The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-10
NOME SANDS RICH IN GOLD.
AZ. 900. 900 DUO OUT LAST kUMMER
AM tOHI YVES srfLL UNCOVkRED.


Nues-ts and Dust. too. IN the Crsst Beds
Ininnd-Tbe Mos.-Co,errd Land Also
Rich IN the M~tn,-Amnsn sprinR, Jr..
Tells His observation-disclosures Of n Mob.
One Of the mos, promising OF the new gold nelds
n Alaska Is the coast region 10 the .ou,h OF Beh.
ring Strait between Cape Prince Of Wsles ard
Norton Fay. First Lieut. d. H. Jarvis, COM
rnander OF the revenue cutter Bear In the Behring
Sea las, Gunner. laid In Washington Las, week
that he believed that grea, fortunes would be taken
ou, Of tho Cape Nome region mex, season. Among
che miners who have rich holdings there IL Amasa
Spring Jr.. who recently returned from Nome IN
his hons In Elizabeth. N. J Hc was one Of the
first TO stake ou, claims In the new Fields las, win
ter when the Anvil Creek discovery started tho
stampede from down the coast and he WAS one Of
she inrorporators Of the comrany which frs saw
he possibilities OF beach digging. Mr. Spring
IS satisfied that millions will be dug out Of the
and from Cape Nome to Cape Prince Of waloa
LAST summer. he estimates 81, 900 coo was taken
nut ~ the beach a, Nome and 81. 800 900 more was
nanned out IN me creeks inland
Il was stalking out claims In tho Cape Mono
country SO soon after The discovery OF gold In
Anvil Greek Mr. Spring told a SrN reporter last
week that feel like one Of the original party.
The story ~ the finding Of gold there don't he
ileve has ever been rightly told A party Of six
miners left Golohn Bav In the summer Of '9S to
see wha, thev could nnd along the coas, to the
westward f;oloan nav. you know Ia ACROSS
rom St Mich,els and " Il there that An old miner
has heen bringing silver out NJ the Fish River
country 10 the north and loading II into schooners
.or thu iaS, twenty y~a-s The SIX men were:
rohn Rrvntesnn a Swedish farmer: JAfe, iinde-
berg a Norwegian saior who came here with tho
-.irhee- herd In the spring n 'oS Eric iindhioom.
swedish sailor who -,r nwav from whaling
shin 60 got into the rnlt fields; Dr A. W Kitrleson.
the physician stationed al the Port Clarence rein
.er- s'A'ion: G. W Price = prosnrc'or for Lane
-Ae California miner and a Inrlander one NJ the
-eiricet herders whose name H. Jotan TornensiS
These men sailed IN the coast ras, Cape Nome
or about SEVENTH .hve miles and went ashore
Shere they saw a rivrr flowing into the sea This
7as Snake River Let me tell you something
shout thclnv ~ the ground there. Iisan Alaskan
pla n running back few miles 10 low hills. and
here Isn't a stick NJ timber on Il The frst hills
,re perhaps six or seven hundred fee, high and
luther inland thew ~. higher but II IL not noun.
-airous country bv any mcana Running down
almost to the water. leaving only a narrow strip
a! sand beach. is the moSs-covered tundra Tho
noSs part Of II white and the rest green. Ii from
one to three feet thick, and is frozen hard all win
.er. but in the summer ii thaws out little The
o.
