Photo label reads: "The result the following spring of condition shown in picture #287. This is some of Thomas Riggs, Jr., engineering. Over $250,000 was wantonly thrown away. Spring of 1918 month of April."
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Title taken from caption. "$1,250,000 clean up Miners & Merchants Bank, Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number: C 49." Cataloguers note: This photograph shows gold bars stacked high above ground.