anaheim-gazette 1909-12-30

GOLD AND SILVER IN ALASKA OUTPUT OF PRECIOUS MINERALS FROM NORTHERN TERRITORY Vast Amounts of White and Yellow Metal Taken from Treasure Storehouse in Arctic—Importance of Coal Fields—Statistics of Mining The annual report on the mineral resource and production of Alaska for 1909 is now in preparation under the direction of Alfred H. Brooks, of the United States Geological Survey, and will be published about the middle of May. The more important features of this report are abstracted in the following statement. Accurate statistics are not yet available, but the estimated value of output of gold here given is probably less than 4 per cent in error; that of the copper output less than 15 per cent. The value of the mineral output of Alaska in 1909 is estimated at $20,-200,000, practically the same as that of 1908, which was $20,139,272. The estimated value of the gold output of 1909 was $19,460,000; that of 1908 was $19,292,818. The copper production of 1909 was approximately 4,000,000 lbs. valued at about $520,000; that of 1908 was 4,585,362 pounds, valued at $602,-267. Probably the output of none of the other mineral products, including silver, coal, marble, and gypsum, differed greatly from that of 1908, when the total value was $244,189. From 1880, when mining first began in Alaska, to the close of 1909, the total value of the mineral production has been, in round numbers, $168,000,000. Of this amount the gold mines have contributed about natural Peninsula, and the prospecting on some of them during the year has yielded encouraging results. Noteworthy discoveries were made at False Creek and near Moose Pass, not far from the Alaska Central Railway. Some very rich auriferous quartz has been found on Willow Creek, an eastern tributary of the lower Suitna. Little information is at hand concerning the character of the deposits last mentioned, but there can be no doubt of their high content in free gold. Two small stamp mills were operated in this district during 1909. The discovery of auriferous quartz in 1908 in the valley of Chatham Creek and in Skoogy Gulch was followed in 1909 by similar discoveries at several other localities that apparently lie in the same belt. The country rock of this belt is chiefly quartz-mica and quartzite schist with granite intrusives. The schists are closely folded and strike, in general,northeast and southwest. The abundant quartz veins are in some places parallel with the schistose structure; in others they cut across the lines of structure. The schist, as well as some of the quartz veins, has been subjected to extensive shattering and local brecciation. The spaces thus formed have been filled with crystalline quartz, ferruginous matter, and other materials, including gold. A study of the schists and igneous intrusives made to determine the origin of the metallic deposits indicates that the metallization was probably caused by the igneous intrusions. During the summer of 1909 more or less systematic prospecting of quartz veins was carried on at ten or more localities, most of them in a zone about 10 miles long, stretching north- GET READY JOHN BARRREL CANS EXTEN We Should Not terway and tions Beat merce Will nities for Pa John Barrett dent of California of the Interna ic Republics in Washington fore the South gress, which and advice just states borderi to those border chief difference admonished hi dy for the Pac Pacific coast s ed to awaken it already pos lest, with the does not lose ready enjoys new opportunity Mr. Barrett s It is of thou che whole coun gin to get rea nal. We are e d with a se commerce and namely, that canal only to tries will gain effits from it The one greas our people a valued at about $520,000; that of 1908 was 4,585,362 pounds, valued at $602,-267. Probably the output of none of the other mineral products, including silver, coal, marble, and gypsum, differed greatly from that of 1908, when the total value was $244,189. From 1880, when mining first began in Alaska, to the close of 1909, the total value of the mineral production has been, in round numbers, $168,000,000. Of this amount the gold mines have contributed about $161,000,000; the commercial value of the silver output has been about $1,200,000, and the copper production has been about $4,700,000. The remainder is represented by the value of the output of coal, gypsum, tin, and marble. The placer camps of the Yukon basin were the scene of much mining activity in 1909. The new dredges were put in operation near Nome, material progress was made in constructing a railway up the Copper River valley, and some work was done on the railway to the Matanuska district. The most significant feature of the year's mining operations was the amount of prospecting and development work done on auriferous lodes in some of the placer districts. The coal fields form an important factor in the present situation. If opportunity is given to mine the coal, railway construction over a part of these routes, at least, will be pushed with the utmost vigor. The exploitation of this highgrade coal is of great importance to Alaska, but is probably of still greater importance to the commercial interests of the Pacific States. It will give a new impetus to manufacturing and transportation interests. By furnishing coke for smelting it will probably make available for local use the iron deposits of the west coast of the United States, and thus lead to the conservation of those of the east, more valuable because nearer the centers of population. Preliminary estimates