The Cordova daily times., 1921-05-31
TREADWELLC0, WILL OPERATE
 CANADA MINES

Thomas Macdonald. scout for the Treadwell Company, is now in the Wheaton district examining some claims there for the company. The company has formerly paid some at tention to prospects that were dis covered there.
 The following account of the Whea- ton river district was contained in the last issue of the Whitehorse Star:
 This promising district, situated about 30 miles from Whitehorse. is approximately 20 miles long and 15 miles wide. The first record of any prospecting here appears to have been the work of Frank Corwin and 1 Thomas Hickman in 1893 These two men located number of claims on Carbon Hill and Idaho Hill, and did considerable prospecting and develop ment work there. <They returend to Juneau with several samples of anti mony and gold bearing ore and report ed their find to the Treadwell people, The gold bearing samples assayed s1,- 200 to the ton, but before these pros pectors disclosed the exact location of their find in the Wheaton they both died suddenly.
 In 1898 w. F. Schnabel discovered one of the workings of these men on Schnabel creek but was never able to find the rich ore.
 In 1906 there was quite little ex- citement in the district and about 800 claims were staked on the various likely places in the region. Many ex- celent prospects have been found and all that is lacking is capital in order to open up any one claim, when a general period of development will take place.
 From the standpoint of economic geology, the Wheaton district is chief ly of interest for it's ore deposits but in addition some seams of coal have been discovered.
 
 as belonging to the four classes, viz:
 1--Gold-silver quartz veins.
 2-Antimony-silver quartz veins 3-Silver-lead veins.
 4-Contact metamorphic deposits
 The gold-silver veins are the most extensive and are of particular ln- terest in that they contain not only native gold but various tellurides, which always means gold of higher assay value. The antimony-silver veins belong to a rare type of deposit in that they are antimony deposits the ores of which contain both antimony and sill yer in economically important amounts. The silver-lead veins con- tain silver and lead in important amounts.
 Seams of a semi-anthracite coal, 1 from few inches to several feet in thickness, were discovered by Dr. D. D. Cairns on the east face of Mount Bush. These have not been at all de- veloped so far but should prove of local value. When the claims in this district are worked in the near future, as they surely will be, this coal will be a great asset as it is of good quality and practically in the center of the mineral area.
 Few of the mineral deposits have been at all thoroughly prespected, so that little is really known concerning the real extent of the mining proper ties of this district and the area, as whole, has been only superficially looked over by few men, so that it is improbable that the main deposits of ore have been discovered as yet.
 This summer will most likely see quite few prospectors in the district and it is almost certain that some i'm portant discoveries will be made. The late Dr. D. D. Cairns, Dominion of Canada geologist, made various trips into the district and was most favor ably impressed with the region. It is so easily accessible, being but a short distance from the White Pass & Yukon railway and a government road taps all the leading mines.s The Tally-Ho mine is being worked and when the development is we'll under way it will be but matter of short time before other capital will be at tracted to equally good claims there. Every encouragement should be given prospectors and all means used to in- terest capital in the region as the rich ore is there, and we can safely advise anyone that their time will be well spent if they make a trip in there