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Show -- DES flit First Gold Has Been Received Output Is Very Small Seattle, Wash.. Aug. 1C The Uni ted States assay office in Seattle yesterday yes-terday received ks first consignment of gold from the new Idltarod district In Alaska. The consignment consisted consist-ed of $r.?.'jii seDt by a bank In Idltu-rod Idltu-rod City, a town that ha sprung up within the last year. Reports r?-ccived r?-ccived hero Indicate that, up to August Au-gust 1, the total output for the Mlta-lod Mlta-lod district this year has been SCO.-(,iifV SCO.-(,iifV The gold, as indicated by I he as-cr. as-cr. Is moderately line, running from SI 7.2." to $1S an ounce. Pure gold, carrying no base metal, Is worth $20 67 an ounce. Nome gold brings iboui $1S 25 an ounce, and Fairbanks gold runs the same. The best gold that comes to the Seattle assay office I- received from the Koyukok district It runs from $lf to $20.10 an ounce. |