Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-29
4 NEW DISTRICT
Cape Nome Mines Said to
Be Very Rich.
QUARTZ LEADS FOUND
An Owner of Valuable Claims There
Says That the Source of the Placer
Gold Has Been Troublesome of
the Lucky Owners.

st. Michaels, July II. via San Fran
cisco, July 29.-Dr. Hultberg, the Swedish
missionary, who first found gold in Cape
Nome, arrived yesterday from his claim,
Ell route to Golovin bay, where he owns
valuable claims on Ophir and Melsing
creeks. Hultberg brings the information
that several promising quartz prospects
have been found in the Cape Nome dis
trict, and while he is ~reticent regarding
! the exact location of the find and the
value of the quartz, he does not disguise
the fact that the lodges carry gold in
large quantities.
THE discoveries were made two weeks
ago." said DR.. Hultberg, land are in the
mountains back of the creek. The quartz
carries considerable sulphur and is
stained with iron. In several of the
claims the lodges are clearly defined, and
when thoroughly prospected will no
doubt prove very rich. This simply car
ries out the theory that has all along
been advanced, that with so much in the
beds Of the creeks there must be a large
deposit of quartz somewhere, and I be-
lieve we have struck that deposit. I own
two or three claims and Price and Lane
own several. On my claim, No. 5, above
Anvil creek, I have 20 men at work. They
began sluicing today and there should be
a handsome clean up. DR.. kittlesOn's
claim. on the same creek, is showing up
very rich. and the same may be said Of
No. s, belonging to Price and Lane, and
there are rich claims also belonging to
Luderberg, Lindbloom and Bryesten, on
Anvil and snow creeks. Especially rich
is the Bryesten claim.
owing to the difficulty in getting
water with which to work claims on Snow
gulch, but little sluicing will be Ion
until next spring, when the snow begins
to melt. The same trouble exists on nu-
merous other claims where there is no
water except that obtained from melting
snow. The properties located on these
creeks will have to be worked up in the
fail and winter and sluiced in the spring.
Some very good prospects have been
found on Dexter and Glazier creeks, but
they seem to be spotted.
LAS to the other creeks of the district
no prophecy can be made, many not hav-
ing been systematically proapected as
yet. That they are rich, however, l have
no doubt. There are a great many idle
men to be seen about the camps, but this
is their own fault, as there is a heavy de-
mand for labor, n furthermore there
L cACtlIcIIl opportunities offered IOT
lays. 1t is this idle class who go to such
meetings as the one held Monday night
and which Lieutenant ~Spaulding very
properly dispersed. This idle crowd in
passing a resolution throwing
open the district for relocation and
jumping the best claims. Such an action
would have resulted in bloodshed and
there is no telling where the trouble
would have ended, because many men
would have defended their claims with
their lives.
Nome is a rich district and an extern
sive one, but it is no place for a person
to winter if he is not well supplied with
warm clothing II sufficient means to
provide himself with comforts. The VIM
ters are severe, the thermometer often
falling to so degrees below zero, the cold
being intensified by the sea. l am on my
way to Golovin bay, where l own several
good claims on Ophir and Melsing creeks.
Ophir promises especially well. Several
days ago., in the Dusty Diamond, four
men working -four hours, washed out $64O
in coarse gold. There are IS claims above
Discovery on this creek and four below.
The Dusty Diamond company, composed
of Chicago men, expect to clean up at
least a quarter of a million this year.
Other good creeks are Messing, Sweet
Cake, Elkhorn, Gold Bottom and Dome.
The country tributary to these creeks is
we'll timbeTed."