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In The News
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and
Tanana Tribune
Fairbanks, Alaska
Wednesday, July 31, 1912
Tenth Year--Number 134
Whole Number 2876
WM. R. CALDER IS AT REST.
All that was mortal of William R Calder, discoverer of engineer and Calder Gulch
pay, and esteemed old-timer of the camp, was laid away in the Fairbanks Cemetery
this afternoon shortly before three, the interment taking place in the Pioneers'
plot.
The funeral ceremony was held from Eagle Hall at 2 o'clock under the auspices of
the order of pioneers, who with the friends of the deceased and of the sorrowing
wife, filled the hall.
Rev. J. R. Condit preached the funeral sermon, while the Presbyterian choir
provided the music. The pallbearers were Dan Rose, Billy Butler, Mike Burns, Joe
Voegilin, James Russell and William Aldine.
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PERSONAL MENTION
William Jackson, of the summit roadhouse, was a city visitor yesterday.
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Joe de Canive of Vancouver, B. C., Who recently arrived from the Outside to look
over the country, is stopping at the northern hotel preparatory to leaving on
the Tanana upon his return trip.
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Mrs. Blaker of Goldstream was a city visitor yesterday.
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L. B. Clark, who has been located at the Rhoads-Hall mine all season, was a
passenger on the morning train from the creeks today.
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Andy Olson, the Cleary freighter, came into Fairbanks this morning on business.
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JOHN ROSENE IS NOW TRYING MONORAIL
To Be Used in Railroad Building in Alaska -- Estimated That It Could Be Built at
Small Cost.
HAS CONTROL OF SYSTEM.
Rosene Has Made Thorough Study, and Is Familiar With Every Phase of the
Proposition.
SEATTLE, July 31.-- Through the limitless resource and tireless efforts of John
Rosene, Seattle is to become the United States home of one of the greatest
inventions of the present age the Brennan gyroscopic Monorail. Rosene, widely
known through the West and Northwest as a wizard organizer of development
projects here and in Alaska, has succeeded in obtaining entire control of the
famous monorail in the United States and Canada. He is now in Seattle planning
for the foundation of the vast project the introduction of the new train will
mean, and he has determined that Seattle will be headquarters for all of his
operations, no matter how widely they may be extended.
As a beginning the monorail will receive its first American introduction in San
Francisco sometime this fall. The system will be set up immediately to give
demonstrations for the management of the 1915 exposition.
Harborview and Golden gate Park, which will form the two great wings of the
exposition, are about 5 miles apart. The monorail will be used as a connecting
link to carry exposition visitors from one area to the other.
The monorail, Rosene believes, will be the greatest boon to Alaska ever created.
It's principle is now familiar to almost every newspaper and magazine reader in
the world. It has the advantage of almost limitless speed in addition to its
small requirement in the way of trackage. To illustrate this Rosene this morning
pointed out the care of the Copper River Railroad, which was built from Cordova,
Alaska, 200 miles through glaciers and mountain passes to a copper mine in the
interior. It is estimated the cost was $30 million.
The monorail could be put into Fairbanks from the end of the Copper River
Railroad for a cost not to exceed $3 million, said Rosene this morning, and
after completion its maintenance expense would be less than $500,000 a year. The
traffic on northern railroads cannot be heavy for many years yet.
Rosene has made a thorough study and most comprehensive investigation of the
monorail and is familiar with every phase of it. He spent three months into
voyages to England personally studying the mechanism, and had investigations in
scientific studies made by the greatest engineering authorities he could obtain.
Never, he declared, was he able to find an expert who would question the
practicability of the gyroscope principle as it has been applied by Brennan.
Such construction as Rosene pictures in Alaska would be the first facilities
ever afforded that could serve as substitute for packed trains. This means that
no part of the North would be inaccessible to cheap transportation from the time
the monorail went into it.
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COL. RICHARDSON IS AT CHITINA
Head of Road Commission Will Next Proceed to Town of Valdez.
IS VIEWING THE TRAIL.
