anaheim-gazette 1909-07-15

A STOREHOUSE OF MINERALS ALASKA'S INCREASING YIELD OF PRECIOUS METALS Value of Total Product. Increased Many Millions Despite Placer Gold Decreased Owing to Shortage of Water Due to Drought—Statistics The report of the United States Geological Survey on the progress of investigations of mineral resources in Alaska in 1908 forms a volume of over 400 pages and has just been issued by the Survey as Bulletin 379. It comprises 19 different papers by 15 authors on the mining industry and allied subjects, covering many parts of the Territory. It is illustrated with numerous maps and diagrams and forms a valuable record of the year's developments in what is at present the most important industry in Alaska. A summary of the mining industry during 1908, by A. H. Brooks, who has charge of the Alaskan work of the Survey, is one of the papers in this bulletin. Mr. Brooks states that in some ways the industry showed a distinct decline as compared with the previous year, but that this was due in part to the financial panic and in part to certain conditions which can be remedied. Lack of water, owing to the drought reduced the output of placer gold nearly a million dollars. In spite of the unfavorable conditions, however, the value of the total mineral production for 1908 is estimated at $19,929,800, of which over $19,000,000 was in gold. The fall in the price of copper, from 20 cents in 1907 to 13.2 cents in 1908, reduced the output, but it still remains in second place, the estimated value of the 1908 production being $666,600. This is but little more than half the third of Alaska is almost unexplored. The facts clearly show that the present low status of coal mining in Alaska is no criterion of the future importance of this industry. Up to the present time coal has been mined only for very local markets, and the high grade fuels of the Bering River and Matanuska fields are practically untouched. These two fields can ship coal only when railway connection with tide water has been established. Some progress was made on such railroads during 1903, but it will probably be two years before any considerable shipments are made. In both these fields the activities in 1908 were largely confined to surveys for patents, assessment work, and trail and road building. Up to the close of 1908 no patents for coal lands had been issued, and this tended to discourage development. Coal consumption in Alaska also decreased in 1908 as compared with 1907, owing largely to the decreased industrial activities brought about by the financial depression, but in part to the increasing use of petroleum as fuel. At the Treadwell group of mines petroleum was substituted for coal, and there was also an increase of petroleum-burning engines on Yukon River boats. The shipments of petroleum to Alaska in the year ending June 30, 1907, amounted to 117,696 barrels; in the succeeding twelve months they increased to 285,642 barrels. The high price of coal and other fuels in Alaska, due to the fact that they have to be taken from a distance to the more remote regions away from water transportation routes, makes it advisable to consider the possibility of utilizing peat, great areas of which are common in the Territory. More than 10,000 tons of this fuel are prepared and used annually in the countries of northern CAMFIELD WA Files Petition for der N E. W. Camfield dent of the Hession, has filed a complaint to the planner commissioner under which provides cultural commission instead of the Under the new may appoint frobles who have pre examination before a man to fill tha ary shall be six actually employed. Camfield has noamination but itthe examining bo county to afford themselves for tho do so, and thb begin next month REDWOOD CITY wood City is seasilken ruby-studded Louis Baumgardner The handsome ru set in the clasp gift from her hu garter was lost w ner was returning and is believed long the roadway for the owner to enough to report DIVORCE H Happy Couple St Their Case la Coming face dor just outside to the drought reduced the output of placer gold nearly a million dollars. In spite of the unfavorable conditions, however, the value of the total mineral production for 1908 is estimated at $19,929,800, of which over $19,000,000 was in gold. The fall in the price of copper, from 20 cents in 1907 to 13.2 cents in 1908, reduced the output, but it still remains in second place, the estimated value of the 1908 production being $666,600. This is but little more than half the value in 1907. The other items making up the total are silver, $72,200; coal, $19,000; marble, gypsum, and mineral water, $70,000. The production of lode gold increased about 22 per cent, which helped to offset the decrease in placer gold. One of the greatest needs