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Show Fortymile Gold District, Alaska. The earliest placer mining in the Alaskan part of the Yukon basin was done on the bars of Fortymile river in 1886, and during the next two years hundreds of miners came to the scene of the discovery. This event 'opened up inland Alaska and led to the discovery dis-covery of the famous Klondike placers, on the Canadian side of the boundary, some ten years later. Over $200,000,-000 $200,000,-000 worth of gold has been taken out of the Klondike and the Alaska Yukon placer camps in the 30 years since Fortymile was discovered. Of this about $6,500,000 worth of gold has come from the Fortymile district. This district is described in a report published by the United states geological geolog-ical survey, department of the Interior, entitled "The Fortymile Quadrangle, Yukon-Tanana Region, Alaska." |