The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-14
Arrival at Seattle of a Treasure
Steamer From Alaska.
NEARLY ALL HAD DUST
SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND DOL
LARS TIE AMOUNT.
Most of It Came From the Klondike,
But a Big Sum Was Taken Out of
the Cape Nome Diggings, Which
Are Said to Be Very Rich-Many
Coming Out Before the Freeze.

Seattle, Wash, Sept. 13.-SiX hundred
thousand, dollars in gold dust arrived
here this afternoon from Alaska on the
steamer Charles Nelson. Four hundred
thousand was consigned to the North
American Trading & Transportation
company. 1t came from Dawson. Two
hundred thousand came from Cape
Nome. It was the property of about
forty miners from that district. The
largest individual holders were ]. Kels-
burg, L. Golden, j. =. Fritz, +. Peri
note and N. Williams
The Caoe Nomers say that geld IS
stored in cans and buckets in that
camp, as IN the palrnest days of \the
Klondike. Three thousand people are
working the beach for all it is worth.
They expect to all get out of the coun-
try before the freeze UP, which is ex-
pected about the middle of October. So
intent have they been in digging gold
that no preparations have been made in
providing shelter for winter, and they
will of necessity have tc come out
Richest Camp On Earth.
Cape Nome is declared by all who
come out 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 avail
able. The output this year is estimated
at from one to two millionser suoe-a
at from $1,0G0,000 to S2,000000.
j. f. Wardner, a we'll known mining
operator, formerly of Helena, Mont,
brought several nugetgs, the largest
Weighing $3.50. In speaking of the dis
trict Mr.. Wardner said:
mo one can imagine the great 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 without ex-
aggeration that 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 1 know of. Not a man
there but who is making great deal
more than wages. 1t is the poor mans
ideal camp. A man need not go to
great expense to get a few dollars in
gold out of the earth; a common fry
ing pan is enough. L only wish that
everybody could go up there to see it
with their own eyes.
Big Nuggets Taken Out.
81 have some good claims in the dis
trict; some of them are good paying
ones, while others, 1 am confident, will
prove very rich. / saw come large
nuggets taken out there. One from No.
L, below Discovery, weighed $31S.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. I know of many who can count
their dust by the hundred pounds
]. G.. Fritz, merchant and miner at
Anvil City, pronounceS it the greatest
mining camp in Alaska. There are four
creeks, on each of which are valuable
claims, many of which are now being
worked and are paying from $50 to 800
per day per man.
Two of these creeks are Snow Gulch
and Anvil and one known to be as rich
as Eldorado of the Klondike. There
are fourteen claims on Anvil creek,
each claim being 1920 feet long with
pay streak much wider than that of
The fourteen claims on
Anvil are equal in length to forty-two
claims at Dawson. Dexter creek is
very rich, but scarce Of water. The
claims on the latter creek are being
worked by rockers, by reason of the /,
scarcity of water, with results running
from $50 to 500 per day to the man.
Every One Making Money.
Cape Nome is decidedly summer
sluicing proposition. The beach for
thirty miles Is now Delng worked with
rockers. Men are making in this man
ner at the present time from $40 to $50 !
per day and frequently a man will |
strike a streak that will pay him $500 /
some days.
Mr.. Fritz says there is hardly an
Idler at Nome now. One nugget he ex-
hibited from Discovery claim was
worth $20O.5O. The gold is of very fine
quality.
J. E. Chilberg said that the miners
for the most part would have to get |
out. They would be unable to keep |
warm through the winter. Appear |
ances showed that the drift wood |
would be only too quickly consumed
and that is the only substitute for fuel |
this winter. There was considerable |
but not enough to house the
population now there over winter.