The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-12

see the greatest gold mining activity in many years in the region Of Al aska's first known gold discovery according to records of operation! in the office of the Territorial De- | partment of Mines.
 | According to the United State! Geological Survey, gold was first discovered in Alaska in 1348, in the gravels of Kenai River, by P. P Doroshin, a Russian mining en- gineer, who was then making ar examination If the mineral re- sources of the district for the Rus sian American Company.
 100 Men Engaged
 Last year approximately 100 mer were engaged in gold mining ol prospecting in the Moose Pass re- zion on Kenai Peninsula, and indi- cations are that all these and some others will operate there this sea- son. Most of the activity is con- fined to individuals and small groups.
 The list of companies and indi- viduals operating last year, as re- ported to Commissioner B. D. Ste wart is as follows:
 On Resurrection Creek crew of six men was hydraulicking the St Louis Ground; the Hope Mining Company had 10 men on the Mara thon Ground on Resurrection Creek two individual miners with small hose and sluice were work ing in the same area.
 Remarkable Undertaking
 On Six Mile Creek at Mile 30 on he Moose Pass highway near Sun rise, Mellon and Shields had six men drilling in preparation to dredging On Canyon Creek, Ole Anderson and three men were hy- draulicking above the old dam. This dam is one of the remarkable un- 1ertakings of the district. In 1923 Philadelphia mining outfit un- dertook to build dam 200 feet high to raise the water to a level that would permit them to work a high bench. Between the walls of Canyon Creek they constructed tive tiers of rip-rap two hundred feet apart, filling between with rock The dam was raised to a height of 10 feet before the tremendous scale of the job evidently daunted them and they stopped work.
 Below the Anderson operations on the old Wiebel Property, two miners were working, and the Lynx Creek Mining Company, with Is men, was operating hydraulic out fit
 Productive Region
 On Mills Creek, one of the very productive regions in past, Flow man and Tolson were hydraulicking with five men. Below Mills Creek on Canyon Creek the Seward Pla- cers was operating 12 men, including drilling. On Quartz Creek, a tribu- tary of Kenai Lake, the Option Placers Corporation was working on the Fairman Property with crew of ten men.
 Several Juneau men are included in the list of those interested in this section. The Canyon Creek Placers, Inc, recently incorporated combined the claims of H. w. Ed wards and w. H. Williams of Ju- neau with the property operated last year by Plowman and Tolson. Edwards and Williams have other claims further up on Six Mile Creek, but do not plan to work these this year.
 Dredging Planned
 The Mellon and Shields placer dredge property was r/cently incor- porated as the Kenai Dredging Company, and after three years survey and drilling on this proper ty, dredging equipment was or dered to start working this sum- mer. The Canyon Greek Placers, Inc, planned to drill seven claims, shipping in new drilling equipment to Hope, and then moving it in over the highway extending from Hope to Six Mile River and then following along this river, passing within a mile of their property.
 Referring to the activity in this region, MT. Stewart says this trend is consistent with the forecasts of the United States Geological sur vey, as the higher price of gold makes possible the operation of many properties passed by in the discovery rushes, and present con- ditions justify the belief that this area will become increasingly active.
 Future Prospects
 The report of the Geological Sur