BAKER CREEK GROUP. 43 
GLENN CREEK. 
General description. — Glenn Creek is Located about 1 mile west of Eureka Creek, 
and flows across the bench gravels. It is about 3 miles long, running almost south 
down the slope from the Baker-Minook divide. The valley is shallow and open (PI. 
VII, .4), probably not over 50 feet below the bench. It is practically dry during 
ordinary summers, but during the wet summer of 1904 it carried water sufficienl foi 
sluicing. 
Gold was discovered on Glenn Creek by Messrs. Beardsley, Belsea, and Dillon in 
July, 1901. The total production up to the fall of 1904, according to the most reliable 
information obtainable, had been about $277,500, not including the output of one 
claim known to have produced a considerable amount, During the year ending with 
the fall of 1904 $50,500 is known to have been produced, and this again does not 
include some smaller outputs. Of the 1904 output $11,000 was obtained by drifting 
during the winter of 1903-4 and $39,500 during the summer of 1904. 
The bed rock is similar to that on the other creeks. The alluvial deposits are 7 to 
9 feet thick and are in large part composed of the angular fragments usually found 
in so weak a stream, with rounded material from the bench through which it flows. 
There are occasional small bowlders of monzonitic rock from the divide above. 
Thequartzite interbedded in the softer slates has given rise to a peculiar condition 
in the gravels of the lower part of the creek. On claim No. 1A a section of the 
gravels shows about a foot of muck under which is a discontinuous layer of angular 
quartzite blocks 8 to 10 inches thick and 2 feet or more broad, showing no water 
wearing. Under these is a thickness of about 2 feet of washed gravel and fine 
broken slate lies below this upon vertical strata of slate which strike about north- 
east, These angular blocks of quartzite on top of the gravel have been very puz- 
zling. It is likely that they are to be explained by the supposition that the creep, 
which acts very strongly here, has broken down a thin bed of quartzite that can be 
seen on the side of the claim, and as the creep has moved the gravels the blocks of 
quartzite have been broken off and have crept with the gravels. 
Mining. — The pay seems to have been mostly, if not wholly, in that part of the 
creek which cuts the mantle of gravel covering the hillside. The pay streak is said 
to vary in width from 50 to 100 feet. In places it was very rich ; one pan taken by 
the writer gave about $3.75. Many pans of $10 and upward were said to have been 
taken. At one place tine gold could be seen all through the broken slate. On this 
claim the pay was in the lower 3 feet of gravel and 2 feet of the bed rock. A plat 
20 by 48 feet yielded $4,000 to 4 men working three and one-half days. 
The gold is bright, clean, generally worn, and fine, but "shotty " and easily saved. 
Such nuggets as are found generally contain considerable quartz. The largest nug- 
get found weighed nearly 6 ounces. It was bright, clean, beautiful gold, and showed 
the impression of large quartz crystals. It is said to assay a little over $16 per 
ounce. 
A small ditch 1 mile long brings about a sluice head of water from Rhode Island 
Creek. Another ditch dug to bring a sluice head or more from Boston Creek was 
just ready to use when freezing began in the fall of 1904. An average number of 24 
men are said to have been employed during the year. Some drifting is to be .lone 
this winter (1904-5), but it is said that most of the ground lit for drifting has been 
worked out, the remaining pay gravels being too shallow to give a good roof. The 
creek is probably more than half worked out. 
GOLD RUN. 
A creek, about 1J miles long, flowing into Rhode Island Creek 1 mile west of 
Glenn Creek, is called Gold Run. It carries little water at any time and is practically 
dry during the summer and fall. The valley is shallow and open and the lower part 
