Show qr RICHES OF ALASKA I I RESOURCES OF GOLD COPPER COAL AND OTHER MINERALS BEYOND COMPREHENSION Territory Bought Form Russia for I Seven Million Dollars Has Already Yielded Ore Hundred and Sixty Millions In Gold Washington Aslaska which Score tary Balllngor has frequently said Is j Americas prize pacKago may be a I greater prize than man has ever dreamed Recent Investigations In the Innooko district the central Kus > kokwln valley and tho new Haldltarod district now partially finished by the United States geological eurvey discloses dis-closes new placer gold districts which promise very heavy returns The little territory bought from Russia for 7000000 In 18U has to Ithe present time paid 160000000 In gold alone since 1880 when placer mining there began and what the resources re-sources of Its copper coal and other minerals will be Is beyond the llml tatlon of man The discovery by agents of the survey sur-vey of placers on tho small streams In areas which are drained Into the lower Yukon of the lower Kuskokwln proves that the formations of the upper Yukon Yu-kon belts extend much farther southwest south-west than had generally been supposed I sup-posed and they bear gold at many I scattered localities throughout their extent |