The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-03

fGVGuie uuI1u6 SelfICe, VIII
has been in command of the
Bear in the arctics for several
5ears, and whose heroic rescue of the
tce-bound whalers in Bering sea two
gears ago gained so much fame for
him, says that N. o. Hultberg. OF
Chicago, q missionary Of the Swedish
Evangelical Missionary Society, which
aas churches in Illinois, Wisconsin,
iowa and Minnesota, was the actual
liscoverer Of gold at Cape Nome, where
the miners are all focking now. Mr..
dultberg is now in Chicago, where he
will remain until spring, and then re-
sumo work at his mission on Golovin
Bay, sixty miles from Cape Nome,
where he has been located for three
or four year7. Mr.. Hultberg is about
thirty years OF age, native of Sweden
and man of great endurance and
zeal. He is very popular with the
natives and miners and has been quite
successful in his missionary work.
Under his direction the missionaries
took up a mine at Cape Nome last
summer, and during the ninety days
when it was possible to work took out
about S75, 900, which has not only paid
all the debts of the society but has
paid for substantial buildings for the
mission station and left a surplus to
purchase improved machinery and
other facilities for working the mines,
which promise to pay as we'll in the
future as in the past. It is rather un,
usual for a missionary society to pay
its expenses by running mine. Mr..
Hultberg also took up claim on his
pwn account, and in addition to his
work on the mission mine made about
100000 fer himself last summer.
; ::During the summer OF 1897 said
Lieutenant Jarvis, "a party of Swed-
;sh prospectors went to Golovin Bay,
where DR.. Sheldon Jackson has q
mission, and worked all around that
locality. I saw them several times
when I was up there. They went with
Hultberg on his missionary tours and
examined several valuable discoveries
he had made in the Cape Nome re-
gion. Hultberg was much impressed
by them, and in the spring of 1898
fitted them out at his own expense for
the purpose of exploring Snake River.
Ihese le;iow-corsa.-+s:55ataae 5 fof his were
o man lamed Brintenson, who had
worked in copper mines in the States
.saia sa-ha5S as bess'llzl KIiuulikz
country; Lindbloom, runaway sailor,
hnd Lindeberg; who came over from
Lapland in charge Of the reindeer
which DR.. Jackson imported from that
country. They struck it rich on An
vii Greek and in Snow Gulch and
staked out claims. They made their
way back to GoloVin Bay and told
their story. They found there min
ing expert from California, Of the
name of Price, whom they took back
bem to Cape Nome, and also a
Lesson, hom Stougl..ea Wis:
- out s1@6Q tie first four
sss..sssM e 4 sM5g9Srusf, nia5gSgr u9sfistE!Gt, :ist
ls Claims for themselves and
: sberg. Then, feeling secure,
z November, 1898. they went down
o St. Michaels with their gold to
spend the winter and get an outfit
md supplies for early work in the
spring. The stories they told, of
course, set everybody wild, and when
hey left St. Michaels for their claims
hey were followed by 1000 people.
"By the opening OF navigation in
1899 the news reached California and
he Klondike country, and there was
intense excitement. The original
discoveries were made in the gulches
between the hills about three or four
niles back from the beach, and be.
;ween them and the ocean is level
,lain of sand called tundra. Along
n August last r newspaper man Of
he name of Logan disappeared from
lamp one day and was gone for nearly
} week. When he came back he
brought about $500 worth of gold
lust which he said he ha! washed out
If the sand on the shore. At first
people did not believe him, but when
hey tried for themselves they rocked
,ut such fabulous sums that the whole
camp in the gulches was deserted and
everybody went down on the beach,
making from SO to $500 day. From
August to November they took out
81, 100000, and the three Swedes,
Brintensen and Lind
bloom, made a5out 5000, 1000 each.
The total amount of gold gathered at
Port Nome during the short season
vas about $500, 900, and I think
me product will be anywhere from
S, 000,O 900 to $4,000, 1000 this year.
It depends simply upon the number
If people that can get up there. There
will be tremendous rush as soon as
opens. Every vessel that
an be had OF the Pacific coast has
!lreacy been chartered to carry miners
ma supplies, and every berth has al
'eady been sold on every steamer.
The exodus will simply be limited to
he carrying capacity of the vessels"
Glow did the gold come there?" I
!sked.
"Of course I do not know" replied
Lieutenant Jarvis. "But the geol-
,gists say ..the rocks in the foothills
gere crushed by glacial pressure and
hat the particles were washed down
uto the sands. The tundra between
he foothills and the ocean is as rich
\ gold as the sand on the beach,
llthough the nearer you go to the
Yater the easier it is to work It,"
"Fow is the climate?"
''It is not so good as it is at Daw-