The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-01

operations have long since marked these gentlemen as careful, conser- vative mining men and financiers, and it was only because of the unset tied business and political conditions in Mexico which rendered a continu- ance of their activities there imprac- ticable, that they determined to en- ter the Alaskan mining field. Their farsightedness in this respect is shown by their action.
 Some years ago when conditions in Mexico were beginning to be disturb ed. one of the members Of the firm MT. Sanford Makeever came to the Southeastern part of Alaska, ostcnsi- bly as tourist, but in reality that he might for himself and associates, observe the possibilities of this coun- try and get that personal touch which every successful man has with mat ters in his own particular field of ac- tivity. At the time of his visit to Juneau, the communities on Gastineau Channel were just beginning to open the door to admit the prosperity for which they had so long waited and which today they are beginning to realize.
 The Treadwell properties on Doug las Island across the Channel from where the Alaska Gold-Belt Com pany's big reduction plant. wharves, shops and headquarters will be To- cated, were, of course, producing abundantly for many years, but the new development on the mainland at Juneau, and in the Gold Creek and Sheep Creek Basin had just begun MT. Sanford Makeever saw this, and he and his brothers began a careful and systematic search for valuable properties.
 About this time,. MT. A. E. Dodd mining engineer of wide experience in the United States, Canada, Mexi- co. and Alaskan mining fields, and Prof D. c. Bard, head of the Mon- tana School of Mines, at Butte, Mon- tana, and one of the best known and most capable geologists in the United States, having been friends and busi. ness associates for many years, decid. ed to investigate Alaskan mining con. ditions and directed their attention to the Juneau Gold Belt Ultimately, these two gentlemen and the Makeev. CT Brothers camo together and unit ed their efforts In search for a property in the Juneau Gold Belt. that might be developed and operated on large scale.
 MT. John l.. Makeever of New York City. and Mir. Nj. NJ. Maveeker of Boston, Massachusetts. both members of the firm of Makeever Brothers, have been associated with their brother. MT. Sanford Makeever in all the mining and financial operations and transactions of their firm. and share with him in the successful man. agement of their business as a finan- cial and mining institution.
 1 The result of the combining of the interests and efforts of these five men was a careful investigation of various properties along the Juneau Gold Belt. Among those properties are group of forty gour gold quartz claims lying on the mainland in the Upper Basin of the Sheep Creek Val. ley. a group of millsites on Gastineau Channel, at point about a mile southeasterly of the postoffice at Thane and about five miles south. casterly of the town of Juneau. and the tunnel site connecting the claims In the Upper Basin of Sheep Creek with the millsltes on the beach. These claims were generally known in this section as the Nelson.Lott properties. the owners being Mir. Richard P. Mel. son, one of Juneau's most substantial