During the forty one years Alaska
has been produced gold t<> the value
of $320,000,000 of which $221,642,000 is
to be credited to her placer mining.
For 'reasons already staled there was
less placer mining in 1920 than in 1919,
and the outlook under present eco
nomic conditions for a revival of th •
industry as a whole is not hopeful.
Gold dredging has declined relatively
less than other forms of placer min
ing, partly because some of the
dredges are working very rich ground,
partly because the investments in this
form of industry arc so large that
many companies continue operation
even with very small profits. In 1919
there wa stwenty eight dredges oper
ated in Alaska, which produced gold
■worth $1,360,000: In 192" there wen
twenty-two dredges operated which
produced gold worth about 1,020,000,
says the Alaska Publicity Bureau Bui
lt Is estimated that fifteen lode
mines and five prospects were operated
in Alaska in 192". producing about
3,270.000 tons of ore. from which $1.
in ill operators were working on placer
[tin deposits. The gold placers of the
I southeastern part of Seward I'-iin
ola froon the Chistachina (Si .•
I Creek district, and from some other
.districts, continue t-> yield some plati
The production of marlde continued
in the Ketchikan district. Southeast
ern Alaska, on about the same scale
I as in previous years. The gypsum
mine, in the Sitka district, which was
flooded in 1919, was pumped out in;
1M HO and production resumed The
Alaska. Sulphur Company completed
its mining and reduction plan* on Akun
Island, in the eastern part of the
Aleutian chain, late in the summer of
1920. A shipment of garnet sand, to
be used as an abrasive was made from
Nome in 1920. It was mined in the
beach sands of Imiiruk Busin, a tidal
estuary about fifty miles north of
Bonanza milling always tlie first to
be developed in a new land, is a most
powerful agency in attracting popula
tion. in forming communities, and in
PLACER MINING
S<50,000 worth of gold and 106,000 ounc
es of silver were recovered. The out
put in 1010 was 3,JO:!,57:: tons of ore,
containing gold to the value "f $1,292,
237 and 108,691 ounces of silver.
Klglit copper mines were in opera -
tion in Alaska in 1920 and produced
about 330,000 tons of ore, from which
71.000. 000 pounds of copper, 710,000
ounces of silver, and $12,000 worth of
gold were recovered. This brings the
total copper production of Alaska dur
ing twenty years of mining up to
616.000. 000 pounds, hut much more
than half of this is the output of the
<estadd!ishiiig transportation sysy-ins.
Such milling will continue, for the
known bonanza deposits in Alaska
have been by no means exhausted, and
there is a good prospect of finding
otliers. A stable and permanent
mining Industry can not, however, be
founded on the exploitation of only
the very rich bodies. Permanency
must be based on the development of
the larger deposits of lessor unit val
ue. Such development depends for its
profits not so much on the richness of
the ore is on economies .made possi
ble by the magnitude of the opera
HYDRAULIC MINING
last decade. In 19JO, as in past years,
the only mines that made a large out
put of copper ore were those controlled
by the Kenneoott Copper Corporation,
one on Prince William Sound and
three in the Kotsina-Chitlna district.
In 1920 Alaska mines produced
about 887,000 ounces of silver; in 1919
488,034 ounces. The lead production
increased-from 5G4 tons in 1919 to
about 880 tons in 1920. About thirty
• ne of steam tin concentrates were
mined in Alaska in 1920, compared
with eighty-six tons tin 1919. Most of
this tin was mined in the York dis
trict, at the west end of Seward Fen
Tvsula, where one dredge and several
tions. Large mining operations can not
i»e successful at places that are served
only by haphazard and expensive
means of transportation generally
available on the frontier. The* passage
from bonanza mining to a stable and
permanent Industry has naturally tak
en place In all mineral-bearing re
gions and has long been under way in
the accessible coastal region of. Alaska
but the great minoral wealth *>f the
Interior retfiains practically untouched
except by the bonanza miner.
