The Cordova daily times., 1922-06-28
MUCH MINING ACTIVITY AT
 COAST TOWN
(Valdez Miner)

This summer has witnessed a great
 CT activity in gold quartz mining than
 for number of years past, and while
 in each instance the properties being worked are operated on compara- lively small scale, and without the aid
 of outside capital, the result has been
 a greater development and consequent
 proving of the value of the gold quartz veins of this section.
 On the Gold King, on Shoup gla- , cier, Gust Kring, practical miner, ] and three associates are working. ! This property had probably the rich est surface showing of any lead in the
 district, and gave every indication of
 making a big producer. A mill was placed on the property some years ago, and considerable mining done, under
 a lease, but under the management at that time proved unsuccessful. The present operators are now. working in good ore,' which promises big clean up this season.
 Chrsi Scheffer and the Reinken brothers are opening up the Apollo mine formerly known as the Williams
 Gentzler) on Mineral creek. These claims also had a remarkable surface
 showing, and gave promise of becom- ing a producer, but lack of capital caused a cessation of work. The pres ent owners have located the pay
 chute several hundred feet below the original workings and are taking out some high grade ore, which they are
 milling by means of an arrastra. They expect to be the first to bring in cleanup this season.
 1 Ted Johnson and Ed Sperstad are operating on the Hercules property on
 Mineral creek. The lead on this prop erty, like nearly all of those in that
 section, has very rich surface show 1 ings, and should give handsome re- 1 turn under intelligent development.
 There is a mill on this property and the operators are confident of mak-
 ing handsome cleanup this year from
 the ore now in sight.
 l Delate Cook and a crew are work
 ing on the Mayfield property near Co.,
 lumbia Glacier. This property is said
 to have the largest body of pay ore in the district. About 6,000 tons of ore have already been blocked out which carried from $2O to SPA per ton. It is reported that a deal is under way whereby this property will be taken over by large mining interests, and will be operated on an extensive scale. Fred Higson and Robert Schroe- der are opening up the Blue Ribbon group of claims on Mineral creek. This
 property, while not giving the high assay values usual to the ores of the
 Mineral creek section, appears to carry a good value throughout the en- tire ore body, and with further de- velopment should become big pro- ducer.
 On the Rutherford property near the Valdez glacier, Harry Bla- grave is working five men with suc- cessful results. The property is stead ily producing bullion and yielding
 handsome profit. This property has large quantity of rich ore blocked out'
 and under the present management
 the development work is kept well i'll
 advance of the mining.
 1 E. F. McDonald, who is operating a small mill on his property near
 Shoup bay was in town a few days
 ago and displayed an assay certlfl-
 cate from the bureau of mines station
 at Fairbanks showing that the concen-
 trates from his mill gave returns or
 nearly S54OO per ton in gold and sill
 yer. MT. Mcdonald figures the con centrates at about 1 to 9, making the value of the ore more than $500 per ] ton over and above the values saved
 on the plates.
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