The Red Cloud chief., 1899-06-30
A BELT OF GOLD 70 SIBERIA.
Reports Of New Discoveries In the
Alaskan Mineral Fields.
CAPE NOME, NEW ELDORADO.
A Seattle P~rospector Thinks the Yukon
Mineral B,i Extspds to A,ia--stor,es
Of Misfortune In Alaska with Every
. Account OF SUGGEST t

SEATTLE. Wash. June 20. The lat.
est adviccs from the newly discovered
gold field, Cape Nome. Alaska, are
contained In a letter from Major r.. s.
%Ingraham of Seattle, who writes under
date of February 2, 1890. Major In.
graham Is tho leader Of fourteen men
who were fitted out by Prince Luigi
OF Italy and local business men. He
went first to Kotzcbue Sound, but
finding nothing there, crossed over.
land TO Cape Nome. with a portion OF
the party, enduring considerable hard
ships. Part OF the time the men had
for food only two pancakes a day.
Major I%ngrahan writes:
On September 95 six men went TO
work to test their claims, some on
snow creek nnd the rest on Anvil
creek. The best pan was obtained on
Snow creek and amounted to So. 25.
The aggregate of four days work was
81 less than 81, $50. Tho gold was of
good quality and sold at st. Michael
without assay for SIC. IS per ounce.
On account of tho l~atencss OF the sea
son and lack Of supplies no attempt to
reach bedrock was made.
Tho news soon spread, and there
has been q constant arrival Of pros.
pcctors from Uualaska, st. Michael
and as far south rs Kuskoquim. Fully
% locations have been made to date.
Two other districts have been or
ganized, one at Linck point, beyond
Cape Rodney, and the other with Bo-
nanza creek rs n center.
''The rich finds at Cape Nom, md
on tho Nc-Uck- Luck, u tributary of
Fish river, prove beyond doubt that
the rich mineral belt Of the Yukon
crosses to Siberia. Pay dirt Is report
ell to have been struck on a river
flowing into the chain of lakes having
outlet at Port Clarence.
Before starting from Kotzebue
sound December Is, 1S0s, prospectors
had come in from Noatak, reporting
the discovery of n rich and extensive
mineral belt north Of the river. In
November, 1895, there was a STAN.
pede from among the p~rospectors
wintering upon tho Kowak to report
cd rich diggings upon the Aiashuck, a
tributary OF the Kynkuk.
There Is no doubt but that next
summer will witness remarkable de-
velopments in the vicinity of Golivin
Bay"
But with every story Of fortune
found in the gold fields comes one of
suffering and disappointment. w. ID.
Doolittle of Irvington, N. j., arrived
here yesterday after undergoing fear
full ex experiences in Alaska. lie at
tempted to enter the Alaskan gold
fields over tho Edmonton route, but
failed, and returned to Telegraph
out of food and just able to
make his wants known. He said:
Il have witnessed people coming in
with hands and feet frozen and starv-
ing and suffering with scurvy. OF
fourteen men on their way to Tele-
graph creek, nine persisted In a snow
storm. Three men were found dead
in a cabin Mt Moose lake. They were
two Allison brothers of Kent, England
and Carter of New Zealand.
THE latter part of May, Porter, the
government agent ut Telegraph creek.
sent n relief party into the Lizard dis
trict, consisting of two Indian guides
and four white men. They had q scow
load Of provisions which they distri-
buted among the needy people, num-
boring about $40"
SAN FRANCISCO, juno 2S.-Eight
miners have just reached here from
Alaska with S25o.0o), the result Of
two years digging within twenty
miles of Dawson, One OF them, named
w. III. Armstrong, has a nugget worth
$500.
The country is full of idle men,"
said Armstrong, land every steamer
brings a lot more to swell the list.
There will be n fairly good clean up
around Dawson, but it will belong to
ten times as many men rs last years
output"