The Alaska daily empire., 1915-08-09

au exceedingly prosperous year. me high price of copper Is keeping the mine crew working to its limit co' pacity
 Messrs. Murgerman and McDaniels, representing capitalists Of Tonopah, Nevada. recently completed an exam nation of copper property on Knights Island They have returned to Nevo- da to fiie their reports They are expected to return to the property thls summer as 1t was indicated chat the report on the property would be favorable
 Fl. w. Vance. representing Martin Welch. a Spokane millionaire, he's ta- ken O bond on a property in the Tick hell district, on the Valdez-Fairbanks trail and work Is to be started short. ! ly. The property has shown outcrop- pings of gold quartz. MT. Vance has bonded copper property on Knights Island
 Robert J. Cole. @ mining engineer of Butte. Mont. Is making an exten- slve examination on Quartz Creek, 1 Teikhen district. for Seattle capital ists. who are with Mir. Cole on his examination trip.
 The Ramsay-Rutherford property in the Valdez district. of which Henry Deyo is manager IS being operated and from all reports, i8 doing exceed ! ingly well.
 Fl. E "Red" Ellis is developing the cliff mine and the 10-stomp min on the property is expected to be started some time before the end of Che sum- mer The cliff suspended operations when the lower working were flood ed
 The Gold King property is being worked on a small but highly satis- factory way. A 2S-day min run, with one shift working. resulted in a clean lup of 1000 on this property and rec ently another brick brought to Val dez brought the total up to more than S16.000 for less than two months work. The milling is done with one small Huntington Mill, and the show ing is regarded in Valdez as extraor-I dinary.
 Col. B. F. Willard has crew of men working on the Honey Boy Gold property. The owner expects the mine to become one of the big produc CTS in the Valdez district.
 P. M. Cockerin, a Texas capitalist. has a bond on 8 property in the Port Wells country. and O crew of men is at work carrying out an extensive de- velopment program.
 A 5-stamp mill is to be installed on the Seacoast property. in the Valdez district this year General Manager Pulver is on his way to the States on business in connection with the install laHon of the mill. He passed through Juneau Saturday night on the ua- meda
 Sidney Drake and D. D. Fleming engineers. expect to resume opera tions on the Cameron-Johnson prop erty soon. Drake has gone to Seattle but will return North late this month.
 Free Gold Doing We'll
 William Martin. who is operating a leaseion the Alaska Free Gold mine, on Fish Hook Creek. in the Willow Creek district. is employing about six ty men at the present time. The mine is one of the best in that district the ore running about $50 to the ton. on the average. The recovery has aver aged in the neighborhood of S5 per cent. according to newspaper arti- cle recently appearing in the Seward Gateway. The cyanide plant is op. | erating steadily under the direction of William Phelps, formerly of the Alaska Gastineau mill at Thane. Re- gently an extremely good body of rich ore was encountered in the drift that tape the ore body at a distance sev- eral hundred feet lower than ever before.
 The Independent mine, about a half mile from the Martin property off which l.. S. Robe is manager, is em ploying about 20 men in the mine and mill. The mill consists of one Ms son stamp and two small stamps amalgamation plates and two Barnes concentrating tables. Tailings are being imponded for treatment by cY- anide later.
 The Alaska Gold Bullion Mining Company. operating on Willow Creek are employing about sixty men in the mine and mill at present. Donald liar ris. manager of the mine passed through on the Alameda on his way to Baltimore on business. The mill consists of 2 stamps amalagamation plates. and a cyanide plant.
 The Brooklyn property is under a bond to the Gold Bullion people, and nine men have been employed on de- velopment work
 Japanese Doing We'll.
 The Three laps property, also in the Willow Creek district. and adioin- ing the Brooklyn group, has opened up a body of high grade ore and with one small stamp is taking out S75 day. Three Japanese are working the property all the work being done by them.
 The Mabel mine, on Archangel Creek has recently let several contracts for the development of their property and William Bartholf expects to in- stall a small mill on the group, in the spring.
 The Alaska-Kenai gold mine, con trolled by James R. Hayden and To- cated 26 miles from Seward. have been prosecuting a steady develop ment schedule this summer. High grade ore is being milled.
 Mr. Smith visited the railroad pro-