{"id":7507,"date":"2021-02-08T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=7507"},"modified":"2021-02-08T11:55:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T16:55:50","slug":"episode-246-yukon-diary-the-treadwell-mine-disaster-and-livingston-wernecke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=7507","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 246 YUKON DIARY THE TREADWELL MINE DISASTER and Livingston Wernecke"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 246   YUKON DIARY   THE TREADWELL MINE DISASTER  and Livingston Wernecke<\/p>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
Feb. 6, 2021<\/div>\n

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Treadwell Mine employees shortly after the Disaster.  New jobs were found for all of them.<\/div>\n
Men from 17 countries, many of them Serbians who left Treadwell when WW 1 broke out.<\/div>\n

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WHY DID I VISIT JUNEAU ON SEPT. 13 AND14, 1962?  NO GOOD REASON<\/div>\n

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Was there some unfathomable force pushing me from the Yukon.  Pushing me with a purpose in mind.<\/div>\n
Pushing me out the peephole of Skagway.  Pushing me south to <\/div>\n
the mysterious capital of Juneau, Alaska.  <\/div>\n

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Pushing me I knew not where or why.  I say this in 2021\u202659 years after I wrote my Yukon Diary.  Ha! <\/div>\n
What a laugh.  I wrote that diary\u2026stuffed it with bits and pieces of my life\u2026and never opened it<\/div>\n
again until the year 2020 when the whole world hit a dead stop and hundreds  of thousands\u2026millions<\/div>\n
and millions of people suddenly had to reconsider their lives.<\/div>\n

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Was  that push to Juneau in 1962 real or imagined?  I mean was I just wandering pointlessly?  Wasting time?<\/div>\n
Wasting a little bit of my $350 a month salary?  <\/div>\n

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Did  my unconscious mind whisper \u201cAlan, you must see Douglas Island?  Even if you have never heard of<\/div>\n
Douglas Island, you must go there!  \u201c<\/div>\n

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My conscious mind must have responded. \u201cWhat the hell are you talking about.  Douglas Island? Delete now.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Unconscious mind must have responded.  \u201cYou willl only know why you went there in 2020.  No point in me whispering<\/div>\n
to your goddamn  conscious mind.  It blocks things.   But you will go there and then wait 59 years to find out why.\u201d<\/div>\n

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YUKON DIARY<\/div>\n

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Friday, September 14, 1962<\/div>\n

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Got up early and walked the tilted streets of Juneau.  I could  look across the Channel where mountains threaten<\/div>\n
to tumble into the Fiord.  I look behind me and mountains that are even higher pose the same risk. But I have<\/div>\n
seen mountains  all  summer.<\/div>\n

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Nothing to see really\u2026nothing to do\u2026why am I here?\u2026I must fly home as fast as I can\u2026seems I have<\/div>\n
wasted my time coming to Juneau.  Skagway made sense.  Juneau does not make sense<\/div>\n

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DOUGLAS ISLAND<\/div>\n

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I did not notice Douglas Island in 1962.  The island was there.  Across the Channel from Juneau.<\/div>\n
A big lump of real  estate with a humped back.  Unremarkable because the mountain  backdrop<\/div>\n
dominated.  I looked but did not see.  On September 14, 1962, I had no idea\u2026no interest\u2026in that<\/div>\n
lump of land.  <\/div>\n

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I did not know it was the site of one of the great mining disasters in North American history.  I had<\/div>\n
never heard of the Treadwell Gold Mine.  I did  not know that this lump of land humping its way into<\/div>\n
view across from Juneau had a direct<\/div>\n
connection with a mining engineer and prospector called Livingston Wernecke.  I did not even<\/div>\n
know that the Wernecke Camp that Bill Dunn and I explored on Keno Hill was named after<\/div>\n
a man.  <\/div>\n

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Early June 1962 when Bill Dunn and I explored ruins of a mine on Keno Hill.  Later we discovered this was  once the Wernecke Camp<\/div>\n
Mine.<\/div>\n

