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shin, in active operations at the head of the inlet on the Kaknoo 

 River, and in the Kenai Mountains and Prince William or Choogatch 

 Alps. Gold was found, but in such small quantities, compared 

 with the labor of getting it, that the ardor of the Russians soon 

 cooled, and nothing as yet has resulted from the prospecting of our 

 own miners in this district, who have been all over these Slavonian 

 trails since the transfer. 

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