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Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company fonds
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2 folders of textual records
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Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Co. was formed in 1887 in Juneau, Alaska, after hard rock gold was discovered on Douglas Island, located across the channel from the town. Before the mines flooded in 1917, the company extracted $67 million worth of gold. Alaska Treadwell / Treadwell Yukon were operating on similar projects in Yukon and Alaska, in northern mineral development. Treadwell Yukon invested heavily in the silver-lead galena ore found around Keno Hill and was working in that area as early as 1921. Between 1921 and 1942 Treadwell Yukon took 624,570 tons of silver & lead out of the Yukon, a gross value of over $21 million. Treadwell Yukon also had numerous gold concerns in various parts of the north including the Klondike Gold Fields and Atlin, British Columbia.
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The fonds was in the possession of the Juneau Mineral Information Center and Juneau, Alaska. In 2003 the materials were donated to Yukon Archives.
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The fonds consists of two folders of correspondence to R.A. Kinzie [Kenzie?], General Superintendent of Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company at Treadwell City near Juneau, Alaska. The correspondence originated from: Whitehorse and Carcross, Yukon; Bennett and Atlin, British Columbia; and from F.W. Bradley, San Francisco, California. Included in the correspondence is a letter about coal lands from W.F. Schabel of Whitehorse, and from I.E. Fleming at Carcross, who was employed by Dail & Fleming Mines Ltd., at Windy Arm.
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