Alaska and the Panama canal . redging plants could be maintained. The resulthas been that the cream has been skimmed from the richerdeposits and the others left until the country shall be generallyopened up and it will pay to build railroads. ALASKA 33 Attracted to Alaska by the lure of gold were many minersof long experience who turned their attention to quartz pros-pecting, with the result that Alaska has proved to be a landnot only of great and widely scattered placer-gold deposits,but with some deposits of gold quartz, also with copper, coal,iron, tin, marble, gypsum and many other valuabl
Alaska and the Panama canal . redging plants could be maintained. The resulthas been that the cream has been skimmed from the richerdeposits and the others left until the country shall be generallyopened up and it will pay to build railroads. ALASKA 33 Attracted to Alaska by the lure of gold were many minersof long experience who turned their attention to quartz pros-pecting, with the result that Alaska has proved to be a landnot only of great and widely scattered placer-gold deposits,but with some deposits of gold quartz, also with copper, coal,iron, tin, marble, gypsum and many other valuable minerals,fortunately near the coast and easily reached by short rail-roads that private capital will surely build when our Govern-ment sees fit to lift the baneful conservation and reservationban placed on everything. Of course, if the United StatesGovernment should ever build a railroad, or take over andoperate the roads already built in Alaska, which do not pay,the laws would have to be changed to make it possible to open. SCENE IN THE INTERIOR OF THE TREADWELL MINE. 34 ALASKA up the country. No railroad will pay in a bottled up quartz has been found in many sections of Alaska, butonly where situated on tidewaterhave these properties proved profit-able to work. The world-famousTreadwell in southeastern Alaskais now operating to a depth of i,8oofeet, and is crushing and handlingat a handsome profit ore averagingonly $ gold per ton. On thisproperty, most favorably situatedon the shore of Douglas Island,with a splendid harbor, the cost ofmining has been reduced to a mini-mum. About 4,000 tons of ore arehandled each day. The Treadwellore body has been developed for adistance of about three-fourths ofa mile and in places has a width of200 feet. Across Gastineau Channel on themainland, and within two miles ofthe Treadwell, are two propertiesnow being opened for development—one by the Treadwell Companyand the other by the Alaska Gasti-neau Mining Company. In the
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