. Malstrom left Fairbanks'
in February last for the States, but
the lure of the north was too strong ;
to be resisted.
Premier Paurier has been invited
to pay a visit to the Yukon terri
tory .
A. II. Devers, formerly of the
Tunana Tribune, is back at his old
post on the Dawson News.
Thirty new members were in
itiated into the Arctic brotherhood
recently.
A bill was introduced into the
Yukon council a few days ago hav
ing for its object the restriction of
the right to vote to people o; the
white race. The bill proposed to
exclude Hindoos, Chinese and Jap-;
anese, but nobody voted lor the
measure except Mr. black, who
was responsible iur the bill
NEW MINE FOB JUNEAU
A cablegram was received in Ju-[
neau recently from Mew York stat- j
ing that at a meeting of the stock- j
holders of the Alaska Perseverance j
Gold Mining company and the.
Northwest Power company the old
board of directors was re-elected, I
and immediately voted to erect an- j
other ioo-stamp mill on their!
property in Silver Bow basin, about !
five miles from Juneau, and to drive j
the Alexandra tunnel from tidewa
ter to the Perseverance mine, a dis-!
tance of three miles, as soon as pos- j
sible. Col. \V. J. Sutherland, I
president of the company; Joseph [
T Gilbert, and a party of friends, |
leave New York this week for Ju- j
neau, where they expect to arrive
aarly in the season. In the Suth-1
srland party are some English J
friends of the colonel, one of whom !
is Mr. Lambert, editor of the Lon
don Financial News.
The Perseverance company ex- j
pects to employ 300 men at the j
mine this year.
Fred Schaupp, of Cordova,
ms received information that!
ais brother, Carl L. Schaupp, {
:as been chosen captain of the
Stanford university crew.
It is stated that Beatson’s Bo- j:
lanza, on Latouche island hash
reen sold to the CuKftenheiins
ind that they will build a smelt |
;r on the island.
FI8ALC0-ALASKA IS
Faii Into Rich Ore Body at
the 240 Feel
Sample Shipment Sent to the Smelters at
Tacoma Care a Return of 27.75 Per
Cent, of Copper and 80 Cents In
Geld.
After losing a large, fat vein of
high grade chalcopyrite ore against
a fault, the !• idalgo-Alaska Copper
company bored through the inter
secting wall and fell into a pot of
the same metal Just how much
the folks don't know, because thev
have just begun to cross-cut the
ore body, but it looks good to them.
The vein was recovered at a ver
tical depth under ground of 240
leet and about 300 !eet horizontally
in the hill. It lies 128 feet directly
under the best ore in the middle
tunnel. When a good ore body
was opened on the upper level, the
lower tunnel was started in the be
lie! that it would strike a wider de
posit. The lower tunnel was run
in from the surface 40 feet until it
struck the vein; the ore was then
followed 143 feet to the fault, that
completely cut of the vein, which
up to that place had carried from
two to nine feet of ore.
rrom the fault a cross-cut was
driven to the left until the ore was
found a few days ago There the
same ore is encountered in a v in
that has been penetrated five feet.
Work will be continued ah mg this
vein. It is believed that enough
ore lies between the two levels to
make a mine. As soon as the tun
nel is driven across the vein drifting
both ways will block it out.
The* property has been worked in
several places on three levels and
everywhere ore of good quality has
been disclosed or varying extent.
A sample shipment to the Tacoma
smelter gave a return of 27.75 per
cent copper and So cents gold. The
ore just struck is of similar quality.
Writing to the Dawson News
llodley Rogers gives some in-.
tt resting news of former Klon
dikers, who are now located in
British Columbia.
llodley Rogers himself is do
ing very well as a writer for the
maga/im s. Speaking of Vic
toria lie expresses the opinion
that that city will shortly reach
the 1O0.00U mark. Writing of
some of the oldtiniers, he says:
1 saw a large number of Daw
sonites in Rrince Rupert, but a
larger number in Vancouver. I j
asked Mr. Hayward if he was
with Tommy Scott. In assumed
dignity ho replied: “No, Tommy
is with me.” They are prosper-:
ous.
One gets the warmest greet
ing of all from Charley Mul
cahy who is conducting a cafe
teria on Cordova street.
Scholl is prosperous in a drug
--tore on Westminster avenue.
Harry Best, late partner of [
Hogan, of Sulphur, is in the real
estate business. He is invari-1
ably found in the company of
Billy Ripley, late of Sulphur,
ind Ripley’s brother.
Gwillim and Crips have their
shingle conspicuous on Hastings I
street. They are building a j
large apartment house near the
aew Great Northern railway I
site.
Mr. Sherwood, formerly of
die Oak Hall, has just arrived
‘rorii Oakland. He also is in the
•eal estate and has bought prop
;rty on the North Arm.
Charley Bell and Wm. Len
ion, who ran a store in Gold !
Bottom, a Mr. Patterson and!
Washington-Alaska Bank
FAIRBANKS. ALASKA
Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profiis, $200,000
WE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS
Charlie Reed, former Yukon
council candidate, are partners
in real estate. Reid is also in
terested in a building firm.
Clarence Rogers and Charley
Black are in the ri al estate in
the Burns block.
