The Alaska citizen., 1910-04-09
WYWENG NOTES


 feet of Hume hose and will te hir- ing men soon for the summer $ operations
 John Hakanson has a lay on i above Grubstake, which he will work during the season.
 About 30 men have been employ ed on Big Eldorado during the winter. This creel; has proved ra- ther disappointing, the output of gold for the season being little more than S3o,ooo. As the ground is very wet there is not likely to be much doing there this summer, al though the installation ot machin- cry on this creek would certainly prove paying investment.
 John Lappi has struck very good pay on } above on Fairbanks creek. The pay is said to extend tor over 500 .eet.
 i Cook and Murphy are working on q large scale at the mouth ot the Totatlanika.
 The Wild Goose Gold Mining company, of Engineer creek, are installing a 4o-horse power boiler
 Alexander, Morrison < Johnson, of Hot Springs, have ordered an $ itXIo double drum American hoist from Brumbaugh, Hamilton S- Kellogg.
 (. w. Porter, who has lay on the Wild Goose association prop ertV near the mouth oi Engineer, has purchased new 4o-horse pow CT Pennsylvania return-tube boiler, with all the necessary machinery and fittings for working a good paystreak on large scale
 Porter & NanWinkle have un- covered over So feet of pay on their Goldstream property.
 The strike on Fourth of July creek. i'll the Kuskokwir1 district, is attracting considerable attention in the Iditarod and Innolln camps, and several parties left fer the new diggings.
 Local machinery firms are be- ginning torpcoiVc orders for new plants due to the usual spring activity in mining circles.
 Kelly X Parker, of , below. Fairbanks, are installing one of the largest automatic, bottomless 40-hOrSo power steam Scrapers in Alaska, with a capacity of .2 l-2 yards per scrape. It is be- lieVed that this type of scraper will reVolutionize Open-cut work. The same firm have also ordered an x l-4Xl0 dOublc-drum Ameri- can hoist.
 A large body of rich gold-bearing quartz has recently been found on the shores of Valdez bay, i'll the NarrOws, ten miles above town. The property is being developed by the Cliff Mining company. Large quantities of the ore are said to assay over $500 to the ton, and little of it as low as $50. A three stamp mill is now i'll operation. The vein is fl inches thick, and true Assure. It is expected to prove one of the most valuable properties in Alaska.
 The production of tin in Alaska is on the increase. About 200 tons have been produced during the past seven years, chiefly from Seward peninsula, where the alluvial de- posits in places have been found 10 contain as much as 25 pounds of 60 per cent ore to the square yard. The price of tin is steadily rising, being now B cents per pound.
 This territory produced 200, 1000 ounces Of silver during 1909.
 Frank Bolanger has received a letter from his partners in the Idit- arod. They state that they have very good pay on their Wildcat and Pioneer properties. They had let eleven lays at the time the letter was dispatched.
 Joseph H. Houston. of Seward, has secured four sections of hy- draulic and placer ground at a point about g miles from Seward. The ground has been thoroughly prospected, and the results fully warrant the erection of a complete hydraulic equipment and dredge, which will be installed in the i'm