The Nome nugget mining edition. [volume], June 01, 1908, Image 30

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have never ben touched. The Lisburne
coal and the Norton bay coal is also
of the best variety, and innumerable
other beds exist in the peninsula, so
that this article which is so important
for the development of the quarts
ledges is abundant and of first-class
quality,
Down at Bluff there is a quartz
ledge which carries gold in far greater
quantities than any other ledge in Al
aska, and more probably than any
ledge within a thousand miles of Alas
ka. It is owned by Summerville and
Mugan, who, by using an arrastre last
summer, extracted hundreds of dollars
from it.
It is a 300-foot vein, and gold can
be seen all over it with the naked eye
and it ranges in value from $10 to $200
per ton. They have driven and sunk
1,400 feet of shafts and tunnels and the
mine will probably add more to the out
put of Alaska than all the placer gold
of the peninsula put together.
In the same section Lyal has a 12
foot vein in which he has driven 300
feet of shafts and tunnels and whose
average value is $23.38 per ton.
Today on Brooks mountain Reed and
Randt have not less than 750 tons of
ore in their dump ready for shipment
to the outside. The ledge is 3 feet 6
inches in width. It is high grade
galena ore and carries good values in
gold and silver. Even by the expensive
method of shipping the rock to the out
side they expect to make a good sum
of money.
The Big Hurrah mine of the Lanes
was the first quartz mine on the pen
insula to be opened and the first ro
prove absolutely that the ledges of the
country are in place. As many as GO
men have been employed in it at one
time a large amount of gold has been
extracted.
On Nome river Pelsan and partners
have a 45 foot shaft on a ledge which
is rich in gold, silver and antimony.
The vein is eight feet wide and carries
$26 in gold, silver 2 oz., and is 2S per
cent antimony.
The Copper Mountain Mining com
pany is developing what is certainly
one of the most promising ledges in
the whole country. The ore is exceed
ingly rich in copper and near the rail
road. The mountain will be pierced by
a tunnel this summer and the ledge
tapped several hundred feet down.
The Lost River Tin Mining compa
ny possesses some very valuable prop
erties which include veins of tin, tung
sten and molybdenum, whose values
range from 7 per cent to 37 per cent.
The discoverers have sunk and drifted
no less than 1,840 feet of shafts and
tunnels and have found the prospects
improving as they advance. They have
got one 40-foot vein, one 26-foot vein,
one 12-foot vein and a number of smal
ler ones.
The Sliscovitch Mining company on
Hobson creek has a magnificent 9-foot
vein of antimony ore with gold and
silver values. The vein is nine feet
wide and 400 feet of tunnels and shafts
have been driven in it.
The Connelly company on Gold Bot
tom has a ledge whose values range
from $4.60 to $582.00. The vein is 42
feet wide and tunnels have been driven
in it for 340 feet. A small stamp mill
has been placed on the property which
was recently taken over by a company.
One of the most remarkable mines in
the country is the one owned by Tom
linson, Esch and others on Bower Sin
rock river. It is a bed of brown hema
tite and limanite of iron and is 2,000
feet wide by 4,600 feet in length.
On the Upper Sinrock River are bis
muth mines owned by Dahl and others
which are amongst the most promising
in the whole country.
The lodges mentioned, the particulars
about which were collected by Peter
Esch, the well-known assayer, are only
a few of the more prominent ledges in
the country.
Legion is the name of the sections in
which most promising veins have been
uncovered, and in which much pros
pecting is being done. In the Kugruk,
Kobuk, Inmachuk and other remote
sections most valuable mines are being
developed also that will some day be
operated and made to release their vast
treasures.
On the bedrock cf the beach lines
fabulously rich veins have been uncov~
ered, and today there is in sight in a
place that must be nameless, at the
bottom of a shaft of a placer mine near
the city, a vein which carries as much
as $8,000 to a ton.
In several such places have been
found veins that range in value from
$5 to $G90 per ton, but their amazing
richness is taken to be proof that they
arc only pockets.
It is anyhow now almost certain that
Seward peninsula is on the eve of the
day when she will prove herself to be
qualified to take as high a place in the
world of hard rock mining as she took
in the world of placer, and that means
a place away up amongst the first on
earth.
U. S. GEOLOGIST SAYS
LEDGES ARE IN PLACE.
(From Daily Nugget Oct. 2, 19,07.)
Dr. Phillip S. Smith, head of the U.
S. geological survey party, which has
just concluded an examination of 1 h<'
Casadcpaga and Solomon districts, said
today that it is absurd to say that the
ledges of this district are not in place
Ho has no doubt whatever that they
are, and he believes that the country
has a splendid prospect of developing
into a first-class quartz mining camp.
He says that thb placer gold un
doubtedly came from quartz, and lu*
considers it ridiculous to imagine that
all the good quartz has been worn
away by erosion and that nothing but
poor quartz has been left in the lodges
It is his opinion that miners here
pay altogether too much attention to
looking for rock on which free gold is
visible to the naked eye and too little
to the assaying of other ores.
THE WONDER PROPERTIES.
The “Wonder” properties on Cooper
Gulch, which are owned by Mr.". Maud
E. Johnston, are amongst the richest
and best known of all the placer mines
on Seward Peninsula.
Under the management of Charles
Woog, five large dumps were taken out
this year and sluiced by the owners.
Mr. P. Thompson operated part of
the property on a lease and hoisted
large dumps, and Waskey and Crab
tree extracted three large dumps from
another part.
Grahams Discovery and the Sunday
Star claims, which are amongst the
claims that constitute the Wonder
properties, are located on the slough
over paystreak about 400 feet south of
the third beach line. The pay on this
slough-over streak is 500 feet wide and
contains enormously rich gravel.
The property will be operated dur
ing the summer, and dirt is at pres
ent being hoisted an] dumped directly
into the hoppers.
CONEMPLATE BUILDING
DITCH AT SOLOMON.
That (he Midnight Sun Mining and
Ditch Company contemplates building
a ditch in (he Solomon district this
summer is Jhe news brought in by W.
V. Matlock' Mr. Mutlock. who repre
sents the company, arrived in Nome
last evening and seems to be about
sure that the ditch will be constructed.
It will have its intake on Shovel
creek.