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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1906
Page
5
Secretary Taft assumes control of Cuba, Palmer cabinet resignations, and calls for a plebiscite on annexation to the United States. Reports indicate US intervention, troop movements, and growing support for protecting property amid unrest.
Ore assays from the Knik River copper discovery show copper up to 17 percent and about 5 in gold and silver. The vein is a two foot pay streak in a defined fissure vein located four miles from Knik arm head. Prospecting is limited by season but indications point to potential deposits east of Knik. Government geologists Paige and Knopf confirm good ore appearance but no extent is known.
A hydraulic mining plant of forty tons will be shipped on the next steamer to Seward for Canyon Creek on the south side of Turnagain Arm. Joseph Wilson plans to move the drill motor Pelton wheel and hose by rail to mile 29 of the Alaska Central and sled over Moose Pass when snow comes. Wilson has raised funds to develop the Canyon Creek property eight miles above the Forks and fifteen miles from Sunrise, expecting two or three giants at work next spring. The Canyon Creek Mining Company includes H Clegg and H J Marx, former Seward manager for Carstens Packing, now in Seattle. Clegg says he has heard nothing recent from Wilson. The Santa Clara brought a diamond drill to Latouche for the Jam ee company, with four company members including Julius Singer traveling aboard. The drill will be used on copper near Beatson mine.
Report from Seward this week states many miners in the Yentna district will remain at the Station or Typonok for the winter. Finishing stocks at Susitna Station were sold, with heavy drafts expected on Palmer and Herning at Knik. The Kahilina creeks’ gold output is estimated at fifty thousand dollars, much of which has reached Seldovia or is en route aboard a steamer.
In a mixed dispatch from Alaska, miners head toward Seward with up to $30,000 in gold expected from creeks near the Susitna and Kahiltna rivers. Cook party, reaching Mt McKinley’s summit in 16 degree weather, confirms rough estimates. Bouckaert and Hanson relay that only one climber reached the peak from the east side.
Report by W H Reel Alaska Central engineer surveyed a Kenai to mile 29 trail route along the Kenai river and Moose Creek. Estimated cost about 13000 dollars for an easy construction path with potential fertile lands and mining in the Kenai region. Ivan Amundsen claims north magnetic pole discovery while railroad demand outpaces Oregon labor.
Chris Hanson, from Lake Creek, brought $1.85 in gold from three pans on the Discover claim about eleven miles up Lak Creek. High water prevented further work this year as sluice box and ditch washed out thrice. the claim is believed rich.
Juneau passes a curfew law restricting children under 18 from being in streets after 10 p m from April through September and after 9 p m the rest of the year. The ordinance allows outings with a guardian parent or employer but bans loitering and loud behavior.
The Commissioner Mrs F D Kelsey is appointed U S commissioner at Kodiak to fill the vacancy left by her husband Frederick D Kelsey who died September 4 The appointment comes via Judge Harlan and will stand until a suitable replacement is found The role at present is largely to act as recorder.
A rumor reports a secret junta aiming to spark a general revolution across Central American republics. The note adds that Saskatchewan province in Canada is rapidly filling with farmers. It also mentions a stern military stance declaring no effort to rescue the steamer Oregon.
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