The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-05
VALDEZ LONGS FOR
GOOD OLD SUMMER
Early Arrivals Impatient at the
Slow Melting of Winter
Shows.
Special 10 The Tribune.

Special 10 The Tribune.
VALDEZ. Alaska. June 4,-The snow
has been leaving the hills!des at a rapid
pace The past week. Great patches OF
gray -colored rocks are visible on the
north hills bordering Mineral gulcil and
the complete barring Of the higher alti-
tudes is but u matter OF ten days. The
long wait has had an irritating effect on
people who arrived sixty days TOO soon,
and many are the murmurs of impat,ehce
from those who were anxious TO arrive
be fore the rush with the hope that they
would gather valuable information in ad =
vance. This has caused general ar
OF apathy TO perVade the community
which made last week the dullest expert
enced since last fall.
There arc over 400 strange prospectors
here ready TO take TO the hills. most of
them grub staked men from tho western
mining states, who stand idly around
waiting for the huge blanket of snow TO
slip off the mountains. meanwhile ours
ing the delay in their fevcrish anxiety
20 be up aid doing. Most OF these men
are highly pleased with the specimens or
rich ore exhibited in camp. and this only
serves TO accentuate their unrest
Several strikes were made last week
by parties working on the different prop
critics to the north and west OF the camp;
Ed Meice and Charles Higson uncoVered
ledge on Shoups bay, directly back or
the glacier OF the same name, which, ac-
cording to their statement. shows free
geld in plenty all over the ledge the
latter is two feet wide and can be traced
for several hundred yards. Specimens
OF the rock brought to town show free
gold TO the naked eye,
High grade ore was struck on the Hlgh
Grade group OF claims about 900 yards
above the power dam on Mineral creek;
The rock ASSAYS up III the thousands OF
dollars, and was encountered In the race
have been driving this spring, The ledge
is eighteen inches wide in the tunnel.
which is its width on tho surface. The
property Is Owned by ny Perry Drase. H.
Probably the biggest sensation OF the
week was the discovery OF 15-foot
ledge made by Cameron brothers. Ola
Jackson and Andrew Halvers. on last
Friday The location OF the ledge has
been known since last October. when
prospecting was stopped by heavy fall
of snow The immense BODY OF ore can
be traced over the length OF six claims.
and assays from 50 to $50 per ton, The
ledge has we'll defined walls, and while
the formation runs 20 degrees east OF
and west. In this enormous ledge are
stringers cutting the formation distinctly.
each one carrying gold-bearinS quartz:
The owners will start work In several
places 10 determine the general average
Of values. Those who have examined the
ledge state that il II will run from IS TO
$40 per ton. there is enough OF IT TO run
n thousand stamps for that number OF
years. 1t would make of the rich Cliff
mine a Tom Thumb in comparison. The
ore is fine looking quartz and in some
OF the specimens free gold Is visible.
c. II. Golden and associates have let
a contract for a 2-foot tunnel on their
copper property on the Chokosona river.
five miles from Mile 15S, on the Copper
River & Northwestern railroad. The
owners have been developing this estate
for the past six years. and the result OF
recent tests have encouraged them TO eX
pend considerable money or more devel-
opment. Where the tunnel will crosscut
mile in length. being an average width
of twenty-five feet. Surface assays give
returns of from Is to 81 per cent in the
red metal. The property lies 165 miles
from Valdez and twenty-six miles from
the famous Bonanza mine owned by the
GugGenle'm syndicate. and comprises
fifteen claims.