The daily Alaskan., 1904-05-11
GREAT IS ALASKA

continues 10 grow at rate that may fairly be characteriz d as phenomiual. Each year witnesses a tremendous in crease in the value of the exports othis country from Seattle and other points below over that of the previous year, and ach year brings a larger prOduc- tion of gold than was yielded by it's pre- decessor.
 The year of 1903 was record breaker in the tonnage and value Of the imports of Alaska and the Canadian Yukon, and the months that have passed of 1904 show a very large increase in both volume and value over the same months of 1908.
 Alaska produced more gold last year than ever before in a single year of it's history, and the production ofl9O4. unless all signs fail, will exceed that of last year by not less than 20 or 9 per cent. There is no reason to be- lieve that there will be a decline in the outpu, of a single northern camp. On the other hand, the best advices indi- cate that the Fortymile district, the Rampant district, the Koyukuk coun- try, and Seward peninsula will exper- fence record breaking years, and the Tanana, which was practically a non producer last year, will add from s5oo,- OOO to sl, 100000, and possibly more, in shining gold to the exports from Alas ka and the wealth of the world.
 The best experts believe the KlOn- dike has again started on the up grade, and that it's output will become greater as the years go on for an indefinite time. That camp is and has been pass ing through a period of transition from the crude methods of mining that char acterize the operations of the indiyid- ual miner to the more scientific pro- cesses being introduced by the large hydraulic and dredging corporations. Whereas last year only one or two of the larger hydraulic plants were work ing. this year there will be several, and each of them larger than the larg- es, of those which preceded them. One of the results of this transition from the old to the new methods of mining has been 10 cause property to lie idle. Large corporations h ve been silently but per,i,reugry y acquiring property and causl.g {. ,v vy4s prud-ciug, awaiting time ahcu suaic, uJ quantity of it could be -ecurgd to warrant the install lation of a mammoth plant Much of this property will be worked the pres eat year E E. Nudrrws, manager Of the Pac.as Coas. Nlliug Company, which owns probably the largest hy- draulic plan, of it's alnd ID the world, unless o @ or .wo of the AtIin plants be excepted, says hls company will begin operations this year and that it has work in sight Tor I0 years. O.her com pauies own more lands than his In atlin a condition obtains similar to that of the K ondike, only in more marked degree. There, only one or two large 4Ian,s worked anything IiNe. full time Ias. season, while only tour or hye were worked any part of the seas on. This year there will be not less than nine to be operated all summer, Atlin should produce sI, 100000 or more this year.
 This brief review has not considered the Bullion creek and Alsek districts which have futures of all but assured greatness. Nor has any account been taken of the rapid strides being made in the development of the quartz prop critics ofSoutheastern Alaska and the great interior country.
 All things considered, the mining outlook for Alaska and the Canadian north for this year and the next and for a score more to follow IS such as to al- most take the breath of the most opsl- mistic. The business barometer which is now high in the north, is rising with leaps and bouuds. No mat ter what may be the financial and com mereial outlook for older countries and for less fortunate people than those who breath the pure ozone near the Arctic circle, to the business men, the miners, A, s---s.-...r .4,5- and fha 'aboriDcr