ALASKAN MINERAL RESOURCES IN 1906. 
on the north end of the island west of Vallenar Bay new ore bodies 
were located. Developments were advanced by the Victor Copper 
Mining Company on the Bay View and War Eagle claims at Seal Bay. J 
From the former a small smelter shipment was made, the ore being 
mined from a quartz vein carrying chalcopyrite, exposed along the. 
south shore of the bay. 
WRANGELL DISTRICT. 
The mineral bodies exposed at the head of Duncan Canal and on , 
Woewodski Island at the entrance both carry small percentages of 
copper. At the former locality little advance has been made on the 
groups of claims owned by the Portage Mountain Mining Company. 
On Woewodski Island the Olympic Mining Company renewed oper- 
ations late in the summer at the Smith camp, and further investi- 
gations will be made on the quartz veins, which were extensively 
developed in former years. 
SILVER, LEAD, AND ZINC. 
Deposits of silver, lead, and zinc are not plentiful along the coastal 
belt, and except small amounts of silver accompanying the gold and I 
copper ores the production has been nil. 
The galena veins recently discovered in Cholmondeley Sound, on i 
Prince of Wales Island, however, promise well to become producers 
in 1907. The Moonshine group of claims, situated at from 2,000 to ' 
2,400 feet elevation on the east slope of Granite Mountain, in Chol- 
mondeley Sound, was located in the spring and soon after was leased 
to a mining company, which began operations. The ore body, a well- 
defined vein or mineralized shear zone, obliquely traverses the lime- 
stone-schist country rock in a northeasterly direction and occupies a | 
nearly vertical position. It has been exposed at points along the 
surface over a length of 600 feet and varies from 2 to 4 feet in width. 
The ore is massive galena associated with pyrite, chalcopyrite, and 
zinc blende in a gangue of quartz and calcite. Portions of the vein, 
include brecciated masses of country rock, and at these points the 
distribution of the ore is irregular. The vein was being developed 
by two tunnels at 2,000 and 2,200 feet elevation and a shaft at 2,400 
feet elevation. An aerial tram 5,000 feet long and a wharf must be 
built before shipments of the ore can be made. 
In the Wrangell district explorations on the silver-lead properties 
located in Glacier and Groundhog basins on the mainland have been 
meager, and though these properties have been investigated by out- 
side persons no mining company has yet undertaken their develop- 
ment, owing to their distance from tide water. 
