| Show I ALASKA MINING NEWS I II II I I Big Purchase by the London Exploration Ex-ploration Company JOHN BECKS JESSIE MINE PROMISING IDAHO GOLD AND SILVER PROPERTY The Dalton Meeting Stockholders Well Pleased With the Showing Made by the CompanyTo Organize Organ-ize a New District Complications Complica-tions Likely to Arise Over Rush Valley Locations The Gray Booster Strike a Promising One Crown Point Election Satisfactory Satisfac-tory Showing Made by the Company Com-pany The Mary Ellen Mine Carload of Machinery En Route to This Property Park City Jottings Jot-tings Port Townsend Wash Jan 5Thc steamer City of Topeka from Alaska arrived yesterday Very few miners are wintering at Juneau and the city is j said to be very quiet Extensive preparations are being I made for the incoming of miners into I the Yukon territory when the season I opens The rush it is expected will be greater than ever before Very few I prospectors will go to Cooks Inlet during the season Old prospectors say the Cooks Inlet bubble has burst L G Kariffnanof the Juneau board Iof trade was a passenger on the Topeka To-peka He will ask the cooperation of the board of trade of all the cities on the coast in an effort to have congress auuw a representative from the district I dis-trict of Alaska to represent i at the I national capital I The last issue of the Mining Record I I the leading paper of Alaska says Since the election last November the name of C S Johnson has been mentioned men-tioned many times as a possible candi I I date for the governorshio under the Republican administration but it is I only recently that he has decided to be II a candidate Popular as he is with the I people here he is also well and favorably favor-ably known to many politicians of I note He is a warm friend of Senator Thurston of Nebraska and will receive I his support He is personally acquainted ac-quainted with Mr Hanna and Major I McKinley who have intimated to him that he can have the first chance for I an Alaskan office His appointment is considered a foregone conclusion with those who are closely acquainted with i Alaska Republican politics I The most important mining deal yet brought about in Alaska has been I consummated What is known as the I I Lane Hayward property in i Silver Bow Basin comprising 20 quartz claims which was purchased in October Octo-ber 1894 by Messrs Lane and Howard I qf California and Archie Campbell of I Juneau who was one of the original locators and who has developed the I property considerably and erected a 30 stamp mill with the necessary buildings i build-ings has recently been transferred to Superintendent Duncan jr of the I famous Treadwell company for a sum i i closely approximating 500000 Mr 1 Duncan is acting for Alfred Beit of I London and Captain Thomas Mem of i the London Exploration company who j is now a permanent resident of San I Francisco I Beit is a member of the firm of I Wehrner Beit of London He is reputed I re-puted to be worth 5000000 acquired i in operations in the Kimberly diamond mines in South Africa He will probably proba-bly visit Alaska next spring |
