The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-25

That the Portland Canal dist i,t will be one of the greatest mi,ins oeDters in Alaska in due time, is the opinion of Bernard Nj. Stone veil known Alaska; newspape- mar and former citizen of Juneau, who arrived here this week from lily Ter where he now resides. Mir. Stone says a large amount of development work will be done on many proper ties this summer; number of new buildings will be erected and con- siderable road work accomplished.
 Hyder, he says. has had wonder ful winter and business in general has been very good.
 Premier Work Progressing
 '"The Premier Gold Mining Com pany," said MT. Stone, under the management of Dale L. Pitt, and Bert Smith, assistant manager. has had an extremely busy season, main. ly on construction, installation and development work. One of the most noteworthy features of the wnol 3 section is the satisfactory results obtained in underground develop. ment. diamond drilling, proving the continuity at depth of the high grade ore shoots exposed in the upper :un- nel, and thus assuring the perman- ency of the property and section.
 'The management Is vigorously pushing an extensive program of equipping the property; a hydro-elec- tric power plant has been installed, compressor and mining machinery provided for the opening up of the mine from the Plate tunnel; a mill is' under contemplation and will be comnleted in few months.
 Transportation is being improved and everything is being done as quickly as possible to put the prop erty in shape for big production The only means at present of get ting ore down from the mine to the dock is by teams and two Holt caterpillar tractors. Each trip of the Grand Trunk boats this winter has taken out to the Tacoma smell ter an average of 800 tons of ore going over $500 to the ton. Con tracts are now being let for the of a ten-mile ,right-of-way from the mine to tide water for the purpose of installing a tramway. The Premier mine can now be numbered as one of the greatest mines in the world
 Other Prcperties Active
 "E. H. Bartholf, formerly of the Willow Creek district, is preparing to do extensive work on two groups of claims situated at the head of Salmon river, known as the Outland Silver Bar and the Bromide. A com pany was recently formed in Seattle on this property, with F. c. Outland of that city, as president.
 The Outland Silver Bay group, of four claims, is situated across the glacier immediately oppo- site the "49" The claims in this large veins of low grade ore and two of high grade, from which a of assays have been taken One vein, IS inches in width, runs s319.35 and another s5644O to the. ,on. TT
 Extensive diamond drilling is planned for this season on the B. c. Silver mines. This property ad- joins the Premier on the north. Some high grade ore was found on the Bush Mines, Ltd, but so far not in sufficient quantity to be of import ance.
 "The Silver Tip Mining Syndicate was formed last winter in Vancouver with a capitalization of fifty shares 1t $500 a share. It took over the Silver Tip group of claims from the owners and did considerable work on them Results have been report ed as satisfactory Average samples give satisfactory milling values. The should be very high grade.
 Aleunicon Is Developing
 ''The Spider group is under bond Q the AIgunicon Development Com oany, of Belgium, under the local of w. E. Meloche. Con siderable work has been done at he mine under the supervision of John Hoveland. Camps have been built on the property, and a com ,ressor taken in and installed.
 Surface showings indicate four ,r five separate quartz veins. An ,pen cut along No 3 vein for ength\of 50 feet, shows up to IS nches in width of ore assaying from 100 to 400 ounces of silver a ton About 700 feet of diamond drilling Has done from the surface to nroye