Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-10-09 | Page 9 | Gold Reports on Alaska.

GOLD GOL REPORTS ON ALASKA AS The United States geological survey ure has bas Just published hed as bulletin H 14 a report on the mining and water ater supply of ot the tho Forty mile Forty Seventy mile Seventy Seventy-mie Circle and Firbank Fairbanks districts Alaska by E. E A A. Porter and C. C E. E Ellsworth Elsworth The estimated eat esti mated value of the tIle combined gold production est est- tion ton of or the mile Forty Fort and Seventy mile So enty districts for 1911 was an In Increase increase In- In crease of over the output for 1910 due to the success of ot two dredges on the headwaters of oC mile Forty Fort river The value of the tue gold production of the Fairbanks district in 1911 is e estimated d to be approximately ap ap- ap- ap proximately a R decrease of ot 1 21 from the output of or 1910 duo I mainly to the fact tact that tha t most of ot the bonanzas of the th camp have ha been worked out and the major part of the mining was af confined to deposits 0 of 01 relatively low grade df The Circle precinct In 1911 produced produced pro pro- gold god with wih an estimated value o ot of which exceed exceeds that of any other othe year ear since 1898 The Increase was duo due entirely to the Improved methods em em- I