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GOLD PLACEKS OF TURNAGAIN ARM. 
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[urnagain Arm is characterized by remarkably high tides, beginning 
vith a bore which has a height of 6 feet at times, and runs in from the 
nlet at a speed of 5 or 6 miles an hour. At low tide the arm becomes 
, broad mud flat, cut here and there by the stream channels. Small 
Fig. 5.— Sketch map of the Turnagain Arm placer region. 
reamers enter and leave on high water, but the bore and swift currents 
lake the use of small boats dangerous. 
The productive creeks in the placer gold field here described are, 
ith one exception, tributary to Turnagain Arm. The four most 
nportant of these are Resurrection Creek, Bear Creek, Sixmile 
