The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-07-07
FREDERICK WORTHEN BRADLEY.

Juneau feels deeply it's loss in the death of MT Bradley whose vision saw in the low grade quartz deposits in this district an opportunity to create great gold mining property whose en- gineering genius and whose faith and whose per- sona fortune invested against the advice of friends and even some members of his own family, made possible the creation of the Alaska Juneau mine which is the fulfiment of that vision
 MT Bradley had many nonors come to him in a life that was full of action, replete with notable achievements in the mining world, but none were greater than that of building the Alaska Juneau property which is and will forever stand a monu- ment to him both engineer and as man Without him there would have been no Alaska Juneau, at least not in this generation. The story of how his confidence in it's eventual worth during days when operating losses had exhausted company funds obtained from sales of stocks and bonds led him and an associate to advance several hundred thousand dollars without security, to continue ex- permentation has been told in these columns several times. It this money that enabled his brother P R. Bradley, General Superintendent L. H. Metzgar and their aides to work out the present successful method of mining and milling that has made the Alaska Juneau wonder mine of the world.
 There were two things that probably weighed heavily on MT Bradley in making his decision to disregard the advice to abandon the Alaska Juneau operations, and these afford the best possible in sight to his greatness of heart and mind On the strength of the Bradley name, the public had in- vested millions of dollars in Alaska Juneau securi- ties. Juneau largely built around the property and great deal of money had been invested here in other business and residential property Both classes of investments made because Of the faith people had in the Bradley judgment regard ing mining and mining properties. AS long as there was any possible hope that the venture could be worked out, long after other experts on mining had abandoned all hope of it. he would not quit. lesser man, when company funds were exhausted, when all the lessons taught by his own experience and that of others in the development of similar deposits were against going ahead would have let the public pocket its loss and kept his money in his pocket. It characteristic of MT Bradley that he did not take that course.
 He perservered and He the stock that was sold at a par of $10 sink to below 75 cents a share Yet he did not falter. He lived to all of the company's unfunded debt repaid; then the funded debt wiped out to order the payment of its first dividend on the stock; to raise the original dividend rate from four to six per cent on par value; to accumulate fine working surplus; and toI watch the public, ever eager to get aboard al winner drive the price from that low of less than 75 cents to high of about $23 almost two and one half times its nominal value.
 He had achieved eminence in the mining world before he came to Alaska He already head of the Bunker Hill-Sullivan company. He headed the Alaska Treadwell Company when 1t was the greatest Alaska property and the Alaska Juneau a small venture Yet in the end 1t the Alaska Juneau with which his name became synonymous The reputation he earned meritoriously from that project would have been fame enough for any man It is great property It will be even greater in the years to the newly opened deep-level deposits are mined and miled And it increases in size and value will his name and fame live and mount
 The Scripture tells of the Master who rewards his servants in accord with the use made of their talents. Surely there must be great reward for such Frederick Worthen Bradley whose talents great, and who used them so diligently and without stint for the betterment of his own generation and those that will come after.