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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, Vlde and Seward, Where Booms Are On. Significant changes In tho kind of development Alaska In receiving are Interestingly reflected on the ruclflc couHt thin spring. Instead of a multitude multi-tude of Individual out tHa the steamship steam-ship companies are receiving consign-' rtieiits of milling nnd lode mining machinery In great quantities. A number f b! dredges for the handling han-dling "f low-grade placer ground are Included and, of course, the usual cargoes of supplies. Theso largely take the place of Individual outfits as the Alaskan miner now generally buys In tho north at the trading post nearest tho field l.o Is going Into. Tho heavy mining machinery Is gencral'y consigned to southwestern Alaska- Cordovu, Valdez or Seward each of which points Is having Its first real lode mining boom. Vabb'7. Ixgan lust year with the sensational gold output from the j Cliff mine, whose two-stamp mill pro-! pro-! dueed $l!i)0.nno In the season. In-Stend In-Stend of one mill thero will be at leant seven there this year. Seward Is l:eadjuartera for severnl j good gold lodo camps. Heglnnlng within two miles of town they extend ex-tend far up Into tho great Sunltna basin, much of which Is still unpros-pectcd. unpros-pectcd. The lending camp Is Willow Creek, In the heart of the basin, which produced fL'OO.OOO with five stamps last year. Cordova not only has a promising gold lode camp of Its own The Mc-Klnley Mc-Klnley Iike section but now has a completed rnllwny to the heart of the great Chltlna copper region. There will be much prospecting and development devel-opment all along tho 200 miles of this railroad and beyond It In absolutely new territory. Much development of a large sort will alo be done by capita! 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. |