The sun., 1897-09-27
GOLD STRIKES IN ALASKA.
MUCH ACTIpITY IN THE COAST
MINING DISTRICTS.
Great Progress in the Working OF Low Grade
Montana Orcs--A smnii District In Idaho
That HAS Yielded $3.50. 900. 900 In Sold
Rrnnta In I.nLe AnnnrIor Nonner Minca

JUNEAU, Alaska, Sept. l.Tho rush to tho
Klondiko and the placer diggngs along tho
Yukon has taken good many men out OF tho
mines OF southeastern Alaska, but 1t has not
hindercd operations materially. Development
work goes in many claims and dividend pay
ers are making preparations to increase their
plants. Several new strikes of valuable orc
are reported, and there are good many prop.
critics close to juneau which give promise OF
being very rich The Novel; Company has add
ed ten stamps TO the mill at Sheep Creek, and
Superintendent Hammond now has all tho
thirty stamps grinding away day and night
A new l,2OO.foot iiumc has been built to carry
the tailings down to the blanket sluice building
where they will be treated. This mill is oper
Rted by electricity. The dynamo Is driven by
one of tho best water powers in tho district tho
head being about 800 feet. The capacity of the
mill now is about 100 tons day and there is an
enormous amount OF orc ready for treatment.
Work is going ut Sumdum without In
termission. More development work has been
dono this year than ever before. Supcrintcn
dent Troworidgc of tho Bald Eagle reports that
the new tunnel has cut tho ledge at distance
of a little more than 800 feet and Is now in good
ore. Samples sent ere for assay showed $is
and S53 a ton respectively. Tho mill is run
ming full time.
Work at Berners Bay has been hampercd
by the dosertion Of miners for the Klondiko dig.
Company has almost completed its tramway
to the latest strike. The tram is a mile
Ions and includes the largest single span in the
world. The company has forty stamps In
operation at the mill, and it is expected that
the strike will keep them all running full
time. hundred miners could find work
in the Berner's Bay district.
s. p. Earle & Co. putting up new ive-
stamp mill at Yankee Basin, just this side of
no, Tha A aLa hn.
made arrangements to increase greatly the
facilities OF its ten-stamp mill. Auxiliary
steam power is being added, well as new
stamps
An important discovery of rich ore has been
made on the Pocahontas claim at Funter Bay.
The vein is eight inches vide and shows for 400
feet. 1t contains free gold and considerable
tellurium. On the claim adjoining the Pocahon-
tas the north Hunter Bros. are following q
fourteen.inch vein which increases In richness
as depth is gained.
Silver Bow Basin is humming The new
tunnel to tap the ledge in the Perseverance
group is nearly.completed. On the surface this
ledge averages from four to six feet, and shows
about $l2 ton, rs per cent. of it in free gold
Tho Nowells keep two giants constantly at
work in their gravel bank. This bank is 100
feet thick, and it is estiamted that it will take
six yeafs to work out the deposit from the
present point to rim rock, and several years
more to work out the gulch.
On Gravina Island Hickman & Miller have
. shaft down thirty feet, and have run cross
out. The ledge is nearly twenty feet wide, a
rich white quartz carrying gold and silver.
Development work has been pushed uninter-
Tuptediy all summer at Loring and on Prince of
Wales Island, and in practically all the quartz
districts.
its 240 stamps constantly dropping night and
day. 1t is understood that this mill is to be
doubled In the near future. The Mexico Is also
in sight to keep the Treadwell going at its pres.
ent rate for ninety years.
MONTANA.
yet available as to the total gold OUTPUT Of Mon.
tana for 1897. there Is sufficient data to mako
Bc rom A @ 800! PTSo tosa T for
1895 was $4.3s0.671, No other State showed
n any one Industry in proportion 7 to 1T its total total
population as did Montana in its mineral out
BoSoa doS Lat year. the total being more than $780,
Whilo placer mines have been worked this
IN "a since abs the sf sSs Of the
sS gold 9 fb1 mining hs S given in lsRs when
Soass ' sod 0ss " shiaS ss
returned few dollars to the ton.
The great mining machinery houses which
had grown rich Off tho silver miuers In furnish.
that they would have to turn their attention to
the manufacture OF such machinery would
lowgrade at a profit. Thousands OF dol.
lars were spent In experiments by these manu-.
facturers with the result that to-day there arc
IN Montana several immense gold plants which
are guaranteed TO work at profit gold ore that
will assay not TO exceed 81 per ton. One OF
these plants has just started up at the Diamond
Hill In Jefferson county. the largest stamp mill
property Is owned by scotch syndiicatc'
which has blocked out 2,0o0,00O tons OF orc
which runs in value from $l.75 to $40 per ton.
work an immense quantity OF ORE
creased gold product In the State this year Is
because OF the success which has attended the
Millions Of tons Of hitherto unproitablo
in tho Mardcn dlstric, in Fergus county lLcre
10 one mine which Is literally mountain of
pay. In southern Montana there are also i i'm, IL
mense bodies OF gold.bearing ore which have
;" py Which T n%er % 1e'r be ryas shsds of
making money for their owners:
l.. Near the old mining town Of Bannnck, whore
by ihe placer miners. Chicago capitalists have
been trring for two years to get to the gold
the 1-Linary methods, OF working placer mines
S9aa naa NOT be n"y Tnsos I old placer dig
are now yielding from $4,000 to $5O. 600 a
The past season has been a good one for tho
placer miners. In almost every section there
has been longer run Of water than In several
total gold product of Montana for 1897 There
has never in tho history OF the State been 50
great a demand for god bearing properties as
during the last six mont hs Chicago men have
been particularly fortunate in their invest
mentS In Montana gold mines. and from that
city comes the greatest demand Tor such prop
critics.
Another rich strike Is report ed In Georgia
Suloh, Madison county, with averaging
300 per ton.
II is said that the Lexington mine in Butte
will DO thoroughly exploited by an English syn.
dicate on the theory that 1t can bo made "a copper
producer. II has been.one OF the grcHtest silver
mines In Butte's history, but IL is Thought
that at lower depth copper ore will be- found.
CALIFORNIA.
Los ANGELES. Sept. 49, Some rich strikes
hayo boen made In tho now Dunby district In
the Old Momans Mountains. san Bernardino
county. The ore is suphide, oxid2od on tho
surface and the lodges aro large, running from
fifteen to forty feet in width near the surface
Tho low'grade orc. running from $40 to $50 per
ton, carries narrow bifGhks that 40 up into no
thousands, A: II. Mckay has u ledge yielding
iroiu Sli to $40 per ton which carries a fivc.
Al N he ha S,,n