The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 28, 1934, Page 6

| ful seeker after gold go outside to the enjoyment of his riches and Skagway, G ateway it saw the crushed and disappofnt- -4 ed ones dragging wearily home— to Y",kon, failures. It saw the open, honest, manly side of life and the seamy, drab and alley skulking side. It is) Possibly the straightest ndtural not to be wondered&: that wealth' pcean canal in the world, Lynn of story and experiehce lies around Canal, has its outer and southern Skagway. And as one travels in end just outside Douglas Island from Skagway the intensity of this across from Juneau. Straight a drama heightens until one reaches are justified. Low Grade Ores Desirable |saw the hopeful stampeder come,the exploration for and develop-§ posits ‘of “the shields are found. {and it saw the hilariously success-|ment of gold-bearing lode material] * * * Not all places in the islands of older rocks are equally favor- ‘able places for prospecting.’ The . It has been impressively demon-{majority of the greatest gold dis- strated that material of such low | tricts of the shields are well with- grade that but recently it would i the islands-and fhe majority of have been regarded as worthless, | the most' productive districts are if it occurs under conditions fay-|near small stock-like intrusives of orable for iarge-scale operation | the granites of of porphyries’$hat can, with skillful management, be}are enclosed i the invaded ‘roeks mined and treated at a satisfactory{ Or near ' fingers of - the granitic profit. These vastly changed and{rocks that extend inward from the improved conditions affecting the{ larger masses ’ into # the * inyaded Alaska Salition - Company i;flijfi N the history of every commun- | Fiara 1< ity, certain events stand out as rSS77 1| marker ' ¢ ; Canneries Located }'\‘fl\ s on the road to progress. . CZZ Y Events of civic interest, of new BRISTOL BAY, ALASKA AR (Continued on Page Ten) population movements, of up- ‘ ; l()_l'xyilt‘iingf-a]l represent years of effort on Packers of Well-Known Brands Salmon the part of loyal citizens. Because events concern peoble, we gladly draughtman’s line it runs for about Dawson, the place where the suc- ! n(nelzy miles in a direction slightly cesses and disasters were born that L‘f‘f:‘r’“:‘gch:fhlfl‘l-t‘!ndeh s?ld ores :;Ck;mmrmm va::a:l: lacpas- west of north. Along its shores is Skagway later) saw in passing ity nxef Otfht e’ intensive Sl e 4 ;eeram ¥ ocated gome of the finest scemery of the| Some of this early romance has Sl Golad ion of e entire Ju- ! un % ) s -like' ‘inmtrus- inside passage. eau I Belt, which contains{ ives, “"whereds thie larger ones are At its northern end gold mx_neullnflon throughout gene}-ally usgdated with less pro- Into two fingers, the longer and 5 ;"““i‘l of its mearly 100 “miles of | ductive lodes.” i festern finger ending at the now G Ol (I B elt zlxgth‘éax:nila:'knomrefsc%;::e ‘:: Apply to Alaska' | practically abandoned town of Wiihood of W66 S tnie SIS Thése observations by ! Dyea, that jumped into newspaper o Phodll R L Tt afford valuable guides in mw headlines with the announcement Of Jllne('l' e & ~} for gold ores and should be*found- pf the Klondyke gold strike at € ype. applicable n Alaska, ) Pawson. Dyea was the ocean port P 1 * Likewise, conditions have prob-|many localitles, geologic conditions for the Chilkoot Trail, the only TOAUCLLVC] bl never been as tavorable as at{ exist that are strikingly 1tke those trail known at that time across present for the development and) described by Emmons as tharac- gfieso;se:dl::\:gf:ms to the Yukon‘ (Continued from Page One) successful operation of the smaller terizing the great gold districts of ! The eastern shorter finger of ;¢ that now obtain is encourag- R qRenl anids at Skagway. Ear- . - according to statements pub- ly in the Klondyke stampede the y,04 py the company, much of the Jocation engineers for what was increase in production made by fo become the Whife Pase and ¥4- the Alaska Juneau mine has re- r,:!; 3121:':&%?