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this v r alley where pay has yet been discovered, and it is not unreason- 
able to suppose that with further work other localities may be found 
on the bench where the conditions were likewise favorable for concen- 
tration of the gold. 
The bench gravels extend for at least 1 miles along the creek. There 
is no reason to think they have been brought to their present position 
from any other direction than that of the present drainage, or by other 
means than stream action. The most satisfactory explanation of their 
presence is that Pioneer Creek, under conditions different from the 
present, left them there. Under this supposition the creek would 
have occupied for longer or shorter intervals various portions of what 
is now the bench, and would have had an opportunity to concentrate 
there in a "pay streak" the gold that was present in the gravels. 
The occurrence of gold in the gravels of the benches sufficiently con- 
centrated to yield good results points to such an origin. 
Eureka Creek. — Eureka Creek is just over the divide about \\ miles 
northwest of Pioneer Creek. It parallels the latter and flows in the 
same direction till, in the lower part of its course, it bends round 
toward the east and at the edge of Baker Flats is joined by Pioneer 
Creek. The valley is similar to that of Pioneer Creek; there is the 
slope on the southeast which descends steeply to the creek and the 
gradual slope on the northwest. The creek carries normally about a 
sluice head, or 50 inches of water. In a wet season the quantity may 
become about 4 sluice heads. The bed rock is grit with graphitic 
phases similar to that of Pioneer Creek. The bench gravels are not 
so well developed. The depth to bed rock varies from 6 to 20 feet, 
and the deposit is muck and gravels. The gravels are from 5 to 16 
feet thick and pay occurs up to 6 feet in the gravels and to a depth of 
3 feet in the bed rock where this is blocky, and over a width of 6 to 60 
jfeet. The work of saving the gold is increased by the presence of clay. 
Borne of the gold is rough and many pieces are found combined 
kvith quartz. Nuggets have been found worth from $25 to $30. The 
Wound is worked by open cut and drifting. The claims are 1,000 feet 
long and most of the work has been done in the lower portion of the 
I Valley. 
Glenn Creek. — Glenn Creek is southwest of Eureka Creek and sepa- 
rated from it by a flat-topped gravel-covered spur about the height of 
jWhat Cheer bar. About 2 miles farther west a similar spur forms 
the western boundary of the valley of Rhode Island Creek. The space 
between these spurs is occupied b} x the drainage areas of a few small 
streams, the lower valleys of which are comparatively open. The 
interstream spaces are beautifully benched, partly covered with 
gravels, and slope gently toward the lowland of Baker Creek, 
(rlenn Creek is the first of these small streams. It is only about 3 
■niles long and occupies a shallow depression in tin 1 gravel-covered 
