The Alaska daily empire., 1922-08-16
RESUMPTION OF
DEVELOP ENT AT
JUAL|N PLANNED
President Vanophem An
nounces Reopening of De-
velopment This Winter.

Work at the Jualin property OF me
Alaska Jualin Mines Company will
be resumed at an early date, is the
gist of an announcement made TINS
morning by Jean Vanophem, Presi-
dent of the company, who arrived
here last night from the South. He
is accompanied by his daughter, Miss
Simone. and her friend Miss H.
Ivey. of Atlanta, Ga and Felix Dairy,
OF Paris, France.
Mr.. Vanophem and his party left
this afternoon for the mine on the
Murrelct and will remain there for
about three weeks. Before Leaving.
in a statement to representative
of The Empire, he said: Il am here
at this time to make all preparations
for resuming active development
work at Jualin This includes get
ting our equipment into shape, get
ting camps ready and in general do
ing whatever is necessary to faclli-
tate work after 1t is started.
Start Work Before December
1--WE expect to start work by De
cember of this year and our plans
call for the completion of the tun-
rel by NEXT summer. | am confident
that we will have a mill in operation
at JuaNn within year
Mr.. Vanorhem said that several in
terested parties will visit the mine
this fam and winter. The first OF
these will arrive on August 20, on
the Princess Louise. After looking
over the property Mr. Vlnophem
will return with this party to San
Francicco and remain there looking
after the company's interests until
November At that time large
parity from France and Belgium Will
be brought here to go over the prop
erty.
Following this inspection work will
begin at once, said Mr.. Vanophem.
This VIII be confined to the tunnel
which was driven in to distance or
4 900 feet before the. company's dis
continued operations several years
ago. There are still $500 feet of
tunnel to be driven and the work
will be done largely by contract
About 40 men will be necessary for
this work. which will be carried on
in three shifts. Mr.. Vanonhem said
the tunnel would be completed by
next summer.
Property Regarded Highly
The property, he said, is regarded
very highly and THE completion OF the
tunnel he is convinced will prove the
salvation not alone of it, but OF other
Berners Bay properties. I'VE know
that we have good workable prop
erty and i am sure that mill will
be i'm operation on it within year,
he added
Transportation by air Is planned
by the company in its renewed oper-
ations, no said Next spring the com
pany will ship a machine to Jualin
and use 1t for transportation of per
sonnet and supplies between Juneau
and the mime. lit takes about 10
hours now to make the one-way trip
by boat and by airplane we will be
able ito make 1t in one,half hour" he
said.
He inAimated that extensive expert
NEWS would be fostered In Alaska
probably NEXT summer. One plane
will probably cover the Interior
from tho Yukon to the Arctic coast,
he said. He believes that aerial
Transportation will play an import
ert pant in topographic mapping, in
opening up new districts and in
transportation of both men and sup
plies.
Enthusiastic About Territory
Both Mr. and Miss Vanophem are
enthusiastic over the Territory and
expressed themselves as glad to get
back to the North. 81 think there is
no other country just like it." said
Mr.. Vanophem.
WHIST holds back the development
ct Alaska. in my opinion, is lack
Of transportation. the prevailing be-
lief, OF people outside OF Alaska. that
the country is lost in snow and gla-
ciers, only inhabited by Eskimos,
and, most OF all, tho lack OF strong
support by the government OF the
United States.
LAS a mining country. there is no
other in the world that affords more
OPPORTUNITIES to the mining man.
who has courage and will, than AL
aska. This alone should stimulate
official initiative in Wow OF facili-
Eating by every means ut Us com
mand, the task undertaken by the
prospector and miner in their en-
deavors no bring the wealth OF this
wonderful land to Hight.
Although INC cnmatic conditions
are quite severe in tho Interior dur
frg the winter time. they ought not
10 play, with transportation facilities.
any part in curtailment or inter
ms-tence in operations with lode
mining. Thcre arc sufficient ex-
amples of mining operations bong
carried successfully on a large scale
An countries whore winters see the
tbrrmometor drop far below the -
mark. and does not offer any hind
rance to constant and systematic de-
velopmcnt.
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