Show SHIPS LOADING FOR ALASKA MINING CAMPS individual OUTFITS GIVE WAY TO HEAVY CARGOES OF MINING MACHINERY bound for gold camps campa of cordova valdez and seward where booms are on significant changes in the kind of development alaska la is receiving are interestingly reflected on the pacific c coast ast this spring instead of a multitude of individual outfits the steamship companies are receiving consign indents of milling and lode mining machinery in great quantities A number of big dredges for the handling of low grade placer ground elre are included and of course the usual cargoes of supplies these largely take the place of individual outfits as aa the alaskan miner now generally buys in at the trading post neatest the field he be Is going into the heavy mining machinery Is generally consigned to southwestern alaska cordova valdez or seward each of which points Is having its first real lode mining boom valdez began last year with the sensational gold output from the cliff mine whose two tuo stamp mill pro deuced in the season instead of one mill there will be at least seven there this year seward Is headquarters for several good gold lode camps beginning within two miles of town they extend far up into the great basin much of which Is still pecked the leading camp Is willow creek in the heart of the basin which produced with five alve stamps last year cordova not only b his bis is a 9 gold id lode camp of its own the me kanley lake section but now has a completed railway to the heart of the great chilina chitina copper region there will be much prospecting and development 0 ment all along the miles of this railroad and beyond it in absolutely new territory much development of 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 refusal to lend alaska a much needed helping hand la Is not to be quite fatal it would seem |