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Show Alaska Proving to Be Wonderfully Rich in Gold Washington, Feb', , 14. Alaska, which Secretary BaHlnger has frequently fre-quently said Is America's prize package, pack-age, may be a greater, prize than man has ever dreamed. Recent Investigations Investiga-tions In the Innoko district, the Central Cen-tral Kusokwlll valley and the new , Iditarod, district, now partially finished finish-ed by the United States geological survey, discloses new! placer gold districts dis-tricts which prorulc very . heavy returns. re-turns. Tho little territory' bought from Russia for $7,200,000 in 1867 has l the present time paid $160.0(10,000 In grid alone since ISiO; when placer mining there begun and what the resources re-sources of its copper, coal and other j minerals will bo is heyond the limitations limi-tations of man. The discovery by agents of the sur-vay sur-vay of placers on the small streams In areas which are 1 rained -into the lower Yukon by the Lower Kuskokwill proves that the formations of the upper up-per Yukon belt extend, riueh farther' southwest than-' had'' generally been, supposed and they bear gold at many scattered localities throughout their extent. The Innokc district has attracted . some attention and other areas are now beiug exploited with prospects of ! large results. Sufficient prospecting , ha6 been done- there to indicate the ' presence of a pay streak from fifty I to seventy feet wide with gold unl- j formly distributed, j |