The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
Off TO BERNER'S BAY
Gold Prospectors Hasten to New
Fields of Treasure.
0,cu QUARTZ LEDGE DISCOVERED.

,ay Rival That of the Famous Tread
all Mine-Ore Averages $40 To 500 Per
- and An some Places VIII Assay $500
rx.Police Sergeant of Vancouver Re
,s Cron, the KIondilxe with Fortune
Made in Six Months
Tacoma. Wash. Sept. 23.-Late ad-
vices from Juneau. Alaska. say that
miners are rushing from that point to
porrer's bay. forty miles distant. The
attraction is wonderfully rich bodies Of
cold bearing quartz which this seasons
work has opened up. Berner's bay has
heen prominent for its ore production
Cor two wears past. This seasons results
hoye heer better than ever. Several good
finds during the summer started small
hoom there. The boom has now assumed
Great proportions in consequence OF the
discovery two weeks ago of ledge that
will probably rival that Of the famous
Treadwel mine The Bunker Hill ledge
a. Berner's bay is thirty-two feet wide,
ard short tunnels run into the mountain
side show it TO widen with depth. The
ore averages from sac TO $50 per ton in
value and for seven feet along the foot
wall assays S20C per ton. The ores are
heavy sulphitedes, carrying a percent
ace of free gold They can be concen-
trated about ten tons into one, which
will greatly reduce the cost Of trans
portation TO the shelters.
stamp Mill Being Erected.
Part Of the ore can be treated by
stamp mills. one forty-stamp mill is
being erected 10y the Berners Bay Min
ing and Milling company, which owns
the property, and sixty stamps will be
added this fall. The company is said to
contemplate the erection Of a smelter
The company has just finished a tunnel
200 feet long to open up the Bear mine
and by extending this tunnel 200 feet
the Bunker Hill lode will be opened sew
eral hundred feet below the surface. The
Bunker Hill ledge was uncovered by
surveyors while engaged i'm locating a
place for shaft on another property
In July George Bach. an Oregon miner
discovered a valuable gold ledge two
miles from the Bunker Hill lode Dur
ing the past summer, the Juneau papers
say. not less than 200 important quartz
discoveries have been made along the
Alaskan coast between Berner's hay
ard Surdum But for Klondlke excite
ment they would have attracted great
attention before.
Differs from the KlondilSe.
The permanency of these lodes have
been established by shafts running as
deep as 5000 feet in the Treadwell and
other mines. Men are leaving Puget
sound TO prospect i'm the Berner's bay
district this fall. though the prospecting
season must close as soon as the snow
falls along the coast in November. These
quartz mines differ from the Klondike
placers in that much capital will be re-
quired to put in machinery, sink shafts,
and run tunnels. On the other hand
they possess the advantage of accessi-
bility, being reached In few hours
form Juneau. The Mining Record Of
Juneau reports that eastern and coast
capitalists have invested in a number
of these quartz claims this summer, and
predicts that spring will see an invest
ment Of capital and a development OF
quartz mines that has not been equaled
since the opening up Of the great Com
stock lode