Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-10 | Page 10 | Jualin Alaska is to Resume Working

JUN ALASKA IS TO RES1E1R1G Work will be resumed at once on the property of the Jualin Alaska Mines company com-pany at Jualin. This property was taken over in 1912 by the Algunican Development Develop-ment company, a Belgian and French company with head oftice at Brussels, Belgium. At the time a 7800-foot tunnel was started. Intended to crosscut the vein system at a lower depth, also to drain the mine. This tunnel, which had advanced ad-vanced 2000 feet, was discontinued when war broke out, attention being confined to the actual production of the mine. All work was suspended in November, 1917, owing to labor shortage and extreme opera op-era cine conditions. During the last year of Its operations the mine produced nearly J.t.iO.rtijO of gold from a ten-stamp mill. It Is now-proposed now-proposed to com pie tt the tunnel, at the game time carrying out extensive development devel-opment from the present workings, t'ntil the tunnel Is completed, no ore" except that obtained from the development will he milled. Je.xn Vanophem, Brussels, V.elginm. is president, and Charles G. Titus, Juneau, Alaska. Is general manager. man-ager. Mining and Scientific Press.