The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-15
GOLOVIN AND
NOME DIGGINGS
TOLD OF BY LANE
San Francisco Man says Many Men
Have Made Good Finds In Both
Districts-Nome City Has . Realty
Boom, Lots Selling for S1.50O.

David r. Lane. a real estate man. of GA
Market street, San Francisco, who return
ed on the Alliance, brought the following
Interesting accoun. of his experiences on
the peninsula between Norton and Kotxe-
bue sounds. and intelligence from Colo
Win bay and Nome. which he has given to
the Post-1nteiligencer.
He went to the Kotzebue country in
June. 1855. found 1t worthless for pros
peetors, and the following September
went around TO Golovin bay on the
schooner Mizpah. going up the Fish river
to the diggines. He was told by J. A.
Dexter. a trader. that there was gold to
be found near Council City. the headqnar-
tiers OF that district. and wendell his way
thither. He found everything staked, and
reports OF much trouble over false ioca-
tions that had been made This trouble
was. however. settled satisfactorily. He
etaked a number OF claims In the Edo
RADIO and Discovery districts.
He says claims on Ophir creek are yield
ing from % cents TO $40 TO the pan. pay
for a considerable distance. sixteen claims
OF G6px1 80 feet having been located. Mel
sing yields from Is to Is cents TO the pan.
na' ana MAJ t ho' are that !, viii be-
as rich as Ophir. Fifty men are working
on the Lane claims. late letter he re-
ceived from his partner announces that
In two hours on Ophir the Dusty Diamond
Company sluiced 500 Claims on Ophir
are held at sl5ooe each. II they have good
prospects.
at Anvil city Nome city, June g. con-
tans the following news:
A great real estate excitement has
sprung up at Nome City. or Anvil City.
that ten days before the letter was writ
ten sold for $s5o 10 500. brought t.500.
Realty men were even then talking g. 500,
and believed that their lots would bring
$50 90 In twelve months
Four men on Snow gulch. a tributary OK
Glacier creek, took out $4.o0.
DR. kettleson found many pans that
gave him from ses TO sae each.
Leo Lowenberg former German sol
der, who was officially at the Worlds
fair. with Dave Mcdonald. went to Nome
and at once rocked out two ounces OF gold
IN tive hours. and with poor rocker.
With good rocker he says be could get
$50 day. and with sinee 81 eco day.
The letter continues: ''On this Uowen-
berg's, claim he took out SIS In thirty
minutes with his old rocker and we could
see steady stream of gold rolling aleng
the bottom OF the appliance" Claims on
Glacier. with no particular showing, are
being sold for as high as s2s,oo each.
Mr.. Lane says the Nome grounds Ia pref
~ we'll staked. and that there is not much
chance for poor men TO strike 1t rich
Their only opportunity Is TO work on LAYS.
and they are not good, offering but 30 per
cent, when man cannot make money on
less than 80 per cent. The pay Of work.
era IL only s. day and food. He says
the paying parts OF the district are Dry,
Anvil. Glacier and Dexter creeks and
Snow guich.
Considerable excitement has been caused
by Eric Iinsibioom, a tailor formerly with
Sanders Il Johnson. Berkeley, Cal. who
had Powers of attorney from ST Michael
men. ana siaked claims by the wholesale
through the Nome district
Zone man on Penny river, whose name
l forget" said Mr.. Lane, had two pros
poets one OF which weighed ~ cents In
Sinrock. on Sledss .siand s2.Is TO the pan
- reported by Ed Gordon, q runaway
whaler. This result was obtained by
washing o number OF pans. and then pam
arg GU, the whole. so il does no; signify
much "
He says the prospecters are Offering 81
a foot fer lumber and cannot get It, and
that TIE men have 10 saw up drtftwooi
frcsn the beach for all they can get. TIE
Oaly way to DO In 10 uAe coal oi! stoves.
as TOO much time IS lest I'm gathering drift
There Is no wood In the district Il ia
difficult 10 boat up the Snake river enc
Of THE main streams. AMI takes two DAYS
To 70 80 frcu Anvil CITY 10 Anvil creek
distance that Is traversei in the winter
over sae tundra sn one and half hours
TSFse hundred experienced prospeetnrs
frQns the Gei0vtn district went to the Nozn.
country. and form the chief population