“‘:;??:]“;?5 e\'id:-ln(; sulted from recent operations ‘in that it was an easier pass than the f;:?"hiffii‘r‘;’“h:‘fe ‘;‘;n'":n d:‘z,‘:i’_' Ey:l:lt(oz;o;?k:h;:nmms;;:; oéa::;; oped, and the ore from whi'z:h has ::,g?:g ;.:loemwi‘l:: Pfl:;(,mé; pg\::; heretofore mined. The existence of began to die and' Skagway to, Cxtensive reserves of such higher Shetve. 5 ’grad: ores nsmx_n:m:ml:i bt'hzutchoer:- kagway is a city today similar|t¢ data published by = tost;g other Alaskan coast cities. Pany. The importance of such re- It has fine wharves, pretty houses S€rves in determining the value of along regular laid out streets, a future output is greatly enhanced good fire department and good by_ the increased price now re- water, electric light and telephone ceived for gold. 3 system. It lies in a broad flat val- | New Development Gains loy surrounded by high mountains,| Other factors in the favorable their peaks far above timber line Outlook are recent preliminary The Skagway river runs along the steps that have been taken lock'ng west side of the city at the foot toward the establishing of new of A. B. Mountain, so named for gold mining enterpris particu- the fact that during certain snow 'larly in the Berners B section conditions, up near the peak of of the Juneau Gold Belt; the con- the mountain, deep canyons in tinued development of many small the rock filled with snow spell mining properties scattered out the two letters “A. B.” This throughout Southeast Alaska, parti- deposits of gold ores of higher tenor, many of which are alréady known to exist, and the geologic conditions favorable for the 'oe- currence of which are so wide- spread, throughout Alaska, includ- ing the Southeast portion. In an able and widely-quoted pa- per on prospeeting for gold, recent- ly prepared for presentation be- fore the American Institute of Mining - and = Metallurgical Engi- neers, W. H. Emmons, - geologist of the University of Minnesota, sum- marizes the prineipal features of the geological: settings that ac- company the occurrence of gold- bearing ores in most of the great gold-mining districts of the earth. While this paper deals primarily with what are known as the “shield areas” of Canada, Siberia, Southern Rhodesia and Western Australia, the major conclusions reached with respect to the oceurrence of gold jthe earth. “The granite mass' tHat, borders the' coast of ‘Southeast Alaska throughout its extéenit’ con-, stitutes a portion of an immense batholith which forms the ‘core of the Coast Range of mountains and | probably underlies most if ‘not all | of Southeast Alaska, including the islands of the archipelago. The outlying granite masses that form the "cores of the principal moun- tain ranges of the larger islands of the archipelago, including Prince {of Wales, Kupreanof, Admiralty, Baranof and Chichagof islands, are recognized- as probable sum- mits or cupolas forming portions of the irregular roof of the under- lying batholith that have invaded the overlying ‘rocks ‘nd have be- come exposed by erosion. ' Not only in the invaded rocks of the coastal section of Southeast Al- | aska, wherein the Juneau Gold Belt lies, but on each of the ma- ores are equally applicable, as Em- | jor islands of the archipalego -and mons states, to the Mother Lode|also -on many of the smaller' ones district of California, in the same|at many known localities, are found ' class with which the gold' lode the smaller stocklike - intrusives deposits of Southeast Alaska’ are such as Emmons states character- stated by recognized authorities to ize the localities at which the most fall. valuable gold depesits:of the Shields Are Explained greatest ‘gold-bearing districts of was the inspiration for the name of the Arctic Brotherhood formed at Skagway and which flourished throughout the interior of Alaska #nd the Yukon during the early days. The townsite of Skagway being an old river bed contains in places very rich soil and this combined with the long summer daylight contributes to produce flowers, of nstonishing size and ravishing beauty, and vegefables that not only have the unsurpassed quality of all the northern produce but have enormous size as well. Through the efforts of some cf Sk.lgwn}ss citizens, whose hobby it is, Skagway is