The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1889-09-05
ALASKA GOLD MINES.
Largest Min In the World, With $40
Stamps In Operation.
Interesting History 0T the BIg Gold
and silver NIIneS In the Pacific
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Ing mountain on DOu las island, three
miles distant on the other si,le Of Gastin'
eau channel is the Paris" gold mine, or,
~ il is commonly called in Jeneau, the
Treadwell mine. The property Is inI-
mensely valuable It is owned by Col.
J. d. Frye, an urbane, white-haired San
Francisco millionaire, and several other
nahobs Of tile California metropolis. 1t
has been operated only for a few years.
Tile largest stamp mill in the wOrl (241
s,anps) has been erected on I, and is
producing such rirh returns as to put the
value Of the mine away up into the aris-
tncratic neighborhoOd Of 5000, 20.
The Paris enters at narrow Gulch
into the base Of one nf the RI eyed noun
tains which makes up Douglas island,
The vein Of ore is ~ feet wide and has
been followed dOwnwards to a depth oI
2SO feet without the bottom Of the ore
being found. Is it any wonder that Col.
Frye wears a smiling counteuance just
above Lis nerktie.
The ore is Of low grade, yielding from
~ to $l2 per ton Of quartz, but the in,'
mouse quantities Of rock which are
crushed make the gross product immense.
~ profitable, the cheap chlorine process
being used to extract the metal from the
pulverized mass. As each stamp breaks
two and one-ba'f tons per day, and as the
Paris has 2i0 Of these iron and steel mas
t Gators. Colonel Frye can get away with
go TINS OF Douglas island every day
that his mill runs at Its full speed and
caparity.
DuugI;s IsIand is six miles vide and
twenty miles long. How much Of its
rock is auriierous nobody knows. Claims
have been staked off in every direction.
An English company is now erecting a
l2U-staTp mill on the claim adjoining the
"Paris," and expects 10 pick aoRlen eGgs
out OF the Bears Nest" as lis property
Is called, within short time.
The history Of gold mining on the island
is not long one. About years a2o some
prOspectors discovered traces Of loose
placer gold in the decomposcd rock on the
surface and staked claim which, with
careful sluicing, yielded between 70 1000
and 10000 before the mould" was ex.
hausted. Strange to say, they did not
think it worth while TO examine the bed.
rock, which they supposed to he value
less. One OF them, however, Mr. John
TreadGell, was an old miner in sore need
Of a "raise," and looked carefully over
the rock which his comrades had neE-
Iected. Finding traces Of pay ore, he
managed quietly to huy up the whole
claim for IS o. Then he started to San
Francisco 10 interview some Of the gold
kings there, and, II possible to serlFe
capital 10 build u quartz mill on his prop.
erty. The men Of wealth were not eager
to experiment in polar mines; but at
length Mr.. TreadwelI succeelei in inter
esting Col. J. D. Frye and several other
Californians, who advanced the money to
erect a flve-stamp mill as partners with
Mr.. TreadwelL The mill arrived 10 Ju.
neau about i've years ago. Treadwell
soon had il put together and drove tun-
mel into the rock. The indications were
90 satisfactory that the cash was advanced
Tor a IzO-stalnp mil'' IL was sp'edily
erected and IN a very snort time gronnd
out hundreds OF thousands OF dollars, 70
the great delight OF the investors The
amount OF the goihen harvest was Kept
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