The Alaska prospector., 1902-03-13
WORK AS SOON AS EXPERTS
 REPORT
RdihoadWNk WiN5fart
This Season if Reports are Favor. able. Promoters at Work
 Here.

That Valdez will have Il railroad Is now an assured fact. Eastern capitalists. havc become so interest cd in this part of Alnska and the wonderful copper deposits of the interior. that if the reports of the experts who examine these proper ties this summer are favorable the money for the rail road will le forthcoming. Every one in this country who is at all acquainted with the wonderful copper district, is satisfied iha; the reports of the experts can bc nothing hut favora- ble and every claim owner in the district courts investigation oi their proreriy.
 Several different companies are now inic>es:ed in these copper properties either of which could build a Toad from here to the Yukon.
 MessrS Hes and Bannistcr have incorporated Il company capitalized at $25.000,00O for the purl~sc of building railroad and now have surveyors and men here ready to start work at a moments notice.
 The Alaska Copper Company will build a railroad to their rich property on the Chittyna which they have bonded for more than a million dollars. if no other conn pany builds road before they are ready to commence operations.
 But both of these companies are only contemplating building to their own properties. Another company is being formed in the east to build through line from Valdez to the Yukon with spurs to the various districts. All these companies are ready and anxious to build railroad and are only awaiting the reports of their experts and surveyors.
 MT. Robert Blci, the well known New York mining promoter who was here last year and located and bontled a large number oi copper, gold and galcna claims. both on the sound and the interior, arrived on the Excelsior last Saturday with large outfit, and has already secured a number of men, horses and sleds and is sending them in to do assessment work on his prop- rerty. While here last year Mir. Blei had the steamer Perry char tered and at the head of a pros tpecting party located thirty claims at Landlock and Galena hay, and Knights island. These will he prospected this year and the most valuable kept and developed. i Mr. Blci stated that B. F. Willard and H. B. Pearson have done more for this country ny interesting capi- talists and mining men in the great copper and gold deposits of the Copper river valley. than any per sons who have ever gone from here for that purpose. When Mr. Mil lard showed his copper specimens, which he took east from here last fall. the copper experts would hard ly believe that they were genuine, but after examination were com pelled to believe the truth regard- ing their genuineness.
 NJ. T. Rowland who was here last year and located valuable claims in the copper country is here again getting ready to hit the trail. He will have charge of the Blei outfit this season.
 The many friends of Commits sioner John Lyons were glad to welcome him and his bride home, they having arrived on the Excel sior. The judge reports having q most enjoyable vacation, and we all know that it must be so, seeing that he is no more a lonely bache- Tor. He was unavoidably detained one month in Juneau, awaiting a steamer.