The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-02-04

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silver cause, is adding largely to his richie" IN
the Cape Nome district II ~ said AT Nome mat
III. Lane party go, out some 300 900 worth Of gold
Inst summer, and that the claims can be worked
at the same percentage Of prof, for SIX or more
years To come. Mr. Lane spent over s+5,O 900 he
fore his men found gold in any quantity. lie
owns much real estate IN Nome that he got Tor a
song, and 4, alone will surely be worth several
hundred thousand dollars In less than a year more,
when the boom IL ON there,
Il might name a score or more men who were
worth 500 or $500 sixteen months ago and who
are worth now $50, 900, $40. 900 and $4,000 by
getting 10 Nome early ard finding good claims
A young fellow, Dick Hastings, Who was a wiper
in the railroad roundhousc in Akron, Ohio, two
years ago, and who threw up his job N go TO the
Klon!iEc, got gu, SO, 900 in one week rocking the
gold bearing sand oh the beach at Nome while
| WAS there. Japhet lindrrberg. who was a
stationary engineer az Cripple Creek, Col, and
~ also a former kIondiNer, has probably the very
richest single claim at CAPE Nome. lie lives
in a hut, dresses like a tramp, and would be Ar.
rested for vagrancy in any city Of the United
States. Yet he took out some 500, 900 worth
Of gold from his claim between last May and DC.
tober. lie was one Of the six men who accom-
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summer by a friend some 200 pounds Of gold TO
his wife in Denver, Col, as a birthday gift Ole
Svenson, a middle aged Swede, who has knocked
about all the mining camps from klondike to
Tombstone for twenty years, is another who has
leapcd into riches. lie has had more hardships
and adversely in the las, ten years than few men
have in a lifetime. but he has clung to the belief
that some day he would strike i, rich. II seems
,h.t n ,la,vvnyapt toll hin, xasys apn that ha
would become a millionaire, where he must risk
his life and suffer fearful privntons. So he
went 10 Alaska believing that was the region the
clairvoyant had IN mind. lie almost died from
freezing in Dawson City, and he lost part Of a
foot and an ear by the cold there. But he stayed
by ALASKA. lie has two claims on Rock Creek.
and | had IT that he sent 40 pounds Of gold To
the mint asst summer and has now as much more
ready for shipment when navigation reopens.
Among the mer who have done mighty we'll
by going To Nome is DR. Edward \. Sanders,
and the way lie came to 60 10 his fortune is curl
Gus !r was al Harvard University In 1895
and 1897, and he went directly from Boston IA
Dawson in SaDtember. 1897. lie was a medical
student, less than twenty three, and he believed
he would do well al Dawson. tie made money
fas, there, and put his earnings, some $1,000,
Into a g"ld mine, 10 which some one else made
legal claim after tie young doctor had paid
his money for it. The tlle Of the mine was at
last decided in ire other mans favor. whereupon
Dr Sanders last May argrily picked mp his pro.
iessional effects and left tho Klondike region
only too anxious Ia get out Of ile country. He
went 900 miles down the Yukon to st Michael
on the first boat Of the season. There be was
persuaded tu stay until the next boat down the
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man whohad had both feet frozen. 1t was found
that Tie man was slowly dying Of blood poison
ing. In his gratitude 10 the young doctor for
his help he told him where he had been secretly
Informed was a rich unclaimed area Of gold hear
Ing dirt on Dexter treek at Cape Nome. The