Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-09
"0n the Beach of Nome"
July 10, 1900.

| DEAR LLOYD AND ALL
Fenton is going to start for Nome at
! II o'clock tonight and is now taking
a snoose, and am sitting on my BED
| killing time so / can call him. | Just
got through baking biscuits, and you
can tell Lottie they are simply immense.
| | have developed into a first-class
cook. We are living high; have every
thing desirable to eat and plenty of it.
| Many people come up this far and
! get discouraged and sell out cheap.
| We bought from one fellow for $1,000,
layout that would have cost 5000 in
| Nome. We are one-half mile from
/ Cripple creek and about Is miles from
| Nome; have been here three weeks
| now, and | think we have shOveed
| enough dirt to make q hole as large as
the Court House there We have to
| go down to feet to get the pay dirt
| and it's nothing extra at that. This
! beach has been ripped up for 30 miles.
| 1t was done last summer by the Daw-
| son men. There are some spots next
| to the Tundra like which we are work
! ing-too hard work to get at and were
! left. We found four Dawson men
working here, and presume they took
a liking to us as they told us to try our
luck here before some one else took
the ground, as it was pretty good.
They have been very kind to US by
| showing us all sorts of things which
green horn would be simply out of it
did he not know. If we had the gold
! bearing sand a foot or two from the
top we could make good money, but
the depth necessitates time, and |
might say little hard lCork to get the
dirt. Last week we rocked out Oh.
and the week before about the same.
An ounce is figured here at $1,000 but
| at Seattle $500. We are in hopes of
striking something rich in the hole we
are now working. Amy way we are
doing a whole lot better than 10, 600
other fellows. Thousands of people
travel up and down here every day
and the general report is that there
are $4,000 people in Nome who have
never made a move to see what they
could do. One of our Dawson friends
struck it rich Thursday-Friday and
! Saturday he rocked out S425.00. BY
digging little off the top you can
hold it, otherwise any one can dig
right up to you and cut you off.
The stories about the richness of the
| beach here were true enough, but the
"half had not been told"-of the great
throng Of people who visited here last
and got the cream of it, We will be
through here in about three weeks.
then we move north. We are both as
healthy as bucks, but oh! how sore and
stiff
The weather is simply fine, having
raircd only three days, the rest of the
time, excepting the 4th and two other
days which were hot, it has been cool
and clear.
l don't imagine, Lloyd, this has in
| terested you much, but now | will tell
you something which may. IF you
were here you would never have to go
to bed, and could play all the time as
it does not get dark here at this time of
year. How would you like that tor
high? and you could catch millions of
fish every evening. When the tide
comes in about o'clock it deposits on
the beach hundreds upon hundreds of
! fine little smelt, about the size and like
brook trout minus the spots You
would have to be lively to catch them,
| as the next wave takes them out and
! the next brings them back. 1t would
| be high sport for you. Do you think
you woulk like to come up here? It's
not very far.
I thought of you all on the 4th, of
the good time you had last year, and
wondered what you were all doing in
the interior world. We were both
little home-sick on the 4th. we worked
all day. | miss the papers very much.
[ did hear that Roosevelt was McKin-
ley's running mate, and suppose Bryan
has been nominated.
1t is time to call Amos and give him
some coffee and hot biscuit for his
iaunt to Nome after the mail. Hope
there is letter for me.
There is any amount of driftwood
here, but we carry our water from
Cripple creek.
Give my love to all. | presume the
League is still fiourishing.
W. p LLOYD.
Wedding Bells.