The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-01

in Gold Creek. the rocks stand at considerably higher angles in the re- zion drained by Sheep Creek. From about 60 degrees on the Gold Creek divide the dips increase to 90 degrees in the upper part of the basin, and on the Grindstone divide the beds are slightly overturned, so that the dips are steep toward the southwest. In creasing width of the black-slate band southward from Gold Creek suggests the presence of considerable folding and duplication of the strata, but no direct evidence of this sort of struc- ture has been observed"
 After careful investigation of the Nelson-I-ott properties, the Makeever- Dodd-Bard combination decided to take over these properties and MT. Dodd. obtained bond on them. In the Spring of the present year, the Alaska Gold-Belt company was or ganized by these gentlemen, and this company took over the bond from Mir. Dodd. In addition to these properties certain valuable water rights were purchased and others located by or on behalf of the company.
 MT. Dodd, as Managing Director of and on behalf of the company, took charge and began preparations for the development of the property as soon as the preliminaries were ar ranged. When it is borne in mind that the company. at this time held under the bond an extensive tract of land at tidewater of Gastineau Chan nel, and that this Is connected with the mineral ground in the Upper Bas. in by tunnel site, it will readily be understood in general way at least. that the general plan of operation of the company Is to tap the properties some 400 feet below the floor of the Basin and some $500 feet below the summit of Mount Lott thus making it possible to mine the ground at a minimum cost. Before referring fur ther to the matter of the ultimate plans for the development of these properties. it will doubtless be of in terest to know what the company is now doing and why it is doing it.
 One of the interesting things about this company and its operations is the directness of its approach to the work in hand and the rapidity of the operation that has characterized this work. Without any ado, Mir. Dodd, the managing director, organized a crew. installed a compressor, erect ed power lines, constructed several mine buildings in the Upper Basin on the side of the Sheep Creek-Taku Divide. and in what would seem to be an incredibly short space of time, had started to drive a tunnel into this divide from the Basin at an ele- vation of approximately 300 feet above the floor of the Basin, and 1895 feet above the sea level. This tun. nel. which is seven by eight feet in dimensions, is being driven to cross cut the lodges known to exist in the divide, and within the boundaries of the Nelson.Lott properties. When these ledges are reached, 1t Is intend. ed to drift along the lead in a south. easterly direction until the ore bodies In Mount Lott have been opened; the Idea being that this crosscut and drift shall constitute the upper work. ings of the property. Tn order to press the work with as much expidi. tion and efficiency as possible, Mir. Dodd, on behalf of the company, ad. yertised for bids for driving this tun. mel. A number of bids were sub. mitted and that of Arthur l.. Rien. deau, one of the most exerienced and well known of the tunnel men of the entire North who has driven more long tunnels than any other one man