Show SHIPS LOADING FOR ALASKA MINING CAMPS individual OUTFITS GIVE WAY TO HEAVY CARGOES OF MINING I 1 MACHINERY bound for gold cold camps of cordova Cor dovat valdez and seward where dooms booms are arc on significant changes in the kind hind of development alaska Is 13 receiving tiro are interestingly reflected on the pacific c coast this spring instead of a multitude of individual outfits the steamship companies aro are receiving consign ments menta of milling and lode mining machinery in great quantities A number of big dredges for the handling of low grado grade placer ground are included and of course tho the usual cargoes of supplies these largely take tho the place of individual outfits as tho the alaskan miner now generally buys in tho the north at the trading post nearest tho th held field lie ho Is going into tho the heavy mining machinery Is generally consigned to southwestern Fouth western alaska cordova valdez or seward each or of which points Is having its first real lode mining boom valdez began last year with the sensational gold output from tho the run cliff mine whose two stamp mill produced in tho the season instead of one mill there will bo be at t least seven there this year seward la Is headquarters headquarter quarte rs for sever several a good gold goia lodo lode camps beginning within two we miles of town they extend ten far up into the great basin much of which Is 13 still the leading camp is ili willow creek in the heart of the basin which produced with five stamps last year cordova riot not only has a promising gold lode c camp of its own the mckinley lake section but now has a completed railway to the heart of the great Ch chilina chitina itina copper region there will bo be much prospecting and development fill all along the miles of this railroad and beyond it in absolutely new hew much aluch development of a largo sort will also be done by capital on established properties there la Is no doubt of there being a loom boom and a big influx of population to this region it Is already on even refusal to lend alaska a much needed helping hand la Is not to bo be quite fatal it would seem |