The Cordova daily times., 1916-03-02

Valdez Creek Placer Mines, reports that he is spending $125,O 900 this year for supplies and equipment for the Valdez Creek Placer mines. The equipment consists of HOO running feet of Bouery patented steel rifles, weighing 278,1S4 pounds, and costing f. O. b. Seattle, SHAT; also 1000 feet of 15-inch, 12-gauge double riveted steel pipe; 1000 feet of 18-inCh, 12- gauge pipe with all the necessary Y's; and five ton capacity guy der rick, with 70-ton steel mast, S5-foot steel boom, five guy lines and all the necessary blocks and hOisting lines; also a double drum electric hoist slew ing gear; and a G. E. 35 horsepower, $50 R. P. M, 115-v direct current mo tor, complete with controller and re- sistaDce box. The latter was fur nished by the General Electric Com pany of Schenectady, New York. Also special electric sliding contact device for the derrick to prevent twists in the electric conductor cables. The pipe derrick. and extra supplies with the rifles cost $22,21524. Also three No. double iointed ball bearing giants, with 15-inch flange inlet, with companion flange gaskets; three No. 6-inch nozzles, and three No. Smith La Grange deflectors. He has also purchased 15O feet of extra heavy pipe and equipment for the No. 3 traction Keystone drill now on the property.
 Hardware, store supplies, electric equipment and sundries, purchased through S. Blum & Co.,, will cost $10, 900.
 Horse feed will cost about $10,OO0.
 Sleds and horses. $64OO.
 Freight on railroads and steamship, about $16.675.
 Wages to June 1, $17,500.
 These supplies have all been pur- chased, and are now on the way to Valdez creek: Twenty men, forty horses and slxty-eight bobsleds are moving this freight. NAEhen the equip ment which is now on the way to the property has been installed, which will be about May 20, the water will be running and the Valdez Creek Pla- cer Mines will be one of the largest, richest and best equipped properties known today.
 The ditch carrying the water to the penstock and pipeline is 6,200 feet long, 8 feet wide on the bottom, 15 feed wide on top, and feet deep. The main pipe line is 1000 feet long, with 5-foot intake, and lesser branches amounting to 1000 feet, with No. 6 hydraulic giants with 6-inch, Finch and S-ineh nozzles. This season the trustees purchased sixty acres of ad- ditional dumping ground, which can be completely covered with tailings to a depth of 75 feet, and makes pos sible a second hydraulic pit. This all most doubles the efficiency of the hy- draulic system. This second pit will be equipped with 1,000 feet of 1S-inch, 12-gauge steel pipe and 1000 feet of 15-inch pipe. Both pits are being equipped with new permanent Hume, and 1,400 feet of patented Bouery riff, fles, which modern practice has proved to be the most efficient rifle known.
 Additional equipment consists of two Pelton water wheels; a complete electric generating plant, furnishing power for lighting, running the saw mill and other purposes; an Ingersoll- Rand air compressor with nine jack hammer rotating rock drills a Key stone drill for drilling and prospect ing the ground
 The Veldez Creek Placer Mines es- innate that tie will not cost over ten cents per cubic yard to hydraulic the gravels. The bedrock gravels cleaned during 1915, after there had been $21 per cubic yard taken out. tunnel ing by hand methods, averaged $1 peE cubic yard. At the end of the work ing, 1,200 feet from the portal of the tunnel, the bedrock grayels yielded