Show QUARTZ NUGGET FULL OF GOLD times fairbanks alaska in addition to the big nugget which some urne time since was picked up on no 6 above fairbanks creek which was a gold nugget full of quartz charles bevans in sluicing up his winter dump on the same claim has just picked up a quartz nugget flecked so full with gold that it is almost a t solid nugget from all appearances the latter nugget had not traveled far and with each day the fairbanks creek people are awakening to the fact that the whole left limit of their domain is very likely to prove a veritable bonanza in that line the gold in this find was rough and heavy and the aggregation was as large as a mans hand while sluicing mr bevans has also picked up a number of pieces of rock seemingly heavily weighted with antimony and although he has not had them tested he believes that that mineral is certainly in evidence at some point along the creek not very far away from his placer operations some of the specimens of antimony are several pounds in weight although there are several claims staked on the left limit of the creek from no 3 downward the existence of hard rock up as far as no 6 is not a known fact and affords an excellent chance for the prospector A prominent quartz man from the outside whose name was not ascertained has been carefully examining the left limit of fairbanks creek for some days and his examination will likely be heard from in the near future mr the mining expert who is returning to fairbanks from new york is quoted by townspeople as saying here that he had never in his life seen anywhere the promise of great things so plentiful as in this district |