The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-09-11

camp at this period, and it is most fortunate that they have in their Lucky Queen claim and adjacent claims acquired by the company the richest mine of the kind in the Yukon, if not in the whole of Can ada, while some have gone so far as to surmise it probably is the gem of all silyer-lead claims being operated in the world today Practi- cally all the ore being hauled and shipped to the Mayo waterfront to- day is from the Lucky Queen, which is rich in native silver, ruby, gray copper or tetrahedrite and other forms of silver, and carries con- siderable percentage of lead NJ one knows, it is said. how much ore is in that mine, and predictions have been made it will be able to operate from the present workings alone for at least two years. But this is something the future will better determine. The ore is car ried by aerial tram from the mine one mile down the hill to the mill, where 120 tons of the mill feed are reduced to concentrates daily and hauled to Mayo by motor cars. some using trailers, carrying ten tons to the car and five to the trailer. The Lucky Queen strike was made by Hector Morrison, now in Vancouver, and the ore body is now being worked to the southwarl on the Mathole claim, formerly owned by Garnet Watt and associates and said to be showing a phenome nally high grade mineral content.
 "The Treadwell Yukon Company also has two mines on Galena Hill. where it has established camps, namely at the Silver King and the Elsa. the latter formerly owned by by Thomas Aitken. The latest pub lished reports of the company show ed more than 10000 tons of rich ore developed at each of these prop critics, and the company is holding it mostly in the stopes pending the future, but last winter had heavy timber and other material delivered at the Silver King for a large mill and this summer is building three miles of level road of railway grade between the two mines, dis tance of three miles, where it is understood, a tram or light railway will be installed for conveying ore to the mill.
 Several new finds were made 3n yalena and Keno Hills this year. and some of the older claims opened and showed up to much better ad- vantage. PrCspectors who have been in the district a long time have begun to learn the habits of the veins and ore bodies much bet better advantage, and it is generally believed that many concealed veins and ore bodies eventually will be located under the few feet of over burden which covers many of the claims. Automatic gates, dams and ditehes are used to much advantage in the spring, and many miles of such ditches have been run on both hills.
 Among the best showings furth- CT developed on Keno Hill this year has been on the Nabob, owned by Louis Bouvette, where he has cross cut a wide vein containing much high grade ore for the full length of the claim. Louis Bouvette also has other claims on the hill with very rich showings, and being the discoverer of the camp, all are hopeful he eventually will realize a large reward for his service as the man to start things in the camp and to follow them up with years of hard and earnest endeavOr. Matt Butyer on Faro Gulch, also is one of the most persistent prospectors of the hill, and this year has com pleted a tunnel of 400 feet driven
 into hard rock on the Scott claim, adjoining his Stone claim, where he previously had run many hundreds
 of feet of tunnel in hard rock,
 working all by himself, and de- pending on the virtue of hammer
 and steel, powder and his two
 strong arms Matt has big
 reserve of milling ore and is con-