of the Territory is improvement in the means of communication. The high cost of transportation places so heavy a tax on the mining industry that it is in most places commercially impossible to exploit any but the richest deposits. In the whole Territory, covering nearly 600,000 square miles, there are but 452 miles of wagon road 397 of sled road, and 255 of unimproved trail. A few railways have been built but the total present mileage is little more than 300 miles and parts of this are out of repair and not in use. About 50 miles of track were laid in 1908. The steamboat service is being gradually improved, and military telegraphs wireless stations, and long-distance telephones are helping the industry, but these facilities must be regarded simply as adjuncts to a good system of railways. Mr. Brook's paper gives a general discussion of mining conditions, costs and methods, and the mineral-land laws, and outlines the operations in the different fields, some of which are treated in detail by other writers in this volume. A copy of Bulletin 379 can be had free by anyone interested on applying to the Director of the Geological Survey at Washington. Coal The coal production of Alaska for 1908, as reported to the United States Geological Survey, was 3,107 tons, with a value of $14,810, as compared with 10,139 tons in 1907, valued at $53,000. Four mines were operated in 1907, but only three were productive in 1908. Of these, one was at Port Graham, Kenai Peninsula. The high price of coal and other fuels in Alaska, due to the fact that they have to be taken from a distance to the more remote regions away from water transportation routes, makes it advisable to consider the possibility of utilizing peat, great areas of which are common in the Territory. More than 10,000 tons of this fuel are prepared and used annually in the countries of northern Europe, while in the United States and Alaska not 1000 tons were used in 1908. Peat is partly decomposed vegetable matter that is intermediate in character and fuel value between wood and coal. When properly prepared and air dried, it burns freely and gives off more heat than the best wood, but not so much as bituminous coal of good quality. The chief difficulty in using it for fuel is that it is always saturated with water as it is found in the beds and has to be dried before it can be burned. The drying can be done most cheaply by exposure to the wind and sun. Machines for drying and shaping it into bricks are in common use in Europe, and peat thus prepared makes a more desirable fuel than cut peat, though it is somewhat more expensive. In the expectation that the great stores of fuel in the peat beds of Alaska may be used to some extent, C. A. Davis, of the United States Geological Survey, has written a paper describing the different processes of preparing peat for fuel (so far as they are applicable to the conditions existing in Alaska) and stating the cost of these processes. This paper forms a chapter of Bulletin 379, which may be had free by applying to the Director of the Survey, Washington, D. C. SILLY SEASON QUESTION The Business Girl Presents a Few Compliments to Her Rival Who is the more extravagant, the business girl or the young business man? asks a silly-season correspondent of the male persuasion. Says a clerk: "It has been urged, among other things, that when a girl begins to earn money on her own account, she develops large ideas, spends her salary in finery and makes her return." Coming face to face outside a remarkably pre-gowned, and a mired garden each other day. "Ruth," cried ten to me for a minute will live will be wrenched. The young woman she had regarded nicely stare, but groom softened and infisccent look crinkey eyes. The woman wandered and the man Took the Hotel Decatur. Mrs. Evans was courtroom to attend suit for divorce and he was on his action. Both sides invent counsel and next on the calendar. There was no one in the man's were soon pacing court corridor, nestly and the more and more At this juncture gan to arrive. "Come into case comes up my lawyers." "There won't Mr. Evans happy wants a divorce She is the only voice. I have said Mrs. Evans ing under her blight the dearest man am sorry I list gossips. But, a feelings and I wish him if he hadn't." The lawyers tended when the judge of Evans vs. Evans striken from ther The coal production of Alaska for 1908, as reported to the United States Geological Survey, was 3,107 tons, with a value of $14,810, as compared with 10,139 tons in 1907, valued at $53,000. Four mines were operated in 1907, but only three were productive in 1908. Of these, one was at Port Graham, Kenai Peninsula (lignite); one at Chignik, Alaska Peninsula (bituminous); and one at Chicago Creek, Seward Peninsula (lignite). In addition to the output of these mines, a few tons of coal were mined for domestic use at Tyonek, at several points on the Yukon, at Cape Lisburne, and at Wainwright Inlet in northern Alaska, where the Eskimos are utilizing a lignitic coal for fuel in place of the fast-disappearing driftwood. Even where a coal field has been both developed and surveyed in detail there is a very large amount of uncertainty in all tonnage estimates. Moreover, the Bering and Matanuska fields, which contain the most valuable coals of the Territory, are regions of great structural complexity, which introduces another factor of error. In Alaska only between 300 and 400 square miles of coal-bearing rocks have been surveyed in detail, and the data in regard to the remaining 800 square miles believed to be underlain by coal are very meager. It is estimated that the unsurveyed coal fields cover 12,000 square miles, but of these fields only the general outline is known, and they must be surveyed to ascertain how much of the area is underlain by workable coal fields. It should be remembered, also, that more than a The Business Girl Presents a Few Compliments to Her Rival Who is the more extravagant, the business girl or the young business man? asks a silly-season correspondent of the male persuasion. Says a clerk: "It has been urged, among other things, that when a girl begins to earn money on her own account, she develops large ideas, spends her salary in finery and makes heavy demands on the pocket of men friends who can afford to know her. "Is this charge justified? Has not the modern man more expensive taste than even the modern young woman? Is not his love of finery as great? "Allowing that the girl who by her own work makes herself independent is occasionally extravagant in dress in proportion to her means, is not the average young man more extravagant still? "The garments with which he adorns his noble figure, his cigarettes, his swagger cane, his club and his drinks, sometimes maybe a flyer on the horses—surely the extravagance of the average girl fades into nothing before his magnificence. "Yet this young man can not marry; the expenses of life do not allow him to save; and when he takes a girl out and, to show off, spends a lot of money on her (and himself), he often complains to friends or writes to a newspaper to complain of the extravagant demands of the business girl." Paul B. Johnson of Long Beach pleaded guilty to stealing a bicycle from E. L. McCartner of Tustin, and was sentenced to fifty days in the County Jail. He rode the wheel to Long Beach from Santa Ana. ANAHEIM GAZETTE CAMFIELD WANTS THE PLACE Files Petition for Appointment Under New Law E. W. Camfield of Orange, president of the Horticultural Commission, has filed a petition for appointment to the place of horticultural commissioner under the new law which provides for only one horticultural commissioner for each county instead of three as at present. Under the new law the supervisors may appoint from the list of eligible who have passed a satisfactory examination before the State Board, a man to fill the place, whose salary shall be six dollars a day while actually employed. Camfield has not yet taken the examination but it is understood that the examining board will sit in each county to afford those wishing to fit themselves for the position a chance to do so, and that the sessions will begin next month. RUBY STUDDED HER SILK GARTER REDWOOD CITY, July 9.—All Redwood City is searching today for the silken ruby-studded garter of Mrs. Louis Baumgardner of San Francisco. The handsome ruby is valued at $200 set in the clasp, and was a birthday gift from her husband. The jeweled garter was lost while Mrs. Baumgardner was returning from Del Monte and is believed to be somewhere along the roadway. It took three days for the owner to become courageous enough to report her loss. DIVORCE HALTED IN TIME Happy Couple Start on Honeymoon as Their Case Is Called in Court Coming face to face in the corridor just outside the Courthouse door, A little money goes a long way Back East Excursions Sample Round Trip Rates Chicago.....$72.50 New York.....$108.50 Kansas City.....60.00 St. Louis.....67.50 Memphis.....67.50 St. Paul.....73.50 New Orleans.....67.50 Washington.....107.50 Low rates to many other points On Sale — Aug. 9 to 13 inclusive, Sept. 7 to 10, 13 to 15 inclusive. Limit—Three months, but not later than Oct. 31, 1909. Special Event Knights of Columbus Mobile, Ala., Aug. 3 to 6, inc., 1909 Sale Dates, July 27-28, 1909.....