New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-15

which are making satisfactory progress, -Four par
points between Kaltag, the Lower Yukon, and
me pounuaIy nae PeIween "a ash aa oe Z 1Ihoa
nOrtheasterly. toward Eagle City Fort Esbert.
The last report from this party indicates that about
one hundred miles OF that section Of the line VIII
The only Alaska post which will have teIegraphic
facilities with the United States this year will be
sh4t OF r or Es3erI ne gILIso Ii Is ipIets
line 10 connect at the international boundary
with a Canadian line, for which l made arrange
Canadian authorities indicates that the link neces
sary to connect Dawson with Fort Egbert is about
Government the old system reaching from Daw-
son southwark to Atlin During the present year
the Canadian field parties under Mr.. J. 3. Charlie
son. Superintendent OF Public Works Of the
Yukon District have built so miles north Of Cues
nellie, which previously had CONNECTED with the
Ashcroft on the Canadian Paclhc Fallway.., From
Atlin south the Canadian parties have built four
section and the Quesuelle section, which II IS
a 5R3qsh' viii be completed within the next three
am unable to give any definite information
done by contract. The contract with the cable com
Steadily Tor thirty DAYS and turn it over TO the
Signal Corps. when it viii be tested and accepted
by the officers of the Corps As before reported.
the cable steamer Orizaba grounded four miles
north of St. Michael while laying the cable tow
ard Nome. have no information from the com
pany as to the present condition OF affairs, but
Major Frank Green, signal Corps, Jhat al OF the
cable has been saved. and that submarine diver
f5a Par fne viii be able to Law this Cable
this autumn, despite their misfortunes.
THE CABLE LINES.
one cable extends from St. Michael to Safety
twenty-five miles between that point and Nome.
which has already been constructed ana 6 Is nov
cable is intended to be laid between St Michael
OF ninety miles across the portage to kaltag on
the Yukon, from which point a line has been con
structed some considerable distance up the river
toward Fort Gibbon, which is at the mouth Of the
General Randall is very DESTROYS that this sys-
TEN should connect with the United States by a
south t6rous5 juneau to Seattle or some other
point on the Pacific Coast am strongly in favor
American teIegraphic route in and out OF Alaska
As Is well known, mere Is now TI mo ne scsI5itsi
of Alaska and II Is believed that not only would
such a cable be of great value TO proper control
posts of Alaska but that it would be Of very great
benefit to the entire Pacific Coast As it is now It
takes weeks to reach anybody in Alaska and get
an answer or vice versa ms TeleeEs &c tr
V4ys proves a great htndranCe and drawback to
nat would otherwise prove a rapidly increasing
Il is hoped that the line in the Upper Yukon
summer OF I' r+ of the oficers Of the Signal
St1r+fs sar,-r@ ~, Alaska that ANYTHING has been
done this summer. The act authorizing the tele-
graph line did not become law until May p,
and, as everythins has 70 be bought under bids
and by contract it is evident that nothing could
reach Alaska under any circumstances earlier than
August and this only by assidulty and persistence
As a matter of fact, it is a remarkable thing
that any work has been accomplished on this new
Geographic system at ALL particularly in the field
There would have been cause FOR complaint
if the lines themselves had been obtained and the
cable manufactured, ready for laying next season
But this is the way things are done in the
Signal Corps General Greedy went 10 work at
once and with the aid Of very efficient corps. has
been able to get the field work well under way and
in such state that it be completed during the
next season.
During the two weeks that General Greedy was
at Nome he took in the entire situation fully
as possible. and in speaking Of conditions at that
new mining said:
CONDITIONS AT NOME
I was lying of Nome during the very, violent
storm Of September = and Is which did such
enormous damage TO Nome Il was believed at
Lhat time that there were ABOUT ten thousana
people in and around Nome, and OF these fully Two
ynous2nd We're rendered 4ouseless Every Hg ye
sunk, and at the end Of the storm the system OF
pgIed very sreat EsoI @ Ipt To53e on SEN
dition.
About two thousand people had already left
Nome for the United States II IS expected that
about five thousand people will VI er there There
considerable amount OF SUFFERING except BY the
worthless class which always form part OF an
Inli4lAs communities, would IKE 70 say tlaI IA
an experience with mining camps covering thirty
so peaceful orderly and Industrious, There is
& no shooting IN any Or She A@sf ia
the tremendous of litigation. which has
arisen from claim jumping. This, however. Is re-
cetvtng the attention OF the courts and while
there may be many complaints about the rapidly
OF legal settlements vet II is hoped that full relief
VIII be afforded the Nome district at early date
Reports that have come from Nome have been
more conflicting than from any other gold field
discovered in recent years While General Greedy /
is not a miner a geoogist he has yet had much
experience in mining camps. and is capable OF
expressing opinion which correctly sizes up the
situation He says that the Nome country is rich
in gold, a question about which he has not the |
least doubt, but ne says it is rich mans gold |
field. and place for poor The report I
often circulated that Nome was the poor mans /
Fl Dorado he denouncss as utterly false. The I
reason for this is that for eight months Of the year