Eastern Utah advocate. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1895-1915, 1914-11-05
ALASKA GOLD DEPOSITS
SURPRISE BIOLOGISTS
SALT LAKE PEOPLE rRoMINEN r.
LY INTERESTED.
Prospects Are Very Watering with
Placer Finds Running Into Hum
drcds OF Thousands OF Doliars-
Plant Installed.

George w. sias OF the Valdez Creek
placer mine returned last week to
Salt Lake City from Alaska. where
he has spent the entire season INSTALL
ing 100000 worth Of machinery
which began washing August ~ and
closed September 20. when the mer-
curry went down TO zero. says the Bos-
ton News Bureau. Eevrything Ia now
IN shape for a fun season OF washing
next season. In discussing Alaska and
It's mines. Mr.. slas says;
We didn't have time TO clean out
the he'd OF rock. where estimate
here IL n good t100. 900. but from the
boxes we took out ti2oo. and In doing
azsesament work on our claim we
picked up $4,000. more than $4,000
OF which was In nuggets some OF
which would run AZ high as $40. Some
days work would yield az much as
900 per man. Our thirty-six inch
pipe line n over a mile long and n
under a sbO-foot head. II carries
more than 1000 miners inches OF wa
ter every twenty-four hours.
In Alaska they figure on nve cubic
| inch, but " we do next season only
three cubic yards per inch each day
we should wash 5000 yards n day.
The gravel bank has returned i2.7O
per cubic yard. but estimated at only
81 per cubic yard. we shall be making
next year all the money that we could
ask for. We have spent over $780,
900 In the valdcz Creek properties and
expect To- be taking out more than that
every year.
The working time In Alaska for hy-
drauiicing IN about $50 days The
luugEcnheimH. operating about 100
miles west Of ua. took out $4,000. 900
in dredging this season. but we can
hydraulic cheaper than they can
dredge. expect In few years Ia
be returning "A million gold year
from our property
No man can 20 to Alaska today
without returning an enthusiast on
the prospective gold output from that
country l spent n whole day at Ja-
neau going over the Alaska Cold
! Mines property. That In destined TO
be the greatest gold camp In the
world. Alaska Gold has tunneled the
mountain for two miles. and you dc
. not need a mAgnifying glass TO scs
the htfluNfEH " h'ta tthHh Rh'Hh'
the mountain. don't believe thi
mountain can be worked out In I
hundred years.
4 The layout OF the Alaska Gold Mine
: company In It's engineering In mos
( scientific and on the biggest scale O
; any gold mine In the world. Tn
Z output OF this mine. combined will
. the Alaska Trcadweli and what tn
United states Mining people are do
p lng In the same region will give ia
9 neau gold yield that will rival tina
n of the Rand In South Africa.
Notwithstanding the handicap o
. the climate. I believe Alaska WI
!. within a reasonable number OF year
= aatoniHh the world, Tho Alaska bill
which have passed congress viii civ
!. "A great stimulus 10 this territory
2 Broad Pass where the government
= Twin probably build the Alaskan
. railroad. has had n tremendous goi'
. strike. The outcrop II claimed 90 b
!. nfty feet wide and has been trace
4 for miles.
The government estimates that IN
= erritory through which this road WI
probably pass is capable OF SUSTAINING
y a population OF 26.OO0.O on its min
eral and agricultural resources, TIL
= Alaska gold fields are bigger than tn
. pennsylvania coal neldH.