| Summary: | Alaskan Gold Held As Lure For Colonists. ALASKAN GOLD HELD AS LURE FOR COLONISTS JUNEAU, Alaska, Nov. 13. (AP)—A cry for "more prospectors to find more gold" rings through Alaska today although it shipped close to $15,000,000 in mineral wealth this year. "Mining activity has been good this season, on the whole," B. D. Stewart, territorial commissioner of mines said. "But work has been largely confined to properties already in operation. There has been a distressing lack of search for new finds in new area." Ships Carry Rich Cargo. The "gold ships," however, still sail south with their rich cargoes. At sea now out of Nome for Seattle, the steamship North Wind carries a $400,000 gold consignment. The United States customs house here, which lists all the mineral shipments out of the territory, reports shipments in excess of $10,000,000 in value from January 1 to September 1 this year. The customs house figures for the year to September 1, show the mineral wealth sent out in reported shipments. They were: Gold, $9,513,485; copper, $831,246; silver, $105,574, and platinum, $80,778. Smaller values of sonate, lead, palladium and tin were reported.
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