indicate that the value of the gold produced from lode mines in 1909 was about $3,400,-000, or approximately the same as that of 1908, which was $3,357,335. Of the auriferous lode mines operated in 1909 all but five are in the Juneau district. The Treadwell group continues to be the dominating factor in lode production, but some other large enterprises have either, like the Perseverance, become productive or, like the Phenom and Kensington will formed have been filled with crystalline quartz, ferruginous matter, and other materials, including gold. A study of the schists and igneous intrusives made to determine the origin of the metallic deposits indicates that the metallization was probably caused by the igneous intrusions. During the summer of 1909 more or less systematic prospecting of quartz veins was carried on at ten or more localities, most of them in a zone about 10 miles long, stretching northeastward from Pedro Dome and drained by creeks carrying auriferous gravels. Some of these quartz veins are close to the igneous intrusives, and all are within an area of possible igneous influence. The veins that have been opened up range from small stringers less than an inch wide to veins 12 feet or more thick. The schists of this belt are much jointed and locally faulted, and the veins occur along joint planes and local fault planes and have themselves been in places much broken and faulted. The rich ore that has thus far been found is chiefly in small stringers, or in veins, the largest nearly 3 feet thick. Valuable deposits are reported to occur at places in the wall rock as well as in the veins. Though many of the individual stringers pinch out and some of the veins are broken by faulting, others persist for several hundred feet along the strike. Only seven copper mines were operated in Alaska during 1909, but these produced nearly as much metal as the nine mines operated in 1908. The low price of copper, though the principal cause for the small production, did not greatly deter activity in prospecting, both in the Ketchikan and Prince William Sound districts. The Mount Andrew, Jumbo, and It mines shipped ore throughout the entire year, and work at the Goodro made sufficient progress during the summer to put the mine on a productive basis. In the Prince William Sound region the Bonanza still remains the largest producer. At the Gladhaugh the sinking of a cofferdam to take a large body of ore lying above the first level was begun. Considerable development work was done also on other properties. The inland copper districts await railway transportation. Only at the Bonanza, in the Chitina district, was there any actual mining. Here an aerial tram was completed in August and brought down some ore, which is ready for shipment as soon as the railway is completed. The probabil- Mr. Barrett said it is of the whole country to get real financial advice. We are ed with a secure commerce and namely that we can canal only to tries will gain effits from it. The one greets our people as should do is motion such as will place diness to enjoy new routes and the canal. It lacks of foresight 000 digging tha awaken at its we are not fully its much. There are union bordering having ports ought to steam canal, and ye realize the canal offers, ly five years be started at the canal, wh along the guild coasts and in movement to that will be Every city having any in merce should tual trade coeathe world to nai. Every s especially they iz itself for west or Pacif Central Amer wants and rea tions of demar to sell what what is for s dustries, com improvement interior waterw steamship fa qualified agent Spanish lang heretofore di neighbors, ar their social ar—all have a bearing on T canal." Preliminary estimates indicate that the value of the gold produced from lode mines in 1909 was about $3,400,000, or approximately the same as that of 1908, which was $3,357,335. Of the auriferous lode mines operated in 1909 all but five are in the Juneau district. The Treadwell group continues to be the dominating factor in lode production, but some other large enterprises have either, like the Perseverance, become productive or, like the Ebner and Kensington, will soon be producers. A large producer-gas plant is being established near Juneau by the Perseverance company, and the Ebner mine has been taken over by a new company and is to be opened up on a large scale. There is promise that the protracted litigation over the Kensington mine and other properties at Berners Bay will soon be settled, and extensive developments are expected in this field at an early date. In this field of essentially low-grade ore bodies the possibility of utilizing water power is receiving increasing attention. The topography of the country is not favorable to natural water storage, though some lakes in the region will furnish water power. Water powers are by no means so abundant as might be inferred from the heavy precipitation, most of which runs off quickly. Moreover, every water-power enterprise must provide for the low water of the winter months. The high relief, heavy timber, and the fords make the establishment of transmission lines difficult. One of the most encouraging events of the year was the discovery of promising lode prospects in many of the gold placer districts. Notable among these are the auriferous quartz veins found at Seward on Kenai Peninsula basin, near Fairbanks, in the Koyukuk and Chandlar valleys, and in the Bonnifield district. Auriferous veins have been found at several places on Keenan. Gladhaugh the sinking