Alaska Gold Fields. A Country Moderately Rich in the Precious Metals. The Cassiar and Other Mines-Mining Prospects-Geological Changes. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Sitka, December 23, 1879.

Authors

John Muir

Files

Kimes Entry Number

098

Original Date

1-10-1880

William and Maymie Kimes Annotation

""The gold of Alaska is still in the ground, all save a few thousand ounces gathered here and there from the more accessible veins and gravel beds of the islands and the mountains along the coast. ... Probably not one vein or placer in a thousand has yet been touched by the prospector's pick ... all the miner's wealth about as darkly hidden as when it was covered by the ice-mantle of the glacial period."" Muir prophesies: ""But light sooner or later is sure to come. Thousands of sturdy miners, graduating from the ledges and gulches of California and Nevada, will push their way over the whole territory and make it tell its wealth.""

Publication

San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Jan. 10, 1880

Page/Column

p. 4, col. 1

See also Kimes Entry Number

See also no. 175, v. 1, p. 210

Recommended Citation

Muir, John, "Alaska Gold Fields. A Country Moderately Rich in the Precious Metals. The Cassiar and Other Mines-Mining Prospects-Geological Changes. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Sitka, December 23, 1879." (1880). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986). 144.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/144