The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-15
Are Returning From Prince Of
Wales Island District.
HIGHLY MINERAl'zzo CAMP.
A. Hollis white, L. A. Bsbcock and
George McIrensie, nxperts. Tell
Of the District's Richness-Ore
Carrying Copper, Gold and silver
Spreads Over Entire Island--At-
tracting Much Eastern MONEY.

No less than half q dozen managers.
notably A. Hollis White, l. A. Babcock
and George Mckenzie, Of as many copper
mining ventures OF exceptional magnitude
on Prince Of Wales island. are now In the
city, having been passengers from the
north on the steamers Al-K and City q
Seattle. which arrived "wednesday night
On those vessels came also score or
mere OF other mine operators and oper-
atives, for the winter season has set in In
that section OF Alaska in earnest, necessl-
tating the suspension Of heavy develop
Mr.. White is an expert Of national repu-
Boston and. Hartford. Conn, capitalists
ana dold 1 Mining Company. He Is en- route
East to make extensive machinery pur-
Gassss FOR two big properties T. the ne
which g situated on the main island.
while We own Others" Mr.. White ! ssid.
after ample prospecting and tests are
sufficiently rich to warrant extensive de-
velopment, and am now on my way
on the ground before spring. In the Cop
able for $500 feet, running from four 10
average Of NT per cent copper. IS In scid
and So In silver The mines are on q deep
water harbor almost close enough to the
waters edge to throw the ore In sea-
III is not necessary to exaggerate about
Prince of Wales island 1t 10 rich in cop
there. There are many others s just 'l as
rich. w. II. Gilmore, representing Kansas
City capitalists, has the development
Da Hs s q done rSn oP Ss Gs ssf
has spent considerable money In jud.cious
development. Then Ex-Governor Swine
ford backed BY Chicago monisd men, is
mines on the island.
but the flrst d;vidend-paying. mine in
The PRINCE Of r Wales section nv VIII Be the
Is practically past tie development stage
a a,,taS vii within short time be paying
MI. Babcock has charge of the develop
ment Of q group OF Kassan bay mines
on all the island. Hartford, Conn. cap
ssa p have
been in the district some time superintend-
ing the development work and came out
sawmill in operation at our mines, which
are within 200 feet Of deep water nav.ga-
ton. We have a large body Of ore which
$S2 gold and IS silver per ton. Ours il
perhaps the best showing In the way of
copper on the entire island. which IL heav-
lily mineralized throughout.
the Prince Of Wales district next summer
in a surprising way. 1t Ii now generally
known that there IL q great body OF cop
per paying ore spread over the1sland, and
It will be developed and mined very rap
idly from this time forward. BY another
season many OF the larger mines will have
made such improvements in the way Of
shelter that they can and will be worked
in winter as well as summer. Now 1t Is
not So And II takes time and money to
do these things as everyone at all familiar
with mining knows"
During the past season Mr.. Mckenzie
has been experimenting the development
OF Kassan Bay mines owned by the Kas-
san Bay Copper Company ''The first real
work ever done IN the Prince OF Wales
country" Mr.. Mckenzie observed. was
put in last summer with very satisfactory
results. On our mines we drove 100 feet
o. tunnel and did lot OF prosecuting.
We have also begun on a 900-foot tunnel
which will be pushed to completion next
autumn"
Mr.. Mckenzie Is resident Of Portland,
Or, while Babcock Is of Hartford and
White is BoStonian.