of a cofferdam to take a large body of ore lying above the first level was begun. Considerable development work was done also on other properties. The inland copper districts await railway transportation. Only at the Bonanza, in the Chitina district, was there any actual mining. Here an aerial tram was completed in August and brought down some ore, which is ready for shipment as soon as the railway is completed. The probability of early railway connection stimulated prospecting throughout the Chitina Valley, and much of this was more systematic than that of the past. As a rule, however, property owners in this field have been inclined to do only the required assessment work and to defer the installation of mining and prospecting outfits until transportation charges have been reduced. In the Nabesna region one property has been systematically developed, but elsewhere in the Nabesna-White copper belt little has been done but assessment work. EXPERIMENT STATION Encouraged by Governor Gillett, the regents of the University of California have decided to establish a permanent and important experimental station in the Imperial Valley. In a letter to the regents the governor said the Imperial Valley is one of the most wonderful in the world and that it is possible to raise almost anything there. The proposed station will probably be located in or near El Centro. It will be in charge of Walter E. Packard, who will be known as field assistant. Our harness is handmade from the best California oak-tanned leather. Wm. F. Lutz Co., Santa Ana. Fire extinguishers and fire proof safes. Wm. F. Lutz Co., Santa Ana. GET READY FOR THE CANAL JOHN BARRETT GIVES AMERICANS EXCELLENT ADVICE We Should Not Build Isthmian Waterway and Then See Foreign Nations Beat Us to It—World Commerce Will Traverse It—Opportunities for Pacific Coast John Barrett, at one time a resident of California and now director of the International Bureau of American Republics, delivered an address in Washington a few days ago before the Southern Commercial Congress, which contained statements and advice just as applicable to the states bordering on the Pacific as to those bordering on the gulf. The chief difference is that Mr. Barrett admonished his hearers to "get ready for the Panama canal," while the Pacific coast should have been advised to awaken to the opportunities it already possesses, and to beware lest, with the opening of the canal it does not lose some of the trade it already enjoys while trying to seize new opportunities presented to it. Mr. Barrett said in part: It is of the highest importance to the whole country that we should begin to get ready for the Panama canal. We are now actually confronted with a serious danger to our commerce and our prestige abroad—namely, that we shall complete the canal only to find that other countries will gain greater practical benefits from it than the United States. The one great thing, therefore, that our people and our congress now WATER SUPPLY IN ALASKA Stream gaging to determine the quantity of water available for placer mining was continued this year by the Geological Survey in the Fairbanks, Birch Creek, Hot springs, and Rampart districts by C. E. Ellsworth. Water-supply investigations were also continued in the various placer camps of Seward Peninsula by F. F. Henshaw and G. L. Parker. Water powers play an important part in the mining industry of southeastern Alaska. Their utilization will permit the development of ore bodies of too low a grade to be commercially exploited by the aid of coal. For this reason J. C. Hoyt, of the geological survey, visited this field for the purpose of familiarizing himself with the water problems involved and to obtain a basis on which to plan systematic work. On the whole the mining season in Alaska has been prosperous. Dry weather and other unfavorable conditions have curtailed the production of placer gold at Nome, but most of the other camps have either maintained or increased their output. Figures showing the gold production in 1909 are not yet available but it seems probable that it will be between $19,000,000 and $20,000,000. The low price of copper has not encouraged the mining of that metal, but five or six properties shipped ore during 1909. The Alaska copper output for the year will probably exceed 4,000,000 pounds. WHAT IS A GENTLEMAN? Selections from a Small Dictionary of Questions or Prejudices What is a gentleman? Clarendon, the historian, affirmed: "If a Scotch- FEAR "AMERICAN INVASION" United States Goods Are Growing In Popularity Paris, Dec. 25.—France is again plunged into woe because of the "American invasion" and the news papers are joining in a cry of "wolf." French commerce be seriously injured through the growing favor of American goods for common use among the people, to the neglect of national manufactures. Figaro started the cry, possibly with sensational intent. Statistics came to its support in such volume that other newspapers were forced to take up the clamor, and now it is sounding from one end of the country to the other. The first count in the indictment is that the people are taking to American shoes. Almost weekly new shops appear to handle only the American article. The fact is that conversion to the new style has come because no French wearer, having once enjoyed the comfort of an American shoe, could be induced to go back to the old footgear. Roller skating is another American invasion. American companies have opened four big rinks this season and are literally and figuratively doing a rushing