The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1912-08-20
MINIMIZING NEWS
Of INTEREST

(From the Cordova Daily Alaskan)
George E. Baldwin, who is one of
the oldest mining man ana surveyors
to operate in the Copper rive coun-
try, returned to town last night from
a two weeks trip to the interior. He
will remain here until the arrival of
the next steamer, when he will go
to Valdez. In referring to his recent
trip Mr.. Baldwin stated this morning
as follows:
Actual mining, development of
properties which have passed the
stage of being prospects, preliminary
work on showings located in prior
years on which excessive transporta-
ton charges have prevented any
thing more than assessment work
being done until now, with some sur
face prospecting in regions hitherto
neglected or hastily gone over, char
acteriZe the present condition of the
mineral industry in the territory
served by the Copper River Railway.
Some prospecting is being done
on the Teikel and Bremner rivers
and in the neighborhood of Chitina
for gold quartz, also on Porphory
mountain at Mile 191. There a mill
is soon to be erected to treat the ore
from the Iverson property, on which
several hundred feet of work has
been done and sufficient ore blocked
out to, in the opinion of experienced
mining men, justify the necessary
expenditure.
''To name all the copper properties
on which development work is being
carried on by large forces would be
tedious, but a few deserve especial
mention on account of the vigor with
which work is being prosecuted by
their owners. The Great Northern
Development Company, L. F. Gray,
manager, is the largest operator,
with his principal work on Copper
mountain. The Alaska United Copper
Exploration Company is working men
near the Kuskulina glacier and on
Porcupine creek. Their big property
is the Westover. on Boulder, near
NJ, l.
of rich ore have been found by the
driving of tunnels. The Alaska Con-
solidated Copper Company are doing
extensive work on Nugget creek, in
the Kuskulina district The Mother
Lode and Nickolia companies have
done considerable work on their
properties near the Bonanza mine.
Ole Berg, Deyo e Johnson and others
are opening up good properties. The
Bonanza remains the only producer
as yet but the low freight rates given
by the C. r. e N. w. on horse feed
will induce, as it was intended to,
the shedding of ore from many OF the
properties to the railway in the near
future.
"The placer situation is slowly
changing from pick and shovel
proposition to hydraulic mining. No
new discoveries have been made for
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operating their properties in person
or on lays by the primitive pick and
shovel method. On the other hand
five large hydraulic plants have been
installed at Dan, Chitibu and other
creeks. OF these four are in active
operation, and the remaining one is
idle by agreement with neighboring
owner, on account of lack of sutfi-
cient waite for two adjoining plants.
These plants have pay gravel in
sight to keep them operating for
many years in the future.
"a striking illustration of the v!gor
with which mining operations are be-
ing carried on is the fact that though
| in the country east of Copper River
there are not less than four hundred
voters, the most energetic work of
the political managers resulted in a
scant 100 votes being cast at the
election for delegate to Congress last
am busy and my vote wont amount
to much anyway, was the reply CIV
ing to get out the vote
-o-o-o
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