The Cordova daily times., 1921-10-29

with the Fairbanks experiment station of the bureau of mines who recently returned from the placer districts of the Yukon watershed, brings news of many old timers and of their activities in other camps. Concerning the Forty mile and other districts visited by him during the trip Mir Sparks says:
 "The Fortymile district as Classi, fled by the United States geological survey comprises the area lying south of Eagle. Alaska and bounded on the | west by the North Fork divide and on the east by the international bound ary. It includes all of the creeks tri- | butary to the Fortymile river. This | district is one of the oldest mining districts in Alaska and while it has never had the spectacular life which | characterizes many of the other Alas | kan mining camps the gold production has been continuous since many years previous to the Dawson rush. Sev- eral of the old timers who settled in the country in 1889 are still to be found actively engaged in mining Among these are George Mock of | Franklin who is an uncle of Leo Rogge, the Goldstream operator, and George Pilz who is said to be on of the original locators of the Treadwell mine.
 Among the larger operators at present engaged in mining are the McCandless-Sykes Company, on Jack Wade creek and the Dome Gold Co.,. on Dome creek. The McCandless- Sykes Placer Co. either own or have under option the upper half of Jack Wade creek. A large hydraulic plant was installed last spring but the Nper- ation of this plant has been severely handicapped during the past season by lack of water. The Dome Gold GO. have also had their operations cur tailed by lack of water This company, however. has some very good ground, 8 % pans being not uncommon and in addition the topography of the coun' try is such that 1t forms an ideal hydraulic proposition, there beiog plenty of grade and ample room for the disposal of tailings. Twelve men were employed during the past season. This company plans next season to contsruct an additional 4,O00 feet of ditch and also to install a power pumping plant MT. II. D. Cowden an old time Dawson operator is presi- dent of the company and Lee Steele is superintendent.
 "Magnus Danielson on American creek is operating a lay under the Evergreen Placer Co, of Spokane. Wash. Lack of water has been the chief drawback in his operations.
 "Therc are also several operators in the vicinity of Chicken who have been fairly busy during the season. | Among these may be mentioned George Traube. the postmaster at | Chicken, who has been working
 ground on the lower end of Chicken
 creek. Frank Barret on Stonehouse
 creek and Jim Mahon on Lost Chicken
 hill have been ground sluicing during the summer whenever water was avail able. Ole Tweeden on Myers Fork
 had small hydraulic plant in opera
 tion during the season.
 "On the Mosquito Fork, Prudy and Britton have been operating a scrap
 CT plant on ground owned by F. T.
 Congdon of Dawson Fair results were
 obtained. George St. FlorinO and the
 Johanson Bros. on Ingle creek have
 been ground sliucing during the past
 summer but were also handicapped by
 lack of water Both of these operators
 are making preparations to take out
 of Tngle, during the coming winter.
 "On Walkers Fork, John Haugh
 is working a lay from the Walkers
 Fork Dredging Co.,, an English con
 cern. The ground is worked by means
 of a 3-4 ward scraper. Sam Samuel son has been engaged in ground sluic. ingf on Davis creek during the past season, but like many of the others lack of water has interfered with oper- atOns.
 Along the Fortymile river there are several men engaged in rocking on the river bars. both above and below the Steel creek postoffice Although these bars have been rocked nearly every year since 1890 it is still pos