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Alaska Miner, The (Newspaper) - August 13, 1940, Fairbanks, Alaska ALAS INER Vol 3 No 33 Tuesday August 13 Price lOc Dredge No 10 With Huge Dragline and Conveyor in Operation In the above picture is shown at the right the United Stales Smelting Rei fining and Mining new dredge No 10 in its pond at the Cripple unit of operations Atter six years of preparatory work the dredge equipped with the very latest devices started digging Thursday At the left is a view of the Dragline next to the largest machine of its kind in the world which removes the barren material that lies over the pay dirt worked by the The thin line above the Dragline is the conveyor system that removes the barren material to the dump a mile away The picture was taken from the air by the Pacific Aerial Surveys Inc The Trading If we get into this war were ruin ed and if we stay out were ruined So what Lets have another drink The machine age apparently has reached Alaska as witness the re cent quoted by trie Depart ment of Interior that of all the manufactured articles imported into Alaska last year iron and steel headed the list with machinery next to the amount of Well the two comely young An ladies who won last years ice classic had to go and spoil it all A newspaper in Tacoma reported one of the girls said it had been three years since she had seen any roses that there were none in Anchorage Apparently the gal doesnt get around much Wherever one may go in Alaska roses will be found and nowhere in the Terri tory are there more beautiful roses than those grown in Anchorage Heres one for Ripley On the evening of August 2 of this year and in Fairbanks a baseball game be tween Ester and of the Mid night Sun League was called on ac count of darkness U S Smelting Dredge No 10 in Area That Will Last Years Drilling At Jute Bay In Kodiaks Ended Lode Mine Creek Showing Up Well About a month earlier than originally contemplated the United States Smelting Refining and Smelting new large dredge on Cripple Creek began op last Thursday The giant boat No 10 has a ca of cubic yards a day and its field of work the Cripple unit will not be exhausted for years to come Erection Development 1 r Work on Nickel Mine Progresses Having completed the work rej quired at Jute Bay the drilling crew I employed by the Standard Oil Com j pany at thai point returned to Ko of the dredge has been carried forward with a large force of men since early in the spring in or der that the boat could be given a good test run before the end of the current working season Experienced Operating Crew The operating crew on the new dredge has been picked from the operating crews of other dredges While Dredge No 10 is of the same j general type as Dredge No 2 on Lower and Dredge No Anderson oJ the Falls Creek Mining Co in town recently spolte of the progress wors on the nickel property at Sea Level Island and at Bohemia Basin four miles from Pelican i being made on the Old Greek prop erty The crew has been widening the cross cut for 200 leer and are now drifting along the vein towards two unknown ore shoots Showings in the face indicate Other unknown shoots that may be intercepted in a those thusly employed were Mr and i shon E j Earl diak During the past two months the work of tearing down buildings and general necessities which arise when such an under taking is to be accomplished Among Brown Clarence Kopang and Emil Knutson Mr and been ani Mr left for Alaska is being pushed forward with a crew of 26 men under the the company Some diamond drill tion of S Vevelstad manager of work may be done later in the sea son A fourman party of the U S Geological Survey under tne tion of John C Reed is also lo at Bohemia Basin for the I summer making a survey of Seattle the remaining members of the gang will seek jobs at Kodiak some fishing and others at the ent Ro unknown the still at Jute Bay to m and setting up of the miH will mean the actual production of gold values of the rock becoming increasingly ap parent begin to pile the 3 on creek nevertheless j it embodies equipment not used on either ol the older boats The new equipment on No 10 in cludes log washers and jigs The log washers are used for grating clay and the jigs for sup the tables The work of preparing the exten sive Cripple area for dredging was started in 1934 Designed by Company Engineers Continued On Page 8 nickel deposits there Atlin Woman Gold Digger Atlin has a new lady gold digger but she is a real one not the kind found in cities She is Mrs Pete Tennant The man agement of one of the large placer mines let her snipe some suppos edly worked out bedrock and she found a 550 nugget Being Scotch she nearly had heart Miner j work said Mr Anderson is G S Williams according to schedule v Wilson and a cook mere no doubt in miads the still at Jute Bay and associates but thac complete final closing of the proj reports will soon b ject j up This project is one of the many which the Standard Oil Company undertakes under the heading Experimentation using funds which would otherwise be used in paying Income Taxes and although it is believed this particular pro ject was not successful it is hoped that the Standard Oil Company will still have faith in Alaska and will continue to keep on Regardless of what Hitlers hench men say there are no champions of the gold standard than the bankers of Germany REVIEW Tne Alaska is Alas kas biggest 32 pages and newsiest Weekly presenting full coverage of all important and otherwise telegraphic news from all over the world news happenings through out the Territory mining and Alaska cartoons and pic tures Americas Farthest North Top of the All Alaska Review

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