The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-27
District Generally Recognized As
Rich In Gold.
COMMODITIES ARE COSTLY
voIuminous Batch of Interesting
Personal Correspondence-Dc
ed Information ms Regards Mines,
shipping and Commercial Affairs
Army of PIunderers and Pirates
Attempting to Operate On beach.

Nome conditions. both as regards min
Ing and the shipping and commercial
affairs. are told with more or less inter
eating details I'm n voluminous personal
correspondence received via the steam
ship Cleveland. which arrived at an ear
" hour yesterday morning direct from
the gold fields. The consensus Of oiln-
ion ~ the various writer's appears 10 be
that the district Is not only rich In gold,
bnt one affording many opportunities for
money getting In commercial and other
enterprises. Not a great deal OF creek
mining had been done up 10 the CleVe-
lands departure. June IL. but the. new
arrivals ana the winter residents OF the
district were securing the bench for gold.
All regard the outlook ms most promis-
Ing. as evidenced by the fact that the
three steamers. Cleveland. Alpha and
Jeanie returning from Nome, brought
a combined passenger list OF but seven-
teen people. seven OF whom got cold
feet" as one writer expressed II. hav-
Ing remained In the camp but a few
days
Much Of the correspondence relates 10
the voyage of the various vessels OF the
Nome feet some Of II being repiete with
interesting incident For instance, on
board the San Francisco. steamer San
Pedro one Of the women passengers gave
sea. Passengers OF the steamer Charles
y. Lane went ashore at Dutch Harbor
and staked townsite which they named
Lane city, In honor OF Charles -. Lane.
the California millionaire mining man.
Mr.. Lane owns the vessel bearing his
name. While In Dutch harbor the pas
sengers ~ the Lane gave ball In the
leading hotel. which was well attended
by passengers from the various steam
ers OF the Nome feet then in the har-
Dor. baseball games regattas and 9TH
er amusements were INDUCED IN.
Thirty or forty head Of livestock. prin-
cipally horses. died on various Nome
bound steamers. The barge Skookum,
which was towod North NY the tug Rich
ard Holyoke. lost seventeen horses.
high Prices Prevail.
Cart r, F.. Caine. OF the Pacific Clip
per line. received a letter from T.. c.
McMicken, formerly local agent OF the
Ta'n aTssan r MsMensn was and
passenger North on the Cleveland Tn
der date OF Nome. June 3, he writes:
and e m hour at night Al ~ the Ss crew T,.s
with the exception Of the firemen and
few sailors have deserted. They went
over the side IN small boats and kyaks
that came alongside by tho dozens. The
beach u crowded fer two mies. and
there IL srea, difficulty In getting a place
from 81, sse u sise Neat. are are ' ssaa
Ham and eggs uso: stock 50: oofrse. 3
cents. potatoes 81 any kind Is cents:
water. 4 pals for = cents
'sThe bark Alaska il breaking up. Her
mAsis have lust snapped
A 90 dischareins freight every pack
axe has 70 b. carried ashore hy men
from the lighters. 80 YOU see that hig.
heavy packages are almost impossible
20 handle. The lIgh,erege rate. Is $40
per ton and tnp; hHhScrage for lumber
sigso per 100 Landing horses or cattle
on harges, 50 each.
II found that there were only Ave
lighters In the waters here. The Alaska
Commercial Company has two. and
wants 81 90 n day for each one. Another
man had one, but he wanted 20 sell hts
got two small lighters Tor $40 load Of
about eight tons. The owner would not
take the freight az "a per ton rate.
cant set ashore The revenue Glitter
Bear reports that the Senator and Ore
son are fast e the ics.
small tets have sold at The rate Of SO
per ton"
The voyage aud the Fleet.
or tho Clevolands voyage McNlckcn
wrlts we had pleasant voyage and
tho C}NNriands passengers are all We'll
tafiahea Saw the senator for two DAVIS
i9 the lee near Nunivak island. We
chaugtd our course and came 90 the
west OF st. Lawrence and found II all
clear We mistcak klnR island for slcdge
nlght, The shore had ice Tor seven miles
oHt some tSkif0cH came out and told VA
our mistake The passengers took UP a
COLLECTION and gave thc natives 81
I'VE found a few stoWaWays on tho
cleveland, bat there was plenty OF work
fur them - de 80
McMickcn wrote ION the 5tA It stornle
80 that thr CicNrlapi had a. nut 10 sea
\ lighter hnif Loaded was tiea 10 htr II
pirstes' navcd the stun en her and the
ecnslgncsa had Co poy heavy salvage
"whgn mo hark Naska broke w about
ysllow #ilckera taueht over ths cargo "a
u came ashore Soue whiskv hnrrei>
ana drank che stun ,0t ~ ~ tlu cans
'To1ny the 18th. thc rarkcrtiar cath.
rtlua Sudden was lowed 10 bY the ~arwie
she s. u wreck Ter mssfe arc gore ara
yak
here tsut uviHg 81 nwfully tough Thu
nm trrify nt the people Ntc iu ft4rks AMI
tents IKE hrgs IT, 500 cold q wash ana
ovvrv'hlne f. jtrty
Erafie1N ~ Soa AHnt watch cyorV nyl 4.
nNe sowo yae t,i"e w steal u p1t ra
pur wants to eu nut"
There /. "o,d TVcr, where.
.Csgt = nN'hnoue master 20 enc
ftrau, ar Ra1trg ralar WhirA ar~tt~s "a,
Nom 1enc Is writing "a General Nsn.
aner pui3e, SAYS
m, w "a " trsS- ,rs F'tS ~ I99r 2 e.
.rs Was packed with I-c ana purs Ia
cnsr c'ose.i NrtNrt az Se9n,-k lure b.
,.Fhr crew " ne Robert ,nNliar HAye a.
the beach for 81 am hort Tlasn fer
fr.r l'frt iaherrrs $50 s. tnv ga
tHart NrN-rrit~ arC ah"ar twice - bliss
Nr r 't.H ihFk rH.r' fs 4 20 IN g.