Douglas Island news., 1900-08-15

behind, pans at Knealley's claim yield ing from two to seven ounces to the man daily. Hope creek has some re- markedly rich spots, but the general run of gravel is in the neighborhood of $50 to the man. McManus shows up 10 to Accent gravel with pay streak l6O feet wide; Sour Dough has pay streak 200 feet wide that is equally as rich; Preacher runs 10 cents to the pan; Nc Kinley is not we'll prospected yet, and bedrock has not been reached, but one pan of B cents was secured from the top of the gravel; Nome creek, when first struck, went ? cents on the sur face, and when bedrock was reached, s feet deep, the bottom of the hole yield ed S63. Many smaller lateral streams carry equally good pay, and the hill sides and benches of Faith have been prospected with the most encourag ing results.
 James A. Moore, of the Moore Invest ment company, of Seattle, says in an interview relative to the Yakima group of mines on Douglas Island, has arous- ed the question in many minds in this city if Southeastern Alaska is going to repeat herself and furnish second Treadwell; or, rather, if the Treadwel is really to be outclassed in the matter of both the size and quality of it's ore body. The Treadwell, as is we'll known, is valued chiefly for the immensity of it's ore bodies, the ore being very low grade. Mir. Moore says: "The Yakima has showing of one of the largest bod ies of ore that was ever discovered. It is even larger and in many places richer than the Treadwell. There is oV- CT 1000 feet of ledge matter between walls, all more or less mineralized, and none of which but will pay to concen- trate, if expert testimony counts for anything. But running through this immense vein of mineraliZed rock are pay streaks of from six inches to 15O feet in width, the smaller carrying av- craze values of S16O per ton and the larger s, while intermediate values are S5, S1O, $20, $50, etc., in stratas of vari- ous widths. A fine water power is in- cluded in the proposition. We have had twenty men at work over year devel- oping the property and now have yer tical shaft down 200 feet with 250 feet of cross-cutting toward each wall at the bottom of the shaft to test the char acter and extent of the vein with depth. The shaft is double compartment, 8X16 in the clear. We have good quarters built to accommodate the men, a tool house, hoisting plant, air compressors for running the drills, steam pumps, shaft houses, and all the tools, appli- ances and accessories necessary for the economical development of big prop erty. So far we have expended some S2O,OO0 in development work. Our next move will be to put large stamp mill on the property. The concentrates we will ship of course The ore being identical with that of the Treadwell, the kind of machinery necessary for drilling the same is known in advance, so there need be no experiments and no mistakes in arranging to mill the output Our superintendent, James k. Haman, is an old Colorado miner of long and varied experience in mining. We brought him out here expressly to take charge of the development of the Yakima. We expect, and have every reason to believe, that this property will develop, in time, into as great mine, or even greater, than the Tread we'll. So great is our confidence that not dollars interest is for sale."