[offit] SMALL PLACERS OF TURN AGAIN ARM. 95 
PLACES DEPOSIT 
The known placer-gold deposits of commercial value are confined 
geographically to three small areas, the valleys of Resurrection, Six- 
nile, and Glacier creeks. It may be said in general that the gravels 
ire much alike in composition, are due partly to local erosion and 
>artly to transportation by glacial ice, and contain a very large pro- 
portion of coarse material -rounded and angular blocks which occa- 
sionally have diameters as great as H or 10 feet. 
Pick and shovel mining has gradually given place to hydraulic meth- 
>ds, by which nearly all work is now carried on. During the past 
summer, owing to frequent rains and the gradual melting of the snow 
>n the mountains, the water supply was abundant, and no complaints 
)f water famine were heard. A head of 150 to 200 feet has been 
secured with little difficult}' and expense on any of the creeks where 
nining is now carried on. 
RESURRECTION CREEK DISTRICT. 
Considerable mining has been done on Resurrection Creek itself, 
)ut at present the producing streams of the district are Bear Creek 
md Palmer Creek. 
Bear Creek. — Bear Creek was first worked in 1894 and is therefore 
)ne of the best known streams of the held. It occupies a steep, nar- 
■ow valley in the high divide between Resurrection and Sixmile creeks 
md joins Turnagain Arm just east of the town of Hope. The bed 
*oek shows a succession of slates and arkoses, whose strike is nearly 
it right angles to the general course of the creek. The gravels con- 
sist chiefly of material like the bed rock, but contain some foreign 
natter, much of which is granitic in character. They are in general 
>ut poorly stratified. 
The gold is associated with a small amount of native silver. It is 
•oarx- and smooth and of lower grade than any other of the Resur- 
'ection district. The best pay is from bed rock, which is sometimes 
i glacial clay. One nugget worth over $200 was found. 
Mining is confined to the stream bed and until the last two years 
jas been carried on chiefly with pick and shovel. At present there 
ire two hydraulic; plants on the creek, only one of which was working 
luring the season just ended. 
Palmer Greek. — Palmer Creek, the largest tributary to Resurrection 
Jreek, is the only one that produced any gold during the last season. 
the upper stream flows through a broad valley, while the lower per- 
son occupies a narrow, box-like canyon cut partly in rock and partly 
n the gravel terraces of Resurrection Creek. Most of the mining is 
jlone along the lower canyon portion of the valley- The bedrock is 
argcly grit (arkose) interbedded with slates and is very much jointed. 
