116 ALASKAN MINERAL RESOURCES IN 1904. [bull. 259. 
and frequently exhibits line examples of earth creep. The strike is 
N. 75° E. and the dip in places is high to the northwest. The average 
depth to bed rock is about 12 feet. The material from the surface 
downward includes 1 to 1J- feet of muck, 3 feet of rather fine flat 
wash, 5 feet of yellowish gravel of medium size, and 4 feet of rather 
heavy wash. The gravels include a large proportion of quartzite, 
considerable vein quartz, occasional bowlders of coarse conglomerate 
like that found in the wash of Quail Creek on the northern side of the 
divide, and some igneous material. Some of the vein quartz bowlders 
are 2 feet or more in diameter. Most of the gold is found in the lower 
portion of the gravels. It is well worn and the coarsest piece found 
was valued at $28. The bench is dry and the summer of 1903 was! 
employed in bringing water to the claim from a point about 4 miles 
up stream. A ditch was dug around the hillside and flumes were con-J 
structed across the small tributaries. The result is a combined ditch 
and flume 4 miles long, with a capacity of about 3 sluice heads. The 
ground is worked by open cuts, the dirt all shoveled into the sluice 
boxes, and the tailings distribute themselves over the slope toward j 
Pioneer Creek. The water was not available till the first of August, 
1904, and the men had been shoveling in for about 15 days. Thirteen] 
men were employed and wages were $5 and board. 
Seattle bar is located on the same side of Pioneer -Creek, about 
the same distance back from it and 2-J- miles farther upstream. The 
depth to bed rock is about 9 feet, and the gravels are of the samel 
character and arrangement as those of What Cheer bar. The gold 
occurs next to bed rock and to a depth of a foot or more within it. I 
Some of the gold is flat and some shotty in character. The coarsest! 
found was a piece valued at $9.40. The ground is worked in a small] 
way by an open cut, and good results have been obtained. Water for] 
sluicing is brought by a ditch and hose from Skookum Creek. 
The tributaries to Pioneer Creek are all small, have a course down 
the slope at about right angles to that of the main valley, and cut 
through the gravel-covered areas of the bench. Their valleys are 
open and form onl} T shallow depressions. Doric Creek is about 
three-fourths of a mile upstream from What Cheer bar. It was 
prospected in the fall of 1902, and during the winter of 1903-4 a small 
portion of the valley about one-fourth of a mile from Pioneer Creek 
proved to be very rich. The bed rock is graphitic schistose grit. 
Besides the local angular material the wash includes a large proportion 
of gravels from the bench. The ground is worked by drifting in the 
winter time. The largest bowlders are left at the bottom of the drift. 
No pay has been found in the upper portion of the valley, and the gold 
found here is probably derived by reconcentration from the bench 
gravels. The locality is an instructive one. 
The three localities above described are the most important ones in- 
