The Seward gateway., 1922-01-25
H STORY OF
 MAYO DISTRICT
(From the Dawson News)

ca the fOuleIle, Iue .ulSCONely Sidllh, on Keno Hill, the silver tide has been rising steadily in Yukon.
 When Bouvette made his discovery, S the Mayo district of which Keno Hill < is now the center, had but fifty re- [ corded claims Today there are more than 15O0 claims recorded in the Mayo district. and a number of them are pro- ducing. One company, the Yukon Gold it is estimated, will take out and k have ready for shipment Mayo land ing by spring approximately 5000 tons of high grade silver ore.
 A year ago the Yukon Gold was the only company engaged in quartz min ing and exploration in the Mayo area Since then two other large and we'll known American mining companies have entered the field, and have secur- ed control of many claims and now have large crews developing the prom ising lodes on the ground they control on Keno Hill The population ot the Mayo camp has increased from about TOO neople at the time Bouvette made the strike to approximately 800, while the population of the town Of Mayo has trebled and many new store bulld- ings and homes have sprung up there and a new town known as Keno Clty has started at the foot of Keno Hill, forty miles from the landing, and al ready has large group Of bullolngs'
 Hard-rock miners, as well as capital, are entering the Mayo district and the country gives promise by next season of seeing such activity in real pros meeting and development which will claim the attention of the world ana prove the Mayo area a permanently productive silver camp. Transporta- tion people are planning on extensive improvements of their service in order to handle the outgoing one and the in coming supplies for the mining camps and the necessary building and other material for the growing towns ana mining localities.
 The two big companies entering thf Mayo district during the year l92l were the Alaska Treadwell at the heao of which are F. w. Bradley and r. R. Bradley. and the Slate Creek ing Cc1n1 any which is represented in ez ,onsive Alaska ope asions by ! Moore Elmer. - '- '+- i'
 The Alaska Treadwell people secur- ed during the last summer options on a large group of the most promising of Keno Hill claims. They were obtained bv Livingston Wernecke, geologist and mining engineer of the company "no snent the entire summer in the Mayo area and particularly on Keno Hlil' The company now is carrying on eX- tensive development on the west eno of Keno Hill with crew of thirty-hVe men under w. B. Hargreaves, englneer in charge and is meeting with such success in its development work thls winter that 1t expects to take out seV- eral hundred tons of high grade silver ore this winter It.. however, is not try ing to produce for shipment and mas equipment for shipping only about Zoo +ons this winter. The remaining ore will he left on the dump until the next season The Messrs. Bradley or the Alaska Treadwell Company are no ted in the mining world not only for their connection with the big mining onerations at the famous Treadweli mine. Alaska, hut also in connection with their famous silver lead mines the Bunker Hill and Sullivan, and oth' CT mines at Couer d'Alene, 1daho' where they have large osmelting oper- ations in connection with other ex- tensive mining operations.
 The Slate Creek Mining Company has taken options on many of the most promising properties on Keno Hill and is doing development work on several of the claims. On one Of the claims, the Fisher. near the foot of Keno Hill, it has opened vein four feet in width carrying galena of high grade. A shaft was down forty feet at latest advices and the vein and the ore are holding out fine. The worAk is in charge of E. E. B-ussey, engineer in charge who has established camp near the foot of the hill and has eight to twelve men engaged
 It is a notable feature of the Keno Hill situation that each season since the strike tho camp has advanced I