38 ALASKAN MINERAL RESOURCES IN 1906. 
property. This road affords a natural outlet to Tanana River for the 
Glenn Creek region. Mr. Manley has also surveyed a ditch line fromj 
Hutlinana Creek to Thanksgiving Creek, a distance of 15 miles. If 
the scheme is carried out and there is sufficient water it will lead to 
extensive mining developments in the Glenn Creek region. It is of 
interest to note that the same operator has imported a churn drill for 
prospecting, the first in the district. 
KOYUKUK DISTRICT. 
Little information is at hand regarding the remote Koyukuk dis- 
trict, but it is reported that the gold production in 1906 was about 
$150,000 or $200,000. There has been no reduction in cost of 
operations, and until such takes place there will probably be no expan- 
sion of the mining. It is said that there are about 200 men in the] 
Koyukuk district, and that the richest placers are on Newlands Cree] 
During the past winter a stampede took place on Johns River, but it 
appears that nothing of value was found. 
Late in the summer of 1906 a report came to Fairbanks of the dis- 
covery of new placer ground in the Chandlar basin. The Chandlar is 
tributary to the Yukon from the northwest about 20 miles below Fort! 
Yukon. Auriferous gravels have long been known to occur in this 
region," but no workable placers have previously been found. A 
stream called Big Creek is reported to be the scene of the new find. 
FORTYMILE REGION, & 
The area usually included under the name Fortymile region 
embraces the basin of Fortymile River as well as the placer district 
tributary to the town of Eagle. Though the oldest of the Yukon 
camps, progress has been very slow, chiefly because of the lack of. : 
transportation facilities. This is being remedied to a certain ex lent 
by the construction of a wagon road to Steele Creek. 
Upward of 200 men are working in this district, probably on half as 
many claims. The principal producing creeks are Jack Wade, 
Chicken, and Lost Chicken, together with their tributaries. The 
producing creeks in the region tributary to Eagle include several con- 
fluent to Seventymile Creek, together with American Creek and some 
smaller streams. 
Considerable interest has been taken in the Fortymile region in the 
subject of dredges, but no plants have yet been set up. There are 
also plans for ditch building, but these have not gone beyond prelimi- 
nary surveys. 
" Schrader, F. C, Preliminary report on a reconnaissance along Chandlar and Koyukuk river-- Twen- 
tieth Ann. Rept. IT. S. Geol. Survey, \ t. 7, 1900, pp. 341-423. 
& The writer is indebted to Messrs. Elmer R. Brady, commissioner at Jack Wade, and U. G. Myersj 
commissioner tit Eagle, for information about the. Fortymile region. 
