(Toronto News, Oct 7.)
An enthusiastic nan these days is Mr. Eric Armour of the legal firm of
Messrs. Bristol, Bayley and Armour, for he has just returned from a place in the thither west known by the breesy name of Windy Arm, a place so dowered by nature wiih quartz rich in gold, silver and copper that makes, he avers, Cobalt look like a spot on the map. This
is not running down Cobalt, but it is praising up the mines of Conrad City on Windy Arm, which is located ou the White Pass and Yukon Railway, 67 miles from Skagway, but in Canadian territory. All the Americans who are flocking thither say it will prove the greatest quartz mining camp on the continent. It will be remembered that Mr. Edmund Bristol, M. P., went up a short while ago.
A Wonderful Fringe
He was so impressed that he wired for Mr. Armour and now Mr. Armour says that no young Canadian ought to consider himself educated until he has been out on the Pacific coast and has touched this wonderful fringe of the Yukon. Since Mr. Bristol's visit Hon. Frank Oliver has visited the new district and Mr. R. G. McConnell, Government Geologist, has been asked to make a special report upon it. People are flocking in, mostly United States citizens, and while Mr. Armour was there 75 lots in Conrad City were sold in a couple of hours one afternoon at prices ranging from $50 to $350 per lot. The Government telegraph line is being run into the district and the railway is surveying a branch there.
Rich Veins
At preseut the wines are about five miles from the railway with water carriage all the way. Already fifty tons of rock from one mine have been shipped out and have given returns of $102 per ton. Assays run all the way from $7 to $4,000 per ton and the veins are so wide that the wealth that will be taken out will be counted by millions
in a few months. Mr. Oliver adds his testimony to that of old mining men and says that the Windy Arm country will develop into one of the greatest mining camps on the continent. Mr. Armour has no stock to sell, but he thinks that for the honor and profit of Canada, Canadians should learn abuut the riches of their own country and should get in and reap some of it instead of allowing the profit to all flow to the United States.
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer Oct. 9.)
Dr. E. S. Furry, who has just returned from a trip to the Windy Arm district, Y. T., where he went as the representative of some Eastern capitalists, stated that in his opinion the Windy Arm was destined to become the most fabulous mining country ever discovered. "Never in the history of Alaska has such a wonderful mineral deposit been found," said Dr. Furry, "and even now the full extent of its wealth has not been determined. The first shipment of ore from the mines came down on the steamer City of Seattle and wan recieved at the Tacoma smelter September 27. The assay showed a value of more than $200 a ton. This was not picked ore. It was taken from the top of the vein which has a mean width and depth of 4 feet. There is ore enough in sight to keep a large force of men at work for several years. We have had mining engineers from half a dozen of the larger cities examine these mines, and they are unanimous in their opinion that it is
the largest strike ever made in the north.
"The company now operating these mines ie called the Conrad Consolidated
Mining Company, after Col. J. H. Conrad, whow the principal stockholder. There are also a large number of Eastern aud Seattle capitalists interested in the mines.
"The Canadian government has been most kind in building roads, policing
the district and aiding us in every way. The White Pass & Yukon railroad is going to build in to our mines. In fact, the road is already surveyed and work will begin soon. The new road will run from Low Cabin to our mines, which is about twenty-four miles. At present we ship the ore by boat from the mines to Caribou, where it is taken on board the train and carried to Skagway. From there it is put on board the steamer aod taken to the smelter in Tacoma.
"We have also just finished building an aerial tramway from the Montana
mine to the beach at Windy arm, a distance of four miles. We are also contemplating the erection of a $250,000 electric power plant, from which we will supply the surrounding country with light and heat. A mountain stream, the Montana, will supply the necessary power. At our mines the flow is 2,000,000 gallons a minute, which is ample to run several large factories or power plants."
