From Introduction: "The presentation of a yearly record of the Alaska mineral industry is a continuing service that has been rendered by the Geological Survey from almost the earliest years of extensive mining in Alaska, and the present report for 1939, is the thirty-sixth of this series.These reports therefore serve miners, prospectors, and businessmen concerned with Alaska affairs as useful historical records, statements of contemporary conditions, and starting points on which some conjectures concerning future operations may be predicated."
From abstract: This report presents an analysis of the statistical records of the Geological Survey regarding the production of lode gold from the Territory of Alaska for the period 1882 to 1937, inclusive. During that time lode gold to the value of $172,368,000 had been mined. The history of the discovery of lode gold and the early developments in lode-gold mining in each of the various districts is outlined briefly, and the production of lode gold in each of the geographic subdivisions is tabulated fully for each year, as far as the records and the practices of the Geological Survey permit.
From Introduction: "This publication is a summary of earthquake activity in the United States and the regions under its jurisdiction for the calendar year 1939. A history of the more important shocks of the country appears in Serial 609 of the Bureau, "Earthquake History of the United States: Part I-"Continental United States (Exclusive of California and Western Nevada) and Alaska," and Part II. -"Stronger Earthquakes of California and Western Nevada, Revised (1941) edition."
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