The Ketchikan mining news., 1907-01-18
MINING NOTES
A Record of What Is Being Done In the Mining Circles of
 This District

This District
 Upward and onward, steadily and surely, the Ketchikan Mining District takes its way to glorious future.
 Another rich strike is reported to have been made at the Niblack, but nothing definite is yet known as to the probable extent of the new ore body.
 -Rumors of the consolidation of the Copper Mountain and Alaska Indust- rial Company are probably without much foundation, if indeed any at all.
 D. W. Sanford and Billy" Pow CTS are in town, having completed the annual expenditure for 1906 on their locations in the vicinity of Dall Head.
 The Brown Alaska company has a force of men doing annual assessment work on its group of eight mineral locations on the southeast end of Gra- vina island, near Dall Head.
 Miles Fleming came over last week from Kitkoon bay, Prince of Wales, where he had been doing contract work on the McMillin and Scholtz properties. These are the properties that have heretofore been worked by A. Eugene Knapp for the same owners.
 -Wm. Reed and "Jim" York who have been doing assessment work for Guzman and Lathrop, on their loca- tions at the upper lake, Karta bay, report very encouraging show of mineral on the property. They traced the ledge, carrying apparently good values in copper, gold and silver, over length of 1900 feet-a good strong ledge too.
 Sumner Cobb, Jimmy Nesbitt, Fred Koenig, and Wm. Reed are the locators of three locations along the side lines of the Guzman and Lathrop claims, on which there is good show of mineral, and "Jimmy' Nesbitt has five others near the Rush and Brown mine on which he has found bornite. Adjoining the Goodro property is that of J. L. Parker, Hans Andersen, Fred Koenig and Sumner Cobb, on which they have made good showing of ore in all respects similar to that of the Goodro, and which promises to prove equally as large and rich. With all these properties in course of development the Karta bay section is likely to he the scene of much mining activity the coming season.
 "A force of men was sent over last week to begin work on trail from the water side to the Moonshine property, Cholmondeley Sound, Prince of Wales Island, to be supplemented with an- other crew and all necessary material for the erection of building for the accommodation of the men who will be employed in the construction of a wharf, preparatory to the beginning of active mining operations early in the spring. This is the galena prop erty which was taken over under bond a few months ago by w. w. Catlin, who, it is understood, has since con- cluded its purchase. The work done on the property by Mir. Catlin shows a very strong and apparently durable ledge with average values of over $50 to the ton in lead and silver. The property was located by w. A. Pat terson, John Medallion and Christ. Hoover being associated with him in the original ownership.
 Col. Shoenbar, who arrived here from Boston about the middle of De- cember, after an absence of nearly a year, has commenced on systematic plan of development work on the prop. erty near town formerly known as the Laskawonda. He is working three shifts of eight hours each in a shaft located on the Tonowonda claim, about $50 feet west of the old one, and which was commenced last year, while at the same time others are employed doing assessment work on all the other claims constituting the group. He has had the shaft house and bunk and boarding houses put in good condition for the accommodation and comfort of the men employed, and informs The Mining News that it is his intention to sink the shaft as far as it may be fairly practicable to go by hand or with the aid of a temporary h0isting plant, pending the installment of a permanent plant, consisting of two boilers. 35-hp. engine, hoist and a Norwalk compressor with capacity for driving power drills, the order for which has been placed. Mir. Hone the mechanical engineer and expert, who came here with Col. Shoenbar in December, is now in the east looking after that part of the business, and it was on his advice the plant was de. cided upon and ordered. The plan oi operations as laid out contemplates the sinking of the Tonowonda shaft tC a depth of 300 feet before doing any drifting, cross-cutting or stoping. The shaft is now down about 40 feet, mineral all the way down; in fact, some of the rock taken out would seem to indicate something better than an ordinarily low grade proposi. tion, which last is all that has ever been claimed for this property. The name of the corporation or syndicate which Col. Shoenbar represents, is the Ketchikan Consolidated Mining Com