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Other localities. — Small specimens of tin ore, consisting- usually of 
>nly a few pieces, have probably been found during the season on 
several of the streams where mining was in progress near Nome. One 
;uch specimen reported to the writer came from the gold placers on 
he divide between Dry and Dexter creeks, and a considerable amount 
)f such ore was found on Gold Bottom Creek, at the head of Snake 
^iver. 
FAIRBANKS DISTRICT. 
Clean/ Creek occurrence. — Small amounts of stream tin were also 
! ound during the season in the placers of Cleary Creek, in the Fair- 
>anks district, on the lower Xanana. A specimen of this kind 
)btained by Mr. Frank L. Hess, of the United States Geological Sur- 
rey, consists of several rounded pieces of cassiterite resembling that 
)f the York region. This discovery seems to be of scientific rather 
,han economic importance, since, as in the Dawson region, the mineral 
s found only in small quantities. 
