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Glacier Creeks (with Snow Gulch as an affluent of the latter), 

 tributaries of Snake River, and Dexter Creek, a tributary of Nome 

 River. My time and the conditions of weather permitted only of 

 a visit to Anvil Creek, and an examination mainly of the proper- 

 ties about " Discovery." The diggings here are all shallow, from 

 four to seven feet, when bed-rock, a steeply pitching and highly 

 fissile slate, is reached. As before remarked, the gravels are not 

 frozen, and thereby present a marked contrast to the condition 

 that prevails in the Klondike region, and one, it is hardly necessary 

 to state, which is eminently to the favor of economy in mining. A 

 layer of ice, about eight inches in thickness, covers one side of the 

 layers in claim " No. 1 below," but beneath this the matrix is 



"Digging" the Seasiioue Sands fou Gold. 



again open. In all these claims the pay-streak was at first reported 

 to be very broad, but it seems that the later work has narrowed 

 down the probabilities of extension very measurably — at any rate, 

 in the condition of a rich producer. Of the wealth contained in 

 these claims there is no question, but it would probably be strain- 

 ing the truth to say that it is the equal of that of the best or even 

 the better claims of the Klondike region. A two days' clean-up 

 from " No. 1 below " is reported to have yielded thirteen thousand 

 dollars, while the entire product of that claim from July 26th, 

 when the first wash was made, to September 21st, was placed at 

 one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Claim " No. 1 

 above " appears to be equally good, and " Discovery " falls perhaps 

 not very far below either. A nugget of the value of three hun- 



