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Treadwell Stamps Will Grow to 520

News of the Gold Camp - 11/20/1980

20 November 1980

MARCH 12, 1898-All machinery is going forward on construction of the new stamp mills at Treadwell. All machinery for the mills is being furnished by the firm of Fraser & Chalmers. Stamps will be 1050 pounds instead of the 850 pounds now used in the Treadwell 240-stamp mill. The 300-stamp Treadwell mill will have 110 six-foot Frue vanners and two adjustable Comet E size crushers. All of these will be run by water power. The 120-stamp mill on the Alaska United Property, also with 1050 pound stamps, will have 48 six-foot Frue vanners and one adjustable Comet crusher, size E. This mill will be operated by a Fraser & Chalmers horizontal cross compound condensing Corliss engine. A 100-stamp mill is going up on the Ready Bullion property, with 1050-pound stamps, 40 six-foot vanners and one adjustable crusher. This mill will be run by water power. Also on order are three Fraser & Chalmers hoisting engines and a Reidler air compressor. When these 520 stamps, 208 vanners and four crushers are all in operation we shall see gold flow from this district to astonish the world.

APRIL 9, 1898-The Last Chance Gold Mining Company has been organized to carry on large scale placer operations on the Last Chance claim in the first basin of Gold Creek. President of the company is William F. Reeder, deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania. W. O. Stout of the Twin City Rapid Transit Company, Minneapolis, is vice president; I. Warren Titesworth of Mahoney City, Pennsylvania, is second vice president; Henry Hile of Philadelphia is treasurer, and Clark Hile, Philadelphia, is secretary. The company is capitalized for $300,000. It plans first to build a new water system for Juneau, drawing water from both Salmon Creek and Silver Bow Basin. It will then use hydraulic giants to wash out 300,000 tons of dirt a month in Last Chance basin. Debris will be deposited on the tidelands at the mouth of Gold Creek and in front of the Indian Village.

The Ebner Mill on Gold Creek has been shut down since February but will resume operation upon return of Mr. Ebner from the East in a week or so.

The steamer Willamette is unloading a full cargo at Treadwell, including both heavy timbers and machinery for the new mills built there.

APRIL 16, 1898-Resident and transient members of the Improved Order of Oddfellows are requested to meet at the Bear?s Nest Building in Douglas on Tuesday evening to discuss the organization of a local lodge.