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Identifier: transactions11cana (find matches)
Title: Transactions
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
Subjects: Mineral industries Mines and mineral resources
Publisher: Montreal (etc.)
Contributing Library: Knox - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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easterly from Cape Hinchinbrook, and about thirty-fivemiles from Cape St. Elias. Its main tributary, the Chitina, flowsin the south-westerly direction, and heads among the glaciers in anunexplored territory, and not a very great distance from thesource of the White River, which flows toward the east and north,and empties into the Yukon River near the mouth of the StewartRiver. As a matter of fact, the occurrences of copper-bearing ore andnative copper so far discovered, are more closely situated into theChitina River than to the Copper River itself, and it is believedthat the Indians always recognized the Chitina as the source fromwhich they procured the native copper they hammered into plates ;as in the Indian language, the meaning of the word Chitina iscopper water—Chit—copper; Ina—water. To the present time, the only discoveries of copper-bearing orein the immediate neighbourhood of the Copper River itself, arenear Taral, not a great distance from the Abercrombie Rapids. o/i
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146* 145 144 143- 14 Z 141* Some Notks on the Copper Rivkr District 417 These discoveries have not provoked as much discussion, or beenas thoroughly advert ised as those made near the Chit ina River andits tributaries. In fact, till last year, only one r two prospectorswere engaged in exploring the section around Taral, while in the Ghitina country there were probably all told, two hundred men, many of whom were engaged in prospeoting, and the balance em-ployed by the companies owning prospects and engaged in perform-ing representation work on their mineral claims. The Copper River district extends from a point about 60miles from Elliott Creek, a branch of the Kotsina River—wherethe Hubbard and Elliott group of claims is located—to the Kenni-cott River near the head of which is located the Bonanza group ofmineral claims. From this latter point, it is about 80 miles in anair line to the boundary line between Alaska and the BritishYukon territory. In this section scattering

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