The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-25
VERY RICH in PLACER GOLD.
MORE REPO RTS or THE WEALTH OF
CAPI' NOME DISTRICT.

CArI' NOME DISTRICT.
Decline In Copper Stocks Docs not Affect
tho Dcvel,A ,ment Work in the Zig
Lake superior District-Cripplo Creeks
Great Record in Dividends This Year.
TACOMA. Wash. ,sept 1S.-purinG the last few
days authentic news has reached Tacoma
regarding the Cape Nome gold fields. Tho
result is already manifest in tho oager demand
for passage on tho first steamers leaving for
Cape Nome nextMay. Jim Wardner. the vet-
sran mining man Of Idaho. who Is Just back.
declares Cape Mono to be tho most wonderful
placercamp ever discovered.
ION Price & Lanes No. 8 Anvil Greek. -
wardner says. six men in seven hours took
out So. 400. About the Same day. Aug. 20.
Lendblom's force Of men washed $4,000 in
eighteen hours from No 3 Snow Gulch. DeI-
ter Creek is showing up splenddly. They
seemed to haveno trouble TO take out 81 an
hour to a man In many places From ono
claim they washed S240in less than two hours.
Billy Walton OF Spokane rocked out eight
ounces in one day from No. Z Dexter and Leo
took nineteen ounces In single day from
No. o Dexter. On No. 10 Dexter II Is only six
inches to bedrock. From this claim Charles
Thompson took 500 from a single pan. 4. NJ
Walters got as high as 1920 to tho pan from
No Dexter.
Two men took 5000 from the beach on Aug.
~ and young Hyde. a son OF former Congress-
man Hyde Of spokane. and his three partners.
washed s.. 100 in four days from the beach"
There are fourteen claims on Anvil creek.
each claim being 1920 feet long. with pay
streak much wider than that OF Eldorado OF
the Klondike. The fourteen claims on Anvil are
equal in length to forty-two at Dawson. Dexter
Creek is very rich. but short OF water The
claims on the latter creek are being worked by
rockers.
Charles Simpson. formerly OF Spokane. m ade
little easy money at Cape Nome. He pur-
chased eighteen reindeer on the Siberian coast.
giving So head for them. Loading them In a
little schooner he and his partner took them
TO Cape Nome and sold them for $3.50 head.
The deer averaged 300 pounds when dressed.
The meat was sold to the miners.
L. a. Abbott. long a resident OF Charter Oak.
Iowa. is back from Cape Nome. Il saw" he
rays, Anvil City grow from 100 tents and cab
ms on Juno % to a town OF OF l 900 places OF
residence when left on Sept. 2. There were
40 Modern dwellings completed and In course
OF erection"
There were about 5000 persons In the dis
trict on September L. Two thirds OF these are
leaving for st. Michael. Dutch Harbor and tho
States to spend the winter on account OF lack
OF fuel at Nome. Coal is unobtalnable. No
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drftwood on the beach Is rapidly being used
up. The time will come at Cape Nome this
winter when wood will he worth almost its
weight in gold. Fortunes will be made next
spring shipping in coal and lumber
The SkaEway route into the Klondike is con-
jcsted with freight and winter will likely find
YOOn m = oOO Ton. NJ GOOD. ni,od IN a. RI
,o,ta1 rhi,. I;au M ...r1 49, -, IT..
helI anu nhlte llorse' Inc steamers from Ia
coma and Seattle ara landing more freight at
Skarv,v than cnn be corried thropgb
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by the "hlte fass rai'road ana the steamers on
the upper Yukon. The railroad is hauling 120
tons n day 70 Bcnnett and cannot hsul mora
- 80
lor lack OF cars LOW water on tho upper
river compels the largest steamers to take
light loads Soma freight ia beinp carried
t tk"' ,o"N' 'ot u'' iers"s 10 Nelhs ratrieo
from bennett 10 Nhlte horse on scows out the
number OF these obtainable is limited. Tho
Canadian DavaIonpent Cnmnapv II Maitland
I',I , . -
hersey 3 lIhe' anu othsr steamer lines. nave
given notice that they will guarantee tho
deliverv ~ M mora froiobt ot D,u.or mi.
NS' Va "' No." ,''N,ie W ia"son '"i9
season Avery late iall Will permit steamers
to carry most OF the congcsted freight down
tha riyar An ao,Iv fraa,a nm ill .o,,.I