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Show oo YENTRA GOLD ALASKA RICH Washington. Aug 8. In investigating investigat-ing and reporting on the mineral resources re-sources of Alaska It has been the i plan of the geologicai survey to study the producing districts as rapidly as appropriations provided by congress I permit. In accordance with this plan the Yeutna gold mining district M Ifl ' visited In 1911, and the final report on this interesting area, entitled "The Yentna District, Alaska." b Stephen R Capps, has Just been Issued as bulletin 534 0f tnt. rntted States Geological Ge-ological Survey. The district received re-ceived its name from Yentna river the largest tributary of Suiitns riv er, which drains a great basin In Bouth-ccntral Alaeka The prospectors who visited this area In 1905 In their search for gold may well have been Impressed by the scenic beauty of the country Into which they penetrated Indeed, ac-I ac-I cording to Mr. Capps. few places tn the world have so superb a setting To the northwest the Alaska range, i with Its thousands of square miles of unexplored territory, rises In a labyrinth laby-rinth of ragged peaks, with two great domes. Mount Foraker. 17.000 feot high, and Mount McKlnley. 20,800 feet, dominating the whole range with their snowcovered slopes. Huge glaciers, gla-ciers, which head In unknown basins, push down the valleys to the vcr flanks of the ranee Alrhouph rhe Yentna district Is not one of the widely known gold camps and its gravels are only of moderate richness, it has produced steadily since the first year of its discovery' and ".ill probablj continue for manv years to add to the sum of Alaska's gold production Kven within the last two years discoveries of gold In old stearn channels, burled beneath a covering of glacial debris, have opened a new field for prospectors. |