108 PISHEBY AND FUR INDUSTRIES OF ALASKA IN 1912. 



suffered an unusual mortality from some unknown disease and that 

 the species has not yet regained its former abundance. 



KOKRINES. 



This place, situated on the Yukon about 75 miles below Tanana, was 

 formerly an important Russian trading post. Later it was continued 

 by the man whose name it now bears and stUl later by the Northern 

 Commercial Co. In the winter of 1911-12 the store burned and has 

 not been rebuilt. It is understood that other stores have been 

 established. 



The Melozitna, coming down from the high Yukon hills and enter- 

 ing the Yukon below Kokrines, flows through an excellent trapping 

 region, especialy for marten, mink, and otter. A new mining camp 

 called Ruby has recently been established a short distance below 

 Kokrines, and if this camp remains the furs of the region wiU probably 

 go there. 



KOYUKUK. 



This place is on the Yukon at the mouth of the Koyukuk River 

 and perhaps 100 miles below Kokrines. It is an unimportant place, 

 consisting of a small trading post and a telegrapli station. The region 

 round about is low, somewhat hilly, covered with spruce, and is a good 

 country for mink and muskrat, and marten and foxes farther back 

 in the hills. It is a fair trapping region and apt to remain so for some 

 time. Some black bear are found near Koyukuk in the Yukon hills. 



NULATO. 



Nulato is situated on the Yukon a short distance below Koyukuk, 

 and is a small Indian village with a few whites. The Indians mostly 

 have 9ome Russian blood and are of a somewhat higher class than 

 usual. There are two stores here. 



The wooded hills and valleys about Nulato constitute an excellent 

 mink and marten country. Muskrat are also abundant. A few red 

 foxes come from the Koyukuk, but there are no white foxes or wolves. 

 Lynx are not uncommon, one white man having snared 16 during 

 the past winter. 



The local traders this season handled about 2,000 muskrat, 800 mink 

 worth $3.50 to S4.50 each, 400 marten worth .$6 to $8 each, a few 

 ermine caught chiefly by the squaws, 16 lynx, and a few foxes. 



About 40 miles below Nulato is Kaltag, a small trading post with 

 one store and a telegraph station. The country is like that about 

 Nulato, very hilly, full of gulches and small streams, and covered with 

 a contmuous forest of spruce and bii'ch. 



