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Show ALASKA GOLD ORE TONNAGE IS HIGH D. C. Jackling Says Ultimate Figures Will Exceed Any Present Estimate. MINE OPENING QUICKLY Proposition Is More Attractive Attrac-tive Than Ever Before From AH Standpoints. Tlmt tlio Alaska Gold Mines proposition proposi-tion is working out just as b-atisfactor ily as could possibly bo tbo case, and that tho moro thoso in charge of tho compnnj' become familiar with tho niiuQ, tbo metallurgical and all other phases of tho task of rounding out this great gold proposition, tho moro attractivo it appears ap-pears to them, wcro tbo statements mado on Saturday by D. C. Jnckling, wbo bad just reached the city from bis first visit to tbo property iu Alaska sinco last 7uly. Mr. Jackling said tbat tho recent development effort bad indicated indi-cated the probability of there being a far greater gold oro tonnago in this iiiino than has bocu cou$idored to dnto in any estimates released by anyone connected with the organization. Splendid progress has been made by tho company to date, and tho same sort of progress undoubtedly will bo tbo rule throughout tbo rest ot the winter, for , the management laid its plans very thoroughly for the winter now being experienced. ex-perienced. A number of improvements have been added sinco last July, nmong them being a new wharf, a number of temporary surface accommodations, while the mill site ba3 been cleared off , and tbe initial power plant, knowu as I the Salmon creek lower plant, is well 1 alonp; towards completion. j Sheep Creek Tunnel. 1 Tbis lower plant has a maximum capacity ca-pacity of 5000 horse power and from it will be acquired all tbe necessary power pow-er for tbe cntgrpriso until the upper Salmon creek plant is completed, work on which will bo started early during tbe new year. Development work on tho Sheep creek tunnel is progressing at tbo rato of 500 1 fcefc monthly, and this crosscut tuuuel is within a few da3's of tho point ivhorc it will bo turned for drifting upon the great Per?overanco voin at a point ;p-pro.Timately ;p-pro.Timately two miles distant from the princ'ial workings on this big sourco of yellow metal wealth. It is anticipat- ed that drifting withiu tho vein will I prove much easior tbau in crosscutting i with tho tunnel s-o far. and bv tho close of tho coming j'car tho management expects ex-pects tbo drift to bo tit a point beneath a portion of (.bo old development workings, work-ings, so that connections with tbo same can bo mado without unnecessary do-lay. do-lay. If this "work is conducted as tbe officials offi-cials have- every reason to believe will bp the case, the mino will bo iu a Splen-didlj- developed condition by the time tho mill is in readiness to haudlo tbe ore. both branches of tbo enterprise arriving ar-riving at tbo production point simultaneously. simul-taneously. j Plans for the Mill. 1 The company, 6aid Mr. .laekling, " ia j working on tho mill plana, although I somo of the essential details remain yot I to bo worked out. Experimental work 1 lias been interfered with by the dostruc-, dostruc-, tion by fire of the old Perseverance mill carlj' in tho present month, but some modifications of tbo old Sheep creel; mill aro to bo made at which tho remaining re-maining details of tbo milling practice will bo worked out. Enough in relation to the milling of the Alaska gold ores I has been determined .to make assured a doparturc from tho conventional prac-tico prac-tico of gold milling and anialgn'atibu in that tho Alaska company will adopt somewhat different means of grinding and crushing the oro other than by stamps, securing such means from some of tbo practices at tho modem copper oro plants of tho west. Tho development work at the mine is in charge of B. L. Thaue, who was instrumental in-strumental in bringing a number of groups of properties together to complete com-plete the territory now embraced within with-in tho Alaska company's boundaries. Nevadas in San Francisco. Jamea A. Pollock & Co.. bankers and brokers, furnish tho following, received ovor their prlvato wire ye3terday aftcr-noon: aftcr-noon: 1 Did. lA-skcd. Goldfielil F " Jumbo Extension It .32 j , Vernal si.... .7. io' Booth I ' 'nt Blu Bull .h Silver Pick .oc ..'.'." Lono Star o( om 04 Atlanta 1$ jrj Florcnco nt D'lleld B. D. 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