| Show GOLD DREDGING IN ALASKA twenty three ca gold old dred dredges 9 es were operated oper abed in alaska during 1922 and produced worth of gold to a statement emanating from the geological survey 0 of f these dredges adges fifteen were on seward peninsula and the others in the interior g of the territory including three in the region served by the alaska railroad they excavated 3 cubic yards of gravel hence the value of gold recovered was 55 cents to the cu cubic bic yard dredge mining is on the increase in in alaska this information is an advance statement from the annual report of the mining industry of the territory by alfred H brooks chief alaskan geologist now in preparation at benana miles no north rth of anchorage b alaska at the conjunction of the alaska railroad and the tanana river carloads of silver ore valued at there is said to be seventeen the first shipment of what is expected to prove a voluminous movement of product from yukon territory by the new route to the outside world |
