Broad Pass
aking Good
Highly encouraging reports
concerning the Broad Pass dis
trict are brought here by W. H.
Taulman, who arrived Saturday,
directly from the camp. He de
clares that the district is stand
ing up under the rigid test of
development and may now be
said to have passed from the
realm of the uncertain and pros
pective into that of known worth
and importance. Indeed, so en
couraging has the development
proved, that the Broad Pass has
been named the “Rand of
Alaska.”
About fifty prospectors and
miners are in the Broad Pass dis
trict, said Mr. Taulman, and all
are busy prospecting their claims
or seeking other lodes. All are
optimistic. Two embryonic towns
have been established, one known
as Colorado City, the other as
Wellsville. Both are at the mouth
of Colorado creek, one on each
side of the stream. A store and
roadhouse has been started at the
mouth of Indian river, the head
of navigation on the Chulitna
river, by Mr. Elmer Kane. The
mineral belt is some thirty miles
distant from this point and may
easily be reached by pack train.
W. E. Dunkle, a mining en
gineer representing the Guggen
heims, is driving a tunnel on the
lode claim known as Golden Zone
No. 3. The Guggenheims have
under option some twenty claims
in the district, but are confining
development to this one claim,
because it will, in large measure,
test others on the same mineral
ized zone. A tunnel is being
driven to crosscut the zone, or at
least to crosscut the ledge in the
center of the mineralized zone.
The tunnel is nowin 150 feet and
has another 125 feet to go to
reach the objective point. D.unkle
is getting in pack Horses, powder
and additional food supplies. He
has a complete assay outfit to
test the ore on the ground.
Lon and Frank Wells are driv
ing a tunnel on the Northern
Light group.
Coffey is stripping and driving
a tunnel on the Riverside group.
Way and Charles Bowker and
Victor Olson are developing the
Comstock group.
Lidell and Kelly are working
on the Lucrative group.
William Springer, Joe Morris
and Captain St. Clair are work
ing on the Pay streak group.
Lenfors and Peterson are de
veloping the Independence group.
Don S. Rae and Paddy O’Don
nell are developing; the Bluff
group.
McCallie and Horning are pros
pecting the Colorado group.
W. H. Taulman and Ed Haley
are developing the Center Star
group.
Frisbie and Murray are pros
pecting the Golden Wonder
group.
Otto Laugle and Ed Miller and j
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Wilson and Nelson have discov
ered lodes on Ohio creek.
0. J. Sampson is working on
the Eldorado fraction.
For the information of mining
men, the geology of the Broad
Pass district is given. The lime
stones, sandstones, argillites and
cherts of the Paleozoic age have
been tilted by an upheaval of
diorite. These sedimentaries have
a northeasterly and southwester
ly strike and are cut by an erup
tive, probably andescite. The
soft limestones have been replac
ed by contact metamorphism, re
sulting jn a series of large cham
bers of mineral, which consists
of quartz with chiefly arsenopyr-!
ite. Occasionally, chalcopyrite
and stibnite accompany the ar
senical pvrite, and more rarely
galena and zinc blende. The
area on which ore shoots are ex
posed is about eight miles long
and over 2000 feet wide. Gold
and silver occur in the arsenical
pyrite.
Nature has done much to aid
the prospector in his search for
mineral. The presence of the
mineralized zone is revealed by
the yellowish arsenical stain in
many places, while in others
creeks and gulches crosscut it,
There is a good quality of coal
in the district and several claims
have been located under the new
leasing bill. Moose and caribou
are quite plentiful. The miners
are building or have built, sub
stantial homes, in the belief that
the district will evolve into a
great mining camp. The ore, in
large part, it is now believed,
will respond to the cyanide treat
ment, which will permit reduc
tion camps on the ground. When
copper pyrites are present, and
this is noted particularly in the
southern extremity of the min
eralized zone, smelter treatment
will be necessary. The govern
ment railway system will pass
through the heart of the district,
which promises to supply a large
and important tonnage for the
transportation line.
When you wish to rest, go to
the Pioneer hotel, Knik. Frank
Cannon, proprietor. x
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fhe Traveler is on the Anchorage-Goose Bay-Knik run.