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broken slate lies below this upon vertical strata of slate which strike 
about northeast. These angular blocks of quartzite on top of the 
grave] have been very puzzling. It is likely that they are to be ex- 
plained by the supposition that the creep, which acts very strongly 
here, has broken down a thin bed of quartzite that can be seen on the 
side of the claim, and as the creep has moved the gravels the blocks 
of quartzite have been broken off and have crept with the gravels. 
Mining. — The pay seems to have been mostly, if not wholly, in that 
part of the creek which cuts the mantle of gravel covering the hill- 
side. The pay streak is said to vary in width from 50 to 100 feet. 
In places it was very rich; one pan taken by the Writer gave about 
$3.75. Many pans of $10 and upward were said to have been taken. 
At one place fine gold could be seen all through the broken slate. On 
this claim the pay was in the lower 3 feet of gravel and 2 feet of the 
Led rock. A plat 20 by 48 feet yielded $4,000 to 4 men working three 
and one-half days. 
The gold is bright, clean, .generally worn, and fine, but "■ shotty " 
and easily saved. Such nuggets as are found generally contain con- 
siderable quartz. The largest nugget found weighed nearly 6 ounces. 
It was bright, clean, beautiful gold, and showed the impression of 
large quartz crystals. It is said to assay a little over $16 per ounce. 
A small ditch 1 mile long brings about a sluice head of water from 
Rhode Island Creek. Another ditch dug to bring a sluice head or 
more from Boston Creek was just ready to use when freezing began 
in the fall of 1904. An average number of 24 men are said to have 
been employed during the year. Some drifting is to be done this 
winter (1904-5), but it is said that most of the ground fit for drift- 
ing has been worked out, the remaining pay gravels being too shallow 
to give a good roof. The creek is probably more than half worked 
out. 
GOLD RUN. 
A creek, about 1 \ miles long, flowing into Rhode Island Creek 1 
mile west of Glenn Creek, is called Gold Run. It carries little water 
at any time and is practically dry during the summer and fall. The 
valley is shallow and open and the lower part is cut through the gold- 
bearing gravels covering the extension of What Cheer Bar. The 
creek was staked in the spring of 1899 and the first work was done 
during the winter of 1900-1901. There are six claims, each 500 or 
1,000 feet in length, upon the creek, but only the low r er four have so 
far been producers. The total production during the winter of 
1903-1. as reported by the miners, was about $16,000, not including 
the output of one claim, which was probably small. The production 
of former years is estimated at about $9,000. 
