Kantishna, Alaska

[4] Private vehicles are not permitted to enter the interior of Denali National Park.

Several thousand prospectors came to the Kantishna Hills region after placer gold was discovered in the summer of 1905 along Glacier Creek by Joe Quigley and Jack Horn.

Almost simultaneously, Joe Dalton and his partner Stiles found gold along Friday Creek and staked a claim on July 12.

This schist is the oldest formation in the region and is bordered on the south by the Tonzona Group composed of black slates and argillites, and the Tatina Group composed on black slates, argillites, greywackes, and interbedded limestones and cherts.

The main tunnel of Little Annie intersected a 3–4 foot thick quartz vein 90 feet from the entrance, which outcropped in an open-cut in the above hillside.

Ernest R. Fransen and Clifton M. Hawkins then purchased 17 Quigley claims, from which Joe and Fannie received $100,000, and 10% of gross.

Denali Borough map