LODE MINING IN SOUTHEASTER! I \. 
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intervals, and arc reported bo have produced in 1891 $15,000. a In 
later years even higher returns are said to have been obtained, but 
no authentic statements could be procured. 
In 1901 the Lituya Bay Gold Mining Company built a large ware- 
house and flumes and installed machinery to conducl large-scale oper- 
ations, l)u! the limited extenl of the pay streaks and lack of near-by 
waterfor power and bydraulicking purposes prevented it from further- 
ing the work to a successful outcome. Small parties of miners, how- 
ever, at different periods have worked these deposits with -hovel, 
sluice box, and rocker- to good advantage, and report thai the aurif- 
erous beds yielded from $5 to $10 a day per man. The presence of 
gold in these sands appears to warranl a thorough prospecting of the 
mineral-bearing schists which traverse the head of Lituya Bay and 
parallel the coast line. 
COPPER. 
PRODUCTION. 
The remarkable, increase in the production of copper from the 
mines on Prince of Wales Island has broughl Alaska well to the front 
as a copper-producing territory. Practically the firsl shipments were 
made in the latter pari of L905, and since thai time there has been a 
steadily increasing production. For the mosl pari the ore-; of south- 
eastern Alaska carry but a small percentage of copper and less than ;i 
dollar in gold, and therefore require exceptional mining and trans- 
portation conditions to insure profitable extraction. 
The following table shows the amount and value of the copper, 
gold, and silver produced from copper ores in Alaska in L905: 
Production oj copper on in Alaska > 1905 
Total 
' '■':'■ 
Silver. 
Amount. Value. 
Amount,. 
Amount. Value. 
Total 
Ton 
52 ]'.'. 
Pounds. 
\ SOS • 10.00 
14.44 
O a n ' t 
3,441.84 $71,171 
Ounct 
26.500.00 $16,021.00 
Averagi . . . 
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The production for the Prince William Sound area, a- well ;<- south- 
eastern Alaska, is included in the above table, thus increasing the 
total by a little less than 3,000,000 pound- of copper. The ore- from 
the Prince William Sound area are of comparatively high grade, and 
the averages per ton given in the table arc higher than the yield from 
the ores in soul heastern Alaska. 
For L906 the production of copper from southeastern Alaska alone 
is valued at nearly >i ,000,000. 
a Eighteenth Ann. Bept. ' . 
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