The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-14
POOR MANS IDEAL CAMP
Montana Man Says Cape Nome
Is Marvelously Rich.
ARE TAKING OUT FORTUNES
Calls 1t the Greatest Mining Camp on
the Face of the Earth-Two Creeks
as Rich as Klondike's
Edorado.

Seattle. WASH, Sept. 13.-The steamer
Charles Nelson arrived to-day from St.
Michael with about half million in
gold and 200 passengers from Dawson
and Cape Nome.
Cape Nome is declared by all who
came out and who expressed them
selves to be an exciting camp. There is
gold everywhere, All the stores are full
of it and it is sitting about the tents
and camps Of the miners in old cans
and buckets and everything available
The output this year is estimated at
from one to two millions.
j. f. Wardner well-known mining
operator, formerly of Helena, Mont.
brought several nuggets, the largest
weighing $3.50. In speaking of the dis
trict Mr.. Wardner says:
No one can imagine the ereat wealth
that lies along the Cape Nome beach.
Anvil City Is the center of the richest
camp on the face of the earth. This is
no idle boast, for l say there is more
wealth there per capita than in any
other city in the country. There are
more men walking around Anvil City
with $1,000 in gold dust in their pockets
than in any other city / know of. Not
man lHSlt uut WIO Is f1ldRlnS great
deal more than wages and there are
many who are taking out fortunes
daily. 1t is the poor mans ideal camp.
A man need not go to great expense to
get few dollars In gold out Of the
earth; common frying pan is enough.
l only wish that everybody could go up
there to see IL with their own eyes.
Il have some good claims in the dis
trict; some tf them are good paying
Oneg whilp others confident will
prove very rich.
Il saw some large nuggets taken out
there. One, from No ! below Discov-
cry, weighed s31S.S0, and that was not
unusual. People up there get in the
habit of talking of money by the 100
pounds, just as we speak of a dollar. ]
know of many who can count their dust
by the hundred pounds"
]. G. Fritz, merchant and miner ut
Anvil City, pronounces it the greatest
mining camp in Alaska. There are four
creeks on which are valuable claims
many of which are now being worked
and paying from $50 to $100 per day pei
man.
Two of these creeks are Snow Gulch
and Anvil and one known to be as rich
as Eldorado in the Klondike. There are
IL claims on Anvil creek, each claim be-
ing 1920 feet long, with a pay streak
much wider than that of Eldorados s
The IA claims on Anvil are equal in
length to AZ claims at Dawson. Exeter
creek Is very rich. but scarce of water
The claims on the latter creek are be-
Ing worked by rockers by reason of this
scarcity of water, with results running
from $50 to 500 per day to the man.
Cape Nome is decidedly a summer
sluicing proposition. The beach for 3(
miles is now being worked by Is rock
ers. Men are making in this manner
at the present time, from SO to $50 pei
day and frequently a man will strike a
streak that will pay him 800 some days
Mr.. Fritz says there is hardly an idler
at Nome now. Wages are 81 an hour
and board, and men hard to get at that
There are about $500 prospeclors there
about half of them will winter there
Mr.. Fritz brought out a good-sized sack
| of Cape Nome gold. One nugget he ex-
hibited from Discovery claim was worth
| s200.50 The gold is of very fine quality
j. E. Chailbera said that the miners
| for the most part would have to get out
| They would be unable to keep warn
| through the winter. Appearances show
| ed that the drift wood would be only
| too quickly consumed and that is the
| only substitute for fuel this winter
| There was considerable building, bu
| not enough to house the population now
there over winter.