The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-27


- experience In many Of the greatest
F~a..ne camps OF the world, in q letter pub
s~hHd In the Nome Gold Digger. OF No
-.snbe. I. gives his opinion regarding the
- reid fields. He says that Nome will
st,hin short tine be the greatest gold
-mp In the world, and il sanguine con-
..rring Nome's advantages. lie gives rea-
- 70 substantiate his statements
~ Murray's letter In ful, is as follows:
ap<fore iwensy-four months from the
49, AZ discovery of the Cape Nome min
- distrct. Nome Will have population Of
15h6 and be the greater commercial CEN
~ ~nrfh Of Seattle. within three years
80 Nome viii be the greatest mining
sSnter in the world. Why2 Because Nome
- all the features that go to make
rsAt mining camp.
sTo become great a gold field must be
nsy 70 reach: there must be a large ex-
,sct OF ground rich In gold: the claims
s.ust be shallow. there must he water 70
work them and the gold must be In such 81
eondision that large Per cent. Of 1t can
be saved
Has All the ADVANTAGES.
Nome Possesses all these advantages.
Ara win become great because IL has I'M
ntnse stores Of gold that can be extracted
utfhout much loss. quickly and cheapiy.
4 euus~auentiy the gold will be divided among
T 4 large number OF men. and the result will
- prosperity TO all.
IL il not alone how much gold a claim
~
haw much OF the gold that the claim con-
tains can be saved. and how much IL Il GO
ng TO cost TO save II. What Ia left after
paying the expenses Of working the claim
, profit Nome gold has been pronounced
b. al mining men as exceptionally pure. Ii
3 bright. very clean. and amalg aniates per-
Sectly on plates
sNomc being on the coas. may be reach-
Il easily and directly by large vessels:
consequently men, supplies and machinery
may BE- shipped here speedily, cheaply and
and costly freighting overland on mems
hacks al 500 ton. As has occurred al
chr places.
Nome is under our own government,
saiciais have been free from the corrupt
practices which have characterized the
Canadian officials In the Kiondike.
The most valuable features the Nome
PAGERS possess are their similarity to the
Early California placers- They are shall
low, hardly ever exceeding Ave feet 10 bed
rock Thin means that the ground may he
easily and rapidly prospected; and that the
mali expe ase. there being little nonpayfng
Dirt to remove and to get rid OF before
stachIng the pay streak.
MONIES beach digEings alone have pro-
tuced 10000 already and will produce
mny millors more before they are ex-
Asusted. This bench, which runs from u
over 90 miles. and every mile of 1t Will
pay.
Average an Ounce n Day.
Everyone of the hundreds Of men who
rocked has averaged an ounce OF gold
cay Numbers Of expert old-timers have
uly cleanup OF from $i.ooo 10 so has
been reported.
'"The pay streak runs down 10 the waters
edEe and how much farther no one has
beer able to work TO find cut
These beach diggings. small part only
81 which has been worked. make Nome the
superior OF any mining camp in the world.
because between high and low water mark
90 title can he had to any claims. conse-
suentiy anyone at any time may work
anywhere on the beach; and. IL everything
slse falls the Nome miner may always go
70 the beach and make a srubstake
The resources OF the beach are so vast
hat. Notwithstanding that the camp ia a
year old and has contained more than
100 people neither the tundra, creek nor
quartz claims have been given any aiten-
Ton, save in isolated cases. and these few
cases have proved honanzas
The tundra diggings, which prospect IA
fich as the beach diggings extend from
lhe beach three OF four miles 10 the foot
hills; but SO far TO work has been done
ave TO prospect. owing 10 the richness
and to the proximity of The beach d.ggings
10 water, rendering them the easier 10
work
Three or four miles from the beach lie
sae foothills. containing many creeks and
creams. That many of these streams are
imnensel. rich has been proved heyond a
doubt by the little work already done on
them. OF the few claims aircad work ed
numbers have paid over xiso a day TO the
nan and ore claim has a recctd OF s25o,-
M Ter two months work.
Fine Quarts Located.
"on these. az on the tundra claim. work
has been postponed. everyone turning his
Attention TO the beach. where only rocker
vas needed with which ~ work.
Besides the placer dsegsngs. numerous
cages OF high grade quartz have eeen To-
Gated, hGt as vet no one has prosrected
Systematically for lode claims.
EeAt year. with the big thrush OF peo-
ps~shich Is bound to occur. Their. viii I've
enough men 20 work not only the beach
GUY tundra and creek claims. Hundreds of
men who left AZ the end OF the season
nafe gen" out for the purpose OF purchas-
hs mining machinery with which ga re-
ssfn and work their claims next summer,
MO IN i%e Nome VII produce more gold
saan has ever come out Of any camp in &
Year since iS&a
tesisleS the Nome district there are 9th
eV districts which have hsen discovered re-
svhus " adjoining territory which prom
ase as Wei as Nome This winter when the
naand gets hard enough for travelling
.aefe VIII be- hundreds ~ men out explor-
ihx rev regions. with the result. shat uu-
uetSieely other ricn districts will re dis