36 GOLD PLACERS OF RAMPART REGION. 
McLean and Mr. Thos. Evans. This is the only specimen of this species that has 
been reported from Alaska. It was carefully removed and is now in the National 
Museum at Washington. Some teeth obtained by Mr. C. W. Peck from gravel nexl 
to bed rock on the same claim and referred to Dr. T. W. Stanton for identification 
were called by him " horse teeth of Pleistocene or more recent age." 
Mining. — There are twenty-nine 500-foot claims upon the creek, numbered fron 
the mouth upward, the upper 9 or 10 of which are said to have paid wages or more 
upon working. The pay streak is 30 to 60 feet wide and 1 to 6 feet thick, averaging 
probably 3 feet, but gold is sometimes found through the whole thickness of tin 
gravel. The gravels were- reported to carry $10 per square yard on one claim, whict 
is probably the highest value on the creek, the values on other claims running dowr 
to amounts too small to pay for working. 
The gold is similar to that of Little Minook Creek, mostly smooth and brigh 1 
with a little that is rough. It is generally coarse and chunky, nuggets sometime! 
reaching 3 ounces in weight. The larger part of the gold is undoubtedly reconcen 
trated from the high bench of Minook Creek. The small amount of rough gold has 
probably had its origin in the bed rock. 
The gravels have been mined by drifting with steam points, but advantage was 
taken of the wet season of 1904 and some ground sluicing was done in gravel anc 
muck 16 feet thick. Trees and brush in the lower part of the creek were clearer 
away in preparation for further ground sluicing. The cost of mining by drifting i: 
50 per cent or more of the output, but as there is so little water it has been the only 
feasible mode of work. The creek is considered to be nearly worked out. 
HOOSIER CREEK. 
Hoosier Creek flows into Minook Creek from the east side between 5 and 6 mile 
from the Yukon. It is a stream of about the same volume as Hunter Creek and ha 
a valley of about the same gradient and general section, but it shows no sign of th< 
bench that appears along Hunter Creek. Like Hunter and Little Minook creeks, it 
course bends to the left upon entering the area of the high bench of Minook Creek 
although in a less degree. 
The production of Hoosier Creek is unknown. There is assigned to it but $500 ii 
the table (p. 169), $227 of which was in one nugget. Other small amounts havw 
been taken out, but the production has not been large, and it has been almos 
impossible to thoroughly prospect the creek on account of live water in the gravels 
The bed rock is similar to that of the other creeks cutting the bench. Quartz vein 
up to 18 inches in width occur in the diabase, and there is some pyrite distribute* 
through the rocks. The alluvial deposits vary in thickness from 6 to 15 feet, oo 
which 1 to 9 feet is gravel, averaging probably about 6 feet, and 1 to 10 feet is muck 
averaging perhaps 6 or 7 feet. There is thought to be a pay streak about 100 fee 
wide whose length coincides with the distance the creek flows through the higl 
bench, but the gravels of the valley are broader than those of the other creek 
described, and with the live water the pay is hard to locate. 
Two miles above the mouth of the creek a hydraulic plant has been installed an« 
had just gotten in shape to begin work at the end of the season of 1904. A combine' 
ditch and flume 4,300 feet in length delivered 500 miner's inches of water under 
head of about 80 feet. A hydraulic elevator is used to dispose of the tailings. 
FLORIDA CREEK. 
Florida Creek is only about 2 miles long, lying in the high bench of Minook Cree 
about 2 miles south of Hoosier Creek. Ordinarily it is dry during the summer ani 
fall. The gradient of the stream is high and the valley narrow. The bed rock i 
almost entirely of diabase. The alluvial deposits are narrow, but in places reach 
