The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-26
"NoME GOLD DIGGER"
New Gold Field Has Paper of It's
1lown.

new cold Field Has Paper OF Its
Own.
Castus M. Eoeshss begun the publication
of newspaper at Cape Nome, Alaska. 1t
is called the Nome Gold Digger. copy
OF the first number has been received.
The Gold Digger Is a four-page, four
column, WEI edited sheet, published
every Wednssday. and in its Introductory
| editorial announces that 1t is there with
large enough plant to satisfy even the
growing demands of Nome, and that it
VIII publishEfhe shews without exaggera-
tlon' but also without curtailment
On the first page of the paper Is a
double scare, head written by Rev. D. ].
Elliot, who Is superintendent of four
mines, telling of ''the bonanza placer
mines of Nome...t Mr.. Elliot ought to
know whereof he writes, for 1t is told
IN another column that four of the men
ne is working for-John Brynston, Jafat
L1ndeberg, o. RT Lindbloom and N. o.
Hultberg-went south on the last steamer
for the winter and have not only carried
a barrel of gold" with them, but left
claims valued at over 81, GOO each. Mr.
Elliot tells Of the bonanza mines of
snowy gulch, five miles northwest of
the town. where in the one mile of gulch
there are but four claims, each 800 feet
long, and yielding $3.50 nuggets to the
total of 100000 last summer. Anvil
creek is another rich field, being five
miles long and having sixteen claims on
1t, each 1920 feet long. 1t is on this
| creek that $500 nuggets have been found
ana mere two Laplanders received 500, 900
for their claims. The ground is about
Tour feet thick above the bedrock and
usually pays $32 a pan, and pays over
the Whole claim. Other big money Is
/ Delng picked up, also, on the neighbor-
hood creeks of Dexter and Glacier. There
are other creeks, notably Lindbloom and
Grouse creeks, and Nome river, of which
Dexter creek is a branch. The Anvil.
Snow and Dexter gulches yielded ST. 900, 900
worth of gold last summer and the
beach placers and rockers the same
amount. On the creeks $50 men were
working, and on the beach 1000 were
rocking.
The latter field Is exploited by Mayor
L. II. Cashel, of Nome, who tells Of find
Ing few men working there with rude
rockers when he arrived June q. Even
then none was making less than $40 a
day, and the subsequent introduction of
copper plates greatly increased this
amount. At the same time the number
OF workers increased until there were
over 1000 men. averaging SIG day. He
was able to make, under favorable cir
cumstances, $1O0 a day, and two men
cummings and Missouri Bill, gathered in
$4,000 between July 1 and Oct. 1. Even
the newspaper men won out as J. w.
Logan, from a San Francisco sheet, gath
cred IN, with the help Of three associates,
$1,000 In thirty days-and left the country
Inc beach mines are regarded as a sure
but not great thing, and will be much
prospected this winter. The writer as
serts that where the facilities for saving
the gold have been at hand, the beach
mines have outranked the richest placers
OF Gold Hill, Adams Hill and other cele-
<brated beaches of the Klondike
The Gold Digger publishes also a list
OF the pricesAo necessities, which startle
one used to the ways of civilization. Beef
costs from IS cents to 81 per pound; wood.
from $35 to $50 per cord; -four, $40 per hun
dredWeight;, butter, 81 per pound; canned
milk, 90 cents per can; maple syrup, 81
per gallon; potatoes, $40 to SIS per hun
dredWeight; 1onioqs,- the same; tomatoes,
5O cents per can; sweet pototoes, the
same; coal,@ SIS per aton; shingles, $3.50
PEI bunch;'6 lumber, $3.50 per 1000. Board
at a restaurant costs about $500
Porterhouse steak, $3.50; tender
loin, So; plain beefsteak, $15O; rein
deer steak, 81; ptarmigan, So; pork chops,
$l60; mutton chops $50; boiled mackerel;
$15O. Other prices are in proportion, and
a modest breakfast of coffee and ham and
eggs can be secured by depositing $2.25
in gold dust. Potatoes bread and butter
Should the citizen wish to rent a two
story house he viii pay $500 a month in
advance and get his goods hauled by dog
team from the beach at 40 cents per hun
dredWeight, or, if by wagon, he will pay
the teamster $40 per hour and be thank
fuI II he doesn't shave himself he pays
81 per shave. For haircut 81 80 is ex-
tracted. A BATH and, as the editor says,
"a poor one at that costs So Evidently
personal cleanliness Is very close to god
Illness there, as the laundry prices are
80 cents per flannel shirt; rs cents per
linen shirt, ana as the editor remarks
facetiously, ''$1 for the rehabilitation of
the rare and luxurious garment known
as the white shirt" Drinks and cigars
cost 30 cents each Longshoremen get
81 an hour for their labor, and carpen-
tiers $1.50 per. hour.
There is long article on the possibili-
ty of the Cape Nome people getting any
mail, by way of st. Michaels, between
Oct. 1 and June 1, and the editor hope
fully opines that they may get some let
tiers by dog delivery, but no papers
Mr.. Goes little paper is rich in adver-
tisements There are ten saloon lads"
five restaurant lads and three hotel an
nouncements. L. L. Lane also announces
that water is for sale at % cents for two
buckets. 1.-THE Owl Drug Store" is open
all night, and there are many profess
sional cards. The Gold Digger sells at 30
cents per number and $24 per year. This
first number was published Oct. 25, 1899.