KINDLE AN 
HESS. 
ND | RAMPART PLACER REGION. Ill 
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. 
There are two main areas of present gold production. The one 
lere called the Northern area includes tributaries of Minook and 
fxoublesome creeks; the other or Southern area, called generally 
he Glenn Creek mining district, comprises the small streams of the 
outhern slope, tributary to Baker Creek. 
1SORTHERN AREA. 
The eastern tributaries of Minook Creek which have produced gold 
re Hunter, Little Minook, Little Minook, Jr., Hoosier, and Florida. 
L glance at the sketch map shows the relations of these to one another 
nd to the country which they drain. It will be noticed that the 
ingest of them have their sources several miles east of the high 
ench, while the courses of the smaller tributaries — Little Minook, 
and Florida — lie almost wholly within it. The varieties of bed 
oek found in the valleys of these streams are quartzites, black and 
ray slat}^ shales, limestones, cherts, and diabase with associated tuffs. 
Little Minook Creek. — Little Minook is a small creek about 8 miles 
mg and flows in a narrow V-shaped canyon, which is about 500 feet 
elow the general level in the lower portion of the valley, where the 
:ream has a grade of 100 feet or less to the mile. Mining is confined 
) the lower 3 miles of its course. The distance from the mouth to 
le town of Rampart is about 4^ miles, and the winter and summer 
peight rates 2 and 4 cents a pound, respectivel} 7 . The creek early 
:tracted the attention of miners, and since 1896 has produced approx- 
nately $475,000. 
The depth to bed rock varies from a few feet to about 25 feet, and 
le deposit consists of muck and gravel. The muck is of variable 
lickness, reaching a maximum of 16 feet, and is in some places absent, 
he maximum thickness of the gravels is about 12 feet. They include 
great variety of rocks, among which diabase and tuff are perhaps the 
ost abundant. Quartzite bowlders are common, and there is a con- 
derable proportion of vein quartz. The gravels have been supplied 
•om at least two sources. Angular or subangular material has been 
irived from the bed rock of the sides and bottom of the valley and 
ell-rounded material from the high bench in which this portion of 
e valley has been cut. Bowlders 2 to 3 feet in diameter are common, 
he pa}^ gravels are from 1 to 3 feet thick and from 50 to 200 feet 
ide. The gold is well worn, often coarse, generally finer in the 
wer portion of the valley, and is of high grade, $18 an ounce being 
ven for it in trade. Values are found ranging from $2 to $10 per 
uare yard of bed rock. It is interesting to note that gold has never 
en found in any quantity on Little Minook Creek above the point 
here it receives the drainage from the high bench gravels. 
