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...Uncle Sam," a place of impossible conditions, where there are no resources to justify a permanent population. Only profitable resource in the territory, according to Mr. Christensen, is fishing along the southern coast. Alaskan coal- prime reason for building the railroad-is worthless. The few copper, quartz gold and placer mines will eventually be worked...
...scantling town sprang up, sheltering, feeding and quenching the notable thirsts of 20,000 miners, gamblers, tradesmen and wenches. Among that gaudy citizenry were such characters as Klondike Kate, Alexander Pantages and Key Pittman, now U. S. Senator from Nevada. By 1900, there was no place like Nome for placer mining. Then, when the beach and tundra had been furrowed of its treasure, Nome languished as a commercial city. Today less than 1,500 people live there. Last week Nome was all but wiped off the map by a $1,000,000 tire...
...solved the art or problem of distribution. The necessitates a medium of exchange of purchasing power placed in the hands of the buyer. The Grub Stake Plan," Mr. Walker went on, "is simply this: first, a grub stake...grub, a pick, a shovel and a pan... for prospectors and placer panners; then transport to placer regions, where it has already been shown that fifty cents a day or better is the average recovery of gold; finally food, which might well be distributed by the Commissary Departments of the army and navy." This primary program, Mr. Walker pointed out, should...
Died. Frederick Worthen Bradley, 70, longtime mining engineer and prospector, president of Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co., which earns dividends on dirt containing only 90? worth of gold to a ton, produces about half the gold output of Alaska: in Placer County. Calif...
...shares in his portfolio. Once consulting engineer for Utah Copper, he has been affiliated with the Guggenheim Brothers and John Hays Hammond. In 1911 he was associated with Herbert Clark Hoover in the successful flotation of unsuccessful Granville Mining Co., formed in London to acquire Yukon placer claims. Two years ago his mining work in Jugoslavia secured him the Grand Cordon of the Order of St. Sava. A buckaroo in business, his chief hobby is the collection of old illuminated manuscripts...