$75.90 For detail information call on or address J. H. CLABAUGH, Agent California Wine Co. F. Conrad & Son, Props. Center Street - Anaheim Wholesale Wine and Liquor Merchants Best Brands of Bottled Beer. Delivery Made Everywhere DIVORCE HALTED IN TIME Happy Couple Start on Honeymoon as Their Case Is Called in Court Coming face to face in the corridor just outside the Courthouse door, a remarkably pretty woman, stylishly gowned, and a man paused and regarded each other for a moment the other day. "Ruth," crled the man, "please listen to me for a minute. In a few minutes it will be too late, and our lives will be wrecked." The young woman paused. At first she had regarded the man with an icy stare, but gradually the expression softened and a half tender, reminiscent look crept into the pretty eyes. The woman was Mrs. Ruth Evans and the man T. O. Evans, owner of the Hotel Decatur at Ocean Park. Mrs. Evans was about to enter the courtroom to attend the trial of her suit for divorce against her husband, and he was on his way to contest the action. Both sides had employed eminent counsel and the case was the next on the calendar. There was no resisting the pleading in the man's eyes and the couple were soon pacing up and down the court corridor, the man talking earnestly and the woman listening with more and more willingness. At this juncture the attorneys began to arrive. "Come into the courtroom, our case comes up next," said one of the lawyers. "There won't be any case," said Mr. Evans, happily. "Neither of us wants a divorce. It's all a mistake. She is the only girl I ever loved." "No, I don't think I want any divorce. I have changed my mind," said Mrs. Evans, blushing and smiling under her big picture hat. "He's the dearest man in the world, and I am sorry I listened to those horrid gossips. But, anyway, he hurt my feelings and I wouldn't have forgiven him if he hadn't asked me so nicely." The lawyers threw up their hands and when the judge called the case of Evans vs. Evans it was promptly striken from the docket, and a hap-pen left the courtroom to start... I have changed my mind," said Mrs. Evans, blushing and smiling under her big picture hat. "He's the dearest man in the world, and I am sorry I listened to those horrid gossips. But, anyway, he hurt my feelings and I wouldn't have forgiven him if he hadn't asked me so nicely." The lawyers threw up their hands and when the judge called the case of Evans vs. Evans it was promptly striken from the docket, and a happy pair left the courtroom to start on a brand-new honeymoon. ONLY A WATCH DOG A man was excitedly relating to a friend the harrowing details of a burglary in his house the night before "A most daring robbery," exclaimed the outraged man. "It was still early; my wife and I had not retired, and Susie and her young man were in the parlor. Our dog was in the dining room. Despite all this that crook had the nerve to enter the dining room and rifle it of every bit of silver we had. Not satisfied, he even stole the eclock off the mantlepiece. What do you think of that?" "Well," said the friend, "I don't see what else you could expect. Fido is only a watch dag, you know." CHILD LOOSES LIFE IN DITCH WHITTIER, July 9.—A tragic accident occured at Montebello yesterday, when the little 5-year-old daughter of Fred Hagar lost her life. The child was playing near an irrigation ditch, and it is supposed that she lost her balance and fell in, as her body was found about three miles and a half down the ditch. The funeral services will be held this afternoon. August 9 to 13, inclusive. 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The greatest business training institution in the south. Open during the entire year. Write for particulars. J. W. LACKEY Manager. Eastern Man's Great Success From Santa Ana Comes Report of the Work of the Great Kamama Will Arrive in Anaheim Monday With a Big Vaudeville Company. His Success Elsewhere No Doubt, Duplicated Here Santa Ana, June 20.—The Great Kamama, who has been in Santa Ana for the past few months is reported to leave for Anaheim where he will continue the great work he has carried on here. Dr. John A. Kergan, known as the Great Kamama, on account of his wonderful cures with the Kamama remedies, has created a sensation here by the introduction of his wonderful and famous Nerve Tonic and Oil of Life. His charitable works have attracted wide attention, as he has given away thousands of dollars to the poor and sick in money, food and medicines. The Free Show Grounds at the corner of Fourth and Broadway, has been the scene of operations where Kamama's Big Vaudeville Company gave their entertainments; Kamama himself performed wonderful demonstrations with his wonderful medicines, showing how the deaf can be made to hear and the lame to walk in three minutes time. The Great Kamama has won a remarkable reputation in Santa Ana in the treatment and cure of all chronic and nervous disorders, and in the removal of tumors, cancers and gall stones without the knife, blood