The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-10
Cape Nome Gold Belt Is Traced
Across Bering Sea.
CROPS OUT IN CARS DOMAIN.
Col. sheafe Estimates Past Seasons
Output Of New Camp mt S5.ooo-o*so
says There Are 200 Miller of
Collaborating Beaches - Believes
Tundra IL Hfch-eape York md
BONANZA Are Promising Districts.

we now know tia; She Cape Nome belt,
which Is angsisiakably continuation O..
that Of the kioudihe. extends across Ber-
Ing see and into Siberia Il aas been
traced into the czars domain by prospec-
tors waose words aad judgment can hard
~ he questioned.
Col & III sheasa go expressed hiuase!f
ysnsefdsy. He talked OF the new Araefi
can camp. stories o, whose fabulous ricts-
ness aTe non common. And IL IL worthy
OF note that he addx his Testimony 10 that
OF tae returning horde, fully confirming
oil that has been said OF the district as a
gold producer. He says Cape Nome IL go
Tfch that simple statement OF the facts
relative 10 j,s gold yielding IL naturally
discTedited ay those who have got been Ia
9Es district
Col sheafe and son. Ralph j sheafe.
returned on the Aloha. The latter left
the district 81 very sick mar. being VIC
cent
Asked for an estimate of the seasons
output 81 the Cape Nome district. Col.
6hsafe replied.
1T was about g5.co.doo. certainty rot
iess than that. This estimate make upon
the Judgment Of old prospeciors as well
a. nay own observation.
The gold IS there and in great guam
tties. but t5at does not mean shat every
man who goes there can pick II mp By the
handful no matter j: IL II thick IN the
beach sands. Speaking Of the beacnes.
think there was as much gold left In the
taiinga as WAS washed from them Tne
ground WAS worked In the main py mex
perisnced men. II is -four gold and IL
WAS not until very late In the season that
sufficient copy plates were 20 be had
To save II. Next year no doubt, these
talings Will he worked with machinery
and the chances are they VIII yield hand
somey. not better than iu tae rTst
working.
THE gold-peasins beach extends from
Point Darby on the south TO Cape York
on the north. a distance al nearly 70
miles. And the Cape York district
think. is liable to prove nearly II not
quite az rich Cape Nome From 500 10
So men will winter In the camp and by
spring we shall know much more about Il.
Then there Is the BONANZA district which
gave exceptionally rich prospects during
the summer II extends from the Cape
Nome districe to Norton sound. distance
of twenty-five miles or more
Col. Eheafe believes the tundra VIII
prove rich through hydraulic development.
the only practicsl method, In his opinion,
OF wort y his peculiar formation, He
says SONS ave found dirt I'm the tundra
running az high As 50 per pan.
year ago last June Col Saeafe left
Seattle on the steam schooner Noyo for
the North. He passed the winter Of 1888
IN the 8oovtn bay section However ne
was early at Cape Nome. having acquired
by purchage and location an interest in
ten claims. two OF which ara on Anvil
creek. Young sheafe, his son. besides he
ing or less successful fnoieStly car
rios the destination OF having been one Of
the rescusrs ~ the four survivors of the
celebrated Capt Ben'a party Nal Ingra-
ham. sheafe, IF. and Others. told In
the Post -inte.iigencer several months ago
Travelled 80 miles up the aeiiwick river 70
where the schooner was AZ anchor
sna'ching the four remaining members of
a party OF thirteen from the jaws OF
death.
About 1000 people, CO... Shoafe estimates,
Will WATER In the Cape Nome and cape
York camps. He believes there H. bound
Ia he more or tess 81 food ani fuel
shortage. but not such a. In result In ao~
suai distress