The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-25


camps L hSa sAe Measure os meeting
Gov. James SAsskFev. who hc.h person.
&-ay an xefo1Sa hts p~sv2tH secretary
arHe1 III = cntasrfrx the information
raj ecrfe n Se2rrA - 7 wcn-t TIRE you
MIA l0as tales @ satisfies Z canplied.
ols oae CT Two facts Cleaned from them
'nay - q i1terest. Yc2 nav BE surprised
prrna7s. a. ! vas. 70 learn tnas ssS 600
cases q SasTcn were packed IN Aisska
Isl war, &aa nat 1legs. barrels - sal
mon were psek2ei there TAera are row
- STAMPS crushing ere. an5 sSrAx orc %
SAsia Nz1 average three tons day. There
are SIX 9TsNsy4es. zns they use an fra-
fnsnss amount OF r1af<. TWO steamship
lines carried ITO Alaska Tor the six
months ending July : total Of 1saao ters
o. IRE sgh1 CONSISTING az lfsv,sas coal and
SsassA TsTcesa21kse. Within twelve
months ~ more STAMPS viii - pat into
operation.
fne great TreaaueSl nine alone viii
add 30 st&Z~as ibis year l. has back q
y. as yon know. soA5 mountain ~ ore.
ard or ts4s i brushes 90 tons a cay. Il
aas been carefully estimated thai even at
tbs rate a. consumption there IS GRE
e1oAEh n tae usoun,aln "a last for a cen
iury. The Treaawell rsElI proper. 10 re
accurate, has - stamps. averaging three
IONS q ore daily 20 q stamp. Then ~ the
Mexican. just below. under control Of che
same company. about as large a quantity
OF ere - crushed Gasiy. A half mile fur~
tner down tho same company i now PRE-
parznS 10 equip the Ready Bullion with
improved machinery. To add 70 their vast
p1Sns Tns owners OF tho TreadNeN have
just bonded stlu another nine. about two
miles below the Ready Bullion The
IreaGweli has undoubtedly struck the true
method of rnininx IN Alaska. and by con-
Quoting lis own operations on such a
large scale Z IS abe 20 mine probably
the .ow grade ore which would not pay In
small quantities.
The NOVEL; Gold Mining ana Milling
Company have large plants al Beraer hay
ana Sheep creek. and there Is smother val
uaoe mine al sum Dun. sixty niles below
juneau. These. with the Trea8well. ara
the chief quartz mines. There are some
others. but those I have mentioned are
the best paying.
The whole Of Douglas island seems full
or ore. looked over q new claim just
located by c. w. Wells. who has the dis
finctsoa Of having built the first house in
Juneau. The Vein lies right along the sur
face and is from thirgy-slve 10 Atty fee.
wide. Ills claim runs for about 900 feet
Nobody knows how deep the vein extends
but Il is on the same lead as the sum DUN
and il undoubtedly valuable. Wells is an
old proSpeCcor. and IL IS worth remark
dispose OF his claim I walked up the slope
with him. and he told me 10 break OF
some specimens. took a couple az ram
dom. l am rot an expert in ores. but
had those p.eceS assayed at the Treadwell.
and they showed. respectively. So and size
10 the ton.
''Now. OF course. 1t will take big money
20 develop a claim Ike that. Alaska Is
not "A poor mans mining country. a fact
which of Itself accounts for tho diSap-
pointment OF many prospectors who went
I'D this summer. Still. man may develop
even a small claim. and BY holding on 10
II eventually dispose OF II at good figures.
The man from whom the Treadwell people
have Just bonded the mineof which spoke
has held his claim and done the required
amount OF work on Ii annually for eleven
years. Year before last he was offered
sie.o0o for Il. but refused TO sell. last
year the price had advanced Just tenfold.
and he was offered slaocoo. but again de-
cined the offer. 1t is not known what no
got for it from the Treadwen company.
but certainly he did not get less than the
laSt-named sum"