The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-03
VALDEZ bASk|NC
IN BIC TONNAGE
Several Groups Show Enough
Ore to Justify Erection
of Mills.
CAMP is LIVELY
PLACE THIS WINTER
SOur-Dough Land Again Is Call
ing to Restless of the
Mining World.
Special to The Tribune.

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VALDEZ. Alaska. Jan. 2.-Naldez is a
lively place this winter. and if present
conditions arc indicative of what may be
expected when the rush arrives In the
spring. this old camp will be focused by
the eye of every mining man the length
and breadth of the United States. Ar
rivals from the outside state that people
who follow the mining game are looking
for new place to pitch their tents. and
as the rush to Nevada is hut a memory.
they are carefully scanning the horizon
for a simmer OF the al)uring yellow
metal. In the western part of Alaska,
mcrons and development so rapid that
there is little doubt but that an immense
influx into this part of the territory may
be expected next spring.
This camp will be the center OF tho
rush and some optimists say that 10000
people will arrive here before the first
day of July. To some these figures seem
exaggerated, but none place the expected
crowd under 5000 With her popula tion
puadrupled in "a few months. II Is easy to
understand the amount OF business op-
portunities open TO 1.-Two individual.
AT the present time there are thirty
properties In various stages of develop
ment. summary OF few of the more
important ones is as follows:
The ChuSach, one of the largest flota-
tons in the district. is driving five tun-
nels on separate leads. The drivlngs have
penetrated distance OF about 100 feet
each. and the. management states that
high grade milling ore is being taken from
three OF them. This company will be
among the first TO install 81 stamp mill
this spring. The company has an i'm
mense acreage and has al it's head the
president OF the famous Cliff mine.
The Williams -Gentzlcr property, also on
Mineral creek, is proving to be one OF
the richest In the district, Reports from
hiS nlrftS al, Of cfo ~,
nature. but specimens from their tunnel
compel acceptance of the management $
Neracity. The group consists OF five
claims. on which one. the Mollie. a cross
cut tunnel has been driven seventy-two
feet The ledge matter on this claim is
from ten TO thirty inches wide and out
crops for 400 feet, Surface assays as
high as s35, 900 have been taken from this
ledge and eight tons sacked from the
top OF the lode averages $500 per ton. 4
short drift on the main lead shows values
across the face for fourteen inches OF
$500 per ton. This company will install
mill as soon as weather conditions will
permit. which will be hauled over the
snow to the property upon its arrival.
Shoup's bav. owns five claims in that
section. They are driving a tunnel on
the Margaret claim and are in n distance
of nearly 100 feet. For considerable dis
five TO six feet wide In the face which
will run in the neighborhood of $50 per
ton. The highest surface assay obtained
from this ledge was s36. 1t is the intcn-
ton OF the company 10 sink a shaft when
the tunnel Is driven zoo feet. This prop
erty adjoins the welI-known Sealy-Davs.
one OF the recognized big properties.
The Black Diamond. lying seven and a
half miles down the bay and mile
south of tire Cliff mine, consists of six
teen claims. Tunnels are being driven on
lodes / and .. On the former distance
OF ninety feet has been penetrated on the
ledge matter, where they have five feet
Of ore that averages $500. The highest
surface assay from this ledge was s17.40
The company has the only water power
between Gold creek and Shoup's bay. a
distance Of three miles. Mining men who
examined this property assert that the
ore can be worked for 81 per ton.
The Mountain Girl group, owned by
consists of twelve claims on Mineral
creek. tunnel is being driven on the
Mountain Girl which has encouraging
showings AS the owners arc doing their
own development work, they have reached
a distance of but Twenty-Five feet, where
they nave four and a half feet Of good
milling ore. They Will continue develop
mcnt work all winter
On some of these properties the values
may seem TO a boom mining man q little
under what he would desire. but when 1t
is taken into consideration the low cost
Of milling they are, in most instances.
very valuable properties from legiti-
mate mining point of view.
There are a number OF properties which
can show ore Of such fabulous value that
your correspondent hesitates TO mention
the figures, as he would rather remain
In the safe zone.