The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-09-14

I tell you sAsss wsH - . 0eid nsns that
VIII surpa0 snything yst discovered.
There aso q present - houses fcan9
iack q 4 Vii cause msny Of the missss
70 leave ths country before winter"
Moro Asssy Ws11 Gone.
II. W. Brown, who was n pswsop last
year and Who came down the rfvsr 20
Nome several months ago. said: Tne nexs
steamers down from there Win osin. iasss
had there st $40 per thousand PEOPLE
are building houses Of corrugAted IRON.
where they can Get II. ~ almost fAnulous
prices. Labor cannot Be procured q We
Tered WREN left there. There are be-
tween i.sO ard 1op0 men ct work on
the beaches etampedes 20 new localities
are taking place almost every DAY. AZ new
strikes and discoveries are reported about
'On the beach the men rocking there VIII
average nearly 500 per day TO the man.
The little differences the miners had some
menl Company In oil settled. and the min
ers are 10 undisturbed possession Of the
"iIndblom and Lindenbsrs. the discov-
erers of the d.ggings. are making 81 kinds
Of money. have heard Il said that Ind
blom II making between t10o and 1000
every week. Next year. however, VIII be
the banner year for Nome. an the claims
more prospeciors will 60 In on the first
steamers. ] could not. however. place an
estimate on the output for next year. !
am going back II ] can get there tbs
y.ar and WI take load n. o. cattle ae up Pen,
up on the Charles Nelson when she left
here. ard returned yesterday. He said that
he had intended TO get on at Nome and
investigate. but was 30 well satisfied with
the stories Of the passengers who came
aboard that he did not think II necessary.
II In said that he will probably invest con-
siderable capital there early next year.
VIII the Macs Hold Osts
L. Golden, Dawson man who spent .
month at Nome. said: the country 10
certainly very rich. The only question ID
soon. There 10 great future In store .or
Nome at any rate. brought little dust
from there and ! intend TO 90 hack next
year and work my claims. Dawson viii
be- all right, too. ~ soon ~ tho mining
machinery now In the district 70 In work
ing order. Dawson In little slow Just
now. but expect things to pick W con-
siderably next year"
Estimate Of THIS Years Ostpst.
Louis Rochat, ono Of the passengers on
the Nelson. who spent four months Al An
There n no country in all the world
richer than Cape Nome. should say that
over 100000 will come down yet this
year. The Nelson brought down about
$4,000 among the passengers. besides
heavy shipment Of gold for the company.
The miners are holding their gold to snip
out on the Roanoke. and that II the rea-
son the Nelson did not bring moro. Most
Of the miners will come out this year. -
wood II scarce there and the climate n
80 rigorous that II would b. impossible 10
stand Il all winter. ] should not advise
anyone 20 60 up there this year any more.
hut 20 walt and go on the hrst boat next
year. There In ono thing. though. the peo-
pie from Dawson VIII be able TO get there
some time before those from here. unless
the steamers leave q little earlier than they
did last year. There are nearly 1900 people
~ Anvil City and many Of them are rock
Ing out nearly $3.50 per day"