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The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-01
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The Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company's claims comprise about 1000 acres of land located on the wide vein locally known as the Juneau Geld Belt" Many of these claims in
 the group were the first locations made in the district. The early placer work
 following the discoveries of Richard
 Harris and Joe Juneau led to the dis covery of gold-bearing quartz veins and many crude operations were started on the rich portion of the outcrop and on rich float. Much ef- fort was expended by the early pros- pectors in futile effort to fine a vein
 or lode of sufficient persistency to justify underground mining operation
 but these efforts failed on account of the peculiar character of the deposit. There was, however, in the aggregate. great deal of money won by the early operators as a result of their efforts. It became apparent after some time that the character of the deposits were such that they could not be handled
 by men of limited means and it was not until the early operation on the claims now included in the Ebner group as we'll as on those of the Alas ka Juneau group had proven the area and value of the vein that it became evident that quartz mining operation could only be made successful when the ores were considered low grade and handled accordingly. The first work done by the Alaska Juneau Com. pany began in about 1893 when a 5 stamp mill was erected to crush se- lected ore mined from the outcrop. The results. obtained from this mill justified the owners in constructing 30 stamp mill in 1895. This 30 | stamp mill together with the stamp mill were operated only during the flood water season, work usually beginning in May or June and ex. tending through to October or Novem. Der. Up to and including the season or 1911 the 30 stamps crushed about 300.O00 tons of ore. During the sea son of 1912 the mill was used for ex. perimental purposes, and in the sea
 son of 1913 was not operated. The ore crushed during this period was mined from open cuts located on the outcrops, and during the early oper
 ations selection was made, the rich
 CT portions only going to the mill
 and the lower grade portion going tC
 the waste dump; later on the entire
 mass was milled. The result obtained
 from all this work yielded a vas
 fund of information in regard to tn,
 character of the deposit and as t;
 it's possibilities. In 1899 Archie My
 ems, the then superintendent, appre
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ciating the value of the property. To- cated a group of claims on the west end of the vein, having in view broader scope of operation requiring an outlet from Jualpa Basin. In 1902 Joseph Macdonald, superintendent of the Treadwell group, conceived the plan of driving tunnel from Gastin- eau Channel, and drove the tunnel for some distance. It was realized at that time that tailings from operations conducted on a large scale could only be satisfactorily disposed of by locat- ing the milling plant on the shore of the channel. During the few years immediately following the starting of this tunnel no actual work was done toward completing any program for the proposed future operation on large scale, but all effort was confin- ed to exploration work in Silver Bow Basin. Several tunnels were driven at different points across the ore bearing formation and much experi- mental milling work was done in or der to demonstrate the value of the ground so exposed. Although this work all confirmed the results ob- tained by milling ore from the open pits, the Alaska Juneau Company did not feel prepared to drive either the Jualpa tunnel or the Gastineau Chan n i'm nnl f0r highly speculative on account of the unknown character of the vein at greater depth.
 However, in 1910. F. w. Bradley having become convinced that there was sufficient evidence to warrant confidence in the lower levels, worked out the details for mining and mill ing on large scale, and entered in- to contract with the Alaska Juneau Company, binding himself to drive a 60O0-foot tunnel from Gold Creek to point vertically beneath the sur face workings. This contract also stipulated that MT. Bradley was, pro- vided the ore encountered was of satisfactory width and value. to con- l struct a mill on the shore of Gas tineau Channel and connect this mill with the mine by suitable tram way properly equipped. In fulfilling
 this work, according to contract
 schedule, MT. Bradley associated
 with him in his venture such men as
 Ogden Mills, J. II. Mackenzie, NJ. L.
 Requa and w. II. Crocker The out
 come of the development work done
 under the contract not only fully con
 firmed Mir. Bradley's confidence in the property, but it also demonstrated that work could be conducted on g larger scale than was originally con templated. Suitable arrangement!
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1 sideration of $500, he would try to sell the mine in San Francisco. The deal was made. Treadwell went to California, returned on May 17, 1882 with 5-stamp mill which he erect. ed on the Paris claim. Erussard had relinquished his interest in the claim for $505. the ownership going to Col. onel Fry. James Freeborn, an asso. ciate of Fry's, and John Treadwell Later Darious Ogden Mills bought Freeborn's holding, and soon after. ward the Alaska Mill & Mining Com, pany was formed and the Treadwell mine made its start. The majority interest was purchased in 1890 by [ English capital. on the advice of Ham. ilton Smith, the first consulting en. gineer of the Alaska Treadwell Com. pany. He was followed successive. ly by II. c. Perkins, Thomas Martin, and Frederic w. Bradley.
