66 The America?t Geologist. JuJy, i90© 
logic assistants. Mr. Brooks' investigation will cover the area 
surveyed by Mr. Barnard's party from Fish river to Cape 
Nome and Port Clarence, and also reconnaissance of the Cape 
York district. It is proposed that he will determine the extent 
of the gold-bearing formations and trace out the conditions of 
occurrence of veins from which the placer gold has been de- 
rived. 
The trend of, the gold-bearing belt of Cape Nome and 
vicinity appears to extend "northeastward across the Seward 
peninsula toward Good Hope bay and the Keewalik river. It 
is therefore proposed to extend reconnaissance work along 
this trend and the following additional operations are recom- 
mended: ■ V 
Rec&tmaissatice of £xfe?ision of Cape Nome Gold BclL 
This party will consist of Mr. W. J. Peters, topographer^ 
and Mr. W. C. Mendenhall, geologist, equipped with a suffi- 
cient number of camp hands and canoes for exploration, withi 
topographic and geologic reconnaissance. It is understood 
that they can be conveyed by a Coast Survey steamer to Good 
Hope bay, wher^ they may be landed and whence they may 
proceed with their equipment to survey the northeastern por- 
tion of the Seward peninsula, returning across the neck of 
the peninsula by Buckland river tO' Norton bay. 
Preparatimi for Exploratimi in igoi. 
Reconnaissance, Koyukuk River to Arctic Ocean. — The 
head-waters of the Koyukuk river north of the Arctic circle 
were partially explored by a party under Mr. Schrader in the 
season of 1899. Between the Koyukul- and the shores of the 
Arctic ocean there is a little known district into which explor- 
ation should be extended. It ' is impracticable that a party 
loaded with supplies for a season's work should leave Wash- 
ington and reach the upper Koyukuk sufficiently early in the 
season to be assured of adequate results with certainty of es- 
cape in the autumn, but if supplies be put in by steamer on the 
Koyukuk during one summer, the men, with light outfits, may 
proceed by sledge, to the starting point the following winter 
and be ready to^ take advantage of favorable conditions ot 
travel in ascending rivers on the ice early in tlie spring, and in- 
descending them after the ice is broken up. To accomplish 
this object it is proposed that supplies shall be sent in by 
steamer during the summer of 1900, tO' be stored at the mouth 
of the Allen Kakat river. Whence the proposed route is up 
the Allen Kakat to the divide by which it heads against 
streams flowing north to, the Arctic ocean, and thence down 
such a stream to the Arctic and along the coast westward and 
southward until the party shall be picked up. 
