The Alaska citizen., 1916-09-04

miles north of Ketchikan. The orig inal owners of the claims were Mar tin Bugge and associates. Devel opment work done on the propert, after the spring of 1914 consist. of surface stripping and prospect ing Improvements on the claims aggregated s150.O00 The work 1, held in abeyance because of the war
 It is reported in Ketchikan that Catlin. owner of the Sunshine sil ver-lead property on Cholmondeley Sound is to resume work soon Over 15O tons of ore is on the dump. ready to ship
 The It Mining Co. of which H c. Strong is president and J l. Barber secretary. is planning tc develop the Gold Stream property consisting of the Gold Spring and Gold Stone claims. on Gravina Is land. opposite Ketchlkan, three miles from the town Work on the lode which contains gold. consists of 15L feet of shaft and 300 feet of tunnel work
 w H. Gilmour and Fremont King owners of the Sea Level property near Ketchikan. have bonded it to Carl B. Lancaster, of Seattle. with whom are associated C. H. Black and Carl Strong. The property shows vein varying in width from ? to 10 feet, and carrying free mill ing gold ore The Sea Breeze claim which adjoins the Sea Level prop erty on the east and carries a con tinuation of the Sea Level vein will be opened up through the Sea Level workings, which have beer unwatered. Four men are employed under Carl B. Lancaster The work ings of the Sea Level run to withil 150 feet of the Sea Breeze line A small hoist is in use A Fair hanks-Morse semiDeisel 25 h. D engine and a Fairbanks Morse com pressor have been bought and will be on the property when the work is farther advanced The Sea Leve has a 3O-stamp mill built in 1907 but not used for many years.
 The Goo Goo group of gold claims owned ty Richard Nuckolls and associates, and situated near the Sea Level, have been examined by Alaska Gastineau engineers. Nine tons of samples were taken on June 15.
 M NJ Reese has discontinued work on the Dunton property neal Hollis. Development at the Ready Bullion continues. Exploratory work on other prospects in the same vi cinity is being carried on steadily But little more than assessment work has been done on the prom ising Lucky Nell group, situated S miles from tide water at Hollis Thirty tons of this ore yielded $46 per ton in 1913. Since that time no shipments have been made Pol son &. Ickis are continuing work on their copper and gold property at Mclean arm, 40 miles from Ketch. ikan. Two Chalcopyrite deposits are exposed
 Mining on the west coast of Prince of Wales island, which is also tributary to Ketchikan, is based almost entirely on copper ore. The oldest regular producer in the dis. trict is the Jumbo, near the head of Hetta inlet This mine is ope- rated by the Alaska Industrial Co.,, of which Senator Charles A. Sulzer is active manager. Shipments are being made regularly at the rate of 150 tons per month. The ore chalcopyrite in lime, epidote, and garnet gangue. is practically neutral and is easily smelted. Shipments are made to Tacoma A total depth of 700 feet has been made possible with connected adts. From the lowest a winze has been sunk 200 feet. From this depth stoping is now being carried on. The winze is being sunk another 100 feet tc connect with a lower adit Surface exploration of the western end of the Jumbo deposit has been encour, aging. Senator SulZer expects to open up that end of the ore body next, building short aerial trans to connect with the main Leschen aerial tram, which carries the ore a distance of two miles to the bunk, CTS. A saw mill has been purchased and new quarters and other build. ings will be built w. L. Moore formerly with the Alaska-Juneau at Juneau, is superintendent of con- struction. Robert Pollock has been made mine superintendent
 Senator Sulzer is erecting an A! disclaimers tube mill for the re ductiOn of barite from a deposit that he discovered near Lime point Several hundred tons of this pro