Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-13
Marvellous Richness of the Cape
Nome District, Alaska.
ALL lies WITHIN THE UNITED STATES
interesting Talk With Newtor
Hatch and Kenneth Jackson.
FACTS THAT ARE WONDERFUL

From canvas tent pitched on the bleak
shores of Boring sea, in far-off Alaska, to
apartments in a hotel like the Shoreham
Ia a metamorphosis experienced by few
people herea bouts, but this is what has
happened to Judge Kenneth Jackson and
Mr.. Newton Pierson Rice Hatch of Nome
City. Alaska. who We're in Washington yes
terday Both are lawyers. and in the brief
period of two years have been through all
the various phases of possession, from the
ownership of well-worn copies of Chilly
and Cooley to check books backed up by
deposits of hundreds of thousands of dol
lars. The changes. Kaleidoscope as they
have been. have in no manner disturbed
the natural placidity Of the two gentlemen
They proceed to the appetizing discussion
of teal ducks stuffed with olives and such
delightful things with no more enthusiasm
than they approached, ere fortune favored
them, to the gastric environment of salt
horse and flapjacks, eaten with two-tined
pewter forks. or, more occasionally, the
five-tined natural upifters of provender
that grow at the ends of their arms.
Appointed by Cleveland.
Judge Jackson. who is stalwart Texan,
closely resembling Representative Joe Bal
lev. but handsomer, if such a thing be
believed, and who is now only twenty
eight years old went to Alaska several
years ago as United States commissioner,
secured through Senator Chilton's influence
from President Cleveland. Like many other
men who are sent officially to that far-off
country and appreciate its advantages for
individual effort in their own behalf Judge
Jackson resigned, and, mixing law with
mining. proceeded to help develop the rich
territory He had his ups and downs, es-
l. .. III Of
depressions couple of years ago he went
to the Cape Nome country, then in its al
most virgin state. Here he met Mr.. Hatch.
also a lawyer. and until then the only one
in that country and an Alaskan of but a
years experience. A coalition was formed
between the two for mutual advantages,
professionally and, as it happened capital
iStiCally.
In the defiles of the mountains lying back
of Nome City hardy prospectors with picks
and Shovels. pans and cradles, tents and
limited grub stakes, discovered gold In re-
markable quantities. Angle creek, now so
famous, and other streams paralleling 1t
both longitudinally and in treasure. held in
the sands and gravel along their sides pre-
cious shining particles that gave riches to
those who sought them.
How Nome City Grew.
AS soon as the tremendous deposits were
discovered miners and others nocked to
Cape Nome as the country was called and
as is customary the miners held a meet
ing, defined the boundaries of the dis
trict. established the dimensions of claims
and organized as such suddenly created
communities do for self-protection both as
to life and property The dimensions of the
claims were made generous in comparison
to those in the Klondike. being fixed by
the miners themselves at the United States
government size of 1920 by $50 feet, or
twenty acres. Claims We're taken up in
numbers, recorders office
tablished, where the claims were recorded,