The Alaska daily empire., 1915-08-18
MANEEVFR IS TO ERECT BIG
 MILL ON CLAIMS

NA tlN AAlANtan AiA~N AAN't HUI mus will be Sanford Makeeyer, Mir. and Mrs. G. G. Bacon, F W. Lombard and E. B. Dennison, ali of whom are Eastern financiers back Of the deyel- opment work now progressing under the direction Of A. B. Dodd and known as the Alaska Gold Belt properties.
 Speaking of his visit in Juneau and in connection with the properties which he came out here to inspect, Mir. Makeever mentioned today a fact which is perhaps not generally known to persons outside the ranks of min ing engineers; that by approaching the upper Sheep Creek district from Creek it is possible at this time of year-or at a time when there is no snow-to view practically a cross section of the whole geologi. cai formation of tho district which comprises the properties of the Alas ka-Gastineau. Alaska-Juneau and AL aslSa Gold Belt properties Tt was not until ! had made that trip" said Mir. Makeever," that l realized what wonderful opportunities there are in this section of the country. There are four distinct gold belts right here in Juneau-The first is the Silver Queen belt, which ends about where the old sawmill is located little below Thane. The second l may call the Perseverance belt. Although the sec ond and third have no distinct names but the second opens in the Alaska Gaslineau properties and the third is larger than all of the others com. bined. The Alaska Gold Belt is the fourth and our tunnel will cut this big belt at a depth of about 1900 feet, and by dropping we will gain a depth of $500 feet through both veins.
 Tn all, the Alaska Gold Belt prop critics comprise no full claims. five fractional claims. aggregating 225O acres: and 40 millsites aggregating 200 acres; making in an total of 269O acres. We will develop 140O horsepower on the beach at our mill site where we have a 12OO-foot head on the Little Sheep Creek The pow CT developed there will be sufficient to drive the big lunnel from the beach a distance of 5000 feet. The tunnel will certainly be wide enough to admit a double track and in all probability we will have 1t wide enough for three tracks.
 rThe work on our big tunnel will not begin until the development work going on at present in the proving tun- mel has been completed and has made it possible to locate the best point at which to begin driving the big tunnel This will probably take close to three months"
 Speaking of the probable location of the main mills and general build ings of the company. Mir. Makeever stated thot owing to the simplicity of the character of the work which they are undertaking. and of the belt which they arc testing they consider the local mills a sufficient guide to justify working on a larger plant right in the beginning, instead Of erecting a testing plant It is therefore the intention of the company to install at the outset a mill of a capacity ap- proNimating the maximum which they believe the properties will warrant. Plans are being submitted at the present time by several large con- cerns, but the contract for the con- struction Of the mill has not as yet been awarded This plant will be in working order about the first of the year and win employ approximately 1000 men. Our pay roll will not be so large as that of the other mines. % remarked Mir. Makeever because it is our intention to have only one camp"
 "We will have bunk house and boarding house and supply station right at the tunnel 80 that our men can be taken care of during the win ter months. Everything else will be on the beach, because we wish to have all of our equipment together. We have twenty men now at work on the power end.
 We will have very few serious questions to decide l believe, since the general plan of our development is very simple We will not begin our extensive construction work on our docks until Spring We have no use for docks now, and will give our attention to other phases of the work until wharves are needed"
 The company expects to expend about sS,OOO,OOO in its preliminary de- velopment work here and within a year or SO will have added another producing property to it's already large holdings in Montana and Mex leo. Among the properties which are now owned and operated by the men who are back of the Alaska Gold Belt Company-a corporation known as the Makeever Brothers-are the El Favor and Mooloa gold and silver mines in Mexico, the Royal Basin copper mine at Maxville. Montana, and the Wa sau Zinc mine which is also located in Montana.
 Mir. and Mrs. Bacon and Mr. Lom- bard left on the Seattle today for Skagway. returning on the Princess Alice Friday morning at which time they will be joined by MT. Makeever and Mir. Denison. The party will separate again at Vancouver, Mir. Makeever and Mr. Denison going to Seattle from where they will leave by rail for San Francisco. After a few days at the Exposition in San Francisco they will return to New York via Salt Lake, Denver and Chi oooo ond ovnncf fo ho in Nrov, York