or pain. Speaking of Kamama, the Santa Ana Gazette says: "Never in the history of Santa Ana has there been such a carnival of healing as has been held by the Great Kamama during his stay here. He has revolutionized the manner of treating and healing the sick; he has treated many who have been dreading the surgeon's knife, by giving them his preparations which does away Many letters have been received this week from ministers extending congratulations for the wonderful work that has been done for the past two months in this city. Also many letters have been received from grateful patients who have been relieved by the Great Kamama Among the many is one from Edward Kinsman, who stated: "This is to certify that I, Edward Kinsman, have had rheumatism in the right shoulder and arm since 1893, the pain often awakening me nights; have used various remedies with little or no relief. Received two treatments from Dr. Kamama; have had no ache or pain since. Dr. Kamama and his remedies are a God send to all afflicted people. Dated this 23d day of June, 1909, at Riverside, Cal. Edward Kinsman." Another grateful patient writes: "Dr. Kamama, Dear Sir:—Being unable to see you personally before your departure from Riverside I take this means of conveying to you my appreciation of the great good you have done me in curing me of a very bad case of rheumatism. Five weeks ago I came to you practically helpless, but am now, thanks to your skill and medicines, able to do any kind of work without the least inconvenience. Please accept my thanks, not only mine, but my wife's and children's also. Yours very sincerely, things, yet I try to be careful as you directed me. I shall always take pleasure in recommending my friends to you. Yours very truly. MRS JENNIE WALSH, 2205 San Antonio Ave, Alameda. Mrs. Samuel McAdams, 1189 Nineteenth St., San Francisco, writes: "For years I have been a sufferer from paralysis and have been unable to walk without canes, pronounced incurable, and called to see him. He gave me what is known as the Syarthgill treatment, and in two days I began to feel new blood surge through me, and now I walk without canes; in fact I walked six miles this morning. I take great pleasure in recommending the Doctor to anyone suffering from rheumatism." A prominent San Diego man says: Mr. Henry Davidson, of 1701 F St., a mechanic, who has had rheumatism for 15 years: "For 15 years I have suffered with rheumatic pains in my arms. Sharp, shooting pains and could get no relief. I have tried numerous doctors and all kinds of medicine. I can use my arms now as good as anyone. The pain is all gone, and I want to thank the great Kamama for what he has done for me." Statement of James Kane, subscribed and sworn to before a notary public. I have been bothered with rheumatic pains for over thirty years, and in the last ten years have been Another grateful patient writes, "Dr. Kamama, Dear Sir:—Being unable to see you personally before your departure from Riverside I take this means of conveying to you my appreciation of the great good you have done me in curing me of a very bad case of rheumatism. Five weeks ago I came to you practically helpless, but am now, thanks to your skill and medicines, able to do any kind of work without the least inconvenience. Please accept my thanks, not only mine, but my wife's and children's also. Yours very sincerely, G. WALDEN, Streeter and Arlington Aves.. Riverside." Prominent People Cured. Mrs. Jennie Walsh, Noble Grand of Rebekahs, Alameda, Cal., writes as follows: "Dr Kamana, Santa Ana, Cal. Dear Doctor—Will it be possible for the physicians in Oakland and Alameda to collect $50 they charged me for examination and microscopical work, only to tell me I had cancer of the stomach, and would surely die? Doctor, no words can express my gratitude for the cure that you have effected in my case of what you termed ulcer of the stomach. For twelve years I was unable to eat solid food, and liquid sparingly, owing to the intense pain and terrible nausea that followed after partaking of even liquids. I have gained 27 pounds; I eat everything and all To a newspaper man Dr. Kamama stated that he would be in Anaheim for three weeks treating the sick and afflicted; all who suffer from tumors, cancers, gall stones or from other chronic diseases, are invited to call. "You see," said Kamama, "a great many people imagine that my fees are large. On the contrary my prices are very low. I realize that there are a great many people in this community who have been suffering from chronic diseases for some time, and I have had a great many patients visit me in Santa Ana, so I made up my mind to come here and stay for three weeks time. My consultation fee is $1.00. Office hours are from 10 to 12, 1 to 4, and from 7 to 8."