The herald., 1898-01-24

eratory characteristic Of it, populs lion
statistics from great part Of the small
er camps render 1t a difI1cult matter to
arrive at a statement approximately cor
rect except by careful study and watch
4 full attention to every detail. The fol-
lowing estimate is believed to be as near
ly correct as possible, and still repre-
sents fully, yet conservativeiy, the pro-
duction of gold in Alaska during the
past season:
NOVEL; Gold Mining company. b(
stamps, $275.000; Berners Bay Mining
and Milling company. 40 stamps, $500 1000;
Alaska Tfeadwell Gold Mining company
240 stamps, and Alaskan Mexican Gold
Mining company, 100 stamps, $l,4oO'Voo;
Alaska Juneau Gold Mining company
S5 stamps, s120,0O0; the Jualin Minins
company, 10 stamps, $4,000; Epner Goio
Mining company, 10 stamps, soo'ooV'
Alaska Willoughby Gold Mining COM
pany, 10 stamps, not in operation; Green
mine. Norton sound, 10 stamps, $So,ooo;
Bald Eagle Mining company, stamps
$3.50. 900; Alaska Commercial company, At
stamps, 5000. 200; Portland Alaska Gold
Mining company, 10 stamps, $4,000; Au-
rora Borealis Gold Mining company,
stamps. just started; the sun
Dunn Chief Gold Mining company, hvt
stamps, just started; total output o.
quartz mines, $S,O35, 900: Lituya Bay pla'
Ger mines, $4,000; Cook Inlet placer
mines. $250,000: Birch Creek district, Yu'
kon mines, 100000; other Yukon dis
I'tricts, 100000; from various dis
tricts throughout the territory, moi
named in the above, $4,000; total outpu
81, S55 900.
This is but a slight increase over th'
output of last year. While the quarts
production is considerably greater thai
that of 1896, it will be noticed that thu
placer output. which was greatest II
Birch creek district last year. Is con
siderably smaller owing to the aban
donment of that district by many whit
Joined the Klondike rush.
New Road to the Mother Load
| 1t looks as though the mother lode II
| to be reached before a great while by
another railroad line. which will give 6
large mining region that new impetus
which transportation facilities, bringing
cheapness and convenience to every
phase of mining life and operation, car
give in greater degree than anything
else, says the San Francisco Call. Th'
| Stockton and Tuolumne Railroad com
pany, though composed mainly Of wo
men and so far managed by an able ant
active woman, seems to have good pros
poets of getting real railroad running
from tidewater to Summerville. on tn,
East belt in Tuolumne county.
The Stockton and Tuolumne road. /
built. will go through Copperopolis, an,
will likely bring about resumption o
copper mining in that rich copper re
gion. When the leading copper min
| there closed down 1t cost IS to haul tn
matte to the railroad at Milton and 50 t
get it to Stockton. Coke cost as much t
get in. A rate on matter of 81 from Cop
peropolis to tidewater might be expecte
to result from the building of this road
The line would cross the mother lod
near the Rawhide, Tarantula and othe
large mines. and reach group Of ricl
mines on the East belt. Sonora woul
be reached, and the cost of transporta
tion and production would be decreases
over a large mineral area in the county
| With this and the Sierra railroad reach
ing it, Tuolumne would make larg
strides.