Gold-bearing mineralization hosted in the Chicken Mountain igneous intrusion is the lode source for nearly all of the placer gold that has been developed and mined in the Iditarod district. Growing up "typically Alaskan, wresting a living from the creeks and hills" made him very conscious of waste. Alvin did not cut corners. After barge services ceased to Iditarod, they decided to haul fuel from the Kuskokwim via their old dog trail to this village. Unlike other mining families the Agoff family had the privilege to live in Flat all year round. Alvin was a woodsman from his head to his toes and believed in conservation. Harry and Evelyn had three children.
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Sergay, besides being his brother and mining partner, was his best friend.
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Twenty eight years of marriage later, when Awter finally shot her first bear, she said "Well honey, shall I hte home to Florida now? Kathleen Coyle was one of the most lively women Alvin had ever met. Nineteen year old Harry arrived in Flat on Christmas Day, - just in time to join the was 'Tough Man' boxing match taking place in the rugged frontier town of about 2, and to beat all of his competwith relative easeitors. But in a larger sense, the Alaska Mining Hall of Fame Foundation is also honoring the entire Agoff family for more than years of contributions to the many unique cultural aspects of a classic frontier mining camp, the Iditarod Mining District.
Alvin especially remembered the great day that John Fullerton, home from college for the summer, graciously set the little boys up on the big bulldozer and taught them the fundamentals of running it. Alvin's generosity of spirit stayed with him to the end of his life when he opened his heart and home and helped his daughter Cady take in and raise his best friend's granddaughter, Misty May.
The bookshelves at Prince Creek are filled with manuals and textbooks of a variety of heavy equipment and tools. Prince Creek was the last placer deposit developed in the district. The young Agoff boys Alvin and Sergay remembered walking over to Chicken Creek and gazing admiringly at the shiny yellow Caterpillar aoff.
Mail planes of letters flew back and forth as they planned their hunt and easily segued into planning their marriage. When they decided to leave Flat and move in to one of the state's Pioneer Homes, it was Alvin who was deputized to fly out and inspect the homes and determine their suitability for Flat's childless, pioneer population.
The family used kerosene lamps for light and chopped wood for heat.
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They have over six hundred barrels to haul, for besides their own they are hauling for others in their neighborhood. During the s, Alvin showed the geological team geological exposures worth sampling, including important fossil localities and hardrock mineralization that he uncovered during mining.
In the early s, Harry and his Russian partner Alexei Tarsagaravev Debo Sagoff and others leased mining claims in the Iditarod district. His generosity gave many promising families a foothold in the Alaskan wilderness and enabled then to start their own successful enterprises which enriched the state in many ways. This trail was a key transportation corridor for supplies for the more recent, large Donlin Creek project prior to airport construction. They continued to improve their home, they learned to work with electricity, plumbing and radio communications.
Prince Creek Mining Company is the last heritage mining operation in the Iditarod district. Their winters were devoted to schooling up to 9th gradetrapping to supplement the family income, and cutting wood.
They hand dug ditches to funnel water to a splash dam and when the water cut loose; they had to be ready to shovel in the pay dirt as fast as possible. Alvin's legacy lives on. The Crooked Creek News.
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As the boys got older, they cut wood for the dredges during winter wster. Towards the end of his life it was frustrating to see so many unfair, one-size-fits-all decisions being made in Washington D. They cleaned chimneys, built coffins and dug graves. Prospecting was done by digging deep prospect holes in the spring so the mushy permafrost wouldn't thaw and collapse inwards.
Kathy and Alvin enjoyed children and were a profound influence in the lives of many young people. They welcomed a house full of children even before their two Cady and Christy came along. If he hunted an animal he used every bit of meat and then boiled the bones for soup.
Alvin and Kathy Agoff, circa early s in front of bear hide. However, the disadvantage to dogs was that they needed to be fueled all year long. His crew sizes were reduced, but more direct thee members became involved.
One of the earliest chores all Agoff children did in the cut was to unplug the boxes by shoveling and roll out rocks so they could be smashed with sledge hammers and moved. The two men started out hand mining. Alvin did not cut corners.
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