The Steese Review advocates assertive efforts to preserve the history of
the Circle Mining District by using archeological techniques to extract
and collect miners' and mining artifacts for the Circle Mining District
Historical Museum. On our last trip to the district last month, June,
we learned of an otherwise perfectly preserved cabin with many of the
previous tenants' items left behind that was razed to get to the ground
beneath it. If this cabin had to be gotten out of the way, then it could
have and should have been extracted in such a manner as to document and
preserve its historical record embodied in the cabin itself and the
items within it.
We will become active again through the now dormant The Great Alaskan
Dig Company, which some of you may remember from 2012, and are reviving
the Alaska Digs website. If anyone
wants to help in this effort please contact Steese Review editor and
publisher, Hilding 'Gus' Lindquist via email: hilding.lindquist (at)
gmail.com. (See Contact Us on the Steese Review's Front page.) -hgl
