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Chisna district, gold on, fineness of 207 
mining in, methods of 29 
prospecting in, cost of II 
wages in 21] 
wood on, price of 212, 215 
Chistochina district, freight and passenger 
rates to 239 
Chittitu Creek, gold on. fineness of 207 
wood on, price of 215 
Churn drill, plate showing 40 
Circle, distances from 247 
freight and passenger rates to and 
from 233-235, 237-238 
ice at 49 
prices at 249-254 
rainfall at 48 
stream conditions at 49 
temperatures at 49 
Circle district, gold in, fineness of 208 
stream conditions in 52, 54 
wood on, price of 216 
Circular letter, form of 17-25 
sending of 14-15 
Cleaning bed rock, cost of 59-60, 78 
Cleary Creek, conditions on 32 
ditches on 105, 109 
freight and passenger rates to 238 
gold on, fineness of ids 
hot- water thawing on 98 
prospecting in, cost of 41-42 
road on, view of 226 
stream conditions on 53, 54 
wages on 211 
wood on, price of 216 
Climate, character of 30, 4g 
effect of, on mining 29-30 
on water supply 43-49 
Coal, occurrence of 213-214 
price of 34, 213-214 
Collier, A. J., on Nome district 87 
on tin 26 
Colorado, miner's inch in 51 
Controller Bay, coal at 213 
Cooper Gulch, freight and passenger rates 
to 240 
Copper Center, rainfall at 48 
temperatures at '. 49 
Copper River, gold on, fineness of 207 
wages in 211 
wood on, price of 216 
Cost of living, investigation into 15 
Council, distances from 247 
dredging buckets at, plate showing 168 
freight and passenger rates to and 
from 240, 242 
Council City and Solomon River Railway, 
construction of 228 
Council district, ditches in 106,110 
duty of miner's inch in 140 
gold in, fineness of 209 
hydraulic giants in 136 
mining in, methods of 29 
shoveling in, duty of man in 59 
stream conditions in 53, 55 
wages in 211 
wood in, price of 216 
Pi 
ige 
Cripple River, ditches on 106,109 
freight and passenger rates to I'll 
Crooked Creek, gold on, fineness of 209 
investigation on 14 
stream conditions on 5:; 
wood on, price of 216 
Crow Creek, ditches on 104,107 
freight and passenger rates to 238 
gold on, fineness of 207 
wood on, price of 215 
Crystophenes. See Ice, buried. 
Customs, Tinted States, rates and regula- 
tions of 2 13-2 15 
D. 
Dagetkaket, freight and passenger rates to 
and from 236-237 
Daisy Creek, wood on, price of 216 
Dams, construction of 56-58, 121,1 28 
ci >st of 57, 150 
plate showing 5s, 126, 1 18 
Dams, protective, construction of 116,117 
Dan Creek, gold on, fineness of 207 
mining on, cost and methods of 37, 39 
stream conditions on 54 
wages on 211 
wood on, price of 215 
Davidson, J. W., acknowledgments to • 25 
on ditch building 123 
Dawson, Y. T., freight and passenger rates 
t o a i id from 233-235 
prices at 249-254 
rainfall at 48 
source of supply at 243 
temperatures at 49 
Dawson carrier, description of 94-95 
figure showing 94 
Dawson district. See Klondike district, 
Deadwood Creek, conditions on 32 
ditches on 105, 109, 119 
freight and passenger rates to 238 
gold on, fineness of 208 
investigation on 14 
stream conditions on 52, 54 
wages on 211 
wood-fire thawing on 89-90 
wood on, price of 216 
Deering, freight and passenger rates to 240 
Deri i< king, apparatus for, plates showing.. 66, To 
plate showing 64 
use and cost of 66-71 
Dexter Creek, ditches on 10(5,109 
freight and passenger rates to 240 
gold on, fineness of 209 
investigation on 14 
stream conditions on 53,54 
wood on, price of 21fi 
Discovery Fork, shoveling on, duty of man 
in 59 
stream conditions on 52 
wood on, price of 215 
Distances, tables of 246-247 
Ditches and Humes, construction of 103-126 
construction of, diagrams and plates 
showing 116, 120, 122, 126 
cost of 119, 121, 123, 125-127 
