The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-09-23
RICHMOND GIVES DATA ON ALL
 INTERIOR MINING INDUSTRY

, from Fairbanks to Chitina. the interi or terminus of the Copper River X Southwestern railway. which connect: on the coast end at Cordova The auto have been making the trip over tho road steadily during the good weather this summer in two and half tC three days The wagon road to Naldei is sixty miles longer and quite noun tainouS. so is not used so much a. he Chitina route. A good many tour sis have been travelling the auto route from Fairbanks to the coast this sum mer. After the railway is completed from Ncnana to the coast, l look fol a heavy tourist traffic down the Yukon annually and out over the railway t will make a wonderful trip with nc repetition of scenery, and many new phases. Now is the time for the North to begin to exploit this great circle route and keep the business coming b> way of Dawson.
 "Thc Koyukuk camp did not de veIop the big proposition which some tlOt earlier in the season would be proved on the Bettles river. It is tC be regretted the thing did not prove out as big as some anticipated. but con tinued prospecting may yet prove there is rich paystreak in the coun try and mean the opening of a very #etiNe camp.
 In the Iditarod camp the chief out fits at work this season comprise tht small Riley dredge on Otter. and the small Beaton and Donnelly dredge or the same stream; Walsh and Ford open cutting on Flat creek; and the Upgrade Association, who are using the scraper system. The big Yukor gold dredgge, on Flat, is shut down and the future intentions respecting Il are unknown.
 At M il 7iliIl tIlt F'iN bttN loii To fti' this season. The same may be saiC in respect to Ruby. In the Circle dis trict the Berry dredge and some othel operators are continuing operations ald making good shoWings.
 Tom Aiken. the veteran klondikt operator. is carrying on big opera lions in the KuskoWim and the Kan tjshna and is one of the live wire miners of the country. He has lrcdge producing steadily on Candle creek, sixteen miles from the TacOtn5 liNrl' at the head of the kuSkOkWim where Mrs Aitken. formerly Miss Nc Henry of Dawson has rendered great assistance as local manager. Las spring she mushed over the trail iron the coast to Candle and got the crews together and started the dredge while Tom attended to some of his business on the coast Tom is Calssed as mill innaira and the firm of Aiken X Aitken as it is styled seems prosper | ing in ever respect.
 "The latest Aitken exploit is t' | open two silver properties. rom cal | culatcS on getting LOGO tons of silver | lead ore this winter on Nixon Fork about thirty miles above Tacotna. H' will have to make haul of twelve | miles over the snow to the river. H' 1 has ordered 10000 sacks thru us 10 the ore, and they are being delivere' by Captain Wallace Langly's steame Tana.
 "Aitken also has ordered 2O,OO'
 sacks with which to deliver 1,OO
 tons of silver-lead ore from a prol crtv which he will work this winte
 in the Kantishna country, not ia from Fairbanks. He will have to mak q thirtV-mile haul to get the ore to tn
 steamer. Toms brother William, Wh
 recently passed thru Dawson en rout from the Outside went to join Ton
 "The Carlisle Packing X Cannin
 company, which has a cannery ope | ating on the Yukon river near it 1 mouth, has been doing wtll, and is estimated the pack will be 5000 cases for the season The product being shipped out by way of St. Micl ael"
 EATON, CRANE and PIXIES STf