The Chitina leader., 1913-06-10

able them to pack out the ore.
 Another very promising property is that owned by Fred Refs and Ray Willard. This is very large ledge of low grade ore and it's accessibility will warrant further development.
 Adolph Larson, Lars Holland and Gus Johnson also have very rich lead on their property. Assays made last year gave returns of over 1000 to the ton, and if the ledge will widen as they attain depth, they have a veritable bonanza.
 The Florence-Teikhell Mining Con- pany have a crew of men working on their ground opening up their property and if the result of the work justifies, they intend to install mill next fall. The company has money enough in the treasury from the sale of stock to allow of extensive de- yelopment work.
 There were also several other To- cations made on the same creek by Charles Hill, Sam Scarr, Slim Gray and others, but the discoveries were made too late in the season to en- able them to do any development work. They announce that as soon as the snow disappears they will open up the property and determine it's value.
 It is reported at Chitina that a
 ich placer strike was recently made on Johnson creek, about twenty miles from Slate creek, and a stam- pede is on from Fairbanks to the new diggings, as the result of two men appearing in the Panama val ley with immense pokes of dust, which they claim was taken from one of the claims on Johnson creek Six prospectors from Chitina have left for the new strike.
 A tramway is being constructed on the Mother Lode copper property at Kennicott, and upon its compile tion another mine will be shipping ore.
 This property is located on a sheer zone or vein, 40 to 60 feet wide and striking north and south, for a dis tance of little more than 1000 feet. It is situated in the Copper River district near the line of the Copper River & Northwestern railway.
 The fracture occurs in an almost verticle position through the lime stone and greensboro, the limestone being superimposed upon the green stone to a depth ranging from 1900 to 2,200 feet. The source of the copper being in the greensboro, it therefore follows that the croppings on the surface extend down at least to their source, the limestone acting simply as a receptacle for the depos- ition of copper from below. The croppings consist of chalcocite Cooper glance), which is the richest commercial ore, and in this case av- erages above 65 per cent copper, with a content of approximately 16 ounces in silver to the ton. They are massive and extensive in char acter and essentially pure.
 Cross-cut tunnels and drifts have been run 100 feet below the crop pings. The vein is encountered S5 feet from the portal of the tunnel and drifted on in a northerly direc- tion for a distance of 65 feet, the drift penetrating through solid chal- cocite for the entire distance. A winze was then sunk for the pur- pose of determining the dip of the vein to assist in determining the To- lcation of the commercial tunnel to be driven in below at a point just |above the greensboro.
 Fresh from the pansy beds and nightless days of Alaska" is the way Marshal Harvey T. Sullivan is de. scribed by a Portland reporter upon his present visit to that city. The scribe then dreams on as follows: With him is deputy Marshal L | G. Better, of Cordova, a 'sourdough of the romatnIc days of the early gold rush. The government oftic l als came down to place an insane
 Alaskan at Morningside.
 Alaska is just beginning a new era of development said Marshal Sullivan at the Perkins hotel last night You should see our flower beds and rosebuds. You would think you lived in Oregon to see the greer | things and the smiling countryside | The snow is almost all off the hills and the gold miners are already talk
 ing out their thousands and thous
 ands.