KOUGAROK REGION. 175 
Section at mouth of l><ihl < 'reek. 
Feet. 
Muck 20 
Ferruginous gold-bearing gravel 3 4 
s > icky day M 
parren white quartz gravel. 
The section of the creek placers is practically the same, for as 
already stated the two horizons are believed to be identical. A mile 
and a half above the mouth the lower gravels give way to bed rock, 
and above this point but few values have been found. 
QUARTZ CREEK. 
Quartz Creek for half a mile below the mouth of Dahl Creek appears 
to have been worked out, for no mining has been done there for several 
years. As yet no values have been found below this point. Some 
placer ground has been developed at the mouth of Joe Creek, but the 
pay streak does not appear to be extensive. 
TRIBUTARIES OF KUZITRIN RIVER ABOVE THE KOUGAROK. 
This portion of the field, though the scene of profitable mining in the 
early days of the camp, has advanced but little in recent years. This 
is in part because the placers were found to be neither as extensive nor 
as rich as first believed and in part because of the high costs of mining 
due to the inaccessibility of the creeks. 
Garfield Creek, from which $25,000 in gold was taken out during the 
first two years after its discovery, has been almost abandoned, though 
one claim continues to yield a little. The pay streak on this creek was 
narrow and thin and rested on a clay bed rock. Benches, though 
present, have not been found to carry values. So far as known, hard 
bed rock has never been reached in any of the operations. 
Boulder Creek, a tributary of Turner Creek, has had a history simi- 
lar to that of Garfield Creek. Little work has been done on it during 
recent }^ears. From 3 to 1 1 feet of gravels are reported, with no bed 
rock. Deeper prospecting would appear to be justified. Among the 
.smaller creeks in this vicinity on which gold has been found, but which 
have not been developed, are Grouse, Black, and Goose creeks. 
NORTHERN BELT. 
GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 
The auriferous gravels of the main Kougarok above the Kuzitrin 
flats and of its tributaries form the northern belt of placers. The bed 
rock of thi3 area is chiefly schist, but most of the tributaries of the 
Kougarok have their courses in limestone areas. This belt embraces 
stream placers and bench placers, of which the former type, to the 
present time, has yielded most of the gold. There are two forms of 
