218 ALASKAN MINERAL RESOTJBCBS IN 1906. 
GLACIER CREEK. 
It is about 8 miles round the base of the hills from Friday Creek t 
Glacier Creek. The latter is a larger stream than the other creek 
that have been described, heads against them, and after emergiJ 
from its deep V-shaped canyon flows for several miles between broad I 
level-topped ridges before it joins the Bearpaw. Cabins were built a 
intervals along the entire length of the creek during the winter- I 
1905-6, but the area that up to the present time has proved most pro 
ductive is a section of the valley about a mile long where the creel I 
emerges from the hills into the urea of long gravel-covered ridges 
Near the end of the season of 1906 it was reported that pay was beiilj 
found also (M\ Yellow Creek, a small tributary near the head. 
Glacier Creek, although considerably smaller than Moose Creek, i 
a powerful stream, and there has been no lack of water for mining pur 
poses. The grade of the valley in the part that is being worked i 
approximately 130 feet to the mile. The bed rock observed com 
prised quartzite schists, greenstone schists, and garnetiferous mi<| 
schists, with abundant quartz seams and lenses. The gravels an 
coarse and the proportion of bowlders is large. The thickness of th« 
deposits in the working area ranges from 2 to 5 feet, and the width i 
places is 250 feet. The gold is mostly on bed rock. The creel 
meanders sharply at its point of emergence from the hills, and thu 
best pay is reported to have been found just above the points of th. 
meanders. Values have been found ranging from $75 to $200 to th< 
box length, and the gold is reported to be worth $16.40 per ounce 
Many nuggets have been found, and the largest was valued at $365. 
At the point where the stream leaves the hills there is a bench abou 
75 feet above the creek, capped by 3 to 5 feet of gravel underlying 6 t< 
8 feel <>f muck. Gold occurs in about 18 inches of the gravel and |i 
yellower and Hatter than the creek gold. Several areas of the bencl 
gravels were reported to prospect, but insufficient work had been dom 
to det ermine their values definitely. All the work was done by opei 
cuts, and some of the lumber for sluice boxes was packed distances o 
12 to 14 miles from Moose Creek. In the fall of 1906 there wei 
approximately twenty men on the creek. 
CARIBOU CREEK. 
Caribou Creek is somewhat larger than Glacier Creek, but in oth( 
respects the conditions are similar. There is the same variety of bd 
rock and deposits, hut up to the present time no well-developed pa| 
streak has been found. In the early part of the season considerable 
work was done on Crevice Creek, a small tributary near the head 
The gold was found to be rough and coarse, the largest piece being 
valued at $90. At the time Caribou Creek was visited by the Surve} 
party but few men were working. 
