"It is the greatest mineral belt discovered in recent years and I believe from 5000 to 10,000 men will be employed there within a year."
Thus spoke William Clark yesterday to a Star man of the various mining properties on Windy Arm from which place he returned on Saturday evening. "Bill" Clark is one of the most experienced and, at the same time, most conservative of all the quartz miners who has ever come north, years of experience in Montana and British Columbia having taught him that prospects are not mines. Mr. Clark said:
"At the request of Hon. Edmund Bristol, M. P., of Toronto, who is largely interested in the Big Thing group of claims on Windy Arm, I visited the district to make a
thorough inspection of the various ledges and have reported to him on the same. I found vast bodies of ore, the several ledges being from 3 to 5 feet in width and of practically
limitless extent. The value of this ore, as you well know, is enormous, running all the way from 200 to 4000 ounces in silver and from $2.50 to $5 in gold per ton.
"On my trip of inspection" continued Mr. Clark, "I was accompanied by Government Mineralogist Robertson of British Columbia, and Dr. Young of Atlin. Mr. Robertson was sent to Windy Arm by Provincial Premier McBride for the purpose of inspecting all the property and especially that on the B. C. side of the line with the view, if Mr. Robertson's report is favorable, of having his government construct roads from the various B. C. mines over which ore can be carried to the lake for transportation next spring.
"Premier McBride wired Dr. Young to meet Mr. Robertson at Conrad City and join him in the inepection which was made to the eminent satisfaction of all of us and that Mr. Robertson's report to the premier will be favorable goes without saying. We visited all the claims of the Conrad Mountain group, the Thistle group, the Conrad Consolidated, the Bonanza, Windy Arm Syndicate and Big Thing groups and at every place we found the ledges as previously stated, from 3 to 5 feet in width, We saw workings in the 300 foot tunnel in the Montana mine and saw the same ledge in the tunnel of the Mountain Hero, the two tunnels being 2500 feet apart.
"Undoubtedly the Windy Arm country is the richest and most extensive mineral belt discovered on the American continent in many years."
G. A. Singer, manager of the Conrad Consolidated Mining company, is in
town having come in Saturday evening, his wife being a guest at the White Pass hotel for the winter. Mr. Singer has spent most of his time at the mines lately and is greatly elated at recent showings made.
For example, the ore body or ledge followed by the tunnel in the Montana
mine has been struck and proven to be a true fisure ledge on the Mountain Hero 1850 feet away and at an average depth of 381, the greatest depth being 625 feet, revealing a veritable mountain of ore located immediately at the interior terminus of tramway No. 1. At this place the work of mining and sacking ore will be carried on all winter whether the tramway ies finished this fall or not.
From the Montana and Mountain Hero claims the same ore ledge is traced south-eastward fully one and a half miles and through the entire eleven claims of the company of which Mr. Singer is manager.
Regarding the four mile cable from the beach to the mines, Manager Singer
in not yet certain it will be completed this fall, the new capstan just shipped from Seattle to replace the one recently broken while stretching the cable, not belng what is wanted or what he ordered, Being a man of resources, however, it is possible that a capstan will yet be provided by Mr. Singer, in which event the cable will be completed this fail and the shipment of ore will go merrily oo all winter. The mule pack train of which Billy Wesdeippe is the operater, is sill doing business and has packed 4000 tons of freight, ore, wood and supplies during the past ten weeks and since it has been in operation.
Robert Lynn, of High Bridge, New Jersey, one of the stockholders in the
Conrad Cousolidated, is here with Mr. Singer. He visited the company's various mines last week and, like other stockholders from the east, Mr. Harvey and Dr. Furry, who visited the property some weeks ago, is delighted beyond expression with the present showings and future prospects for extracting untold wealth from Mother Earth.
Mr. Singer will return to the mines tomorrow and Mr. Lynn will then leave
for the east. He says be will certainly return next summer.
