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Frank H. Waskey
Tells Chances In
Mulchatna Area
By Frank H. Waskey
DILLINGHAM, Feb. 18, — Alas
ka, to judge from the news items
in your informative and reliable
journal is “doing her part’’ in the
present world-wide effort to seek out
and develop new productive gold
fields. Anchorage, situated at the hub
of the airways of Western Alaska,
has not been backward in furnish
ing men and means for this search.
But there remains one considerab
le area, with in a few hours flight
of The Time’s office, which has long
been known to be mineralized and
yet is almost totally undeveloped
today.
Reference is made to the Mulchat
na Valley, and adjacent areas to the
north and west of that river’s drain
age.
As early as 1890, Frank Densmore
and other early day Yukoners—and
such men they were—reached points
well towards the head of the Mul
chatna and found placer gold.
At many subsequent dates coarse
gold has been found in different
parts of the Mulchatna water shed.
More than twenty years ago, on
the rim of a certain creek in the
area gold of the value of more than
$200 was mortared from some small
quartz veins. The alluvial beds in
the creek bottom adjoining have
never been bed-rocked to this day.
Intelligent effort to so do, has been
made more than once. Even a large
China pump failed to handle the
ground water. The answer to the
problem, is, of course, a suitable
power drill. And that the expense
incident to the putting of such a
drill on the ground is justified is
1 attested by the finding of coarse
placer colors at other places on the
rim of said creek.
Two things have militated against
the development of this section. One
* was the dangers nad difficulties of
ascending the torrential Mulchatna.
The other, strange as it may seem,
was the ease by which, in the past,
a livelihood could be gained by fish
ing for the canneries of Bristol Bay.
Prospector, must necessarily, from
year to year, have a grubstake. Most
prospectors worthy of the name pre
fer to earn their own. It was inev
itable that men coming to this sec
tion to prospect, lured by the stor
ies of the big summer's earnings of
the gill netters, would turn to that
occupation for the needed stake.
Fine business, but the weeks spent
on tide water were the very ones
Mr. Rainbow Chaser should have
been on his way up river and dig
ging in the streams.
In the years prior to the World
War, at the close of the canning
season a few men would laboriously
pole up river to arrive at the di t
ant known mineralized localities
about the time of the fall ruins.
Swollen streams, heavy ground
water, no frozen ground and one tm
ing winter is not a good combina
tion for the prospector no matter
how well he may know his beans, or
how persistent a packer or digger
he may seem to be The failure of
these hardy men to develop real dig
gings did not tend to arouse local
interest in mining, and for years
little or nothing has been done ev
en on those streams where gold
was known to occur.
But it is different today, all but
the matter of the always necessary
grubstake. Given the grubstake, and
a modest sum for air transportation,
and a few hours' (light from Anch
orage or Bristol Bay ports will land
on one of a dozen mountain lakes ■
heretofore months distant from the
outfitting point.
And during March and April it is
safe to say that snow landings may
be found within two hours' pack of
almost any desired point in the area
under discussion.
Drills easily assembled and light
enough to be carried by small planes
have proved efficient in other dist
ricts. These should, in ordinary
depth of gravel, overcome the ground (
water that has so long kept bed
rock an unknown quantity on the
Mulchatna tributaries.
And when, as seems probable, ac
reage is developed requiring heavy
installations of machinery, such i
equipment and other supplies may
be laid down on Lake Iliamna by
power boat and lighters from Brist
ol Bay steamers, at a freight cost
not in excess of present day tariffs,
Seattle to Cook Inlet ports.
More than half the length of the
Mulchatna Valley is within a half
hour’s (light to Lake Iliamna's north
erly shore line.
And every mile of (he rest of the
valley is within air ferrying dis
tance of the westerly shore of Cook
Inlet.
During the early 1900’s, in .0 leas*
two places, Bonanza Creek and Lam
bert’s Bar, men working with pan
and rocker are known to have made
“wages." With gold at its present
price, these and a half dozen other
places that might be mentioned are
well worthy of being reinvestigated
There are today four outfits
known to be digging at widely sep
arated points in the valley. None
of them are doing any talking about (
it. But keep your eye on the Mul
chatna. And, if so be that you may.
obey that impulse, pack up the out
fit, take Pete Cavanaugh or Andy
Edgar or some other equally ex
perienced oldtimer with you, grab a
plane, and before the snow landing
gets poor, seek out for yourself.
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