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Show possible until rail transportation should give cheap and rapid access to this hitherto Isolated region. Prospecting Pros-pecting has also commenced In a small way, but there are whole valleys val-leys of thin remarkablo region that have never been even looked over, so difficult has the getting tn of supplies been. The Chltlna region has now of a sudden become a veritable prospector's prospec-tor's paradise, and there is little doubt that many remarkable finds will bo made. The reports of the United States geological survey are sufficient to Indicate without question that this Is one of the most heavily mineralized mineral-ized sections In the northland. LONGEST RAILWAY IN THE FAR-NORTH Seattle, July 27. Werd han reached reach-ed here that the last rivet In the great four-span steel bridge across the CYp- i per river between Miles and Childs glaciers has heen driven home and the fnppor River & Northwestern railway now has continuous dally service ser-vice to Mile Hfi, making It tho longest long-est railroad in Alaska- The new town of Chlltina at Mile 13S will be reached, before September 1, and the event will prohnbly be celebrated by the first pale of town l-tn Already more lhan one hundred men are camped on the newly-cut streets awaiting this sale, as large profits are sure tn be made. Cordova lots, though held at what was considered a stiff figure, tripled in value the first year. Cordova is the tidewater terminus of the road and Chitlna l the gateway to tho Chltlna copper region. Inio which the railroad Is being driven. Eventual- I ly It will be an Important Junction point, as the road Is to be continued up the Copprp river and thence Into Tnnann valley of the Interior. Connection with Chitlna is now be. Ing made by river steamer, the run being but twenty-five miles, bo that one can go through from Cordova in the copper region in a single day, making less than five days from Seattle, Seat-tle, in advance of railroad building, mining activity has already begun. Reveral of the larger properties have- 1 begun the development that was im- |