The Official Guide to the Klondyke Country and the Gold Fields of Alaska

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W.B. Conkey Company, 1897 - 296 sider
The most complete and throughly exhaustive collection of every known information necessary to a full realization of the immense resources of the gold fields of Alaska, and replete with authentic instructions regarding how to get there, when to go, and what to do when the new eldorado of the great northwest is reached. -- title page.
 

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Side 92 - the surface, and that no claim shall be limited by mining regulations to less than 25 feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface. In locating claims called "placers," however, the law provides that no location of such claim upon surveyed lands shall include more than
Side 266 - a claim for the bar diggings 750 feet in length may be granted. A new stratum of auriferous earth or gravel situated in a locality where the claims are abandoned shall for this purpose be deemed a new mine, although the same locality shall have previously been worked at a different level.
Side 141 - Of course that may be an exceptionally rich pan, but $5 to $7 per pan is the average on that claim it is reported, with five feet of pay dirt and the width yet undetermined, but it is known to be 30 feet even at that; figure the result at nine
Side 92 - from that of locating claims upon veins or lodes. In locating a vein or lode claim, the United States statutes provide that no claim shall extend more than 300 feet on each side of the middle of the vein
Side 141 - $4,000,000 at $5 per pan. One-fourth of this would be enormous. Another claim has been prospected to such an extent that it is known there is about five feet pay dirt averaging $2 per pan, and width not less than 30 feet. Enough prospecting has been done to show that there are at least
Side 267 - upon his own claim for the miner-like working thereof and the construction of a residence thereon, and shall be entitled exclusively to all the proceeds realized therefrom, but he shall have no surface rights therein.
Side 141 - feet. Enough prospecting has been done to show that there are at least fifteen miles of this extraordinary richness, and the indications are that we will have three or four times that extent, if not all equal to the above, at least very rich.
Side 293 - Sluicing is always employed when possible. It requires a good supply of water, with sufficient head or fall. The process is as follows: Planks are procured and formed into a box of suitable width and depth. Slats are fixed across the bottom of the box at suitable intervals, or shallow holes bored in
Side 91 - Carmach, who worked with me in 1887, was the first to take advantage of the rumors and locate a claim on the first branch, which was named by the miners Bonanza Creek. Carmach located late in August, but had to cut some logs for the mill here to get a few pounds of provisions to enable
Side 46 - They crown'd him long ago on a throne of rocks, In robes of clouds, with a diadem of snow.

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