Valdez daily prospector., 1912-02-09
TONS OF GOLD
 MINED AT VALDEZ
Alaskan Mine Owners Bring News of Development in the
 District

Up al Valdez bay, which is in Alaska as everybody knows, the big bOld-ribbcd mountains are be- ing tapped in real earnest and whole galleOn loads of the bright. shiny metal are being torn from their agc-old resting place. This winter many a new claim was stakrd and big work has been done on the stopes and lodges. Today there come here two AlaskanS with news of the mines.
 w. w. Harvey and Lew MrAl- lister, big men both. own the AL ice property located close to the shore of Shoup bay, only ten miles from Valdez. And there where the blinding SHOWS swirl fathnms deep they have burrow- ed ihrir way into the mountain for 2I0 feet. Great glittrring bodies of copper and gold ore wrr" encountered as they drilled through the rock. The tunnel passes through three rich pay shoots. Ore is found all the way from the mouth to the face at an average width of ? i-2 feet. In he two claims the miners own, he ore assays as high as S2i 1000 to the ton and while that, of course, is exceptional all the rock is sprinkIrd thick with gold and is pretty fine looking stuff.
 Nearby, the Debncy property is being worked, and a large block of good gold-cOpprr ore has been opened up. The Silver Gem, con sisting of two claims, adjoins the Debney. They went in i92 feet and found ore for the full length. lt averages three feel and assays about Sl5.00 in the ton. Twelve open cuts have been made on ihis property.
 The CamrrOn-Jnhnson proper ly, three miles from Shoup bay, cOmpriJng i1 claims, has been worked. Three lodges are map ped out. two of which have been stripped for more than 2,O00 feet The other ledge has been torn open for i,50O feet. Seven as says showing values of $I00 have been made, and the lowest is $i5.- % tO the ton.
 They are going to put in a three stamp Nisscn mill on that property, and along about Fcbru- ary i5 it will be on the ground. Another and a larger stamp mill will be installed on the May field group. A thousand tons of ore are ready on the dump. Some wonderful bodies of ore have been disclosed there with 500 feet of work. Nine open cuts have been made on the Bence- Macdonald property, which adjoins the May field. The average assay on a ledge varying from four to l7 feet is $i02 ton.
 With mines like these Alaska will still be able to keep her chin in the air.
 There are more than these though. The Cliff mine people arc working on $500 rock with 70 mon. That is a lease-hold mine and the owners spent S30,OO0 on it. Now they are paying out 50 cents share on a capital' stock of $i00,000 and that is mushing pretty swift even in Alaska. The VancOuvcr-Valdcz is working in toward an ore shoot that looks promising. The Ellis Imperial located with Vancouver-Vald mine near the Cliff property, is showing ore worth as much as Si,20O ton.
 They haven't got all the gold in Alaska right on Valdez bay, hut they have a large share of il. And Harvey and McAllisier re- alize this fact. They have some glowing descriptions of a gold disti jet which is producing and will continue to produce millions upon millions of dollars.--Van- couvcr World.