The Nenana daily news., 1918-11-02
MINING OUTLOOK IS
 BRIGHT FOR NENANA

Charles Zielke arrived in Nenana last night from upper Moose creek, about six miles east of the Engin- eering camp at 43mile, where he has been mining for the past six years. He brought in with him {. poke of gold dust valued at about $3,000. This poke was obtained from approximately 5000 square feet of placer ground which was worked by the open-cut method with the help of one man. Trans port difficulties hampered the work ing of this ground to a very con siderable extent, and Zielke stated that if he had been able to get a sufficient supply of grub ana other material hauled in to the scene of operations he could have given em- ployment to several more men and have taken out a much larger Guan- tity of gold, at least twice as much as he brought in yesterday, which represents his cleanup for the sum- mer.
 1 To achieve the result shown, con- siderable dead work had to be ac- complished; an automatic dam had i to be constructed and abou. eight or ten feet of overburden lad to be removed to reach bedrock. Ow- ing to the lateness If the season, Zielke and his helper could not get started until the latter part of May last The first work accomplished was the construction Of the lam which took up two weeks of the ir time, after which ground sluicing operations commenced. This work was retarded somewhat by glacier which had formed on the ground to be worked and owing to the late mss of the season and th., cald weather, much of the ice of the glacier had to be picked away. Dy the 12th of July, the boxes were set up, ready for shovelling ir.. Shcvel- ling in commenced shortly after the boxes were set Up and con- tinued until September 2Oth. when Zielke had to lay off his aelper, as the grub gave out and it was inn possible to get more At the time his helper had to be laid off ha had about 1000 square fee: more of exposed bedrock ready to be shovel ed into the boxes, which however, could not be done without help. After shutting down on the shovel ing, Zielke commenced to prepare ground for next summers workings by sluicing out the overburden. He figures that the government rail road will be finished up to 43-mile at least and that then he will .be enabled to procure supplies readily as needed during this winer and next summer
 Llelke continued the work of pre- pairing the ground for next seasons work until few days ago and came in to town to arrange for much needed supplies, which he proposes to freight to his ground just as soon as the steel reaches Moose creek, near its mouth and freight can be i hauled thus far He will leave forI Fairbanks tomorrow for the purpose Of selling the gold dust to one Of the banks there. This trip would not have been necessary if there was bank in Nenana.
 On his return from Fairbanks. 1 Zielke plans on sending up at least
  5000 feet of lumber to his ground as soon as possible for Hume and sluiceboxes. He expects to get the lumber here and send it up to the mouth of Moose creek just as soon as the steel reaches there, and haul 1t up to the diggings on the creek Ice. The necessary grub, etc, he says, will follow later.
 There is much mining and pros pecting being done on Moose creek, its various tributaries and the near by streams, and both placer and quartz ground of much value has dIConunraI ,,, IL