The Ketchikan mining news., 1907-01-18
A SHIPPER
The Mt. Andrew Mine Is Coming To the Front in this Class..Its
 Early History

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 Among the mines of this district of which an altogether interesting. his tory might be related, and which is now steadily forging to the front as a steady and profitable producer of the red metal, is the Mt. Andrew, Kasaan pensinsula, Prince of Wales island. The property, consisting of ten or more locations, was located some ten or twelve years ago .by parties grub staked and sent out by Samuel Lichten- stadter, and who were to have an int crest with him. After the locations had been made and recorded, Mr. l.. purchased the other interests. and succeeded in enlisting an English cap- italist named Andrew, for whom the mine is named, to the extent of an agreement to furnish the capital necessary for the development of the property on scale commensurate with its then apparent promise of ultimate large returns. Under this arrangement large sums of money were expended in the work of devel- opment, surveys, etc., but when it came to filing application for patent Mir. Lichtenstadter found himself beset with adverse claims filed by. or in the interest of, those whose interests he had bought and paid for in some instances twice over, and he was sub jected to long and expensive litiga- tion, during which time Mir. Andrew died, thus putting an end to the SUD- ply of funds from that source when finally the litigation should be ended.
 This litigation resulted in tying up the property, so far as development was concerned, for several years, for though he finally obtained patent, Mir. L. found himself without means with which to resume work, and conse- quently the mine remained idle until he effected the arrangement under which it is now being operated.
 An interesting part of the history of the Mt. Andrew is the source of the knowledge which led to it's discov- cry and location. While in the Yukon country, just prior to coming here, MT. Lichtenstadter met an old pros- pectOr who informed him that he had found copper ore on Prince of Wales Island year or two before, and who showed him small sample of the rock. Mir. l.. at once entered into an agreement to pay the. prospector one thousand dollars, on condition that he should be given information that would enable him to find the place, and that he should find the conditions as stated on going upon the ground. He was furnished by the prospector with a crude pencil sketch of the Kasaan peninsula, with the point of discovery indicated thereon, and com ing here experienced little difficulty in finding and securing the locations as stated.
 The Mt. Andrew is now being oper- ated by the Brittania Smelling Con- pany, under lease and bond from Mir. Lichtenstadter. The mine equipment is ample for all present requirements, force of 30 men and four drills being employed in development work, and in mining and shipping ore at the rate of 100 tons daily. A Riblet aerial tramway, 5000 feet in length, carries the product from the mine to the bins at the water side, whence 1t is shipped direct to the company's shelter at Crofton, B. c.
 l Mir. w. c. Freeburn is general manager, on the ground, and the fact that, assuming charge only little, if any, more than year ago, he has not only installed all necessary improve ments, but at the same time put the mine in condition for compara- lively large and steadily increasing production proves conclusively that he is the right man in the right place 5000 tons having been mined and shipped during the three months im- mediately preceding January l.
 The Fidalgo Island company's can- nery at this place, which made pack of 20, GOO cases last year, will be oper- ated again the coming season, at least so says superintendent Rounsfell.
 The Seattle Times is authority for the statement that the canneries at Boca de Quadra and Hunters bay, owned by the Northwestern Fisheries Company, will be operated next sea- son and that crews will be sent up to put them in order.
 The genial countenance of Fred Patching, superintendent of the Alaska Packers Association's salmon hatchery at Loring, has frightened the gloom which has been lowering over the Streets of Ketchikan the past few days, or would have so lowered but for his presence. Fred can hatch out more salmon in any given period of time than a hard-working hen can hatch chickens in thousand years, and not half try.
 It is definitely stated, and authori- tatively so, that the Ketchikan Steam ship Company has signed contract with the Morans for the building of an 800-ton steamer for the Seattle Ketchikan run, and which it is hoped