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Indelibly in my conscious  mind , however, was the joy Bill Dunn and I shared that June day as we<\/div>\n
cooked our lunch with our feet hanging over the McQueston Valley of the Yukon far below.<\/div>\n
My conscious  mind noted lots that day, particularly the lonely horse collars  hanging in<\/div>\n
the wreck of the horse barn\u2026and the vacant cabin with plates, cups and saucers on the table.<\/div>\n
The emptiness where men once lived and left behind for Bill and I to find.<\/div>\n

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I had no idea how this abandoned  mine connected to another humungous abandoned gold <\/div>\n
mine on the coast of the Alaskan panhandle.   <\/div>\n

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Let me jump right to the  disaster in 1917 \u2026 cut the crap  \u2026<\/div>\n

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THE TREADWELL DISASTER  April 21, 1917<\/div>\n

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In her book \u201cTreadwell Gold,\u201d Sheila Kelly references an eye-witness account of the cave-in:<\/p>\n

\u201cAt one fifteen a.m., the small group standing vigil watched as the ground around the natatorium and fire hall slipped sideways, then with \u2018cracks, groans, and noises of shattering boards\u2019 dropped straight down into the innards of the mine.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinally, at two fifteen a.m., after another eruption at the cave-in site, a two-hundred-foot geyser of saltwater shot out of the top of the central shaft. The spouting display went on for a full five minutes before it stopped, like fireworks announcing a finale. After a harrowing three and a half hours, the mine was full. In those forty-five miles of mine shafts and drifts underlying the town to a depth of twenty-three hundred feet, those ancient geologic pockets that gave up ten million tons of gold-bearing ore were filled with three million tons of seawater.\u201d<\/p>\n


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Witnesses watched as their social club and company swimming pool suddenly disappeared  in a gaping hole  filling with sea water from deep below.  All miners escaped except maybe for one man who just disappeared.<\/div>\n
\"The<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
The  Treadwell mine disaster on April  22, 1917\u2026The day after the collapse.  Before  the disaster this  was the site of<\/div>\n
the Treadwell  social club swimming pool.  The  day after  the mine was filled with millions of gallons of salt water that<\/div>\n
cascaded into the passageways and drifts (stopes) below.  In between  the two events geologist Livingston Wernecke <\/div>\n
crawled  out on a trestle precariously strung over the hole. He shone a light down into the blackness below as a pile<\/div>\n
of mud slipped into the dark.  When the mud and fragments of mine buildings hit the rising  water from below he breathed in \u201ca blast of air that had the musty <\/div>\n
oder of the deep reaches of the mine.”<\/div>\n

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FACTS ABOUT THE TREADWELL GOLD MINE<\/div>\n

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1)  The city of Juneau, capital of Alaska, is named after he  first prospector to lay claim to parts of Douglas Island, 1880\u2019s.<\/div>\n

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2)  Treadwell was the founder  of the mine which he  sold for $1.5 million dollars<\/div>\n

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3) The Treadwell Gold Mine became the largest mines in North America between 1880  and 1917<\/div>\n

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4) The mine buildings and property covered 2.5 miles of the Douglas Island shoreline<\/div>\n

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5) It began as an  open pit mine then became a shaft and stopes mine that got deeper and deeper into the rock.<\/div>\n

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6) To get one ounce of gold 8.5 tons  of  ore had to be  \u2018stamped\u2019<\/div>\n

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7) The noise of  the stamping machines could be  heard for miles<\/div>\n
(a stamping machine is a kind of power driven hammer that reduced the ore<\/div>\n
into grains of sand that allowed other machines to sift and separate the gold.)<\/div>\n

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Architectural  drawing of the workings of a stamp mill.  Easier to understand<\/div>\n
than pictures  of stamp mills at the Treadwell Gold  Mine.  Raw ore dumped  in<\/div>\n
stamp mill then pulverized into tiny pieces by power driven  hammer.  The noise<\/div>\n
from the Treadwell stamp mills was overwhelming but even so there was a sign<\/div>\n
\u201cQuiet\u2026Men  Working\u201d\u2026apparently<\/div>\n

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8) Miners were all male because  women  were considered to be bad luck<\/div>\n
if working underground.  The men  got upset when some well intentioned women<\/div>\n
entered the mine and  sang to the men.<\/div>\n

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Strange sculpture found in ruined cement  Treadmill Mine building\u2026vandalized walls but intact mysterious sculpture<\/div>\n

