Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Rampart Gold Placer Region, Alaska The Rampart region is one of the four most important gold-producing regions in this interstream area. The Fortymile, near the boundary, the Birch Creek, and the Rampart regions are adjacent to the Yukon at intervals of about 140 miles westward from the boundary. The Fairbanks region, the most recently developed and at the present time the most productive, is in Tanana Valley about 12 miles north of the river and about 260 miles from its mouth The Rampart region is about 80 miles northwest of the Fairbanks region, and all the creeks of present economic impor tance are within 30 miles of the Yukon and belong to the drainage systems of both Yukon and Tanana rivers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.