Alaskan prospecting updates and mining notes in June
Reports from Valdez and Cliff mine highlight rich ore veins with high values. Prospectors Nichols Edwards Bresnahan Barnett McGuire Butler Ferry Hoffman Wil liky depart Hosiana for Ruby city. Government surveyors reach Fairbanks for homesteaders and two new wireless stations will link Alaska to the outside world. An Arctic Brotherhood convention forms in Portland amid Windy creek Windy River finds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valdez Mining Co
Cliff
Valdez
Geo. A. Terrell
Monte
Tanana
Chitina Rom
Fairbanks
Hosiana
Alex Nichol
Harry Edwards
H.l Bresnahan
Frank Barnett
B. M. McGuire
George Butler
Hugh Ferry
George Smith
Fred Hoffman
Merman Williky
Ruby City
Jack Welsh
Tom Crocket
John Bowman
Donnelly Roadhouse
Fairbanks Valdez
Alaska
St. Paul’s Island
Dutch Harbor
Uniak Island
Melintyre and St. Glair Safe at Good News Bay
Eric Palmen reports from Good News Bay that Melintyre and St. Glair are safe at the mouth of the Kusko kwim and the death reports are false. He says drownings may have occurred lower river but the two men reached the diggings. another party lost a boat in an ice jam but escaped unharmed. Prospecting continues with pay in some creeks, bedrock not yet reached, Frank Waskey to Nome for hand drills, food is cheap, five cents common.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Good News
Eric Palmen
Kuskokwim
Good Ngot
Gil McIntyre
Ed St. Clair
Palmen
Frank Waskey
Nome
Elite Baths and Pioneer Drug Store Ad
An advertisement highlights Elite Baths on Caribou Street offering a steam bath and furnished room, plus Pioneer Drug Store in Flat City featuring a fine line of perfumes and soaps for visitors seeking luxury and convenience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caribou Street
Pioneer Drug Store
Flat City
Snyder
Stanley's
Congressional Alaska visit set for late summer
A joint congressional committee named by Vice President Sherman plans a trip to Alaska from August 1 to September 1 if Congress remains in session. If Congress recesses earlier, the panel will depart in early July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Joint Congressional Committee
Sherman
Alaska
Congress
Ruby Strike chronicles and town under gold rush strain
A June letter from George L. Smith reports mining activity at Ruby where a tent city of 200 tents supports four stores and six restaurants as residents wait for better finds. Fernandez and Johnson discovered Long creek and report a 25 mile length with depths to sixteen feet and ore values from 75 cents to 140 dollars per foot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruby
George L. Smith
E. H. Langley
Long Creek
Jim
Fernandez and Johnson
Bear Paw Gulch
Halley
Local Ground Staker Jim Orr Returns After Winter
Jim Orr, an original staker of Flat choice land, returns after a winter away. The notice mentions various musical supplies and services available, including string instruments, pegs, bows, resin, harmonicas, and film development by Miss Tjernstrom at McDonald Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Orr
Flat Choice B
Pioneer Drug Store
Flat City
Notice of forfeiture in Alaska mining claims transfers
Notice to all holders and transferees that T. WA Dikeman and others have expended labor and improvements on the Glgia.co YM association placer claim in the Oller Recording and Mining District Alaska Fourth Division. The work sustains the claim under revised U S statutes and amendments. Partners must contribute proportional expenditures or risk losing their interest to the subscriber, with notices dated in Iditarod and July 1 1911 publication dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Eitzman
Orny
T. WA
Sim Gl Gia.co
YM. Association
Oller
Territory of Alaska
United Stat
Tysons
Ivogut
AL Direman Ny Artz
Attorne
A.D. Fact
David Willun
Laaven
Otter Association
Plac
Jasa
Hota
Elaine
United State
Jon Beaton
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St Michael
WH. Thorn
United States
R.H. Crawford
A. H. Schultz
Jim Hoffman
C. Boatwell
Iate
Kantishna
Lake Minchumina
Foraker Fork
Big Lake
St. Michael
Hoffman
Hunker
Portland
Arctic Brotherhood
Chica
Nome Industria
Kennedy Bros
Windy Creek
American River Country
Seattle Times
Alask
Mich
Alaskan
Melintyre and
St. Glair
Good News Bay
Simpson
Iditarod Meat Co
Iditarod
Casey's
Ita
Mussey
Grocers F. E Webber & Co
Gold Street
the Connolly
Fiat City
Crawford House
Geld St. Flat City
Hotel Grand
N. Glantz
Mrs. Swansu
Congressional Committee
Iditarod Express Company
J. Joe Meents
Lhevreaux Cigar Store
Flat Creek
the Dell
Front St
M, & M, Bank
Miss Tjernstrom
McDonald Hotel
Roadhouse
Golden Eagle
Willow ST. JM Robers
Egina PO
el Willow ST
Ano
I. Nyholm
Casey
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