PLACERS OF THE RAMPART REGION. 
By Frank L. Hess. 
GENERAL STATEMENT. 
The placers of the Rampart region were studied by the Survey 
party for ten days during the first part of September, 1904. Every 
working claim was visited except those on Gunnison Creek, but in a 
number of cases where claims are worked only during the winter the 
operators could not be seen. Foot traverses Avere carried over the 
region and a sketch map was made (PL II). The time allowed only 
a hasty reconnaissance, though if it had been possible to know the 
dates of arrival and departure of the boats more time could have 
been put upon the study of region. The miners met were universally 
generous, hearty, and hospitable, ready to help whenever possible 
with information or otherwise, and the work was thus made much 
more effective and pleasant. 
The placer diggings near Rampart may be grouped according to 
the drainage systems to which they belong. The three general 
groups, Minook Creek, Baker Creek, and Troublesome Creek, are 
separated by a divide having the general shape of a Y whose stem 
runs northeastward between the Minook and Baker Creek drainage, 
whose left arm runs nearly northward from Wolverine Mountain, 
about 13 miles southeast of Rampart (PL II), and whose right arm 
runs nearly eastward, from the eastern base of the mountain. Be- 
tween the arms, extending northward, is the " Troublesome country," 
as the region surrounding the creek of that name is known from its 
steejD, rocky ridges and deep, narrow valleys. Each group embraces 
only the diggings located on the creek that gives the group its name, 
or upon its tributaries. 
In the Minook Creek group most of the gold-bearing creeks are on 
the east side, nearer the left-hand arm of the Y, only a few diggings 
being on the Avest side of the creek. In the Baker Creek group the 
diggings now known are on the side nearer the Y, and in the Trouble- 
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