Frederick W Bradley

Frederick W Bradley
c. 1880
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Here's a bit of a timeline for Frederick W Bradley.

• 1863 - FW Bradley was born at Nevada City in the California Gold Fields. His full name was Frederick Worthen Bradley. His father was a California Gold prospector/miner turned land surveyor named Henry Sewall Bradley.
• 1881 - studying mining at U of California - drops out when Henry Sewall Bradley died - borrowed 5k and invested it in Spanish Mine
• 1885 Bunker Hill Mine and Sullivan Mine are formed
• Bunker Hill introduced drills into their mines - widow makers because of the dust they made - drilling took a machine and a mucker (miner and helper ) it reduced the workforce
• 1888 - had made a name for himself by being one of the best at low cost ore mining
• 1893 - Bunker Hill Mining hired FW Bradley so he could boost their production - he was manager of Bunker's Kellogg Holdings - mines are struggling through a financial depression when he is made President
• 1897 - made President of Bunker Hill where he stayed until 1933 and fought legal battles for ore rights and ownership when he wasn't in the mines converting it to whatever technology was coming of age
• 1898 - FW Bradley has mining interests in Alaska ( Alaska Treadwell - Treadwell is John Treadwell and one of his major financial supporter is the Rothschild brothers group in 1889 when Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company is incorporated - John Treadwell sells his interests for 1.4 million in 1889  )
• 1898-99 Bought a smelter in Tacoma and shipped ores from both Alaska and Idaho to it.
• 1900 FWB becomes Treadwell's consulting engineer.
• 1900 FWB buys major interest in Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co.
• 1901 Frederick W Bradley married Mary Parks - Her father was James F. Parks, a mining engineer - Four children were born of the marriage - Worthen, James, Sewall and John Davis, aka Jack  - source the whole Wernecke story there - the John Davis link states that he was living in San Francisco in 1938 when elected director of Bunker Hill - was he the same John Bradley who lived in Balfour Twsp ???? IMO - it is possible - he would have been young but so was Charles Sanders when he moved here with his Chew brother uncles....it is all mystery.... )
• 1902 - brother Philip is working at the smelter at Victoria Mines ( or Garson/Coniston ) for Mond Company in Sudbury after having finished a Berkeley mining engineering degree
• 1904 - Philip Reid Bradley Jr. is born in Copper Cliff to Philip Sr and Mabel Harland Bradley - Her father was a mining engineer named Frank Harland
• 1905 - Philip Bradley Sr is now working for Canadian Copper Company in Copper Cliff ( Charles Sanders has just finished building houses for CCC and is moving back to Chelmsford where he buys a property next door to John Bradley and Coin (Coyne???)) Philip moves to Juneau 1905
• 1911 FWB is made President of Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Co.
• c 1912 - Robert Kinzie is a TWC exec is wife's brother is also an exec named Eugene Kennedy ( star swimmer at Uof California ) They get on the wrong side of FWB and returned to California - see Treadwell Gold by Sheila Kelly for the story ( Funny thing how Charles Sanders married Elizabeth Kennedy ) ( Eugene Kennedy - hopefully no relative of SS Kennedy involved with the Ponzi scheme of Golden Fleece mining, milling, and refining co ( c. 1890 ) ) 
• 1912 SS Titanic sinks ( not really, but maybe part of this story - Stickney c.1902 builds Bretton Woods hotel which ends up being the spot where 1944 multinational meeting is held and IMF and world bank are formed)
• 1917 Philip R. Bradley( brother of FWB) is made consulting engineer and gm - 1914 - 1920 he is also resident manager of Alaska Juneau Gold
• 1921 FWB buys Gambler claim ( competes in Keno Hill ) with Livingston Wernecke as his lieutenant - a new company is incorporated - Treadwell Yukon Company Ltd. They brought in an Ontario gold mine expert named William Hargreaves and made him superintendent - the concentrates were sent to the Bunker Hill Kellogg smelter
• c. 1922 Joseph Errington looked to Treadwell Yukon for help in developing Errington and Vermillion mines
• 1922-37 Bradley's spend 10 million dollars on Vermillion Errington project
• 1928 by 1928 much of Treadwell is sold to F W Bradley who now is President of Alaska Juneau
• 1931 Vermillion mine and Errington mine shut down
• 1931 Alaska Juneau is finally showing profits - ( Mr Bernard Baruch was a close associate of FWB - Baruch was also in business with Winston Churchill )
• Frederick W Bradley died in 1933.
• Philip Bradley takes over
• 1937 Treadwell Yukon Mining Co is close to bankruptcy and go into exploration mode

source of this madness

Bunker Hill may Benefit - mentions BH 50% ownership of Treadwell Yukon Company
Treadwell Yukon Mining - mentions Errington mine

Wernecke and Bradley - Treadwell Yukon in Keno Hill

Treadwell Gold by Sheila Kelly - great pics of the Bradley's in that book