The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-10-02
Miner Searches Gold
 Texas Creek Glacier
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 Hide her riches as Mother Nature will. there will always be indomi- table spirits who will endeavor so find and take them. Such an opere- tiou is in progress today on Texas Creek. where Larry Thornton and associates, of Hyder, have this week gone into winter camp to renew the long search under the Texas Creek glacier for the source of the riet rock that the ice from time to time pushes out from under itself.
 Pieces of rock from a few ounces in weight 10 several pounds, assay ing up to thousands of dollars per ton cone piece of such rock in the. old Stewart News ore exhibit, chat looked like nothing at all, raL $li.- 0oo per ton in gold and silver we1e found by Mir Thornton squeezed out from under the foot of tn, gla- cier some years ago.
 Since then Mir. Thornton and as- sociates have carried on a relentless search, driving thousands of feet af tunnels in Che ice and. while eoa- tinuing each year to pick up 1resh
 float. have failed to locate the ledge from which it is being ground away.
 Dangerous work even in the late fall and during the winter months, MT. Thornton has found this driving tunnels in the ice, trying to keep their feet on the rocks under 1t re- uuires the last word in perserYer- ance. nerve and ingenuity With hundreds of feet of ice over their heads. the men literally hew a hoie with picks as near the rock surface as it's rough nature will permit; for as can be realized, the surface of rock under the ice is a mass of hum mocks and gulches. just as is an' mountain surface anywhere; and m any of these may exist, for all they know, the object of their searca. Sometimes they encounter small or large ice caves, which save then much work At other times they will break into streams or pools )f water, an element that constitutes a real and constant menace.
 Fortunately, so far, in past years they have encountered only one, with so serious a flow as to nom entdrily constitute a danger to their. lives. This was sufficiently strons Gs to wash Mr. Thornton off his feet and several yards along his tun-I nel Undeterred by such experiences, he went back and continued hisI work By choosing the late fall and winter months for this hazardous work the danger of encounteringI pools of water is minimized. TheI tunnels driven in one season areI always closed the following season. To date, Mr. Thornton believes that he has, by work in past seasons, ell minated all but one possibility, and this he and his associates will eX-' plore this coming winter. It seems that he has narrowed his search down to a point where the 'float" comes down one gulch under the ice. Up this in past seasons he has driven. It remains now to explore another part of it. That he and his associates will this winter be suc- cessful and reap the fullest possible reward for their years of hazardous work, is without question the desire of everyone in the district. In ad- dition to other things, from the. time that snow flies they will be cut off from the world for weeks at a time by the innumerable snow slides that are characteristic of miles of the upper section of Texas Creek