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Show ALASKA DEVELOPMENTS ON LARGE SCALE The Juneau district of Alaska which has come to the front of late through the developments at the Alaska Gold .Mines company property. Rives promise prom-ise of becoming one of the great gold producing regions of the world. The United States Sineitini; conipuny through itH working option on the adjoining Ebner Gold Mines company's compa-ny's property, adds to the local inter est In that district, although to date work on the Kbner has not been extensive, ex-tensive, says the Boston News Bureau. Bu-reau. There has been under way for some time some big ! elopmenta on the property of the Alaska-Juneau com pany owned and controlled by prur t If ally the same people who dominate tin- Treadweil, Mexican and United properties on Douglas island chlel ol whom is F. W. Bradley, consulting engineer en-gineer The Mills estate also has a large interest, while a prominent New vk stock exchanRo member is also credited with having an important rolce in the company's affairs. Estimates of the amounts to be put into new development run an high a i mm u hi, , v. ill ,n h .,t..l;. supplied. Exploration work has un i overed a huge tonnage of ore to treat which one of the largesl mills in the world has been planned with four sec-' sec-' Hons of 3000 tons dally capacitj to each section. An 80-cent mining and mlllinc cost la predicted by President Bradley, as compared with $1 4u for the .las ka Treadweil He says the ore runs as low as 9o cents void per ton, but I averages $125 to $1.50. |