The daily morning Alaskan., 1901-01-24
YUKON VALLEY IS
 RICH IN COPPER. Ore Belt Runs From White
 Horse to the Panama GOV. OGILVIF TALKS
New and Promising Discoveries Made on White River-B -Borenite Carries 40 Per Cent. of the Red Metal-Makes a Prediction.

The copper fields of the Yukon ba- sin now give brighter promise than ever of early importance in the mar kets of the world, and another source of wealth to the Pacific coast of the United States.
 Governor Ogilvie, of Yukon terri tory, says he believes the copper lr't running from White Horse to the Tan ana will prove one of the richest iu the world He will be surprised. hr says, if it proves otherwise
 The development of the copper pr ,,' critics at White Horse has proce.I | steadily for the last year or more, ani now the Yukon council, at the head of which is Governor Ogilvic. has had one trail built and has ordered an other, both for bringing copper ore from the White Horse mines to the White Pass & Yukon railway for ship mcnt to Puget sound smeltcrS.
 Herbert BatSchu has arrived here from d point no miles up the White river, says a Dawson correspondent in the Seattle Post-Intclligcnccr where he made rich copper strike The discovery was made on Allen creek. tributary to White river The strike is thirty-hve miles up Allen creek. Batschu thinks they have dis covered a copper district that will ri- val anything in the world.
 We found ledge of bornue ore" says Batschu, that assays more than 10 per cent copper. II. J. Raymond, one of our party. is an asSaycr, and asccrtancd the value oi the ore
 The ledge runs parallel to the stream and GOO feet above it. We fol- lowed the ledge four miles, IL was covered by earth and vegetation at places, but was easily traced As nearly as we can ascertain it i, a true Assure. Both walls are of granite and the vein about sixteen feet wide its en- tire length.
 Tt was found by further prospecting that the first ledge was only one of several that cross the district Or, carrying 40 per cent copper i> worth SI6o a ton We got this result on tho surface of the ledge
 Tt was a question at first whether we were in Canadian or American ter ritory. We finally concluded we were on the American side. and so organ ized d district under the laws of the United States. We named it the White River district, and elected Ray mond recorder
 We are driving a tunnel from the hillside below the vein and expect to CroSScut it in I25 feet at d depth of 200 feet
 Governor Ogilyic, in speaking of the northern copper deposits, says:
 The copper lodges of the White river and other districts form a belt running hundreds of miles, from White Horse on the Yukon river to the head of the Tanana river. It will be d sur prise to me if it does not prove one of the greatest in the world. l have been in this country for years l first came in 1887, as a government survey or, in charge of big party and made original surveys in the country for Canada
 The first man to hunt for copper in the White river country was Arthur Harper, who went mp the stream in 1873. He was the pioneer prospector of the Yukon, having come into the country by the Edmonton trail HcI first saw pieces of copper float at lower Yukon point, which he was told came from the Copper river country.
 Harper prospectcd in the Tanana kolukuk, Forty-Mile and nearly all the gold fields of the Yukon long be fore they were proved to contain gold. but by peculiar irony of fate is still poor man"