Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the late fall of 1927 an Eskimo youth found a piece of heavy, bright metal in an unnamed creek (later called Fox Gulch) about nine miles south from the southerly side of Goodnews Bay, on lower Kuskokwim Bay, and gave this nugget to Chas. Thorsen, a gold minor of that section. Thorsen sent some to the Alaska School of Mines, Fairbanks for analyzing and was informed that the sample was a very good grade of crude platinum. Of course this information leaked out another stampede was under way. During the next year a number of other "strikes" were made...
...also. Last summer, 1935, the Goodnews Mining Co. mined out nearly 8,000 oz. and the hand miners recovered 1,500 oz. This spring a group of men purchased a few claims we had not been able to strike a deal on and, under the name of the Clara Creek Mining Co. placed a dragline scraper outfit on Clara Creek and have been doing very well. Their recovery will be something like 5,000 oz. for this season. No hand miners are now operating in this platinum section...
...Goodnews Mining Co. should do as well this year as last and with what's recovered by the Clara Creek Co., the total crude platminum recovery for the Goodnews section alone should be close...
...Federal aid, the year's appropriations for the National Museum were $716,000, up $61,000 from the preceding year. In addition, PWA allotted $680,000 to build a pachyderm house, an addition to the bird house and a house for small mammals for the zoo in Rock Creek Park...
...ruined garden. Twelve million tons of coal have been destroyed, and 28,000,000 more lie along the paths of the fire's slow advance. Attempts have been made to head off the fire by sinking cement walls, by forcing steam underground, by diverting a creek into a shaft. All failed...