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Show VALDEZ PRODUCING A IITflNIUGE i Valdez, Alaska, Jan. 2. Vnldcz is a lively place this winter, and if present pres-ent conditions are indicative of what may be expected when the rush arrives ar-rives in the spring, this old camp will be focused by tho eye of every mining man the length and breadth of tho United States. Arrivals from the outside out-side state that people who follow the mining game are looking for a new place to pitch their tents, and as the rush to Nevada is but a memory, they arc carefully scanning the horizon for a shimmer of the alluring yellow metal. In the western part of Alaska, strikes the past season have been so numerous and development so rapid that there is little doubt but that an Immense influx Into this part of tho territory may be expected next i spring. This camp will be the center of the ' rush, and some optimists say that 20,-000 20,-000 people will arrive here before tho first day of July. To some these figures seem exaggerated, but none place tho expected crowd under 5,000. With her population quadrupled in a ' few months, It is easy to understand the amount of business opportunities open to a live individual. At the' present time there are thirty regularly incorporated companies -owning properties in various stages OLVJvelopment. A summary of a few of tlijvore Important ones is as fol-ldvs: fol-ldvs: A- Tho Chufcachiia of the largest flotations flo-tations in the distri?'ifc-4rJvInS fIve ' tunnels on separate leads. 'Tlr-dr-incs have penetrated a distance of about 100 feet each, and the manage- ' ment states that high grade milling oro Is being tnken from three of them. This company will be among the first to Install a stamp mill this spring. The company has an Immense acreage and has at its head the president of the famous Cliff mine. Tho Willlams-Gentzler property, also al-so on Mineral creek, is proving to be one of the richest In the district. Reports Re-ports from this property are nlmost of a staggering nature, but specimens from their tunnel compel acceptance of the management's veracity. Tho group consists of five claims, on which one, the Mollie, a cross-cut tunnel tun-nel has been driven seventy-two feet. The ledge matter on this claim is from ten to thirty inches wide and outcrops out-crops for 400 feet. Surface assays as high as $35,000 have been taken from this ledgo and eight tons sacked from the top of the lode average $600 per ton. A short drift on the main lead shows values across the face for fourteen inches of $300 per ton. This company will install a mill as soon as weather conditions will permit, which will be hauled over the snow to the property upon its arrival. The McAllister company, operating at Shoup's bay, owns five claims in that section. They are driving a tunnel tun-nel on the Margaret claim and aro in a distance of nearly 100 feet. For a considerable distance they have been i in pay ore from five to six feet wide . in the face which will run in the I neighborhood of $30 per ton. The , highest surface assay obtained from this ledge was $3G. II is the intention of the company to sink a shaft when the tunnel Is driven 200 feeL This ' property adjoins the well-known Soaly-Davis, one of the recognized big pronerties. The Black Diamond, lying seven and a half miles down the hay and a mile south of the Cliff mine, consists of sixteen six-teen claims. Tunnels are being driven on lodes 1 and 2. On the former a distance of ninety feet has been pene-, pene-, trated on the ledgo matter, where they have fivo feet of ore that averages 1 $8.20. The highest surface assay from this ledge was $17.40. The com-'"pltnjChas com-'"pltnjChas the only water power be-i be-i twosntlsycrcek and Shoup's bay, a I distance cTtriT5sniles- Mining men I who examined Untfvsreprrljr- assert that the ore can be worked for $4 per ton. , The Mountain Girl group, owned by "Long-Shorty" BIglow and John Ah-lers, Ah-lers, consists of twelve claims on Mineral Min-eral creek. A tunnel is being driven on tho Mountain Girl which has encouraging en-couraging showings. As the owners arc doing their own development work they havo reached a distance of but ! twenty-five feet, where they have four I aud a half feot of good milling ore. i They will continue development work I all winter. I On some of these proportlcs tho values val-ues may scorn to a boom mining man a little under what he would desire, hut when it is taken Into considera-itibns1CitfvSyi"P considera-itibns1CitfvSyi"P tfst of milling they aro, I in most instances, vWyTahiablq prop-erties prop-erties from a legitimate milling po'st of view. There are a number of properties I which can show ore of such a fabulous fabu-lous value that your correspondent ' hesitates to mention tho figures, as he I would rather remain In the safe zone. |