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FAIRBANKS AND RAMPART QUADRANGLES. 
level, the drainage area in square miles above the gaging station, and 
the discharge in cubic feet per second. 
Table 2 gives the daily discharge in second-feet at the regular 
gaging stations. Second-feet is an abbreviation for cubic feet per 
second.. A second-foot is the rate of discharge of water flowing in a 
stream 1 foot wide, 1 foot deep, at a velocity of 1 foot per second. 
The " miner's inch " expresses the rate of discharge of water that 
passes through an orifice 1 inch square under a head which varies 
locally, that commonly used in the Fairbanks district being G inches. 
To obtain the discharge in miner's inches multiply the cubic feet per 
second by 40. 
Table 3 gives the drainage area in square miles above the gaging 
station and the mean run-off in second-feet per square mile; (2 2 ~^> 
signifies that the records covered the period from the 22d to the 31st 
of the month and that the mean run-off was 0.577 second-foot per 
square mile for that, period. 
Table 1. — Discharge measurements made in the Fairbanks district in 1907. 
Date. 
Stream . 
Locality. 
Eleva- 
tion 
above sea 
level. 
Drainage 
area. 
Gage 
height. 
Dis- 
charge. 
July 21 
Fish Creek 
Above Fairbanks Creek. 
do ._ 
Feet. 
925 
Sq. miles. 
39 
Feet. 
1.00 
.99 
1.55 
1.35 
1.00 
Sec.-ft. 
23.7 
July 25 
_ do___ 
24 2 
August 3 
August 4 
August 19 
.Tune 24 
do 
I~~do"~"II~"""I 
Fairbanks Creek 
do 
do . 
do 
do 
~"do™"~~"~™II 
Near Crain Creek 
---------- 

47.8 
37.6 
20.8 
1.4 
Do 
Near claim 2 above . . 
2 2 
July 5 
Near claim 9 above 
72 
July 20 
Near Claim 10 above- 
1 30 
Do 
Near Tecum seh _ 
900 
12 
8 4 
August 22 
July 6 
July 24 
_ do . 
do 
7 
Near mouth.. ... 
750 
15 
— ----- 
7 0> 
. __do 
do 
7.6 
do 
do |_„ 
8.0 
do 
Just below Heim Creek. 
do _ . _. 
790 
8.0 
8 
Do 
do 
Just above Heim Creek. 
Near mouth of Sorrel 
Creek. 
do 
do.. 
800 
800 
6 
13.8 
i7e 
1.85 
1.015 
1.0 
1.4 
1.02 
.60 
.565 
1.10 
1.0") 
.73 
4 9 
July 23 
August 5 
Elliott Creek 
do 
do 
5.1 
13.8 
7 1 
July 23 
August 5 
August 20 
July 22 
July 24 
Sorrels Creek 
do 
do 
Little Chena River 
_ do- 
800 
"~80(T 
21 
— ----- 
10 3 
do 
do 
Above mouth of Elliott 
Creek . 
do 
28.2 
12.0 
44.2 
39 7 
do 
do 
113 
do 
do 
103.0 
do 
do : 
56.7 
June 21 « 
June 28 a 
June 28 
Coldstream Creek 
do 
Coldstream ditch 
Fox Creek __ 
Lower line of claim 6 
below. 
do 
Below intake. _ 
886 
28.6 
12.3 
22.4 
10.8 
Do 
900 
2.0 
June 27 
Ditch on Dome Creek.. 
Near claim 2 below. 
7 
4 
10.5 
80 
.84 
June 26 _ 
.45 
July 4 
Near Cleary 
2.9 
July 10__ 
McManus Creek 
„ do 
At mouth 
1,375 
15.6 
Do . 
...do.. 
16.4 
July 12 
Do 
do _ 
do 
do 
r>00 feet above mouth 
of Smith Creek. 
1,400 
1,375 
2,000 
42 
80 
10.2 
15.6 
July 13 
% mile above Montana 
Creek. 
8 
18 
1 i 
* Includes flow through small sluice box that diverts water from creek above gaging station. 
