The Alaska daily empire., 1916-08-22
ALFRED BROOKS
 INSPECTING THE
 JUNEAU DISTRICT
Paying His Nineteenth Annual Visit to the Ore Belts of the
 Northland.
WORK NEARLY FINISHED

Doctor Alfred H. Brooks, who for the past nineteen years has been in charge of the work of the Geolo. gical survey in Alaska, is in the city at the New Cain Hotel Dr. Brooks is in Juneau Investigating the formation in the big mines of this section and also for the purpose of visiting his field parties which are working in this section.
 "The work of our survey in the Juneau section is nearly finished and we hope to complete it this year. if the weather will permit This sertion. on account Of the large min ing operations. has been more fully investigated and mapped than any other district of Alaska.
 At present, two parties are work ing in this immediate vicinity D.. C. Witherspoon is with a party com pleting the base map, while Arthur c. Spencer and II. M. Aiken are making resuryey of the geologi' cal formation and mineral resources. When the resnrvey work is complet- ed and the base map finished. the work will be completed.
 The work first started nineteen years ago under my personal direc- tion." said MT. Brooks From then until now it has been carried stead l fly forward until the preliminary work has been almost completed in an of Alaska. At that the work has just started as base maps and re- surveys must be made of the entire Territory. which will take many years.
 Rain is a serious handicap in our work as it is almost impossible Co do plane table work in wet weather. When the fog hangs over the noun tains 1t is impossible to work in the hills"
 pr. Brooks spent the day yester- day in the Alaska-Juneau mine work ings and will visit the other mines before leaving for the westward. He expects to leave for the Prince Will liam Sound section on the Admiral Evans Saturday and from there will visit other places. He arrived in Juneau on one Of the recent boats from the Ketchikan section where he spent several weeks.
 The Seattle Times. commenting on Mir. Brooks trip to Alaska, recently said:
 General" Alfred II. Brooks, geo. logist. scientist. student. who has written more than a score of text books on the resources Of Alaska and whose reports were largely in- strumental in inducing the govern ment to build a railroad in the Ter ritory. is in Seattle on his way North. this being about his nine teenth trip there. lt has been said that only two persons know the truth about the resources of Alaska. Providence and Alfred H. Brooks. Brooks had the title of doctor conferred on him by the people of Alaska about ten years ago, but when citizens and newspapers as far east of Chicago began referring toI him as doctor" the Alaskans pro- noted him to the rank of General general and specific information
 Brooks is chief of the United States geological survey for Alaska and now has two parties in the field at Juneau, one party at Ket- chikan and two parties in the Prince William Sound region. He expects to visit all of these places to see how the work is progressing. He says that because of the commercial importance of the Juneau district special attention will be paid to the ore zones in that locality.
 Brooks first went to Alaska m 1897. when horde of American miners rushed into that territory following the gold strike on the Yu- kon. Since that time he has mapped about two-thirds of the territory. About three years ago he was of fered the dlirectorship of the U. $. Geological Survey for the United states at a largely increased salary. but refused it because he regarded his work in Alaska as unfinished.