42 GOLD PLACERS OF RAMPART REGION. 
Seattle Bar. — Seattle Bar is about 2\ miles farther northeast on the same bench, on 
the northeast side of Seattle Junior Creek, and about the same distance back from 
Pioneer Creek as What Cheer Bar. Pay was discovered here in the spring of 1904. 
The depth to bed rock is about 9 feet and the bed rock and gravel are similar to 
those of What Cheer Bar. The gold occurs in the lower foot of gravel and the upper 
foot or more of bed rock. It is bright, chunky, and well worn. Some of it is 
rather flat, but all is easily saved. The largest nugget obtained was worth $9.40. 
Water is obtained for sluicing by a ditch and hose from Skookum Creek, which in a 
dry year will furnish but a scant supply. 
Doric Creek. — Doric Creek is a small tributary of Pioneer Creek about three-fourths 
mile above What Cheer Bar, and is dry most of the summer and fall. It has an 
open valley, at its greatest depth probably not over 50 feet below the level of the 
bench. Gold was discovered here in 1902, and in the winter of 1903-4 a portion of 
the valley about one-fourth mile from Pioneer Creek was found to be very rich. As 
with other weak streams its wash shows almost no wear, but there is also a large 
amount of more rounded gravel from the bench through which it has cut. 
Only one claim has produced much gold. Some pay was found on the lower part 
of the next claim above, but none in the upper part. The richness of the deposit is 
probably due to the reconcentration of the gold from the gravels of the bench. The 
ground is worked by drifting during the winter, and the largest bowlders are left in 
the drifts. It is worthy of note that a large degree of the success obtained in locat- 
ing this claim was attributed to the remarks upon concentration in the Survey 
report on the Nome region, a which apply with much force to many of the deposits 
of the Rampart region. 
Other bench gravels. — A mantle of gravels similar to that which covers the gentle 
slope on the northwest side of Pioneer Creek bends around a spur from the divide 
on the west side of Eureka Creek and continues to Omega Creek, a distance of about 
2.j miles. Beyond this point it has not been traced. In the space described the 
gravels are cut by Glenn Creek, Gold Run, Rhode Island Creek, and Seattle Creek. 
SHIRLEY BAR. 
The bench gravels have been prospected at many places and shown to carry gold, 
but at only one point outside of the creeks crossing them have they proved suffi- 
ciently rich to pay for working. This place, known as Shirley Bar, is located 
between Glenn Creek and Gold Run. It is at an elevation of about '200 feet above 
the lower workings on Glenn Creek, and was first worked in the fall of 1901. The 
bed rock is the same schistose arkose, slate, and quartzite. The wash is small and 
subangular, with a few quartzite bowlders and some monzonitic rocks from the 
divide above. The gravel varies in thickness from 2 feet at the lower side of the 
claim to 7 or 9 feet in the middle and 5 feet at the upper end. The gold is bright, 
rounded, and "shotty," well distributed through the gravel, and, though it seems 
strange, the nuggets come from near the surface. There are few large .pieces of gold, 
the largest nugget taken out weighing a little over 1] ounces. 
A ditch from Rhode Island Creek, 1 mile long and capable of carrying 2 sluice- 
heads of water (about 100 miner's inches), has been dug; but water is so scarce that 
it is collected in a pool after being used and pumped back to the sluice boxes. For I 
this purpose a 30-horsepower boiler, two twinned 4-horsepower upright engines, and 
a 4-inch centrifugal pump are used. Seven men have been employed on the claim 
during the season. 
a Brooks, A. H., and others, Reconnaissances in the Cape Nome and Norton Bay Regions, Alaska,' 
in 1900; a special publication oi' U. S. Geol. Survey, 1901, pp. 119-151. 
