The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24
CALIFORNIANS HAVE GOOD
CLAIMS AT CAPE NOME
Many Of the Mines Along The Beach
Damaged by Storms Work
OF the Courts.

It up next summer The claim above this
Is being worked and pays over 500 DAY
to the man.
Stockton. are still taking out the yellow
metal In quantities to open. ones eyes
One of our leading attorneys here IS using
paper-weight, but he takes it with him
The bench mining had setback for
no9 asybs beng pgxs6d as as
before. During the storm the tide washed
in on the diggings and filled them to the
tRe Re work sS ha a dzeT Is s tG a2 9Ra
there was considerable speculation as to
whether some Of the smaller ships
the haEbor would be sbls s4sn@r to riae ae
the their 'a1 anchors SGs"i for several hours two
of them came ashore-the Fisher Brothers
and James G. Swan, from Seattle. The
gher Fxfe is BroSsyTs 99ESy gSa Sas no not sSed e' YET W
A small steam yacht, used here as a tug,
filled and sank. 1t will be raised in few
The Alaska Exploration Company's two
barges, filled with merchandise. also con.
cluded to try to land, and did very well
until they got into tb the Soon boses
floated in all directions. and when they
drifted ashore there was merry war
among small army OF scayengIerS S;ay tgIat eaGa 1a
ashore. They would wade out into the
ice-cold water up to their armpits, and
one or two came near being drowned. The
poWerless to protect their goods until the
soldiers arrived on the scene, and then the
matter was settled BY, the company pay
ing for the merchandise that had been
Peter Johnson and John stonehouse
called upon me ana wished to have The
San Francisco paper Of July 26 claiming
to be an interview with Mrs. H. w. Bens
was Incorrect SO far as to their death;
also that John Morrison. James Hutton
and Earl Plummer are alive and we'll,
They say that Mrs. Bens is a good and
brave woman, but that she was not alone
after her husbands death for any length
Of time except a two and half mile
walk through the snow to the camp from
which place she was taken to Nulato.
They state that the two Pickering
Peter Power Of Milton. Cal, supposed
to have been lost in the slide at Sheep'
Camp three years ago, Is here and doing
Reports of a rich strike on 0phir
Creek in the Galovin Bay district, have
just reached here and quite number OF
miners have gone to try their luck there.
When the packtrain from the creek
claims came in yesterday 1t carried In
the neighborhood of 800 pounds OF gold
dust II came out Of claim on Snow
Guich. Parties owning these. rich claims
are very reticent about giving out the
amount of their outputs, as there is dan
ger Of robbery from some of the rough
Element. One man was relieved of sS24
while on the beach There were two nice
nuggets in this amount, one. being valued
at $26 and the other at $40. The party
suspected as being the thief has not yet
been arrested.
The miners who are taking out large
amounts are having trouble to. find safe
places to keep their dust. One large safe
in town is filled with sacks of gold.
The United States revenue cutter The,
tbs made her second visit to-day. She vii
leave after a few hours stay.
The town is experiencing quite build
ing boom. There are a few large build
ings going up and probably a hundred
smaller houses to be used for winter
quarters by miners. Lumber is worth sl2
per thousand