The daily Alaskan., 1915-09-24
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At @ speech at a conserYaIIVe i party meeting held in Dawson on . the night of Wednesday, Sept ! 18th. 1915, Dr. Aired Thompson member of the Dominion parliament from Yukon territory, gave a brief . review of what had been done by the government since getting con- trol of public affairs in 1911. His address, which appears in the Daw- son News of Sept. l6th, is an in teresting article, but owing to it's length We regret that we can only publish that portion relating to Yukon territory, which is almost as important to Skagway as it is to the people of the interior, for the reason that any measure that is Of benefit to our Canadian neighborS in the mining regions to the east and north and west of Us is almost of equal importance to either Skag- way or Haines, for it is through these two ports on Lynn canal alone that passenger and freight traffic to and from the outside can be car ried ou advantageously he whole of the year, for, however Tegrettable it may be the international boun- dary line isolates and shuts in the Yukon territory and Northern British Columbia from tidewater on the Pacific, while it proves au equally insurmountable barrier to the expansion of American com merc;aI, mining and industrial pur- suits in the opposite direction. pr Thompson's remarks follow:
 The prospects for the future prosperity Of the Yukon are very good at the present time At the south end of the territory, in the Wheaton district, there ars large depos:t5 of antimOny ore, which our gvoIogfsts tell Us are among the largest in the world. These de- posits are at present occupying the attention Of people interested in mia.uy autimOuy. 4 number of claims have been staked and re- corded and some development work IS being done. The price of anti mouy $ quite high, and has been since ihe war began, and, as a re- suit of this, there is likely to be good deal of antimony ore shipped from Wheaton district dur ing the coming winter, and thus new industry will be established in Yukon.
 When the war broke out " the price of copper declined so rapidly that the copper mines at White horse could not ship at a profit and as a result closed down. since the war began the consumption of copper has been so great and the prices have advanced so rapidly that they are now at a point where the copper mines at Wkitehorse can operate at a profit. One or two Of the smaller mines are operating and shipping ore. The Pueblo mine, which has shipped the largest amoun: of ore Up to present date, is likely to begin shipping in the early spring, and there are other mines in the Whitehorse belt which will De able to ship as long as copper maintains IFS present level.
 .Ia the Mayo country, the Ait keus mine has shipIed over 1000 tons O. silver ore, and it is gen orally understood that there are at least another 1000 tons in sight, with good prospects of the ore con- tiuuing with depth. The opening of this mine has given a great impetus to prospecting in the Upper Stewart with the result that a number of prospects are now having more or less done on them, and new finds have been made within the last six months.
 We have had Dr. Cairnes at the head of a geological and topo- graphical party in the Yukon all summer. He made survey of the autimony fields at Wheaton and Is now in the Upper Stewart making a survey of the silver properueS