Seward daily gateway., 1928-04-02

the sections of the plants. The dredge buckets have a capacity of 10 GU. II. Each dredge will handle about 7,0OO GU. yd. gravel per day, and the cost or each installed will be between $780, 900 and $1,000,000. It is expected that the plants will be in full operation by August 1, enough ground having been stripped and thaWed to provide for full season's' operation. A smaller dredge with GU. it. buckets has been ordered for operation at Gilmore, on upper Goldstream. The two dredges now being delivered will operate on Cleary and lower Goldstream respec- lively, and it is stated four more dredges will be installed on the com pany's properties, which include 50 square miles of placer ground on Cleary, Goldstream, Gilmore and Es- ter creeks. The dredging plants will be connected with the central power station at Fairbanks by transmission lines aggregating 100 miles in length. The Davidson ditch, so named after J. M Davidson, who built it and the Miocene ditch at Nome, extends from Fairbanks to point half mile be- low the forks of McManus and Faith creeks, a distance of 75 miles. The ditch is 2 it. deep and has an average width of 12 1t. From Fox Creek a branch of the ditch, miles in length, runs to Gilmore on upper Goldstream. and the other, ' miles in length, pro- vides the water supply for lower Gold stream operations. The company's to- tai investment in the enterprise ses- timated at 15,000,00o.
 Another important dredging under taking at Fairbanks is that of the Alaska -Wtitworth Mines, Ltd, of Lon. don, with which are associated the Panama Valley Gold Dredging Con- pany, the Whitworth Mines Company, and the Engineer Creek Company. The company is now ready to operate the entire season on Fish Creek and has acquired two and half miles of dredging ground on Engineer Creek, which it proposes to drill. If results are satisfactory dredge will be Tn operation there by 1929. Two thou sand tons of coal has been hauled to Fish Creek from Gilmore by tractors in preparation for the coming seasons operations there.
 The Pacific Coast Cement Company is installing it's dock and shipping plant, and opening quarries, at View Cove. Dall Island, with view to sup plying the limestone required in it's cement plants on Puget Sound. The plant includes electric shovels and conveyors, to provide the power for which a start will shortly be made on a hydro-electric installation. 1t will be the end of the year before the in- dustry is in complete operation. The Williams Mining Company has been incorporated to develop and operate the Charles Williams lode mining group of 94 claims on Hawk Inlet, near Juneau.
 A. Hughes and J. w. Sansom have driven over HOO it: of tunnel in the search for lost gold-quartz mine, be- Ilieved to have been buried by land slide on the Yukon River, 30 miles above Circle. TreadWell interests arc stated to have taken up an area or Coal Creek, tributary of the Yuk0r River west of the international bound ary. with a view to testing 1t out. Re presentatives of Michigan capital have been Investigating the dredging pros poets of Birch Creek. a tributary o the Yukon River, below the conflu ence with Porcupine River.
 The old Chickagoff Island gold mine is being reopened by the Chichagof Development Company, organized b. G. T. Jackson. J. L. Freeburn, Wh' successfully operated it in forme years, has returned as manager. new vein carrying high gold values has been developed. The Merrill Min ing Company has been obliged to shu down it's mine at Port Wells for th' winter owing to unusually cold weatn CT, which froze the water supply.
 The Elmes Gold Mining Compan. intends to increase it's mill at Fair banks to ten stamps. Sufficient or, has been blocked out to supply sucl
 a mill for year. The Marfon-TWll Gold Mining is adding another ten
 stamp mill and two 100hp. Diesel en zines to it's plant at the Gold Mint ol Little Susitna River. The compan has also arranged to operate 1t lCraigie properties during the comin Ir,,