BIG OUTPUT IS
EXPECTED FROM
MIDEZ CREEK
George W. Sias, president of the
Valdez (’reek Placer Mines, reports
that they have paid $108,000 for the
season of 1917 for supplies, equipment,
etc., and that all of the additional
equipment and supplies are now on
Valdez creek, and that the men are
now hauling in the lumber for this sea
son.
in the season of 1916 they employed
Pierre Itourey, M. E„ formerly of the
La Grange mine, California, to finish
the installation of the plant. Mr. Bou
ery, after arriving on the property,
made a survey of all of their workings
and ground. He first started on the
ditch and Increased its capacity 1,
000 inches, whereby the ditch delivers
3,500 inches of water. He constructed
a large reservoir 77 feet below the
penstock to be stored and turned out
to break the dump when necessary.
He had a new 13-inch pipe line laid,
tapping the 24-inch pipe just above its
junction with a 22-inch. This gave
more water through the giants; never
theless the ditch furnished a consid
erable surplus of by-wash which was
delivered by a distributing flume to
the edge of the bank, in the center of
the channel. He moved the power
houses, connecting them up with the
main pipe line near the gates, giving
145 feet more head.
Mr. Bouery also devised a new plan
to work pit No. 1, which was to at
tack the bank in two different places,
provide it with two sluices, so that
moraine gravel tailings ran into the
upper one, and river gravel into the
lower, the former dumping upstream,
the latter down. This can be done be
cause the power plant has been moved.
With these two sluices piping may
be carried on alternately, and a der
rick used simultaneously with air
drills in one sluice, while water is
playing into the other. The air drills
will operate on boulders out of reach
of the derrick. All the riffles neces
sary for several years’ run are on
hand.
All the preparatory work has been
done at the mine and it is provided
with sufficient dump. There is suffi
cient machinery for prospecting on
hand, but this work is not immediately
necessary, as there is enough ground
in sight for a number of years.
After he had made all of these
changes he was not able to run hy
draulicking but 22 days, and we re
covered about $23,000. The ditch line
carries 3,500 inches of water under
350 foot head, three No. 6 giants with
8-inch nozzles, and with this complete
plant working 24 hours per day for
160 days ought to give us a good, sub
stantial cleanup for the season 1917.
This season ought to wash out the old
channel to the virgin ground, and in
the season of 1918 ought to recover
from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000, and for
this rate for many years to come. The
properties, which comprise about 5,
000 acres of rich gold placer, is one of
the largest and rtches gold properties
that has been brought out.
The Valdez Creek Placer Mines
have expended in the purchase of
equipment of these properties some
thing over $1,000,000, and it is be
lieved that the seasons of 1917 and
1918 will be more than sufficient to
retire all of the outstanding obliga
tions.
Some of the most conservative busi
ness men of Boston and New England
who have invested largely in the notes
of the Valdez Creek Placer Mines, and
who have spent several months at the
property, say it is their firm and posi
tive belief that after 1917 and 1918
cleanups, which take place in October
of each year, that the shares which
at this time were given to the pur
chasers with the notes will have a
high market value.
Forbes Rickard, M. E., of Denver,
Colo., was employed by the Valdez
Creek Placer Mines to go to Alaska
and make a most thorough examina
tion o? their holdings, embracing about
5,000 acres. After making a thorough
examination of the property, Mr.
Rickard sums up his report as follows:
‘‘The gravels of this property occu
py an old channel, which is gravel
filled up to a height of 110 feet. There
is a sheer fall of 60 feet available foi
dump, and a further fall of 20 feel
just below where the stream goes ovei
the falls.
‘‘Upon this channel a bedrock tun
nel six by five leei ims been driver
for a distance of 1,000 feet. The bed
rock gravel for five feet thickness ha:
for the entire work averaged $21 pe
cubic yards. I estimated for the 6
feet an average gold content of $1.2
per cubic yard of gravel.
“Taking bedrock and intermedtab
gravels and overburden altogether to
a height of 10 feet, 1 arrive at an at
erage of 94 cents per cubic yard fo
the whole body.
"There Is probably not less tha
20 years’ work In the high gravels, hj
draulicking 24 hours per day for th
entire season. Of the success of th
installation proposed there is no ol
stacle other than the necessity fc
large capital, and 1 know of no gravel
with such favorable conditions ft
hydraulic king.
“In this connection I take pleasur
in confirming my statement that i
my opinion there is a wide margin t
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NATIVE CHILD PLAYING BEAR
IS KILLED BY COMPANION.
