: ORE LEDGE AT
KANTISHNA IS
PROMISING ONE
The galena ledge which is being
opened up by Tom Aitken in the Kan
tishna district is showing excellent
values as the work progresses, accord
ing to Jim Johnstone, old-time Fair
banksan, who arrived in Nenana re
cently, direct from the Aitken camp,
where he worked for a time as black
smith for the outfit. He mushed out
by way»of the Toklat, accompanied by
l T. H. Reams and John Peters and his
wife, and was seven days in making
the trip from the mine to Nenana.
They caught the train near the Jap
roadhouse.
The Aitken tunnel, which is an ex
tension of the old Quigley tunnel, is
in a distance of approximately 150
feet, Johnstone says, and they are now
working on a raise, to tap the shaft
sunk earlier in the season. Twelve
men are employed at the mine, di
vided into two shifts.
The ore taken from the tunnel is
stored in an ore house a short distance
below the tunnel mouth, from which
point it is hauled down the hill to the
creek, a distance of about a mile and
a half. The loads are small, owing
to^the steep grade, but when the haul
ing starts from the base of the hill to
Roosevelt, the ore will move in larger
quantities.
Johnstone says he was not in a po
sition to learn definitely the value of
the ore being taken out, but he heard
enough to convince him that it is very
rich. And there apparently is a con
siderable body of it. Between sixty
and seventy tons of the ore has been
sacked ready for hauling to Roosevelt,
where it will be stored until the open
ing of navigation, and then shipped to
an Outside smelter for treatment.
The work of getting the ore down
the hill to the creek Is a serious prob
lem, according to Johnstone, which ul
timately must result in the construc
tion of a tram. The freighting of the
ore from the base of the hill to Roose
velt, a distance of approximately thirty
miles, is also a big job, and a winter
proposition strictly. Ed Bartlett has
a contract to haul the ore out and sup
plies in, and he has been busy ever i
since his arrival there with his outfit, ■ j
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getting the road in shape for heav;
traffic and building relay camps.
There will be two of these rela;
| camps, one of them ten miles fron
Roosevelt, leaving a ten-mile stretc.1
between. One of the camps is beinf
constructed of logs, but the other wil
be a tent affair, with room for sev
eral horses and a place for bunks ant
kitchen outfit.
Bartlett will use three four-horse
teams when he starts hauling, chang
ing teams at each camp, and in thai
way he expects to be able to land ter
tons of ore per day at Roosevelt. An
other team of two horses will be used
at the mine to haul the ore down the
hill and supplies and wood up to the
mine.
The fuel and timber proposition is a
serious one, it being necessary to haul
all the wood a distance of several
miles, with the steep pull up the hill
at the finish.
Johnstone says that a lot of work
has been done since Aitken took
charge of the mine, especially in view
of the fact that the mine is situated
at the top of a mountain, thirty miles
from the nearest water where sup
plies may be landed. The altitude is
what caused Johnstone to give up his
place. He did not mind the work, he
says, but he could not get used to be
ing so high up in the air.
Johnstone went into the district
with Bartlett at about the time of the
freeze-up. They went in by way of
the Lloyd trail, which begins at
Knight’s and ends at Diamond City,
thirty miles from the mine. This
trail will be used considerably this
winter, in Johnstone’s opinion, since
it is the only feasible trail for freight
ing with horses. When Bartlett w’ent
in it was necessary to construct a
number of bridges, and niggerheads
caused considerable trouble, but there
is sufficient snow' on the ground now'
to make good going.
Bartlett plans to come out within
a short time for supplies for the mine,
the outfit taken in by boat during the
fall already having developed a num
’ ber of shortages which must be re
placed before spring.
The Quigleys also are ceming out
i soon, and Mrs. Quigley will continue
on the States for the remainder of the
; winter.
Commissioner Herb Wilson, who
took in a stock of general merchan
dise on one of the last boats and
opened a store at Glacier, has dis
posed of his entire shipment, and will
be out toward the end of the month
for more supplies.
Tom Aitken was expected to arrive
at the mine from the Kuskokwim dis
trict on the first of the month, and is
probably there now.
Johnstone says his party met a num
ber of dog teams headed for the Kan
tishna on prospecting and trapping ex
peditions, and it is his opinion that
more gold hunting will be done in the
district this winter than during any
previous winter since the early Kan
tishna stampede.
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