 Today the Treadwell mills are crushing 4S00 tons of rock daily. About 1900 men are employed, and the payroll is $135,0OO for a month. Mining is carried on under the shrink. age system, with ore-filled stopes, and it is estimated that at the present time there is ore enough blocked out for six years milling. The ore is hoisted out of the mine in skips, is rTnShp1 a hn haf iY, tory crushers and is trammed to the various mills. After the rock is pull verized by the stamps the pulp is run over amalgamation tables and about onehalf of the values is there saved in the form of amalgam. The pulp is concentrated on vanners and the concentrates are then taken to the cyanide plant, the tailings run ming to waste. After the cyaniding process the refining room casts the gold into bricks, which are sent to the United States mint for coinage Frederic w. Bradley of San Fran cisco is president of the Alaska Treadwell corporations, having sue ceeded the late Fl. H. Taylor three years ago. The mines are under the superintendency of Philip R. Bradley brother of the president. Russell G Wayland is assistant superintendent (The following article on the
 Treadwell mines was furnished
 by Russell G. WayIand, assistant
 superintendent.)
 The Treadwell group of mines i, situated on the noreast side of Dougla, Island about two and one-half miles southeast of the city of Juneau, whicl is located on the mainland acros! Gastineau Channel.
 The group consists of four mines
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quartz of the outcrop into his sluice boxes and shortly afterward he hand drilled a shallow tunnel to cut the vein a few feet below the moss-cov cred surface. This was the first min- ing on Douglas Island.
 The Paris claim. which vanished la ter, when the Glory Hole swallowed 1t up. was not a success as Erussard mined it and two years later the claim was transferred to John Treadwell. Treadwcll had been sent to the Jul neau Gold Belt by Col. John D. Fry, San Francisco banker. to examine prospect in this district. He dis covered that the prospect, which was located in Silver Bow Basin, not far from the present Ebner mine, had been extensively mined. and he made ready 70 return to San Francisco with report of his findings. It was while he was waiting for a steamer that he met Erussard. who had a lit. tle store in Juneau. French Pete needed cash to pay freight bill; he wanted $500 and was willing to accept that sum for an interest In his Paris lode. Treadwell took a chance" gave Erussard $500 out of the money Colonel Fry had given him, and immediately went to Doug las to see what he had bought. Tread. well liked the looks of the showing on the Paris claim and bonded the claim for t2O.0OO. After prospecting for the rest of the year, Treadwell returned to Juneau and stayed at Erussard's house. He told his part. ner that tho Paris ore was too low grade and suggested that If Pierre would deed him the claim. for . con
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these chutes the ore as it is broken is drawn, and trammed to the shaft When the stopes have been cut out, back-stoping begins, i. e., holes are drilled into the back of the stope and the ore blasted down. The broken ore is kept at an elevation of about seven feet below the back as the stope pro- gresses through to the level above. After the stope Is finished the broken ore Is drawn and the pillars allowed to cave. It is often possible to re- cover a high percentage of this cared ore.
 The ore is trammed to the chutes from pockets at the shafts in twoton cars which may be hauled by horses, storage battery locomotives, gasoline locomotives or stationary tram en- zines with endless rope haulage. From the ore pockets at the various shafts the ore is drawn into skips and hoist ed to the surface. The skips are then dumped automatically, the ore falling into gyratory crushers and thence to the various bins, whence it is taken to the various mills.
 The milling plant consists of five stamp mills operating a total of 93O stamps at this time with 30 stamps under construction. The tonnage now treated is 5000 tons per day. The treatment is very simple, stamping amalgamation and concentration on free vanners. The concentrates, which amount to about 100 tons per day are treated at the cyanide plant. This plant also retorts the amalgam from the mills and refines all bullion. The treatment at this plant is in brief as follows: regrinding in Itube mills in cyanide solution, agitation in pachuca tanks to dissolve the gold; Altering off the pulp; precipitating the gold from solution by means of zinc dust, and refining the precipitate to gold bullion.
 The total production to January l, 1915. was 24,117,633 tons of ore which yielded $5S.366. .9379S or $2.42 per ton of ore milled. The production for 1914 was 1.6O2,O56 tons, yielding $3.S42,376.S9 or $40 per ton of ore milled. The number of men em. ployed is about 1900 and the average earning is around $10O per man per month. The community which is sup. ported by this payroll is about 290O people of whom 1900 reside in Tread. we'll and 1700 in Douglas, which ad joins Treadwell on its northwest end
 The power requirements of the op erating companies are met from four sources. The original and cheapest source is direct water power applied to impulse wheels at the various mills and compressors. This water i: collected on Douglas Island by a sys tenn of dams, canals, ditches and pipt lines, extending from Fish Creek, 1. miles northwest of Treadwell t, Ready Bullion Creek, 3 miles south
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MT. Bradley has been superintend- ent of the Treadwell and Alaska-Ju- neau mines for the past year. suc- ceeding Robert A. Kinzie. He is 39 years of age, a graduate of the Uni versity of California with the class of 1896. He mined in California, where he had charge of the Spanish mine, Nevada county, before coming to Alaska, and made a countrywide record for the lowest operating cost per ton. He is a brother of F. w. Bradley, president of the various Treadwell and Alaska-Juneau min ing companies.
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-13

