The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-15


of 500. made it somewhat expensive.
even for this locality. Labor in the
mines is worth from IS TO SO day and
board, and even carpenters. about the
only class of labor are paid $1.50 per
hour and board themselves. AS the
days in summer are from eighteen to
twenty-fOur hours long, a carpenter
can put in a lot of spare time Every
body has money, and as many who
have it are not used to it. they are
laViShing their earnings by day on
gambling. liquor and dance halls at
night. Gambling takes the bulk of the
dust. and every species of game is
represented in Anvil City.
A Thousand Dollars An Hour.
AS to what amount of gold is being
taken out there is no means of deter
mining. 1t is known that not more
( than 100000 in all have been shipped
by steamer and 100000 Of that has
gone out within the past week. The
beach mining is reported to be turning
out about $4,000 day. but this in the
nature of things can not continue, and
when it is exhausted these men will go
to work on the numerous claims lying
back from the sea and along the creeks.
Here the gold is found in very rich
deposits, the claim of Lindeburg & Co.
on Anvil creek turning out over a thou
sand dollars an hour ($25, 600 in twenty
/ four hours, one nugget recently found
being worth 1912. Another claim owned
by Dr. Kettlesen, in one day cleared up
$4,000, and so the stories go. One may
hear almost any kind of a fairy tale,
and while many of them are eXagger-
ated the fact remains that just now
every man in the district has a pocket
full of dust and heart full of hope,
and there are no dead hrokes in Anvil
City. What the conditions will be a
year hence viii not be known until
then, and can not be predicted.
Nov. 1 communication with the out
side world will be completely shut off
for seven months at least. and only a
few of the people now in the Cape
Nome district are fixed with either food
or shelter for the severity of the CHI
mate, though those who are prepared
with houses to live in and sufficient
food and fuel can not only pass the
winter comfortably, but can do more
or less work.
To Mine In Tents This Winter.
There are very few so we'll off as this.
however. fuel being scarcer than food
but among the beach combers" a
novel plan viii be adopted. Parties of
four. six or eight will organize for
winter operations by securing a large
tent. spreading it on the beach over
the ground they propose to work in,
and there they will set UP housekeep
ing The canvas will be protected on
the outside from the weather in every
way possible, and stoves will be kept
going ON the inside, so that the tent
viii not only be comfortable TO live and
to work in, but il will never freeze in
there, and the mining can go on quite
were the only season known in the
Cape Nome district A great rush is
expected in the spring. but, as has
been stated, Their are no claims I'M
staked anywhere within thirty or forty
miles of Anvil City, and what lies hey
ond those limits is practically unknown.
But according to the tales of prospect
ors as far beyond as Cape Prince of
Wales, 80 miles, gold has been found
along the creeks in quantities that
would pay from SO TO $50 per man per
day IL panned by an expert.
Claims are offered for sale-a claim
being twenty acres-at prices from
$4,000 to $50 600, and there are. of
course, at times not many takers at
those figures. but they are expected in
the spring with the rush.
Thirty Square Miles staked Out.
over 1000 claims-covering 10000
acres, about thirty square miles of ter
ritory-have been recorded, and it is
generally believed that each claim rep
resents suit at law. 50 hasty and hap
hazard have been the methods of pro-
cedure in securing claims.
The claims of this entire section are
of the placer variety. and so far no
quartz has been discovered. which
means that what is busy mining
camp with millions this year may be