The daily Alaskan., 1922-08-03
ANOTHER MILL
 IS PROJECTED

! mite depths, and blocked out two areas of ore sufficient in volume end i richness to justify, the Fern Gold Mine company, a close corporation, controlled by Jerome Drumheller and Martin Woldson, is ready to install a mill on the property and begin talk ing out bullion. This announcement was made to the Times yesterday by Messrs. Drumheller and Woldson, who have just returned from Willow creek. where they inspected the de- velopment work that has been in
 progress some time. The property located on Archangel and Fairangol creeks. consists of seven claims and development work to date consists of ! a 575-foot ad.t tunnel that has deyel- oDed 35O feet of backs on two ore shoots. the first of which has been developed laterauy about 200 feet and averages about six feet in width and the second ITO feet along the vein an average of six feet About five feet of both shoots is pronounc- ed high grade.
 Another tunnel is being run to cut shoots at greater depth, indications
 being that the shoots are persistent and that deep mining will be in or
 der.
 lIr. DrumhelIer was not prepared
 Co say anything as to the capacity Of the mill to be installed. and it's intro
 ductiou to the property is contingent
 upon the extension of road improve
 meuts in the direction of Fairangei and Archaugel creeks.
 One of the crying needs of the Willow creek district, thinks Mossrs.
 Drumheller and Woldson, is roads.
 Speaking of this phase of develop
 meut. in the great quartz camp. MT.
 DrumhelIer said:
 Every measure of support should
 be accorded Colonel Steese and the
 Alaska Road commission. wEicR is doing everything in it's power to eX-
 tend roads where they are needed
 The time when Willow creek viii be come one of the greatest deep-mine
 gold camps in America is based upon
 the time when roads make possible
 the taking of machinery and equip
 meut for development. It Is no long er prospect camp-it is a deep-miue district with values that warrant the statement that it is another Cripple Creek.
 We have developed with a view to setting ore reserves before installing milling facilities. This work has been necessarily costly. owing to lack of roads, We have paiG $50 per ton for coal delivered at the mine, and $6O per ton for supplies 10 be hauled in. This is far beyond what it should be;
 .n fact with a roadway We could lay
 our freight down at a cost not to ex- ceed S2O per ton.
 "J realize what difficulties confront the Alaska Road commission and
 what good work it is doing in an eff
 fort to assist the miners. but unless .i. is given spccaI funds with which to
 build roads that will bring into i'm
 mediate commercial possibility such reveuue-producing industries as
 quartz-mining. the development of the country will lag.
 with these conditions met there is
 no more ideal location for gold min ing in America. Willow creek has deep and persistent ore shoots and being a free-miuipg camp is destined
 to bring great properity to this em- mediate vicinity and have a tremen- dous effect upon gold quartz mining in Alaska
 "I like the earnest manner in which Colonel John B. Gotwals is laboring
 to carry out the Alaska road program
 as mapped out by Colonel Steese, and | if given a free hand they will soon solve the many problems confronting the miner.
 Every mining enterprise developed means a demand for labor, supplies
 of coal and eventually the industry
 will exert it's influence upon all lines of endeavor in the railroad belt, es-
 peciully coal mining"
 Mr. DrumhelIcr, in addition to hay ling valuable gold mining interests in ! Alaska, is associated in one Of the largest coal mining enterprises in Alberta. the DrumhelIer coal fields which were opened and developed by himself and associates. In entering the Willow creek district and meet, l ing such signal success can be seen the forerunner of capital for numer, ous enterprises.