WATER SUPPLY OF NOME REGION. 
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Table 3. — Minimum flow of streams in Seward Peninsula. 
STREAMS RISING IN FOOTHILLS. 
Stream. 
Eleva- 
tion. 
Date. 
Minimum 
flow. 
Drainage 
area. 
Minimum 
run-off per 
square 
mile. 
ron Creek below mouth of Canyon Creek. . . 
lidorado River below mouth of Venetia 
Creek. 
3tt Creek 
opper Creek 
Jugget Creek 
>avid Creek 
)orothy Creek 
[obson Creek 
late Creek (tributary of Stewart River)... 
tewart River 
'enny River 
Feet. 
450 
400 
800 
800 
785 
590 
500 
500 
700 
400 
120 
Aug. 14 
....do.. 
Sept. 10 
Aug. 11 
June 28. 
Aug. 19 
Aug. 18 
July 4.. 
Aug. 19. 
....do.. 
Aug. 1.. 
Sec-feet. 
17.1 
44 
M.2 
.8 
6.96 
3.3 
2.9 
10.5 
2.2 
11.4 
a 36 
Sq. miles. 
37 
51 
1.4 
.85 
2.1 
4.3 
2.7 
2.6 
2.1 
36 
0. 46 
3 
.94 
.46 
.77 
1.1 
c4 
1.05 
.32 
1.9 
a Lowest measurements obtained. The flow was less on certain dates. 
?> The lowest flow later in the season was 3.0 second-feet, or 1.4 second-feet per square mile on August 
c The flow of Hobson Creek is from large limestone springs whose catchment area may not coincide 
nth the surface drainage basin. 
STREAMS RISING IN KIGLUAIK MOUNTAINS. 
rand Central River (North Fork) 
Jrand Central River (West Fork) 
i rand Central River below the forks 
rand Central River below Nugget Creek. . . 
Jet ween Grand Central River below the 
forks and station at Nugget Creek. 
rater Lake outlet 
Thompson Creek 
Vindy Creek 
lorth Star Creek 
inuk River 
iuffalo Creek 
ferae River 
ox Creek 
Irater Creek 
Cruzgamepa River 
750 
850 
925 
720 
650 
900 
770 
800 
575 
550 
550 
442 
July 1 
Sept. 15-17 
Sept. 16-17 
do 
....do.... 
Sept. 15-17 
Sept. 16-17 
Aug. 3.... 
Aug. 10. . . 
Aug. 3.... 
....do.... 
Aug. 5 
Aug. 16... 
Sept. 16-17 
Aug. 19- 
Sept. 17. 
23 
19 
47 
90 
43 
3.1 
5 
32 
2.9 
20 
9.1 
20 
17.3 
39 
175 
5.4 
5.4 
14.6 
39 
24.4 
1.8 
2.5 
12 
2.3 
6.2 
4.4 
15 
11 
si 
4.3 
3.5 
3.1 
2.3 
1.76 
1.7 
2 
2.7 
1.26 
3.2 
2.1 
1.3 
1.6 
2.16 
RAINFALL. 
In connection with the stream gaging, four rainfall stations were 
established, as follows: Nome, claim No. 15, on Ophir Creek, foot of 
Salmon Lake, and Deering. Records were received only at the first 
}hree stations, where the mean monthly rainfall was as follows: 
Mean monthly rainfall, in inches, at stations on Seward Peninsula, 1906. 
Station. 
June. 
July. 
August. 
Septem- 
ber. 
Total, 
June to 
August, 
Total. 
June to 
Septem- 
ber 
^ome 
Trace. 
Trace 
Trace. 
2.38 
4.92 
3.57 
2.50 
3.33 
1.91 
1.02 
3.26 
(O) 
4.88 
8.25 
5.48 
5.90 
11.51 
3phir 
a No record. 