business. LEMON IMPORTS Washington, Dec. 25—Lemons worth $2,700,000 were imported for eleven months of 1909, which was $300,000 less than for the first eleven months of 1908. Olive oil imported for the first eleven months of 1909 amounted to $4,600,000, as compared with $3,700,000 for the same period in 1908. It is of the highest importance to the whole country that we should begin to get ready for the Panama canal. We are now actually confronted with a serious danger to our commerce and our prestige abroad—namely, that we shall complete the canal only to find that other countries will gain greater practical benefits from it than the United States. The one great thing, therefore, that our people and our congress now should do is to study and set in motion such activities and policies as will place the entire land in readiness to enjoy, and profit from, the new routes and facilities provided by the canal. It will be almost criminal lack of foresight to spend $400,000,000 digging this waterway and then awaken at its completion to find that we are not in a position to utilize fully its much discussed advantages. There are twenty-one states of the union bordering on the high seas and having ports from which vessels ought to steam through the Panama canal, and yet hardly one of them realizes the opportunities which the canal offers, with its completion only five years distant. There should be started a slogan "Get ready for the canal, which would be heard all along the gulf. Atlantic and Pacific coasts and inaugurate a national movement to prepare for it in a way that will be effective and practical. Every city and commercial center having any interest in foreign commerce should acquaint itself with actual trade conditions in the parts of the world to be reached by the canal. Every section of the country—especially the south—should familiarize itself, for instance, with the great west or Pacific coasts of South and Central America and the possible wants and resources thereof. Conditions of demand and supply, capacity to sell what is desired or purchase what is for sale, starting of new industries, conservation of resources, improvement of coast harbors and interior waterways, betterment of the steamship facilities, the sending of qualified agents abroad, study of the Spanish language, travel among the heretofore distant but future close neighbors, and acquaintance with their social and racial characteristics—all have a direct and important bearing on "getting ready for the canal." Northwest from Panama is the Pacific coast line of Central America WHAT IS A GENTLEMAN? Selections from a Small Dictionary of Questions or Prejudices What is a gentleman? Clarendon, the historian, affirmed: "If a Scotchman could have either courage or honesty he might be something of a man." Yet Providence owed the world some compensation for Carnegie. Cromwell called Irishmen "the briblingest men I ever knew." Goethe said: "Der Englander ist eigentlich ohne intelligenz," and an Englishman has been known to say: "I have no prejudices, but I do hate a German." A Frenchman is "a person generally decorated, who ignores geography." A German is like an oyster, all stomach and no heart, which explains why the nation is so bellicose. In Austria, said Windischgratz, men below the rank of a baron do not count. A gentleman might perhaps be a Spaniard, for Lord Dundonnald, when he captured a 500-ton Spanish man-of-war with his 50-ton brig, told his fallen foe "he had fought his ship like a gentleman and a Spaniard." Sydney Smith in 1827 apologized for passing a night at a banker's country place. Flelding speaks of "brokers and other thieves of this kind." Jeremy Bentham said lawyers that "their knowledge was confined to the corrupt part of human nature." Sancho Panza declared: "There are but two lineages in the world, as my grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Havenots, and she stuck to the Haves." Isaak Walton may be the best judge: "I would rather prove myself a gentleman by being learned and humble, valiant and inoffensive, virtuous and communicable, than by any fond ostentation of riches, or, wanting these virtues myself, boast that these were in my ancestors." Certainly the man was not a gentleman who took out a policy against fire for his wife when she merely wanted an annuity. She was justified in her divorce. LEMON IMPORTS Washington, Dec. 25—Lemons worth $2,700,000 were imported for eleven months of 1909, which was $300,000 less than for the first eleven months of 1908. 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This coast line from Panama to San Diego now carries on a foreign trade valued at approximately $100,000,000; it is hard to prophesy what total this will become a few years after the isthmian waterway is done. If now we can actually start a boafide Pan-American movement and popularize the cry: "Get ready for the Panama canal," we will astonish ourselves and the world with the good accomplished and develop a unanimity of sentiment in favor of a suitable celebration in 1915 which will appropriately make the opening of the canal a far-reaching and historical national and international event. Fresh Oysters at City Market. Nasal Catarrh quickly yields to treatment by the agreeable, aromatic Ely's Cream Balm. It is received through the nostrils and cleanses and heals the whole surface over which it diffuses itself. Druggists sell the 50c. size. Test it and you are sure to continue the treatment till relieved. Announcement. 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