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9) The mine was excavated more than 500 feet below the Douglas Island and  out under the Channel<\/div>\n
\u202660 miles of underground operations, 45 miles were suddenly flooded in the disaster.<\/div>\n

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10)  There were1,000 to  2,000 miners employed by Treadwell. (sources give two figures)  About 350 were in the mine<\/div>\n
when it was  flooded.  There was just barely enough warning for the miners to escape.<\/div>\n

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11) All the miners got out in the nick  of time… Except for one man who was  missing.  He seems to have used the disaster  as a way<\/div>\n
to disappear rather than die.  But no one is sure about him.  His wife was awarded a settlement<\/div>\n
\u2026no one is sure what happened to him but suspicion was that he survived.<\/div>\n

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Abandoned horse  stable at Wernecke Camp Mine on Keno Hill, Yukon.   June 1962<\/div>\n

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12)  There was not enough time to save the horses and one mule\u2026all of whom soon drowned.  These  <\/div>\n
animals had been well treated\u2026loved.  Some miners even offered to go down and try to save them.  Too late.<\/div>\n

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Treadwell mners at work.  Stopes do not look like cathedrals but<\/div>\n
floor is rubble strewn.  How could stopes like these be called \u2018cathedrals\u2019?<\/div>\n

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13) The drifts (stopes) were cathedrals more than 100 feet high on thin pillars.  Not enough pillars according<\/div>\n
to one source..<\/div>\n

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14) Noise  of the stamping machines was so loud that the firing of cannon could not be heard<\/div>\n

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15) This was Tlinget tribal land  and several of the  miners were Tlingets. Apparently<\/div>\n
they could not understand why these new  people from 17 countries valued gold so much.<\/div>\n

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16) The stamping machines only recovered 50% of the gold. The rest of the gold<\/div>\n
was separated from pyrite using chemical process.  Arsenic was a dangerous by product<\/div>\n
that was difficult to conceal\u2026led to many cancers of internal organs.<\/div>\n

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17) Waste rock from the mine made 80 acres of beach along Douglas Island<\/div>\n

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18)  26 million tons of rock were crushed in the life of the mine (40 years)<\/div>\n

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19) $70 million worth of gold was produced<\/div>\n

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20)  A raging fire on Oct. 10, 1926 consumed what was left of the Treadwell surface <\/div>\n
buildings.  <\/div>\n

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21)  The water tower is the only obvious surviving structure.<\/div>\n

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22)  Employees were well treated\u2026swimming  pool, dining hall, fair income, writing room, etc.<\/div>\n

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etc. etc. So much to say \u2026 so little time to say it.<\/div>\n

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\"The<\/div>\n
THE salt water tower remains as a gravestone of the Treadwell Gold Mine\u2026recently roofed  by the local historical society<\/div>\n

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LIVINGSTON WERNECKE<\/div>\n

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“Mine geologist Livingston Wenecke rushed to the site, inched his way out on the tram trestle that was precariously strung over the hole, and shone a light down into the widening cauldron. He watched a mass of mud and water accumulate and then slide away with a deep rumble. As the muck was gulped down, the lower regions underground belched a blast of air that had the musty odor of the deep reaches of the mine.”<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Livingston Wernecke\u2019s name seemed to jump at me from the description of the Treadwell Disaster.  He  had crawled  across  the gaping <\/div>\n
hole after soil, rubble, buildings had tumbled into the shaft and disappeared.   His name  is unusual.  This had to be the same man who built the silver mine<\/div>\n
called Wernecke\u2019s Camp halfway up Keno Hill in the early  1920\u2019s.  Just a few years after the Treadwell disaster.  And it is the same man.<\/div>\n

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Seemed to me that my Yukon experience was coming full circle now\u202659 years after the event.  All the pieces began make sense.<\/div>\n
Without the Treadwell disaster it is doubtful that Wernecke would have arrived in Mayo Landing, Yukon Territory, Canada, with a lot of equipment no longer needed<\/div>\n
at Treadwell.  Mining carts, tracks, skilled labour, investment capital, 98 horses, and his \u2018boys\u2019 (a father like term he applied to his miners). Livingston Wernecke is a<\/div>\n
hard  man to describe.  He will be the  subject of a coming Episode.<\/div>\n