famous over the entire north American continent for its flowers. These flowers have captured trophies at flower expo- sitions as far away as San Fran- cisco. But probably transcending even its mountain setting or its flower gardens, its historical associations take the interest of the visitor. Skagway was the transfer point from ocean to trail and later to rail of the shortest and least irk- some of the many difficult roads | cularly on Chichagof Island and in the Ketchikan district; and the growing interest displayed in pros- pecting that has resulted from the increased price paid for gold. There is a likelihood that the more fav- orable position now occupied by silver, owing to the increased price for the metal recently established by the President, and the possibil- ity of its early remonetization, will result in renewed activity in the Hyder district, where many meri- torious silver-bearing lodes have already been developed. Southeast Alaska as a whole presents an attractive field for prospecting and exploration and many mining properties already known in this region afford favor- able opportunities for further in- vestigation and development, espec- ially where sufficient capital, to launch a successful enterprise is available. The enhanced value of gold and many recent improvements in the methods of ore treatment and in metallurgical practices, and also in the equipment available for use Emmons states: “AIl shield areas of the earth are characterized by large areas of granitic rocks, in- cluding granitie gneisses, grandi-| orites and other acid intrusives, which are here ‘in¢luded in the' general term ‘granite’ The gran-+ ites are intruded imto schists, an- cient lavas and other rocks whieh are here designated ‘invaded’ roeks. The granites are parts of what were once great batholiths; that is, they are the remaining portions of great deep-seated bodies that | slope outward, have very irregular roofs and so far as known have| no floors, but extend downward to great unknown ' depths. Some of | them are scores of hundreds of miles across and contain islands or ‘roof pendants’ of the invaded roeks | at places where the roofs of the batholiths are low—fhat ‘is, where erosion has not yet completely un- roofed the batholiths. “It is in these islands of older rocks and in the narrow marginal belts and cupolas of the batholiths that practically all of the gold de-! the shield areas occur. | Geologjc' mapping of the' coastal and island nreas of ‘Southeast Al-| aska on ‘s scale' that would réveal individual ' localities ‘probably’ mut‘ favorable for the occurence of ‘gold ores is very imcomplete. Through- | out the “entife region soil, hedvy forest growths, ‘and ‘other vegm-: tion, maitlé and obscure the bed- | rock ' formations. Prospecting ‘and intensive exploratory work thathas| been carried on inthe past has| been confined largely to''the im- mediate vicinity of the shore-lines of the coasts, to such stream val- leys ‘as aré acoessible with com- parative 'éase; ‘and. to the . upper sections of & few of the mountain ranges wheré vegetafion' ‘and”soil do not cover the bedrock ' férma- tions. The fields for prospecting for gold deposits that remaim”uri- explored i Southeast Alasks “are extensive and alluring, and are of a type that justifies’ the ‘expendi- ture of effort necessary to ‘péne- trate'them ‘and disclose their hid- den' posstbilities. ey in the mining and milling of ores, in operations of small as well as Red Sockeye Royni standard Mariners Flag River King Ice Kist . ‘ Vet Medium Red Wig W;ig Pink Rocky Ford LS § Chum Balboa Offices Located 114 CLAY STREET San Francisco, California accept this opportunity to wish the people of Juneau and all of Alaska much happi- ness and prosperity for the years to come. Thi}a organization with its world-wide mar- keting facilities will continue to concen- trate much of its effort on the upbuilding of the fur industry in Alaska, 1o ® THE SEA TTLE FUR EXCHANGE 1008 Western Avenue A See;t‘tle, Washington to the wealth of the Klondyke. A |large scale, have expanded enor- vast horde of people knew it. 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