Review of reviews and world's work . ,whence millions ofdollars in goldhave been the mineworkings reach adepth of 1000 feet below the level of the sea,—far below the and ocean freights,—reduce the cost of min-bottom of the glory hole. ing to a minimum hardly possible in any It is not merely size which has made the Western State. Alaska is so often regardedTreadwell famous. This enterprise has dem- as a land of high costs that this triumph mustonstrated the cheapness of mining on the be laid to her credit. Pacific seaboard of Alaska. The present Placer gold, or that found in gravels,
Review of reviews and world's work . ,whence millions ofdollars in goldhave been the mineworkings reach adepth of 1000 feet below the level of the sea,—far below the and ocean freights,—reduce the cost of min-bottom of the glory hole. ing to a minimum hardly possible in any It is not merely size which has made the Western State. Alaska is so often regardedTreadwell famous. This enterprise has dem- as a land of high costs that this triumph mustonstrated the cheapness of mining on the be laid to her credit. Pacific seaboard of Alaska. The present Placer gold, or that found in gravels, isaverage cost of mining and milling a ton of more widely distributed in Alaska than inore at this property is but $ In fact, any other part of the continent. The presentthe conditions of this coastal region,—the centers of production are Fairbanks ($9,200,-strong relief, giving ready access to ore 000 in 1908) and Nome ($5,100,000, 1908).bodies, extensive water powers, good timber. There are, besides, many smaller placer. MAP OF ALASKA SHOWING DISTRIBUTION OF THE ALASKA OF TO-DAY. 53 ReccMit discoveriesat Fairbanks, atNome, and in theSusitna Valley sug-gest that these dis-tricts will in timebecome producersof lode gold also. A more imme-diate change in theplacer camps ispromised by therevolution of min-ing methods. Un-til quite recentlyplacers were, as arule, exploitedsolely by manuallabor,—a systemwhich, while it en-courages the indi-vidual miner with-out capital, per-mits developmentof only very richdeposits. Probablymost of the gravelgold mining of in-land Alaska hasbeen limited tomaterial whichcarried gold to thevalue of five dol-lars or more to thecubic yard. Inmany localities,where this expen-sive mining is nowgoing on, propermachinery wouldundgubtedly workwith profit gravelswhich carry onlyfrom 25 to 50cents worth ofgold to the cubicyard. This indi-camps which raised the total production from cates enormous expansion in the future, afterauriferous gravels t
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