As about 96 per cent of the value
of the mineral output of Alaska has
been taken from her gold and copper
mines, the world-wide depression in
GOLD DREDGING IN ALA8KA
the mining: of tlv -e two m- t ils, u hi • i i
continued through 1920, has been i
‘•triggering blow to the pro-spent> "f .
the Territory. About 6') per tent of
the population of Alaska has hereto
fore been dfreetly or indirectly sup
ported by gold ini'in ng. (With the rel
ative decrease in the value of gold the
miner and prosp ctor has been forced
to leave the Territory and the popula
tion has declined. This decline, how
ever must not be regarded as an in
dication of the early exhaustion <>f the
gold resource a, for Alaska contains
enormous potential reserves of gold
and other minerals. The depress on of
l»l- tion of th“ ff>.Vfrnmfiil i;iilro id.
an-1 tho building <>f ;i hug. nulagf* of
T1 .* Nome Nugget delivered by car
ter or mailed. Per Month $1.00
$30,000 CLEANUI
ANTIMONY MINING
Subscribe for the Nugget
$1.00 Per Month
She Sits and Sews While the Washer Goes
This machine will do the family washing
for 25 cents. Why use old, hard
labor methods when you can
do it better and at less expense
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NEW GAME REGULATIONS
prohibited from March 15 10'*. • \'o
;irids fom years to closed period
originally designated. The new regu
lations are promulgated by the Bureau
of Biological Survey of the Dep.ut
rnent of Agriculture under an a< *t >f
Congress approved May 31, 1320 which
confers upon the .Secretary of Agricul
ture the powers and duties heretofore
conferred upon the Secretary of Com
incr-e with respect to protection of
Alaska f>M hearing animal*.
Ptirsuint to this authority, the Sec
retary of Agriculture, because of wide
variations in the climatic and physio
graphic. and in order to serve the cou
vonh nee of trappers and the « uise of
conservation with justice, has deemed
■ to divide the Te rit< ry In -
to t'.ree districts. in each of whi hi
the conditions relating to for are com
p.ira*iv*-|y uniform. The first of tlv -•
or District X<>. 1. a - de-ejibed by the
ula and neighbor
District Xo. 2 includes the ir
land and islands from Yakut,it
Dulf Alaska Lliamna T.ake
Bristol Bay, northward to the h
waters of the streams flowing int<
\ ' r> ,..m north >>f the f.sth r
of V.ii'th latitude.
entering the
C lose I Period-i
d -tri -is through' t * 11• Territory- in
til Xovember 1". 1022.
Martin—The kill; - of r,,
the Territory until Xovember 1*.. 102:
..Open Season—Bin k.
.March 31, both dates itn
to March la. inclusive. T.ynx ini f
Doc. I to Jan. 31 inclusive.
District 2:— Muskrat Pet. K »
May 31, inclusive. Otter mink a:v.
weasel (ermine). Xov. 16 to Mn-ol
31, inclusive. Lynx, and for Xov
If. to Feby. 28. inclusive.
District 3:: -Muskrat. Dec 1 t
May 31. inclusive. Otter, mir.k am
weasel (.•.mine). Xov. 1 to March 31
inclusive. Lynx apd fox. Nov. '« (■
April 15. inclusive.
Traps:—Killing of land fur be trim
animals at anytime by means of tin
trap or dirice known as the "klips"
I
! NOTK- T> C .! "f \1
nska (Title 1. < ii.-.p. 1. 1*<5) pro
! vidcs that all persons concerned la
! the commission o' a rrfnv whether
luting the crime 01 a M and ,ht its
pose of killing f> - • fr*!.i ml animals
is n participator in the crlim- and iike
1 ■: ins land animals kill-1 in viola
tion of gif ••• ?» found in the pos
>ftl
y of
Agriculture and -a.-ii . s-h dl hold
- i •! skins f"f « '• disposition •- shall
h.- ordered by the rourt haring juris
fi otn A la ■ | -
1000. >r ,• ii:;:-iis> provid, - .» f .1
t of the I . • •
Importation of which is prohibited', or
*
, - of birds or bird plumage n nr t
i from the f sh - of barnyard
point-- on' of Alaska which may be
at any time, should be reported
blank- which will be supplied for I
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