The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1911-04-01
RAILROAD COMPLETED TO COPPER BELT

5000 per ton and that 1900 tons
will net 100000. When the smell
ter return is announced within two
or three weeks, it is believed that
the high value of the ore, and in
such great quantities. will startle the
mining world. And it certainly will
prove q stimulus to prospectors and
those who are at present interested
in the Kotsina- Chitina copper belt to
exert greater effort In the discovery
Of valuable properties and the de-
velopment Of those already acquired.
Last year the Kennecott Mines
Company took in over the trail the
machinery for q sawmill. After that
was established sufficient lumber was
cut to supply the 100000 feet neces-
sary for the erection of large con-
centrator building "A feet wide Of six
stories of benches ranging from 16 to
% feet. Other construction consists
of tram terminals, transfer bunkers,
ore chutes and 3.6 feet of snow
sheds between the mine and ore bins.
The sawmill also furnished the
lumber for a two-story addition to the
main office or headquarters, new
cottage, another clubhouse, with
sleeping, reading, sitting and bath
rooms for twenty men, and ware
house. In addition to the erection
of buildings around the Bonanza
property, a dam is being constructed
across National creek near the end
of the tramway for the purpose of
furnishing a sufficient head of water
to operate the machinery for the
crushers and concentrators, as we'll
as furnishing power for the electric
and steam plants to be installed.
The general manager of the Ken
necott Mines Company is Stephen
Burch. The superintendent is E. B.
Emory, who formerly worked for the
Guggenheims in Mexico.
Kotsina- Chitina Copper Belt.
When the charge Is so fagrantly
made that the Alaska Syndicate has
practically all the copper in the in
terror of Alaska, it may be interest
ing to know that their four groups of
forty claims are a very small part
of the 200 groups of 1000 copper and
gold claims that have been located
by other individuals and companies.
These locations have been made in
the Kotsina-Chitina copper belt This
is tract of mountainous country,
east of the Copper River and embrac-
ing the watersheds of the Kotsina,
Kuskulana, Gilhena. Strelna, Lakina,
Nizina. Kennecott, Chitistone and
Chitina Rivers, with their tributary
streams, notabley, Nugget, Elliott,
Dan, Chititu, Young, Glacier creeks.
One Of the biggest companies oper-
ating in this part of Alaska is the
Great Northern Development Com
pany. e. F. Gray is one of the own
ers and also general manager. Asso'
ciated with him are Phillips, Dodge
& Co.. of New York. part of the
Arnalgamated copper combination.
This company has already expended
100000 in development work and
improvements, employing lao men
, last season on two properties located
at Copper Mountain and on the Kot-
sina. Several thousand feet of tun-
Eel has been driven and large bodies
of ore uncovered. This year work
on a larger scale will go on and a
branch line of the railroad will like,
ly be built IL miles up the Strelna
to the property. "t
Three or four miles distant, near
the Kuskulana Glacier, are the Dill
man properties, worked by the Alas
ka United Copper Exploration Com
pany. Considerable work has been
done on the Finch group and the
tunnels show rich bodies Of glance
and bornite. A crew of men this
season expect to open up the prop
erty so as to make 1t an early ship
per. Assays show from 80 to As
per cent copper. This company is
also working the Westover group on
the mountain side above Dan creek.
As the work progresses values hold
good. and the lead of bornite ore
retains its width Of 16 feet Assess
ment work is being done on other