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auriferous bedrock beds belt bench Birch Creek bowlders Bull Bulletin canyon chalcopyrite Chena claims coal country rock Creek at mouth deposits dikes discharge district ditch drainage area drainage basin east Fairbanks feet Flat Creek flows Fork Fortymile River geologic gold-bearing granite greenstone Gulch high gravels Iditarod Iditarod River igneous inches Innoko intrusive rocks July Juneau Kobuk Kuskokwim limestone located lode lower Matanuska Mesozoic metamorphic mineral resources Mountains occur operations Otter Creek output Paleozoic placer gold placer mining Prince William Sound probably production prospecting prospectors pyrite quartz veins reconnaissance reported ridge schists season second-feet sedimentary sediments Seward Peninsula shale Shungnak slates slopes sluice boxes southeastern Alaska square miles Squirrel River stream summer Survey Susitna River Tanana Tanana River thickness topographic tributary tunnel U. S. Geol upper Valdez Creek valley values volcanic rocks Willow Creek Yukon Yukon-Tanana region zone
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Page 167 - Second-feet per square mile" is the average number of cubic feet of water flowing per second from each square mile of area drained, on the assumption that the run-off is distributed uniformly both as regards time and area. "Run-off...
Page 323 - Reconnaissances in the Cape Nome and Norton Bay regions, Alaska, in 1900,
Page 118 - SCHRADER, FC, and SPENCER, AC The geology and mineral resources of a portion of the Copper River district, Alaska.
Page 323 - Occurrence of wolframite and cassiterite in the gold placers of Deadwood Creek, Birch Creek district, by BL Johnson. In Bulletin 442, 1910, pp. 246-250. Water supply of the Yukon-Tanana region, by CE Ellsworth. In Bulletin 442, 1910, pp.
Page 324 - Bulletin 328, 1908, 343 pp. •Investigation of the mineral deposits of Seward Peninsula, by PS Smith. In Bulletin 345, 1908, pp. 206-250. 45 cents. Geology of the Seward Peninsula tin deposits, by Adolph Knopf. Bulletin 358, 1908, 72 pp.
Page 3 - In the following table the approximate amount of money devoted to each class of investigations and surveys is indicated. It is not possible to give the exact figures, as the same party or even the same man...
Page 324 - Geology and mineral resources of Iron Creek, by PS Smith. In Bulletin 314, 1907, pp. 157-163. The gold placers of parts of Seward Peninsula, Alaska, including the Nome, Council, Kougarok, Port Clarence, and Goodhope precincts, by AJ Collier, FL Hess, PS Smith, and AH Brooks. Bulletin 328, 1908, 343 pp. investigation of the mineral deposits of Seward Peninsula, by PS Smith.
Page 324 - In Bulletin 284, 1906, pp. 132-141. The Kougarok region, by AH Brooks. In Bulletin 314, 1907, pp. 164-181. *Water supply of Nome region, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 1906, by JC Hoyt and FF Henshaw.
Page 12 - Time permitting, the subdivision of these townslu'ps. 7. The making of reconnaissances in the Copper River, Seward, and Matanuska regions for the sake .of obtaining information on which to plan surveys in these provinces, , METHODS OF SURVEY. The surveys provided for three classes of work — astronomic determination of positions, triangulation, and linear measurement. The astronomic work was performed by the Coast and Geodetic Survey in accordance with its long-established standards and methods....
Page 323 - Placer mining in the Yukon-Tanana region, by CE Ellsworth. In Bulletin 442, 1910, pp. 230-245. Occurrence of wolframite and cassiterite in the gold placers of Deadwood Creek, Birch Creek district, by BL Johnson. In Bulletin 442, 1910, pp. 246-250.