Show quartz mills in alaska alaska has produced more than million dollars in gold since 1868 so far only placer gold has been mined except at treadwell but new quartz mining has assumed first importance and quartz mills are going into alaska in great numbers for m more 0 re t than h an a decade the trail to the interior was lined with weary men carrying their packs and stumbling along over rocky ledges now found to contain more gold than the distant placers As the ahli great quartz mines in the sierra nevadas succeeded the placer camps of california so the quartz mines of valdez are succeeding the famous placers of the interior there Is IB no healthier happier nor more promising prospect for it a young man of 0 energy than the th quartz ledges ot of alaska |