The Ketchikan miner., 1908-10-03
THE MINES
Ore From It Mine Going to the Shelter. Big Tunnel For
 Victory Property
(From Wednesdays Daily)
A BIG TUNNEL.

Is designed to pierce the mountain and crosscut at very considerable depth the mineral zone lying within the limits of that particular property, and which was begun about month ago, is progressing satisfactorily, under the direct superintendence of Mr. Patrick Heany, the company's general manager. This tunnel was started at point in the mountain side about three. hundred feet above tide water, and has already been driven about fifty feet, work being prosecuted with a force of men sufficient to the regular and steady employment of three shifts, working eight hours per day each. Hand drills only are at present being employeu, but it is the intention to substitute power drills, which have been ordered, as soon as the necessary machinery can be in- stalled, when the force will be in- creased as fast as it is found practi- cable to work to the best advantage. it being the intention to not only thor oughIy explore the ground on the tunnel level, but by making raises to the surface and drifting in either direction therefrom in the different ore bodies which are con- lidently expected to bo found as the tunnel progresses-a belief of the existence of which is justified by the various surface exposures and explora- tions heretofore made in the side of the mountain. Much in the way of good and profitable results is expected from the construction of this tunnel as the work progresses, the geological formation and conditions being alto gether similar to those of the other sections of the district where the best and largest ore bodies either have been or are now being developed. Mr. Heany is practical miner and opera tor of long experience, who thorough ly understands his business, and if under his management and direction the Victory is not made to give re- port of itself wholly satisfactory to its owners it will be solely because of the non existence of large and profitable ore bodies where there is every reason to expect them.
 (From Saturdays Daily ...t
 The transfer of the mining property of H arry Dobson to ". J. Bowen, a mining and real estate man of Seattle, was made yesterday. Mr. Dobson's property is on Glacier. Creek, Portland Canal. The transaction was made through Charles Guzman, who held an option on the property and made the deal with Mr. Bowen. The property is very promising, MT. Guzman says. The amount involved in the transaction is S10, eco. A first payment of $500 was made.
 (From Thursdays Daily)
 A COMING BONANZA.
 The ore bunkers at the It mine be ing now finished and the facilities for handling product from the mine to the water side complete, ship ments to the shelter will be con- menced in very few days, the first ore going to the Hadey smelter.- The bunkers have capacity of about thirteen hundred tons, the lower ones being on the wharf and into which the ore is transferred from the upper set, whence it will be loaded directly into large steamers. These bins are now full of ore. as are also the Stopes in the mine itself and the manage ment expects that, working conserva- lively, and with an eye mainly to the systematic development of the mine, it will have no difficulty in achieving and maintaining a monthly production of 1, GOO tons, or more. No regular or permanent smelling contract has yet been entered into, but it appears alto gether likely that, all things being equal, the shelter nearest to the mine will be given the preference. The first shipment to the Hadley shelter is designed somewhat in the way of a t st of the ore, to determine not so much it's value hut its particular adapta bility to the economical opera uion of the sm meter, to which end it is altogether probable that a few ship nents will be made in the beginning to others than the Hadley smelter. It is believed that the large percentage of sulphur in the It ore will, if used as mixture with the Mamie and Stevenstown ores, serve to very ma terially reduce the smelling charges, by reason of the saving of coke, com pared to the cost which obtains in treating the latter ores alone. Let this be as it may, the It management is, popularity. speaking, Ion easy street, because of the fact that its ore is largely sought by the smeters, and therefore dues not need to go beg ging for a purchaser. This. in view of the fact that the ore hody In which the mine workings are situate is an extensive One that the ore Is of an unusually high grade averaging not