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[Buildings along beach]

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Gastineau Channel looking south, taken from the Treadwell boarding house. The high mountains in the distance are on Admiralty Island. At the southern end of the channel, Taku Inlet enters, from the left, at the junction of the two, is the most dangerous piece of water in all of Alaska.

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The City of Douglas, with Juneau Island in the foreground. Douglas contains about one thousand inhabitants, and is supported from the Treadwell Mines.

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A portion of Treadwell, as it is in the winter time. The building in the foreground is the Assay office, just beyond, you may see the roof of the store, and still further is the Assistant Superintendents residence. Down on the wharf are the machine shops and the coal bunkers.

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Miners at work in the Glory Hole Treadwell Mine. This is a huge pit, shown in one of the accompanying pictures. It is sixteen hundred feet wide, and about two hundred deep, the two men in the upper part of the picture, are working a machine drill, which is operated by compressed air.

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[Showing the company's store, on the right, the chlorination works and 300 stamp mill] The large building at the right is the company store. The first window from this end, in the upper story, opens from off my room. The building at the end of the picture, the one with the big smoke stack, is the chlorination works, which is not in use at present, beyond it is the 300 stamp mill, the largest in the world.

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Douglas City, Douglas contains about one thousand inhabitants., it has four churches, a half dozen saloons, one hotel and one brewery. It is a typical Alaskan Town.

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The Mexican mill and hoisting plant. This is the property of the Alaska Mexican Gold Mining Co., it is operated under the same management, and in connection with the Treadwell Mine. This picture was taken before the fire, which partly destroyed it, last winter.

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The views include extensive captions by a person familiar with the mines and their operation.

Scope and Contents [showing half of the glory hole and mill buildings in the foreground. Juneau Island, Juneau and Mt. Juneau are in view] This will give you an idea of the Treadwell Glory Hole, the picture shows about one half of it when a blast is fired in it, the rock slides down into chutes., at the bottom, from there it is taken in cars, and hauled to the shaft, then hoisted to the crushers, in the tops of the two tall buildings in the foreground, after being broken up it is again hauled away to the...