New Alaska Railroad Venture Aims to Open Coal Lands
Seattle reports a new Katalinbon Mountain Railway Company with $1,000,000 capital led by Thomas S. Lippy and associates. The line would run from Carbon Mountain to the Yukon coast, primarily to develop coal lands nearby. Separate dispatches note Alaska naval base harbor planning and railroad feasibility. About 2000 workers expected, with Snow & Watson contracting and Cameron engineering the project. weather and snow delays cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Katalin Bon Mountain Railway Company
Thomas 8. Lippy
Klondike
Jobn Schram
W. M. French
Clark Davis
Carbon Mountain
Controller Bay
Boring River
Alaska and Alaska District Bill Sparks White House talks
Washington February 28 Governor Hoggatt of Alaska and Senator Piles of Washington met with President Roosevelt over Piles bill adding two circuit court judges for Ninth district. They pushing amendment to extend jurisdiction to Alaska. Hoggatt favors to avoid new Alaska district. Roosevelt leans toward approving fourth district. Alfred Lowell reports mushers making slow progress from Seward to Girdwood amid heavy snow and trail breaks.
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Washington, D. C
Hoggatt
Alaska
Piles
Washington
Roosevelt
Guggenheim - Morgan
Alfred Lowell
Tyonok
Susitna Station
Knik
Seward
Girdwood
Harry Ellsworth
Fred Stoll
Starkey
Stoll
al Barton
Placer Valley
Senator Newlands Calls for Uniform Alaska Railroad Aid
Washington March 1 Senator Newlands of Nevada representing the Alaska road commission argued that all legitimate railroads in Alaska should receive government aid and uniform encouragement. He said railroads are essential to open up Alaska natural resources and urged material federal assistance, noting that the Philippines had been aided and Alaska deserved equal consideration.
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Daily Gateway
Washington, D.C
Newlands
Nevada
Alaska Road Commission
Alaska
Philippines
Officials say St Paul and U P secretly merge railroads
St Paul officials allege that the St Paul and Union Pacific railroads are secretly collaborating on extensions to Puget Sound and that a merger has been secretly effected.
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St. Paul
Northern Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific
Puget Sound
Middleton Island Eden and Alaska Potato Hope
Middleton Island near Prince William Sound is praised as an Eden for its climate and harvests. A resident reports thriving vegetables, winter cabbage, four pounds of rutabaga seeds from over-winter volunteers, and mild winters with little snow, but notes isolation, distance from land, lack of harbor, and the need for transportation to supply Alaska with potatoes.
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Middleton Island
Prince William Sound
C. C. Georgegeson
Agricultural Experiment Stations of
Alaska
Middleton
Stock Island
Sewardites Secure Claims Near Hercules Gold Camp
Sewardites Frank P. Skeen and Eugene Bartholf, prospecting in Nevada, report locating several claims contiguous to a rich gold strike at Hercules, a new camp. Living costs rise with wood at 830 per cord and water at five dollars per barrel. George Eberhard, R. L. Bixby, W. A. Best and O. B. Helmer departed for the Yentna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank P. Skeen
Eugene Bartholf
Nevada
Hercules
Skeen
Seward
First Blood for Nicaragua and Corona Wreck Update
Report from City of Mexico dated Feb 25 says Nicaraguan forces won four frontier battles with Honduras forcing Honduran troops to retreat and wait reinforcements. March 2 notes another major clash with no details. Seattle reports Corona wrecked on Humboldt bar with fifty aboard, one drowned, steering gear blamed. earlier, Corona aground off Humboldt bar with waves sweeping decks and fifty passengers needing relief. The ship belongs to Pacific Coast Steamship Company.
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City of Mexico
Honduras
Nicaragua
Gateway
Seattle
Corona
Ifty
San Francisco
Puget Sound
Humboldt Bar
California
Pacific Coast Steamship Company
February 1906 Temperature Records and Nevada Gold Strike
February 1906 was the coldest winter month with a mean temperature of 31.64 degrees and a February low of 11 degrees below zero on the 19th. The month had twelve snowfall days and fifteen clear days, with a last cold spell on the 23rd when the high reached 23 and the low 1. A Nevada gold strike near the California line is described as surpassing any in the state.