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 Livingston brought was a man of few words\u2026also he had  strict moral code…  He  would look after his \u2018boys\u2019  with the  same care  the owners of<\/div>\n
Treadwell looked after their miners before and after the disaster.  <\/div>\n

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All 1,000 of the Treadwell men except one were found<\/div>\n
new jobs  in other mines.   And the one?   Well, now there is a mystery man that needs a novel \u2026 non fiction.<\/div>\n
(*  a challenge to readers.  Can you suggest reasons why a  man would want to disappear\u2026a married<\/div>\n
man with children? )<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
Feb. 2021<\/div>\n

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STRANGE STOPES AT TREADWELL:  A MYSTERY<\/div>\n

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I am not a mining engineer, not a geologist, not a geophysicist, not an engineer.    Nor have I devoted<\/div>\n
hours my time  to uncover the reason for the collapse  of the Treadwell  Mine.  But I have questions\u2026<\/div>\n
 curious thoughts.<\/div>\n

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As i read about the disaster I noted this odd comment.  \u201cThe stopes deep down in the mine<\/div>\n
were cathedrals hundreds of feet high.\u201d   I thought that must be a misprint.  I have never  <\/div>\n
heard of  a stope that high.  Too bloody dangerous.  it must  be a mistake.  Then another<\/div>\n
source said the miners worked from the bottom up.  They chiselled  and blasted rock<\/div>\n
from the ceiling\u2026and the walls..a good deal of it gold bearing ore. (i.e.one  ounce of gold in every<\/div>\n
8.5 tons of ore.   In the process there was lots of  waste  rock that was strewn <\/div>\n
on the floor of the stope.  So the floor got higher and higher as the miners chipped<\/div>\n
more and  more from the ceiling.  Hence the stopes deep  beneath Douglas Island<\/div>\n
were  huge rooms filled with waste rock which got higher and higher as the miners<\/div>\n
kept chipping at the ceiling.   Does this make  sense?  Not to me.<\/div>\n

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Surely these huge rubble filled stopes were weak. (If true.)<\/div>\n

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Another comment mentioned the  pillars.  The pillars in the stopes were not<\/div>\n
thick enough to hold up the incredible weight of rock and ore more than 2,000<\/div>\n
feet above.  Why would pillars be thin?   Because  the miner managers wanted to get<\/div>\n
as much  ore as possible out of the mine.  Could this be possible as a reason<\/div>\n
for mine collapse.  Do mines pull pillars?<\/div>\n

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Surely the thin pillars weakened the mine.  (If true_)<\/div>\n

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(This reminded me  of work we did deep down in Can Met Uranium mine, Elliott Lake, Ontario,<\/div>\n
in 1960.   When the mine was abandoned the miners had been instructed to “pull the pillars\u201d to get<\/div>\n
as much high grade Uranium as they could.  The pillars left behind could <\/div>\n
not take the weight and the roof of some stopes collapsed. If pillars are  pulled<\/div>\n
a mine  could never be reopened.  Right?  I remember the sound of a stope<\/div>\n
collapsing  and wondered why the hell we  were down there\u2026four men in<\/div>\n
a collapsing mine.  But I loved the danger\u2026shots of adrenalin.)<\/div>\n

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These are questions in my mind.  Based on some short remarks in<\/div>\n
the Treadmill story.  Persons wiser than me might<\/div>\n
offer explanations.<\/div>\n

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POST SCRIPT:  THE TREADWELL MINE<\/div>\n
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(MY comments just touch the surface\u2026here are more details)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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The Treadwell gold mine was on the south side of Douglas Island, .5-mile (0.80 km) east of downtown Douglas and southeast of downtown Juneau, owned and operated by John Treadwell. Composed of four sub-sites, Treadwell was in its time the largest hard rock gold mine in the world, employing over 2,000 people. Between 1881 and 1922, over 3 million troy ounces of gold were extracted. Not much remains today except for a few crumbling buildings and a “glory hole”. Although John Treadwell had twelve years of experience in both placer and lode mines, he was a carpenter and builder by trade who had come to Alaska prior to the Klondike Gold Rush.<\/p>\n

