GOLD MINING ON SEWARD PENINSULA. a 
By Fred 1 1. Moffit. 
NTRODUCTION. 
The estimate of gold production on Seward Peninsula for the season of 1905, whicj 
has been given in a previous pari of this report (p. 4), indicates a small increase ovj 
the production of the previous year. This increase has taken place in spite of advei 
circumstances, chief among which are the unusually cold, wet summer, the early freeze 
up. and the lad that some claims formerly rich have ceased to produce. Although tl 
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snows of the previous winter melted early in the spring, active work on the creeks he 
:i l^^e later than usual and ended when cold weather set in on September IS, in col 
quence of which the length of the open season was shortened by from two to three wei 
the largest part of the interruption coming at what is ordinarily the busiest time of the y< 
A decrease in production of the creeks, however, is not apparent from the figures gh 
since they include not only the summer output, but also that lot the winter of !<>() 
" ' '"' ■ ted in this paper were collected bj Frank l,. Bess and the writer during the 
: L905. " 
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