The Cordova daily times., 1920-07-28
RAIN NEEDED
 T0LOVANA ID
 SLUICE DUMPS
GOOD ORE AT FlJNTER BAY
General Electric Company May Buy Nome Ground-Another
 Mining Deal Pending

Mining Deal Pending
 Rain, and lot of it, is needed to put the Tolovana district on it's feet, according to O. P. Gaustad, owner of the Tolovana tram, who was in Me- mana on his way to Fairbanks to wait for wet weather. No rain had fallen in the Tolovana up to the time Gaus- tad left, and he is of the opinion that the showers of the past couple of days will not do 8 great deal of good over there.
 Practically everybody is taking it easy over our way, waiting for a thorough drenching," said MT. Gaus- tad to representative of The Nenana News. Some work is in progress, of course" he continued, "but not great deal can be done without water, and until rain comes the camp will continue to remain practically at a standstiI
 There are number of large dumps waiting to be sluiced. Sev- Yeral of them were partially put through the boxes during the first run of water in the spring, but there is much work yet to be done. Kelly and Pat O'Connor have a lot of dirt to sluice on the Letram claim, only about third of their dump having been disposed of when the water was available for sluicing. There is an- other dump on the same claim waiting for water, representing the last of the Fontas pay dirt.
 Bostrom & Go. have a lot of dirt out on the Marietta, about three fourths of the dump remaining to be sluiced. This dump originally repre- sented 82,OO0 feet of bedrock, be- ing the largest in the district, mea- sured in bedrock feet. The outfit is now sinking new shaft on the claim, preparatory to further opera tions
 Bachner & Mcclellan are waiting for water for hydraulic operations on 90,000 feet of gravel stripped of over burden, ready to shoot through the boxes with their three nozzles. They have another block of 100000 feet stripped of moss.
 John Simonds and Jim Mcintosh are reported to have found rich pay in the bottom of shaft which they put down on the Franklin claim on Franklin gulch, the gold being part of the regular Livengood paystreak and richer than anything ever found before in the Tolovana ddistrict The dirt in the bottom of the chaft aver aged about $10 to the square foot of bedrock. At the time Gaustad left the diggings, the discoverers were just starting to drift from the shaft and were still in the pay.
 MT. Gaustad is confident that steps will be taken soon to provide the Tolovana district with plentiful sup ply of water by tapping Mike Hess creek, which will involve considerable ditching and a tunnel through the hill toward the head of Liyengood. The project has been under consideration for some time, and, if carried through will mean the inauguration of much large-scale mining in that district
 HUNTER BAY TO OPERATE
 That development work on a large scale will be started on the mining property of the Admiralty Alaska Gold Mining Coming at Funter bay, putting it on large producing basis, is the news given out by the officials of the company, says the Juneau Empire.
 Max G. ,Niman and Levi Rokeach,, two Brooklyn financiers heavily in terested in the property, have just left here for their homes after having spent the past month in Juneau and Funter bay. They had with them their own mining engineer, Lucien | Roho From +hnir own Ohcnrvot tiOO