While several native children of
Tatiltlik were playing at hunting a
few days ago, one of the players con
ceived the idea of getting his father's
30-30 rifle to make the game more re
alistic. He took the gun unobserved
by his parents and the game proceeded
with fatal results to the little fellow
taking the part of the bear. The hunt
er drew a bead on his victim and
pulled the trigger. As usual in such
cases, the presumably empty gun was
loaded and an explosion followed. As
is also usual in such a case of this
character, the shooter's aim was per
fect, and the bullet entered the fore
head of the younger boy, causing in
stant death. The bullet passed entire
ly through the boy’s head and crashed
through the window of an adjoining
house, where it narrowly escaped
striking a mother and three children
in the room, finally finding lodgement
in some underclothing packed on a
shelf in the next room.
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POSTAL EMPLOYEES OF
HUNGARY WANT INCREASE.
(By Associated Press)
BUDAPEST, May 21. — Employees
in the Hungarian civil service, includ
ing the postoffice and other public de
partments, have formed an association
to obtain a general increase in pay
to cover the increased cost of living.
The association already has nearly
100,000 members.
MILLIONS OF DISEASE
GERMS ON EXHIBITION.
(By United Press)
NEW YORK, May 22. — A food and
hygiene exhibit ,to instruct the public
in war problems of economical feed
ing and in health measures, opened
today at the American Museum of Na
tural History. Included in the ex
hlbit will be the largest collection ol
disease germs in the world, and e
miniature model of Columbia Univer
sity’s proposed $700,000 war hospital
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ALLIES’ TRADE CONGRESS.
(By United Press)
ROME, May 22. — The economic un
ion of the entente allies, for trade co
operation during and after the war
will be tightened by the Inter-parlia
mentary Commercial Congress, sche
duled to hold its first session her*
today. American co-operation in thi
plans under way will be considered.
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George A. Parks, of the land office
was a passenger for Cordova on th<
steamer Alaska.
value which makes the securities o
the Valdez Creek Placer Mines an ah
solute safe investment, provided th<
hydraulic operations are carried ou
in accordance with my recommenda
tions.”
Since the above report was madi
by Forbes Rickard, the Valdez Creel
Placer Mines have installed a hydrau
lie plant even more powerful and el
feotive than that recommended bv Mr
Rickard. During the season of 191
this great plant was completed b;
Pierre Bouery, who has been calle<
the foremost hydraulic mining eng
neer in America, and is now read
for efficient operation for 24 hours c
each day. The full season is abou
150 days. The pipe line's capacity i
3,500 miners’ inches every 24 hourt
Alaska hydraullcking has attained
duty of five cubic yards per mineri
Inch every 24 hours.
► PREMIER'S ASSASSIN
* WILL FACE TRIAL.
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► (By United Press)
► VIENNA. May 22. — Adler, asaas
► sin of Count Karl Stuergh, premier of
► Austria, is scheduled to stand trial
► tomorrow, a commission of physicians
► having determined that his plea of
► insanity was groundless.
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► DECIDED SHORTAGE IN
► SWEDISH CORN CROP.
(By Associated Press)
STOCKHOLM, May 22. — Sweden's
supply of sowing corn is reported to
be 200,000 tons short.
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Will Clavson was a returning pas
| senger on the steamer Alaska.
FORFEITURE NOTICE.
To O. L. Willoughby, J. K. Willough
by, W. J. Fritz, Pat Keyes. F. A.
Willoughby, A. C. Willoughby anil
Henry ltothchild:
You are hereby notified and will
take notice, that l, the subscriber, Joe
S. Waldrom, have expended, as the
annual assessment required by law,
the following sums on the following
described mineral oil claims: During
the year A. D. 1914 the sum of $400
in labor and money on Bonanza 1 and
2 and Burls 10 and 11, and in the year
1915, $200 on Burls lo and 11; and in
the year 1916, $200 on Burls 10 and
11, all of which said oil claims are
situated in the Kayak recording dis
trict, territory of Alaska, the location
notices of which are of record in the
office of the U. S. commissioner and
district recorder, at Katalla, Alaska,
in Book No. 6 of Mining Locations, on
pages 176 and 177, of said records.
If you fail and refuse within ninety
(90) days from the personal service
of this notice, if personal service be
had, or within ninety (90) days after
the publication of this notice, to con
tribute your proportions of such ex
penditure as a co-owner, your propor
tions being as follows: O. L. Wil
loughby $100, J. K. Willoughby $100,
W. J. Fritz $100, Pat Keyes $50, F. A.
Willoughby $100, A. C. Willoughby
$100, Henry Rothchiid $50, your re
spective interests in and to said min
eral claims and each and every one.
of them will become the property of
the subscriber, who is your co-owner,
and who has made the expenditures
and improvements as above men
tioned on said mineral oil claims, pur
suant to the provision of the said
statute and the said session laws.
JOE S. WALDROM.
First, publication, April 24, 1917.
Last publication, July 23, 1917.
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