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Show II "GEOLOGICAL SURVEY !; ' ACTIVE I ALASKA ' H lj j . Eleven Government Parties ' I to Study Mineral Regions There This Summer. i i g 5 The ecological survey lias just com- i ! jf plctcd its preparations for the annual j t campaign of investigating tlio uiiueral i I g resources of AI.'Lskn, the field plans for $ jf the year having been approved by Sec- 11 , & rotary Lane. Tlio parties have boon J , 0 uiado up, and sonic of tho horses and J H other equipment purchased, I'roseeut- ' I K inp surveys in tho isolated parts of tho l ! ; territory requires preparation Jong in 4 j jj advance, and part of tho supplies are . i 5 Bhippcd iu over the winter trails on ac- a ! i count of tho diflicultios of summer ' l 8 transportation. For this season's work " supplies? were started inland from thu . j t coast enrly last January and are- now .' cached at convenient points located -00 1 ' to 1500 miles inland for uso of tho par- i1 C ties during tho working season, which ( S Jnsts from June through September. s1 Elovcn parties will bo put iu the field I this yenr, and as in the past special ' ( 3 heed will bo given to tho investigation 1 3 of tho resources of thoso districts which .1 i S arc tributary to tho several routes that j j havo been advocated for tho proposed 'j ' go eminent railways. .i j ;' Exploration of New Routes. h A partj under the leadership of J. I j "W. Baglcy and Theodore Chapin will , I , undertake" the exploration of tho region ! ! tributary io Tallceotnu rivor and will r connect "with tho surveys oV tho Broad i i Pass region made last year. This parry, ; j L." consisting of seven men with Iiftocn . j horscSj will go up latanuska river ! i y early in June and start work near tho i i Kfcn'o of tho now ,rold discovery on Al- j bort croelt, ft will penotrato a region - now but little known, lying iu tho hcad- i water country of Talkcctna river. On I ! , returning, I hit party will survey the ro- 1 ' ' gion between tlio "lioadwaters of Mat- , ; fl anuska and Copper rivers that has boon ' advocated as a railway route. ! p An exploration of the region lying 1 'between Lake Clark on tho east, and ! I ! tho Jditarod district on thowcst will . ! be undertaken by Tl. H. Sargent nnd !, fv Philip S. Smith. Here thcro is a belt y of country ovor 100 miles in width j r which is almost au entire blank on tho J i map. TIic party, mado up of seven j ' men, with twenty horses, will follow a ( route tlial has boon sucgosted for a rail: t: wa3 into tho great Kiiskolnvim basin. Investigate Placers. A. G. Maddcrn will investigate the . gold placer districts tributary to the lower Kuskokwim. Tie will ascend i '' Hitarod river, by emioc portago across ! tho divido to reach tho Kuskokwim. and ' ',' visit tho.Anuiak, Tuluksak and Good- nows Bav placer disfcvicts. Stephen "R. Capps and C. E Giflin I will carry, geological and topographic purveys across Skolni pass into the u. "White river basin and thence to the ! y- international boundary. This is also a 41 region where railway 'building has boon considered. Mr. Capps will givo special attention to the investigation of tho . nowly discovered gold district in tho j . (Miisana basin. This work is an cxton-! cxton-! sion of previous reconnaissance surveys . in this field. i c Studying Juneau District. A detailed base map will be made. of ?! )urt of the Juneau district, now the . ? most important gold lode camp iu Alas-. Alas-. ka nnd promising to become one of the w most important on tho continent. The & purpose of tho base ma) is to make F possible an exhaustive study of the oc- . enrrenco of tho cold ores. "D. C. With- it crspoon will undertake the making of , tho base map, which will bo on a scale y of throe inchus to the mile. ' v A detailed survey of the Kotsina- eoj- por-bcaring area was undertaken in j 2 jtl2, but unfortunately, the delay in ' fl tho aiproprialiun during tho last two P years has prevented its completion. It , M lis planned that V. IT. Moffit. and J. B. S Mortio now complete this work. B. L. S Johnson, with ono assistant, will under- ?. take the detailed geologic survey of the , j Port, Valdcz gold and copper district. ! Tho base map necessnrv for this work i was completed in 19K5. f General Investigations. .t To co-ordinate and correlate the vari-j vari-j 3 ous geologic surveys iu Alaska it is ' y 'f iiecosfiary to continue tho studies of the j j general geolojry and mineral resources. "I 'l hree geologists will be cngagod in this .t wor.v during HJl-l. George C. Martin, i i assisted by R. Overbeck, vrill cn-t cn-t J tinue his studies of tho Mcsozoic stratig-, stratig-, 8 raphy. He will visit important locah-(, locah-(, j? ties in southeastern Alaska, iu the Chit-if Chit-if ma valley, and along tho Yukon. It H. yi. Iiakiu will undertake supjde-mentnry supjde-mentnry investigations of the tin dc-; dc-; i posits of Alaska, lie will examine some ; ' of the occurrences of tin in the York j 3 region of Seward peninsula and in tho 1 3 Hot Springs district of the Tanana val- lev. Mr. Eakin will also undertake some w general studies of tho occurrence of mineral deposits and mining develop- ment in tho Xomo, Fairbanks and Ju-, Ju-, It n can districts. n Alfred H. Brooks, tho geologist in ; I charge of the Alaska surveys and inves- I n ligations, exnects to leave for Alaska I as soon as office work permits, probably ! about the middle of June, lie will de- I, : vole special attention to the problems : 1 of Quaternary geology includiug the gen-I gen-I fr esis and occurrence of placer deposits. : lie will visit tho Iditarod and Fair- i banks districts and, time permiltincr. j the Xomo district. Mr. Brooks will I also ioin the MoffiL party in the Kot- f sina district and the Johnson party in tho Valdez district for brief periods of ' j ' time. |