Valdez daily prospector., 1916-01-10
UN0 CREEK WILL FURNISH POWER
Sea Coast Mining Company will Inc stall Eleetric Plant to Generate
 Power for Mines.

The waters of Uno Creek, which
 empty into Shoup Bay, are soon to be harnessed and will be made to per-
 form their share in the industrial ldevelopment of the Valdez district. E: R. Pulver and George A. Pulver,
 officers of the Sea Coast Mining com pany, who arrived on the Alameda a few days ago from the States, have announced that the work of install ling a hydro-electric plant, having a
 capacity of six hundred horsepower
 will be installed there and will be ready to furnish electricity before the
 middle of the coming summer. | It will be remembered that the company suffered the loss of its
 plant last year through the destruc- tion of the Grand Trunk dock in Se-
 attle, when it's machinery to the value of $1S,OOO was burned the night be- fore it was to have been shipped north.
 Uno creek is capable of developing la tremendous power, which, in time, will be fully utilized in furnishing electricity to the mines for the dis trict. The first unit to be installed
 will have a capacity of 600 horsepow-
 CT and will furnish power for the Sea Coast mine, the Three-in-One mine and the Cliff mine.
 The plant will be established near the beach and will be supplemented with steam plant in order that cus- toners of the company may be assur- led of a service for the entire year. The pipe to convey the water to the turbines was placed on the ground last summer The distance from the intake. to the point of discharge is about twelve hundred and fifty feet and affords a fall of three hundred land thirty-seven feet, furnishing a tremendous pressure. The pipe is
 16, IA and 12 inch. The power house is ready to receive the machinery and four hundred feet of the trestle work has been completed. The tim bers for the penstocks and fumes are ion the ground and it is believed that the plant will be furnishing power within ninety days after the arrival |of the machinery, which will come north on one of the first boats. Development work on the Sea Coast mining property will be carried forward and contracts are now being let for driving tunnels. The work to be undertaken during the present winter win be confined to continuing the tunnels which were driven into |the mountain several hundred feet
 last summer, and in crosscuts. An |upraise will also be made in order to connect the main tunnel with a shaft
 which was put down last year to @ depth of more than fifty feet. About three hundred feet of tunnel has al-
 ready been run on the property and
 has developed a good body of ore.
 The Sea Coast leads, of which there are number, vary in size up to eight feet in width. The vein upon which the tunnel was run into the noun Itain has uniform width of three feet and returned values of $31 per ton from mill test. A number of the smaller leads carry much greater values as assays have been made re- turning values of s400 per ton. A five stamp mill was delivered on the ground last summer, but owing to the loss of the power plant in the Seattle fire the stamps were not in- stalled but the work will. be started lat any early date and it is not expect ed that the Sea Coast will enter the Hist of producing mines before next fall.
 FOREST ROAD MONEY
 IVJNn AIM0ST COME