Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-21 | Page 24 | Men Rush for Gold When Warm Winds Melt Alaskan Ice

Men Rush us for or Gold o oen When en Warm arm Wi Winds ds Melt e t Alaskan as kan Ice J ANCHORAGE Alaska Dec Dee 21 By A. A P. P Phenomenal p.-Phenomenal Phenomenal weather In the late autumn which took toole the form of warm chinook winds In tHe die higher regions has resulted in a stampede of prospectors to adjacent hills where they have staked many claims to be worked for placer gold goldin in the spring The warm winds s uncovered immense im- im im immense mense deposits of of gravel which I were swept down to the rivers leaving a n new w t terrain exposed Prospectors rep report rt thawing g at great depths which were locked In perpetual perpetual perpetual per per- I ice They believe that nature nature na na- ture thus has left open rich auriferous ous gravels hitherto seated On the west side of Turnagain arm an feet wide and anda andI a I mile mUe long rushed down a mountain moun moun- tain taht uprooting immense trees and ami cutting deep into the sol soil soli Three ledges lodges rich In quartz were revealed The creeks of tha that region had given up placer gold of in n the the sent past and the news oft of the big slide big slide sent every unattached man with an outfit outfit outfit out out- fit into the mountainous region above the he arm Claims were staked stalled and since winter was closing In the prospectors prospector left leCt to return the aUthe first thawing of spring The chinooks prolonged the open season In the hills a month or 01 more It is predicted that this will result In an unusually early spring as the usual early was lackIng lacking lack lack- Ing and the blankets of snow prevented prevented prevented pre pre- vented deep freezing later Long time residents of Alaska believe that climatic conditions are undergoing a general change They point to the regent recent deluge that put the southern division of the Alaska railroad out of for twenty days The cloudburst ac accompanied accompanied ac- ac companied by a warn warm gate gaie g lU denuded even e the mountain peaks peals of snow It has be been n customary for tor tee trie first heavy snows to 11 lie all winter But Dut this season in southwestern several times snow fell in quantity only to be melted again abeam Winter seemed reluctant to take hold