Seward weekly gateway., 1905-12-09
PLANS 10 WORK
 HYDRAULIC MINF
Kenai Mining Company Acquires Sixteen Valuable Claims
 on Cooper Creek

! Hydraulic mining will begin on { Cooper creek near the lower crd of. ! Eguu lal, a, soon a Hume and .dm can b, bull. to control ,hc waters of Cooper lake. The Ecnat Mining Company, recently incor-
 narated. owns GAO acres extending mp ! |r.onor creek from the place where it.
 cmn#u, into Kcnai river, about five mile, from Keuai lake. The gIavcl fa .hf, property has been worked on
 a ,maU seal. and proven yo be rich.
 The Eeaai Mining Company faces
 su unusual obstacle. though not a
 troublesome oae. It ha, too much water in the source of i,, supply and 1 rhe first development wurE which will ! ae performed under the direction of ! Manager Fred Bryant will be to drive ! rav, of this water away from Cooper
 vu.k
 ' Cooper lake. which is an enormous . .atu~aI reservoir, t, almost surrounded
 .y high mountains, lou. on one side a . uw ridge, scarcely fifteen feet high
 rGuor mor. than fifty feet thick, cou- . ..w., a wall which alone prevents ! h. or,r. contents of thc lake from ! amb.m- down pnocuirous des.iytW l 70 va..y hundreds oc feet below. l r.r.vgU this wall i, ], proposed Co cN : tut.cu rn ura.u a part O. rhy wa'.aS o'. ! a.nE. wE keep .h. .a,ir. discharge ! .mnu. weoE. Tn, quau- 1 t, is tro -..at lor hydraulic purposes ! md Ga Eo.E seasons overflow, a large .art atgl. area where lhe hydraulic operations vii. be conducted.
 Gen Ias.ly Drain lahe
 ] Manager rryanreznee'- with a force 1 pE -tN men Co Ae a1.. Go Jl-rao u.tes- ,ary ditch ro drain the water surplus a .1a 4ata,or- valley When com r...at th# vii. pe ....-reruIa'ing ',' r. carr, away a arg. quantity o'| wa.., when .lc lake is high, and a ! |~uau.r amount when the surface is. 1 low.
 Tn. company managers cEpee. to| have g.. "..r anH ditch cou-,rurtc. ! 1y -mr.r. and r5 begin hydraulic oHcr- 4uou, on a large scale. Work vii, 1 .gfu at ,le lower end of the claims. which lie sIou Daoc.,.h and atIoiu- us baurhc, for threr miles. Fly traa.c work will simply eat away the grave. bed from the lower end of tae |c.a.E as long B. ,t Z, found to contain ! gold tr paying quantity
 Gravel Proven to Be R.,h
 Part oitao ground which rlo Ncna ! Mining Company las taken over ho, . ,.an controlled by Manager Bryautto~. several yeaas. He na, been mining in i .. Sunrise d.sri,. since ,-., and aas 1 ..a.a little sIuf,.ur work oa Cooper
 ...E with good results. Mu. O,maa ! zelda claim there tor two OF three ,.a,on>, and batta wing dam to divert part Of the wa,eror Cooper creek. For 1 considerable time he took out about ln ounce day.
 ] Mr. Bryan. found that operations must be extensive in order to make the property pay and he interested several ailroaa mrr in the property, with the r.,uIg of organizing the Eenai Mining ! Company. F. II. Stewart treasurer of he Alaska Central is president, George F. Winter, his assistant i> secretary, and Tayma-tesE. E.. Nom-- t, one of the directors.
 Manager Bryant has had considerable Npcrience in hydraulic mining. He
 sas employed on the Crow creek mine rtl about a month ago, and regards the Cooper creek property as very miar iu formation and consequently
 Jhc method, required to work tt. Calls Forestry Convention