Show U. U S. S SMELTING IS SECURING fOOTING n IN KM AtASKA GROUND Vh Vice Sidney Jennings of ot the tho States Smelting Refining and Inning ln company campan who ho 1 Is almost constant constant- Jy c In i tM tie fIeld for tor his hta concern looking up returned from W new properties has Just the toe secured an option on Alaska AIka Ho which adjoins the Odd mner Mines group vast estate and when thu tho ti- ti tle tiN tIes are straightened out he ho will start Biari with the Mr JenninGs JenninG's was WR Identified OI ol In the tho Rand fland district for a number of ot years and was vas prominent In th management SV or of some of ot tho big South uth African properties Ho He wa was lead ead to the In Alaska b by reason reason of or the tho taken In tho the develop do prominent meat ment of ot the Alaska Gold God Mines Unes properties I Holden managing director dl- dl by the too late Inte A. A F. F rector of ot the United states company Mr Jennings Investigated the Alaska kA Gold Mines group and sa says s 's In the There Thero 1 Is nothing experimental mining of the ore ores oreg of this district t. t The Alaska Treadwell hae for years MS made mado a 0 conspicuous success In th the treatment or of orlow orlow low grade gold ores orell and th the businesslike manner In which tho the Alaska Gold Mines company are proceeding with their enterprise enterprise enter enter- prise Impresses lI me with Uh the belief that they can fulfill all of or their predictions and perhaps better themI them I I 1 spent several da days s 's Joking over the property of the Ala ka Gold Mines Unes Co an and was afforded convenience In my Investigations I have no doubt that the company has hUt as It claims at ot least tori of or ore that will yield in r recoverable gold per ton In view I of the many natural advantages with re respect respect re- re I to mining and milling I shall be bo surprised If the company does not realize Us Its estimate of ot a a. total cost even evon Including selling felling expenses of ot 7 75 cents per ton when the mill mU 1 Is treating treating- tons per dB day Any AnT variation In final results J I be- be will be In tho the direction of ot a R larger recovery recovers and lower costs than those which have entered Into the company's preliminary nary naT reckoning The gold occurs in a vein or zone rone Inthe Inthe in inthe the slate lAte which at some time was greatly c shattered and the fracture planes filled with small mati particles of quart quartz Mining will consist of raising shafts or chutes chute In Inthe Inthe inthe the foot wall from the tunnel 1 Both hanging wall alI and foot toot wall walt arc are well wellI d defined rd Crosscuts will bo be driven through I the vein at Intervals of OO feet teet from tho the surface and the ore will wilt be drilled and shot down In Immense quantities at a avery avery avery very low Jow cost of or extraction No timberIng timbering timber timber- rIng r- r Ing Is required Hydro electric water waterpower power powei will permit penult a very low operating cost coet especially In the transportation and milling of or the oreIn oreIn ore In brief I am satisfied that the properties prop prop- In n this dl district worked on a largo large e scale caJe cae Tinder under capable management and with modern modem machinery can enn produce gold goldt goldat goldat at t a i. cost lower than anywhere else ele in th tM world It Is Ic for this reason that the United d States Smelting R Refining and Mining company has hu Interested Itself in this field There re are orne some complications in connection tion tron with tM thi Ebner property which are arc yet et to be f straightened out an and the statement statement state state- ment that we have havo purchased d these claims in n entirely premature Wo We have noT ver secured an option on them thorn and rt will lse it tt If our crosscut now ing for the the- vein proves up our tion It will be b. January we reach reb the rein Our Gin option h however 0 w ever runs run to March 1915 |