Hyder Alaska miner., 1920-02-20
ClOthier'S
 RepOrtO on
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George Clothier, B. c. aovern- .nent engineer for the division in- tlu ling the Portland Canal district has presented his 1919 preliminary report to the Minister of Mines and has tine following to say concerning tie Salmon river section:
 The Salmon River section has this year had a geological survey made of it by the Canadian Geological Survey under the direction of J. J. OiNeill. This valuable report will be available within the coming year.
 There are number of properties working all winter in the valley, and, iUdeing from the number bonded and the number of new companies being put on the market, there will be a fcasOn of far greater activity in min .H% next year than this has been.
 The International group. situated just over the Boundary-line above H. Mile, was under bond to Pat Daiy and associates. A croSScut tunnel vas started at an elevation of 2,275 feet and driven 90 feet towards getting ,nder the surface showing. It is esti 9ated that a 300-foot tunnel would have depth of l60 feet vertically un- der the vein. For some reason the work was closed down early in the summer.
 The Premier Gold Mining Company, Limited, has had busy summep on outside work. The wagon-road from the beach to the mine has had a crew steadily on it all season and is now al excellent sleish-road. It will be i'm proved into a wagon-road next season.
 camp for teamSters was erected 1t 9-AIile as halfway house betwee ,he ire and the beach, and accom- mOdation made for teams, supplies 2Sc.
 Camps were also built at the upper or working tunnel for this winter foe the accommodation of hundred men and one at the mouth of the Plato tunnel that will accommodate forty men. At the mouth of No, 1 tunnel a new blacksmith shop was built. The ore bunkerS were remodeled and new frame building put on them to be used for crushing, sorting and sack ing ore. At the camp a new fou story bunk-house was built, a two story mess house, a two-story office and an assay office. At the mouth e Ehe Plate tunnel a three-story bunk house, a two-story mess.house, a blacksmith shop, timber-shed, con- pressor building, and an extension Cf 50 feet on the snow-shed were built Very little work was done in the mine consisting mainly in the driving og the upper or No. 1 tunnel about 20G feet, No. crosscut for 68 feet, No. 6 5rosscut for feet, and No. crosscut for 20 feet. h No. ? tunnel No 1 crosscut was driven 2l5 feet The work outlined for this winter includes the driving of the Plate tunnel, cross cutting and raising, and further work in No tunnel, and the production of .:ll possible tonnage from No. l tun- pel.
 Bush Mines, Ltd.-This property is situated about mile above CT further ID the valley from the Premier A very creditable amount of work has been done this summer; camps were erected in the spring and a crew of eight to ten put on the surface open is uY the showings. Two open-cut3 were run across a mineralized belt apparently having a width of about 100 feet. These cuts show that there are possibilities of ore-shoot5 on the foot and hanging walls, with very lit tie in between. On the hanging-wa,l there is about 6 feet of altered green. stones containing small stringers and patches of high-grade silver sulphides, the whole averaging low grade. The tunnels were driven on this showin,; ]; at intervals of about 20 feet below the open-cut The first tunnel found the hanging-wall, on which there are a few inches of goodgra ore. The lower tunnel had not found any ere at the time of my examination. Some 200 or 300 feet down the creek from this another tunnel was being driven then in about 13O feet, in country-rock all the way.
 B. c. Silver Mines, Ltd.-This Com. pany has recently been Incorporated fer s1,500,000 by o. B. Bush, and has taken over the Lake and OLeary cl2'ms. lying between the Premier ground and the Bush Mines, Limited, and some claims north of the Inter. national.
 The Spider group of three claim beloI ging to Bill Hamilton and Charlie Larseh, of Stewart, is situated north a Long Lake. The group was bonded st-ly in the spring tty TriteA' 6s Woods.