Show northwestern quartz mines san francisco chronicle the ore sent down from the stewart river and recently tested at the selby Em elting works ia ahse city was richer ahan any auriferous rock that ie known to have been produced by the moat famous of the old alaskan mines four hundred pounds of it yielded 25 in cold or at the rate of 25 ier ton abie of coliee was selected rock but with it came the announcement that there ie a vast abundance abunda uce in that region of low grade ore supposing this ore to be no better than that which is making the owners libb the 3 kind and the future of the river country ought to be assured providing fuel for smelters and labor for production are not too dear too stewart river is ne of the many like the pelly the big salmon the and the klondike that flow into the yukon from the baet it is highly significant of the probable source of the placer gold that all these river form on the watershed of mountains that are st down on the maps either as the or the coast range and which beem to be formed by a physical union of the two systems those mountains which are treasure housea in the united states mexico and south america may easily reach their phase of gold formation in the far north why not at any rate whatever gold they contain has lain undisturbed since the beginning of recorded time neither king solomons miners who searched for the yellow metal in south africa nor the mound builders aztecs and incas of other still exploited regions hare ever meddled with the gold deposits of the far north what treasures was put abero stayed there and it remains to await the pioneer pick and blast after the yukon have been all filed upon not before there is certain to be a careful of the mountain chains for good rock it is there where capital will most exploit itself and where we may look if at all for the permanent centers of northwestern prosperity beyond the american border within alaska lees is known though the presence of nuggets on the weal side yukon crecia indicates that the detached ranges there are by no means barren ut good ore but on the basis discoveries so fur made the northwest territory has the call |