Show L MINES AND MINING MINI NG L D t il V. V VP P ARE AHE ON liili JOB IN KLONDIKE h 1 Immense Placer Operations on 12 Miles of Creek Holdings RIVER BROUGHT 58 MILES I After Creeks Are Arc Worked Out Hills to Be Washed i Down I 7 The largest h holdings of the Guggenheims Gug- Gug i. i 1 in Alaska are arc on the thc Klondike Klon- Klon dike on the Dawson side Ide 0 of the divido divido di- di vido Ide says nys the he Mining g World orld The property consists of ot 12 miles milos of ot creek creel I holdings s on on- Bonanza creek creel and also aJEo I Ion on the thc hill hili grounds and anel creek lands I of or tho lh El EJ Dorado Upper Bonanza and I Hunter creeks According to General Gen Gen- eral Manager eral-Manager 0 O. O B n. Perr Perry three methods of operating this ground willbe will willbe be used The cree creek bottoms and I IVane Vane valley lands will viII he bo operated by hy dredging and anel by hy 3 the u use e of an electrical electrical elec elec- Inca elevator a new device c in mining min mm- lug ing that the tho management ement is trying out OUI jn in Alaska After ACter the dredges and cle elevators tors have worked out nut the creek and amI valley lands the hill hili gravel willbe will willbe willbo be bo down into the rivers and anti forced to yield iCil their great stores of treasures The rhe Gug g have now seven dredges in the Daw Dawson Dawon on field These dredges s are as far as working conditions conditions con con- are concerned built upon the same lines as those in tho the Oroville field of California with minor modifications modifications modi modi- to lO suit the tho peculiar conditions conditions condi condi- in Alaska lacka Insl a. a A great reat portion of the tho ground has to be thawed out in advance of the dredges es This Is being heIn heIng he- he In ing done tione b by steam points and the use tse of water the latter method supplanting supplanting sup sup- planting the tho former as fa fast t as ble In somo some places that have ha been exposed ex to percolating waters or hr to toa toa a a. shifting channel 0 of a stream the ground has b been hn thawed and can be operated ted g- g Ground E R The expense of thawing the ground b by the use lIse of water is of course less les than that when steam points are arc used and hence the work Is being planned to supplant the thc use of or the steam point as tnt fast as possible It ItIs ItIs Iti i Is the intention of ot the he company to prepare the land Jand for or tho the dredger at nt least two to years cars before tho ho ground 1 Is I j 2 L i e novat ova n-ova- t n which h is S- S bel being g fr tried o out t t to tb v work ork t 1 nV conn cannot l- l lb b bo bG worked by h by dredging It consists of oC va continuous string of or buckets carried carried car car- ried ned on a structural steel frame that stands Go feet high The gravel is carried carriell to the buckets h by water under pressure re The gravel of the countr country Is small and free of large largo boulders It Is furthermore furthermore fur fur- a schist t count country free of any o of ot lava Inva The values have havo often orten gone into the crevices of or orthe the schist Tho The ground round is frozen and primeval Ice which dates hack back to the Ice Ico Age Ae ae is found her here Where the stream has widened out into a flat fiat flator flator or va valley II C it can cnn be dred dredged ed Where here hereIt It has not FO so widened out it will be bc worked by the elf electrical elevator In view of the tho fact that the ground has hn simply to bo he thawed out and there Is no cemented gravel m no difficulty dIfficult Is 13 found round in working it with water 1 River HI to Hill liilI Tho ho hill gravels are rich in gold goll of these hills is from to OO feet feel above the creek It has been estimated b by the United Stat States s geological survey after careful stud study that there arc are cubic yards In III thc these c hill hili gravels To 10 handle this a Do river is being brought in a u distance of SS is miles h by ditch litch and flume and pipeline This This stream is the thc Tombstone Tombstone Tombstone Tomb Tomb- stone stone river cr and ami b by diverting it water waler is ss distributed under pre pressure all over o I the district There aro are 58 miles in inthe inthe the tho main s system stem and anti 28 8 miles in branches It is a 0 huge h canal which Is Iii being du dug with steam shovels There are arc seven of these steam I shovels now flOW OW working In the canal about 18 iS miles of I r tt elf Ther lher ore nic flume in the system and 14 miles of or pipeline Some of or this pipeline is under Cl very heavy y pressure It crosses the tho Klondike river on what Is believed ed to o be the tho largest high head r siphon Iphon in the tho world It Is about two and a half miles miles- lon long and works 1 under a n maximum he head hd d of 01 11 or 1 12 i L root I Loa jine diversion of or this river has ne- ne the shipment of of a large The amount of or steel into Dawson greatest part palt of this has been made In the United States but it was neceSsary necessary necessary sary to purchase some of ot it in Ger Ocr many One of tho the greatest difficulties of oC the Klondike has en bc-en tho the Inability of water L to secure a D. proper supply This will obviate that difficulty and is inclined to believe that Mr 11 Perry Perr s tho the con construction of this ditch has hns been 0 as great an undertaking as the 1 t of the tho WhIte Pass and amI construction COf Yukon railway The company's plan of operation is la to follow the tho dredges anti and electrical elevators with the hydraulic monitor After fter the creek creel beds bells have o been cleale cleared clear clear- e ed l of their freight of or gold tho the hills will be sluiced down into the creeks and the rich hill hm gravel cl a mined In order to have power a n. power plant has been Instituted which will have a a. total capacity of 2000 horse horse- has five 1 miles power This system of flume and 26 6 miles mlle of 01 transmission Ion sion lines with IS miles of branches The line lino Is built through the wilderness wilder wilder- ness nes and the sy system tom is without doubt the farthest t north of an any hydroelectric hydro elec power plant In operation From the territory now owned b by bythe bythe the Gug there has lias been taken talen out by miners through what hat hatho might ho bo termed poor mans maua mining min mm- In lug ing 1 in gold old |