In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago.
August 19, 1915: What is believed by J.E. Chilberg, prominent banker of Seattle, to be the biggest zone of lead, silver, zinc and copper ore ever found has been discovered on the Stikine River, forty miles below Telegraph Creek, British Columbia. Mr. Chilberg, who has just returned from the find, says the contract is exposed for miles and may reach from British Columbia to Lynn Canal, Alaska. “If this thing is as big as it looks and as rich as the assays indicate,” said Chilberg, “there never has been a mineral discovery equaling it. It is the biggest thing in the world.” The remarkable thing about the discovery is that thousands of miners and prospectors passed within a few hundred yards of it when traversing the Stikine River.
August 23, 1940: With Sumner Strait closing tonight and Clarence Strait area next Wednesday, salmon continued to come into the three Wrangell canneries this week in number about comparable with last season. With definite announcement that there would be no extension of the season, it was expected by the Wrangell packers-Wrangell Pack, ARB and Farwest-that they would nearly equal a year ago, which was not a normally good year. Superintendent J. Frank Wright at Farwest said they were a little behind a year ago. As last season, the fish have been particularly late in coming and general report from the traps and seiners is that they are just now starting to hit as the season draws to a close, although there have been many reports that the fish were not to be found in the numbers of heavy run years.
August 27, 1965: The Alaska National Guard is stepping up its recruitment program and one of its community selling points is the establishment of armories as has been done in several communities of the state. A Guard unit has been started in Petersburg and Wrangell was in the consideration stage this week. It could mean that both towns might get an armory. The federal government builds them in cooperation with the state, retaining title for 25 years or until such time as state or local economy is financially able to take over. An armory is not only a guard unit headquarters for its activities, but serves as sort of a community center. Their construction is contingent, among other things, on the establishment of a National Guard unit.
August 23, 1990: Work on a wood-waste fill south of the 6 Mile sawmill will begin Sept. 1 now that a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit has been issued for the project. The long-awaited permit for a 3.5-acre tidelands fill was issued Aug. 16, the corps announced Monday. Mill officials said conditions attached to the permit would be accepted and dike construction begin Sept. 1. Rollo Pool, spokesman for the mill's parent company, Alaska Pulp Corp., said acquisition of the permit for the tidelands fill south of the mill yard-along with near the elementary school-should give the operation sufficient disposal areas while other options are developed. Pool said mill officials will have an electricity-producing boiler on line by the end of the year to burn wood waste from the mill as a long-term solution to the wood waste disposal dilemma, which has plagued mill management for more than two years.
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