Lieutenant Edgerton Will Also Make the Same Trip as Richardson.
Col. Richardson, head of the Alaska Road commission, should be at Chitina today,
as he was at Gulkana night before last. It is the intention of the Col. to come
back from Chitina to the main Valdez trail and thence proceed over the route to
Valdez, noting the condition of the trail, and its needs.
So far the appropriation bill has not passed, so it does not look is still very
much effective work can be done on the road this season, as the summer will be
almost gone before the work is started, even if the build should pass at once.
John Zug, head of the Fairbanks office of the Road commission, has been advised
that Lieut. Edgerton of the road commission is on his way back from Nome. The
lieutenant should be in Hot Springs at present, but will be in Fairbanks in a
week or 10 days, when he will remain here a short time before also going out
over the Valdez trail.
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BIG NUGGET ON 21 GOLDSTREAM
Jim Russell Picket Up at $280 Slug Last Sunday Morning.
Jim Russell, of 21 Goldstream, who is in the city, is showing his friends a
large slug of gold, believed to be as large as any nugget that has come from
Goldstream.
This nugget, which was found last Sunday, weighs just 3 pennyweights less than
16 ounces and is valued at $280.
That a nugget of that size should be found on lower Goldstream comes as quite a
surprise to most miners, in whose minds the lower portion of the Long Valley is
associated solely with fine gold.
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MAY CUT OUT USELESS LINE
Telegraph Line Now Runs to Rampart, and Thence Down to Tanana.
IS A ROUND-ABOUT ROUTE.
Another Shortening of the Line is Planned Beyond Tolovana.
"It is quite likely," states Lieut. Singleton, in charge of this section of the
military telegraph, "that before another season the roundabout route from Hot
Springs to Glenn then to Rampart and down the Yukon past Rapids to Tanana, will
be abandoned and the wires will be run directly from Hot Springs to Tanana, thus
saving the cost of maintenance and a lot of useless line, while at the same time
giving Sullivan and American creeks a telegraph service."
At the present time, in fact, there is a party in the field making the
preliminary survey for the line. The change, if made, would give a local service
to more people than does the present route, for there is practically no business
it Rampart and Rapids.
Should the direct route be decided upon, supplies will be distributed this
winter. This winter will also see the distribution of supplies for a change of
the telegraph line from the riverbanks between Tolovana and Hot Springs,
shortening the route seven or 8 miles, while making the location and mending of
breaks much easier than at present.
Lieut. Singleton reports that a construction party of 13 men under the charge of
Cpl. McFarland is at work about 25 miles out on the Valdez line cutting out the
right-of-way, guying and tripoding the poles and widening the space between the
wires.
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REPORTED ELDERS TOURING ALASKA
The Orphan Asylum Game is an Old Dodge of the Grafters.
Some of the Alaskan papers tell of the tour of reported elders of the alleged
Assyrian Church to raise funds for an orphan school, so it is probable that
Fairbanks will be visited during the season. Those who have had had experience
with these elders of Assyrian and Armenian churches say that if these are like
the others they are in the rankest grafters, and are probably traveling out of
New York under forged Arabic credentials, there being a bureau in New York which
makes a business of supplying phony church credentials, all in Arabic, to these
grafters.
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PERSONAL MENTION
Ed Farrell and Jim Ferguson have the contract for the removing of the water from
the old workings of Fisher on the Niggerhead claim at Olnes, which were flooded
by surface water last spring. The contractors are using a large bucket to lift
the water, instead of a pump.
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Otto Nars, Austin Gibbs and Jay. Anderson, sinking on a ledge at the head of Too
Much Gold Creek, opposite 11 above of Fairbanks Creek, are installing a boiler
and hoist. The men are down 100 feet in their shaft and have found that the
windless was no longer practicable.
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Roy McQueen yesterday captured a young eagle in the woods 5 miles up the slough.
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VACATION JAUNT UP CHENA RIVER
Al. Pauli Will Take a Party Up the River in His Launch, Nymph.
In Al Pauli's launch, the Nymph, a party of young folks plan on leaving tomorrow
on a hunting, fishing, and Barry-picking expedition up the big Chena River.
Among the party will be Hazel Pauli, Genevieve Creamer, Ben Holmes, Fred Pauli
and Al. Pauli.
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HIS JUMPER A LIFE-SAVER
Vault Operator Owes His Life to His Shirt and Jumper.
CAUGHT AND SAVED HIM.
As It Is, He Is Nursing a Dislocated Shoulder and Bruised Body.
But for the fact that his jumper and shirt were made of good strong material,
Chris George, the vault Creek operator, would not be walking the streets today
as he now is, but would be accepting floral offerings.
As it is he is carrying his left arm in a sling and is nursing a dislocated
shoulder and sundry bruises about the body and legs, but is highly thankful to
be able to navigate the streets at all.
Four days ago, Chris George, of the firm of Chris George & company, operating on
the Oregon group of Vault Creek, was working on the hopper above the don't box.
Suddenly he lost his footing and dropped toward a pile of jagged rocks 20 feet
below.
10 feet down a projecting timber reached under his jumper, at the same time
catching the shirt. The two thicknesses of cloth held long enough to check his
fall and bring him to a stop before they tore loose and he went on his way
another 10 feet without being able to stop this fall by getting a handhold.
And even in the way the timber caught him, George was lucky, for had the timber
struck him in the abdomen it would have been slow music for Chris.
After his second 10-foot drop, Chris landed hard--so hard that he dislocated the
left shoulder and bruised his legs and body to such an extent that he was not
able to be about until today.
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IN JUSTICE COURT
Commissioner Dylan has been busy today listening to the case of Vachon &
Sterling vs. C. H. Ward. This is an action for the sum of $319 claimed from Ward
as a guarantee by him for supplies furnished to the defunct Russian mining
company of Chatanika.
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DEEDS AND LOCATIONS
Instruments filed for record today show a shifting of ownership of the old
McCarty quartz property at the head of Aller Creek, tributary of Fairbanks.
Under the date of June 25, Herman Webber and D. A. McCarty have deeded a quarter
interest in the lemon and the Morning Star quartz claims, while Cowles on his
part upon the same date deeded a quarter interest in the lime quartz claim.
Yesterday H. T. Read sold to see. F. Myer and A. Arneson his interest in the
first and second tier benches on the left limit of three below Goldstream.
An 85% lay, good until October 1, 1913, has just been given by James Funchion to
J. S. Shermer and Jack Haugland on the upper 300 feet of seven below of
Fairbanks Creek.
July 5 was the date of execution of a deed recorded today whereby Peter Myers
transfers a third interest in the Black Hawk, a third interest in the Black
Hawk, the Black Hawk number two, the blue Jay number one and the blue Jay number
two quartz claims all on Wolf Creek, to Andy Olson.
For himself, and as attorney-in-fact for N. R. Hudson, Oscar Haynes has staked
and recorded a series of claims on the divide between sheep and nugget Creek,
left limit tributaries of Goldstream.
These claims are the Teddy, the nugget, midnight sun, the Caribou, the crater
and the Golden heart.
The location notice for number three below of bedrock bar on the big Chena,
staked last November, has been filed by Catherine Van Curler. Number four has
been filed by A. Van Curler.
F. B. Berg appears as the locator of a homestead of 320 acres between happy and
Saint Patrick Creek adjoining the homestead of G. G. Berg. This was located July
29.
The deed covering the reported transfer of a third interest in 17 Goldstream
from H. H. McDonald and Clara H. McDonald to Fred Craig, the drill man, was
recorded yesterday. This includes a third interest in the twin Association, the
McDonald bench, the James fraction, together with buildings thereon, all
situated on the left limit of Goldstream, opposite number 17. A sixth interest
in the Goldstream ditch is also included.
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MISS JACOBSON IN COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE
Miss Jacobson, of Tacoma, a recent arrival in the city, at present is helping
out with the extra stenographic work in the Commissioner's office.
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