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1909 The headquarters of the United States commissioner
and the industrial center of the Innoko district Conditions in
this camp are as yet crude The rocker and sluice box are the only
means used to extract the gold which is found in comparatively
shallow ground bedrock being at a depth of fifteen to twenty five
feet The buildings are the kind to be found in a new and comparatively
inaccessible mining camp being constructed of almost any kind of
available material and with a view of keeping out the winter cold
There is some timber in this region otherwise the building and
fuel question would be hard to solve Promising quartz prospects
have been discovered in the mountains near the placer mines but
this part of Alaska is still in the prospecting stage .
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