The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-01

sluiced to recover stream tin, of which large quantities are obtained, yielding from 50 to 60 per cent of the metal, valued at approximately 86 cents pound.
 In the days when the gravel de- posits of Sullivan, Cache, Wood chopper and other creeks of that locality were being worked for gold litle attention was paid to the yield of tin. The heavy gray pebbles and boulders that filled the sluices and interfered with the recovery of the gold, were considered a nuisance and were wastefully and contemptu- ously thrown aside. Between nine and ten millions of dollars in gold were taken from the sands and profitable mining thereafter seemed a remote possibility.
 However, one man among the many who sought riches there, was far-sighted enough to see into the future and to recognize in the hum- ble metal a surer and more certain source of wealth than in the aristo- cratic yellow.
 Sylvester Howell, who has, per- haps, wrested from the reluctant gravel more gold than all the other miners of that region, is close observer. He saw that the two metals occurred in close association all through the broad valley between Rough Top Mountain and Bean Ridge. He observed that all through the auriferous deposits the tin was plentifully present. There was never nugget of gold to be found where there was no tin, and no tin to be found without an accom- paniment of gold.
 In order to discover the bound aries of the area over which the bi- metallic bonanza was scattered, he installed Keystone drill and sank literally thousands of holes to bed- rock, with the result that he has found paystreak one-half mi:a wide by sixteen miles long, contain ing both metals in such quantity as to justify his belief that there is a sufficient quantity Q yield a never-failing supply, of tin at least, for centuries to come.
 He has therefore prepared to operate on a large scale, an area embracing several square miles. He has secured the water rights of Baker, Boulder and Sullivan creeks and by diversion canals to.aling thirteen miles has brought these waters to a head et an elevation which commands the entire baslr 16 miles long in which the deposit occurs
 1 At the upper end of the valley i his canals terminate in an enormou: Hume out of which through taper ing length of steel hydraulic pip, he will lead the water to the "giants' by means of which the overburde1 on the gravel will be washed ava, and the rich deposits next to bed rock sluiced to recover their treas ures. >-
 Preliminary to these hydrauli
 operations on large scale, Mir Howell has been employing the mair
 body of water in washing up tn, old dumps and has this summer from this source alone shipped ovel fifty tons of stream tin, in addition to which sufficient gold has alst been recovered from the tailings tc bear large proportion of the ex pense. The surplus of water ha. 1 been allowed to waste over a spill way adjacent to the terminus of the steel pipe and the rush of this streamlet down the valley has sui ficed to erode a miniature canyor down the center of the valley, the rugged walls of which disclose the nature of the deposit from moss to bedrock.
 The depth of this miniature can. yon varies from ten feet at its lower aYtrppnitu fo about fifty Got