The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-24
ALASKAN GOLD POURING IN.
EVERY STEAMER FROM the
NORTH BRINGS TREASURE.


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s:,lnm4nts From, tho Tannna District IN
Danger From an Org aI,.zcd Band Of
Robbers Good Reports From the Lake
superior Di,trict-Sew COn Fi,ih.
SEATTLE Wash. july 17-Alaskan gold
now reaches the Government assay ofilcc
at Seattle daily. and since June IS amounts
to $4,000 900. There are Fix steamers now
due from Nome and other Alaska ports. all
carrying precious freight. Some fear Is
expressed for the Cleary Creek and other
Tanana cIean-ups made since the middle
OF June. This district y overrun by an
organized band Of robbers. The last train
from Cleary carried half a million. blt no re-
port has been made since II started out on
the trail with vlgllant guard. 1t Ia con-
servately estimated that from 81. oOo,o 900 to
~, 900, 900 is due to come out OF Cleary and
Fairbanks. TIE mines have all exceeded
estimates made UP to the present and new
discoveries are Of daily occurrence.
Nome Ia making a splendid showing and
the cleanup will exceed s5.OOOOO0. The
beach gravel diggings. extending from Hast
ings Creek to Snake River for ten miles,
contribute largely to the success OF the dis
trict. During the winter 500 men found
good pay in these dry diggings. Five claims
on Dry Creek contributed over a quarter OF
million Dexter and Anvil and the country
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The past year In Nome has been prosperous
beyond all precedent, not a business failure
being recorded in the city or district Besides
it's great placer mines. Nome also has rich
and extensive gold lodges. copper deposits
and tin. iron and coal. The tin is now passing
into the hands of Boston men. They are
already mining 1t and will be In a position by
September to ship several carRoes.
Carbon Mountain, Catalla district. Ia
attracting a great deal Of attention because
OF its coal deposits. The mines are at the
mouth OF Boring River and the veins are
from 8 to 80 feet in width. one Of which is
being stripped 1000 feet. There are ten or
twelve veins the coal being semi-anthracite.
A railroad has been surveyed from the mines
to tidewater and 1t is announced that line
twenty miles in length will be In operation
this winter. The coal is so hard and firm that
no timberng Is required In running the tunnels
which are in solid coal. Coal experts believe
that it will take the place Of imported coal
| on the Pacific coast. 1t can be mined at
small cost and the cost of transportation
from the mines to points along the coast
from Alaska to California will be light
LAKE SUPERIOR COPPER.
| HouGHToN. Mich. July 2O-Recent de-
velopments at the Adventure mine have been
Of an encouraging nature. Fifteen months
ago the Adventure was on the ragged edge
of failure. The situation was so bad that the
| directors Iell DHCk upon very
! cxped!cnt OF q referendum, asking the share
holders to d ,cide whether another 81 ASSESS
ment should be levied or the sponge thrown
up. The shareholders decided, not by q
large majority, to risk another dollar and
the assessment was called. The production
of mineral by the mine had shrpnk from 1870
tons to only is tons month and the reserve
Stopping ground was, nearly exhausted The
management decided, when the last assess
ment was levied. that continuance OF opera
lions upon the former plans would result
in failure. and asked Samuel Brady of he
Michigan Mine to take charge. The results
parent. The product was increased slightly
each month STOPPING ground was gained nt,doi lnj
economy, and within six mouths it was felt
OF MIR. Bradys management the ST uation
@aks pr61 ame a snG Ssnn eh sds
help out the people. whom she had been ss,n
way to succeed without her assistance.
Without any particular reason for the change.
ali Of the productive openings. the increase
in June amounting to between four and fve
p1a, percentase o Of increase that viii assure
success ii continued. The June product was
l?s tons Of mineral, or only two tons short
Diamond drill operations. at the Tecumseh
found workable on the Tecumseh tract, the
prospects of Rhode Island may be changed
from indigo blue to rose pink certain 10 Is
to make a mine from, is badly needed in the
district from Tecumseh to the Quincy The
in this stretch of several miles of territory
in the very heart of the Lake copper district,
and the Franklin junior is lean pr;o oi SUI
aGement is kept busy in trying, to do more
than get new dollar for an old one: The The
ha Hae any other "ern
giomerate bed of the district. and 1t is doubt
full if any single metalliferous stratum or vein
is. worked for greater distance il any part part
Of the world, eyceptinR always the banket.
or auriferous con glomerate. of the Wit
The best news that has come from the
quincy for nearly ten years Is coming nov
Nearly ten years ago the Mesnard and Pontiac
mines. early day properties nat never We're
important were ansoreed oy she 9 rtnd ~
the Mesnard tract
The Pewabic amygdaloid was not OF an
| especially ncouraging nature on the surface
OF the Mesnard tract. being narrow and lean
but the shaft was started, and has ,p. been fsl,
eighteen months a gradual improvement hass
been noted in the ground penetrated. ana az
e the old Quincy V. The develop
makes se northward from the Pewabie-Frankn
e eo1ntefed Until considerable depth is
reached on the Mesnard tract but should be
found to extend also under the Pontiac lands
still north Of the Mesnard, and also owned by
The gradual branching out Of the Calumet
and Hecla is exempited by the format alton
ostensibly independent, are, obviously con-
trolled by the Calumet and Hecla, as the
owner of record Of practically the entire
While the Calumet and Heca has con-
elomerate remaining for somewhere between
ton at the present rate. and while one new
mine has been opened on the Osceola lode.
parallel with the old mine, and a second par.
aiiei mine is being opened on the Kearsarse
lode with good prospects the management
is taking time by the forelock and branching
out in every direction where there are pros
poets OF the development Of mines TO replace
| the present property .
| It is probable that the Atlantic soon will
| resume search for the northern continuation
OF the Baltic amygdaloid, on section 10.
| Exploratory work on this tract was con-
Quoted for several years without success.
but during the two past years work in the
| Baltic mine and on the property of the Su-
| perior Copper Company has given a better