Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-02-10
INTERESTING THINGS
IN Alaska MINING
WHERE colo naAWs DARING
MINERS. TROUGH pRlvATloNe
AND DANGERS ARE or MANY
AND VARIED KINDA.

Mo1arf. Fred If Moidl and Prank ].
Hess. ST the United States Geological
hurYof. spent last summer in thc
many things which they win rcnor'
CONCERNING gold mining On The Nome
diailici nothing ia more hhely 20 an
petd io popular interest than their Dc
scflmiou oi tde strike on Little Crock
it Was Q little over q year EEu in
ne inll OF l9Of-lhaf the productive
claims on Little Greek nrat came into
prominence sirec them they have
yielded nearly one and onohEf mii
lion dollars Much tho greater part "a
the SOLD taken out came ir1m four
claims iuc1fCd within an area Ntilo
greaior f1an onosonth of o square
milo.
Little Greek o. a tributary OF Snake
River. ai the mouth of which Nome
Oh situated. The bonanza claims 0i
1866 are near the trucks gi the Nome
Arctic railroad. only three miles north
OF Nome. The eOld deposits llo dcop.
shafts have been sunk a. far as fifty
feet. but the averare WORKINGS are
between thirty and thirfy-flfh feet
below the surface.
Nufcn muck and moss. varying IN
thickness from twelve io twenfgthrcc
feet. form D heavy covering Tor tne
gold bearing NraVoie. some 81 the
ErayolH are apparently well wafhci
ecacn eands others we're without
iouli depisiied by streams. neds
containing houidcra. some ~ which
weigh a ton. frequently top the the
workable gsarcls and are a constant
source ol DANGER IN mining. specially
during enmtfcr mouthe, when iho roof
Il weakened by thaWinr These hould.
efa occur sometimes on bed rock and
AFRO sometimes found On the MUCK that
oycrlics the rravcis.
Nearly an ere deposits. from surface
to bci rock. carry gold. bn che rich
,fIfcls Ute found well down. D. p. me
plHfcs ines ffAi directly ON na ,i.l.
De- nlnfr llalca Trey rise r1 q h-irsf
of five ur al1 ioci above d. TIE SOLD
boar'uf EraYti1 of prevent economic
bearing rrnttla 81 nna1cnt ocnnumlc
IMPORTANCE have d ihickneaa 81 be-.
lNcen iogr and gia icof when Oh.
creased fn sixteen feet in ono in.
stance whore thD material removed
formed a iantlcu'ar mass. Thin elnng.
atpd lnnFHF CIR heag ol rFhiifh sand.
called ruby snn1. iho color Og which
o. du ei tlmCs 20 small grains az rcd
garnet. and af times io non oxide.
evcur ihroufhcui ihc pay gravel and
often contain 30 much gld ihei Il
can lo clsiiy detected. even IN rart.
less handling Mica achist. To which
there are occasionally thin lime stcae
beds, iufm the true bed rock bat she
Hu-rallgd 'hCa rock" on which ihc
goh 1D4 o. sometimes The schlsi.
sometimes clay streak. and Ia one
place lf 10 gravel cemenlcd with cal.
cite deposited hy Circulating waters
Part VI th1 sod is tnc. hright and
Nahf hui cart NJ a ia cplrso and cn.
iaina many nuggcia worth five and tea
cents apiece and occasional ones
worth ST.
One important result % the i.itllc
Greek discoveries o. that they have
BED iO moro active prospecting in this
tundra graYe1 ~ has been known
for sume time that q small amount oi
gold Is always present there. bat iho
occurrence and position 90 any other
beach line hack of Nome can ho De-
iermlned only by actual Investigation.
40 ls safe to predict that ho Nome
tundra win ho abe scene OF more Ca.
tensite operations during the present
winter Than On any previous year,