The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-27
EQUALS THE C0MSTOCK.
New Find of Gold in fBerner's Bay
Proves TO BE enc of the Richest
knaNn--Soae Assays 800.


Among the passengers on the City Of To-
peka, which arrived here this morning
from Juneau, ~ak 4. s Novel;. Of Boston,
president Of the BeTners Bay Mining and
Milling Company. who confirms the story
brought down By tie AK few days ago
Of The rich quartz strike recently made al
Berner's bag He says 4 IL without doubt
the biggest find that the world has known
since the time q the famous Comstock dis
covery. Prozpectors and mining men. now
or tbs ground, are amazed at the richness
and extent OF the newly discovered ledge.
and Mr.. NOVEL; declares that II SURPRISES
anything OF the kind the world has ever
before known.
Locations we're made on this ledge last
winter" said Mr. NOVEL; IN an Interview
this morning. but II has only been dur
ing the past three months that any de-
velopmeut work has been done on II. 1t
as called a good find az the time the To-
cation was made. bat IL has only been dur
ing the past few weeks that the real value
OF tho location has been realized. The
ledge averages % feet in width and II has
now been traced for q distance or s000
feet. The mill test Of ore taken from the
ledge runs 80 20 the ton on an average.
and there Is an eightSfoot vein running
through the ledge that will go as high as
81 80 to the ton. sulph!des are found to
the value OF 500 10 the ton aud concen-
through the lead. il has now been pros
pected sufficiently 10 show that Il Is both
rich and extensive. and II Is altogether
one Of the most rerna rkahle discoveries the
world has ever known. The lowest assay
that has been returned on Il gives 81 TO
the ton. and II runs as high as sl,sOo
There Is 10 longer any Doubt az to the
extent OF the ledge. II Is practically in
exhaustlhie. TX is what Is known as
contact vein. and runs clear through the
mountains, tapping over at the apex
Work has nov begun on a douhle-frack
tunnel that t. 20 strike tho ledge 7oo feet
Glow the surface. and this win be com
pleted by next February. The plant Of
the Bernsr's Bay Milling Company must
now be enlarged % meet the new conGi-
lions that have come with this discovery
and our present plant % forty stamps
yin BE- Increased by loo in the spring
This summer we were obliged % close
down nearly three months on account Of
20 many Of onr men leaving for the I<lon-
dixie gold fields. but we VIII provide
against trouble OF this ksrd f7r the fu-
ture by power drills which we are al
ready putting in.
What DO you estimate win be the out
put ~ this new Lead. before IL IS exhaust
edge
"Prospectors deelare that Il Is praetI-
eaIlv insxhaustihle With a forty-stauIp
month. and Il win last at least ffty years.
and probably 10 years. There Is no
longer any doubt thar the vein cuts
straight through the formation and runs
60 a great depth.
"of course this particular discovery IS
contested by tire milling company located
there and neither the location nor any o.
the company stock b Tor sale. hu} ia my
apini0n the real mining wealth of Alaska
ts only beginning % be realized. I VIII
make the prediction that within five years
Alaska will he turning out - ESQ in
seo5d a year I believe that In Eve years
time Aiaska viii have the greatest mining
Industry fn The world / 90 not mean q
boom. because It ls getting 90 be am es-ab-
iishrd Industry Real prospecting Is now
heleg d0ue m Alaska for che fret time
fseret 7fore teudergest who know nothing
~ mining have been travelling over ter
ritoTy looking Tor nalaes but during the
past summer hundreds - experienced
pvospecters have been ssut out IS capI-
ialists. ana they VII make wonderful dis
coverfes during Ne next few years The
fims wfli come whea the inte-ter ~ Alas
"A. from Mays island % che Yukon. vl,
Ee dot3ed win stamp mlls"
MV NoEeil Is returning from Eis annual
tr5p 60 Alaska ana eIH takr ghs uea>-t--
cry with him Eext surirr Cor the eu{ars-
ms q his couapany's plant AZ Pe~aer'a
osy. his son. b. A. NoweG. ard Frank
Hammond q san Ffanrle~a. have p'ars
Perfected f1r tte construction ~ q ooeer-
rul trar1way over the Chi5koog pass dgvsIe.
ans VIII have g. completed early next
spring It wUi D.. ran rs water rover
sra the cable whicA Is a. be B3 feet
l.cE Is already eu she way to pyea. The
t'taNaF e % be ctnsirlctet oa APPROVE