The Cordova daily times., 1921-04-14
MANY INTERIOR DISTRICTS ID
 REVIVE MINlNC

| interior districts is reported by Col. l J. c. Gotwals, engineer officer for the Alaska road commission, who has re- turned to Juneau after an absence of several weeks during which time he covered approximately 1,450 miles by dog team and sleds and inspect ing winter trails in nearly every section of the interior and looking over proposed new routes planned for construction by the commission Most of the travelling done by Colonel GotWals was with Leonard Seppala and his trophy winning team of Si berian dogs, says the Empire.
 In the Ophir-Tacotna, Kuskokwim,
 Kantishna, Cache creek and Willow creek districts, Colonel Gotwals re- ported optimistic outlooks and the
 residents in each of them feeling
 encouraged for the future of the
 mining industry. He said a state
 ment would be given out from com
 mission headquarters in few days
 relative to roadwork in the section he has just visited.
 DREDGES FOR oPHlR
 Three dredges are being shipped
 into the Ophir district by the Union
 Construction Co.,, for operation, two
 of which will probably be operated l this season as they are now being :, freighted from the lower Kusko-
 llwim into the district. The third was to have been moved from Greenstone this winter but the con. !; tractor was unable to do the work. The dredges will be installed on : Yankee and Gaines creeks, tlibu- : taries of Ophir. The peak of high !: prices. said Colonel Gotwa1s, is just : hitting the Ophir-TaCotna region as !: we'll as other interior districts, but despite that fact, there is general : feeling of optimism prevailing. In the Ophir-Tacotna there is plenty of work for everyone and the dredge : operations together with the devel opment work to be done on Nixon : Fork by the Treadwell Company, : promises a busy season.
 Substantial development work on the quartz property at Nixon Fork is being done by the Treadwell peo- pie, said Colonel Gotwals. A sub 1 stantial amount of cross cutting and l shafts has been done and the com | pany is preparing to put in To-
 stamp mill on the property
 PLACER ACTIVITIES
 ] Some placer activities were noted along the route. Two outfits were
 at work on Ruby creek just below Nixon Fork and reported good re-
 suits. Four outfits were at work on
 Poorman, employing 50 to 50 men, taking out winter dumps. One out. fit was taking out winter dump on
 Long creek.
 Aitken x Price, who have an op-
 erating lease on a galena property
 into the Yukon from the left limit
 below Lowdeu about IA miles, are ' taking out some good ore and haul 1 ing it 20 miles to the river for ship I ment next spring to Tacoma smell
 ter. One outfit is still working at \ Cripple mountain.
 In the Kantishna, said Colonel Got ! walls, there are approximately 50
 men engaged iu both placer mining
 and prospecting lode claims. "The
 Kantishna district" he said, "is one,
 while it is being prospected for lode
 development, is likely to be very dis
 couraging to small prospectors for
 the present and until a substantial
 mine and mill is established there A ! prospector goiug to the Kntishna now . would have to depend upon medium
 grade and spotted placer for his live lihood and the development and ex- ploitation of such lode claims as he
 might discover would be very slow" Thomas Aitken, who took out l. 400 tons of galena ore from the old Quigley property on Monroe creek