The daily Alaskan., 1917-10-01
PROSPEROUS AND BUSY ATLIN |S
 DESCRIBED

ON hOtADJ- 10 OStAASSS
 TELLS OF MINING METHODS
 -FOX FARMING IS BIG INDUS
 TRY,
 "Atlin is the prettiest and most glorious place l ever saw. The country is one of evergreen hills, with the bald rocks entirely covered up, and with the pine trees and will lows and other floiage colored by the frost into all the shades of the rainbow. This view is reflected in to a perfectly clear transparent lake with the picture in the water even brighter than the real scene. When the war is over and Atlin is more thoroughly advertised the White Pass will have to increase it's ser vice in order to handle the tourist travel into that country"
 Such is the opinion of E. A. Ras- muson who has just returned from business trip into Atlin and Whitehorse.
 "A stranger going into Atlin for the first time is particularly i'm pressed with the fine roads that lead to the mining creeks and claims in the district" continued Mir. Rasmuson. Because of the im- mense amount Of travel the roads are packed as hard as paved hlsh- ways and they are SO well graded that an auto can easily make a speed of 50 miles an hour nearly the whole length"
 MT. Rasmuson describes the At lin people, their business and their government as being practical. While there a term of court was De- ing held with Judge Young presld- ing. and the judge and jurors went in a body to the various mines to investigate certain questions in dis Dute. To get the information 1irst hand the men, including the judge, put on slickerS and rubber boots' went down the shaft into one Of the mines. and with candles on thelr hats to light the way, walked thru the tunnels investigating certain le- gal questions which the court ~'ls considering in connection with the claim. "It was a practical court said Mir. Rasmuson, "and 1t was a case where the mountain couldn't come to them, so they went to it.
 Mining is handled on a percentage basis in the Atlin coutry. In the Spruce creek district shafts are sunk into the ground to bedrock ah' from that point various "sets' are cut in different directions. A set is described as cut in the graVel four feet in length, six feet high' and 10 feet wide. Two men are eH- nected to dig a "set" a day, and Ill this particular mine "set returns about $1O0 in value. Of this ,unt the two miners get 7S per
 the government gets per cent royalty, and the owner Of the claims get 20 percent. When "sets' are dug deeper and deeper Into the mountain they soon form tunnel which is roofed and walled Wltn logs and timbers. Tn time the "hole hottom of the hill will be under mined with these tunnels six rect in height. ,.,,.
 Mir, Rasmuson stated that Atlin is busy and prosperous, and eha' there is a scarcity of labor. The a'- e1,agn workingman gets $5.5O 8 day
 Fox farming in the Atlin country is rapidly coming to the front Hno if is said that one man, in per iod of three years, has deVeiopeu farm which he recently refused to sell for $25,0OO. ,.a
 Back of Carcross the venus mn
 is doing well and mining consider ob,e ore The great need in the whole country is men. The same thing applies to the Valreie anu prablo mines near Whitehorse. Ine pnbelo has just about completiy recovered from the caTe-in' but US development is hampered for a want