The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-09-11

Yukon's great silver-lead fields in the Mayo district continue to pro duce steadily and are building for the future despite depressed world wide conditions, says the Dawson News. The spirit of optimism, pre- vails among the property owners and an abiding confidence that with the restoration of conditions the camp will take remarkable strides forward. Despite the. low market the camp this year has shipped five thousand tons Of extra high grade ore reputed to be worth ap- proximately three million dollars at the present prices and has two thousand tons of the same grade of ore on the river bank at Mayo awaiting shipment, while the quan- tity is being increased, daily by the hauling of concentrates from the mill now operating in the district. This cheerful note is brought by Charles R. Settlemier, one of the owners of the Arctic group, on Galena Hill, which has the record of having shipped 2,000 tons of high grade ore, the largest sent out by any individual CT independe It operators of the camp, and on which an extensive new vein of the ore recently has been found. MT. Set tlemier is in Dawson on a business trip. Speaking of conditions in the Mayo camp, he says:
 "The Mayo district has produced something like 65,000 tons Of high grade ore during its brief life, and of that tonnage about one-third h IS been crude or hand-picked ore and the balance mill concentrates. The total output has had a gross value of between $15,000,0O0 and $20,- OOO,0O0 thus adding materially to the wealth and the activity of the Yukon, and, in the opinion of va rious owners of the district, the stage is all set there for extra ordinary activity once silver and lead prices are restored no normal
 From a physical aspect the Mayo camp never locke better than to- day. Several of the developed prop critics now idle would start pro ducing tomorrow if silver were restored, and many other promising prospects would receive the earnest attention and no doubt other gGod producers would be opened The claim owners of the district are optimistic and by no means dis heartened, but realize they must mark time until the day of nor malcy. In face of this condition several have been carrying on their development in the way of surface trenching, sinking and otherwise tracing veins and ore bodies and following up the float The pros pectors who have been in the camp the last ten years have become in- valuable to the district and it is to he hoped that all in position to en- courage and help them in this time Of stress will adopt that prudent course for it is the prospector who has made the mines of the district and made the camp. Out of some 2,00O quartz claims in the Mayo district only about ten per cent of the total are held by large com panies and every find of ore and every strike has been made by the individual prospectcr working with very limited means and under heavy handicap obtaining in a new field. The geologist and the mining en- gineer in their turn have been of real service in their turn when ii came to the working and operation on scale, and the possibility of sale by the individual to the large companies has been a source of en- ccuragement and means of realiza- tion of much desired results.
 Operations in the Mayo district on a big scale were instituted by the Keno Hill, Limited, in 1920 and, although they have not beer working of late, they maintain 8 headquarters for the region at Keno City. with A. K Schellinger, min ing engineer there looking after the company's extensive holdings and carefully watching the develop ment of the district.
 "The Treadwell Yukon Company operations today are the life of tn