The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-11
STORY OF CAREER or
 ANDREW <. BEAgSoN

I STORY OF CARRIER or
 ANDREW x. BEAHS0N
 The following story of the life oi the late Andrew K Beatson, Alaskan minor who developed the La pouche copper property which is now one oi I tie leading Gugenheim mines and who died in California recently is taken from the Seattle Postlntelli | gencer
 Beatson. though native oi New York City. where he was born July q lS54 removed with his parents, Dr. and Mrs James Robertson Beatson, In 1854 to California He engaged in the mining business as very young man, and the early years ot his 1 career were the usual ones of Q min ! Ing man He was appointed superin- tendent Of the Biz Bend Tunnel x ] Mining Company in 1881, remaining with that concern for more than ten l years. directing the construction Of | the 12.000.foot tunnel, which now ! drains the Father river and which is the source of power of the Great Wos. tern Power Company, operating in the ! San Francisco boy district.
 Went to Al2oSa in 1896.
 In 1896 ho went to Alaska. and less than a year later was associated in the location of the Big Bonanza group. The discovery comprised the second group of copper locations made in ! Southwestern Alaska, The claims de- veloped. with the financial aid of the ! Guggenheims, Into one of the greatest copper properties in the world. The syndicate became identified with Beatson aud his associates, Andrew Robertson, In 1910 and since that time development at the Bonanza mine has ] progressed rapidly. The operations on Ia Touche island have been carried on under Che corporate namo of tho Beotson Copper Company, with main offices in New York The first ore ship. ment from the Bonanza mine was made through Seattle In 1899 In 1908 a shipment of 100 tons was brought down from Alaska and since thot time the production has increas. cd steadily
 Married ln October 1908.
 Mr Beatson later retired from the active management of the company which bore his name, marrying Miss Flora Macdonald, October 1908. The next few years Mir. and Mrs. Beatson spent In travel, and early this year they permanently located n Los An geles, where Mr. Beatson re-entered business. organizing the Fifty Asso- ciates, 8 company dealing with the financing of commercial enterprises. Mir Beatson was the head of the com pany at the time of his death. The exact size of his fortune is not known.
 Besides his widow he is survived by. brother James Beatson, of Los An. geles and a hali-sister Miss A. Greg ory, of Oakland
 Alaskan Tells of Beatson's plscovery
 "Alr Beatson was an honest straightforward Alaskan" said w. A.. Dickey, Of Landlock Bay Alaska, to the PostJntelligeneer last night
 Air Beatson came to Cooks inlet in 1896 When there, he met Mike Gladhough, who gave him some sam-I pies of copper ore from his claims near Elamar. MT. Beatson took the samples to the selby smelter where he vas immediately instructed to re- turn Alaska to stake claims iu the dis rict. Mir. Beatson returned, met Clad hough In Cooks Inlet, and then start- cd for EHam0r A native told Billy Ripstein, member of the party of another copper mountain even bigger than that at Eliamar. Ripstein md the native made tho seventyhye mile trip to La Touche island from Ellamar in bIdarla and staked claim. Mir. Beatson, Gladbough and the others went there soon afterward and stakedI claims for themselves.
 Wnen the billlbh oolulADla BY Hul' cate, which took over the Bonanza property gave up their option Mr. Beatson interested his cousin. Andrew Robinson in che venture. They formed the La Touche Copper com pany and blocked out million dol lars worth of ore before tho Guggen- helms became Interested in it. Ste pben Birch was instrumental in ac- Quiring the Bonanza property for the Alaska syndicate The properly toi date has paid more than S1,OO0,OOO profit and between 100000 and 5.-i 000000 tons of ore arc blocked out now. A 500.ton concentrator is in the process of installation.