The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-19
CAPE NOME GOLD STORIES.
Accounts OF Fortunes Taken from the
Sand In . Few Heurs.
Fre~ ns cAfeaoo Record.

Frew h Chicago Record
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NArn NoAH' A''eAe Wy 10 mere year
ago was only bare wind swept beach In Behring
on .,,,h go. MN an. 1000, yuron Gun
try has nne ciimn,e-,here today a city
of 2 600 ueople surrounded BY some Of the riches,
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"o.., ukks. ~. "o',u IN. -
to the tundra averaging aSou, $50 fee, in width
th.,. b,. bron t.k.n ou, a, 600 600 vo,th a,
sold With rocker -s.hinx YIN the crude, ~.y "
many without copper plates and quicksilver.
and Nth nny,b,nr ,bey could make in tho ,b.p.
Of rocker The tailings 81 those men arc now
in places being worked over and pay good wagoa
Th,so digging. which changed camp OF broken,
in which every man had money and many making
500 i. day. while some who STRUCK r'eh spots
s1oa ou. ,n'usHna' "a 'no'' u%e e.n' rom
s., Ven s "ne' w S.am NJ 800. oa',.n
s'Isak extending about twenty m'les farther up;
Cove, pD.s o. Wa ,sa month";
UP 70 oape rf,nee OF "a'oA Az 'nS NOUN OF
Smoke River 10, about three miles the beach is
one heNSpepoI mAn =, VINO was nav oiose 'Mksa
days with ono rocker and the help Of four men
gh sG he hired when he found he bad !! neh .cok
asy who seG' .nssSsl
weil.known Dawsonite took advantage OF a very
low tide and went away out carrying tho dirt
Il Their days work gave them-two men
g zoo and P5ossd ,sn. the depor. runs GU, under
ties by drciges pumps and machinery the yield
should 10 tremendous Right in thc town. at
the lower end, in the grass roots Of the tundra
Water in limiuers quantities Ia close BY and any
mining man knows what this means when. proper.
K worked This year some men rocked all along
!, Is likely that they may BE- eompelled to remain
beach Is said to prospect in many places and Is
likely to Be tremendous gold producer. With
cs, he 20 cost OF as is
u will propaby not bs more than por cent On
the creeks little has been done owing to the beach
labor drawing men from the hills
The creeks are from hve 10 twenty eve miles
from Nome Some Of The S,S Ses are within
s22, 900 for sixty hours shovcling Tor two men.
One is said to haye cleaned up $3.50 900 for the
Anvil Creek, Is even richer. Dex Creek Is good
On No they cleaned up Sl6.O with rockers In
short time Although there was not water
enough W suico the expense OF getting out
supplies was hig b this year.-the cost Of taking y
out was only $1,000 or o per cont On Anvil
These creeks in most places arc about three
feet deep and everything In pay; There are other
rich creeks and tributary gulGhes, bu, not much
has been done on them, Almost nothing can
be done In the winter Absence Of wood pre-
vents prospecting, and little more can he definitely
known until noxt summer,
Cape Nome Ia bullt suaggling!y along the
beach for a mile, ana " now hall as large as Daw'
son rms despite me lact lhat building has
been seriously retarded by the scarcity Of lumber,
which is $500 per 900 feet and little 70 be had
al that hlgh price. Own iots arc 60 neld on the
front street at from $1,000 70 $1,000, according
70 locauon As ne GROUND Is rich In gold the
tenure OF ule IL hksly " be uncertain as u In
staked ior placer Ihere mas besn some Jumping.
or ns,.y risimin, that The Gov.Inm.nt ,ss.,x..