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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1907
Page
5
The Alaska Coast Charter Company has chartered the steamer Ohio from Frank Waterhouse for eight months. The steamer will be freed on the Seward route, and Waterhouse is to become Seattle agent for the Alaska Coast Company.
Victorian dispatch reports a Kokoku colliery explosion that leaves 400 miners penned by collapsed walls and believed to face peril. Other notes mention A.D. Reynolds buying stake in Valdez Prospector and Pioneer Mining’s large Nome district dividend, plus the Tyee whaling station at Murder Cove in Alaska.
Special to The Daily Gateway reports on Latougue Alaska where Aue Town rises near William Sound. The area sits between waterfront views and snow capped mountains with planned streets, awaiting businesses and labor halls among early structures. Major firms like The Tattonehe Copper Mining Company and Reynolds Alaska Development Company operate nearby, employing hundreds monthly.
Report from Seattle notes poor Atlantic cod season will push Eastern Market to import Alaska codfish for the coming year with prices likely rising. Vessel movements include Steamer Dora voyage to Bristol Bay and back toward Unimak Pass, while revenue cutter Manning reports ports and April copper ore imports totaling $682,754 through Port Townsend at Seattle.
The text describes prospectors waiting for snow melt to reveal an outcrop and a hidden vein. It notes a discovery near Seward and along a river, with gold in placer form exposed by erosion and the potential value of the vein.
The revenue cutter Manning struck a rock near Is ly island and sank, eight prisoners including sixty three Japanese poachers were taken ashore. The cutter floated after pumps worked and reached Valdez. Manning sustained 30,000 in damage. Two schooners with prisoners held at Unalaska await court action. one was released.
W D Haywood secretary treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners, recently acquitted of murder at Boise, Idaho, was greeted by about 50 000 people at an open air gathering in Chicago on a hot day. The crowd hissed when President Roosevelt's name was mentioned amid a daylong demonstration. Idaho Bill Lietzke and Harry Orchard depart for Cape Resurrection to begin copper claims development with strong equipment. Calder marble beds on Prince of Wales Island are described as solid with a depth of 100 feet.
Bridgeport Conn August 12 four crewmen died when the ocean schooner sank after a collision with the steamer Tennessee off the coast. The captain survived. Prof Crosby of MIT and mineralogist for Reynolds Alaska Development Co travels to Iliamna to inspect copper properties with W Larson. He will survey other copper prospects in the region before leaving. Recent strikes at Goldstream OConnor Esther Big Eldorado and Cleary creeks in Fairbanks district draw hundreds to the fields.
Incoherent scribbles discuss local figures and a proposed railway link. Residents debate who controls plans while noting possible benefits and risks. The fragment hints at central town issues, logistics, and accessibility but offers few concrete names or dates.
The copper belt east of Bay shows renewed activity with Redman Het tie and partners tracing a northward line from Leh to Fourth Creek near Vorcupine Bay. Upland statements note a broad mineralized zone with wide veins and similar ore along the hill slope, and Idaho Billys claims report surface assays of 5 and 3 percent copper.
Col Ed Revelle and Bill Sweasey completed a 21 day prospecting trip at Day's harbor and located several copper claims on a mountain range between Sunny Bay and Day's harbor. The Ja Herald copies the initial number, published by Major J. B. Strong, promising a first class publication with vigorous editorial policy and up to date news.
Steamer Jeanie arrived in port from Seattle Wednesday at 9 p.m. carrying 498 tons of coal for the Alaska Central railroad. The Jeanie is scheduled to sail back on her return trip tomorrow.
Italian fighter Carbona from Katalla was found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon in an attack on Jailer Olsen of the Valdil. Capt. O'Brien of the steamer Yucatan testified. A longer sentence on the first conviction could lead to dismissal of related assault charges.
The widow of the late Stanford White, remembered as Harry Thaw's victim, will soon marry Charles Mc Kim, a partner of White, in New York.
A party headed by Prof. Crosby mineralogist and geologist for Reynolds-Alaska Development Company along with F Pitman Gould Elsworth Barnwell and E ee departed on the launch Bina for Sunny Bay to inspect the Clayson Pitman Gould copper claims with a view to purchase. Some Alaskans may object to the relocation of the A Y P exposition headquarters from the Alaska building in Seattle.
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