How would you like to have your
supper interrupted rudely some even
ing by the dropping of a rock through
the roof on the kitchen table? That's
what happened at the home of Frank
Ely, near the Union Stone Quarry.
weighing nearly 100 pounds, was hurl-
ed $50 yards through tho air by blast
in the quarries. and when IL fell it
broke the steak plate OH the Ely supper
table. The steak was ruined
Ye olden time housewife is not pass
ing. by goot bit, At South Browns
vile, Pa, there lives a Mrs G. s. Hickey.
who has passed her list birthday. She
takes care OF from twelve to eighteen
boarders, packs their lunch boxes. and
vet found time last summer to preserve
more than $50 jars of jellies. $50 pints
and quarts of eatsup, 10 gallons of
mustard pickles. 4 jars OF caulinower
pickles. Is quarts of chow-chow. 10 gal
Ions of pickalilly. Is quartes of pears.
10 quarts of canned peaches. . GAL
Ions of watermelon preserves 100
stuffed peppers, Is gallons of sauer-
kraut and 40 quarts of plums. In ad-
lition to this trifling work she regu-
'arly bakes thirty pies a week. And
she's a suffragist!
Back in Armstrong Valley, near Hall
uast so. And he decided the other day
that's he's in favor of suffrage.
'I've been livin' alone now without
wimmin' folk around for about ten
ears now, and I wanta tell YOU I've
wisdom of the ladies to make life worth
while And what's true of one phase
} life is usually true of 'tother, politics
included"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-13
THE FIVE CENT LOAF

