1nold.]  GOLD    PLACERS    OF    COAST    OF    WASHINGTON.  155 
Battery;  the  second  is  about  5  miles  south  of  the  Shishi  Beach  claim, 
n*  2  miles  north  of  the  mouth  of  Ozette  River;  while  the  southernmost 
Kim  is  at  Yellow  Banks,  (J  miles  south  of  the  mouth  of  the  Ozette. 
[t  is  thus  evident  that  so  far  as  is  now  known  the  pay  sand  is  confined 
0  a  strip  of  the  coast  about  13  miles  long,  which  extends  from  10 
niles  below  Cape  Flattery  to  6  miles  below  the  mouth  of  Ozette  River. 
With  the  exception  of  certain  portions  of  the  year,  when  landings  are 
possible  through  the  surf  at  Shishi  Beach,  trails  furnish  the  only 
neans  of  access  to  the  placer  region.  The  usual  route  of  travel  is  the 
rail  which  skirts  the  coast  from  Neah  Bay  village,  5  miles  east  of 
Uape  Flattery,  to  La  Push,  35  miles  south,  at  the  mouth  of  Quil- 
ayute  River. 
A  very  conservative  estimate  of  the  output  of  these  beach  claims 
ince  their  discovery  is  that  furnished  by  Mr.  W.  W.  Loveless,  a  miner 
dio  has  lived  in  the  region  since  1891  and  who  is  authority  for  the 
tatement  that  at  least  $15,000  has  been  taken  from  the  Shishi  Beach- 
)zette  River  district  up  to  the  present  time. 
Shishi  Beach  placers. — Shishi  Beach,  which  extends  about  2  miles 
orthward  from  Point  of  the  Arches,  has  furnished  the  most  profit- 
Be  claims  of  any  along  the  Cape  Flattery-Grays  Harbor  portion  of 
le  Washington  coast.  Nearly  all  of  the  richer  claims  have  been 
retty  well  worked  out,  and  at  present  only  one  claim  is  being  mined, 
'his  one  is  located  a  mile  north  of  Point  of  the  Arches. 
The  coast  at  this  locality  is  skirted  by  a  low  bluff  of  gray  shale 
id  fine  gray  sandstone.  The  top  of  the  bluff  and  the  surface  of  the 
filing  terrace  behind  it  is  covered  by  a  layer  of  varying  thickness 
p  yellowish  sands  and  gravels  of  Pleistocene  age.  The  beach  at  the 
ise  of  the  low  bluff  is  covered  with  pebbles  and  cobbles  of  varying 
ze,  which  are  largely  derived  from  the  Pleistocene  deposits  by  the 
llcroachment  of  the  sea  upon  the  terrace,  while  the  lower  portion 
1  the  beach  is  covered  by  finer  gravels  and  sands.  The  beach  deposits 
t't  the  present  Avorkings  are  from  1  to  3  feet  in  thickness  and  rest  upon 
le  eroded  surface  of  the  sandstone  and  shale.  The  pay  sand  forms 
J  thin  layer  on  bed  rock  near  the  base  of  the  bluff  and  is  profitably 
prked  for  some  feet  away  from  the  latter.  It  penetrates  the  crevices 
I  the  underlying  sandstone  and  shale  for  2  or  ?>  inches,  and  on  this 
Icount  a  layer  of  the  bed  rock  is  generally  removed  and  sluiced  with 
le  sand. 
[The  gold  is  derived  from  the  Pleistocene  sands  and  gravels,  and 
urs  in  paying  quantities  only  where  the  conditions  of  concen- 
tjition  by  wave  action  are  favorable.  Colors  are  obtainable  in  all 
the  small  streams  which  flow  across  or  cut  through  the  Pleistocene 
race  in  this  vicinity,  but  the  writer  was  informed  that  the  pay 
slid  is  confined  to  the  beach  deposits.    As  no  veins  of  quartz  occur 
