Seward daily gateway., 1932-03-30
ALASKA EXPECTS BOOM CONDITIONS
 IN GOLD DISTRICT
NEW DISCOVERIES IN VIRGIN AREAS BELIEVED FORETELL
 ANOTHER GOLD RUSH

Judged by new discoveries in hitherto unprospected placer reg ions and others where the areas of older zones have extended, some thing akin to a boom will strike Alaska with the opening up of op- erationS in the spring.
 Among the most recent and inn portant finds is that made by Matt Hamburger and Joe Kroskey in the Fairview Mountain region, approxi- mately TO miles west of the Alaska Railroad at Mile 128 A number of holes sunk last fall revealed an av- craze value of $2.70 per yard in ground ranging from three to six feet in depth. Sufficient holes were bedrocked to block out op- proximately $60,O0O in pay.
 To Install Hydraulic
 Hamburger and Kroskey are talk ing a hydraulic outfit in over the snow and will take out a ditch and get set up for operations by mid summer.
 The pay is found in foreign wash which covers a wide area of terri tory, and which is cut by number of creeks, all of which show values of sufficient richness to pay to work by hand or hydraulic method.
 In addition to roadwayS for 50 miles of the distance from the rail- road, the region is reached via the Susitna and Yentna rivers, from the head of Cook Inlet, which per- init shallow draft boats to pene- trate a distance of 130 miles into the Yentna valley, while boats car rying several tons may be taken to the mouth of the Clearwater river, connecting with trail into the Fair view region distance of Is miles.
 Although gold has been known to exist in the region for a number of years, practically little prospect ing has been done, especially on the larger creeks of which there are five ranging from six to 20 miles in length and all cutting the gravel beds.
 Other Strikes Made
 In addition to Hamburger and Kroskey, Matt Hugger, prospecting on Mills Creek, has opened pay and c. J. Lincke, who owns Cotton wood Creek, last summer discover ed pay in one bedrock drain which ranges slightly above that of Ham burgers strike.
 All will prosecute development work next summer.
 Additional development in Cache Creek, which has produced many millions of dollars, has opened new pay streaks and many prospectors are entering that field in the spring.
 Valdez Creek, another old region, IS undergoing more extensive search with the result that more areas carrying pay have been dis covered.
 Holmgren and associates, who have been operating on Crow Creek, some 70 miles north of Seward. have struck bigger and better pay than for years, and Holmgren an- nounceS at the close of operations last fall that he expected to clean up in the neighborhood of $75,OOO.- 900 next season.
 Discovery that gold bearing gray els extend we'll up the Yentna, Ke- chatna, Squentna and Nokoshna rivers is attracting considerable at tention and many outfits will go into the region next summer when it will be possible to reach the most remote precincts by outboard mo- tor and river boat. Fred Gagnon, trapping on the Equentna, reports many evidences of gold, and at one place has recovered nuggets valued at 25 cents each. During the sum- mer he will prospect a creek enter ing the Squentna and which prom iseS to return pay.