The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-04-18
CASSIAR HYDRAULIC MINES
 TO INSTALL BIG HYDRAULIC
 PLANT ON DEASE CREEK
(Alaska Weekly

drauiic mining engineer, in charge of the installation of plant and de- velopment work on the Cassiar Fly draulic Mines, Ltd, with properties on Dease Creek in the Cassiar dis trict, will leave in the near future for Wrangell, Alaska.
 MT. Bryant plans on taking the first steamer up the Stikine River to Telegraph Creek and will proceed at once, or as soon as the Dease Lake trail is open, for the property where he will have charge of the crew there this summer in the opening up of the property. He ex- poets to be on the ground by the middle of May, and work will be actively carried on until the freeze up this coming fall, or about the middle of October. He is taking in with him as additional equip ment a three-ton Holt caterpillar to be used in connection with the mining development.
 MT. Bryant said in speaking of his plans for the coming season: We are planning on completing the development work and the in- stallation of our complete equip ment this summer and hope to be ready for active mining by next spring. Of course, if we should be so fortunate as to get a good season this summer, as far as weather is concerned, we might possibly get to hydraulicking this year, but l am not counting on it.
 q am taking in an additional Caterpillar, and we have on the ground now a five-ton Cat" Ford son tractor with Allison Hoist, saw mill and planer as well as 9 Will ford shovel for ditching, and thirty two tons of hyraulic equipment ready to be installed.
 Our big ditch now under con struction will be completed this year. It is five and one-half miles :n length, two feet in depth and seven feet in width on the bottom. More than two miles of this ditch is now completed and we have over A thousand feet of Hume already installed. We have cut all of our own lumber with our sawmill and permanent camp buildings are all ready completed.
 Our holdings on Dease Creek consist of two leases and two creek claims, taking in the old channei of Dease Creek which was great producer in the early days of the Cassiar. Of course the ground that we will work could not be worked by the old methods and believe that we will find as good or possi- bly, better values than have so far been uncovered on this famous creek.
 "our ground is from one hundred to one hundred and fifty feet in depth and we have a wonderful dumb, of eighty-five feet right intd Dease Creek. The ground has been tested by tunnel workings and pam ming and shows exceptional values, with two distinct paystreaks, one in the lower levels of the gravel on bedrock and one about sevnty feet above.
 "We will install an electric light ing sytem this summer to provide the camp with lights as well as power to run our battery of eiec- trically driven rock drills. l am planning on using these drills to shoot out bedrock for the founda- tion for our fumes.
 "Our road work has all been com pleted and we now have good graded road from the warehouse or Dease Lake to the camp, distance of two and three-quarters miles with telephone connections as well.
 Fuguring on the capacity of the plant which will be between two and three thousand yards per day, I estimate that we have at least 15