The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-02-06
Copper Deposits are Proving
 FabulOusly Rich.
DEVELOPMENT GOES ON
The PuebIa Pronounced one Of the Greatest mInss Of tmerIca- W c should Have a Shelter.

| can Corporation m the Wnlte 1OrSe diS trlct that are being developed this winter has arrived from the mines and bring: splendid samples from tunnels and a glow ing account of the prospects. He says the camp will be one of the greatest in the world. and that although he has spent . life time in quartz camps O; America, he has never seen anything like one of the White Horse claims.
 "A smelter," says Mir. Benton, should be erected at Skagway for the reduction of the White Horse output. This is the ogi' cal point for a shelter. Were it put up at the mines he ore would be shipped out re- dueed, and therefore subject to duty in coming into American territory. But, fl the smelter be placed here, and the ore shipped out raw it will not be subject to duty. Furthermore a shelter at this point would mean a big permanent pay roll, and therefore stability and permaneney to the town.
 Although many claims have been To- cated in the White Horse country, the British American company and my com panv are the only ones doing development work. Bu, next summer many concerns will be at work, and the camp will hum. White aorse Is to be big center.
 "The White Pass & Yukon Route is making every lndJcement for the develop ment of the mines. It sells supplies to us at cost, and has offered very reasonable traffic rate on our output. lt has arranged joint rate from White Horse to Puget Sound of SIS a ton, and has promised to run a spur one and one-half miles into our mines this summer
 "The ore could be shipped to Skagway much cheaper than to the Sound.
 "l have spent all my life mining in Cal ifomia. Arizon9, the Black Hills, Central America, and other parts of America, three lveafs of One time ln tbe great mlperal zen ter of Butte. and have seen nothing To cop per ore to beat that of the Puebla mine al White Horse. The Puebla belongs to the British America Corporation, the large con cern that owns the famous Le Roi mine of Rossland, B. C.
 "One hundred and fifty thousand tons of slid ore is, according to expert estimate, in sight in the Puebla mine. 1 have seen the deposit, and can say that never saw anything that Is it's equal. lt Is simply a wonder.
 "The surface rock of the Puebla goes sS7 to the ton in copper and something in gold. and understand that from the shaft they have sunk, which Is. down at least slxtv-fve feet, that they have taken ore that assays sIoo in copper. The ore body there Is 200 feet wide and solid.
 "l heard that the British America com panv had sold all their claims to the Roth sehilds for S2,ooo.ooo or sIoo, 1000 a claim, How true this is cannot say. The report IS credited with having originated outside J "The properties of which ! am part owner are a short distance from the Yukon and just a little way from White Horse l We have worked on two claims, the Ana conda and the Rabbits Foot. Tie proper ties were located last July, and we hav' been developing since last fall. There ar' five partners of us, and We have all kept a work.
 "we have tunelled in sixty-five feet or the Anaconda. We hope to strike thu ledge after going few feet farther, anC according to indications we have hopes tC ind the ledge h:n. The rock we have re moved Is strongly indicative of copper neal by. The lead should be struck, we figut seventy five feet below the surface anC ssventv.fve feet in from where We began to tunnel.
 "The Anaconda and the Rabbits Foo are one the same lead. and adjoining on another. The vein is twelve feet wide and the ore from both properties at th surface assays practically the sane. It as says from 20 to 65 per cent in copper, an, s,6 in gold to the ton. The copper assa' will likely be from 90 to 10 p'r cent; an on the whole there is little variation. Tn ore is of solid baronite and peacock variet' and next in value to native copper. w have begun to sink a shalt on the Rabbit Foot, and so far found the ore body solid
 "The surface of the Rabbits Foot aT pears to be a solid body of ore, and l b. lleve fl it were stripped one hundred me could be employed taking out the solid or from one claim. The one ledge on whie
 these two claims are located are traoeabl twelve miles. Yet this is but one of th
 leads of the district Locations are mad in all directions. While the locations hay been made good way out, it is likel there is yet good property unstaked. "The general character of the ore Is gra quartz. The ledge on which the Anacor da and the Rabbits Foot are located has strong contact grain of lime and grant, and heavy outcrop. We could have sol last fall to two or three big concerns, bI prefer to develop ourselves, feeling eont { dent we have exceedingly rich propertle My partners are ole Dickson, w. s Puckett and Charles Ward. We ha' | two or three claims In the district besid { those mentioned.
 "J. W. Forest, who just came fro