LUST how the law of 1897, provid-
ing that all bread shall be sold by
the avoirdupois pound, can be
~ made to apply to the present situa-
ton is difficult to see. While this sta =
tute does require the baker to put six
teen ounces into each loaf of bread
they bake, there is no provision enforc-
ing upon them a limit price of five
cents loaf. They may, if they so
choose, charge six, seven or ten cents,
or even more, just as they see it, and,
so far as this law is concerned, no
steps can be taken to prevent.
Besides, as has been pointed out,
the weight of a loaf of bread is so
variable that even the most conscien-
tious inspector might be unable to
judge fairly as to whether or not it
weighed a full pound Immediately up
on coming out of the oven. There is
much moisture in bread and a loaf
that weighs sixteen ounces to-day may
weigh considerably less tomorrow.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-13
FANNY CROSBY DEAD

TANNY CROSBY, the well-known
- hymn composer, died yesterday,
= aged 50 years, at her home in
Bridgeport, Conn, thus ending a
career unique in the history of reli-
gious song writing. Miss Crosby did
for religious music in the United States
what Foster and those of his period
did for southern negro melodies. Hun
dreds of well-known hymns bear Miss
Crosbys signature and tomorrow
many of those will be sung in churches
as widely scattered as the English
speaking element of the Christian reli-
gion.
Her hymns were not great hymns.
In a large degree they lack in the
essentials of true lyric poetry, but
what they do not have in this respect
they make up in heart appeal. She
sang songs that ring with the hopes
and the faith of the common people.
Hers was the voice of the period in
which she lived. She was as one with
the devoted little congregations that
sprang up during her long lifetime
over the length and breadth of the
American continent. And the passing
of this pioneer period has left with
the evangelistic church of to-day
scores of hymns and songs of praise
that will have their appeal for Amer
lean churchgoers so long as the
simple, unaffected form of worship
now so popular prevails.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-13

est, and at the same time have been
acting precisely as though they be-
lieved that every man in business is a
thief and trickster. ready to take
advantage of his neighbor at every
opportunity. The sooner those in con-
troll of our government affairs make
their actions square with their eX-
pressed opinions the sooner the United
States will enjoy a return of that pros
perity toward which all of us are look
ing. Mr.. Edison is not a politician,
but he is a shrewd business man,
honest, upright, and with the good OF
the country at heart, but for all that
he will have little weight at Wash
ington. There appears to be no stop
ping the headlong career of our Demo-
cratic friends before next inauguration
day,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-13
OPTOMETRY BOBS
UP IN LEGISLATURE
Big Fight Is Ahead Over Super.
vision Of That Branch of
State Service

The controversy which began early
last year in the courts of Philadelphia
as to whether or not the State Bureau
of Medical Education and Licensure
should have supervision over the prac-
tice of optometry has been transferred
to the Legislature and will be fought
out during the present session.
When the bureau undertook to reg
ulate the optometrists by setting up
rules for examining and licensing
them a number of Philadelphia OPP
tometrists took the matter into the
cided that the act creating the bureau
did not give 1t authority over the
practice of optometry.
1t was announced that the bureau
would appeal the case to the Supreme
Court. but meantime an effort has
been made to avoid the necessity of
such appeal by the introduction of n
bill in the House by Representative
McNichol, of Philadelphia, providing
that no. one shall practice optometry
in Pennsylvania without license from
the Bureau of Medical Education and
Licensure. The optometrists have
promptly retorted by introducing,
through Senator DaiX, of Philadelphia,
a bill placing the regulation of their
practice under a board of optometric
examiners, entirely separate from the
medical and surgical examining AMI
licensing body. In other words, they
object to coming in under the "one
board examining plan, but wish to
have distinct State regulation, such as
the osteopaths, dentists and druggists
enjoy.
The optometrists in their bill define
optometry as "the employment of any
means other than the use of drugs for
the measurement of the powers of
vision and the adaptation of lenses
e., AtNt, a,,I oil Nf ID riGfn
of human beings" The bureau bill
defines it as "the employment of any
means other than the use of drugs,
medicine or surgery for the measure
ment of vision and the adaptation of
lenses for the correction of aid thereof,
and also the employment of any means
except the use of drugs, medicines
or surgery for the purpose of detect
ting diseased conditions in the human
eve"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-13
WISE MIR. EDISON

