The Nome nugget., 1922-07-08

mArkase condition due s,os, entirely to absence highways during the part decades of gold production.
 Despite the aeserriae conditions under which |,
 ahcrs the Nome District the prosperous of the
 Alaska placer mining regions in 1890. It produced gold valued at sl,Sl7sis.oe compared nbined total of sl.ssseesee from all other placer districts Eighteen dredgeS about seventy five open thirteen deep underground placerx operated: ahons $50 heinz employed Regarding the future placer outlook Dr. Alfred H. Brooks |, Geologi- cal Surrey says 1t was estimated some ago sas tha, the value of the gold gravel plain ancient beach and high beach placers Penin- suia about ssl5,oeoeOe 60. Sahsirsctins the of gold that mined from these de
 osits leaves the value of the seee Though the above estimates of the placer serves may appear erravagsnt to some comparison win he shown that they moderate, l. With the return normal conditions development increased steadily in recent months and several important strikes have been made result renewed prospect, ing efforts
 PlafinMM valued st ss4.es7.oe was produced in A. aska in isct large being obtained in the Nome hsiriet The saik of the Nome output mined from the Dime Greek placers although recoveries of oonsia eEase value made Besr and Sweepstakes Greeks and at Willow Greek Cnt lsls no effort wa. made to recover this valuable each succeeding year wit nesses an increased output efforts recovery fesded,
 CaDQSftH bearing loaes were developed at Fair banks and Nome when the to abnormal @ 'aand Considerable Tungsten was shipped from these properties between lsis ISIS and Schel-
 lite WAS recovered from of dredses Nome In all ahoai S7 tons of Alaska ScAeln.e concentraies have been mined and marketed tl S5lCeP bearing foune ir many places in the Nome Disfract- The omalk sllver-leAd mine pu Fish River has produced considerable past hr. sus- pended operations with the decline silver some years ass Promising fodes are located At various other points nctah3y the KpE-lk River where ex.sns5rf development work h2s been done during the mast trp years although transportation difficulties have 90 far prevented shipment Of ore ?.
 NRfWe1y the form ot xtibnise IS one of tn. nnnst widely distributed minerals ia Ala.k. The high pracs and ready market for Artimony during the vIr e to development of stihnfe ores af several lo calfties in ths Nome District The facts in hand
 indicate thai there large Of antirery ore in tAis dsdrass-
 Copper deposits have heen found on se~,rc Penin- sr. and of these have been developed in small way fev IFS. shipments have heen made Copper aoaes have been locaae several places ir the NHk4I4k-Akbrk region nf Nor1bern Alaska Consider 8hs prospecting has Sesn done ns these deposits naA- ShuEuRk, Tn ths miadls KDhuk valley ..s Were those aepnss isols.ed 1hey undorbd sd,y hars been mined B IIn produced about szs anns nf metallic in winch has nearly RI from plAcsrs Yo-f District ths end Seward Rsu9nsuin A num-
 E a. discoveries pf lpde have in ths yo-a serIlun. The nnly 6srsippmsn1 has hesn the Lns- River N1ne The hes. hope of the of Al mining hase6 the inde 1he York Dis r1r Ths Lnst Rirar mine is the on1F rrnper1y sniff
 5sntlE developed 5usrd5y the bsst viii