Show FAIRBANKS ALASKA the government has made an ex cellena map of the fhe fairbanks mining district alaska the map includes the towns of fairbanks and chena ard arad the most moat important gold placer producing creeks of the district which named jamed in id tha th order 0 f their importance are cleary esther bather goldst goldstrohm Gold ream fairbanks dome and vault output from these streams in 1907 aggregated gre gated about which Is less than would hav have been produced had there been no labor difficulties fairbanks Is now ensely accessible oy dy river steamer to chena with which it is connected by railway the tanana valley railway has also been exten extended clea across the center of the area mapped as far as the mouth of deary cleary creele rna making liing most of the district easily accessible ces sible the rail rows have been supplemented by a large number ot of wagon wago n roads indicated on the map which have very much red reduced the cust cost of transportation ta the ie large scale of the map and tile the A 25 foot contour interval maxe make it serviceable for use in the preliminary location cation of all engineering enterprises in ill addition to the altitudes marked by the contours figures are given on thu the map to show the exact elevation 0 above sea level of certain benchmarks bench marks ceat are arc distributed over much of tho the area the elevations given for these bench marks are reliable as they are based on levels this is the first kle map of any of the inland districts of alasca AIas iia it has keen b ean prepared as part of the general policy of the geological survey to map the most important mining camps s on a large scale as soon boonas kas means permit |