The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-01

operations have long since marked
these gentlemen as careful, conser-
vative mining men and financiers,
and it was only because OF the unset
tied business and political conditions
in Mexico which rendered continu-
ance of their activities there imprac-
ticable, that they determined to en-
ter the Alaskan mining field. Their
farsightedness in this respect is
shown by their action.
Some years ago when conditions in
Mexico were beginning to be disturb,
ed, one of the members of the firm
Mr. Sanford Makeever came to the
Southeastern part of Alaska, ostensi-
bly, as tourist, but in reality that
he might for himself and associates,
observe the possibilities of this coun-
try and get that personal touch which
every successful man has with mat
tiers in his own particular field of ac-
tivity. At the time of his visit to
Juneau, the communities on Gastineau
Channel were just beginning to open
the door to admit the prosperity for
which they had so long waited and
which today they are beginning to
realize.
The Treadwell properties on Doug
las Island across the Channel from
where the Alaska Gold-Belt Com
pany's big reduction plant, wharves,
shops and headquarters will be To-
Gated, were, of course, producing
abundantly for many years, but the
new development on the mainland at
Juneau, and in the Gold Creek and
Sheep Creek Basin had just begun.
Mr.. Sanford Makeever saw this, and
he and his brothers began a careful
and systematic search for valuable
properties.
About this time. Mr.. A. B. Dodd,
a mining engineer of wide experience
in the United States, Canada, Next
CO, and Alaskan mining fields, and
Prof d. c. Bard, head of the Mon
tana School of Mines, at Butte, Mon
tana, and one of the best known and
most capable biologists in the United
States, having been friends and bust
ness associates for many years, decid-
ed to investigate Alaskan mining con-
ditions and directed their attention to
the Juneau Gold Belt. Ultimately,
these two gentlemen ana the Makeev-
er Brothers came together and unit
ed their efforts in search for a
property in the Juneau Gold Belt, that
might be developed and operated
on large scale.
Mr.. John l.. Makeever of New York
City, and Mr.. M. Nj. Maveeker of
Boston, Massachusetts, both members
of the firm of Makeever Brothers,
have been associated with their
brother, Mr.. Sanford Makeever in all
the mining and financial operations
and transactions of their firm, and
share with him in the successful man.
agement of their business as a finan-
cial and mining institution.
The result of the combining of the
interests and efforts of these five
men was a careful investigation of
various properties along the Juneau
Gold Belt. Among those properties
are a group of forty gour gold quartz
claims lying on the mainland. in the
Upper Basin of the Sheep Creek Val
ley, a group of millsites on Gastineau
Channel, at a point about a mile
southeasterly of the postoffice at
Thane and about five miles south
easterly of the town of Juneau, and
the tunnel site connecting the claims
in the Upper Basin of Sheep Creek
with the millsites on the beach. These
claims were generally known in this
section as the Nelson-Lott properties.
the owners being Mr.. Richard p. Mel
son, one of Juneau's most substantial