The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-11
ALASKA'S COPPER MINES.
LARGE DEPOSITS or ORE WAR THE
WHITE HORSE RdPIDa

| WHITE hVhbh hhFfDSs
Extension Of tn. white Pass and Yukon Rail-
| way to Reach This District-Improvcd
Railroad Facilities in tho Lske Superior
Copper District-Other Mining News.
TACOMA. Wash. Dec. 3.-The discovery Of i'm
| portant copper and gold deposits on the upper
Yukon near the White Horse Rapids has been
the chief incentive In causing the White Pass
! and Yukon Railway to extend its railroad from
Lake Bennett to a point below White Horse at
| A cost OF over a million dollars. The company
! has had several experts thoroughly examine
. the district. They report that from 100000 to
100000 tons OF good copper ore 10 now in
sight This showing Is made before Develop
| ment has scarcely commenced. Some of the
| lodges are so big as to make II possible to
, quarry the ore out as in granite quarry. The
| White Pass railroad will be finished into the
| district by June ]. The company announces
| that II will lend every possible aid to a quick
| and extensive development 81 all the prop
critics. A large equipment OF ore cars have
been ordered for the hauling Of ores TO Skag-
| way. where they will lie dumped aboard ships
for cheap water transportation to the Tacoma
! smelter.
| Copper deposits similar in appearance to
those at white Horse have been uncovered on
| the Dalton trail. 200 miles nearer tidswater.
The ledgcs run In the same direction and II 10
| believed that they run clear across the country
| from one district to the other. Next summers
prospecting will determine this. Tho RAINY
Hollow district has been organized to embrace
the copper claims along tho Dalton trail. The
| district Is adjacent to the Porcupine placer
| mining district The deposits consist OF q
number OF parallel veins run ming Ave to TWEEN
ty feet in width and assayinR 40 to so per
| cent. copper The Rainy Hollow district 10
about sixty miles inland from Pyram d Har-
bor on Lynn Canal. A railroad IL already pro-
posed tn tap the district from the Pyramid
Harbor side.
Passengers Just arrived from Port valdes re-
port that large bodies ~ copper ore have been
iounl on tho Chittvna, a tributary OF Copper
pss THs Sa Hss Is .s To-
be a most limitlrss in extent amt cru 70 a-says
% scd FSe q G sfs S"rsd5 iG6 S
miles inland from Port valie., A man named
SSOl d'GTys,s the Ledge an s,fg charge
On Prince William sound there is great. ex-
prospectorr. who hal intended coming out are
remaining for the winter The Alaska Com
COPPER property 10 Land Locked Bay. about
twenty miles west OF valdes. The Copper
, regular shipments 10 The Tacoma smaitcr.
which IL paying above $40 n ron for all Copper
Queen ore laid down at It's wharf
On Gravina Island. southeastern Alaska. a
big copper ledge /. he ne Developed by Bos'on
men. INCLUDING ne Rus.ells and Fairs 81 that
city There are four claims carrying a twenty
one-foot ledge Of ore. traceabe for 1.,iOO feet.
ASSAYS taken a. raniom disclose value, Of IL
Whit" SAYS that careful est mates disclose fully
dg9On , rG,s 81 pre- IN sight The main body
shore ana near II runs a creek carving sum
Gent water to develop one hundred horse
power.
LAKE. SUPERIOR COPPER.
Hor6uToS, Mich. Dec 7.-Bv a trnfflc ar
rang.ment between the Duluth. south shore
Paul railways the latter IL nov enabled I" run
through passenger and freight trains ne'we"n
chicago an Calumet over, the lines Of he
former from CHAMPION 10 Calume' n 4 stance
OF ~eventy.nv miles The ST Paul thus lands
through Ia--"nGer. here an hour rarler and
thkes hlraRo Passengers out an hour an n
hall alter Than the comre ing line can do while
some advantage u time Is gainci on freight
Northwestern system has sent ont surveyors
To run lines for an extension connect ne tho
the new Copper Range Rnro,d When this ins
= hunt the corner district will have two great
single eat and west line merely connectimS
win me CHICAGO roads which has heretofore
The CaIumet and iI.cIa ia clearing The ali. for
The Tamarac has Just let a contract, for the
from a large tract Of land owned by The com
pany. wing thirteen mites south OF Houghton.
the work and vii "at sS"st 90 ffS ee, rSs
winter All OF the timber will BE- used hy the
about feet fS OF hi. .esson
The two shafts Of the C-ntennisl on the Hear
nT o hs .S IN
ana k"arsaras branch Of the Osceola Consoli- |
dated. THIS prove. the Kearsarce to lie a re-
markahy persistent as well IA an exception
ally rich cotp"r-b"arng lode.
some rather remarkable figures recently
about loo tons Of 70 daily. These liguros
w We're perhaps 1ascd on the cfhciency % tho
mills. VIII CHI are treating about 800 tons OF
rock daily. In the case 81 the Calumet and
l"s; powerful pattern while the cOngIomernte
rock II much harder than tho anygda Old and
Glom"rate a. smysdaoid rock a. ons er ~ c the
principal reasons why the Allouez and PENN |
suia mines, both opened on the Alourz con-
was tho Unity nature OF the rock. which wore
on' the stamp shoes IL day or two while the
pitiiully small. The Alouez Ia even harder ,
than the Calumet eonglomsrate and carries !
orry about Quarter as much copper.
ha. come Residents y H.. diatrcs s% nins
shares and most Of whom found themselves
lSnf h e, ha the guards With stock a, ts collapse
sS,snns pae f'' straps n" and ' nra
par'nx for long siege, Those who manage
p" e.. ena BUT WIZ H. H /:
grievous one 10 many until the good times |
eH Wiz oH H., m nnvm.,, ., ,,. o,.
thirteenth dyiiend Of t the on. CALUMET esa s sn
Heela; announced this week, that mine /
will have raid s05s5o.OO0 in DIVIDENDS.
although opened but thirty-thrre years an
average ~ practically $2.OOO.OOO a year. ,
The silver. mines, Of ,Potosi in BOLIVIA are said
10 have paid dividends OF hundreds OF millions,
and II is probable that rumor has exaggerated
The profits; There Is but one mine, tie Con-
solida,ed California and Virginia. which Is on |
record as having paid a greater sum In divi-
bends than the Calumet and Hecla. and as tho |
Comstock lode IA out Of the running the Calu.
met and Hecla will lead the mines Of the world
IN aggregate dividends quite carly In the next
century.
WARRINGTON.
SEATTLE, Dec. 4.-The Tacoma smslter bas
been Increased to a capacity OF 300 tons daily
IN index district there are twenty Ave claima
under development this winter, but none az
them T. shipping because the ore is con.
before G re-, TIE he ore can be made marketable.
10 greater ncttyity prevailing than at any
prcyious time In theft. history. There are
o.0OO miners employed and every mine ia
e9uipred with The most approved machinery,
which 10 being driven night and day. GOOD
mhrkst Is found for every ton Of out put.
strike has bean made In the old work Inua ~ |