The Alaska daily empire., 1921-07-15
SEVERAL YEARS
 WORK TN SIGHT
 AT MAYO MINES
Rich Ore Being Mined d-No Assurance of Large Ton
 mage Is Yet Developed.

That sufficient development work 1 has been done to warrant the de-
 claration that the Keno Hill section 1 of the Mayo District will produce high grade ore for several years, but l that nothing has yet been uncovered that assures sustained production of large tonnage for long period of years is the declaration of James 70. Greenan, engineer in charge of
 the Yukon Gold Corporations opera
 tions there The Yukon Gold Cor poration has done several thousand feet of development work and is
 pushing the work as Iast as possible It has shipped 2,500 tons of high
 grade ore this year, and it is pre-
 pairing for mining for shipment next year.
 MT Greenan left Mayo June z,
 and arrived in Juneau few days ago. He left for his home at Berke-
 ley, California this morning on the
 Princess Royal.
 Labor Shortage at Mayo. Mr Greenan says there is short age of hard rock miners in the Mayo District The prevailing wages there
 are $5 a day with board and lodg- l ing The district is attracting
 great number of people from other
 sections of Yukon Territory, and
 many former Yukoners have return ed to the Territory to prospect or wok in that country Mayo is be-
 coming quite a town. Tents are go-
 ing up every where and many good
 cabins have been built. Mayo is
 the terminus of river navigation for the mining district Keno is the town in the actual mining field, and | there conditions, as far as the town are concerned, are similar to those at Mayo. MT. Greenan says there
 are now 300 or 400 people in the district.
 I Longest Shipment of Ore on Record. Il Mir. Greenan says the Yukon Gold I Corporation is shipping its ore to I the Shelby Shelter at San Francisco
 via St. Michael, distance of 5000 miles. It is the longest distance any mine in the world is shipping crude ore for treatment Through special permit the Canadian Government made Mayo support of entry and permitted American vesesls to come up the river and take the ore on al that place and carry 1t to St Michael. Here it will be transferred L. fnp oh : Francisco.
 Will Ship Ore Again Next Year. The Yukon Gold Corporation vii take out ore again next winter fol shipment. It will be mined during the summer, fall and winter, anc transported to the landing at Mayo lover the ice and snow. The com pany is now working 25 men, and would work more if they were : available.
 The Yukon Government has { crew of men working on the road : which will make the transportaioI : of the ore less difficult in the neal future than it was last winter. New Finds Have Been Reported. New finds of ore have been mad' in various sections of the Mayo dis trict this summer, according to MT Greenan. The Titus Dredging Com panyis working a crew of men ol Highet Creek, and it and other com panies and individuals may ship or : next year.
 Taylor, Drury and Pedlar o !. Whitehorse have recently establishe' . new general store at Mayo, and l . is reported to be doing well All Hope for Permanent Camp; Those developing in the Mayo dis : trict are strongly in hope that on or more bodies of ore of such exten as to guarantee large tonnage ma be discovered. and engineers are O the opinion that the indications tha : such will result are favorable.