The Nome nugget., 1927-11-12

der, and do render most excellent service to the community in their line of work.
 Dredging
 | There are seven big gold dredges operating in the vicinity of Nome, with several others operating in the Solomon, Candle, Casadepaga and Council districts, where good clean ups are had every year. The Geo logical Survey reports tell us that there is sufficient ground available to keep these dredges, with many added to their number. operating successfully for many years to come.
 | The eminent geologist, the late Dr. A. H. Brooks. in his outline of economic geology of Seward Penin- sula, U. s. G. s. Bulletin No. BPS. pages 111-13S, 1908, estimates the gold bearing gravel of Seward Pen insula at 650,4se,0oo cubic yards, using the basis of 50 cents per yard-a very conservative estimate Infringing the total value of the gravels at that period to s325,- 24s,0OO.0O. Since this estimate was made. the amount of sS8,793,- 58300 in gold has been shipped out from Nome, as reported by the Collector of Customs. extracted from an estimated yardage of SS,- 000,000 cubic yards.
 | Estimates of like nature in the Canadian Yukon and California fields show that the actual produt- tloA almost doubled the original es inmates. Taking Dr. Brooks esti mate, and subtracting the amount known to have been mined, We find that there is still some $250.000,- OO0.00 in gold as reserve yet to be mined. and if production exceeds there is yet surplus of over half' billion dollars yet to be extracted.
 Quartz
 i In a recent issue of the local newspaper, a story was carried pre- dieting that Nome would eventually become the greatest of all quartz camps. Quartz prospecting, as in other camps, is slow here, but good lodes are known to exist at Snow Gulch, Anvil Mountain, Solomon, and in many sections of the Koug arok and Kugruk valleys. The Big Hurrah Lode Mic at Solomon ran for several years and was shut down suddenly-for what reason the public never knew-though it is known that the mine worked at great profit. There is a quartz mine, now operating for several years profitably, at Bluff. Almost every known metal is found to ex- ist in rock in place on Seward Pen insula, and once these quartz prop critics get operating, Nome will hum with such industry and activity as has been equalled in few portions of the earth.
 coal are to be found on Seward Peninsula In U. S. Geological Sur vey Bulletin No. 773-A, page B, is reported the following:
 "The survey made in northern Alaska during 1923 under the di rection of Sidney Page, indicates thousand square miles underlain by coal between Cape Lisburne coal fields, long known, and Meade Riv- CT, to the northeast. According to William T. Foran dozen beds of this coal from 4 to 10 feet wide are we'll exposed within five or six miles of the sea. These coal fields are not faulted and dip from 20 to 40 degrees and could easily be min- ed"
 The deposits of excellent bitumin- ous and semi-anthracite coal at Cape Lisburne, according to gov ernment analysis, is superior in quality to the various grades of British Columbia coal now used almost exclusively in Nome at cost of from $28.5O in summer to s35.OO in winter. We believe the