Frank McDougal is at the
Bote] \ ancouver and has open
ed a law office here.
Reid, who ran the Miners'
drug store on Front street, Daw
son, is in the same business with
a Mr. Merritt.
Tom Kearney is in the real
estate. So are Joe and Bob
Johnson. So vt as Me Alpine w hen
1 saw him last: also Wally, who
was chief gardener for Jaeqne
min on Fifth avenue.
Fete Black has done well in
Prince Rupert. Property he
bought there for >‘,,01)11 is now
worth SIe,000.
Palmer Bros, have n S“oo,o00
contract in building the one mil
lion dollar bridge on Cambria
street.
Paddy Slavin and .lack Levy
are the most conspicuous Daw -
sonites to be seen in Victoria.,
Mrs. Slavin and children are
nicely settled with the husband
in keeping house.
NEW METALS
Within the last two hundred
rears about 50 metals have been
discovered. Most of them have been
looked upon by the world as curi
osities, and they have been relegat
ed to the dusty shelves of chemical
museums in tiny little vials, as con
erete samples ot the wonderful
achievements ot modern chemical
research, says an exchange. Oc
casionally they would be referred to
by some writer gitted with a viv id
imagination, who would call to
mind their extreme rarity and their
fabulous' value—but only as cliemic
al curiosities and never as sub
stances that would be oi use to
mankind. The little vials would
be put back on the shelves, out of
-iglit. out of mind, until the public
again wished to hear the dreams of
gallium, aluminum, germanium,
and tungsten, and to estimate what
it would cost to make a pound of
these rarities.
With the advent of the electric
iurnuce and the use of temperatures
hitherto unheard of, these little
vials have been taken down from
the dusty shelves. (>ne bv one the
rare metallic oxides have been in
troduced to the fearful heat of the
flaming arc, and reduced to the
form of pure metals, and these are
rare metals, now rare no longer on
account of the cheapness of reduc
tion and the abundance of ore, are
taking their places in the sphere of
industrial activity. The little, dust
covered vials are looming up, and
keen, hard-headed scientists are
studying them with a view to their
possibilities and *he best means as
to their utilization.
Citizen Printing Co. for job
work.
For the
Best Goads
And the Most
Reasonable
Frio ss
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LIQUOR HOUSE
Fifth Ave. and Cushman Ft.
LOUIS SPITZ. Prep.
Lcofc Out for Bad Drinking Water
BUY
BAR Tii EL’S
It is both wholesome and Cheap
$4.00 per dozen quarts > DELIVERED FREE
$7.S0 per 2 dozen quarts \ IN TOWN
Family Trade Solicited
PHOKI3 134
Time Table No. 14. Effective 12:01 a. m., May 16, 1910
This Company Reserves the Right to Vary From this Time Table at Pleasure.
N^h B°und No 7 Chena and Fairbanks Ko a Sou,hA®'7nd
Dally Dally Dally Dally
Passenger Except Sunday Passenger Except Sunday
Lv. 1:00 p. m. lv. 7:00 a. m. Chena.Ar. 7:00 p. m. ar. 11.40a. in.
Lv. 1:30 p. m. lv. 7.25 a. m. Junction Lv. 6:25 p. ra. lv. 11:15a. ra.
Lv 1:45 p. ra. ar. 7:50 a. ra. Fairbanks Lv. 6:00 p. m. lv. 11:30 a. m.
Fairbanks, Gilmcre and Gbatanika
No. I No. 5 No. 6 No. 2
Mixed Dally Chatanlka Fairbanks Mixed
Excipt Sunday Dally Oany Except Sunday
Lv. 9:30 a. ra. lv. 3:40 p. in.. Fairbanks . .Ar. 10:00 a. in. ar. 5:30 p. in.
M 9:45 a. m. lv. 3:55 p. ra . .. Junction M—Lv. 9:45 a. ra. lv. 5:10 p. ra.
Lv. 9:50 a. ra. lv. 4:00 p. ra. Ester Lv. 9.40 a. in. in 4:30 p. ra.
Lv. 10:25 a. ra. M 4:30 p. m. Big Eldorado Lv. 9:10 a. rr. M 4:30 p m
Lv. 11:00 a. ra. lv. 4:55 p. ra. Fox Lv. 8:45 a. in. lv. 3:50 p. in
Lv. 11:20 a, m. lv. 5:10 p. ra. Gilmore Lv. 8:30 a. in. lv. 3:25 p ra
Lv. 12:10 p. ra. lv. 5:55 p. ra. Ridgetop Lv. 7:50 a. ra. lv. 2:50 p. ra.
Lv. 12:40 p. m. lv. 6:20 p. ra. Olnes Lv. 7:25 a. m. lv. 2:20 p. ra.
Lv. 1:00 p. ra. lv. 6:35 p. in. Little Eldorado Lv. 7:10 a. ra. lv. 2:00 p. ra.
Ar. 1:10 p. ra. lv. 6:45 p. ni. Chatanika L\. 7:00 a. ra. lv 1:50 p. m
North lwund Trains have rij^ht of track over South bound Trains. Stages for Ester
City will connect at Ester Siding with all trains except Nos. 3 and 7.
FALCON JOSLIN. President A. P. TYSON. Can. Mgr