THE GLENN CREEK GOLD MINING DISTRICT, ALASKA." 
By Arthur J. Collier. 
INTRODUCTION. 
Glenn Creek is a small tributary of Baker Creek, a large stream 
which enters the Tanana from the north, about 80 miles from the 
Yukon. The mining camp there located is the site of the most 
important discovery of placer gold made in the interior of Alaska dur- 
ing the seasons of 1901 and 1902. This camp is about 28 miles in a 
direct line nearly due south of the town of Rampart, on the Ynkon 
River. Rampart is the distributing point for Glenn Creek, as well as 
for several older mining camps, and has a population of about 300. 
It is approximately 1,000 miles from the mouth of the Yukon and 600 
miles from Dawson, and can be reached by river steamer from Daw- 
son in about three days, or from St. Michael in about a week. 
The Glenn Creek trail from Rampart follows up Big Minook Creek 
for a distance of 25 miles to its head, then crosses a divide having an 
elevation of about 1,700 feet above the river and drops down to the 
Glenn Creek Camp, which has an elevation of about 800 feet above the 
Yukon. The distance from Rampart to Glenn Creek by this trail is 
about 30 miles, and along it the footing is so soft that two days are 
usually required in summer to make the trip comfortably, either by 
walking or by riding. 
The camp is near Baker Creek, 18 miles from its junction witli the 
Tanana River, at which place a small trading post has been estab- 
lished, which can be reached by steamer coming up the Tanana from 
the Yukon. Baker Creek is navigable for canoes up to within a few 
miles of the Glenn Creek Camp, but the trail from Glenn Creek to 
the Tanana is reported to be very swampy. 
Since only five days could be spent by the writer in making the trip 
from Rampart to Glenn Creek and return, the information obtained 
is necessarily meager and the results are in many respects unsatis- 
factory. 
"This paper is an abstract of a more extensive report, now in preparation. 
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