Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-10-07 | Page 10 | Big Interests Are Opening up Alaska

BIG INTERESTS me OPEKJP ALASKA Manager of Treadwell Company Com-pany Tells About Activities of Utah People. I Special to The Tribune. "WALLACE, Idaho, Oct. G. Frederick W. Bradley, president of the Bunker Hill it Sullivan Mining company, was a Kellogg visitor last week on his way to San Francisco, having recently returned re-turned from an inspection tour of the Treadwell and Alaska-Juncau properties, of which he is general manager. He made a brief inspection of tho Bunker Hill while In thlB district, concerning which property he gavo permission to be quoted as follows: There practically is nothing new to be said about the Bunker I Jill Sullivan Sul-livan properties. The ore bodies are still going deeper Into the earth, and the veins encountered on each succeeding level as good or bet- . ter than those showing in the upper up-per workings. The lowest level, which Is 800 feet below tho long Kellogg Kel-logg tunnel and US00 feet beneath the surface, is producing as well as -any other part of the mine, and the indications are that tho veins go thousands of feet deeper yet. The Treadwell mines, on Douglas island, are being worked under normal nor-mal conditions, producing the regular amount of prollls. Onr activities arc being centered In the development of the Alaska-Juneau, which is controlled con-trolled by an Independent corporation, composed chiefly of Treadwell investors, invest-ors, under the supervision of II. A. KInzle, general superintendent of the . Treadwell mine. "Wu arc not tho only operators In the district, however, as the Gasll-neau Gasll-neau mine, an extension of our property, prop-erty, owned by D. C. Jackllng of Salt J-iake City, and Ilaydon-Stonc of Boston, is being equipped with a 20,000-ton dally capacity concentrator, concentra-tor, the first unit of 6000 tons being under construction now. Their development de-velopment and construction expenditure expendi-ture will reach not less than $6,-000.000. $6,-000.000. The United States Mining & Smelting company Is about to take over the other extension of our property, prop-erty, the Ebncr mine, and is planning oxtensivc development also. Those activities mean much for that section sec-tion of Alaska, and already the steamship companies operating in northern waters arc putting In commission com-mission better classes of vessels and making provision, to improve the Eorvlce. Alaska is beginning to come into Its own, and the next few years I will see greater development than In all Its pre'lous history.