KOUGAROK REGION. 179 
COARSE GOLD AND OTHER SMALL CREEKS. 
The alluvium of Coarse Gold Creek is auriferous, but as yet only 
small amount of gold has been extracted. A hard diorite forms 
he bed rock of a part of the creek and does not afford a favorable 
jirface for the concentration of values. The lower part of the creek 
in schist and deserves attention on the part of prospectors. 
Arizona and California creeks are small streams, but they have 
msiderable gravel deposits near their mouths. Both the flood- 
ain and bench deposits have yielded considerable gold. 
Gold was discovered on Henry Creek about five years ago, but the 
alues do not appear to be great. Little has been done on this 
,ream since 1903. 
Between Coarse Gold and Taylor creeks there are a number of small 
llches which have yielded values, but these will probably be mined 
ith the bench deposits already described and deserve no special 
Lention here. 
TAYLOR, HOMESTAKE, AND OTHER CREEKS. 
Taylor Creek is the largest tributary of the Kougarok. In its 
asin are exposed both limestone and schists. Some mining has 
sen done near the mouth of the creek, where the placer deposits are 
milar to the flood-plain deposits of the Kougarok, of which they 
>rm an extension. Above this point the only mining attempted 
l this basin is on a small tributary called Solomon Creek. At the 
Louth of this stream there is a sloping bench on which lie 3 to 7 
set of gravels covered by 8 to 10 feet of muck. These gravels are 
uriferous and have been mined in a small way, as have also the 
Team gravels of Solomon Creek half a mile above. 
Auriferous gravels have been found throughout the length of 
"omestake Creek, and the claims near the mouth have produced 
>me gold. The auriferous gravels are from 5 to 8 feet thick, and 
ay streaks to a width of 40 feet have been found. 
Among the smaller tributaries above Homestake Creek which have 
ielded values are Macklin, Trinity, and Mascot creeks. These 
Teams contain no extensive deposits, but include some workable 
ravels, whose occurrence is of significance in showing a wide distri- 
ution of the gold. 
CONCLUSIONS. 
The investigations on which this report is based were entirely 
do inadequate to permit- a final word on the value of the auriferous 
ravels of the district. That there are extensive alluvial deposits 
arrying sufficiently high values to yield adequate returns for eco- 
omic mining no one can deny who has studied the matter carefully. 
