The Cordova daily times., 1921-05-20

mile tramway, on which we are just
 starting, will mean bigger operations
 than ever, and will permit us to get
 out ore all the year around" said Dale
 l.. Pitt, general manager of the Pre-
 mier Gold Mining Company at Hyder,
 before leaving Ketchikan after a sev-
 eral days visit in that city
 we already have men clearing the
 right of way on the British Columbia
 side and have the material on the
 ground, and expect to rush the work
 to completion inside of six months.
 About one hundred men will be put to work within month.
 "The new trainway will start at the mine on the British Columbia side;
 then will run ten miles in American
 territory and run back to the dock on
 British Columbia ground. It will be the largest in Alaska or Canada. The contract for the materials has been let to the Riblet Company of Spokane,
 but we are doing the work ourselves
 We have been shipping 800 tons of ore on every boat every two weeks but have had to let up till the snow is all off, in order to permit the use of wagons again.
 ''The new tamway will mean doing away with the horses and permit con- inuous operation at maximum capa- city. It will be used for carrying all ore and concentrates from the mine and hauling all supplies and materials up to it. Gravity and electricity will 1 be the power used"
 MT. Pitt said the ore continued to be high grade. Asked as to the recent ly circulated report that a specially rich vein had been struck, Mir. Pitt declared that there was nothing to it" and that it was evidently the result of someone's false impression or i'm agination.
 Questioned as to progress in other lines, MT. Pitt said, Our new concen- tration mill and cyanide plant is near 1 ly finished and will be completed we expect, inside of two months. These represent part of recent expendi- ture of approximately half million dollars"
 | In regard to the number of men em. ployed at tfe Premier property Mir Pitt said the payroll shows between 250 and 260 men,
 The TallyHo group of claims along the route of the w. P. & Y. Route are to be extensively developed this season. The property has rich ore containing galena and values in gold. A syndicate has been organized in New York, known as the Spotted Pawn Company, and will spend in the neighborhood of $150,OOO in the devel- opment of the Twelve-mile silver pro- position nears Dawson this summer. This property is we'll known and the company will thoroughly prospect the claims and install modern machinery for it's development.
 That the future mining outlook of the Bluff section, both for quartz and placer, is bright with promise, is the , declaration of Patrick McGrath, widely known old timer of that sec tion.
 MT. McGrath is sourdough of sourdoughs and is one of the pioneer miners of the Bluff district. having mined there since the early days when that locality was one of the heavy gold producing sections of the peninsula. Bluff Is not as lively as in the days of yore, he says, but there are lots of chances for profit able mineral exploitation left. Sev- eral outfits were working there last winter, Mike Powers and Martin Marion are taking out a dump on their ground on Eldorado creek and Meegan and Olson are also hoisting gravel in the same locality.
 Messrs. Meegan and Olson have some excellent quartz properties, on one of which they have operated a small milling outfit for several years with good results. The ore is gold bearing and carries first rate values.
 Work or the Nixon fork mine is progressing favorably. A mill is to be installed there next season. There | is every evidence of a large quartz camp developing.
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