The Cordova daily times., 1914-12-12
b|G MINING DEAL IN SIGHT hT
 JUNEAU

will mean the expenditure of severa additional millions of dollars in tn, near vicinity of Juneau, should it 3, consummated. There is good req son to believe that it will go through
 The deal in question will includ, in one workable group all the hold ings of the Hallum group and all O the claims owned and controlled by George Noble on Salmon creek, to gether with the mill sites and the water rights of these groups, to be turned over for a lump sum to the United States Smelling, Refining X Mining Company. The latter con pany already has an option on the old Ebner property in Last Chance basin, which Is being developed md opened up under the directiol 't Downie D. Muir.
 Robert A. Kinzie, formerly IA the Treadwell interests, is said @ now on his way to New York to a 3 the final report which will decide he deal one way or another.
 MT. Kinzie was in Juneau this 't,l, having returned from the outside '- ter he had resigned his position wh the Treadwell, and it is then, "- cording to the report in mining L. cles. that he made the e nina of the Hallum group of cl ms an. the Noble properties in th interest of the big mining company
 Of course, no one other nan him self, possibly knows what is report will be. However, mining men If experience claim that the merit of tla properties in question has been estaH lished, and that in the fin deal 1t will be merely a question price to be paid.
 For nearly year now the aterest- ed parties have been busy fearing up legal entanglements in ora.r that a delivery could be made of enough claims to warrant operations on q large scale, since no compa"" would care to buy lawsuits.
 Should the deal go through IS ex- pected, in another season q, be carried forward operations or 3 ex- tensive a scale as those whic nave marked the development C the Alaska Gastineau Gold Mining om- pany the past and present year. Ind with the first unit of the latto. 'om- pany to be shipping the first next year, and other units to be at ed, ;o- gether with the extensive prove ments being carried forward the Treadwell people on both s of the channel, for increasing tn put put, the addition of third C. any to the field will make Junea he largest gold mining camp he world.
 It does not eed any proph to read Juneau's future in the Ii of these industrial signs. Colo a metal that will always mainta it's market value. As already es nat ed by engineers who are not suess- ing, there are hundreds of millions of dollars worth of ore in sight, d for every million that is taken out good percentage of it will be paid for labor and supplies and help ell rich commercial channels.
 By a consolidation of the Hallum, Ebner and Noble properties, the pros pective purchasing company will have ample ground for building US mills and other ore reduction plants in addition to the boarding houses and other mine buildings.
 The only other question which re mains to be settled, is the matter or the water rights between the Lit le Treadwell" and the Ebner group for the use of the water in Last Chance basin. The case has been tried before Judge Jennings, and he took the matter under advisement Ie is expected that his decision will be forthcoming almost any time now
 Therefore the matter of few days or a few weeks will most likely see the fulfillment of plans for the opera tions of another big mining syndi' cate in and about Juneau.
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