PLACERS OF THE RAMPART REGION. 87 
Seattle Bar. — Seattle Bar is about 2-J miles farther northeast on the 
same bench, on the northeast side of Seattle Junior Creek, and about 
the same distance back from Pioneer Creek as What Cheer Bar. Pay 
was discovered here in the spring of 1904. The depth to bed rock 
is about 9 feet and the bed rock and gravel are similar to those of 
What Cheer Bar. The gold occurs in the lower foot of gravel and 
the upper foot or more of bed rock. It is bright, chunky, and well 
worn. Some of it is rather flat, but all is easily saved. The largest 
nugget obtained was worth $9.40. Water is obtained for sluicing 
by a ditch and hose from Skookum Creek, which in a dry year will 
furnish but a scant supply. 
Doric Creek. — Doric Creek is a small tributary of Pioneer Creek 
about three-fourths mile above What Cheer Bar, and is dry most of 
the summer and fall. It has an open valley, at its greatest depth 
probably not over 50 feet below the level of the bench. Gold was 
discovered here in 1902, and in the winter of 1903-4 a portion of the 
valley about one- fourth mile from Pioneer Creek was found to be 
very rich. As with other weak streams its wash shows almost no 
wear, but there is also a large amount of more rounded gravel from 
the bench through which it has cut. 
Only one claim has produced much gold. Some pay was found on 
the lower part of the next claim above, but none in the upper part. 
The richness of the deposit is probably due to the reconcentration of 
the gold from the gravels of the bench. The ground is worked by 
drifting during the winter, and the largest bowlders are left in the 
drifts. It is worthy of note that a large degree of the success ob- 
tained in locating this claim was attributed to the remarks upon 
concentration in the Survey report on the Nome region, a which apply 
with much force to many of the deposits of the Rampart region. 
Other bench gravels. — A mantle of gravels similar to that which 
covers the gentle slope on the northwest side of Pioneer Creek bends 
around a spur from the divide on the west side of Eureka Creek and 
continues to Omega Creek, a distance of about 2J miles. Beyond this 
point it has not been traced. In the space described the gravels are 
cut by Glenn Creek, Gold Run, Rhode Island Creek, and Seattle 
Creek. 
SHIRLF.Y BAR. 
The bench gravels have been prospected at many places and shown 
to carry gold, but at only one point outside of the creeks crossing them 
have they proved sufficiently rich to pay for working. This place, 
known as Shirley Bar, is located between Glenn Creek and Gold Run. 
It is at an elevation of about 200 feet above the lower workings on 
" Brooks, A. II., and others, Reconnaissances in the Cape Nome and Norton Bay regions, 
Alaska, in 1900 ; a special publication of U. S. Geol. Survey, 1901, pp. 149-151. 
