The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-07-17
HINES AND MINING.
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hsoun msning mss - The Northwest hss
hoen CA yisit - ~ city from Junesu.
Atnota. Vksre ~ Weot last fn5t 70 essuine
4he maaaeosnons q t1be extsDssvs psopsss
- o. ~ Newell God Mining Company
- eli Dwnes's Boy Mining and 1nhng
Co0psay. - beth a Which eDmpentss
1hsoss g. Novel. a Boston. y prsssdsut.
H deAcssbod the Isesse dsvslcpmsnss IN
Sbe ns4inx districts a Aiaska IN an inter
vfsv whh . PosS-IsrElLioEscss IMPORTER.
n With - aid:
ssTh4 Newell properties ars In eircuias
rJAae sArsoasding the SILVER Bow basin.
sAres niJss baek of Junsau and across
Gaassinlaa tuIst from ths famous Tresd-
Ven ns.ns. The hastn = sboas 4.0oo fest
lnne 81 1goo fsss vids and b covered
viii glacial deposit which ytssds hasd-
sonsly ip gold. Expansive Development
49, bten carried On Tor the lase thrse
yssu and the basin = nos ready
- yisad god returns. A susnel Ten
1sst vs1s and nins 1sst high has bssn
driven from casy0u through spar OF
~ neantain for . distance a s.3u0 feet.
sd strikes the gravel Of the bssin ninety
~ tslsvw Ne surfaces q Gold creek. This
erayel Snd black sand II slaiced through .
same Su The tunnst BY the hydrauiic
syssems SID clsau-up - made every
uooshx The seturus % far show about
ssyonsy Zee acres Of rich Gold-bess-
NJ plai~ss. 10 which The gold has drsftsd
nom tie lodges shove.
The usountain ridge In which thess
ledeso ssu located II abont three miles
loae aid there arr claims all aIoBs iI
Deg1nnane q the bead, the frst y the
Junoau Mining and Manufacturing Conn
pany. whtrh has tsamway 900 feet long
aed tsn-stanp mill. Then comes the
Arshis ,Campbeii properly. with small
ssAmssy and = fivs-stamp mill. Next are
tie Newell Mining Company's claims.
exttndfae 800 feet. with twenty-stamp
mill and tramway 400 feet long. The
mill Nslt start mp shout August | by
olectrie:sy. c. r. butcher. she agent
Of the flenerai Elsctric Co. In Aiaska. Is
now E,tns MP With mo 10 put in
N sicctrac plant for us 70 furnish
powss for the drills, light mp tho mine and
the plskssS and do al the work. We shall
then - able 70 work continuously
during the long winter. when there ID
shout three hours Of daylight. On the
other mines adjoining the Novel; sunnsls
have besn driven about 800 or 100 feet, and
Mr.. Dt,lcher has put In electric. plants TO
run th@ cir comprsssors for the drills All
tbs electric plants are run BY water power
from fhs mountain streams. which are
ahundkos IN the vicinity. Judging from
the pay ground and ore blocked and in
che Underground levels. can safely say
that thkrs 10 no mining property In Alaska
which win equsi this IN richness. We
havs dfiven four tunnels. each uncovering
lsdRss AZ sold-bsaring quarts three and .
half g. eight feet vide. bounded BY walls
q Gralssts and slate. The orc h brought
By buckste hanging on an endless chain
gravity trsmwsy. dumped into self.fseding
bins. tlss gold 10 rstortsd. refined and sent
70 The saan Francisco mint in hricks. Tho
ore avs.sges us to 90 per ton. with occa-
sionsl sockets on the lsdgs running M to
eio0. ard Is COSTS - to IS per tom to turn Il
into brsiion.
"o.,f.Bssner's BAY property 10 situated
on shsrman creek canyon, sixty miles
south d; juneau. The ore 10 In unbroken
lodges, between we'll defined walls Of pop.
phyry end slate, and Ne have run 1000
feet Of levels aud stopping. The ore 10
conveyed by . gravity bucket tram
way estO feet long down the mount
ain si.se 70 the mill ct the foot,
which will DO completed with twenty
stamps BY October 1. After being crushed
Il IL carried by water to eight fiuc conccn.
traitors which separats the gold and the
produc. IL carried by q fn.Iy-cquipped rail-
road " = and . half miles long 10 tho bay.
Here. TO. We have abundant water power
In the. streams which dash down the
mountesn eide from = great elevation.
"Rig:st across Gastincau channel from
Juneau1 or Douglas island. u the famous
Tr~adws.il mine. with body Of ore so to
80 feet vide. 1t has q 2S,-stamp mill.
which drushes $50 tons day: then IL Is
ran into 10 fiuc Commentators. from
which she concentrates arc run through
chlcrinatian works and the gold run into
bricks The ore yields $3.50 ton and
costs Vi . ton to reduce. Robert Dun.
cen, tlse manager of the Treadwell, 10 one
Of the s5ssss mining men have ever met.
Next 4, the Tr~adwsii is tho Mexican
mine. aansd by the same people and Also
tss*os&fSs ssy AfSAtt0H. ~ H3y " VEIN
- to itsl feat wide. and I understand that
oeo tenp Of ore which were put through
the frcsdwcil mill Melted IS ton. The
cost of reduction should not 10 much
more t'fan the Treadwc!i.
The: abundance OF water power and the
necessity III long distance transmission
make sssctrse power the cheapes, wc can
have fssr drifting. hauling. hosting and
lighting ard eli the mines in that district
will b. operated by that agent. Mr..
patehv 10 ahoas to nut in plant of 60
incandtscsn and ffsy arc lamps and q
power tsans cs iuo horse power Tor hauling
and ho:siias.
"fhsa country Is now coming 10 the
front assir, and am satisfied that in the
next ysar ar tao the gold production viii
cause sSosd deal Of capital to 60 in and
give III new life. IL is all gold b~arsnr
Hiners+ seansry along the coast. NJ
psosres 2ins has been done further than
three oF loas miles hack from the coast,
eesaast II = very difficult 10 prospect. hu,
man .-oaed So anywhere in tho eoas,
range AND find good claims. Scsttl. i,
x~stinstthe benefit OF the Alaaka trade 10,
the peg pas are doing moro business her,
than N: SEN Francisco. We are pav,ns
white sssnsssers $40 day. with board =
81. hatf here are not many OF tb.s., ans
there 4 GOOD orsnsnx. We work a 600.
many sad.ans and hAlfAreess a, 8. a "a
end tAss hoard themselves
"Aes.at 80 miners ,efs Cor Forty MI,
creek sais spring. gosag over the moan
tains fss:m Chtskas and thea i.so mil.
sioae Streams and lakes the same way a
Mr.. Hssatisoa vent Most Of them x,l
stay all ssatsr. and - nobody has CON,