New-York tribune., 1900-07-14
HARDSHIPS AT CAPE NOME.
DESCRIBED IN LETTER FROM i
BROOKLYN MAN To SECRE-
TARY GAGE.

Washington July t3.-Tre Secretary Of the Treas
ury mas received a letter from G. Rudolph living
at NO IN Broadway. Brookkn on the situation ar
Cape Nome. Alaska. The Department sees no
reason 10 doubt the trustwCrth Illness of the story
told by Mr.. Rudolph, and suggests thar il be pub
HShed- It Is daily becoming more apparent 10 the
officials that the conditions in The new gold fields
are almost certain TO result in great suffering next
winter, especially as epidemIcs Of smallpox and
typHoid fever are threatened The letter is as fol
lows.
on account Of the terrible reports in the news
papers conceru'ns the conditions al cape Nome
Nome June ~ and being an 5lG r5irr IN s11
S TeuS 4a 4L-la''f OF szlgs Up new mining camp IN a
my partner tried working the beach for gold in
Si SST,eIaI places, and personally others oy the
We see man take out enough gold 70 nav for his
mere they We're only making days wages Of from
quarters Of mile long and it is ain taken up by
aooLl n[e hundred men Like the beach IT is now
had been led to believe that after winter or after
ny ny Storm Inc 2eacn would be just as good as il
out the beach there is done for While al Nome ]
as fifty miles below the camp They told me thev
@ naa round nothing, and they were going further
from points far up the beach bur they declared
dnvgg "S ~ Pbolnns bs u2 there and they were going
stretch is nearly all worked OUT.
Now. concerning the creeks, Anvil Creek is -he
up. but my partner went the fun length Of H.
neither for az THAT time (Juue Is, the creeks were
,,,i17a- -, - ma - ne G9l.i2 11'o.-r was hve
take on the top layer OF moss and loose dirt which
place MeanwhfIe the Ts- baie wo1id r b 59v1e
out BY that means they managed work alter
in the ElondJke and coal is $50 ION on the beach
while the cost of refreishtns it over 10 the Anvil
rlch the ground must DE to stand such costs OF
No, one estimates that more than three hundred
hands are at work on Anvil Creek with many
a total of perhaps ifreen hundred men When
lett twenty thousand men were IN the district.
ana ana me only work was In unloading or putting
up new buildings The former task kent about
Loved about three hundred When / left on June
20. between five hundred and ten hundred We're ar
made a trip ON TO ST MichaeIs and brought down
three hundred men. The Aberdeen, on which
over five hundred. Several other boats made one
or more trips 10 ST Michaels and brought more
than people on the outside know of know
that the SAN Bias had steeraee hunks numbered
UP 500. and over one hundred We're in the cabin,
while there We're also about twenty st0waways
about twenty stowaways. and no doubt every
boat mad a great many stoWaWays SpoAt 10
dozens Of men and they told me that they had
no food. but expect 20 70 work when they reach
Die or Thrle cr,lIlerS y Cents bed from 81 TO
s., or when You furnish your own blankets from
p cents a LOAF. fresh meats from . cents 70 81
a pourd and other things in proportion. There
only toilet for he public and there YOU
had pay. For water the cost was > cents for
four buckets. and wood was nearly all gone ex-
Cept a a point several miles down the beach.
Even the little 70 he found there was halt rotLen
and warersoaked Coal oil is s. case, and lumber
$3.50 for dry and sl25 for green per thousa nd. and
scarce at that. The water wells saw were from
twelve 70 fifteen feet deep. and are sure to De
contaminated by al these people being nudd-ed
together. When 7 left there we're tents twenty
feet deep and about three miles long
Now YOU don't q forget that II took more
than fifty vessels 70 bring all Of these people 70
Nome 70 say nothing Of over five thousand com
ing from the Yukon country There ara no IN
duCeueu+s for the steamship companies % send
their vessels back again for busted mob. You
NAV think that I a cold foot miner but ask
any miner who In that country Whether ne
saw anv gold dust in circulation That Is The
way 10 tell a good camp IN eight days saw only
one man pay for a purchase with dust " hen
asked about it, he said that IL was from the klou-