Valdez daily prospector., 1912-09-12
PLACER MINING
 FARTHEsT NORTH
Activity Displayed In the kotzebue Region, Whore Big Opera
 tions Arc In Ordor

Messrs. George K. Mcleod and Otto Daniels, who arrived in Nome from the Immachuk on the tug Kobuk, says there is great IactivIty this season in the Inma- chuk, which will be news to those Iwho have not kept in touch with the important mining operations which are being carried on in var ious parts of Seward peninsula.
 MT. Mcleod is manager of the |Fairhaven Water Go. in which he himself is SO very extensively in tercstcd. They have already Cleaned up two large pits and have three opened up. The results have been emincntly satisfactory, land the seasons outlook is very bright. Two lifts are steadily washing the auriferous ground, and sometimes three. About 90 men are employed by the con- pany, and this number may be later increased. The Inmachuck is the most active camp north of Nome.
 Inmachuk Dredging Go. of which wv. Johnson is president. is con- Istructing a dredge of large size on No. 6 below on Hannum creek. The hull will be placed in the Wa
 ter this week, and the machinery
 installed 60 that the dredgc will start digging about September 1 .
 Hank Fries is building a small Ter dredge, on the Inmachuk riv- ,er and he hopes 10 be running
 full blast by August 25. Both of these machines of modern type
 are being placed on proved
 ground. Little doubts are enter ,taincd therefore that their sue cess will mean that they will bc the pioneer machines of large number of drcdges in. that dis
 trict.
 1 Mrssrs. Woodruff & Go. are op- ,erating steam Scrapcr on Black
 Gold fraction, and are said to be in excellent pay.
 The Inmachuk Dredging Co.,. which has had prospecting crews !, at work, announces that the drill
 ing has been very satisfactory in every way.
 Two prOSDectOrS are now drill ii ing on the Good Hope river. There are large gravel bars on this stream, and should they prove to contaIn sufficient gold they will
 provide big dredging proposi- lions.
 ! Messrs. SundGuist and Pierce of Candle have launched their small drcdge and will have il op- lerating in two weeks time. IT is understood that the Buoy rus Co.,, of Milwaukee, the leading 'dredgc as wcll as shovel builders, ! have become interested in tho Kugruk river, and will send a prospecting party with well equipped outfit to test the ground of Henry Coffin and others close to where Myers and Roust took iout some Si75,000 a few years ago.
 Frrighiing is very active in the 1nmachuk, and as this is always a fair index of the range of min ling operations it is clearly seen that there is considerable work being accomplished in the district.
 Joe Montgomery, the manager of c. l.. Morris & Co, has rented 24 head of horses to the Inmachuk Dredging Co.,, while Messrs. Dunn & Sankey are steadily working leight for Hank Fries.
 The Inmachuk Springs Ditch has been repaired, and mining on "a small scale will shortly be start ed up as some pay has been To- |cated about one mile below the Springs: ' < F
 NJ. McLaod is here on business with the cofnpany he represents and will shortly return for the balance of the seasoh, while Mfr. Daniels intends going outside Tor a we'll dsserved holiday after be- ing seven years connected with fch Fairhaven Water Co."-World.
 
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