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"Headwater Regions of Gulkana and Btisitna Rivera, Alaska," by Fred H. Mofflt, a report which deals primar- ily with the* district including the Valdez creek gold placers but also gives an account of mining develop- ments during the last few years in the Slate creek district, at the head of Chistochina river. Slate creek and its gold placers were visited by W. C. Mendenhall in 1902 and were de- scribed by hira in the survey's Pro- fessional Paper 41. Mr. Mendenhall also visited Delta river In 1898, but the region west of Delta river, in- cluding the head of Susitna river, has never been described geologically before the field work of 1910, on which Bulletin 498 is based, was un- dertaken. During the summer of, 1910 D. C. Witherspoon, assisted by C. B. Giffln, made surveys for a topographic reconnaissance map to be published on a scale of 1 tc 260,- 000, or about four miles to the inch. This map is the base of the geologic map accompanying the report. Found in Streams. Gold has been found in its bed- rock source in the slate area south of Valdex creek and is present in some of the stream-gravel deposits within that area. Most of the placer gold from this district, however, has come from an old-fllled-in channel or canyon once occupied by Valdes rcreek and from the stream gravels of that part of the present channel of the creek which lies below the point where the old and new channels in- tersect The gold in the new channel is in large part a reconcentration from the rich auriferous filling of the old can- yon. This old channel represents an earlier stage of the topography on whkh the present stage is ' super- posed, the whole process being close- ly connected with the intense glacia- tion which this region has undergone and which is not yet completed. The old channel and the three or four creek claims below it on the pres- ent stream constitute an excellent example of the Importance of recon- centration in the production of rich gold placers. Gives promise. Lucky Gulch, a email branch of Valdes creek, contributed an impor- tant amount to the gold production - ' â-  â-  , .*â-  '-â- â€¢â€¢ <>*•..- »•.-»â-  .,„-,- â- â€ž-. â-  â- vv«iir.4."kry"^•••i-'{.-J-â- â- '•â- "t^ â- â- -) i ^.V. • ♦•'•«' ,; â- , -•â- , • 7&H, ^£7 r^m00'^H::':- .:-:^E... .!»*-'â- - .,- - * ... . **#*.. . â- ,:;â- â- ., >'.iWr.S,'a'mi- • *..-*>â- â- *â-  'â- â-  •v/1* y?fy£m^ V;^ ^ z.,*"' When flames destroyed the old club- house of the Skokie Country club last year it left the club without a home, EXTERIOR VIS7W FROM GOLF COUltflBV •£»:; rMaolMtisfr^ the con smouldering when the members of the I early th^s spriiig as sooa as the frost | ev« club began making plans for the new!was <s«l of tli*^^ â€" building. Although they acted o^icJiM'l^ Other buildings on' the grounds were! they overlooked nothing in their haste, j the ^ot^mm:...t^^'::l^«n. tawy .fcflWrjibaiiider djf the * for quarters to be used" --â€"»â€"*--------* _.â€"*-. â€" i-»---------_J^^u ^.teHi. i«i .a. »u ^isiki tl i. «m»^ a new home could be erected. The any The most minute details were gone [possible minute and now the mem-J^ ttM expected that tns build into most carefully, and those on the»bets are to w*|t ;*»* a short tknef be ready fot occupancy by Nofi :.§.. ^"'^„ •iiS^!^* PLAN OF MEN'S LOCKER ROOM. '-M SB?.;1"- 'i'-^fii 'â- -, F* 'rocrastination new house is fast nearing completion and it will not be long before the members are occupying one of the nicest clubhouses to be found on the torth shore. • The ruins had hardly stopped Procrastinati ate« jqi&g to save^ipjs- ProcraBtination intoy<nirpodcef tlxe very $5 you S.5^juH|i«^:"*E>r"' |fc^wslib'-r; tomor- ff^:> ,'.fl«| €teiy^ way1 to get v sJiead of Proci^nation is to of the district and Rusty creek prom- ises to become a producing stream also.' Mining on Valdes creek has been carried on. under difficulties arising from high cost of transporta- tion and labor, shortness of working season, and other troubles such that it could not have been profitable if the gravel had not been remarkably rich.' The gold jHOdn&ien of Valdes cre*^ includliig tJiat o* JW#* U pr^^ aJW^|0|; far ^fioai- Veij^M^l^"..".._/ Slate creek w' seventy-nVe miles east of Valdes creek. It is Oie site of an older camp than Valdes creeJk and with its tribntary, Miller Qv&ht has been the s^eatest producer of placer gold within the Copper river basin, having yielded more than one and a luilf millions of dollars* Its gold is derived from a mineralised area in slate. Diorite intrusive roeks are present and m ^ese respeots the u«pv«U limvwuio ikma oi Twjwm craek. It to IteUered^ howsrer, that the: slate of Valdes eyeek is yoomjef. committee to supervise the plans saw; to it that nothing .wan left undone to make the building as modern and con- venient as possible. Work on the building was started 'V.I " "" » ' "'I '" "I1 ' ' ... ""' ...I." L tion of more economical means of mining than have been used in the PS**, * OHgtml Amen Corner. : The orlgtn of the name MAn^meof> •ef** Is. -intersiting/ 'an4 ' .ttitews^^.s)' pleissnt light ps a>rg*fffli of ts^ oUiys before the snostasy of Henry VIIL Bssh year on the feast sf Corpes Christl tte fatthfol ^ent isi PTooistioa to 0t -Paul's catbedraL Mastsrlns; t» Chiapsld slon moTSd toward tlw iilsisj ihssllin His "Hsi ralhs*" w^^^^w , â- â- VPW^jnpj^s.,",. m^Bjj^smnmr . •jsjsnjp . nnjgvjfm/ >;^"^mssjpjp ^•^s^psmnj ,^r^^pssjBs^-sHsjsn^i^Bsv ,#'JsT^w s #^5^'^ne^i^^^'**i,*^Bns» *Am*m" as taey turned the "" 'fflMWrn fss* yearn sn^: Aiaela longer before their new home oe retidy for them to enter. The building is of fireproof con- stnicUon throughout, concrete being used on the fonnndation, floors and iMj/^'-jvâ- i.,|,r-,.w^1|!|J.i-!J^1v^-,»- . gradnated from the s^s4ed schools of DtetrtcU 75 and 7« and who intend to Uke one of the reader courses of study, do, |^;;i^:^:ifi|^ «spti Uons for enhance