Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-10-30
eIurned Miners Give Account Of
Their Experience.
AN IDAHO MANS GOOD LUCK


q. y. Mitchell and Thomas Roberts
of Meme city Alaska. arr guests at the
overland hotel They are gulng 10 she
Basin. where thoy expect to spend the
winter. In tho spring they will roturn
60 Cape Nome. says the Boise statca-
man. AIR. Mitchell. who O. "a
bright Now England boy. biz home be-
ing at Bangor Me. has been In Alas.
ia Tor several years. Ito went in with
the kl0ullkn rush. going 90 uHWHuu
Aftgr ru0ndiuF some time uH uuraer nu
one pt The boats that touched at the
principal points. De- entered the Uiu-
nloy " tho Alaska Commercial come
rtnN, receiving SO "a day aa carpenter.
lie had made up hlH mind TO remain Tor
tnu winter ut UuWf0n. but the stories
that reached him from Cape Nome un-
Het an HE plans. he gave up biz job
ana struck out for the new dlHgiugH.
u was late Ia the season when he
reached there. DO hc was unable TO do
much IN the way % mining. but be-
got his bearings. made turn that mote
tcd him some dust and loft. Hc Huya
De- ~ well pleased with the outlook at
Cape Nome. Any industrious man. he
nlyH. can DO wen there.
Tho entire Cape Nnmo district. be
HlyH. prospects welL No b. distinctly the
poor mans camp some provisions
nnl rocker and shovel are enough f1r
anyone 90 start un. While 900 tle
crUclW in the district have been ur0you
Co Doe very rich. the best discoveries
have been made nlonE Che beach. wherc
hundreds N men mInt working back
and forth with the tide. % was a most
novel H.ght 90 watch The men no work,
taking out fhe yellow stun practically
from the oceans bed. The pay On a
couple NJ feet or more from the surface
and r. overlaid by "a stratum Of grnvel
and the top stratum nf sand. The gold
o. In o. clay formation.
Mr. Mitchell says many stories have
been sent out uf fabulous Hhurtstlnin
cienn-uu1 ln che Some district most
10 which b. believed 90 Dr. rUmlncea.
Tho truth wac good enough. however.
The ground 400 prlnurcte1 wUli and
there was not n man who bad worked
there who had mot made "a grub stake.
nll the way from ~ 0Nl Zoo 5000 cHch.-
enough Co tide him over iho winter.
That wuH O good record. considering tho
camp was practically unknown the enr-
ly part NJ the HumWer
There had been individual caves of
rich strikes. two mon taking out 5000
IN "a hours ETC.. but The average cicun-
up was not more that SO ndny 90 the
man. That was very good, but u was
not secured with ease. To The nrat
place tho weather was bad most N the
N'ANH NWNN WI" WY "fHANN"|H NN'.NH 'NN|'
rether Nome was not n very pleasant
place to live. The plan very generally
seemed o. b. Co get out nH soon na the
stake was made, Nome was Fr1WlnE
very rapidly. however said Mr. Mitch
on. and with liu growth would come
comforts that ARE only drermod Of by
the residents uf the place now
Mr, Mitchell relates story of an
Idaho boy, Max Altum. who had
worked Cor several years in Boise la-
elm without setting much ahead. lie
won't 60 Alaska, and was attracted 20
Nnmc since luHt June Do had t1kon out
$4,000 clear Mr. Mitchell nlid Mr Alt
man had gone tu New York with bio
hiu of gold. but Dc expected 60 return
CO. Nome Tor more in the Spring.
other districts who're beach mining la
possible were being discovered by me
trelyaa proprietor. fHld STR Mitchell
one ~ these b. go Gullivtn Bay some
distance north There would be- rush
There ln the spring,
Tho uknfe ~ the oanr granting prr-
mission 90 mine Va Siberia has aroused
great Interest among Alaskan miners.
Tile intrepid American proprietor had
long before entered siberia, and the re-
ports brought back were enough Go turn
iho hond ~ the most conservative. The
oNilcH of iiurHln had been permitted 20
mine two months in each year Tor iholr
own benefit and thn work they had
done waH sufficient Co reveal tn the
Hhrewd and DARING Americans The Won
dorful richness ~ the ground. The
ulnHe OF the cznr. was. therefore. rec
/ coiyed with iny ana many Alaskan
miners were preparing Go go into Slhcr-
| in as soon nH spring opened,
Under the ukarc The miners are grant
l Cd nll the rights rlVen under tho laws.
I only those who have suffered the tyr1u-
ms ~ Canadian regulations, says Mr.,
I Mitchell can fully appreciate the bless
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