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Bear Creek, Y. T., steam shovel on, plate 
showing 74 
stream conditions on 52 
Beaudette, A. J., information from 51 
Bed rock, cleaning of 59-60, 78 
Bed-rock sluice, view of 136 
Bendeleben Mountains, location and alti- 
tude of 46 
Bergman, freight and passenger rates to and 
from 234, 236-237 
Bertrand, S. A. D., information from 222 
Bettles, freight and passenger rates to and 
from 234,237 
Bibliography 260-261 
Big Hurrah Creek, gold on, fineness of 209 
investigation on 14 
stream conditions on 53 
Birch, Stephen, information from 37,39 
Birch Creek, Alaska, stream conditions on. 52 
wages on 211 
Birch Creek, B. C, ditches on 104, 107 
gold on, fineness of 207 
stream conditions on 52 
wood on, price of 215 
Birch Creek district, ditches in 105,109,119 
drift mining in 87-88 
hydraulic mining in 117 
ice in 89 
investigation in 14 
map of 45 
• mining in, cost and methods of 28, :'>•> 
pack train in, view of 228 
physical conditions in 32, 36, 89 
prices in 249 254 
prospecting in, cost of 41 
roads in 221 
rutile in 205 
shoveling in, duty of man in 59 
stream conditions in 45 
topography of, plate showing 120 
wages in 211 
wood-fire thawing in 89-90 
Black sand, occurrence of 204 
Bluff, freight and passenger rates to . 230-231,240 
Boats, use of 239-240 
Bolto Creek, freight and passenger rates to. 241 
Bonanza Creek, Y. T., black sand on 203-204 
dam on, plate showing 126,148 
ditches on 105, 108 
drains and pumps on, relative cost of . . 58 
dredges and dredging on 162-164 
plates showing 162 
gold on, fineness of 207 
investigation on 14 
prospecting in, cost of 42 
shoveling on, duty of man in 59 
sluices on 148 
plate showing 
. steam point thawing on 89 
stream conditions on 52, 54 
wood on, price of 215 
Bonanza Gulch, gold on, fineness of 209 
Booming, character and use of 57 
cost of 38 
dam for, plate showing 58 
Bourbon Creek, dredging on 165 
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Bourbon Creek, freight and passenger rates 
to 240 
stream conditions on 53 
wood on, price of 216 
Bowie,A. J., on hydraulic mining. 111-113,116,138 
on use of mercury 204 
Bowlder Creek, B. C, investigation on 13 
stream conditions on 52 
wood on, price of 215 
Bowlders, handling of 141-142, 154 
occurrence of ' 141 
plate showing 68 
Brackett, F. H., pipe-setting device of . . . 130, 132 
Bridge over Klondike, view of 224 
British Columbia, investigation in 13 
roads in, comparison of American roads 
and 16,219 
views of 220, 224 
Brooks, Alfred H., letter of transmittal by. 11 
on Alaska roads 16, 219, 226 
on legal abuses 256 
Buck Creek, wood on, price of 216 
Buckets, mining, plates showing. 66, 68, 160,168,178 
Buster Creek, freight and passenger rates to_ 240 
stream conditions on 53 
C. 
California, comparison of conditions n 
Alaska and 30,101 
ditches in 113 
dredging in 157-ln8 
cost of 167-173 
drifting in 83-84 
hydraulic mining in 99-102 
miner's inch in 50-51 
rainfall in 47 
sluices in, length of 144-145 
tailings in 151 
use of water gate in _ 57 
Camp Colonna, rainfall at 48 
temperatures at 49 
Camp Davidson, rainfall at 48 
temperatures at 49 
Campbell, M. R., on gas-producer engines. 34,214 
Candle Creek, gold on, fineness of 209 
w» >< )d on , price of 216 
Candle district. See Fairhaven district. 
Cantwell Creek, coal on 213 
Carriers, self-dumping, cost and use of 65-67 
Casadepaga River, freight and passenger 
rates to 242 
Chain, relative value of wire cable and 76-77 
Chatham Creek, conditions on 32-33 
freight and passenger rates to 238 
gold on, fineness of 208 
stream conditions on 53, 54 
wood on, price of 216 
Cheenik, freight and passenger rates to. 230-231, 
240 
Chena, freight and passenger rates to 235-236 
Chicken Creek, gold on, fineness of 208 
stream conditions on 54 
wood on, price of 215 
China pump, use of 56 
use of, plate showing 56 
