Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-09-14
GOLD FROM CAPE NOME.
Six HUNDRED Thoullfd Dollars Worth Comes
from Alaska.


h"NHHNhl't " N"llHH INNH Na."'nNM NNNNINN
thousand dollars In gold dust aud 900
passengers uulyol here this afternoon
from ALASKA on the steamer ChntIys
Nclfun. -Four hundred thousand was
consigned Co the Nurth American Trad
iug aud transportation company u
came from Dawson. Two hundred
tnUuslnf came from capt Some. II
was The property uf about forty miners
from that district The largest ludl-
yIlu1i holders were j. koIaburg L.
Golden j. O.. Frtz. r. PcrInotc and *.
williams
Tho cape Nomcrs aay that gold Is
stored in cans I'D buckets In that
camp. ar ln tho palmlcst days of the
kl0udlkH. Three thousand people Iry
working the beach for an % o. worth.
They expect Co ull get out " the Cuuu-
try byfUrH the frcUzD-up. which is uN-
pyctri about tho middle OF october.
So intent have they been iu ligrIug
gold that uu Preparations have been
made in providing shelter for winter
and they Will ~ necessity have 10 como
out.
cape Nome o. declared by an who
came out and who Expressed them-
selves Goo BE- uu exciting camp. There
fun Of a.. uud % la setting about the
t1utH aud camps OF the miners In
everything available. The output this
ycnf n estimated at from ono 10 two
millions.
}. =. Warducr. a well known mining
operator, formerly uf Helena, Mont,
brought fcy,.ul nuggets, the largest
weighing $3.50 In speaking of the dis
trlct Sir. Warlu'r fuid
NO one can Imagine the great
wealth thUt Hes along the Cape Nome
beach. Auyil city iH tho center OF the
This Do uu lllo boast, for ! say without
tNuggvrutlou that there In more wealth
there uUr capita thun lu any other city
ln the country, Thyrv uru more mon
walking around Auyil Guy with $1,000
bon gold dust Zoe their pockets than lu
any other city I know o. not % man
there hut who o. making % great deal
more than wages, aud there are many
who are taking out fortunes daily. Il
De- the poor mans Ideal camp. man
need not $50 tu great expense 90 got u
few dollars lu gold out uf the earth "a
common frylns-pHn ls enough. only
wish that everybody could Ep up there
Co see 10 with their own eyes. I have
some good claims in the district Some
OF them uro good paying uueH, while
others, / nm confident VIII prove very
rich,
u saw some large nurgotH takon out
there. one. from 30. I below biHcuy-
pry. weighed iaiA su. and that was not
unusual People up thDrv got iu the
habit uf talking NJ money by the 100
pounds, Just aH we speak ur dollar
I know uf many who can count their
dust by the hundred pounds"
j. %. FHtE, merchant and miner nt
Anvil city pruuuuugeH % the greatest
mining camp ln Alaska. There are
four creeks, uu each NJ which are Nalu-
able claims many OF which prp Row
being worked. ana arc paying from $50
Geo 500 per day per man. Two uf these
creeks are Snow Gulch ana Anvil aud
one known Co Doe us rich us EIdprndu uf
the ltlnudlkH There are fourteen
claims ON Auyil creek. each Clulm be-
Ing 500 feet long with q pay HtrcHk
much wider than that NJ the Ellnradu.
The fourteen claims ON Anvil are equal
iu lcngth tu furty-t,yo claims at Daw-
ron. Dexter crock ls very rich, but
scarce uf wutUr The claims on the
latter crock urn being worked boy rock
rra, by reason of tha scarcity NJ water
with results running from $50 TO 800
Cape Nume rs decidedly % summer
HIuIclug proposition. The beach for
thirty miles lH now being worked with
rockers Men are making ln this man
nor az the present time from $40 90 $50
Per day ana frequently man win
'N' wv 20 .ff'NN 'f'N' '''A I"" f'''' Wv"
some days
Mr. Fritz says there ls hardly an
illpr ut Nome now. Wages are 81 an
hour and board and men hard 10 get
600 that Thoru AFRO some 1900 people
there now, about hnlf Of whom VIII
winter there
Mr Fritz brought out a good-slzed
sack NJ Cape Nome gold one nugget
hc exhibited from Discovery yluim was
worth $500. The gold lH OF very hne
quality
j, n. Chllborg said thpt tho miners
FOR the most part would have 10 gct
out They would Doc unable 10 keep
warm through the winter Appear
UnccH showed TINT tho driftwoOd would
Doc only too quickly consumed, ana that
"a the only substitute Tor fuel this vim
ter There was considerable building,
hut not enough 90 house the population
now there over winter,
a.. q. Human OF WILDLY Island,
wash, who embarked uu the Charles
Nelson 40 Nome died az scn.
ST. Michael ndViC0s up 10 August 3let
state that tho first authentic news of
the disaster 60 tho "JgrslH' party.
which occurred no the mouth NJ the
KuakoWlm in juno, ltlN, ana iu which
fourteen people lost their lives, has
been brought hrrr by DF. HOwlg NJ the
Muruvlnu mission nc Bethel Or.
Romig had with him many articles ta-
ken on the bodies OF the unfOrtunates
washed ashore az different points, Six
bodies are reported 10 have been found.
OF these one was Identified as ]. r.