Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-14
UNDISCOVERED GOLD.
There Are Great storer Of It in tho West
 and Northwest.


 The fact that the partially explored district of the Yukon tract, in Alaska, yielded about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold during the last mining season is generally taken to imply that the Alaska district will be one of the most important American gold producers in the near future, II the means of access to and communlea- tion with that territory can be easily maintained As yet the gold has not been mined in what may be called scientific manner, as the simple ma chinery of the miners last year was crude and il adapted to the work. The climatic conditions are such as to deter all but few resolute and expe- rieneed miners from much successful work in the Yuken river district, ai- though the returns of the successful men have been very profitable.
 In some claims the yield has been as high as one dollar or one dollar and fifty cents to the pan, and it is eyl- dent that if water could be obtained in satisfactory supply the gold fields of Alaska might eventually show as large an output as some of the most famous camps of California. This is all the more noticeable for the reason that only so small a proportion of the gold belt of northwest Alaska has been fairly prospected. For all that can be asserted confidently to the contrary, the amount of gold already produced in North America, large as it is, may be insignificant compared to the out put which will be made in the next few decades.
 According 10 some reliable reports, the gold belt of Alaska extends over district of from seventy-fve to one hundred miles, beginning at some point in the Arctic circle and extend ing down. It is already known that indications warrant the supposition that the belt is at least nine hundred miles long in Alaska and Canada, and it would not be strange if it should be proved that the gold belt extends prac- tically along the whole of North Amer ica from the Arctic circle to southern Mexico. It is true that in some parts of Mexico gold has not yet been dis covered; but it is also trRe that, on general plan. the gold belt may be said to extend from Canada along the line of the Rocky mountains far into Mex- leo, and some of the richest mines of Mexico are probably still to be diseov- cred, at least so far as the present gen. eration is concerned.
 There is reason to believe that not all the rich gold mines which were known to the Aztees Tn the time of Cortez, are known to-day. unless both the statements of the Spaniards them selves and the legends of the Indian tribes of Mexico are at fault This be- ing so, it is surely no great strain up on the imagination to infer that the territory along the Rocky mountains is generally rich in precious metals-al- though the geological formation in certain localities is such that the gold or silver bearing strait are not near the surface, but are at present (and may be always) inaccessible to man. kind. Yet, if plat, of the sections which are rich in gold and silver should be made, it would be readily apparent that in general these districts follow the line of the Rocky noun tains.
 The mountain regions of Manitoba and British Columbia have not been thoroughly prospected as yet, so that it is impossible to speak with perfect positiveness on this point, but it is at least certain that, so far as any very large tracts of the Rocky mountain sec ton oi North America have been exam ined closely by skilled prospectors, the existence of rich mineral fields has been brought to light Even as far north as the Arctic circle it is now evident that the gold fields extend and, surely, it is no unreasonable supposition that be- tween the Alaskan fields and those of the United States, new gold bearing territory will be discovered as civiliza- tion extends further and furthur into the northwest.
 The developments in Alaska, taken in connection with those in South Af- riea, make it reasonably certain that there is to be no gold famine in the near future. Some eminent scientists of Europe have predicted that within one hundred years thc gold supply of the world will be exhausted; but the developments of the last two years tend greatly to weaken the force of such prediction. Viewing the situa- tion dispassionately, it seems fair to conclude that the gold production of the coming century will not only be far greater than that of the century which is now closing, but that it will also fail to exhaust the worlds stores of gold. as far as they shall have been located by that time. -Boston Adver- tiser.
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