The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1912-02-24
MINING news OF
NAzINA DISTRICT

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has their outfit of nearly so tons
already on the ground. Manager E.
w. Brooks has about 20 men at
work and they will put in bitches
and piping, SO that everything will
be in readiness to take out quanti-
ties of placer gold next year. A
small quantity will be washed out
this season.
The Dan Creek Gold and Copper
Company have a copper property at
the head of Dan Creek on which
they will work twelve men this sea-
son. Roads will be built first SO as
haul in the machinery. P. D. Range
is the Superintendent and he has
done considerable work during the
past several years. He will shortly
install an air compressor and four
drills.
Fagenberg Brothers have three
men at work on their property on
Copper Creek. They are running a
tunnel that is now 100 feet in. A
porphyry dyke that was IS inches
on the surface has widened to two
and half feet, and shows values
that vary from $40 to 500 per ton.
The Erickson property on Glacier
Creek is under option to Capped,
Radcliffe & Co. With five men they
have been driving a tunnel this win
ter which is now in 1875 feet. The
showing is remarkably good. DR..
Maclaren, of London, an expert of
considerable note, made an examina-
ton of this property the fore part
of February. 1t is believed that on
his recommendation a large force of
men will be put to work this season.
Mr.. Radcliffe and other interested
parties will come from London this
summer to look over the property.
They are men of large means and
it is expected that they will become
largely interested in copper proper
ties of the Nazina country.
Stevenson and Diamond, who have
been prospecting their property on
Young creek, got good showing
of coarse gold on bed rock.
For several years Frank Herman
has been working his placer proper
ties on Rex and Chittitu creeks with
satisfactory results. This year he
expects to employ fifteen men.
Chris Tjosevig will work four men
this summer on the left arm of the
kennecott glacier, Is miles from
Mile 1911. He has a tunnel 1vO feet
in high grade copper glance.
1t is noted with considerable in
terest that the Guggenheims are hav-
ing supplies hauled to their patent
ed ground on Erie and Independence
claims, which are a part of the b.
nanza group. 1t is expected that
they will soon commence work on a
large scale and open up these prop
critics.
When E. F. Gray, of the Great
Northern Development Company,
was in New York, Boston and Phil
adelphia last December, he organ
lied the Regal Mining Company with
a paid-in capital of $25v,vO0. They
have group of 16 copper claims on
the Kennecott glacier. There is a
fine outcrop that Mr.. Gray will sink
on. He will follow the ore body and
expects to make a rich showing with
the 70 men that he will have at work
this summer. If he can put it on a
shipping basis he will build a tram
from the mine to the surface of the
glacier. From there he will haul the
ore on. motor trucks to the railroad
that will be extended about mile
from its present terminus at Mile
196.
The Bloomquist and Barrett prop
erty on Porphyry mountain will soon
have six men at work on it.
The Kennecott Mines Company is
now employing 172 men on their
Bonanza property, under the super
vision of Manager Seagrave. The
new superintendent of the mill, Mr..
Cox, reports that he expects to have
the concentration in operation by
April, when at least hundred more
men will be given employment.
A loggers' camp has been estab-
lished at Long Lake, where ten men
are now at work cutting and loading
logs on the cars for Kennecott.
A daily train service is maintained
between Chitina and Kennecott.