The Alaska citizen., 1910-08-13
CAPTAIN HAYNES IN
 FROM GRANULAR
HAS BROUGHT MANY SAMPLES OF GooD-LookING ROCK
 TO BE ASSAYEO.
WOOD COSTS S118 4 CORD
Principal Drawback to District at Present Is Lack of Transportation Facilities-WiIl Build Road This Winter.

Captain Haynes arrived in Fair, banks from the Chandlar on the Panama last Thursday evening
 He reports that the quartz pros poets are very promising in that dis trict, but that the principal draw back is lack of proper transportation facilities.
 Captain Haynes says that there are about 80 claims in the district which have been proved, and which look very promising, and there have been great many more locations which are still improved
 Captain Haynes has brought In several samples of rock from his properties which he will have assay ed here. These specimens consist of arsenical rion ore, carrying considerable antimony and a large amount of free gold.
 Tested by amalgamatIon, these ores have given very high returns, but Captain Haynes will not state what these returns were until the rock has been assayed here. He is highly pleased with the outlook.
 Captain Haynes has three-stamp mill on his property, which he took from the Bonnifield ledge. It had to be taken in with horses and dogs through deep snow. As many as 40 dogs had to be requisitioned for the purpose.
 There are about 50 men work. ing in the Chandlar at present. Most of these are working for themselves. Captain Haynes and MT. Marsh each had six men working for them this season. Wages are $S a day and board, although they are likely to be little lower after the trail Is built through from Beaver.
 The cost of wood is very great, SIS a cord.
 Captain Haynes had 40 cords of wood and had to retail some of 1t owing to general shortage. The price he obtained was 9S cents cubic foot. Wood is likely to be bit cheaper this year, as 1t Is intended to erect whims on the top of the hills and take the wood up that way, using a team of dogs on the whim. The quartz properties are above timber-line and wood has to be hauled IS miles and then to the top of the hills, which are very steep.
 Only five placer claims are at present being worked in the Chand- lar, and these are very rich indeed They are worked by shovelling in and go from $500 to $500 to the box length, or $1 to $250 to the pan on bedrock.
 Dave Lowry is working on Dis. covery, Big creek
 A. Newton is working on 1 below. o. Nicholson is working on l above and Hood & Pearson on 2 above of St. Mary's gulch, which is a tribu- tary of Big creek, coming in on below.
 That is all the work that is being done in placer as all the miners are quartz enthusiasts.
 Owing to the high cost of trans pOrtation, provisions average 60 cents a pound
 The government is now building the trail out from Beaver for 50 or 50 miles. Thence the miners will construct the trail themselves. The construction of this road will bring the cost of transportation down to 12 1-2 cents a pound, a contract hay ing been let at this price contingent upon the trail being built. Hitherto the price has been % cents.
 Captain Haynes will only remain here few days, returning to the Chandlar with supplies early next week. He has been interested in the Chandlar country for three years although last year was the first he spent in the country.