El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-25
GOLD UNDER
I. THE WATER
The Cape Nome Gold Bear
ing Sand Continues to
Russia
So Informs IN. r. Beaver, An Alas
kan Miner Now In sthe City
Knew Capt. Jack Crawford.


A west bound passenger out of Ell
Paso on the Southern Pacific this af-
ternoon was Mr.. M. T. Beaver, a min
ing broker of Petersburg, Indiana, and
Dawson city, Alaska, who is now on
his way to San Francisco. Mr.. Beaver
stopped over in Ell Paso particularly
that he might meet Mrs. D. w. Reck-
hart, who Is daughter of Captain
Jack Crawford, the famous scout. Mr..
Beaver was with Capt. Crawford In
Dawson all last winter, aud brought
Reckhart.
Mr.. Beaver was stopping at the Orn-
dorff, and is man of unusually agree
able presence and ge ial manner.
"Capt. Crawford, :" he I'D, sis in the
best of health and spirits, bud Is one of
the most noted men socially in Daw-
son. He is, among other things, at
the head of the volunteer fremen's or
ganization, and at the social functions,
which are the leading affairs of the
kind in the Klondyke capital, Capt.
Jack is always the central figure. He
has given q mum her of lectures on his
experience as q scout and has al ways
been we'll received. The captain came
to Dawson first in the interest of other
parties, but 5000 found it advisable to
90 out for himself, and now has num-
Der of paying propositions.
s'Dawson is a good enough place,
but the future great of the KlOndike
county. or rather OF Alaska, is the
Cape Nome district. There are 5000
people there this winter: there will be
SO, 900 there next spring. have re-
ceived from Vlsdivostok in northern
Siberia, q letter OF the utmost i'm
portsnce from an American mining
man of long experience. He confirms
e. g 81 t6 ha6
been advanced that the stretch of pay
sand along she Cape Nome beach dives
down into and under Behring Strait,
and appears again in even richer guam
tity and quality. on the Siberian
shore.
"This shore is only IS miles away,
and now, for the very first time, the
theory of the continuance OF the gold
streak, perhaps on to the mother lode,
is confirmed by this letter from my
friend. in which ne says that at
Kamchatks, on the Siberian shore, he
has found positively the continuation
of the Cape Nome gold bearing sand
beach.
"Tbis means an immediate exodus
to these new fields, for they are COM
paratively easy of access, and certain
than the Canada, fields, where the
government exacts 10 per cent of the
gross output as royalty. While our
government In Alaska demands no
royalty, the Russian government in
the new fields, takes a oyalty of only
two per cent of the net value Of the
output.
81 shall spend the winter in San
Francisco engaged with my partner,
Frank Long, in fitting out a vessel
which we shall take to the new Rus
sian fields. We shall have on board
many eastern men. Each man puts in
q few thousand dollars with no Ger
tainty, but with every prospect. of sue
cess.
Among the noted characters, by
the way, whom I met in Dawson, is
Alex Mcdonald, who. even there, is
called the 'Klondyke King He came
to Dawson a few years ago with $500,
and he now has twenty million.
have just received q notice of his
marriage to charming English girl.
| "But to return for q moment to the
Alaskan matter. I want to tell the
HERALD that it may publish it thus
far in advance, that this much talked
of theory of the continuation in Rus
sia of this rich stretch of gold bear
ing Cape Nome sand is confirmed, and
the HERALD is the first to publish the
information.