ALASKA 1903 U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF MOUNT WRANGELL DISTRICT for Sale

ALASKA 1903 U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF MOUNT WRANGELL DISTRICT For Sale

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ALASKA 1903 U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF MOUNT WRANGELL DISTRICT:
$45.00

We are offering the publication,The Mineral Resources of the Mount Wrangell District, Alaska.Department of Interior, United States Geological Survey. By Walter C. Mendenhall and Frank C. Schrader. Washington Government Printing Office. 1903.(9" x 11 1/2"; 71 pages) Contains a large color fold-out map of the Mount Wrangell District; map of the Southern Copper area; map of Christochina Gold Field; map of Elliott Creek copper claims; and map of region adjacent to the Upper Nabesnak. Also has sketch maps of Kletsan Creek copper deposits; and Nizina Gold Field. It also has photos of Warner Copper Prospect and Tunnel; Rock Creek; Valley of Lime Creek; Nikolai Mine and View of Bonanza Mine from Horseshoe Trail; Miller Gulch, and Ruby Gulch showing lower end of Jackpot claim, and other photos.
Here is a little of the 4-page introduction: It begins by stating that the number of white inhabitants in the Territory of Alaska in 1880 was 430; and shows a steady increase over the next ten year reaching a number of 30,493 whites by 1900. It gives the yield of precious metals in 1891 as $772,197, and by 1900 the yield was $8,263,772. The introduction says, "These statistics show the importance and commercial value of the Territory to the integral part of the domain of the United States." The introduction gives details of the influx of prospectors, miners and businessmen looking for opportunity, spurred on by information acquired from a number of explorations authorized by the War Department in 1898 to learn of the geology of the area. The men who had partaken in these explorations suffered many hardships that winter, navigating over glaciers, forging trails, mapmaking and dealing with the disease of scurvy that had reached epidemic proportions. **CONDITION** - Excellent; with a little bit of minor wear at the top of the spine, so we have reinforced the spine with acid-free archival mending tape to prevent any tearing.