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fee found to be ;is high as 30 cents per pound for sugar, $8.50 for 
i 50-pound sack of Hour, and 50 cents a pound for bacon. 
The important localities on American Creek can be easily visited 
n a day's trip from Eagle by a trail which climbs the long spur 
vest of American Creek, from which a comprehensive view of the 
vhole area can be obtained, and then descends abruptly into the 
leep valley of the creek. In wet weather the trail is a rather hard 
me to travel. These localities can also be reached by following the 
Steele Creek trail about 10 miles to a point where a branch trail 
eads down a steep descent to Star Gulch. 
The localities on the Seventymile where work is in progress are 
widely separated and are generally reached by a trail which crosses 
/[ission Creek at its junction with Excelsior Creek, follows the ridge 
Lorth of Excelsior, crosses Bryant about 4 miles from the mouth, 
limbs to the ridge on the west, and then drops down into the valley of 
he Seventymile and follows the stream to the falls; from the falls 
o Barney Creek it keeps on the north side, and in places is better 
ilong the base of the ridge; about half a mile above Barney Creek 
leaves the river for the ridge on the north side. This is the starting 
oint of the route overland from the Seventymile to the Birch Creek 
gion, about 120 miles to the northwest from Eagle. The ridge to 
le south of the Seventymile is preferred by some of the miners in 
aveling from the upper Seventymile to Eagle. This is a high, dry 
ail that leads round the north end of Glacier Mountain, down the 
>ng spur between Excelsior and Mission creeks, and thence to Eagle. 
Birch Greek region. — Circle, about 140 miles beloAV Eagle, on the 
r est side of the Yukon, is the local supply point for the diggings 
the Birch Creek region, which are situated about 50 miles to the 
>uth, across the Yukon Flats, just within the edge of the plateau 
mntry. The trail between Circle and the gulches is direct and 
aod during dry weather, but in long-continued rain it becomes 
fficult to travel. Twelvemile House, Central House, and Miller 
ouse are good road houses, situated at convenient intervals along 
le trail. Pack trains make regular trips from Circle to \\w gulches, 
le freight rates being about 25 cents a pound during the summer 
ason; but, as in all the other regions, the heavy freighting is done 
the winter. 
1 ui m part region. — Rampart, which is about 170 miles below Circle, 
the supply point for the men working in ihv neighboring gulches. 
lere are trails up Little Minook Creek over the divide to the head- 
iters of Troublesome Creek and the Hutlina, and up the. Minook to 
Glenn Creek country, 25 miles south of Rampart. 
Fairbanks region. — The new towns of Fairbanks and Chena arc 
uated about 200 miles up the Tanana Valley. Chena is on the main 
