Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-15
TRIO MINE OPERATORS WILLOW CREEK DISTRICT
 0WN LAAGE HOLDINGS

AmUng the prominent travellers passing thru Seward for interior points is J. s. Horning, en route to the Willow Creek free-milling gold mining district, north of Anchor age. Accompanying MT. Horning Is his son Alan.
 So quietly that little furry has been occasioned thereby, MT. Hor- ming, Charlie Bartholf and Sidney Black have acquired a number of properties in Willow Creek district which combines the largest hold ings in that area These consist of the Gold Cord, which has for some two years or more, been operated by the partners on a paying basis, the Gold Bullion, Independence and the Jap group. All of these have undergone a degree of pros pecting, and Mr. Horning says each property has good ore and in dicatiOns of becoming strong con- tributors to the gold output of the district.
 The Gold Cord has been under going development of additional ore bodies during the winter. The workings include an 85-foot winze, sunk on ore in one of the main drifts, and is still in ore of com mercial value, said MT. Horning.
 A 120-foot winze sunk on a shoot good values. The Jap group Is in the Independence also shows noted for it's rich surface ores.
 All of these properties will even- tually come under development, says MT. Horning.
 Winzing in Willow Creek is in line with the announcement or number of eminent mining engl- neers, including the late Dr. Alfreo s. Brooks and members of the U. s. Geological Survey that the velopment of shoots in the dstrlct are persistent in their downward trend, indicating deep-seated ore bodies.
 While the Brooks pronounce ment primarily dealt with the schists, MT. Horning says that oe- velopment Of shoots in the dlorleC shows them to be equally, perSLSC- ent and fully conformable Wl1n all hypoheses drawn by sclentillc geologists.
 In Gays report Q93D the obser- vation was made that indicated possible depths of ore pointed to ! OOO feet. or about where the Vo- dose enters the Barysphere, or the sulphine zone, above the Lltho- sphere.
 Grano-diorite and schist predon- mate in the Willow Creek zone, the contact between the latter ana grano-diorite structure running al most east and west. It Is along this contact that the great vein system has been laid down, "iti' impregnations about equally ol- yided between the schist and the dioitic rocks.
 In addition to the segregated and contast Assures, the wall mat ter in many instances, says MT. Horning. contains some values.
 Messrs. Horning, Barthoif and Black have carried on the second era of pioneering Willow creek Mr Bartholf being associated with his uncle, Gene Bartholf, in dls, coyery of the camp. For several wears Messrs. Horning and Bar tholf struggled along with the Ma ble mine in the eastern end ot the contact, and still retain it, after acquiring the Gold Cord, Colo Bullion, Independence and Jan groups The Mable gave them the start by which they have built up the present large group ana Whlcis appear destined to become. one ol the largest mines in the district Sidney Black was left an or. nhan when his father was sWep1 into Turnagain Arm by snoWSlloe while working on the Alaska Kali
 road in 1920. He attended schooI in Wasilla and Anchorage and then
 joined Messrs. Bartholf and Horn
 ing as a miner, later buying m1 the close syndicate and emerglng
 one of the big mining men o1 the
 Territory.
 | Alan Horning is an aviation eX- ] pert mechanic and f1ier. He VII 1 work at the mine this summer.