Review of reviews and world's work . LODE MINING IN SILVER BOW BASIN. NEAR JUNEAU. sevenths that of the \d output. \aluableas the product of the seal rookeries in thePribilof Islands has been in the past, this. DIAGRAM SHOWING VALUK OF ALASKA PRODfCTS,1867-1907. TOTAL, $324,500,000. source of is fast to the raids of the pelagic sealers, the entire catch was less than 15,000 skinsin 1907, as compared with over 100,000 in1887. The present generation will undoubt-edly witness the extermination of this val-uable animal. The other fur-bearing ani-mals are also decreas
Review of reviews and world's work . LODE MINING IN SILVER BOW BASIN. NEAR JUNEAU. sevenths that of the \d output. \aluableas the product of the seal rookeries in thePribilof Islands has been in the past, this. DIAGRAM SHOWING VALUK OF ALASKA PRODfCTS,1867-1907. TOTAL, $324,500,000. source of is fast to the raids of the pelagic sealers, the entire catch was less than 15,000 skinsin 1907, as compared with over 100,000 in1887. The present generation will undoubt-edly witness the extermination of this val-uable animal. The other fur-bearing ani-mals are also decreasing, as is inevitable withthe progress of civilization. In 1907 thefurs, exclusive of seal skins, were valued atless than half a million dollars. . mixing interests. Probably the earliest mining in Alaska wasthe recovery of copper nuggets by the abo-rigines from stream gravels of the Chitinaand White River valleys. Utensils andweapons manufactured from this copper werein wide circulation among the natives at thetime of Berings discovery of Alaska in first corporation to engage in Alaskamining was organized in 1854 to meet agreat demand for ice in California, and inci-dentally, also, to min
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