Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-08-13
MINING DEPART MEN /
INTEREST IN THE KLONDYKE UNABATED.
The Alaska Placers and How to Reach Them "A
Comparison of Colorado and Alaska
Other Interesting News.

| values, for the mineral formation be-
low the streets of the city is quite sim
liar 10 that found i'm the upper work
ings Of the Fryer hill bOnanzas in the
early day. A conservative estimate Of
the production of this group Of mines
would place it at 800 tons day, which
would swell the total output of the
camp TO 1000 tons, or more than dOu-
bic the tonnage Of the days of the
boom. This achievement. however, is
likely to be postponed for a number of
months, since the mines will scarcely
be completely drained before the first
of December.
In the meantime progress is being
made in pushing the great Yak tunnel
to connection with the rich auriferOus
properties belonging to the hex Min.
ing Company, which it will drain. That
it will tap yet uncovered bodies of ore
in its nOrtheastward course is conf
IDENTIFY expected. and Il confirmation of
the theories of its projectors will tend
to greatly stimulate development with
in the area defined on later maps as
the "Leadville gold Understanding
north and south Of the Little Johnnie
mine for a long distance. There is al
ready considerable activity to the north
across the Big Evans Gulch, with the
most hopeful Indications, and the
Times is advised that before the sea-
sons work is interrupted by the heavy
snOwfalls of winter there will be a re-
newal of work along the southern eX-
tension of the gold belt in Iowa Gulch,
where all activity ended when the Rex
proposition was abandoned, the cause
for it having been generally misunder-
stood. MOffat, Brown and many other
wealthy men, it will be remembered,
spent a large sum of money in that
property and when they stopped sink
ing work upon a score of prospects in
the vicinity was at once suspended.
since it was enormously assumed that
they were discouraged with the indica-
tons in the bottom of their shaft.
This was by no means the case, as
the record of the diamond drill driven
to considerable depth below the deep
est level, had previously proved the ex-
istence of good values, and in a way
the theories of the ablest ex-
perts in the camp that the Jonny ore
chutes extend sOuthwestward from
Breeze hill across California, Empire |
and Iowa gulches, to the Arkansas riv- !
er. Nothing has ever been developed |
% disprOve that theory and it is as te- |
naciously held to-day as it was
when a score of shafts were going
Town in Iowa gulch to confirm il. 1t is
lot at all likely that so promising a
1eld will long remain undeveloped 1t
S a big money proposition to be sure,
)ut money is going to be more plenti.
'ul for such reasonably assured enter.
lrises in the next few years than it has
'een since the panic CT 1893 struck such
cruel blow to Leadville. No effort
las yet been made to enlist eastern
apital in the undertaking. As a mat
er of fact, Leadville has relied very
title upon outside assistance durina
he past twelve years, and Colorado
apital will before long, as we firmly
believe, again undertake to solve the
With the labor question settled and
he water problem solved, Leadville is
estined soon to enter upon a new era
f prosperity, eclipSing the magnificent
erformanceS of the past.