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Sawmills, location of 212-213 
Seattle Creek, freight and passenger rates to. 240 
stream conditions on 53 
Seattle Point, freight and passenger rates to 
and from 23G-237 
Settling pond, view of 128 
Seward, freight and passenger rates to. . . 230-231 
Seward Peninsula, derricking in, plate 
showing 70 
distances in, table of 247 
districts in 29, 35 
ditches and ditch building in 15, 
33, 46-47, 105-106, 109-110, 1 19-127 
plates showing 120 
dredging in 160, 164, 167 
drifting in ... 87-88 
gold in, fineness of 194 
horse scraping in, cost of 60 
machinery in, use of 121 
magnetite in 205 
map of part of 47 
mining in, methods and cost of . . 29, 33, 36-38 
moss in 88-89 
physical conditions in 33-34, 88-89 
roads in 219-221 
settling pond in, view of 128- 
sluicing in 149-150 
wages in 82 
water supply in 34-35, 45, 47 
wood on 212 
Shafts, prospecting, cost of 39-42 
Shovel Creek, freight and passenger rates to. 242 
stream conditions on 53, 55 
Shoveling in, advantages of 59-60 
cost of 37-38, 56, 59-60, 190 
duty of a man in 59 
Silver Bow basin, ditches in 104, 107, 1 15 
flume in, view of lis 
hydraulicking in, plate showing 92 
investigation in 13 
pressure box in, plate showing 116 
sluicing in 143 
Sixmile Creek, gold on, fineness of 207 
Skagway, freight and passenger rates to . 230-231 
rainfall at 48 
temperatures at 49 
Slate Creek, freight and passenger rate-i to. 237 
gold on, fineness of 207 
stream conditions on 52 
wood on, price of 216 
SledgeCreek, freightand passenger rates to. 211 
Sluice, bed-rock, view of 136, 1 is 
Sluice-box grade, definition of 54 
Sluice boxes, cost of 197 
character and use of 56-57 
defects of 193-194 
dumping into, plate showing 62 
figures and plate showing . . . 143, 153, 196, 198, 
194 
grade of 195 
making of, tools for, figure showing . . . 146 
set-up of, plate showing 56 
types of 195-199 
use of, cost of 56, 190 
Sluicing, cost of 39, 56, 57, 137, 142, 144, 148 
efficiency of 141, 144-145 
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Sluicing, methods of 142-152 
Smith, Hamilton, on miner's inch 50 
pipe-line experiments by 134 
Snake River, drilling on, plate showing ... 40 
stream conditions on 53 
Societe Miniere, plant of 146-147 
Sod, use of 124, 128 
Solomon, distances from 247 
freight and passenger rates to and from . 230- 
231,240,242 
Solomon district, ditches in 106, 110 
duty of miner's inch in 140 
gold in , fineness of 209 
mining in, methods of 29 
stream conditions fn 53, 55 
wages in 211 
wood in, price of 216 
Solomon Hill, drifting on, figure showing. . 85 
Solomon River, dredging on 164, 166 
gold on, fineness of 209 
gravel on, tenor of 165 
investigation on 14 
shoveling on, duty of man in 59 
stream conditions on 53, 55 
water supply of 46 
South Coast province, coal in 213 
districts in 28-29, 35 
ditches in 104, 107-108, 113-117 
dredging in 160 
gold of, character of 143 
mining in, methods and cost of 28-29, 38 
physical conditions in 30 
roads in 219-222 
topography of, plate showing 114 
water supply of 43 
wood in 214 
Spruce Creek, B. C, ditches on 104, 107 
gold on, fineness of 207 
investigation on 13 
prospecting in, cost of 41 
stream conditions on 52 
wood on, price of 215 
Steam, use of 33, 37 
Steam point, details of, figures showing 90 
use of, in thawing 89-93, 96, 159, 189 
plate and figure showing 90, 86 
Steam scraper, advantages of 63-65 
figures showing 61, 62, 65 
use of 63-65 
plate showing 62 
Steam shovel, advantages of 73 
cost of 77-78 
operations of, description of 73-82 
ligures showing 74,75,76 
I dates showing 74 
Stewart River, Y. T., dredging on 160 
Stonehouse Fork, gold on, fineness of 208 
Streams, freezing and opening of, time of. . 49 
grades of 53-55 
volumes of 49-53 
Sulphur Creek, Y. T., fine gold on 201, 208 
investigation on 14 
stream conditions on 52 
wood on, price of 215 
Sunrise, freight and passenger rates to and 
from. 230-231, 239 
