Show alaska alasha quartz mines J T Ar illington a practical mining man of 01 great falls inho w lio has been v IS biting alaska returned recently and was interviewed by the helena herald ile he says ile he found too nd an unusual amount of 0 quartz mining activity around juneau within a radius of a few miles there ale in th lh neighborhood of fourteen quartz mills there Is 13 a great dal of going on and he saw enough to coni ince him that the quartz at no distant date will tar far exceed the placer industries of the country the ore is free milling and most of the leads scads are tolerably well defined denn sia ile he visited the great treadwell tramp mill the greatest or of its iti kind in the world where nearly stamps sta trips tire are dropping it night ight and day makhne the owner of tile the company rich tile the ore of tile the tread well wall to la low grade averaging all from jario ai I 1 ra to 7 per ton but there 1 Is 15 5 so much of c it and it ean can be so cheaply rained mined and treated that it can b be handled very profitably the company employ many indians at low wanes wages to do the commonest soft of work around the mines and the mills skilled m miners bollie hott ever cr do tile the mining proper at sj j fitt per day the treadwell are bull bullying ding another stamp mill of sixty stamps and when this Is completed the entire plant of the company will bo be nearly twice tv ice the size ot of the largest mill milli in the world |