PLACERS OF THE RAMPART REGION. 79 
HOOSIER CREEK. 
Hoosier Creek flows into Minook Creek from the east side between 
5 and 6 miles from the Yukon. It is a stream of about the same 
volume as Hunter Creek and has a valley of about the same gradient 
and general section, but it shows no sign of the bench that appears 
along Hunter Creek. Like Hunter and Little Minook creeks, its 
course bends to the left upon entering the area of the high bench of 
Minook Creek, although in a less degree. 
The production of Hoosier Creek is unknown. There is assigned 
to it but $500 in a previous report, $227 of which was in one nugget. 
Other small amounts have been taken out, but the production has 
not been large, and it has been almost impossible to thoroughly pros- 
pect the creek on account of live water in the gravels. 
The bed rock is similar to that of the other creeks cutting the 
bench. Quartz A^eins up to 18 inches in width occur in the diabase, 
and there is some pyrite distributed through the rocks. The alluvial 
deposits vary in thickness from 6 to 15 feet, of which 1 to 9 feet is 
gravel, averaging probably about 6 feet, and 1 to 10 feet is muck, 
averaging perhaps 6 or 7 feet. There is thought to be a pay streak 
about 100 feet wide whose length coincides with the distance the 
creek flows through the high bench, but the gravels of the valley are 
broader than those of the other creeks described, and with the live 
water the pay is hard to locate. 
Two miles above the mouth of the creek a hydraulic plant has been 
installed and had just gotten in shape to begin work at the end of 
the season of 1904. A combined ditch and flume 4,300 feet in length 
delivered 500 miner's inches of water under a head of about 80 feet. 
A hydraulic elevator is used to dispose of the tailings. 
FLORIDA CREEK. 
Florida Creek is only about 2 miles long, lying in the high bench 
of Minook Creek about 2 miles south of Hoosier Creek. Ordinarily 
it is dry during the summer and fall. The gradient of the stream is 
high and the valley narrow. The bed rock is almost entirely of 
diabase. The alluvial deposits are narrow, but in places reach a 
depth of 15 or 20 feet. Nuggets up to $33 in value have been taken 
from the creek, but so far as known not more than a total of $2,000 
has been obtained, though the stream has been well prospected. The 
first prospect showed up so well that miners at once located the whole 
of the creek, and a number of good cabins were erected on the different 
claims. Some ground sluicing was done on the lower part of the 
creek during the season of 1904, but no other work was done. 