day we hal las, winter there was "a degrees below
zero. but before left In August the thermometer
got up a. high A. 10 above The worst feature
.: the weather there Is the wind. The sou we-,ers
in the summer sweep along the coast and drive
small sailing craft on the shore. and great man
men lose their lives The winter more
rom of the mountains cut right through the
oeaviest furs and II Is almost possible 10 be out
ioors any length Of time without getting your
tace or hands or feet frozen
Were not the coast strswn with driftwooi
TO- 400 m les, there wou be nc use Of attempt
ing TO live in that country for the only thing
~ can Gni inland with which to start Gre
IS an occasional gathering Of willow twiRs, al d
I Is herculcan task TO keep a fire going will
;heSe bits OF wood Bu, down on the beach IA
any quantit OF driftwood washed down from
he mountains by the Yukon and blown on the
shore by the sou'westsrs VI hen ! left Core
Some the miners had gathered up all the drift
vood along the beach for ten miles and they had
% go further up the coast to get mora My agen
whites me that you can't get wood now In Nome
Tor love or money and the las, humber he was
able 70 get co him $3.50 n thousand Tho reaSou
or this is that in the stampede TO Cape Nome
many huntrcds Of people went In there without
linking how they were going TO sIend the win
ser and they have only tents To q o'ect them from
he cold Lieut. Jarvis, | sec thinks they vii
pull through the winter all right but am afraid
here is going 10 he Somc suffering. for a winter
here on the coast Is far more severe than up ID,
Yukon in TIE Klondke country.
but to tell about the liz discovcrerS They
vent up Snake River two three miles until they
,amc to a good-eized creek which had likely
ook N IL A mile or two up this creek thev found
gold in their pans TWAS pay dit They worked
haya Ia k,,t 49, tk.p I.I II.
Iut for it was getting so cold that the grounc
SaI getting as hard as rock. They took on
100 In dust Overlooking their di covery
lain there waS hill with a rock on tor Of il tina
ooked Ike great anvil and 30 they named n,
ill Anvil Mount in and the stream Anvil Creek
The town which has sprung up at the mouth o
Snake River called Anvil City when I lief
here. bu, have heard since that the postal au
'hnr'ties have changed the name 10 Nome Tn
'tsoovrrcrs staked out claims along the creek
and made thei- way back to Eaton reindeer sta
ion eight miles from the mouth NJ the Unnlaklil
River, and ABOUT sixty miles from ST. Michn-ls
The pa-v came into Eaton on Nov 20, and tn
news n ,No An'ing Of gold at Cape Nome wa
toon ru1rils I'D and down the Goa
"Dr. william A. Kj-llm.n the man who brough
yhe reindeer herd from NORWAY in the spring q
90 and was then in charge OF the reindee
nth th'm m down To ST. Michaels Everybod.
vas wild over the new gold fields when the dus
rom Anvil Creek was exhibited at St Mcha~ls
was then doing some prohtl"-s prospecting ~
h. unalakiik River having gonc 10 Alaska witt
III City OF Columbia crowd. Or Kiemsn scn
Eord up tn me- that there was fortune waitlri
or M al CAPE None and asked II I didn wan
70 60 with him To Anvil Creek at onoe. got dow
% ST McharlS in a hurry and IN Dec, THAT
.ust n year ago ism tive started Tor thc neN
god neliS a party ~ twenty men and ffty.fy
se!nirer. Some other prosp- ctors started ou
week ahead NJ us from Eaton. Among thcs
w'r- four m'n-I,arrinors AMI Sherz"r ~ s,
LOUIS and Calkins and Doring Of California
Who started over With two slrds Caikins gave OH
ant vas loft al an Rsquinau village TO be srn
5tcttH un,la<lik, AMI Dorng had To he left a
Goblin Bay. Lnrrimore and SherIer got int
on" on Jan. 10.
"Our party got on all right until We rrache
GoloHn Bav, WIN Or. ki"llman was taken I
N app n llcitis IN the day before hrlstmas an
We were obliged 10 l"av" him th-re In the Esquima
ylllag" n IrlsuS in the care o. two Of the M r
"" nush"d on to the gold fields and three day
a'tr Christmas We were at Cap Nome. Their
wrr" tY"ntv-on" or twenty-five m, n there tefor
gs Tn" doctor got we'll Al lrHuk and came int
amp on Jan. 10 Prosp"ctors came straggln
mt, camp all winter. We stakrd out CLAIMS II