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Seward
Northwestern Sails South After Seattle Port Call
Steamer Northwestern arrived in port Tuesday night and sailed for Seattle at 8 30 Wednesday evening. She carried twenty three passengers from Seattle and seven from Valdez. Freight totaled twenty eight tons of merchandise and forty two tons for the railroad including ten tons of hay and most of the bridge iron. This is the Northwesterns first Seward visit since December. After yard refitting she resumes service with Capt Truebridge commanding and W P Triggs as purser. Capt Soule piloting and C H Hayden freight clerk. D M Delmas, chief counsel for Harry Thaw, will receive the largest fee ever paid in a criminal case for his services. Delmas is a California lawyer.
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Gateway
Seattle
A. L. Snow
Watson & Snow
J. B. Cameron
Alaska Central
Spokane
Watson
Cameron
Seward
Snow
Northwestern
Port
Valdez
Truebridge
Triggs
Soule
C. H. Hayden
D. M. Delmas
Harry Thaw
Delmas
California
Stevens resigns Panama Canal chief engineer post
John F. Stevens quits as Panama Canal chief engineer amid disputes over reasons for resignation. Army engineers to direct work and no more contractor bidding. Maj. Goethals to chair canal commission amid friction over the Oliver bid. Roosevelt to appoint a new special representative to Fairbanks to examine Wickersham’s record.
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Washington, D
John F. Stevens
Panama Canal
Stevens
Army
Oliver
Maj. Goethals
Canal Commission
Seven Victims of Small Pox in Missouri Legislature
Jefferson City Missouri February 29 seven members of the legislature are down with small pox and Governor Folk is indisposed today A few hours will show whether he is suffering from the contagion Exposed house members are kept in quarantine as new cases break out daily A general panic grips those exposed to the contagion
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Gateway
Jefferson City
Gov. Folk
Change in Caring for Insane of Alaska Bill Proposed
Washington D C Feb 28 The secretary of the interior requests a bill to authorize contracting for Alaska’s care of the insane and repeal a five percent license fund allocation to the school fund. Alaska’s insane total eighty two and are kept at Mt Tabor asylum in Oregon under an arrangement with Oregon authorities.
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Washington D. C
Alaska
Secretary of the Interior
House
Mt. Tabor
Oregon
Natives as Prospector Guides Alaska Finds
The Chicagof Island quartz strike near Sitka began with natives discovering white quartz gleaming with gold. They later shared the find with trusted whites, leading to staking and development. Native knowledge reportedly spurred many Alaska mineral discoveries, including Klondike placers and the Beatson copper mine. The piece notes a British Columbia election result.
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Chicagoff Island
Sitka
Alaska
George Carmack
Klondike
Golovin Bay
Hultberg
Nome
Mary
Beatson
Latouche Island
Matanuska
Susitna River Steamer Plans Announced
C. Woolsey writes Gateway detailing Susitna river transportation plans for next summer. A stern wheeler 65 feet long with 40 hp gasoline engine, 14 knots, will run to Indian River or near the canyon entrance where rapids block boats. Thayer and Woolsey, Puget Sound shipbuilders, also to operate the Bat on the Yentna as last year.
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C. Woolsey
The
Gateway
Susitna
Premertton
Yentna
Woolsey and Thayer
Bremerton
Puget Sound Navy Yard
Thayer
Woolsey
Indian River
Big Canyon
Guggenheims Bluffing On Alaska Railroad Plans
A Seattle letter reports that the Guggenheims allegedly chose Katalla as the Alaska railroad sea terminus but will only perform minimal work this year. The writer claims a bluff to stall opposition while pursuing copper claims. Carpenters are converting Dr Burns' residence into a hospital for Alaska Central Railway employees, a roomy building owned by the company.
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Seattle
Guggenheims
Katalla
Alaska
Copper Jriver
Grand Bluff
Dr. Burns
Alaska Central
Railroad Company
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Naval Base
F. H. Stewart
House Today
Gulf of Alaska
Yukon
Frank Kelly
Snow & Watson
B. Cameron
Hoggatt and
W. A. Milligan
George Wilkinson
U. P
Sewardites
George Eberhard
R. L. Bixby
W. A. Best
O. B. Helmer
City of
Mexico
Humboldt
Northwestern Sails South
Wickersham
Department of Justice
Fied
Tanana
Fairbanks
Med
James Wickersham
Third Judicial District
Hoyt
Tanans
Missouri
British Columbia
Susitna River
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