The Alaska citizen., 1911-09-04

Now in tribuation the foundations of fortunes
being laid. Fortunes that will rival those his
toric made in mining in California. Colorado,
Montana. Utah and other great mining fields For
can there any longer be doubt but that
to have of lode mining which will rival in
wealth producing possibilities any of those great
mining regions?
Alaska is equal in to all those states com
bined. The prospects and developed mines far
prove beyond any further skeptcism that there
will be mines here in Alaska to equal the hide
pendence. the Homestake. rival the Goldfeld
Consolidated. duplicate again and again
great Treadwell
Who will them. who will profit from their
development?
At this very and that within 80 miles
Of this place some prospector has already uncov
cred the surface of lodges that will become fam
and produce great fortunes. The inexperienced
only hole in the ground into which it
seems Risky to put even few dollars. yet very
Son. men will be heard saving. why could have
in that for song" Fortune in her most
tickle mood is playing with all now If don't
don't win But there surely great
winnings to be made.
Already The Rhoads mine has produced
$4oo0o. and the probabilities are that by the time
This is in print We shall hear that the mine is
turning out thousand dollars per day! Listen
for this news. When it is printed in the mining
journals and the daily papers of the great mining
districts from Goldfeld Australia. and from
Mexico Africa, We shall have mining men sitting
up take notice The mining population the
world, the gold mining population is not large
pr badly ~ 600 in the whole world but they
cosmopolitan lot. and think nothing of going
half round the world TO district No Difficult
ties daunt them. They able TO take of
themselves and they have money and control CAPT
tai Il is this population that want in Alaska
Alaska. far climate and convenience is
cerned is paradise compared the terrible des
of Western Australia. It is easier to
prospect in than the wastes of Arizona Mojave
There. wood be got. and water is as prec-
ious as the gold itself Here there is wood and
water in abundance, and there is game and the land
will produce a crop The winters cold, but
unpleasant and the summers delightful. And
the of the gold country 1t is nearly
limited Let us call over the quartz districts: ket
chikan. some splendid mines open others develop
ing. juneau, it is said that thousand new stamps
will be erected in that district in the next
years. The Perseverance and other mines already
proved rival the great Treadwell. Berner's Bay,
splendid mines Cordova where it is reported
excellent authority that there is ledge proved
in great depth to be so feet in width and to carry
IS to SO per in gold, and many others Val
dez. Seward. each quartz mines opening.
and several at this moment probably producing
thousand dollars per day yet only in their in
fancy AT Fairbanks at least dozen prospects
of remarkable richness and destined become
splendidy paying mines. Some doubt be-
famous in the history of mining
The Chandlar, in which there of
astonishing richness. The Innoko from which a
shipment of made month ago,
which estimated contain 5000 to the
ton Nome, where the people are erecting
tom stamp mill to test the fine prospectors
finding The koyukuk where galena is be-
ing worked rich found in the Bunker
Hill and Sullivan Even in the newest of the
placer Observation-Disclosures ledge has been found
and is being developed in which free gold can be
with the naked eye, and with the fairest of
promise. Indeed the whole of Alaska is gold
country. Six hundred thousand square miles of
prospecting ground. Placer gold in thousand
and without doubt lodges from which the
placers came in thousand hills
There is in the wide world, and has not
been before, such land of opportunity for the