Fairbanks County AK Archives News.....Good Business Coming May 8, 1911 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ak/akfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sherri Bradley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000051 April 17, 2010, 12:30 am The Alaska Citizen May 8, 1911 The breakup has come, and in a few days the rivers will be in shape for the period of navigation so necessary to the country's existence. The days of comparative stagnation and partial isolation will have come to an end, and the summer business boom will have been fully launched. And, unlike the past two or three years, there is at this time a feeling of optimism in the business world of the camp and everybody is expecting increased activity. There is, too, good reason for this optimism, as the Citizen has frequently pointed out before, for there is every reason to expect that the placer output will be fully as large as last year and that the activities in quartz will be increased two or three hundred per cent. For it is a recognized fact that until this winter there were many old placer miners who had no faith whatever in the quartz talk, and who had never dreamt of prospecting for the hard rock, who will now, lured on by some of the recent excellent strikes, hike to the hills and spend the summer in the endeavor to acquire properties for themselves. In addition there will undoubtedly had never dreamt of prospecting from the Outside, and it is likely the divides will be pretty well occupied before the summer is many months old. And then there are the dredging operations to be commenced at once, with the consequent employment of a large number of men during the period of installation, and there is a likelihood that one or more of the big hydrauicking deals will be put through. Taking it by and large, the outlook for the summer is most encouraging, and it appears now as if the output of last year will turn out to have been the smallest in the history of the camp for a good many years. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ak/fairbanks/newspapers/goodbusi26gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/akfiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb