Show SHIPS LOADING FOR ALASKA S MINING CAMPS INDIVIDUAL OUTFITS GIVE WAY TO HEAVY CARGOES OF MINING MIN ING MACHINERY Bound for Gold Camps of Cordova Valdez and Seward Seams Booms Are On Significant changes in the kind of or development Alaska is receiving are aro Interestingly reflected on the Paci Pacific c coast this spring Instead of ot a multitude multitude multi multi- tude o of individual outfits the steamship steam steamship ship companies are receiving consignments consignments consign consign- ments of ot milling and lodo lode mining machin machinery ry in great quantities A number of ot big dredges for the handling handling han ban of low-grade low placer ground aro are included and anti of or course the usual cargoes of or supplies These largely take tale tho the place of or individual outfits as the tho Alaskan now now generally buys In the north at the trading post nearest the tho field he is going into The Tho heavy mining machinery Is generally gen consigned to southwestern Alaska Cordova Alaska Cordova Valdez or Seward Seward- each of which points is having Its first real lode mining boom Valdez began last year with the sensational 1 gold output from the Cliff mine whoso two-stamp two mill produced produced pro pro- in the season Instead Instead In In- stead of one mill there will be at least seven there this year Seward is headquarters for seVE several ra 1 good gold lode camps Beginning within two miles of town they extend extend ex- ex ex cx- tend far up into the great Susitna basin much of which is still The leading camp is WillowCreek WillowCreek Willow WillowCreek Creek In the heart of the basin which produced with five stamps last ye year r. r Cordova not only has a promising gold lode lodo camp of its own The own The McKinley Me- Me Kinley Jal Lake e section section but but now has a completed railway to the heart of or tho the great Chitina copper region There will be much prospecting and development development development devel devel- all along the miles of this railroad and beyond it In absolutely new terl Much development of ofa a large sort will also be done by capital on established properties There Is no doubt of there being a boom and a big Influx of population to this region It is already on Even Congress's refusal to lend Alaska a a much needed helping hand handIs Is not to be quite fatal it would seem Beem |