Arizona republican., 1899-07-15
ARGONAUTS RETURsA
Dazzling Story Told of LofeEY
 Discovered Fields.
Brought Down by inc Steamer AL IianCe the First Vessel From the noufh of inc Yukon This Sea- son Richness of PiaCerS.

Seattle, July 1.-The steamer Ali .
 ance, arriving this mo4 ming from St.
 Michaels and Alaska, is the first yes
 sel to arrive from the mouth of the
 Yukon this season and brings advices ] from the newly-GIscovered gold fields of Cape Nome. When the Alliance left ! St. Michae.s the season was not far enough advanced to determine the fu-
 ture of those diggings. Prospectors were confident the country would prove very rich. Colors were found
 zone, which is 8 miles square, and nearly all the available ground had been staked
 In some instances there are four or five claimants to one property. As soon as the warm weather sets in and material for sluicing is at hand, the | true value of the ground will be known. Pans from two to four dol lars are common Only one cleanup ! has been made thus far It was that of Gabe Price and Louis Lane on claim ! No. s, above discovery on Anvil creek With four men shovehng eight days, they took out S96, 1000. Not a shovel fuI was taken from the bed of the creek. The gold is different from that of the Yukon in that it is quite black. due to iron. It runs about SIS to the ounce. On the claim adjoining Price and Lanes Dr. KittelsOn took $4 to the pan. There was a great rush of men from St. Michae.s into the district Town lots are selling as high as One thousand dollars. The Alliance had several passengers and a small amount of gold dust from Dawson. The next steamer to arrive will probably be the Roanoke, which was to have sailed from St. Michae.s June 9.
 The Alliance brings news of the Nome. The following are their names: Joe Fountain, Maynard, Grotau,. Carr. Doctor Brigham and Jack Burke. All of the above save Burke were from Halyoke, Mass. and were members of a party known as the Roich party. Dr. Brigham died from natural causes. Carr and Burke froze to death. Out of the party of 100 miners at Cape Nome, IS severe cases of scurvy de- veloped during the winter. The stricken men were mostly loaded on sledges and hauled over the ice to St Michaels for medical treatment
 David F. Lane, a former real estate dealer of San Francisco, who was a passenger on the Alliance, brings the
 
 creeks, tributaries of the Neu Uk Lux river, which is reached by boat from Cape Nome A stampede from Cape Nome to these creeks took place last November. Good pay dirt was found running from 25 cents 10 s to the pan. Nobody has struck bedrock yet. He declared that the country is no place for a poor man to rush off to- The wages paid last winter was s a day. In a letter written to Lane by i his partner from Council City on June | 9 last, the latter said: Yesterday | four men on Snow guIch cleaned ID | $4 4O00 Dr. KittIeson took out ${2 ! from one pan of dirt. Pans running | from s1O to S25 have been washed out"
 As good a story as any is the finding i of rich claim on Dexter creek by Leo He struck good ground on Dutch creek in the Eldorado dis trict He then made a trip to Nome and back with an old rickety rocker and washed out s23 in two hours on his claim on Dexter creek With a good rocker he can take out $159 day ! and with sluices $1,O00 a day and everything seems to pay from the top. Very few claims up to the time Zane left for the outside had been prospect ed. Unprospected claims showing pay dirt from the surface down were al ready commanding fabulous prices.
 David Mattherson of Tacoma, a vic tim of the Edmonton tral, arrived here today with both hands amputatsd ( md both feet useless, the effect of 1rosts. Tn company with three men le started for Dawson over the Ed ( nonton route with a large herd of cat | .le. Nearly all the cattle were but the men pushed on and ( fter much suffering reached Dawson n describing his experiences, Mat-her- l on said: As We advanced we passed . trough veritabls graveyard. OF l very side were strewn the dec3-ing ( bodies of men who had come this way. i Sick and weak as we were, the sight ( if the bodies gave us energy to con inue our efforts to reach civilization, i nd somehow we did it'' a