The Kusko times., 1929-02-02
CenfneRYour, Prospecting To Mineralized Districts.

To Mineralized Districts.
 LarrsY 0 Sullivan and Jack Mckay are two typical Alaskan. prospectors. Their tdao4seis weather-beaten shack perchea .aifove timber line onya distant flask 4sn. mountain. The shack is of mongrel. design, for they started to- build it. of lumber, but after carrying the tirsS shipment up on their backs they compromised on canvas, and as final gesture walled it up with rocks SO thatsthe< wind could not dump tme and theaT outfit into the inhospitable rocky gulch where the empty tin cans find eik xvzfif mgfwy cmfwy fwy, find q nesting place.
 If you forget to stoop low you get .nasty, bump on the head as you head .asa you enter the door. Don't e spect too much of the interior of the shack. for every article there has been backpacked up steep switchback trail that. ends up the mountains.
 Lalsy, as you probably suspect, IS. a .go5d-Imtured Irishman, quick of wit an4is of temper-a wiry little fel- low msao would tackle his weight in wildcstS. Jack Mckay is a. man of powerful build; slow of speech-he is the dicect antithesis of Larry. De- spite their physical and temperament tai differences they make an excellent team, for each secretly admires the. traits spf his partner-otherwise they wouhtrS14 have spent the past fifteen years prospecting, together.
 You. will be introduced to them on a sSep1ember evening, shortly after they aase finished shift on their prospect. This pEospectti sdown the gulcR from the cabin and as they ad- vanceatne- tunel from day to day their hopess ductuate from rock bottom to thepskies and then down again. Jack deposited an arm load of wood behind the cookstove, and Larry, who was deftiy cutting up the bacon and dis tributing it through the bean pot, spoke up:
 Jack, I have been doing little figuring. We have. been prospecting for the last fifteen years, but in that tine, wn ,c-. noA,,allv heen prospect ing only about five years. The other ten years we have been earning grub stakes, building trails, getting up sups plies and going to town after the mail. We are almost as bad off as that old prospector I met down in Arizona who said that he had spent ten years hunt ing burrows, three years prospecting, and the rest of the time facing high- top boots.
 Jack grunted. He realized that Larry was i'll ar talkative mood, so he filled his pipe, picked up last nronth's newspaper and tried to listen with only one ear.
 Larry continued: "It is my idea that prospector should conlne all of his work to mineralized areas and not spend his valuable summers chasing rainbows in districts barren of prom ising mineralization. Take old Bill Dfumlin, for example; he has spent the best part of ten years prospect ing in the Bald mountain country. I have been through that country, and tor me it looks like the hungriest. country, from mineral standpoint, that I've seen in Alaska. Bill con-. tinuees to respect there because the general topography of the hill resem= bles his old stamping ground about Silverton, Colorado.
 Ninety per cent of Alaska or any other counlryt Is barren of conner cial mineic-fikation. The mineralized districts are,isolated pin-point specks spaced over | map--lke an occasional