The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-10-16

country does not afford wood with
which the meat can be cooked they
eat it raw Several promising pros
poets were visited that had been
found and staked this season by
Eskimos and in several places they
were working with efficient auto
matte dams constructed by them
selves. They are very eager and
quick to learn and deserve encour-
agement in their ambition to be-
come prospectors.
Among the principal needs of the
region as whole are more capital
with which to finance prospecting
and initial development; improved
saltwater transportation and shore
landing facilities; improved and adj
ditional airplane landing fields;
and more topographic and geologic
mapping.
In the older districts of the Upper
Kuskokwim region placer mining
has advanced rapidly within the re-
cent past Up-to-date equipment
has been placed in operation this
year on a large number of proper
ties in many districts. BY these
means ground is now being profit
ably worked the operation of which
by older methods was losing pro-
position. odd timers" are still in
possession of most of these proper
ties and now are finding their eff
forts richly rewarded where former
ly a bare living was gained. Their
bulldozers and draglines are hand
ling easily and economically vastly
increased yardages of material and
in many instances have more than
paid for themselves in single sea-
son. Large reserves of auriferous
material that can be mined profit
tably by these improved methods
are known to these experienced OPP
orators and the future of their en-
terprises is bright with promise. The
old timers of this region are thus
building up, with the aid of modern
machinery, a mining industry of
which any country might well be
proud.
Cache Greek District
Placer operators in the Cache
Greek district of the Yentna region
that lies west of Talkeetna station
on the Alaska Railroad have had
a successful season. The gold pro-
duction from Peters Greek, where
dragline equipment has been in
stalled, was exceptionally heavy.
The lode mines of the Willow
Greek district in the Talkeetna
mountains east of Wasilla station
were all in active operation and re-
port having had a good season. The
most notable advance made in the
district during the year was at the
Free Gold and Independence prop
critics on upper Fishook Creek where
a large amount of camp construc-
ton work was completed and un-
foreground development work was
carried on that is reported to have
revealed a valuable orebody At the
Fern mine a new adit tunnel Is
being driven that will penetrate the
extensive ore zone ON that property
at depth of IT'S feet beneath the
present tramming level
Numerous small placer mining OPP
erations in the Moose Pass-Hope
district report having had normal
season. The output from this re-
gion is not large, but the district
has been consistent producer for
more than forty years. Lode min
ing development was also being car
ried on in this district at two prop
critics on a small scale, but with
encouraging results.
At the Staser lode property in
the Grow Creek section of the Grid
wood district productive operations
continue and development work at
deeper level is being carried on.
Other Work
In addition to the field investi-
cations by Mr. Roehm that are sum-
married. above the Territorial De-
partment of Mines has conducted
during the past season extensive de-
tailed examinations in several other
sections of the Territory; notably
in the Ketchikan and Juneau dis
tricts in Southeast Alaska, in the
Wild River and Koyukuk districts
in Northern Alaska and, so far as
the length of the field season per-
mitted, on Seward Peninsula. In
vestigations of more general char
acter were also made by the Com
missioner of Mines that covered all
of the principal mining regions of
the Territory.
Reports in detail on the results of
all of these Investigations will be
prepared during the coming winter
season and will be published on
their completion. They will reveal
that the past season has been one
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