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Beginnings<\/span><\/h2>\n

In 1880, prospectors Joseph ‘Joe’ Juneau and Richard Harris discovered gold in Silver Bow Basin. This brought waves of prospectors to the region, including John Treadwell, whose first move was to purchase a lode claim on Douglas Island from Pierre Joseph Erussard de Ville. Treadwell also formed a partnership in September, 1881 with Erussard de Ville, D.P. Mitchell and Dave Martin under the name of The San Francisco Company. For unknown reasons he later backed out of this, and in early December 1881 he devoted his attention solely to the Douglas Island property. He then went on to buy two claims neighboring his property from D. W. Clark. Treadwell extracted twenty two samples from his three claims which he sent to San Francisco, California for a mill test, yielding encouraging results.<\/p>\n

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On December 27, 1881, Treadwell organized the Alaska Mill & Mining Company and began operations at the Treadwell Dike. Shortly after this, five men from California bought over $10,000 worth of stock in the business. These men were James Freeborn ( 1828 – June 21, 1894 ), San Francisco banker and mining magnate John Douglas Fry (July 1, 1819 – February 3, 1901 ), Horace Lewis Hill (1840 – November 6, 1912 ), Howard Hill Shinn ( born April 4, 1857 ) and E. M. With these men funding him, Treadwell began running a tunnel and discovered that much of the vein he was mining was not on his property. Because word of his strike had not yet gotten out he was able to buy many of the adjoining claims for very little money, after which he returned to San Francisco to secure more backing for a much larger mill. His financial benefactors agreed to invest more and the major mining operation had begun.<\/p>\n

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In 1889, Treadwell sold his stake in the company for $1.5 million and returned to California.<\/p>\n

Operation<\/span><\/h2>\n

At the height of the operation there were five mills with over 960 stamps in continuous operation, closing down only on Christmas and Independence Day. These mills were fed by four mines known as the Treadwell, 700-Foot, Mexican and Ready Bullion. At this time the mine employed over 2,000 people and was the largest hard rock mine in the world. The gold was 55% free milling and 45% embedded in pyrite, which was extracted using chlorination, smelting, and cyanidation. Power to the complex was supplied by a coal-fired power plant (later switching to oil and two hydroelectric dams).<\/p>\n

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Some of the shafts extended as much as 2,400 feet (730 m) below the surface.<\/p>\n

Decline<\/span><\/h2>\n

The mine was still yielding gold in 1917 when the Treadwell, 700-Foot and Mexican mines (excavated to a depth of more than 500 feet (150 m) below sea level under Gastineau Channel) suddenly began leaking and were evacuated. Hours later the mines collapsed. At the climax, sprays of water were sent up to 200 feet (61 m) in the air from the mine entrances. The only casualties were a dozen horses and one mule; local lore has it that one man unaccounted for used the opportunity to head for parts unknown.<\/p>\n

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Evidence of instability had been noticed around 1909, but there was no indication of impending disaster until 1913, when major geological shifts occurred. Reinforcements were constructed but were ineffective. The last shaft was worked in a limited fashion until 1922.<\/p>\n

Today<\/span><\/h2>\n

The site eventually became the property of Alaska Electric Light & Power, which has since deeded a portion to the city of Juneau with the stipulation that it be maintained as a historic site. Under the management of the Treadwell Historic Preservation & Restoration Society there are recreation trails with markers identifying various locations. Another portion of the property is leased to a zip line operator.<\/p>\n

Directly above the cave-in site is a concrete pad where the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities places a 105mm howitzer, which is fired across Gastineau Channel at a shoulder of Mount Roberts to break up avalanches before they get so big as to pose a danger to Thane Road and residences there.<\/p>\n

Printed<\/span><\/h3>\n
    \n
  • Hard Rock Gold<\/span> by David & Brenda Stone, Vanguard Press, 1987<\/li>\n
  • History of the Mines & Miners in the Juneau Gold Belt<\/span> by Earl Redman, 1988<\/li>\n
  • The Birdman of Treadwell: Diary of a Treadwell Gold Miner<\/span> by Edwin Warren with Barry Kibler (ISBN 9781425960643)<\/li>\n
  • I Remember Treadwell<\/span> by Charlotte L. Mahafly, Accra Print, 1983<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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