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Show SHIPS LOADING FOR ALASKA MINING CAMPS. INDIVIDUAL OUTFITS GIVE WAY TO HEAVY CARGOES OF MINING MIN-ING MACHINERY. Bound for Gold Camps of Cordova, Valdez and Seward, Where Boom Are On. Significant changes In the kind of development Alaska is receiving are interestingly reflected on the Pacific coast this spring. Instead of a multitude multi-tude of individual outfits the steamship steam-ship companies are receiving consignments consign-ments of milling and lode mining machinery in great quantities. A number of big dredges for the handling han-dling of low-grade placer ground are included and, of course, the usual cargoes of supplies. These largely take the place of individual outfits as the Alaskan miner now generally buys in the north at the trading post nearest the field he 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-stamp mill produced pro-duced $200,000 in the season. Instead In-stead 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 ex-tend far up into the great Susitna basin, much of which is still unpros-pected. unpros-pected. The leading camp is Willow Creek, In the heart of the basin, which produced $200,000 with five stamps last year. Cordova not only has a promising gold lode camp of its own The Me-Kinley Me-Kinley Lake section but now has a completed railway to the heart of the great Chitina copper region. There will be much prospecting and development devel-opment all along the 200 miles of this railroad and beyond it in absolutely hew 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 Congress's refusal to lend Alaska a much needed helping hand is not to be quite fatal, it would seem. |
