The top has proved an almost perfect conductor of heat, and the only way to get at the bottom is to strip off the moss, and by means of steam, to have and then dip your way down to where the gold lies. This may be fifty, sixty, eighty, or even 100 feet, the shaft, which is still frozen. Down of the mine, they were working eighty-four feet from the surface. We put into a bucket, and were lowered down a well of that depth. From the bottom tunnels had been dug into the ice-frozen gold-bearing rock. We left the bucket and walked through the tunnel, stopping now and then to watch the miners thaw out the strata. The work is done with steam from the mine, or steel pipes through which the team is driven into the ice. The pipes are three-quarters inch in diameter. 