"HOMAS A. EDISON, who gave
to newspaper reporters n little
4 anniversary interview on the oc-
casion of his siXty-eighth birth
day, laid stress upon q truth that has
been apparent to everybody save men
who have the most responsibility in
the matter when he said that the past
three national administrations have
made the mistake of encouraging the
business; too many laws-and too
many visits from the Attorney Gen
erals Office" to use his own words.
1t is a curious fact, and one that
will no doubt cause future historians
much puzzling thought, that the law
making bodies of the country have
continued for years to enact legis-
lation directly in opposition to the
views of public opinion. Members of
Congress and of State legislatures have
been the only persons to believe that
more laws for the regulation of busi-
ness are necessary. Workmen, labor
leaders, editors and businessmen al
most unanimously have urged that the
good of the country and its future
progress and prosperity lie not in the
making and enforcing of new laws
but in permitting business to move
along with as few restrictions as pos
sible
Led by the President, Congress has
been declaring repeatedly that the
aofo dAx- IF -
the country are hiGb~minded and hon
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-13
We'll KNOWN PEOPLE

II. a. Berwind, the coal man, has
been elected director of one of the
Philadelphia trust companies.
Governor Frank B. Willis. of
Ohio, is i'll at Columbus.
W. II. Peck, the Scranton banker
and member of the Reserve board. has
been making addresses to the bankers
of the various groups of the State as
sociation.
Governor Brumbaugh is to speak
Mt the lnterchurch Federation meet
ing to commemorate a century OF
peace between America and England.
Josiah E. Willitts. of Philadel-
phia, has gone to Florida to catch
tarpon.
Theodore Voorhees, has returned
from trip to the South.
c. II. Sheets has retired as postmas.
Ter of Braddocll after 21 years ser
vice.
George A. Levy, of Pittsburgh. is
arranging for some civil service bills
20 be presented at this session.
Howard Nj. Kirk, of New Castle
s in California.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-13
SELFISH GENEROSITY

~ NE of the handsomely printed
I little motto cards that are sc
~ popular just now for use as
advertisements by high-class
printing and paper firms bears this
inscriptions:
I helped a blind man across the
crowded street, and Lo! | was
cleanly across myself as well-His
cane had found a mud hole that l
did not see.
There is a lot of truth and not a
little philosophy bound up in those
few words. The man who gets is
invariably the man who gives The
International Rotary Clubs have
summed the thought up in this way
HE profits most who serves best"
Scatter thy bread upon-th waters
for thou shalt find 1t after many
days" is no fanciful admonition. II
is a truth that any one can prove by
practice.
Which gives rise to the more or less
paradoXical thought that it pays to
be generous if for no other than
selfish reasons.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-13
THE PRESIDENTS ATTITUDE

BMOCRATS in the Senate ought
to be able to understand pretty
- well by this time why Republi-
cans have insisted that the Pres
ident is merely stubborn rather than
wisely determined, as his friends have
insisted.
After a long and painful process the
Democratic leaders in Congress de-
vised a compromise ship purchase bill
which promised, if approved at the
White House, to bring to an end the
long strung out filibuster in the Sen
ate. But the President will have none
of this measure. The opinions and
conclusions of his colleagues in the
House and Senate amount to nothing
in his eyes.
Regardless of the fact that all legis-
lation is evolved by compromise, Pres
ident Wilson will give ear TO no voices
that do not harmonic absolutely with
his own. He is deternined to go his
own selfish way at any cost. He will
put through the ship purchase bill in
the form he has dictated, or he will
cause an extra session of Congress, SO
he says.
How long, we wonder, will independ-
ent Democrats continue to submit to
such absolute and uncalled for boss
ism. The Democrats have been cry
ing down with the bosses" for so
many years that one might have eX-
pected them, once in power, to act
every man according to his own per-
sonaf convictions. Instead, we find
the President in control of both
branches of Congress to such a de-
gree that he dictates to them from
the White House just what they shall
do and shall not do. If they are TO
permit matters to go on indefinitely
in this way they might just as well
adjourn both branches and deputize
the President to act for them.