The Wrangell sentinel., 1924-06-19


 into the Stikine River, thirty-six
 miles from the mouth of the bigger stream, a group of we'll known Van couver, B. C., men are developing very promising silver-lead proper ties.
 At Devils Elbow, on the Stikine River, Walter Julian and associates are doing exploratory work on a big silver-lead proposition, declared by those who have seen it to be a mighty promising proposition. It is located 112 miles from Wrangell. MT. Julian is now in Seattle, on business matters.
 On Clearwater Creek, which flows into the Stikine River, five miles above Devils Elbow, the Kennedy brothers are developing a placer property.
 Dan Keene, old timer of the Northland. is developing properties On Sixteen-mile Creek, distance of 16 miles from Dease Lake.
 At Laketon, on Dease Lake and a. the mouth of the Dease River, the Dickinson Mining Company has a 40O-acre tract of placer ground. The ground was drilled last season and gave a result of $1.36 per cubic yard. On the average, bedrock is gained at twenty feet. The gold content of the ground having been exceedingly fine, values having been found for big operations. the company will this season install dragline scraper and equipment and plans to be in production for about sixty days before the season ends. R. H. Dickinson, jr., a native of Huntington, West Virginia, is the head of the company. Hewas among the first to locate ground when the Pike-Beauclere lease was cancelled. He is now in Seattle, with offices at S52 Dexter Horton building.
 Henry Cole, of Vancouver, B. G., has two leases on Dease Creek and plans to install a hydraulic plant this season. Above Cole, on Dease River, Tom Bryan, an old timer in the country. Philip Hankins and A. Johnson, also pioneers of the camp, are working individual leases.
 The Dease Creek Mines Corpora tion, a Seattle concern, with leases on Dease River, plan to install big hydraulic plant this season. The ground is proven.
 On Thibert Creek, a tributary of Dease River, the Dease Creek Syn dicate, headed by George Adams, has thirteen leases, each containing eighty acres. For the past four years, this company has been en- gagged in exploration work and the results obtained have been most A Philadelphia min- ing engineer will visit this property this season, with a view of taking over this big placer holding on be- half of Eastern capital.
 On McDames Creek, a tributary of the Dease River, the Pendleton Mining Company has a large area of proven ground. A drag line scraper and equipment was taken in this spring and the company will be in production this season. Six teen men are employed.
 On Snow Creek, a tributary of McDames Creek, Dave Wing, of Wrangell, is installing a hydraulic plant on proven ground.
 On Haskins mountain. near Nc Danes Creek, Vancouver. B.C., peo- pie have fifty-six lode claims. show ing values in copper and gold.
 Mining men from the Cassiar camp, now in Seattle, unite in say ing that K. c. Knudson, resident of Seattle, concerned in that district, is largely responsible for the in- creased activities there. He did yeoman work in getting the govern ment to build a wagon road from Telegraph Creek to Dease Lake, completed last year, which solved