The Kusko times., 1932-01-02


 Inlet. has long been a notable pro-, ducer, though for the past few years it's output has been small. The re- sumption of extensive mining on the property of the Willow Greek Mines, (Ltd.) on Craigie creek and .s opena-- tions at number of small mines in this camp brought thia.; district in 1881 into second place among the gold lode producers of the Territory, and the developments already made there. indicate that it vii probably continue to yield an equal or even greater vol ume of gold in the succeeding years.. The Fairbanks district was third of the Alaska districts in it's output of lode gold in l931,, and from the ins formation. now available it's produc-- tion appears to have been materially: greater than in .l936. Developments in progress in that district promise we'll for an. even;greater output in the future, 4Ins the Nabesna district the mine7of the Nabesna Mining Cor poration began active production dur ing 1881 and appears to have had successful. season. A. unique feature of the operations at this place was that considerable amounts of the, ecpncentratest were sent by airplane from the. mine to point where more usual means of transportation WAS available. Several other lode gold l mines. widely scattered through the Territory yielded some gold. The | most productive of these were the Sonny Fox mine, in, the Nuka4 Bay district, the Lucky Strike mine or, Palmer creek in the Hope district, and. the old Pearson. & Strand mine. in the: Nixon Fork district of the Kuska-, kwim valley. Prospecting was alsos active at a number of other. points,, { and some of. the properties, have, reached-a a stage where they will entsrg the ist of producers shortly. Prob- ably the most notable example of this class is the property. of the Eva. Quartz Mining Company, near Ferry, which has blocked out a considerable
 amount of ore and before the close of 1 1881 should have completed the erec- tion and testing of it's. mill, which was purchased and. shipped in during the late summer.
 The value. of the gsIG recuverHd fro mAlaska. ,placers in 1881 IS esti- mated to have been $4,706,00O.. or about $13Q,000s,less than was recov- cred from mines of this type in 1930~ This comparison shoud not be inter preted as indicating a great falling off of placer mining as whole, be- cause the output in 1880 was espe- cially large. By far the largest amount of placer gold came from the Yukon region, with the Seward Penin. sula region second, The other placer mining regions together. contributed less than ,one-tenth of the entire pIas cer gold output of the Territory, and, in the order of their placer produc- tion stood as follows: Kuskokwim, Copper River, Cook Inlet-Susitna, 1 Northwestern Alaska, and Southeast. ern Alaska. The largest proda,cer ln the Yukon region was the Fxirhanks Exploration Company, aIaf tair largs est one in the Seward Peninsula. re- zion was the Hammon Consolidated Gold Fields, at Nome. :, Throughout most of the placer camps the weather conditions which affect mining, such. as plentiful water supply, were some what adverse, as in the early part of the season there was only small rainfall, so that the water supply in many of the camps was inadequate for sluicing. The length of the work ing season, however, was about nor- nal.
 Most of the placer. gold is now re-,