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### Geology of the central Copper River region, Alaska

#### Professional Paper 41

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#### Abstract

It is an interesting evidence of the prompt responsiveness of our 
governmental organization to popular needs that the year 1898, which saw the 
first rush of argonauts to Alaska as a result of the discovery of the Klondike 
in 1986, saw also several well-equipped Federal parties at work in the 
Territory, mapping its great waterways and mountain ranges, investigating the 
feasible means of transportation within it, laying out routes for future lines 
of communication, and studying the mineral resources and the plant and animal 
life. It is true that before that year, in which the general attention of the 
world was fixed upon our heretofore lightly regarded northern province, fur 
traders, adventurous travelers, and hardy prospectors had made little-heralded 
journeys through the interior, and that one or another of the governmental 
departments had had representatives on special errands within its borders, but 
the amount of private and public energy expended there in 1898 probably exceeded 
that of any ten previous years.

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